The problems of our country are not rocket science

[njd2025]

The problems of our country are not rocket science. The lobbyists entice or force the politicians to pass legislation creating cartels, monopolies, trade imbalances, and foreign subsidies in exchange for campaign financing. The people paying the lobbyists have representation in this government. The worker making the median wage has no representation.

Today, the cartels and monopolies gouge the consumer because there are no consequences from government. You would think the free market would wring-out all the inefficiencies of exorbitant CEO pay and prevent HUGE dividend payouts every year but this has not been the case for many years now. Back in the 70s, when I was growing up, honest hard work paid much better than crime. Today, crime pays way better than honest work. The real theft is our democracy has been stolen by the lobbyists. And on top of the gouging, data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, along with data analytics, is used by corporations to price fix wages. You are fooling yourself if you think Bureau of Labor Statistics exist for any other reason than to allow the price fixing of wages.

The net result of the cartels, monopolies, and price fixing of wages is the 1937 words of FDR spoken during the depression era ring more true today than when he spoke them:

"An old English judge once said: 'Necessitous men are not free men.' Liberty requires opportunity to make a living - a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for. For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness. Against economic tyranny such as this, the American citizen could appeal only to the organized power of government."

Take the Big Oil cartel for example. Back in the 70s Congress, and the power of government, would bring Big Oil CEOs in front of Congress to testify why they are having record profits and why they gouging the American people. The CEOs hated coming before Congress and openly said so. Right now, there's HUGE over supply of oil in the world but we have engineered scarcity. It's funny how for years there's always "refinery problems" which is the stated reason why gasoline always cost so much. But isn't also funny, or tragic, these same refineries are always working good enough to provide record profits to the Big Oil cartel? Maybe it's time to nationalize Big Oil. Unlike real private companies, it's not like Big Oil has to advertise to sell their products! Maybe it's also time to return back to FDR level taxes. But unlikely since the American consumer cannot compete with the lobbyists.

Lobbyists are used to create trade imbalances. The Chinese have pegged the Yuan to the dollar at a rate of 6 to 1. Most other currencies float against the dollar. So if a trade imbalance occurs, it naturally corrects itself. But not with the Yuan and not with China. The US could pay off its national debt and raise interest rates to 10% and the Yuan would still be pegged 6 to 1 against the dollar. The problem with China pegging the Yuan to the dollar is the dollar is a unit labor cost. A CEO gets 6 Chinese workers for every 1 American worker because of the Yuan being pegged. This is why NOTHING is manufactured in America anymore. If we still had factories here, they would be working 24 hours per day to filling demand until inflation returned back to normal. But instead, the Chinese government controls the worldwide supply chain. American is now a second class nation. We have engineered scarcity and no mechanism for correcting inflation with supply. This is why we need a calculated surcharge on every container coming into this country to adjust for the Chinese pegging the Yuan. The greater the trade imbalance the greater the tariff. Put a $1000 surcharge on every shipping container coming into this country having Chinese goods in until trade is balanced and our factories return. This policy will never happen because the lobbyists get representation over the American worker making the median wage. I've heard many politicians say, "Manufacturing and US factories are never coming back." As long as the Yuan is pegged to the dollar 6 to 1 this is certainly the case. I don't think anyone can qualify America as being a true super power at this point. Certainly, American is no longer a super power with regards to manufacturing.

Lobbyists are used to ensure a never ending flow of foreign subsidies. The US has 700+ foreign military bases and growing for why I don't know. Why does the US tax payer have to pay for this: "The American taxpayer has been generous to foreign countries. Between the years 2013 and 2018, nearly $300 billion in U.S. taxpayer money flowed as “aid” to countries outside the United States." Again, there are plenty places domestically $300 billion can be used to improve the lives of the American worker making the median wage. And again, the lobbyists get representation in our government. The American worker making the median wage does not!

The result of the American worker not having any representation in government has consequences. Every year the median worker's wage is being driven closer and closer to a poverty wage. Marx's criticisms about laissez faire capitalism have been shown to be true time and time again. Marx said laissez faire capitalism is always followed by communism. This is because as the government's fiat currency gets concentrated into fewer and fewer hands it becomes less valuable. It's only a matter of time before the government's currency collapses to nothing in value. When it does, as Marx predicts, the people standing in breadlines will demand MORE government not less. See you in the breadlines comrades!

The politicians and people of the this country are funny when it comes to communism. I can't count the times I've heard we have "too much" socialism and too much communism in this country. With communism, the worker owns the factory and means of production. Which do you think is more likely: The workers of McDonalds will have enough money to buy out the owner's of their places of employment, or, the median worker's wage of this country becomes a poverty wage? We are about as far away from communism as you can get and still have a fiat currency worth any shred of value at all! This is why January 6th happened and this why Trump is so popular. People are angry and dictatorship is inevitable as long as the lobbyists are in charge and the Yuan is pegged to the dollar 6 to 1.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini