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 But as I've realized today, some of these economic truths are falsehoods. In the real world, free market economics doesn't pan out as promised. Here's why:
The classical theories of free market economics say that entrepreneurs will turn greed into solutions. Out of a desire to get rich, they will invent new ways to produce more goods and services. They'll devise new manufacturing and logistical solutions that reduce costs and speed delivery to consumers. And they'll keep costs low through competition. |
| Yep, it's economic activity. Somebody is selling something to somebody else. That counts as wealth under the rules of classic free market economics. And yet nobody really benefits.
In fact, it's all really an economic loss. To understand why, let's take a look at Grandpa Joe. Joe is an investor in the pharmaceutical industry. He thinks he's "making money" as his stock valuations go up. But Joe is also on four different prescription drugs himself. He pays over $600 / month just for his drugs, and his health insurance is now up to $900 / month. |
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 Only in America is debt spending equated with economic prosperity. Americans, you see, aren't spending money they've actually saved. By and large, they're spending money they don't have (last year's national savings rate was a negative number). Using credit cards and other forms of debt to buy clothing, gasoline and Wal-Mart doodads is hardly a sign of economic prosperity; it's more an indication that the population still thinks the cheap money party will last forever. |
| REPPED: The White House, always looking for an opportunity to claim good news where there is none, is touting new economic numbers showing U.S. retail sales surged 2.3 percent in January -- the largest monthly gain in over six years. This spending surge, the White House claims, is proof that the American economy is strong.
Only in America is debt spending equated with economic prosperity. Americans, you see, aren't spending money they've actually saved. By and large, they're spending money they don't have (last year's national savings rate was a negative number). |
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 Think about this very carefully: If two-thirds of the people stay home, don't go to work, don't go out and spend money, don't go and produce something, this country will experience severe economic consequences. Not just a recession, not just a depression -- but a sharp, and hopefully only temporary, collapse of basic economic activities.
That's what we're looking at, and let me translate this into real terms for you. This means two-thirds of the people who run the oil refineries won't go to work. |
| That would set off severe economic consequences, going far beyond what we saw in the United States following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. If you recall, after Sept. 11, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded air traffic for a period of several days, which produced enormous economic consequences for the country. Trade shows were canceled, businesses couldn't conduct business, people couldn't visit their loved ones, travelers were stranded... it was a giant mess. Now, imagine that effect multiplied by six months or a year. |
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 Worshipping American foods, products and medicines will only destroy the health and happiness of any nation, and mimicking American financial markets will only spell economic suicide in the long run. There is nothing good that can come of debt spending, intentional disease proliferation (through ignoring disease prevention programs), widespread chemical contamination and corporate dominance over the people and the government. These are the things that will come to destroy the world's nations, probably starting with America. |
| You will see that the only nations with any sort of future are those that protect and nurture the health of their people and their environment, taking a long-term perspective rather than short-term economic gain. America has no long-term vision other than controlling world oil resources. America has no investment whatsoever in the health of its people and virtually no effort to protect its environment. America is fixated on short-term thinking and stop-gap measures, ignoring the greater concerns of education, renewable energy, individual health and individual liberty. |
| American medicine is an utter failure, and it's destroying the economic viability of the entire country. Businesses are going bankrupt or moving offshore because of health care costs, and even those that can afford to operate on U.S. soil are faced with the reality that it's almost impossible to hire employees who can actually think these days thanks to the widespread use of brain-damaging prescription drugs. Success stories like Google are increasingly rare.
I remember living in Taiwan in the 1990's, and I paid something like $4 / month for health insurance coverage. |
| Consequences of the great American invasion
All around the world, America is invading nations through its foods, medicines, consumer products, dangerous economic practices, synthetic chemicals and intellectual property. And everywhere that American products are adopted, widespread disease and death soon follows.
Small island nations in the South Pacific, for example, had never heard of diabetes, heart disease or depression just two generations ago. |
| Drug companies see China's one billion people as nothing more than revenue-generating patients, and convincing all those people to take more medicines will require a well-planned, well-funded economic and philosophical assault on Chinese medicine. Essentially, Big Pharma must find a way to disconnect the Chinese from their heritage, turning them all into depressed, diseased "white" consumers whose medical mythology worships the falsehoods of western reductionism. |
| Today, war is far more sophisticated: America steals national resources by patenting seeds, genes, medicines and ideas, then applying economic and political pressure against targeted nations to forcefully take a cut of their productivity through the application of intellectual property law. |
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| Using credit cards and other forms of debt to buy clothing, gasoline and Wal-Mart doodads is hardly a sign of economic prosperity; it's more an indication that the population still thinks the cheap money party will last forever.
Besides, most of the money people are spending is coming right out of their price-inflated homes in the form of home equity loans. Consumers think their homes are giant ATMs they can live in, and they mistakenly believe that housing prices will continue to rise forever. |
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| You see, these poll results indicate that 71 percent, seven out of 10 people, are going to try to avoid contact with other human beings. The economic consequences of this will be far-reaching and enormous.
Essential services would fail in the event of a bird flu pandemic
Sixty-eight percent of poll respondents -- that is, over two-thirds -- said they would stay home and keep their children at home while the outbreak lasted. This is huge. If this many people actually do this, the U.S. economy will all but collapse. |
| Not just a recession, not just a depression -- but a sharp, and hopefully only temporary, collapse of basic economic activities.
That's what we're looking at, and let me translate this into real terms for you. This means two-thirds of the people who run the oil refineries won't go to work. Two-thirds of the people who run the power plants and the water plants, who drive trucks and deliver all the goods and food across this country, won't go to work. |
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 That would be an economic incentive that turns the entire system of healthcare on its head, because right now our current system financially rewards disease.
Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure
If you think about the way the drug companies operate, they are financially rewarded for inventing new diseases, or redefining old diseases so that more people are now diagnosed with something. In fact, the more diseases they can invent and the more people they can convince of having some disease, the more money drug companies make. |
| But what if we turned that around, and we had a system where there was an economic incentive to keep people healthy? What if there was actually a penalty for having to use pharmaceuticals, because that meant you failed to follow a healthy lifestyle? What if healing foods such as fresh produce and raw nuts were offered virtually free of charge, but junk foods were very, very expensive? How might that change people's purchasing habits? |
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 Noureddin Mona, Food and Agricultural Organization's (FAO) China representative
The economic impact of a pandemic
One of the most startling realizations about bird flu is the economic cost of a potential pandemic. Unlike the disease itself, the economic fallout can affect everyone from the smallest Vietnamese farmer to the national economies of the world's largest superpowers.
"Should the flu mutate into a true global pandemic, the economic implications would be profound, potentially reducing energy demand by well over one million barrels per day,"
-Report issued by U.S. |
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| Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded air traffic for a period of several days, which produced enormous economic consequences for the country. Trade shows were canceled, businesses couldn't conduct business, people couldn't visit their loved ones, travelers were stranded... it was a giant mess. Now, imagine that effect multiplied by six months or a year. That's what we could see in this country if human outbreaks of bird flu occur.
Seventy-one percent of poll respondents said they would skip public events. That's a very smart strategy. |
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| That way, they can pass on their economic bubbles to the next politician unlucky enough to step into the White House.
White House blames victim for Cheney's shooting!
Nothing is ever the fault of Bush or Cheney, didn't you know? This dynamic duo has never risen to the level of taking responsibility for their actions, and nothing is different with Dick Cheney's shotgun shooting of 78-year-old Mr. Whittington in the chest, neck and face.
White House Press Secretary (i.e. "professional liar") Scott McClellan explains -- with a straight face -- that it was Mr. |
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| Noureddin Mona, Food and Agricultural Organization's (FAO) China representative
The economic impact of a pandemic
One of the most startling realizations about bird flu is the economic cost of a potential pandemic. Unlike the disease itself, the economic fallout can affect everyone from the smallest Vietnamese farmer to the national economies of the world's largest superpowers.
"Should the flu mutate into a true global pandemic, the economic implications would be profound, potentially reducing energy demand by well over one million barrels per day,"
-Report issued by U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If drugs were actually good for genuine economic growth and quality of life improvements, then Joe's life would be improved on two fronts: personal health and personal finances. In other words, if this was all good for humanity, then Joe would be both healthy and wealthy.
But in reality, Joe is sick and broke. He's sick because the drugs merely masked his symptoms and didn't do a thing to make him healthier. He's broke because the money he spends on medicine costs more than he receives in dividends or stock gains as an investor.
In other words, Joe is conning himself! |
| In fact, it's all really an economic loss. To understand why, let's take a look at Grandpa Joe. Joe is an investor in the pharmaceutical industry. He thinks he's "making money" as his stock valuations go up. But Joe is also on four different prescription drugs himself. He pays over $600 / month just for his drugs, and his health insurance is now up to $900 / month.
Joe is both a consumer and an investor in the drug racket. |
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| Of course, the White House is quick to take responsibility for fictitious achievements, like the so-called "economic prosperity" (actually, just rampant mindless debt spending) explained above. Or the carefully timed but absurd claim that Bush's domestic spying program intercepted and halted another terrorist attack on Los Angeles (a claim that members of the intelligence community have publicly called completely bogus).
I'm just wondering whether average citizens can use the same twisted White House logic to explain their own shooting mishaps. |
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 REPPED: America's disastrous health care system is heaving the country head-first into near-certain economic collapse. Just about everybody's either financially strained or going broke due to spiraling health care costs: the people, the employers, state governments and even the federal government. Multinational corporations are fleeing the United States due to health care costs, taking jobs and economic productivity with them. Meanwhile, 50 percent of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical expenses.
But not everybody's doing badly. |
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 It is also the last way to avoid the inevitable violence and crimes against humanity that will sadly emerge from the economic and political turmoil that's almost certainly in our future if something doesn't radically change for the better. We CAN create a better future for ourselves and our children, but not if we keep electing tyrants and ignoring the increasingly thunderous march of government-sponsored tyranny that seems to set the tone in Washington today.
The signs of economic collapse can no longer be ignored
Skeptical of all this? Look around you. The U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Wolfe: Ultimately, to change and transform the planet, we have to create economic incentives and economic methods of manufacturing that are environmentally friendly, and that entice people into those things. When you're running a big operation and you know your competitor has this technology that's cheap and efficient, but it's trashing the planet, and you don't have it, then you're going out of business. You're kind of stuck.
But, if we can create options, let's say for example you're manufacturing plastic, you can make that plastic out of cornstarch cheaper than plastic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Paul is actually a libertarian, meaning he believes in personal liberties and follows the commonsense economic philosophies of people like Ludwig von Mises (www.Mises.org). Right now, this nation desperately needs intelligent economic policies. We're facing an imminent financial wipeout due to out-of-control debt spending and steal-from-the-people financial policies run by the Federal Reserve -- a privately-owned institution controlled by rich bankers. The People of the United States, as usual, are being swindled by the rich. |
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