Posted by
rycK on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:34:22 PM
The New York Times Essays Us on ‘Values?”!! This is Really Just a Propaganda Piece on Taxation and Control
We can always appreciate the mental gymnastics of the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]-- as they redact history and create new and novel visions of history. Somebody once said that history must be carefully controlled to justify the future.[2] We hear about the seduction of money from the Babbling Brooks today. “The people who created this country built a moral structure around money. The Puritan legacy inhibited luxury and self-indulgence. Benjamin Franklin spread a practical gospel that emphasized hard work, temperance and frugality. Millions of parents, preachers, newspaper editors and teachers expounded the message. The result was quite remarkable. ”[3]
Does David forget that the colonies were strategic and profitable capitalist ventures? Were the Dutch scrounging for wealth? I wonder if Brooks can tell us all about the Spanish Gold ethic that brought back untold wealth to the continent and provided a ‘moral structure’ to Europe and England, where they coveted the wealth above all else. Read about the English pirates Hawkins and Drake and then wonder about piracy, slavery, morality and money. Hollywood has created an immoral structure around money.
Benjamin Franklin spread a practical theorem in the work ethic, a phenomenon that most of the world rejected then and does so now in LA, Boston, Baltimore and Philly. Tell us all about industry and education in the top ten biggest cities in the US run by black liberals in league with the dope dealers. Third world cannot operate in a world of morality and the work ethic. We have 7,000 years of proof of this in Africa alone.
This is an essay that wants to convince us that the whites who worked hard for their money have cheated the rest of the world out of their ‘fair share.’
“Over the past 30 years, much of that has been shredded. The social norms and institutions that encouraged frugality and spending what you earn have been undermined. The institutions that encourage debt and living for the moment have been strengthened. The country’s moral guardians are forever looking for decadence out of Hollywood and reality TV. But the most rampant decadence today is financial decadence, the trampling of decent norms about how to use and harness money.”
We can wonder what Brooks thinks about the big money in Hollywood. Here, Brooks obliquely criticizes the credit and investment markets. Most of this view comes from the fact that private property and monetary independence[4] fly in the face of the leftists who would control of much of that as they could. They have little else than other people’s money.
“The deterioration of financial mores has meant two things. First, it’s meant an explosion of debt that inhibits social mobility and ruins lives. Between 1989 and 2001, credit-card debt nearly tripled, soaring from $238 billion to $692 billion. By last year, it was up to $937 billion, the report said.”
Has The Babbler forgotten how FDR spent an entire year’s GDP fighting a mess that he created in Asia and one that his friends had been working on for 1000 years? What does Brooks think about spending the bottom out of Social Security and then refusing to fix the mess at the beginning of Bush’s second term? Where is the 2 trillion missing dollars from the phony Trust Fund? Is that debt? The illegal drug trade in the US runs more than a trillion dollars. Where is the mention of this? What happened to the Balanced Budget Amendment? Oh, the liberals wouldn’t have that?? We spent 5 trillion dollars on welfare since 1950. What was the ‘value’ of that?
Brooks essays into the sunset with blame for peoples, government and more and winds up with this fluff:
“There are dozens of things that could be done. But the most important is to shift values. Franklin made it prestigious to embrace certain bourgeois virtues. Now it’s socially acceptable to undermine those virtues. It’s considered normal to play the debt game and imagine that decisions made today will have no consequences for the future.”
Tell us about the ‘values’ in California, heading for certain bankruptcy![5] Tell us all about New Jersey and their wild spending on salaries and benefits for union employees. NJ is going to charge nearly $50 to cross their state North to South and that is what kind of ‘value?’[6] Gov Spitzer [Spitball #9] had a neat plan to shake down the insurance companies to support his bloated state budget.[7] NJ is going broke over their liberal ‘value system.’
If we returned to the moral values of Franklin then the hangman would be the most sought after public official. The stocks would be full every day with the howls of perverts, rapists, thieves, muggers and drug peddlers.
There are ‘values’ in the leftist handling of the top ten cities in the US with 3500 murders last year?[8] How much money is wasted on ‘education’ in the inner cities on crime?
This essay of today is just a deceptive propaganda piece and a routine call for higher taxes and control of credit. There is little the liberals can do about investment and such that create these problems in the population with people who cannot think for themselves. The liberals created Greenling[9], so that the ‘poor’ could have homes and ignore the standard norms of credit. The Berkeley green liners fixed up the laws so that mortgage loaners could not identify deadbeats, druggies, felons and parasites. Where is the NTY praise of such ‘values?’
Tax whoring by any other name is tax whoring. That is all the liberals have left.
rycK
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[1] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.