If a thief wanted to steal wholesale the wealth of a community, he would first disable the cop on the beat and make sure that this source of property protection is disabled for as long as possible.
In like manner, if a competitor country wanted to steal the commercial base of another country, first it would buy politicos to relax trade and corporate regulations to motivate the tendency of corporate officers to look to their own self interests in a me first management attitude and then motivate his company to transfer jobs and technology to the bandit country. Forign contributions to Super-packs are secret and may well be used by a bandit country to accomplish this subversive trade strategy. The best type of Congress for the international transfer of wealth from a victim country to the bandit country is one in governmental gridlock. The best type of executive branch is one that relaxes or removes corporate regulations to give the ‘me first’ corporate executive his full head and allows him to ignore his duty to his country to pad his own bank account. Ironically, the lobbyists employed by the bandit country can say they want to maximize liberty for all the people living in the victim country as they pick their pockets clean. On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jarold McWilliams <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> A democracy is a horrible form of government. >> > > Sad but true. > > >> Dictatorships are much better, and you don't have people making decisions >> based on irrational fear and emotions. >> > > Dictatorships are better governments, until they're not. And they have a > bad habit of being overthrown in violent revolutions and coups. If I were > to place a long bet on the stability of a country, I would go with the > helter-skelter of a democracy over the forced calm of > an unrepresentative dictatorship. As Churchill once remarked, "it has been > said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other > forms that have been tried from time to time." > > Nonetheless, I suspect the democracies of the world are going to have to > get their acts together and impose a little authoritarian discipline upon > themselves in order to survive in the emerging global order. Here's to > hoping that cold fusion will throw a complete wrench in the works and wreak > delightful havoc. > > Eric > >
