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Longtime readers know what this means.
I used to be professor of economics, so I know that
if you want to say anything about economics, you
should never warn your reader about it. So I title
anything about economics "kinky sex."
I learned my economics in graduate
school, but I got a postgrad course in lying in
politics.
People are STILL giving politicians credit for the
record-breaking length of the economic boom we are
experiencing, and it's ridiculous. The reason for
this boom is obvious if you just take off the ideological
blinders.
There was a long economic boom after World War II,
and nobody had any trouble saying why that was.
The entire economy of Europe had been destroyed
in the war, and had to be rebuilt. All that capital
had to be bought, and those huge capital purchases
caused a sustained period of good times in the postwar
United States.
Nobody had any trouble with that, because all that
destruction could be blamed on a right-wing dictator,
Adolph Hitler.
Our boom today is exactly the same. For over fifty
years, the third world remained in a state of inhuman
poverty. Econometric studies have shown that people
in the third world were much, much poorer after
World War II than our ancestors were in the depths
of the Dark Ages. The average black person in Africa
lives far, far more poorly than the average slave
in the Old South ever did.
But with the end of the Cold War, these countries
-- except Africa -- began to grow economically for
the first time. All that had been holding them back
were the socialist policies they had learned from
our Western "intellectuals." As soon as
the market economy was adopted with the collapse
of Communism, the horrible misery of those countries
began to end.
With the end of socialist planning, most of the
third world is growing into a human standard of
living.
The third world is importing capital at rates greater
than Europe did after World War II. They are growing
fast, and we are benefiting from those purchases.
So why is this obvious point never mentioned? The
reason is simple: it is no longer a right-wing Hitler
who can be blamed for over half a century of misery
in the third world.
Fifty years of desperate poverty are the direct
result of leftist policies. Billions of lives were
destroyed by it in the third world. More horror
than Hitler and even Stalin produced, many more
times, is the direct result of socialist planning
and its failure around the world.
So the real reason for our economic boom is something
you will only read here. That sounds incredible,
but it's true. The left doesn't want to discuss
the incredible misery they caused, and so respectable
conservatives will never discuss it.
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THE DEATH
PENALTY: LET'S MAKE A DEAL
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Nothing liberals advocate ever WORKS.
So no one is allowed to ask how many children's
futures were ruined by their inability to read after
phonics was abandoned in so many schools. People
killed by repeat felons let out by liberal lawyers
and judges don't count at all.
Liberals want an end to capital punishment for a
very interesting reason. The death penalty is evil,
they say, because innocent people get executed.
The liberal rule when it comes to punishing murderers
is that you can't have capital punishment unless
it is perfect.
We could make a deal with them on this: No program
will be adopted if it can cause permanent harm to
people if it fails.
If anyone is executed who turns out to have been
innocent, liberals say the damage is "permanent."
Now, it doesn't matter if every single leftist program
has failed and done permanent and horrendous damage
to innocent people. Those honest people don't matter,
because they are of no particular importance to
liberals.
But repeat felons are one of the groups that leftists
consider to be their special clients. Like minorities,
they MATTER. If you do permanent harm to convicted
felons, especially convicted felons who belong to
a minority group, you are dealing with real people.
They are not like children whose education is ruined,
or people who are killed on the streets because
repeat liberal judges release felons. Those don't
count.
Another leftist idea that destroyed
millions of lives was the anti-family propaganda
of the women's lib movement of the 1970s. One of
their mottoes was, "It is just as important
to paint a picture as to have a baby."
They recommended that women concentrate on their
careers, and that they learn to live alone. Within
a couple of decades, women's libbers began to admit
they had gone way too far. Hundreds of thousands
of alone and lonely women were the result.
In the '90s, a lot of these libbers began to admit
they had been too anti-family and anti-male. Once,
and only once, I heard a conservative ask one of
them how many lives their fanaticism had ruined.
Needless to say, like all leftist errors, this one
was ignored, and conservatives stopped asking such
a heretical question.
So the rule on capital punishment is this: government
can do anything to anybody, and make disastrous
mistakes that kill and ruin lives, as long as they
do it in the name of leftism. This is just an unfortunate
result of social experiments. But there is a VERY
IMPORTANT EXCEPTION to this rule. This exception
applies to groups leftists care about. So if you
are dealing with a repeat felon or a member of a
minority group, all government action must be perfect.
What if we applied this rule to ALL government action?
What if we considered innocent people who get mugged
on the streets to be as human as repeat felons or
minority groups? What if we decided that the education
of children was important, too? In that case, what
would happen to all those leftist "experiments"
that never work?
There are mistakes that matter and there are mistakes
that don't matter. When we freed tens of thousands
of hardened felons to prey on citizens, the resulting
slaughter was simply one of those slightly regrettable
results of a glorious social experiment. But if
you execute a single person who didn't do it, that
is forever evil and inexcusable.
So let's make a deal with the liberals. We will
abolish capital punishment if they will agree that,
from now on, we should be as careful about ALL social
experiments as liberals and respectable conservatives
want to be about capital punishment.
Leftists cannot agree to this, and therefore respectable
conservatives cannot agree to this. The reason liberals
and their pet conservatives cannot agree to this
is very simple. Capital punishment is usually applied
to the RIGHT people, so there is an argument for
it. But in the case of the left, NOTHING they recommend
ever WORKS. The deal I am proposing would DESTROY
the left.
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