Friday, September 23, 2011

Class Stagnation

The Many can be organized to more efficiently sustain all. The organization can be for good, honesty, and efficiency, or it can be for corruption, lies, and waste. The difference is not to be accounted for merely because the organization happens either to be under the control of union bosses or corporate bosses. The difference is more a reflection of the quality of the spirituality, education, and experience of the Many. In any event, the hard, detailed, day to day work cannot be accomplished by the Organizers, but only by those who are the Organized. In an organized civilization, the workers care little who is the Organizer, so long as he promotes merit and efficiency. No matter how much fiat money may be printed, it cannot promote merit and efficiency for workers who come to believe they are entitled to lay about and receive benefits, while letting all the work fall to managers. Workers cannot be allowed to become or remain organized to demand benefits that would remove from them all incentive to work.
 
 
On the other hand, to keep workers so poor, desperate, and dependent that they have no influence to push Organizers to promote goodness and efficiency for all is to reduce them to promote serfs, while giving Organizers no incentive to behave other than as despots. What is needed is neither the destruction of the Middle Class, nor class warfare between the Organizers and the Organized. What is needed is a way to incentive productive merit. That is done with enlightened bills of rights and appropriate checks and balances.
 
 
Unfortunately, what is entirely missing in our system is a check against corporations becoming disloyal internationalists, bent on eliminating the influence of the middle class and reducing workers worldwide to compete to provide the cheapest labor. This reduces American freedom and dignity to a lowest common denominator of worldwide serfdom. To curtail this accelerating trend, an enlightened tax policy is crucial. Corporations that produce jobs in America ought not be specially taxed by Americans. On the other hand, corporations that export jobs ought to be highly taxed. Individuals ought to be fairly taxed during their years of production. Aristocracies ought to be curtailed by progressive death taxes. Otherwise, there develops too much of a gulf of animus between classes, too much incentive to class war, too much solidifying of class stagnation, and too much tendency to a new age of serfdom.
 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

An upwardly mobile middle class is the soul of the American ideal. We need a Republican President who represents the American ideal, not the ideal of the lowest-common-denominator internationalist facilitator of world wide serfdom. If Romney goes down, I hope Herman Cain rises. The two arms of the anti-American monster are Rinos and Dinos. That monster has ruled since Bush the Elder. The Republican Party needs to become the party of the middle class. Otherwise, the middle class is without hope of representation. The most important step to serfdom and Marxism is the continued destruction of the middle class. Dinos want everyone in the same hole, and Rinos seek to oblige (except for the elite who feign to rule us "for our own good"). Middle class Republicans need to make no bones about opposing Dino notions of entitlement and Rino pretenses of governmental spreading of beneficience as "charity." Sarah Palin is dead right about crony capitalism, which is the Grendel sweetheart of both Rinos and Dinos. Grendel ain't pretty.

Anonymous said...

The middle class labors under mal-education and division. So, by default, monied sociopaths tend to own governments and successful candidates. Our only hope is a rude awakening. 9-11 was apparently not rude enough to adequately awaken us to the threat of Islamofascism. As to the coming Depression, demagogues will turn the cause of it on its ear. What or who will teach us the truth? Not those who want us to show heart by allowing freedom to be overrun. Political power needs to be taken from remote D.C. and returned to the states. And states must be made to live with the consequences of their bad decisions. Enforce the border and stop the funding and bailouts of states that are magnets for swamping America with people who have little clue about the price or value of liberty. Our federal politicians need to stop promising to fix the consequences of stupid or bad state behavior. But who will fund such politicians to run for office? Who will avail them a platform? What awakening can bring sects of freedom lovers together and inspire grass roots support, corrupt money be damned?

Anonymous said...

Herman Cain could tell pants-on-ground-low-riding-comedians of all races to stop with the foolishness. Behind all the abstract talk about economy, taxes, money, and redistribution, there's a fairly simple reality: Too many people think the governmental magic of Obama's Stash can fix it so hardly anyone needs to produce anything. But you can't eat fiat money, no matter how much you spread it. Redistributing fiat money is not going to fix an economy in which most people are looking: for ways not to have to work, ways to discourage other people from working, or ways to live off other people's work. A good part of the reason times are so much tougher for the next generation than they should be in a society that rewarded good sense is because so many people have deluded themselves that we could all be rich if we just redistributed money around. Meantime, while we've been deluding ourselves in that way, people in other countries have been busily working away, actually producing, and thereby taking our industry into their lands. Instead of working to get that industry back, rabble rousers like Obama ilk continue to delude themselves that redistributing money to the poor would solve our problems. Giving money for nothing just buys plenty of nothing. It's not pants around ankles that I worry about; it's brains. Brains around ankles have set us back and hocked the next generation. I suspect the entitlement mindset doesn't rest when it comes to other issues, like entitlement to chemical addictions. To me, that mindset is emblematic of moral issues. Probably less so for profs seeking popularity. Now that the coming generation is finding decent jobs hard to come by, maybe it will finally begin to tune out popularity-minded profs and listen to a truth bringer like Herman Cain. No pain, no gain.

Anonymous said...

Well, by the time an employee's pay rises from 34 T to 106 T, he will more likely have children of college age, and he will less likely be eligible for low interest, fed backed loans. Given rising costs of college for his children, he will tend to be little better off than those who have not risen in pay as they have aged. The tax code is just one head of a federal hydra that has aligned to level the middle class. It will be hard to kill this hydra unless and until the culture overcomes its "spread the wealth" notion of the purpose of government. Absent cultural change, not even Hercules could beat governmental whack a mole. To get cultural change, the middle class needs to recognize that it is beset by an alliance at both far ends of the income scale to destroy the political relevance of ordinary producing Americans. Get the federal government out of the economic stimulus business, eliminate the corporate tax on production in America, restore smart trade tariffs, and keep death taxes only to the extent needed to protect against the rise of a disloyal, internationalist aristocracy. It's not a matter of "fairness." It's a matter of preserving America as a City on a Hill, amongst a mad world that wants to return to the default position of the ages: serfdom for most (i.e., the leveling of the middle class).

Anonymous said...

I saw some hack on lib tv denigrating the notion that Herman Cain could get many black votes. If that's so, then the Prog side of the culture war will have proven itself to have permanently attached to a racist marker: that you cannot be authentically black if you're a Conservative American. That will not bode well for any person or for the nation. I suspect most Americans are fed up to their eyeballs with affirmative action and welfare coddling by printing fiat money that makes the entire nation less productive and further at risk. It may be hard for a lot of people to accept that the time for living off Obama's Stash is gone, but that just doesn't work and the nation's fed up with it.