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Re: Election as Forcing Function - Part I: On Track for a Bond Market Panic - Eric Janszen
Both of you make very valid points. Again, the overall problem is not confined to the USA; here in the UK we face exactly the same need to redefine the role and responsibilities of government. What has become very interesting is the realisation of the responsibility of intellect to speak to truth. None of us has all the answers, but many here on iTulip show a very good understanding of the overall problem; the need to fix rather than destroy. To show the courage to debate.
The great difficulty is getting across to those currently holding power; that they must listen to our input. On the other hand, they will see us as an enemy; someone that does not have their best interest at heart; which in a sense, is true. On the other hand, what is their best interest?
And that question automatically leads to another; how do you show to someone with their head down, working, (as they see it), their fingers to the bone, that all their work is leading the nation in the wrong direction?
Here in the UK, it would seem that my comments have so far produced the reaction that I am to be seen as a threat; that I must be such. So the real challenge is to answer the question ourselves; how do we get across that we see our role, not as a subversive influence; but as being ....... honourably loyal to the needs of the wider nation by making the comments.
It is very easy to say to someone, anyone, that they are wrong. Both sides are doing it to each other at one and the same time; the challenge is to make your case in a way that forces the truth out into the open so all can see it as such.
But again, both sides will each say theirs is the truth of it.
My analysis, my instincts, tell me that the only way to do this is to stick to the point we make and keep making it; regardless of the consequences to ourselves as individuals. That by so doing, we force the existing leadership to look inward to their own decisions; that by so doing, we force them to sit still, even for just a moment, and reflect upon what we are saying.
The overall problem as I see it, is very simple; we are not living within a true free market system, where if you fail, the basic rules everyone has to abide by; force you to have to change direction; retrench. Instead, by creating what I have often described as a feudal mercantile economy, the Western government system has become deeply feudal itself. That what we are witnessing is good old fashioned medieval feudalism.
Looking at the wider picture, the Western economies today are short of perhaps 100 million private sector jobs on the one hand, yet, due to long term policy decisions, (made certainly in honesty without any perception of the long term consequences), today, there is no functioning mechanism to fund the free enterprise equity capital to fund the creation of those much needed jobs. Rather than accept that very simple fact and act to put things right, government has embarked upon repeated attempts to create new jobs using all the tools at the disposal of a feudal government.
Yet, as we here know full well; their attempts simply will not work.
The challenge we face is to slowly, carefully, keep making the same points in such a way that, eventually, they come to see that we are not the enemy at the gates, but responsible citizens trying our best to get our message across; that they have to recognise they are all working to a set of rules that lead the wider nation away from freedom and success and instead, towards a continual decline.
The responsibility of the honest citizen is to speak to truth. Loyalty is not about never questioning the actions of existing leadership; it is being honest to our intellects and showing the courage of our convictions to say what we believe to be true; even if the leadership seem to not believe it to be so.
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The great difficulty is getting across to those currently holding power; that they must listen to our input. On the other hand, they will see us as an enemy; someone that does not have their best interest at heart; which in a sense, is true. On the other hand, what is their best interest?
And that question automatically leads to another; how do you show to someone with their head down, working, (as they see it), their fingers to the bone, that all their work is leading the nation in the wrong direction?
Here in the UK, it would seem that my comments have so far produced the reaction that I am to be seen as a threat; that I must be such. So the real challenge is to answer the question ourselves; how do we get across that we see our role, not as a subversive influence; but as being ....... honourably loyal to the needs of the wider nation by making the comments.
It is very easy to say to someone, anyone, that they are wrong. Both sides are doing it to each other at one and the same time; the challenge is to make your case in a way that forces the truth out into the open so all can see it as such.
But again, both sides will each say theirs is the truth of it.
My analysis, my instincts, tell me that the only way to do this is to stick to the point we make and keep making it; regardless of the consequences to ourselves as individuals. That by so doing, we force the existing leadership to look inward to their own decisions; that by so doing, we force them to sit still, even for just a moment, and reflect upon what we are saying.
The overall problem as I see it, is very simple; we are not living within a true free market system, where if you fail, the basic rules everyone has to abide by; force you to have to change direction; retrench. Instead, by creating what I have often described as a feudal mercantile economy, the Western government system has become deeply feudal itself. That what we are witnessing is good old fashioned medieval feudalism.
Looking at the wider picture, the Western economies today are short of perhaps 100 million private sector jobs on the one hand, yet, due to long term policy decisions, (made certainly in honesty without any perception of the long term consequences), today, there is no functioning mechanism to fund the free enterprise equity capital to fund the creation of those much needed jobs. Rather than accept that very simple fact and act to put things right, government has embarked upon repeated attempts to create new jobs using all the tools at the disposal of a feudal government.
Yet, as we here know full well; their attempts simply will not work.
The challenge we face is to slowly, carefully, keep making the same points in such a way that, eventually, they come to see that we are not the enemy at the gates, but responsible citizens trying our best to get our message across; that they have to recognise they are all working to a set of rules that lead the wider nation away from freedom and success and instead, towards a continual decline.
The responsibility of the honest citizen is to speak to truth. Loyalty is not about never questioning the actions of existing leadership; it is being honest to our intellects and showing the courage of our convictions to say what we believe to be true; even if the leadership seem to not believe it to be so.
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