Ron Paul Gives Up

Needless to say, I figured this would happen.  Last time he ran, he dumped everyone without warning and he did it again.  I don’t know how many times the Ron Paul followers have to be burned but I suppose, it takes a lot to learn.

That is, when the news came out that Ron’s wife had a personal buddy buddy relationship with Mrs. Bully Boy, it was obvious to me what would happen next.  Politics are VERY personal in DC.  Ron won’t rock the GOP boat even if it means handing over our government to a guy running banking scams offshore while deindustrializing our nation.

This is the weak spot with Libertarians: they have no clue how the real world works.  They don’t understand basic capitalism because they forbid themselves from ever trying to understand Karl Marx.  This huge hole in their collective education is most painful to watch.

If one doesn’t understand what ‘capital’ is, one can’t understand what ‘money’ is.  Or anything: it is LABOR and VALUE ADDED to production via work that turns raw nature into ‘products’ which then have to be sold for a ‘profit’.

This is best done with slaves, of course.  But slaves destroy the capitalist system since they buy nothing.  The need for workers is paramount, workers who are not slaves.

Here is the latest example from dying Japan which runs deep in the red in significant areas as Nature hammers the nation into the lower depths of hell:  Housewives seeking part-time work squeezed out by surge in jobless ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

Eiko Kato, 44, was laid off late last year by a food processing plant near her home in Ibaraki Prefecture. She’d been working on the assembly line four days a week. She and others were displaced, she says, by 30 trainees from Pakistan and Bangladesh – people willing or forced to work longer hours for less pay than the locals. Kato has three children in school. She can’t afford to be unemployed. She frequented the government employment agency Hello Work, and pressed acquaintances who might have connections. Luckily – or so she thought – one came through for her, and got her a job at a restaurant in a neighboring town. The trouble was the 20-km commute. Soaring gas prices cut into her wages to such an extent that the job is hardly worthwhile. But out of consideration for her connection, she feels she can’t quit.

 

These are not, like in the US, illegal aliens.  They are legal!  But they do the same thing: they get little money and all of it moves out of Japan to their home countries while the Japanese go without jobs.  In the US, we import high end labor to drive down the cost of doctors, engineers, etc.  The jobs that can’t go to cheap foreign labor living in hovels owned by the corporations move overseas.  Japan is rapidly deindustrializing itself and its trade deficit is now rapidly growing.

 

So, like the US, it is now running constantly in the red at all levels.  Ron Paul had no clue how to stop free trade nor did he talk about raising worker’s wages and improving their conditions.  No, he wanted his own brand of money magic coming out of a magic hat in DC.  Congress would print money!  Yes, this is the solution to no capital.

 

Back to Ron Paul: his leadership abilities are obvious.  He knows how to con young people with fancy talk and then simply drops the ball and stands aside so that his GOP buddies can run rampant.  He isn’t brave at all.  He is a joke.

 

And our ONLY antiwar candidate!  Alas, I feel that is a front he puts on, he is Texan and Texas is a huge consumer of military/industrial money from Congress while screaming at us that we are careless with money, etc.  He can’t be trusted nor should be trusted.  He doesn’t understand (HA) what fascism is because this means talking about national socialism and he is not even a good national socialist like the Germans.  He is peculiarly and eerily oblivious to the need for any social systems.

 

People love to imagine a world without obligations, restrictions or taxes.  But that happens to be hell.  Civilizations all tax, restrict and obligate.  Chaos kills.  The Rousseauian paradise of animalistic living is unrealistic.  Humans have been social creatures since we first learned how to speak in words and use fire.  We can’t go back to Eden, it is where lions, tigers and bears hunt us down.

 

We need banking reforms but we also need reforms to our system which lets workers lose income, hope and jobs.  Both Romney and Obama are pretending to be interested in this matter but neither really is.  And that sucks.  So we can kiss the antiwar candidate farewell and settle down to see which Tyrannosaurus Rex wins this ‘election.’  Bon appetite.  

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