tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411063121304264984.post7025758386769732680..comments2023-04-14T03:44:27.772-04:00Comments on Tom Mullen's Blog: The Crusade Against Greed: Government's ScapegoatTom Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01560337910390558259noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411063121304264984.post-42923221085469218272008-12-31T09:46:00.000-05:002008-12-31T09:46:00.000-05:00You must volunteer your rights. Although we were ...You must volunteer your rights. Although we were children when our parents signed our rights away. We have the ability to reclaim that now. We can all Choose life and a life that needs no Assistance. You know what I mean? Our Cause is Noble, Our Tower is Secure and truth is the way we live authentically. We are One unified by love and private entities unto ourselves. We are all states within ourselves and we must take back our freedom one at a time. It is our will that holds us in stasis. It is our will that will lead us home. The Past is over, the Present is our Gift and the Future is a game we have yet to play. That gives plenty of room for improvement.<BR/><BR/>We appreciate you Tom Mullen and all that your doing to educate the People. <BR/><BR/>:AEON<BR/>Unified Vessel Charter (_Exploring the land)<BR/>aeonpi.comEarthKeeper/GameMasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14915788613870157841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411063121304264984.post-3970989924297180162008-10-25T10:32:00.000-04:002008-10-25T10:32:00.000-04:00Election 2008: The short storyOnce upon a time:In ...Election 2008: The short story<BR/><BR/>Once upon a time:<BR/><BR/>In August 2008 one of the pending presidential candidates<BR/>was "puffied" (a threatening letter with some unidentified<BR/>powder was received).<BR/><BR/>A lot of press exposure was given to this event.<BR/><BR/>In late September and October 2008 a lot of American Citizens <BR/>who were FED UP with the political systems in the U.S. started<BR/>puffing all the candidates. Their letters said: "Obama Rules".<BR/><BR/>These American Citizens passed this story on to their<BR/>friends and neighbors.<BR/><BR/>By November President Bush declared it a national emergency<BR/>and shut down the 2008 elections.<BR/><BR/>Bush is still the President.<BR/><BR/> The End<BR/><BR/> www.saps08.nettoneyalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13228887571580897276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411063121304264984.post-90967745990034806202008-10-18T10:11:00.000-04:002008-10-18T10:11:00.000-04:00Hello Anna!"So what do you call economical gain at...Hello Anna!<BR/><BR/>"So what do you call economical gain at the expense of other human's well being?"<BR/><BR/>I would like to call that greed, but that is not what happened here. The lenders and borrowers both took inordinate risk. In a free market, the lender would have lost his money and the borrower would have had to leave the home that he never could afford in the first place, so neither would have profited at the other's expense. The only criminal here was the government, which interferred in the scenario I just described and used MY MONEY (and yours!) to prevent the lender from losing and the borrower to face the consequences of his actions. THus, the borrower and lender may have been greedy, but that posed no risk to anyone else until government interferred and guaranteed the loan with our money.<BR/><BR/>THat was my point in the article, that greed poses no risk to anyone else in a free market. If your greed makes you take too much risk, you lose, and the losses are your responsibility.<BR/><BR/>However, by blaming the crisis on greed instead of government intervention, you create an excuse for government to create unjust barriers to people making vast amounts of wealth legitimately, which is good for the market and good for society.<BR/><BR/>"To just render the whole complicated issue of the rotten economics that have been tearing up our existence to just one simple term "greed" is over simplifying the causes and the mechanisms generating the collapse of our economic/political system - I get it."<BR/><BR/>It's not oversimplifying, it's just accusing the wrong culprit. The cause of all of our economic problems is government - nothing else. Government using its coercive power to either redistribute wealth that would have been employed otherwise or to force economic agents to make choices that they otherwise wouldn't make (i.e. write a sub prime loan) causes every economic problem we have. Without government inserting brute force into the the system of voluntary exchange. we would trade with each other to our mutual benefit indefinitely without any need to interrupt the system. I am sure people will jump in with tortured logic and Keynesian nonsense to refute that, but when you reason through every problem we have, government interference has been at the root of it. <BR/><BR/>Hopefully we will finally realize and admit one day that we cannot improve our economy by pointing guns at people. Until we realize that, we will continue to do the same things over and over again and expect a different result.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411063121304264984.post-39498939425278267172008-10-18T02:08:00.000-04:002008-10-18T02:08:00.000-04:00Questions:So what do you call economical gain at t...Questions:<BR/>So what do you call economical gain at the expense of other human's well being? Is there a name for that other than greed? Greed to me is hate, greed to me is selfishness in action. Are we splitting hairs here? Are you right and am I wrong? So greed is OK as long as it is practiced within the framework of a free market "no regulations,no stipulations etc. Could this be the good side of greed? Could there be a bad side to greed? To just render the whole complicated issue of the rotten economics that have been tearing up our existence to just one simple term "greed" is over simplifying the causes and the mechanisms generating the collapse of our economic/political system - I get it. But in the exchange of ideas between people who are on the same side must it always need to be so dog-gone dogmatic? OR maybe we should always keep our guard up so not to dilute or lose sight of the changes that must be made?<BR/>pouliannapouliannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997391840112094013noreply@blogger.com