Vampires 2010

Vampires survive by taking the lives of the living to feed the undead. Vampires exist. Socialists use their dead religion to take from the productive and give to the mooches. The mooches could not survive without the productive. The living are feeding the Living Dead.

The greatest accomplishments for American socialists of the 20th Century were Social Security and Medicare. These are the things that are bankrupting the country today.

The unfunded liability of government promises is more than $100 trillion. This can never be repaid from an economy that generates $14 trillion per year. It is mathematically impossible, despite the most optimistic growth numbers. The United States of America is bankrupt. It is only a matter of time before the repo men show up.

The repo men will first demand higher interest rates on US Treasury Bonds. When the cost of interest, in addition to "entitlements" is added to the legitimate cost of government, the bill cannot be paid. It must be defaulted by either reneging on promises or paying in counterfeit money. Every government chooses counterfeiting. The results are always the same.

The new supply of dollars will cause the price of everything to rise. Inflation. The debt is paid down by deflating the currency. That nest egg you had in a savings account is now worth half. But the debt came down 2%!

The social engineers of society who want to tell people where to smoke, how much to drink, how much to weigh, how much to make, what to do, blah flipping blah... They also want government to control every aspect of life. They are taking it bit by bit. They are vampires.

They want the dependency on government that Social Security and Medicare create. They don't care about the consequences. It is the power to control other people that motivates a socialist. Especially people he does not like. They deserve special punishment.

The "rich" deserve special treatment in the socialists' vision of a tolerant and peaceful world. The people who most of us work for are treated like pariahs, evil opportunists who want to exploit the masses. That is so 19th Century. It is amazing that people still buy it today. They do so because it is a religion, not a science. Reality and logic are forbidden in socialism.

The religion of socialism should have died with the Soviet Union. Its collapse, after a century that saw its creed murder 100 million people, should have ended the matter. It still lives. Socialism is the Living Dead. The True Believers refuse to let facts get in their way.

The American people have always been people of good faith. We know we have the best intentions and we assume that our fellow Americans do too. We are willing to try social experiments that look good in university studies, because the people who support these things are professors, our best and brightest. We always assume good intentions on others.

However, about 100 years ago the socialists infiltrated American society. They do not have other peoples' best interest in mind. They want to control other people. The good natured Americans invited them in. They did not know they invited a vampire into their home.

People who would inflict a known failed religion on their neighbors, regardless of anybodys' good intentions, are still intentionally harming others. Socialism has harmed people for all of its existence. If people choose to harm others to get their own way, aren't they vampires?

The War of 1812

The War of 1812 was remarkable in a number of ways. It began after its primary reason was resolved. It ended before its most famous battle was fought. It gave us our National Anthem and it gave us our favorite First Lady.

James Madison was president in 1812 and compelled Congress to declare war on England over the policy of impressments. The British Navy was hijacking American merchant ships and forcing their crews to serve on British warships. This was an act of war. The British Parliament voted to end the practice. However, news travelled slow in 1812. Before news of the Parliament vote reached America, the United States declared war on England.

The British partially paid for the war by capturing American citizens and demanding ransom. Francis Scott Key was on board a British prison ship, paying for his brothers' release, when the bombardment of Fort McHenry commenced. He listened to and felt the power of the British bombardment and wondered how anyone could survive it. When daylight broke and he saw the American flag still flying, he found a pen and started to write the most important poem in American history...Oh say can you see, by the dawns' early light, what so proudly we hailed, at the twilights' last gleaming...

Thwarted at Fort McHenry, the British attack force sailed toward Baltimore. The Brits took the poorly defended city and marched toward the Capitol, which was also poorly defended. The hero of the battle of Washington was not a great general or even a courageous troop. There really wasn’t even a battle, other than the British army against a few brave militia. The result was never in doubt.

The hero of the battle was Dolly Madison. She remained in the White House and oversaw the removal of important documents and artifacts. The portrait of George Washington that still hangs in the White House today, was saved by Dolly Madison. The Brits burned the White House to the ground.

The United States and England were finally able to put aside their differences and declare peace. Impressments stopped and other grievances were addressed. All was well. Except news travelled slow in 1814 and the British attack force off the coast of New Orleans didn't know the war was over. Neither did American commander Andrew Jackson.

Jacksons' troops were ready for attack. They held entrenched positions on favorable ground. When the Brits marched through the swamps, they were slaughtered. The battle of New Orleans went decisively to the Americans. The outcome of New Orleans would not have affected the peace agreement regardless of who won. However, the Americans beat the crap out of the Brits. That was the last time Americans ever opposed British troops in battle. We have been allies ever since.

The War of 1812 had several historical consequences. It shouldn't be forgotten.

Supply and Demand

Prices are a form of communication. They indicate the judgment of society as to the value of something. Just as the ability to dunk from the free throw line is valued 50 times higher than the ability to educate our children, diamonds cost substantially more than water. Although teachers and water are more important than basketball players or diamonds, their respective values are determined by their supply.

If teachers were as rare as NBA quality athletes, teachers would make a LOT more money. If water were as rare as diamonds, there wouldn't even be time to fight a war over that small supply. Everyone out of supply would die. The supply of water would become the most valuable thing the world has ever known.

Demand also effects price. A man with no children has no demand for someone who can teach them. Conversely, someone with children and a desire to educate them will pay for a teacher. How much depends on a lot of different factors. Combining people in this situation, with all of their various factors which determine how much they are willing to pay, combined with the relative supply to the existing demand...all of that determines prices.

Both supply and demand are constantly changing. The high price of something might cause the supply to go up, which will eventually make the price go back down. The high demand for something will make the price go up, which will eventually make the demand go down. The low supply of something makes the price go up, which makes the supply go up, which eventually makes the price go down and the supply go down.

Price is an ever-changing number, where every change indicates another change in either supply or demand. The price of something is the communication between buyer and seller. Buy more/Make more or less of each? The price answers the question and the market responds.

Free market capitalism could have been called the competitive price system. That is actually a more descriptive name for what it represents. It is a system that summarizes the results of millions of decisions into a number that the next million decisions will be based upon.

Prices are the verdict of decisions made by millions of different people, each acting in their own self interest. Free market capitalism is the purest form of real democracy.