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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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After the \”King\” (i.e., the Gooferment) destroys the \”Church\” (i.e., the various Churches, fraternities, and other elements of civil society), you can't then complain about the absence of \”private safety net\”. Further, don't complain when somehow the \”King\” never has enough wealth to do what it promises. Sorry, but there is no way the Socialists can do what a free People can do. Socialists have two problems: the absence of a way to calculate value (i.e., all decisions are political) and knowledge (i.e., how much is enough and what's important are unknowable). So expect that the Gooferment will ALWAYS fail.
Hey, let's embrace goofertarianism and have Walmart print the money since government is so evil and by definition socialist (in crazy world goofertarian/tea party land). We'll have Walmart currency, Target roads, GE prisons and weak government; private police forces, private fire departments and private first aid squads. If you can't afford these services, tough luck. Please enjoy your Hoovervilles under a goofertarian regime of social Darwinism and debtors prisons. If you think fascistic corporate dominance is bad now just wait until president Paul gives the go ahead for corporations to defecate on us with total impunity. Goofertarianism is the biggest fraud perpetrated on humankind since communism. Under the goofertarian philosophy, poor people are evil and deserve everything they get. And that includes the poor kids, poor elderly and the poor disabled….tough luck to them.
I should clarify for newcomers to this comments section that goofertarianism = libertarianism or Libertarianism. I, on the other hand, am a liberaltarian and a civil libertarian which has nothing to do with goofballtarianism (libertarianism). Goofertarianism has a simple philosophy: wha, wha, wha, I don't want to pay taxes, wha, wha, wha. I have mine and everyone else can go to hell, let them beg in the streets for charity for cancer surgery or whatever else those moocher poor people want. Libertarians are the producers and everyone else is just so much garbage in the libertarian universe.
Anonymous throws so much \”spagetti\” up on the wall it's hard to know where to start.So let's just pick one easy one.\”Walmart print the money\”Interestingly amusing. While the Bureau of Printing and Engraving prints money, the private cartel the Federal Reserve System is the real driver in the production of money. It's not even as good as Walmart. WalMart has audited books. The FED has NO oversight, audit, or control. The Wall Street banks and brokerages have an incestuous relationship with the FED. The FED is a monopoly for the benefit of the \”banks\”, politicians, and bureaucrats. The little guy has been being screwed since the gold confiscation of FDR and today's economic disaster is just the result of it. Rave all you want, Anonymous, the Socialists have been screwing us little people for a century. And, the Tea Parties are evidence that the Sheeple are waking up to it.Maybe too late.