Government Provided Prosperity
By Randy Gage
So can the government really provide prosperity for their citizens? Certainly. But not by artificially propping up markets and providing bailouts to private companies.
The only way a government can create true prosperity is to let the free enterprise system work. And provide an army to defend the borders, a police force for security, and a court system to adjudicate disputes. Everything else would do better if run by the private sector.
Last posting I talked about the socialistic tendencies of the U.S. government and the dangers they create. In the comments, Jose said I should, “keep your mouth shut when you don’t know something rather than claim the scholarly expertise you don’t have.”
Alrighty then, thanks for bringing your academic expertise to elevate the discussion to such an intellectual level!
In his post he also mentions a discussion he had with me a few years back when he asked if I had studied Karl Marx’s manifesto of 1844. I do remember that conversation with Jose. He spoke to me after I conducted a prosperity workshop, trying to deny that Objectivism was a philosophy.
I’m not sure if he actually buys into Marx’s bullshit about how capitalism has a degenerative impact on our sense of self and creative potential, or he’s still upset because I can manifest such prosperity without the academic dogma he clutches so dearly.
Communism flat out doesn’t work. It’s one of those noble things that sounds good on the surface, but doesn’t actually work in the real world. It didn’t work in Russia, and it’s not working in Cuba or China.
Here in the States, and many other places like the UK, Norway, and Denmark, they’re marching down the path toward socialism. The current economic meltdown is driving many other countries down this dangerous slope as well. And socialism is simply communism with lipstick.
In my last “Randy’s Rants” newsletter, I suggested that metals like gold, silver and platinum are the only real form of money in the world, and everything else is a promissory note. Money is how we determine value and overcome the challenges of exchanging goods, since it was getting hard to trade ten coconuts for half of a cow.
Of course Marx felt that money evolved into an actual good itself, since money could purchase pretty much everything, as long as quantities are sufficiently available. But his real problem seemed to be that money isn’t just used for exchange, but can be invested to make a profit. Gasp! (Which in his eyes, can only be created by exploiting labor.)
Marx (like Castro) would rather have everyone be worker drones in the collective. When you have traveled as much as I have, and seen the Soviet era housing, the infrastructure in Macedonia, and the other breakdowns in the communistic and socialistic systems you realize that these utopian ideals are really just means of enslaving the masses into lives of lack and mediocrity.
The academics spend countless hours pontificating Marx’s market principle formula of Money-Commodity-Profit (M-C-M1), versus the traditional formula Commodity-Money-Commodity (C-M-C). Since I’m just an ignorant high school dropout, I spend my time on the issue of providing value to the universe, which in turn produces prosperity for me.
And that’s what you must know to manifest prosperity in your life…
All real prosperity comes as a result of providing value, and the greater value you provide, the greater prosperity you will manifest.
It’s interesting that Jose would bring up the manuscripts of 1844, because many historians and academics have ignored Marx’s early works because they thought them too philosophical and humanistic. Which is hysterical, because while the work is certainly philosophical, his ideas are simply anti-human. They limit man’s creativity, steal the reward of his labors, and are the antithesis of prosperity.
This topic is a fascinating one, and very relevant to manifesting abundance in your life, so we’ll explore it deeper in some other posts. Meanwhile check in and share your thoughts with the group, even if you think I should just shut my mouth. Because we get to do that in a free enterprise country!
-RG
P.S. Please don’t think I’m demeaning academics and study. While my education has been mostly self-taught, I admire those that dedicate themselves to scholarly endeavor. I actually took the GED course so that I could enroll and take some college courses. The problem comes from the many that confuse memorizing data with actual critical thinking, which is what’s required for real wisdom.
