HowardWhat is the Purpose of the Nation-State Anyway?
February 4th 2008 01:12
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What could Hillary Clinton be doing if she were President? What is the purpose of the sovereign Nation-State, such as the United States? What is the "Welfare State?" Is that some leftist idea? No, not at all, total slander and calumny. The Welfare State is more properly known as the Nation-State for the General Welfare. Its origin is not Karl Marx but the first Renaissance nation-states 500 years ago. That was France, of Louis XI and later Tudor England of Henry VII. This was the idea of using state-sponsored infrastructure building, canal building, trade fairs, advances in health care, etc, to uplift the population. Have All the People, or the most as possible to live better, work more productively, have healthier children, and have scientific progress. This even goes back to the 1439 Council of Florence, from Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, and the idea of a nation on the model of the religious doctrine, the Filoque, "also from the Son". The idea is that the "holy spirit proceeds not only from G-d (the Ruler), but also from the Son (the Subjects). This is on top of such works as Plato's Republic from 2500 years ago. Check out the U.S.'s Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufactures. And that is what we will lose unless the next U.S. President listens to LaRouche and larouchepac.
See answers to this an other of my comments, at the political brief.
Now some comments on Lyndon LaRouche and his PACs proposals. LaRouche wants a single reserve unit, like the dollar was before 1971. Perhaps the dollar can serve again, with a gold reserve. That way you have a link to something real, but ultimately, whether your economy produces value is key. The Eurasian Landbridge, etc. is a new transportation system based on inland transportation, potentially using Maglev trains. The USA, Russia, Europe, China, and India can make a deal for the good of all. Europe, and especially the United Kingdom are dominated by the financial oligarchy. The threat of financial warfare is immediate, we must defend ourselves from speculators and nations under their power. That is why LaRouche is looking at Hillary as a possible person to change and rise to the occasion.
Cheap talk about welfare cheats has been endemic since the 1995 new Welfare Bill (no welfare for life), but seems to be just that, cheap scapegoating. LaRouche is teaching young people history, the history of science and the idea of human creativity. This is who and what he is deploying into the Presidential Race, a policy. Hillary will have to run her own campaign.
I think if someone was a speculator, driving up the price of oil from $10-a barrel to soon $100-a barrel, they too would be busy financing demagogues to scream about 12-million or so people getting their $600-a-month SSI "crazy check." It's scapegoating with the aim of blinding us to the fact that the dollar is being turned into toilet paper. Under Bush, the dollar has lost 50-percent of its value versus the pound and Euro, and nearly 1000-percent versus a basket of raw materials.
This must be stopped, or we are dead meat. You better back someone or something with a plan to stop it. I have spent my life working and even doing large amounts of volunteer work, when I can, so I am part of the "working class" too.
National sovereignity means defending the dollar. That means no more free market crap. We really have to go back to fixed exchange rates. Going from $10-30 a barrel for oil to close to $100 due to various swindles is a much bigger charge than keeping some misfits from dying of exposure. The housing mortgage crash has spread, and is spreading into a municipal bond crash, with the so-called "Bond Insurers" themselves going broke. We haven't much time to fix this folks. Can we stop the bashing of various "little people" and get to the real movers and shakers?
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