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                                                    ARTICLE INTERUPTUS:

                                George and Marion Kerby Present Not Quite All of Him

                      by Citizen Journalist, Richard DePersio, Dago Red, Sherlock Holmes,

                                               Dr. Watson with Al Hitchcock

(Read portions of articles at this site pertaining to economics, you will say: "It's not my

parents economics. Sherlock: The Case of the Invisible Hand/Translucent Vagina/Magic

Finger).

We were continuing our discussion of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand when our visible hand

began to hurt. (George and Marion know about Invisible hands too. Transparent to

translucent: We are amongst the few men to have seen a translucent vagina). Never let

it be said that Citizen Journalist left a reader short-changed!

Where were we...Adam Smith introduced the central mechanism of capitalism:

Competition. Smith instructs us in the second feature: the market will arrange for the

production of the goods that society wants, "in the quantities society wants without any-

one issuing an order of any kind." (Understanding Macroeconomics - more info on

book supplied below).

       "There is an old Cold War story about a Soviet official who visits an American

pharmacy. The brightly lit aisles are lined with thousands of remedies for every problem

from bad breath to toe fungus. "Very impressive," he says. "But how can you make sure

that every store stocks all of these items?" The anecdote is interesting because it betrays

 a total lack of understanding of how a market economy works. In America, there is no

central authority that tells stores what items to stock, as there was in the Soviet Union."

(Citizen Journalist: We beg to differ: there have been small to large changes over the

past 100-plus years, especially, since B.O. came to power. The nationalization/

socialization of the auto industry and the near n/s {saving time as our hand begins to

hurt from typing - CMT) of the banking and insurance industries. It's what happens

when business accepts fed gov $$$s - with it comes the incompetent control of

gov bureaurocrats. Romney said recently that the auto industry should have gone through

a regular bankruptcy process. We said when BO assumed the presidency that it was

unconstitutional of him to play bankruptcy judge; we opposed bail-out favoring a real

bankruptcy process. A small but important recent example: fed gov telling health

insurers to cover contraceptives and morning after pill for free. Gov control of an economy

is BAD - witness the fall of communism and the on-the-brink socialist countries of

Europe {more gov control in com than soc; are we still cap?}. "Stores sell the products

that people want to buy, and, in turn, companies produce items that stores want to

stock.The Soviet economy failed in large part because government bureaucrats directed

everything from the number of bars of soap produced by a factory in Irktusk to the

number of university students studying electrical engineering in Moscow. In the end, the

task proved overwhelming. (CJ: "Soviet economy also collapsed because it could not

keep pace with Reagan military build-up: it stressed and collapsed entire system and,

more than ever forced to micromanage consumer economy - it was already far too much!...

BO take-over of student loans and intra-state lakes and rivers; consumers being told what

 to buy; n/s.").

      The quotes in the last paragraph came from "naked economics" by Charles Wheelan

(Norton, 2010) - sometimes he wears blind folders. Chuck goes on to talk about a visit to

Cuba some years back which illuminates our inability to comprehend communist central

planning. Having been raised in the era of discount stores, he and his colleagues (he was

part of an Illinois delegation visiting Cuba) were permitted to return with $100 worth of

merchandise including, the famous Cuban cigars (CJ: "We were shocked to discover that

Castro had forsaken them several years ago as our image of him has remained frozen in

time."). "After several fruitless hours, we discovered the whole point of communism: The

price of cigars was the same everywhere. There is no competition between stores because

there is no profit as we know it. Every stores sells cigars--and everything else for that

matter--at whatever price Fidel Castro (or his brother Raul) tells them to. And every

storekeeper selling cigars is paid the government wage for selling cigars, which is unrelated

to how many cigars he or she sells." Over 90% of population is on the same economic level:

a socialist utopia - BO is taking us there. By the way, the 90% our poor: Big Gov; low

wages; high taxes.

(We are compelled to stop at this junction as our hand...if truth be told our finger, we have

been over-working it. Right, Marion (rhetorical question). 

 

Fwd: George and Marion Kerby Present...

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                       George and Marion Kerby Present: Not Quite All of Him

                       by Citizen Journalist, Richard DePersio, Dago Red, Sherlock Holmes

                       and Dr. Watson with Al Hitchcock

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RD: "Not long ago, we joked at rickaddsite: What will fed gov regulate next sugar!?! After all, it

is bad for your teeth and some adults overindulge and don't monitor their children's intake,

therefore, the vast majority must be treated like children. Well, BO is planning to regulate it like

alcohol and tobacco. And, we were being sarcastic!" CJ: "Our Founding Fathers wanted as few laws

and regs as possible: People should be free to say and do smart and stupid things; be good and

be mean - just so long as reasonable laws weren't violated. Gov wasn't to take care of people.

Now, the servants make more than the masters. Gov workers - salary + benefits - exceeds that

of those with the same type of job in the private sector. Do away with fed unions! Even Mr.

Liberal himself FDR hoped that they would never be created. Three percent of private sector

workers are fired or laid off annually - public sector: 1/2 per cent. It isn't because they better

workers - infamous for royal run around. Do away with gov unions: their salaries should be

75% of and benefits 85% of equivalent private sector workers with raisers for merit only. You

would have superior workers - those truly committed to public service." Kerby's: "When do you

guys get to the article proper!?!"

CJ: "Just one more thing, Colombo would say" Van Gogh cut off his ear and gave it to a hooker and

 told her that it was valuable and that it would increase in value! Shakespeare: "Friends, Romans,

countrymen lend me your ears." CJ is giving you his ears! No; he doesn't think his readers are

whores and pimps.He just wants to give a gift that will keep on giving (wait until you see rickaddsite!

connect via Facebook: Second American Revolution).

As is our wont, we start off with cosmos followed by cosmos (which means world) and Offending

with Truth when circumstances warrant (Kerby's: "Haven't you already done that. Jumping the gun").

       A few fays ago, some one mentioned on Facebook that the earth temporarily has two moons -

one the size of truck. We informed of that a couple of weeks ago in our series on asteroids and

meteors - sub-floors 1 through 9.

       Comets aka dirty snowballs consist of ice with some dust mixed in. Asteroids solid with little

water; Kuiper Belt objects mostly rock with a considerable amount of ice; Oort Cloud objects are

mostly ice. Kuiper and Oort objects can be considered comets or potential comets (if they enter

inner solar system). Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune and, includes, Pluto (unless you consider Pluto to

be a dwarf planet). Oort Cloud is a spherical cloud around the rest of the solar system.

       Soon at www.quasarpolitics.blogspot.com - why we want NASA to issue more contracts to

Virgin Galactic and phase out subsidies for four companies, including, SpaceX.

The ever generous CJ is giving you his valuable? lower extremities! {Cue illegals to applaud}

In the article, one floor below, we described Adam Smith's Invisible Hand as some one doing

something selfish and unintentionally giving a helping hand to most others. It has another meaning.

(Marion: "Sometimes, it seems that CJ has an Invisible Hand! My husband doesn't appreciate it.

CJ is a good friend and a bit of a flirt - I can handle him - - thus far).

      Understanding Macroeconomics by Heibroner and Thurow (Prentise-Hall, 1981): "Adam Smith's

fame resides in his masterpiece, The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, the year of the

Declaration of Independence. All things considered, it is not easy to say which document is of

greater historical importance. The Declaration sounded a new call for a society dedicated to the

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." The WEALTH explained how a society worked.

      During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Mercantilism and Physiocracy were

stepping stones on the road to modern economics. But neither made the crucial breakthrough of

seeing that the market was a system; that a market network possessed an internal guidance

mechanism to keep it on a steady course and that a society powered by a market was headed

toward a visible destination. Enter stage door right (for he is a favorite of all fiscal conservatives and

most moderates). He was a towering genius who had the insight.

      The actors in the market want to make as much money as possible. What's to prevent them

from holding up their fellow citizens for ransom? The mechanism of competition: "For each person,

out for self-betterment, with no thoughts of others, is faced with a host of similarly motivated

persons. As a result, each market actor is forced to meet the prices offered by the competitors."

A manufacturer who charges more than other manufacturers will have no buyers; a job seeker who

asks for more than the going wage won't secure employment; an employer who pays less won't

find people who want to work for him. Buyers must bid against other buyers and, therefore,

cannot gang up against sellers. (We shall return to the Invisible Hand in our next article as my

hands hurt! {Beyond van Gogh: CJ gives you his upper extremities sans hands (needs for typing;

will leave for you in his will)}.

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balance and equilibrium; and let's you tell your body to do things like walking, talking and

chewing gum. Al: "He seems to have run out of commercials so that will be all for tonight. Goodnight."

{CJ now gives you his trunk sans one part (guess which part?).

Communism failed; socialism is failing; capitalism will fail within 30, perhaps, 15 years if we don't

slash spending. Crony capitalism is bad: nationalizing (socializing) auto companies; saving

selected banks and insurance companies - just one-step removed from nationalizing them.

Having auto companies face an unconstitutional bankruptcy judge B.O. instead of a real one. Giving

an advantage to certain companies by giving them a subsidy and not giving a subsidy to

competitors. These are all forms a gov crony capitalism for which Adam (our friend Adam Cartwright)

and Adam Smith wouldn't approve. This isn't crony but bad: gov stopping companies from making

incandescent light bulbs - unconstitutional and takes choice away from consumer/citizen.

For over a hundred years, progressivism (it became liberalism circa 1950) has been operating in

opposition to capitalism and they did great damage with socialistic bail-outs.

       The National Labor Relations Board was in the news recently when it told a private company

where to build a plane - Boeing and it was unconstitutional for gov to dictate where a private

company is to build a product. B.O. thinks that the constitutional smells!

Let's Play: WHEN WAS THIS WRITTEN???: Yesterday? Last Year? Three Years Ago? Other?

       "In effect, the government and the unions and the National Labor Relations Board are suggesting

that every business is to some extent a public utility and that therefore the one most crucial

decision regarding it, namely, whether it shall continue to operate or not, is under certain

conditions the business of the government rather than that of its owners. The implication of that

position shed light on the changing concept of socialism over the past generation.It used to be

that socialism meant simply government ownership of the means of production. As far back as

twenty years ago a leading theorist of socialism, Mr. G. D. H. Cole lectured the Fabian Society

on the necessity to recognize that outright ownership is merely a technicality. What, he asked, is

the purpose of government ownership if, instead, can with far greater convenience control

corporations by indirect means? What does it matter who owns the title to the business if wages

are in effect determined by government (through monopoly rights given to labor unions and through

minimum wage laws), if profits are controlled (through taxation), and if production quotas can be

set (as during wartime and periods of emergency)? -Socialism---American Style, Bill Buckley. Did

you guess: December, '64 when LBJ, Liberal Boy Johnson, was president? (Quotations from

Chairman Bill compiled by David Franke (Pocket Book, '71).

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