Young Americans have also seen first hand the weaponization of corporate power over the lives of their parents, and as they look deeper will find that medical and health care have been co-opted by radically socialized government policies. The cold-blooded disregard for corporate employees, combined with coercive controls drawn from government policies that promote the supremacy of ‘experimental drugs’ over the rights of free agency in matters of personal, as well as public health have become powerful examples of what totalitarian regimes are. Many within this age group are so accustomed to the intensified social engineering of the new century that they are only now showing their true disgust with the way our ‘betters’ have planned their lives. Their eyes are finally seeing
May I give you a couple of examples to the contrary, Ken? You'll probably have a hard time believing them....but it is what it is. On his last visit , my computer repairman [age twenty something] talked nonstop about the imminent Age of [I'm paraphrasing] "Free Everything." When he cut the repair job short to pick up his girlfriend for a concert I asked him if the concert were free. He told me "no, they have to pay the band." Out of the mouth of babes....
More recently, I was talking to the son of a friend who, really & truly, expressed disappointment at the fact his employer made him pay his own rent [he didn't see why he should have to use his hard earned wages for that].
Yeah, lots of smart young men & women are joining forces with Trump this time around. But decades of abysmal education have taken a toll....and all the facts in the world might not be enough to convince an impressive fraction of twenty somethings not to place their bet on "Free Everything." [And all the Trump rallies in the world might not be enough to educate them to the fact that ---once all their freedoms have been stolen ----the government will shift over to a "Free Nothing" program]....
We may not have views as contrary as your first impressions of my remarks may be.
My response to Steve’s thesis does not reflect a professional insight on his statistics. Instead, I attempted anecdotal perceptions of my wife’s experience at a major corporation managing health care for the government, by shifting government policies, and to the end of ‘apparently’ “free everything” — until it isn’t.
The corporate ‘elite’ are running odds on the ‘house’ winning continued contracts by statistics that are sandbagged in their favor. The deficits accumulated over the year are simply projected into an omnibus spending bill (which is not a budget, but a promissory note), rolled into a ‘continuing resolution’, and ‘kicked down the road’ for future taxpayers to pay. “Free Everything”, until it isn’t. Herein is mastery of the Obvious: the band must be, will be paid. I.e., the ‘elites’ (corporate poobahs) calling these tunes have lock-grip control of a system known to be two-tiered, delegated for haves and have-nots, and ‘free’ as the ‘socially promoted’ might expect, with other aspects of reality mixed in. (It’s the ‘white privilege’ system baked in.)
News flash: Anyone gainfully employed may expect our government benefactors to request more sacrifice of prosperity to further the narrative of ‘free’. Or, shall we call upon our ‘representatives’ to make sure there is an equity based on haves having less, or have-nots having more? Not more from the protected class of corporate elites and government regulators, and certainly not from the Congress which exempts itself from any harsh economic realities. Corporate protections are built in for scratching the mutual itch. Requires censorship, but what the hey!?
So I’ll share one anecdote that sums up our dilemma in a few words:
After having given 10 years of stellar performance in three different areas of health care management, the last area being medical case management, my wife was walked out after an ultimatum that a “case load” well over twice what any individual is capable of handling be brought to a current status. Her working partner had moved on to another position, and was not replaced with competent help for 6 months. The one they did hire only made matters worse. This became a time of exploitation and outright criminality by omission if not actual commission by her department heads. She was sacrificed for the salary of the help she needed. Where did the savings off that additional salary, or two, end up? (I don’t believe an MBA could have justified the raw numbers to do what they did.) And within a year her next two superiors were released as well. All this with the full understanding that the State requires adequate (human) resources to handle the caseload, which is a given in professional responsibility. And how is this shortfall of resources presented to the negotiators for this business? One way or another as a human ‘inadequacy’, at the middle levels of management, not the levels of greed built in to protect the inflated salaries of corporate directors.
Misrepresentation, for sure.
So those in the middle of the struggle for power over the money are sacrificed for the political expediency of the ‘elite.’
Welcome to the reality of true fascism: the complete immersion of corporate greed into the government bureaucracy, and closely correlated, the political class.
Let the continuing resolutions roll.
MAGA has the memo. Anyone else?
PS — reference Jeffrey Tucker’s piece on Corporatism in Robert Malone’s Substack.
You know what's funny [and makes me suspect there is, ultimately, no way outta this mess]? Jeffrey Tucker [damn you for turning me on to him, btw ---now I can't go back] references the horrors of life under Mussolini. It's occurred to me [just as it's probably occurred to Steve Bannon...but he doesn't want to put it into words] the short term solution involves taking the road Mussolini traveled...and we all know where that leads long term [let's just say the final stop isn't very nice & leave it at that].
Benito saw that the university system was hardcore left & corrupt so he began exiling intellectuals, the police couldn't be trusted so he created his own Special Police Force, the Judicial system sucked so he began appointing Special Magistrates....I could go on but you see where I'm going. Donald Trump is either gonna have to travel this road ...and, as I mentioned, arrive at a place he doesn't want to be....... or do his best to work with a completely worthless & compromised congress and federal judiciary....and get nowhere fast.
Before closing, I'd like to compliment you on one of the more thoughtful pieces I've read at this site & sympathize with your wife's predicament. I spent many years prosecuting cases at all levels ---city, state and federal. The number of cases in each courtroom forces each prosecutor into something like a malpractice per se situation.
There isn't any way on earth a lawyer can be ready on dozens [and dozens] of cases. Supervisors will always tell you "it's easy ---just be ready on the next case up." One problem: lots of times the next case up pleads. And the one after that develops witness problems. And you find yourself in jury selection on a case you haven't prepared ---just trying to get to the next recess so you can put together an opening statement. I might add that defunding prosecution offices and police departments hasn't exactly made this situation better.
It’s an honor to have this exchange w you, and thank you for your kudo, and making me laugh at your exposure to J Tucker. We have an interesting circle of people to share this journey with, (and for me at least, you are now among them, though if I drop the stick, I may be just a ‘hitchhiker’.)
Just a word on my place here. I am naturally drawn to thought leaders and writers w special gifts. Tucker Carlson comes as close to one whom you could say I idolize because of his apparent passion for truth and his disclaimers 1) on not being ‘god’; 2) admitting his limits of knowledge, and therefore his hubris. And 3), I hope he continues not to pander too much, though my selection bias may be blinding me. We can forgive quite a lot when candor is evident. Speaking of which, Robert Malone may be something of an exception in my appreciation and idolization file. I am in awe of the way expression just flows in his work. Good writers are like good horses —
Good is a ‘good enough’ description. After that, all manner of hyperbole and arrogance gets the proverbial ‘cart before the horse!’
Gotta go for the moment. We can’t always choose our traveling companions, but I recognize you as a ‘good horse!’ Hope to share more time ahead.
[I also admire Tucker.... and not just for his knack of turning a phrase. If you watch him closely during interviews you'll frequently find the innocent/heroic expression of a Burne-Jones Sir Galahad riding off, alone, on a quest for the Grail].
Young Americans have also seen first hand the weaponization of corporate power over the lives of their parents, and as they look deeper will find that medical and health care have been co-opted by radically socialized government policies. The cold-blooded disregard for corporate employees, combined with coercive controls drawn from government policies that promote the supremacy of ‘experimental drugs’ over the rights of free agency in matters of personal, as well as public health have become powerful examples of what totalitarian regimes are. Many within this age group are so accustomed to the intensified social engineering of the new century that they are only now showing their true disgust with the way our ‘betters’ have planned their lives. Their eyes are finally seeing
May I give you a couple of examples to the contrary, Ken? You'll probably have a hard time believing them....but it is what it is. On his last visit , my computer repairman [age twenty something] talked nonstop about the imminent Age of [I'm paraphrasing] "Free Everything." When he cut the repair job short to pick up his girlfriend for a concert I asked him if the concert were free. He told me "no, they have to pay the band." Out of the mouth of babes....
More recently, I was talking to the son of a friend who, really & truly, expressed disappointment at the fact his employer made him pay his own rent [he didn't see why he should have to use his hard earned wages for that].
Yeah, lots of smart young men & women are joining forces with Trump this time around. But decades of abysmal education have taken a toll....and all the facts in the world might not be enough to convince an impressive fraction of twenty somethings not to place their bet on "Free Everything." [And all the Trump rallies in the world might not be enough to educate them to the fact that ---once all their freedoms have been stolen ----the government will shift over to a "Free Nothing" program]....
We may not have views as contrary as your first impressions of my remarks may be.
My response to Steve’s thesis does not reflect a professional insight on his statistics. Instead, I attempted anecdotal perceptions of my wife’s experience at a major corporation managing health care for the government, by shifting government policies, and to the end of ‘apparently’ “free everything” — until it isn’t.
The corporate ‘elite’ are running odds on the ‘house’ winning continued contracts by statistics that are sandbagged in their favor. The deficits accumulated over the year are simply projected into an omnibus spending bill (which is not a budget, but a promissory note), rolled into a ‘continuing resolution’, and ‘kicked down the road’ for future taxpayers to pay. “Free Everything”, until it isn’t. Herein is mastery of the Obvious: the band must be, will be paid. I.e., the ‘elites’ (corporate poobahs) calling these tunes have lock-grip control of a system known to be two-tiered, delegated for haves and have-nots, and ‘free’ as the ‘socially promoted’ might expect, with other aspects of reality mixed in. (It’s the ‘white privilege’ system baked in.)
News flash: Anyone gainfully employed may expect our government benefactors to request more sacrifice of prosperity to further the narrative of ‘free’. Or, shall we call upon our ‘representatives’ to make sure there is an equity based on haves having less, or have-nots having more? Not more from the protected class of corporate elites and government regulators, and certainly not from the Congress which exempts itself from any harsh economic realities. Corporate protections are built in for scratching the mutual itch. Requires censorship, but what the hey!?
So I’ll share one anecdote that sums up our dilemma in a few words:
After having given 10 years of stellar performance in three different areas of health care management, the last area being medical case management, my wife was walked out after an ultimatum that a “case load” well over twice what any individual is capable of handling be brought to a current status. Her working partner had moved on to another position, and was not replaced with competent help for 6 months. The one they did hire only made matters worse. This became a time of exploitation and outright criminality by omission if not actual commission by her department heads. She was sacrificed for the salary of the help she needed. Where did the savings off that additional salary, or two, end up? (I don’t believe an MBA could have justified the raw numbers to do what they did.) And within a year her next two superiors were released as well. All this with the full understanding that the State requires adequate (human) resources to handle the caseload, which is a given in professional responsibility. And how is this shortfall of resources presented to the negotiators for this business? One way or another as a human ‘inadequacy’, at the middle levels of management, not the levels of greed built in to protect the inflated salaries of corporate directors.
Misrepresentation, for sure.
So those in the middle of the struggle for power over the money are sacrificed for the political expediency of the ‘elite.’
Welcome to the reality of true fascism: the complete immersion of corporate greed into the government bureaucracy, and closely correlated, the political class.
Let the continuing resolutions roll.
MAGA has the memo. Anyone else?
PS — reference Jeffrey Tucker’s piece on Corporatism in Robert Malone’s Substack.
You know what's funny [and makes me suspect there is, ultimately, no way outta this mess]? Jeffrey Tucker [damn you for turning me on to him, btw ---now I can't go back] references the horrors of life under Mussolini. It's occurred to me [just as it's probably occurred to Steve Bannon...but he doesn't want to put it into words] the short term solution involves taking the road Mussolini traveled...and we all know where that leads long term [let's just say the final stop isn't very nice & leave it at that].
Benito saw that the university system was hardcore left & corrupt so he began exiling intellectuals, the police couldn't be trusted so he created his own Special Police Force, the Judicial system sucked so he began appointing Special Magistrates....I could go on but you see where I'm going. Donald Trump is either gonna have to travel this road ...and, as I mentioned, arrive at a place he doesn't want to be....... or do his best to work with a completely worthless & compromised congress and federal judiciary....and get nowhere fast.
Before closing, I'd like to compliment you on one of the more thoughtful pieces I've read at this site & sympathize with your wife's predicament. I spent many years prosecuting cases at all levels ---city, state and federal. The number of cases in each courtroom forces each prosecutor into something like a malpractice per se situation.
There isn't any way on earth a lawyer can be ready on dozens [and dozens] of cases. Supervisors will always tell you "it's easy ---just be ready on the next case up." One problem: lots of times the next case up pleads. And the one after that develops witness problems. And you find yourself in jury selection on a case you haven't prepared ---just trying to get to the next recess so you can put together an opening statement. I might add that defunding prosecution offices and police departments hasn't exactly made this situation better.
It’s an honor to have this exchange w you, and thank you for your kudo, and making me laugh at your exposure to J Tucker. We have an interesting circle of people to share this journey with, (and for me at least, you are now among them, though if I drop the stick, I may be just a ‘hitchhiker’.)
Just a word on my place here. I am naturally drawn to thought leaders and writers w special gifts. Tucker Carlson comes as close to one whom you could say I idolize because of his apparent passion for truth and his disclaimers 1) on not being ‘god’; 2) admitting his limits of knowledge, and therefore his hubris. And 3), I hope he continues not to pander too much, though my selection bias may be blinding me. We can forgive quite a lot when candor is evident. Speaking of which, Robert Malone may be something of an exception in my appreciation and idolization file. I am in awe of the way expression just flows in his work. Good writers are like good horses —
Good is a ‘good enough’ description. After that, all manner of hyperbole and arrogance gets the proverbial ‘cart before the horse!’
Gotta go for the moment. We can’t always choose our traveling companions, but I recognize you as a ‘good horse!’ Hope to share more time ahead.
Thank you & Ditto.
[I also admire Tucker.... and not just for his knack of turning a phrase. If you watch him closely during interviews you'll frequently find the innocent/heroic expression of a Burne-Jones Sir Galahad riding off, alone, on a quest for the Grail].