going to hell

I was thinking of way back when kings were getting toppled and they’d all get together to stomp out any kind of democracy, and the way some of the commies felt that the only thing to protect the revolution was to pour red paint all over the world, and the way the neocons think they can spread democracy at the point of a gun, and maybe some libertarians think that if the whole world was libertarian, there would be less resistance to it and things would go easier. But, and I think you have said this, libertarianism is more of a movement to make governments smaller than it is a way to govern. Pity, because I liked the name, the lobblies.

Business was for tariffs because they didn’t want to compete with shoe factories in other countries, and Joe Sixpack was against them because he wanted cheap shoes. Then globalization came and the businesses realized that they could build their factories in places that had low labor costs and sell them here, and then labor didn’t like free trade (which is what anti tariff-arianism had become) because now their jobs were overseas. Unions and liberals are generally together because they have a lot of common goals, but sometimes unions have their own agendas.

Red China? Who even calls it that anymore? Get with the times Beagles. If we put a tariff on them, their goods would cost Joe Sixpack more and he would have less stuff and less money to pay for homegrown stuff and our economy would suffer, and so would China’s and maybe they would think of selling off some of our dollars and I think that would make them worth less and blah blah blah, the world would go to hell. I think. Seems like whenever you get to thinking about all the steps of something the world goes to hell.

This whole thing about feeding the middle east sounds like that whole argument about foreign aid that we’ve had a million times, and I don’t want to go there again. I don’t see why we should kill them all, when they seem pretty eager to kill each other. It’s a terrible ruckus and there is a lot of suffering and all sorts of bad things can happen to the rest of the world as a result, but what makes us think that a little strategic bombing here and there will make a difference? And the only difference boots on the ground will make is that more of us will be killed. And who to ally ourselves with? There is that old Mideastern saw that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so maybe we think we are making friends since everybody there is everybody else’s enemy. But the other side of that enemy of my enemy thing is that we are only friends until we vanquish my enemy and then we are enemies again.

We can debate about whether the immigration is a boon or a bane to our economy. But I am not going to debate over some miscellaneous blogs from California or Arizona any more than I would debate over all those blogs about how the Jews were behind 9/11.