Our monetary social institutions and manufacturing facilities exist like pyramids, to serve a smaller and smaller elite. They need the bulk of humanity to consume (provide monetary flow and cheap labor) unceasingly: defective gadgets, weaponry, toxic food and drugs, diversions, fossil fuels, apparel, ad nauseum. Health care is to keep people consuming (production is increasingly automated -innovations by the anointed few). But in a human-centered society people profit by caring for one another.
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These guys should look more into the Constitution. It does not protect individual rights. It gives the government the power to regulate commerce and to provide for the general welfare. The constitution gives the government the right to tax and spend. Read "Hamilton's Curse"
Those clauses are interpreted out of context. That is why they are speaking about educating people as to the principles that the Constitution was founded on.
"Regulate" was a term to keep commerce regular between states (no import tariffs and restrictions in free trade between US states), not for the feds to stick their grubby hands into anything and everything. The feds perverted the term for their own power over states.
Great work as always Dr. Brook. Your tireless advocacy of Objectivism is heroic and I applaud you.
prairieobjectivist 1 year ago
Our monetary social institutions and manufacturing facilities exist like pyramids, to serve a smaller and smaller elite. They need the bulk of humanity to consume (provide monetary flow and cheap labor) unceasingly: defective gadgets, weaponry, toxic food and drugs, diversions, fossil fuels, apparel, ad nauseum. Health care is to keep people consuming (production is increasingly automated -innovations by the anointed few). But in a human-centered society people profit by caring for one another.
MrChirpsky 1 year ago
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These guys should look more into the Constitution. It does not protect individual rights. It gives the government the power to regulate commerce and to provide for the general welfare. The constitution gives the government the right to tax and spend. Read "Hamilton's Curse"
uttles 2 years ago
Those clauses are interpreted out of context. That is why they are speaking about educating people as to the principles that the Constitution was founded on.
obmax1212 2 years ago
Please read the convention notes from 1787. Please. There you will find the intentions, and they are not to protect liberty.
uttles 2 years ago
@uttles
"Regulate" was a term to keep commerce regular between states (no import tariffs and restrictions in free trade between US states), not for the feds to stick their grubby hands into anything and everything. The feds perverted the term for their own power over states.
grumpone 2 years ago
You're confusing that with the Soviet Constitution.
stater68 1 year ago
Thank you for giving this speech, Dr. Brook. :-)
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