December 1, 2014

Leftist organizers are using Ferguson to rehearse the Big Ugly

By Lee Cary

Multiple far-left groups are using Ferguson as a pretext to rehearse widespread civil disobedience when the Welfare State taps the brakes.

The scaling down of the Welfare State in America is not a question of “if,” but “when.” The status quo is unsustainable.

“Unsustainable” is one of those Washington D.C. words with a history of meaning little -- like Foggy Bottom’s use of “unacceptable.” But unlike unacceptable, unsustainable, when applied to the Welfare State, is a derivative of mathematics -- a major determinant of the wealth of nations.

The American Welfare State is unsustainable -- destined for significant downsizing by cold, impassionate, apolitical Arithmetic.

All except the most hardcore leftist pols inside the Beltway know this to be true, but it remains mostly unspoken.

The first line of defense for those who would sustain the life of the Welfare State is to reduce expenditures for the Warfare State. That battle is yet to be fully engaged, but is already underway in D.C. skirmishes.

The goal of leftist pols will be to negotiate big cuts to the Warfare State in exchange for small cuts in Welfare.

In the meantime, leftist, community organizing groups -- meaning those that openly define their guiding ideology with socialist/communist language (quoting Marx & Lenin, while avoiding any mention of Stalin) -- have been using Ferguson to stretch their muscles, largely unused after the 2008 election of an ally in the White House. For them, the Ferguson protests have little to do with Michael Brown’s death, and more to do with anti-capitalist rants, punctuated by chants against police brutality against young, innocent, black men.

Their stage setting is Brown’s death -- the play is about anti-capitalism.

An Associated Press article dated November 27, 2014, entitled “For some, location of Brown's hands irrelevant,” indirectly speaks to the fidelity of community organizers to truth-telling: It doesn’t matter to them if the “hands-up” meme is based on the lies of false witnesses to the Brown shooting. What’s most important is that the false image of “hands up” has become accepted folklore among the protesters.

The means of inspiring leftist street zeal are justified by the end.

Lies have long been a tool used by the tyrants of fascists, socialist, and communist ideologies.

In contrast, capitalism -- an economic system in great distress in America -- is inescapably tied to Arithmetic.

Real math doesn’t lie. It requires unbiased calculation. Far-left community organizers don’t traffic in unbiased calculation.

Scan the signage in the photos taken at Ferguson street protests across the nation and note that a handful of groups’ names reoccur. Among them are REVCOM.US (Revolutionary Community Party USA , A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (founded by the pro-Leninist Becker brothers and aligned with the Party for Socialism and Liberation), Peoples Power Assemblies, Socialist Worker.org, and the International Action Center (founded by Jimmy Carter’s former Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, in 1992). There are more.

Standing behind the signs are well-funded 501(c)(3) groups that receive millions of dollars every year through donations and foundation grants, and then allocate monies to promote social change.

It’s a one-two-three punch involving community organizers, supported by moneyed enablers, who marshal protesters to the street carrying signs with organizational ties most know nothing about.

All of it is well-organized, well-executed, and well-funded by intelligent, well-rehearsed, highly-motivated, ideologically-driven zealots for fundamental transformation in America, and, for some, the world.

It’s all perfectly legal.

The key leaders are savvy enough to understand that funding for the American Welfare State is living on borrowed time -- or, more literally, on borrowed money. Borrowing from other nations, and from our own nation’s future, reflects the long-running prostitution of John Maynard Keynes’ notion of deficit spending as a means to stimulate a slack economy.

Deficit spending is a federal addiction.

Sooner or later, taken to the extreme, all unhindered addictions kill. And Washington’s deficit spending addition -- practiced by both political parties -- will bring significant consequences to the Welfare and the Warfare States.

The far-left social change enterprises are leaning into what they know will be a generational opportunity as the Welfare State begins to face significant downsizing. Instead of signs reading “Justice For Michael Brown,” they’ll read “Justice For America’s Poor.” “Poor Lives Matter” will replace “Black Lives Matter.” The marching chants of “This is what democracy looks like” will grow louder.

The Occupy Wall Street model will be replicated widely in the Big Blue Cities as stationary protests compliment mobile protests convened by social media -- the new bullhorn of community organizers.

Transportation interruptions, like the recent one in San Francisco; the disruption of retail sales at bricks-and-mortar outlets like those on Black Friday (we’ll see more on Christmas Eve); and the wilding that brings fire and destruction, will surface in the wake of any event that trigger a grievance response as the Welfare State declines.

Sooner or later, blood will be shed.

The community activists groups are leaning in this direction. Ferguson is, for them, a scrimmage in preparation for the Big Ugly.

Meanwhile, evidence is mounting that a dénouement is ahead for the Welfare State. Signs, not handheld, are popping up.

Zerohedge.com is just one of a cadre of relatively new on-line sites for economic news. Unlike the legacy media pundits (e.g., MSNBC), these sources tend to have no partisan ax to grind, and their writers are educated in economics.

A recent Zerohedge article entitled “Federal Reserve Confirms Biggest Foreign Gold Withdrawal In Over Ten Years,” reports how European nations are repatriating their gold reserves long-stored in the U.S. Germany has the most gold here, but the U.S. Treasury has been slow to respond to German requests to have it back. Just one more sign.

The Big Ugly is coming -- perhaps not imminent, but inevitable. And the community organizers are preparing.

Even Libertarians don't like to talk about it (probably because it's more fun to talk about abortion :rolleyes: ), but it's a fact. Everyone knows the Fed can't keep printing money forever, but nobody knows how to put the brakes on. So, what will happen when a mother and her children stop getting their EBT cards filled, wealthy farmers and agribusinesses stop getting their subsidies, banks stop getting bailed out, and the Social Security checks stop coming?

In an ideal world, we would handle these things incrementally over time, they way these things were instituted in the first place. But do you think Boehner, or McConnell, or anyone else in Washington has any interest in doing this? Don't make me laugh.

The average life span for a fiat currency is about 27 years. It's been over 40 since the last vestige of the gold standard went away, so the dollar has had a pretty good run. When the dollar finally does collapse under tons of paper, nobody really knows what will happen. But you can bet it won't be pretty.

Onward and upward,
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Welfare and bloated municipal budgets go hand in hand., just one group of parasites is more successfully milking the system the other.

You could cut welfare costs by 30% and still feed, clothe and house the needy quite well, just you won't be doing it with the profit margins of slumlords and convenience stores in mind.

I have seen it around here, a lot of ex-convict homeless purposefully discouraged from gainful employment then get put on the dole and become "clients" of the system of heavily managed welfare, typically in tightly supervised apartments where nobody cares to be competitive in pricing because the government is paying the rent. Nearby food resources are then ripoff convenience stores trying to keep profits ahead of shoplifting losses, then food banks and meal centers pick up the slack when that runs out. You might as well just install chow halls with a voucher system, but oh no, restaurants would complain.

More arguments in favor of planned communities. Even on food stamps, if five very poor people actually pool resources and put it on groceries, shopping smart, they can easily feed guests and have steak about as often as they would want.

Zone more campgrounds and trailer parks, stop subsidizng slumlords and falsely propping up low value to square foot real estate with subsidized rent profit margin for absentee landlords.

You can't sustain upper middle class appearing standards of living on a combination of minimum wage compensation for workers where they end up with less of their own pie than those who don't work and those who pretend to run their lives.

You can do the math on the local craigslist of any city or town out there comparing the cost of living with offered wages and see what is or is not sustainable. If you really want to see who is actually fucking it up even worse, look up the Chinese ghost cities on YouTube,

Another ringing oroblem they had reported from ferguson but is apparently rampant in that part of the country is the police and court system was really happy to push people very hard on the pain threshold of fees and fines to the point they had more warrants outstanding for fees and fines than citizens in the city limits.