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Retired professor of philosophy and logic who blogs on political, social, and economic issues at http://johnkozy.mindsay.com
Tends to avoid writing propaganda by insisting on facts and evidence.
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American MadrassasIdeological domination of cultures can be associated with declines in learning. The problem with such domination is that true believers in any ideology, religious or not, lose their curiosity and their inclination to question, both of which are essential to the development of knowledge. If someone already knows the truth, there is no reason to foray into the unknown, so learning wanes and a new dark age emerges. Lying About Social SecurityRepublican politicians, political consultants, and political commentators are fond of saying that Social Security was never meant to serve as a retirement program but only as a supplemental program but his claim can't possibly be true. The Fallacy of Ignored ConsequencesEconomists ignore all but the primary consequences and never take additional consequences into account. To do so would complicate their calculations and nail shut the coffin of their religiously held ideology. We should be well aware of just how difficult it is to get someone to abandon his religion. Moslems once attempted to convert Christians with the command, convert or die. Perhaps we need to confront our economists with a similar choice, but it would have to be, convert or we all die. Good Credit? Good for Whom?The people who govern America on all levels have a tendency to place the burden for solving problems on consumers. But consumers cannot solve the problems they are encouraged to solve. The United States of EntertainmentEntertainment is America's big thing. This devotion to entertainment has enormous consequences. Entertainment encompasses much more then mere acting, song, and dance. It includes sports, television news, advertising—in short, anything that attracts a huge number of spectators. Although man may not live by bread alone, more bread and less play yield better lives than more play and less bread. America needs what is called "a paradigm shift." Americans need to rethink their cultural values. OverqualifiedAmerican businesses often reject applicants who are deemed to be overqualified. But this practice has horrendous economic and social consequences. Some economists are beginning to realize that the only effective stimulus needed to counter the current economic situation is job creation. But even that won't work well if the newly created jobs rely on the barely qualified. Dumb Claims That Go UnquestionedSome claims and arguments have been uttered so frequently that most people accept them at face value as though they were self-evident truths even though they are really self-evident fictions. Killing the Goose That Laid the Golden EggsAmerican businesses have not only endangered the nation, they are killing the goose that lays golden eggs. When President Calvin Coolidge told an audience of newspaper editors that “The business of America is business” he made popular a legal form of treason that Americans have suffered under ever since. Our business community not only continues to prove that it can’t govern itself effectively but that a free market economy is a destructive myth. Twiddle-twaddle From the Ca[n’]to RumpstituteYesterday the Dallas Morning News reprinted a piece on tax policy by Daniel Mitchell, a Cato Institute senior fellow. He claims that foreign tax havens are a blessing because they get nations to reduce their tax rates to lessen tax evasion. But reducing the debate to one about tax evasion is to miss the real issue. Taxes are a government’s only way to finance its activities. The relevant question is does taxation raise enough money to pay for them. An End Run Around the ConstitutionThe U.S. is a failed state. It is built on an 18th Century ideology trying to become a 19th Century empire in the 21st Century. This failure results from the Constitution’s having been nullified by non-constitutional institutions that have taken control of the nation—faction, lobbying, and the Supreme Court’s decision making political contributions a form of speech. As long as Americans allow factionalism and its consequences to endure, the nation’s future will be grim.
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