On the Tory initiatives for small-business relief, reactions included:
Indeed. Restructuring the corporate environment to support small and medium business, the granting of tax breaks and start-up loans, the reining in of monopolies which threaten to snuff out competition in any given sector - these are the things the society should be supporting.
The other, social aspects will flow from that.
“It’s a good report and some very good ideas,” David Frost, director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said, “My plea would be that when some firm ideas come out of this, please make them long term and make them stick.”
Indeed. Restructuring the corporate environment to support small and medium business, the granting of tax breaks and start-up loans, the reining in of monopolies which threaten to snuff out competition in any given sector - these are the things the society should be supporting.
The other, social aspects will flow from that.
Too right!
ReplyDeleteThis won't happen though as wealthy corporations are too entrenched in politics now.
Don't ignore the socialist agenda either, Uber, which allowed this to happen as an example to society of how bad capitalism is.
ReplyDeleteBrown and Blair had ample opportunity to rein in the greed but they chose to join it, knowing [and Brown considers himself an economist] that it would implode.
The people are then supposed to cry out against the capitalists and everything from the multinationals to the small businessman with the corner shop is nationalized.
Yes, the greed at the top needs stopping but also yes, the small venturer needs to be encouraged.
Why do you blame the socialist agenda? One could say that this is the worst of capitalism at work, engineered to lead us into a communist political state where the powerful few will not be politicians but corporate C.E.O's , governing our lives.
ReplyDeleteWe can't hold back the tide. All we can do is demand transparency and the equal distribution of resources for all.
Socialism and communism are 'catch words' meant to scare people who feel more protected by words like'democracy'.Do you really think the likes of Brown, Blair and Bush are any less dictators than any others, more easily recognizable?
We have all ready lost the concept of'by the people, for the people' so why do people still believe we live in a democratic country?
U.K is the new Russia.Communnism, governed by corporations, is the coming age- and we didn't stand up when we needed to. Now all we can do is acknowledge that we are heading to a socialist/communist state, and unite for the benefit of all, hoping to demand an equal distribution of resources for all and accountability from the ones who seek to control us through economic/political oppression.
This isn't just about self-serving, greedy politicians but a long term plan to move us into a corporate controlled new world order.
I am curious to know your views on this, James.
ReplyDelete1/ Do you not see any benefits to communism, if one did away with the corruption and unfair distribution of resources?
2/ Do you really think this economic crisis came from over spending OR we were lulled into thinking we were better off than we were, in a give something so we can snatch it back later, keeping the people focused on personal trifles and distracted/disempowered from the seeing/ reacting to the real long term agendas?
Uber - Socialism and communism are 'catch words' meant to scare people who feel more protected by words like'democracy'.
ReplyDeleteThey are an agenda, clearly documented and some of that I've presented on this blog.
You asked do you not see any benefits to communism, and then answered your own question - if one did away with the corruption and unfair distribution of resources?
Precisely. You're right - that's what socialism does - steal and unfairly distribute resources.
To the other questio - we were certainly lulled by the Fed and CBs into thinking we were in a good position when we weren't. You know my primary beef is with them - the financiers and big corporations.
But they couldn't have done that without breakingthe nexus between prices and income, as well as playing on people's ambitions and aspirations.
They knew it was coming but didn't let on. The agenda in the EU is socialist and it has come through Blair/Brown to Britain - show the worst excesses of capitalism so that people are amenable to its removal, remove it and replace it with national socialism.
That's what we're up against.
We all understand that a powerful economy can control a less powerful one by undermining it further still. That was done with Russia, for example.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it harder to believe that, as a means of controlling us and preventing anarchy, our own governments ,through corporations,would do that to the individual?
What better way to do that then to create a false sense of economic well being so that they have something to take away by later creating an equally false economic crisis?
And when everyone is worried about losing their personal wealth, they are not about to unite to fight off the corportations steering our government to a corporate socialist state?
They are not even likely to notice.
We are not in this situation because of altruistic socialism. We are in this situation to create a less than altruistic socialism.
Is it even capitalism if the wealthiest of the corporations, the worst result of capitalism, control us because they have more power now than the politicans to we 'elected' to govern us?
When they have that level of power that thye can control politics and the economy- we are all ready a socialist soon to be communist state, with the 'real politicians' pulling the strings of our 'figurehead'ones.
They didn't warn us because this was a well executed long term plan, that the could blame on the socialists.
The ending was badly worded.by socialist being blamed , I meant the ones who believe in the distribution of wealth,to help the poor. Not the covert nanny state loving socialists .
ReplyDeleteThe notion of altruistic socialism is naive. That's the stuff of undergraduates but most people [except university lecturers] then let it go as they mature, politically, and realize there is a better way.
ReplyDeleteOf course,we are talking as a'concept' which cannot be anything but an impossibility. People are too insular and self- serving for that.
ReplyDeleteDo you really think I am naive?
Kind-hearted.
ReplyDeleteYou are both mistakenly calling new labour socialists. They are not. They carried on with the policies of the Thatcher years and became even more right wing and capitalist. Also more worryingly they have become far more authoritarian along the way.
ReplyDeleteLeft/right politics have changed over the years and the labels that are given to the parties confuse the issue.