Almost Forbidden Thoughts III
by Clyde N. Wilson
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High drug prices are not a product of market forces or scientific investment but of government/business collusion.
The Constitution we pretend to be governed by today bears only a superficial and marginal resemblance to the one originally established by the people of the States. Most Supreme Court decisions do not refer to the Constitution at all but to previous Court decisions and abstract, imported speculations about innate government powers.
Rather than being opposites, the Vietnam War and the Great Society were twin products of the same mentality—making the world better by government spending and coercion.
Politicians do not spend their time labouring to discover and implement what is best for us. The last people whose welfare they ever think of (unless forced to) are ordinary working and middle-class Americans. The main occupation of legislators is spending other people’s money, an activity which requires constant deception and bears no relation to the general good.
Our Social Security contributions are not safely tucked away in a lock-box in Washington or anywhere else.
Abraham Lincoln was no saint. There is much about his life, personal and political, that is sordid.
The central idea of the Declaration of Independence is not that all men are created equal but that abusive governments may rightfully be abolished by the governed. Most discussion of the Declaration is designed to falsify this real meaning.
Fred Dalton Thompson for President? He could turn out to be the Republicans’ strongest candidate. But the Republican Party has never in its entire existence nominated a Southerner for President or Vice President. It is not likely to do so when it has available a prominent New York politician (remember Dewey? Rockefeller?), a governor of Massachusetts (remember Calvin Coolidge?), and any number of plausible Midwestern wannabes (remember Harding? Quayle? Ford? Landon? Dole?).
(To be continued)
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1 Comment by Jeff Springer on 4 August 2007:
“High drug prices are not a product of market forces or scientific investment but of government/business collusion.” -CW
Best post, according to my tastes I’ve read in a while, short & sweet and to the point.
More almost forbidden thoughts: State capitalism = PUBLICALLY financed and insured, Privately OWNED.
That today is the ONLY function of government in behalf of a relative handful in tandem with their need subsequently to crush everyone else.
Another forbidden thought. Even high drug prices are a ‘red herring’. More people are killed each year by ‘approved’ prescription drugs and approved over the counter drugs than by all of the illegal street drugs combined. That’s why there are ‘earmarks’ all the time even in the “partiot” act to prevent people from suing about this reality when it hits themselves.
Another forbidden thought. All viruses can be seen while still alive under the right kind of micrscope and they all have their own signature vibration which will break them up, just like a wine glass which shatters under its signature high note or vibration. Thus any virus the body is ‘entertaining’ can be broken up by its signature vibration. But this would eliminate the need for the multi-trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry which throws together for peanuts chemicals never before used in the human body with every kind of side effect from blindness to autism, and through (you guessed it) the MEDIA, and the corruption of the AMA and of course the GRUBBERMENT (i.e. FDA) gives them repectability. It’s gone so far that the FDA has as an official policy ONLY drugs, these concocted chemicals can ‘cure’ disease. And so through the government that’s where ALL the taxpayer dollars also go for ‘research’. Effectively precluding anything else that Actually heals.
It’s ALL only about the MONEY period. In terms of medicine it used to be ‘first do no harm.’ Today with the Bermuda Triangle of Big Business, Grubberment, MEDIA – the ethic has become ‘first does it make us a boatload full of MONEY.’
War (not peace) makes the military industry’s stocks go up.
‘Mangaged SICKNESS’ (not health) makes the health industry’s stocks go up.
This is NOT America anymore the Constitution means almost nothing as you have pointed out.
2 Comment by Thomas Miller on 4 August 2007:
“Fred Dalton Thompson for President? He could turn out to be the Republicans’ strongest candidate. But the Republican Party has never in its entire existence nominated a Southerner for President or Vice President.”
Sorry Dr. Wilson, but Fred Thompson has already been exposed as an unreliable candidate for us bad ol’ immigration restrictionists. He has named the former Michigasn Senator Spencer Abraham as his campaign manager. Abraham was one of the Senate’s staunchest supporters of open borders immigration (and one of its surliest critics of immigration control advocates). Thompson couldn’t have spent all that time around the Hollyweird crowd without some of their bad political ideas rubbing off on him.
“Abraham Lincoln was no saint. There is much about his life, personal and political, that is sordid.”
Sort of amusing that good, decent, Honest Abe is today closely identified with homosexual republicans since they, perhaps unfairly, have claimed him as one of their own.
3 Comment by Nicholas G.P. Moses on 4 August 2007:
“The central idea of the Declaration of Independence is not that all men are created equal but that abusive governments may rightfully be abolished by the governed. Most discussion of the Declaration is designed to falsify this real meaning.”
Still, its authors can and should be held accountable for propagating that false and harmful illusion of egalitarianism and all of the toxic fruit it has born.
4 Comment by Clyde Wilson on 4 August 2007:
I was not advocating Mr. Thompson, merely pointing out certain things about the Republican party. I still think that he would have more appeal to the general voters than Guiliani, Romney, Obama, or Clinton.
5 Comment by Jeff Springer on 4 August 2007:
“Still, its authors can and should be held accountable for propagating that false and harmful illusion of egalitarianism and all of the toxic fruit it has born.” -N.G.P.M.
Sounds a bit like grave robbing meaning a little bit or a lot too extreme and after the fact unless instructive. More instructive is Thomas Fleming’s pardon of Thomas Jefferson and TJF’s ensuing, kind and erudite explanation(s) of motive, at least on Jefferson’s part toward what ‘might’ work for the better. But here’s where I agree with you NGPM- even Jefferson’s foray in that regard, frankly speaking was an attempted ‘improvement’ on Christianity, culturally speaking. Almost like Voltaire might have been but wasn’t discrete, Jefferson probably could have been still – etc. ? (Funny.)
If you’re a ‘real’ egalitarian – meaning (at least) with the best interests of the people at Heart – which I perceive you to be by the way Nicholas, whether I’m accurate or not about that, we can all remember – if it ain’t broke don’t fix it…where Christianity is concerned.
Thanks God.
That’s my verbal prayer. But there’s always also the fall-back Esoteric teaching and position… not Only the Exoteric–which is good enough for most. Me too. I prefer it.
6 Comment by robert m. peters on 4 August 2007:
Dr. Wilson,
Your words:
“High drug prices are not a product of market forces or scientific investment but of government/business collusion.”
One can call this neo-mercantilsim with its American roots found in the thoughts and actions of Alexander Hamilton, nurtured by Clay, and brought to their first fruition by Lincoln; or one can call it fascism as it was so labeled by one knowledgeable in that ideological ilk, namely Mussolini. Why, even our churches today are incorporated, making them a body of the state and not a Corpus Christi.
7 Comment by Jeff Springer on 4 August 2007:
I agree with you, robert m. peters just like the church had NO right (in my opinion), to pay out damages for alleged crimes of its priests since the CHURCH or Corpus Christi is NEVER wrong… though we all are sinners, including PRIESTS.
But they did so pay due to MEDIA pressure, belonging to the ‘alleged’ loyal opposition. NO, not even loyal… That loyal opposition Jewry… refuses to EVER be sued as a body, for the very SAME reasons I explained why the Church should NOT have acceded in my opinion. And this ENTIRE ‘exposure’ in Their media corresponded directly with the Church’s refusal to go along with the bombing and/or invasion of Iraq… OR to go along with the suppression and apartheid practiced by so-called ISRAEL against the palestinian people be they christian OR muslim.
We can document it all, very sad.
Get a media. Get back your Own money supply, under God – no?
8 Comment by Thomas Miller on 4 August 2007:
“I was not advocating Mr. Thompson, merely pointing out certain things about the Republican party. I still think that he would have more appeal to the general voters than Guiliani, Romney, Obama, or Clinton.”
I agree, Dr. Wilson. He would win the formidable celebrity-worshipper vote, which carried Ronald Reagan to the White House.
9 Comment by Jeff Springer on 4 August 2007:
“I agree, Dr. Wilson. He would win the formidable celebrity-worshipper vote, which carried Ronald Reagan to the White House.” -Thomas Miller
I agree with you… but you forget Reagan (god bless him?) was ReagAnt.
Freddy is also Schmart, not just so-called ideologically on the right side of the road, for the right. … Dr. Fleming has already pointed out – unless he’s (or ANY republican candidate) either About looting the Fed. treasury (i.e. looting you & I stupid taxpayers) or asleep at the switch like ReagAnt… they’ll BLOW him out of the water one way or another, before he even gets there.
If I was Freddy and I wanted to bring it back to where it WAS prior to all of the astonishing and now UNTENNABLE corruptions (even just more or less)… I’d just figure I was pathfinding and the SACRIFICE … shoot me, give me that gift. (Finally, was that in the back of JFK’s mind…once you KNOW it’s useless.) ?
But that’s happened too much in the past… so they’ll do THAT (the swine) a more subtle way vis a vis their MEDIA.
cHEERS.
I’ll deal with them, with PLEASURE…though at a later date.
For some, one wonders – is ETERNAL damnation… even sufficient? I’m not God, I don’t know. They’ll just ’say’ well we didn’t know…’ yes they did.
10 Comment by Dwright on 4 August 2007:
I always find it enlightening when people idolize Lincoln and Roosevelt. There for anyone who wishes to read and study. should be able to find out the multitude of fatal flaws these tyrants had. Yet, these same state worshipers mock Christians for their supposed misguided beliefs.
As far as the Constitution goes, Sobran still says it best. “the Constitution poses no threat to our present form fo government”.
11 Comment by Red Phillips on 4 August 2007:
“But the Republican Party has never in its entire existence nominated a Southerner for President or Vice President.”
Wow. I never really thought about that. Is that true? Never?
12 Comment by Monte Poitevint on 5 August 2007:
“The central idea of the Declaration of Independence is not that all men are created equal but that abusive governments may rightfully be abolished by the governed. Most discussion of the Declaration is designed to falsify this real meaning.”
It is interesting that the ‘all men are created equal’ part of the document receives all the (misguided?) attention, while the ‘Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed’ part of the same document is conveniently ignored.
13 Comment by Mark Depré on 5 August 2007:
Dr Wilson,
What about Andrew Johnson in 1864 ?
Wasn’t he nominated by the republicans (then renamed as “National union Party” ) ?
14 Comment by Bill Wilder on 6 August 2007:
Surely, Dr. Wilson hasn’t wholly spurned MD as part of the South, Spiro Agnew, V-P. Of course, I don’t know that Agnew was actually from MD. Who was Goldwater’s running mate?
15 Comment by Clyde Wilson on 6 August 2007:
There are lots of good Southerners from Maryland but Agnew was not one of them. His acceptance speech sounded like the Battle Hym of the Republic. Goldwater’s running mate was a sad congressman from NY named Miller, despite the fact that Goldwater carried only Southern states except Arizona.