{"id":81150,"date":"2022-03-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81150"},"modified":"2022-03-14T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:06:49","slug":"economic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81150","title":{"rendered":"Economic Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When central planners dictate what Must be sold, what May be sold, and what Must Not be sold, entire industries are forced to retool the factories and establish new supply lines to comply with the latest dictate, regardless of whether it makes economic sense.  And when dictates change, chaos ensues until industry catches up.  This is entirely predictable but for some reason, always entirely unforeseen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Think about the scramble to find bottled water and toilet paper when the lock down was announced.  Remember why the lock down was extended &#8211; not enough ventilators &#8211; and why Covid death numbers are ridiculously inflated &#8211; not enough test kits to identify Covid so hospitals were told to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvss\/vsrg\/vsrg03-508.pdf\">count every death from respiratory distress as Covid<\/a> &#8211; and now look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2020\/08\/18\/ventilators-coronavirus-stockpile\/\">stockpile of ventilators nobody need<\/a>s and the<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-stockpile-2e8009d9f55401911ab6146b03608693\">stockpile of vaccine that nobody wants<\/a>. The dictates forced industry to scramble and now it&#8217;s all wasted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For everyone but a small percentage of the public, President Trump was right: Covid is just a bad flu.  The existence of the virus was not a hoax; using the virus to terrorize the public was the hoax.  And it distorted the economy in ways we&#8217;re still trying to understand.  Not just a stolen presidential election, we <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=fraud+election&#038;t=brave&#038;iar=images&#038;iax=images&#038;ia=images&#038;iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2Fg18AAOSwrqNfq3ji%2Fs-l300.jpg\">knew that right away<\/a>.  But how many people lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/katharinabuchholz\/2022\/01\/21\/only-four-states-have-recovered-all-jobs-lost-to-covid-19-infographic\/?sh=291b8bfb720f\">jobs that still haven&#8217;t come back<\/a>?  How many businesses were closed and still haven&#8217;t reopened.  How much was invested in developing product lines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/why-american-mask-makers-are-going-out-of-business\/\">that suddenly are no longer needed<\/a>? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The slogan of the day changes as people catch onto the old one, but the scam is always the same.  In order to transform society from a messy, buyer beware, capitalist system into a sensible, orderly, communist system, there must be an intervening period when citizens are taught the new way of thinking so they fit into the new society.  It&#8217;s like taking a puppy to the dog park or a toddler to kindergarten so they can be &#8216;socialized&#8217; to learn the rules of acceptable behavior.  And there must be someone to set the rules, of course, lest the new world order degenerate into chaos from an overabundance of freedom.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Except nobody in the world can ever be smart enough to understand all the factors that go into a prosperous economy nor can they understand all the implications of a dictated change to the economy.  The invisible hand continues to rule as long as people can figure out a way to let it.  The only solution is to kill off enough citizens that the few remaining survivors are those who enthusiastically embrace the new order.  And that takes a lot of killing, as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao can attest.  Lesko Brandon hasn&#8217;t started killing his own citizens directly, yet, but he&#8217;s on the same path as his intellectual guides. And that&#8217;s not a good thing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>People say Biden is nothing but a second term for Barack Obama. I disagree. Obama was a third term for Woodrow Wilson; Biden is the fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When central planners dictate what Must be sold, what May be sold, and what Must Not be sold, entire industries are forced to retool the factories and establish new supply lines to comply with the latest dictate, regardless of whether it makes economic sense. And when dictates change, chaos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81151,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81150\/revisions\/81151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}