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Title: THE BIG BUSINESS/BIG GOVERNMENT AXIS OF EVIL
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Published: Apr 13, 2009
Author: Chuck Baldwin
Post Date: 2009-04-13 20:34:53 by christine
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Views: 114
Comments: 9
Self-proclaimed "conservatives" love to tout themselves as ardent supporters of the "free enterprise" system. In the name of "capitalism," they support any and every piece of legislation or governmental decision that caters to business--especially Big Business. Favorite policies of these folks include anything and everything that calls itself "free trade." Furthermore, these same "conservatives" will support just about anything and everything that is said to advance the so-called "global economy." Needless to say, in the name of "free trade" millions of American jobs and thousands of American manufacturing plants have been outsourced to foreign countries and interests. And leading the charge for "free trade," outsourcing, and the "global economy" is the international cabal known as Big Business. But Big Business does not play this game alone. Joining Big Business is its pernicious partner, Big Government. Together, Big Business and Big Government form a tyrannical tandem that is squeezing the breath out of our once-great republic. In fact, people need to understand that what is passing for "capitalism" in America today is nothing more than "Corporatism." Corporatism has little to do with genuine capitalism or free enterprise. Freedom and federalism thrive when true capitalism and free enterprise are at work. But Corporatism has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with tyranny. Corporatism is the marriage of Big Business with Big Government. Corporatism uses the force and weight of government to create giant monopolies, which strangle competition and freedom. Rules and regulations are enacted that make it impossible for "little" guys to compete. The trade laws of nations are pitted against each other, forcing free nations to sacrifice their own peace and security to accommodate the economies of totalitarian regimes. And, of course, Big Business is the recipient of gargantuan profits in the process. Please understand that the movers and shakers of Big Business have no national loyalty. They claim no country, salute no flag, and recognize no independence but their own. They are the travel companions of the bloodiest butchers on the planet. They have homes in every corner of the globe and are happy to share the beds of the vilest people on earth. They would gladly sell the heart and soul of America to the highest bidder, and have long ago sold their own hearts and souls to the devil. And there is no limit to how intimately Big Business and Big Government can collaborate to steal people's liberties. A classic case in point is the burgeoning effort to control and regulate private, homegrown gardens. In the face of a growing recession, thousands of people across America are planting and growing their own gardens. And this is not lost to Corporatism. Remember, Corporatism's great goal is to create monopolies and crush freedom, leaving the cabal controlling both Big Business and Big Government alone atop the world of prosperity and power. Therefore, it will use every tool at its disposal to protect any and all of Corporatism's favored players. And when it comes to America's food supply, Big Agriculture is that favored player. Even as Michelle Obama plants a White House garden and encourages Americans everywhere to do the same thing, her husband is creating a brand new tool for the Big Business/Big Government powerbrokers: a new "Food Safety Administration" (FSA). At the same time, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) has introduced H.R. 875 to "protect the public health." But it is not the public health that Ms. DeLauro wants to protect. It is the health of the demonic duo of Big Business and Big Government. Two other bills with similar machinations are S. 425, introduced by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and H.R. 815, submitted by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado). In a nutshell, when these bills become law, every homegrown garden in the country will be regulated, inspected, controlled, and taxed by the federal government. (No, I am not making it up.) In addition, small, independent farms would most certainly be put out of business. In effect, the great Nanny State is posturing itself to completely take over the food business in America. First, the Big Business/Big Government Axis of Evil began taking over the banking and financial institutions. Next, it was the automobile business that was in Corporatism's crosshairs. Now, it is energy, healthcare, and even the food business--down to the smallest backyard, homegrown garden--that Corporatism is plotting to plunder. It is an ingenious system: first, Big Government regulates legitimate business to the point that it can no longer function in a free and open market. Then it paves the way for foreign investors to gain influence or even seize control of those same businesses. Then it forces the mergers of smaller entities into international monstrosities. Then it passes laws making it impossible for the remaining small, independent businesses to compete. Meanwhile, the newly created super-wealthy collaborators in Big Business are more than eager to share their bounty with their fellow miscreants inside Big Government. The obvious result of all this chicanery is the creation of a superior ruling class and the destruction of a free and independent middle class. If all this sounds familiar, it is because Corporatism used to be known by another name: fascism! And this is exactly what is being created right in front of our very eyes, here in the good old U.S.A. If "conservatives" were more cognizant of and diligent to protect the U.S. Constitution and principles of liberty contained in our Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, they would be able to see through the façade of modern Corporatism that masks its totalitarian agenda under the guise of "free trade." So, in the meantime, go ahead and grow your garden, because you are going to need it. But, at the same time, be prepared to give an account to your local FSA agent. He'll want to know how much you've grown, how much you sold or gave away, and to whom you sold or gave it. He'll want to inspect it; he'll expect you to fill out the appropriate government forms, including names, addresses, amounts, prices, etc. And this goes for all those church and social club potluck dinners as well. Oh, yes! He'll also expect you all to pay taxes on it. Either that, or convince your State legislators and governor to do what the Thirteen Colonies did: tell King George to go to Hades! But if you don't have--and cannot get--a State legislature and governor willing to do that, you'll need to either move or start turning your entire life over to the new fascist America that Big Business and Big Government are creating, because the die has been cast, and it doesn't appear that there is any going back.
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#1. To: christine, Tatarewicz (#0)
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Corporatism has little to do with genuine capitalism or free enterprise. Freedom and federalism thrive when true capitalism and free enterprise are at work. But Corporatism has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with tyranny. The points made in this article are exactly what has become wrong with this country. We no longer have a country operating under capitalism. It operates under corporatism. We have become a country best described by the fascist, Mussolini: If "conservatives" were more cognizant of and diligent to protect the U.S. Constitution and principles of liberty contained in our Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, they would be able to see through the façade of modern Corporatism that masks its totalitarian agenda under the guise of "free trade." bump!
Chuck Baldwin truly is a great American. Eff you hannity !
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." exactly
Sad but true. Good article, btw!
Baldwin's polemic misrepresents the nature of the corporate dynamic in America. Today's corporation, be it the faltering GM or the much more prosperous Chevron, is owned by shareholders who comprise a big chunk of the American population either as individuals or more likely through mutual and pension funds. You'll rarely see company directors or officers holding anywhere near a controlling interest in their corporation, especially these days when the number of outstanding shares in some runs into the hundreds of millions or even billions. Since corporate officers have no voting control the only way they can maintain job security is to keep sales and profits rising even if it means moving the company operations to lower-wage countries. Otherwise shareholders, particularly those managing the mutual and other funds will "gang up" on them and vote them out (unless special circumstances like powerful unions predominate). International corporations cannot have national loyalty or they'd be suspect by other countries in which they operate. Look at the reluctance of the US government to allow takeovers by foreign state-owned entities of American companies. I suspect the moves to regulate home gardening has more to do with civic and state bureaucrats being "creative" in building up their own bureaucracies than with Dole being concerned with competition although it would be good for produce growers (and consumers) to know the size of a market for commercial produce so they can plant accordingly, not underproduce or end up with a lot of waste. Some garden regulation might be necessary to control spread of disease and pest infestations if gardeners don't act responsibly or if media doesn't adequately alert and educate the public.
Spoken like a true facist. Grandma's little garden with a dozen tomato plants, a few rows of beans, a few rows of peppers, a head or two of cabbage needs to be regulated all right; right up your facist ass. The result you are clamouring for is control,control, and more control just like Chuck Baldwin says. Might I suggest you need to return to your facist home country, NOW?
I'm not concerned about growing of your traditional garden veggies but rather fruit trees like apple. Where I once got l000 to 1500 "organic" apples from a tree, enough to last until summer when kept in a cool root cellar, more recently I've been lucky to get a hundred that are free of of infestation by the apple maggot. And unless everyone gardener with an apple tree takes steps to quickly destroy the maggots in their "wintering" stage no one is going to have edible apples. But I'd like to know your solution for stopping this kind of infestation besides using apple trees for firewood.
My solution for growing apples, pears, and plums follows. I prune the trees properly at the right time, before warm weather and before the sap starts running. I spray them once a week with homemade spray to kill off mites, etc. They must be sprayed when in blossom, else you'll get the dreaded apple maggot or whatever.They get in the fruit when the trees are in blossom. The only problem I have had is with the lack of bees to polinate my tree blossoms. The genetic engineered trees,plants, and seeds have taken a toll on the bee population. However, I actually do some polination. It is time consuming but because of those giant corporate growers and seed merchants peddling their generic crap, I have to go to such pains. What I grow, what I do with what I grow is my own business, not the fucking commie government trying to control our lives entirely. You are in support of big government controlling our lives, via our gardens, and it it is their big corporate partners like conagra and monsanto that are causing all the problems with your generic apple trees, assuming they aren't GM trees to begin with. I have one dwarf bartlet pear tree I planted in 1972. In 2008, I got over 6 bushels of pears off my tree and they were the best I have ever had. Usually I get about 4 to 5 bushels and it has an off year once-in-awhile where I get about 3 bushels. As for a garden, I plant a garden 15' X 20' and I grow tomatoes, green beans, carrots, 3 kinds of peppers, broccoli, onions, garlic and califlower. It usually does extremely well. I mulch all my leaves in the fall and put them on the garden. I spread horse manure and some sand on the garden in the spring before tilling. I never spray anything on the garden or the plants. Keeping the weeds under control by cultivating 2 times a week and pulling all weeds keeps the plants healthy and doesn't let the weeds rob the nutrients from the soil. I also rotate where I plant things from year to year. Why anyone would even plant a garden, the cost, not take good care of it, and then call for government control of our gardens is astounding to say the least. I don't believe in the green thumb theory. I believe in the dirt under the fingernail theory and govenment stay outta our lives theory and I reap the rewards come harvest time
Together, Big Business and Big Government form a tyrannical tandem that is squeezing the breath out of our once-great republic. In fact, people need to understand that what is passing for "capitalism" in America today is nothing more than "Corporatism."
it is the merger of state and corporate power."
~ Robert the Brus - "The Declaration of Arbroath"
#2. To: christine (#0)
(Edited)
The obvious result of all this chicanery is the creation of a superior ruling class and the destruction of a free and independent middle class. If all this sounds familiar, it is because Corporatism used to be known by another name: fascism! And this is exactly what is being created right in front of our very eyes, here in the good old U.S.A.
~ Robert the Brus - "The Declaration of Arbroath"
#3. To: christine (#0)
convince your State legislators and governor to do what the Thirteen Colonies did: tell King George to go to Hades!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#4. To: litus (#1)
The points made in this article are exactly what has become wrong with this country. We no longer have a country operating under capitalism. It operates under corporatism. We have become a country best described by the fascist, Mussolini:
#5. To: christine (#4)
~ Robert the Brus - "The Declaration of Arbroath"
#6. To: christine (#0)
#7. To: Tatarewicz, All (#6)
Some garden regulation might be necessary to control spread of disease and pest infestations if gardeners don't act responsibly or if media doesn't adequately alert and educate the public.
#8. To: LACUMO (#7)
#9. To: Tatarewicz (#8)
But I'd like to know your solution for stopping this kind of infestation besides using apple trees for firewood.
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