[MD] Commie Talk and USA bashing?

[Woods Woods]

> Platt previously:
>     Nevertheless, he's right about apologists for the free market having
> no concept of Dynamic Quality.
> 
> woods previously:
>    What do you mean here?  I looked up "apologists", but I'm having
> difficulty understanding this sentence.  Sorry, my fault.


Platt:
An "apologist" is someone who argues to defend an ideology.


woods:
    What free market apologists don't have a concept of dynamic quality?  Do 
you mean somebody in particular?  Do you mean something more?  


Platt:
I'm with you on self-reliance, like Pirsig said, " . . . by individuals 
making Quality decisions, and that's all."
I'm sure we'll all be interested in your conclusions about ways to 
facilitate exchanges of goods and services through some means other than a
monetary system. 


woods:
    Barter.  Gift giving.  I'm not saying rid the monetary system.  And by saying these other ways of 
exchanging goods and services, I'm merely mentioning other ways.  But back to 
the monetary system.  I'm not an economist, but from what I understand 
it would help if we did have money that was backed by gold and silver or other metals.  
A system that has inherent limitations so profit and excessiveness doesn't get out of 
hand - that may lead into inflation.  Did you hear how the credit-swap (insurance taken 
out on security mortgage loans) is at 40-60 trillion dollars?  Who in the world 
has 40-60 trillion dollars to give to people as insurance if security mortgage loans fail, which by 
the way they are failing?  That's a bit excessive.  Money's being made out of thin air.  

    Now... about self-reliance.  I like the sales tax only plan.  I could explore this 
more, and I would like to see other people explore this more.  It frees people from 
being subjugated by mandatory/dictatorial taxes.  If you want to buy something, then you pay a 
tax.  If you don't have the money, or you don't want to buy something, then you don't pay a tax.  
You save and then once you buy something you pay the tax.  This allows people to live off the 
land without HAVING to get a job for somebody else to get your money.  Yes, you can own your own 
business and not HAVE to get a job working for somebody else, but you are locked into a lifestyle that 
you have to make money.  If you want to put your focus on work back at the house on the farm, hunting, 
or what have you, then you can.  Then if you want to buy something and haven't saved enough 
money for it yet (you might have some money saved from your previous job in which you 
worked for money or selling something for money that you've entrepreneured), then you can pick 
up a job somewhere and get money.  Again, these are ideas that could be explored more.

What do you think?

woods