war stimulus dead

WAR STIMULUS DEAD

Here is another subject I have to keep revisiting as I continue to see offhand comments to the contrary, which REALLY frigging bug the crap out of me. Like the “Venezuela is socialist and hence failing” meme.  I can’t believe people suck up that intelligence services propaganda and give it nary a thought.  They didn’t learn with Cuba, or Iran nor North Korea.  You rail against MSM, know they are lying liars and yet pick and choose to believe anything that titillates your preconceived notions.  EVERYTHING they say are lies.  They are Pravda.  It behooves the PTB to discredit targeted states.

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Anyway, before I go off on a three additional article rant-and you know I will!- a return to topic on war as a racket and as an economic stimulus.  The standard War Of Northern Colonization explanation is “Free Da Slaves”.  Which, seriously, I cannot believe anyone buys into.  The North hated Darkies.  Almost every northern state had anti-Black residency and work laws.  But of course, that is a bit obscure for historical knowledge, so we must simply ask ourselves that simple  question “who benefits?”.  A Nicaraguan occupation by Marines pays a fruit company and the Senator they elected.  Who gets paid with emancipation?

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Nobody.  Nobody is going to go to war, risking their lives, to “right a wrong”.  Individuals might go to war for fun.  Just to fight.  Such as going to Spain and volunteering.  But not nations as a whole.  Someone must be benefiting.  Wars are expensive and deadly.  Why would Yankee Scum bleed the treasury and its armed forces, and hence weakening itself towards other powers ( hint: England ), just because “slavery to un-cool, yo!”?  Are you that retarded?  We didn’t go and invade Europe Just Coz we felt bad for their loses to the Nazi’s.

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We went over there because the war was the best thing for the economy.  As individuals, three hots and a cot even while getting shot was better than starving at home ( and now you know why with all his socialism FDR didn’t feed people.  Imperial conquest was prepped for long in advance ).  For the economy as a whole, war was great for full employment and production.  Eighty years previously, war was what turned us into an industrial economy.  Did you ever stop and ponder how the slavery question impacted the two economies?

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Wonder how Alvin Toffler got so popular so fast, from nowhere?  He wasn’t much more than a freelance writer prior to the publication of “Future Shock”.  Yeah, he was a talented writer, don’t misunderstand.  But he came along when computers were expensive calculators and he foresaw all of our glorious technological future?  In retrospect, to me it seems like he was fed from a think tank, propaganda pushing us to accept a post-industrial future ( planting the embryo ).  He did have plenty of good historical insights, one of which was that the Civil War was an industrial war over agriculture.

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The Industrial Revolution was at least as old as our Revolutionary War, but we were still invested in an agriculture economy.  Even all the water powered mills and trains and water transportation up in GottDamnYankeeLand were still heavily dependent on agriculture as feedstock.  And the South had far too much power over the North economically, as they were dominant in agriculture.  The South wanted the North to pay its fair share in taxes supporting the government and the North wanted the South to give them all the agricultural commodities at no to extremely low cost.

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The macro forces at play, of course, was that the new imperial economic paradigm was industrial.  America has ALWAYS been imperial, but we just called it Western Expansion back then.  The South had expanded right up to its natural hydrologic borders and was screwed just from that alone.  The North could expand indefinitely utilizing many more resources.  Growth IS wealth and the South couldn’t grow but the North could.  Slavery had nothing to do with it except as propaganda and the added benefit that you can’t let slaves operate your capital equipment-it was far too valuable.

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Britain didn’t outlaw slavery because they were nice people ( ask the Irish ).  They did it because a worker gives up his freedom for wages but a slave fights for his freedom.  That leaves aside the question of rebellions against becoming wage slaves in the first place, of course.  But once accomplished, slavery had no use in an industrial economy.  One almost has to wonder how much financial backing the industrialists gave abolitionists.  There were hardly any Blacks up North, so why did factory owners care?  They wanted a broke and destabilized South so as to offer dirt cheap agriculture commodities.

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A South with slavery had high fixed costs and high profits for slave owners.  A South without slavery would be the equivalent of the Irish ghettos in New York and other industrial cities ( remember that the Bronx and Brooklyn at one time had factories-one factor in the metro’s 70’s misfortunes ).  Just a bunch of starving freemen willing to sell their labor cheaply.  Remember where the desire to free slaves comes from-greed and viewing all races of the lower classes as cattle.  If you don’t want to believe that because you want to rap your way into the 1%, you are deluded.

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Pre-Civil War the era was messy and multidimensional and multifaceted, in the economic, political and cultural ( hey!  Just like today.  It ain’t JUST about red or blue now, either.  Follow the money ).  The Industrialists might have just been content with propaganda, playing the long game.  Lincoln might JUST have been (s)elected by the rail barons for government subsidized track.  They might not have realized how toxic he was to the South ( probably far worse than Trump ).  Or, they could have.  Who knows?  Even going to first hand accounts of the era, there was still bias.

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Even if war was a surprise to everyone, it was the first Industrial War ( logistically, at first, then perhaps later tactically and strategically.  It was messy and anachronisms abounded, but it was also amazing how quickly it became a Total War economically.  Only the lack of oil kept it static, just as it would in WWI ).  Where before war was costly and limited to land for its payoff, war became profitable on to itself.  Even to the nation funding it, not just those in the supply industry.  War became more costly than ever, but it was also profitable.

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Bankers and industrialists were the beneficiaries, but for the nation as a whole, conquest begat more industrial power allowing more conquest.  Iron and coal ( later on, steel and oil ) was an exponential power over wheat and oxen.  It wasn’t as if factories and metal weapons hadn’t been around forever.  It was that now, machines replaced labor.  That was the crucial difference.  Grain might be renewable, more so than coal, but just as grain replaced hunting and gathering with its superior stored calories, carbon fuels were a military technology with far more concentrated energy.

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Tomorrow, I’ll work towards covering war economies, the break down of the model, the inevitability of a professional high tech force and how those are incapable of duplicating the economic benefits of industrialized war.

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