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Bill's comments below seem unexceptionable to
me. They nevertheless leave unanswered my persisting question about the
role, and especially the provision of the National Credit
Authority as a necessarily government function (a kind of natural monopoly as
Bill has already suggested). I often get the impression that the Douglas
philosophy entails the elimination of government, but when it comes
down to issues of implementation there is clearly no escaping the necessity of
some government functions. The question then is just which functions
should disappear in a Social Credit perspective on ideal social
organization? Which ones would just naturally wither away if the Social
Credit monetary-financial reforms were implemented, or could they be implemented
at all without a very substantial hacking up and revamping of existing
governance mechanisms?
Keith
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Subject: [socialcredit]
statistics
> Joe asks: "If this is so, then some of the concerns
> often
expressed about 'exactness', and 'the size of
> the bureaucracy' and 'the
volume of statistics' that
> might be necessary to try to obtain it, would
be
> rather moot, wouldn't they?"
>
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>
> Well, it
goes to the fact that statistics are not
> absolute measurements of
anything. Certain statistics
> are chosen as triggers for policy
implementation.
>
> Take the case of the Phillips Curve which is
utilized
> for determining financial policy by the central
banks.
> Couple that with the theory that the economy is at
>
best in a state of quite unstable equilibrium. You
> then have the
justification for keeping the economy in
> a condition of permanent
underperformance, from our
> perspective. Which requires very precise
statistics
> and continuous "fine tuning," lest it spiral "out of
>
control."
>
> We have the abomination of NAIRU - the "non-
>
accelerating inflation rate of unemployment." But
> from their
perspective it is not an abomination, for
> they actually believe in the
theory. You know that I
> maintain that most things we don't agree
with are
> caused by incompetence, not conspiracy. And
>
conspiracy is merely the pejorative for group activity
> we don't
like.
>
> Interest rates are being engineered upward,
>
"seventeen" rate increases in the past two years, we
> have been
informed. Because the statistics indicated
> that "inflation" was
inching upward, and increasing
> rates would "cool" the economy, which
most certainly
> it is doing. The statistics definitely show that
the
> rate of bankruptcy is increasing, and "employment" is
>
falling, exactly what they and we expected.
>
>
>
>
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