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Posted by: k.d. - 09-25-2019, 05:00 PM - Forum: Local Chatter
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“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” Ayn Rand ("Atlas Shrugged")
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Posted by: k.d. - 09-25-2019, 12:21 PM - Forum: The Nation
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looks like it has crashed and burned already.
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Posted by: k.d. - 09-23-2019, 03:20 PM - Forum: World View
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By now you will be well familiar with “replacement migration”; a globalist agenda to reverse our declining and aging populations with the aid of mass immigration.
As the United Nations suggest:
Quote:UNITED NATIONS PROJECTIONS INDICATE THAT OVER THE NEXT 50 YEARS, THE POPULATIONS OF VIRTUALLY ALL COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AS WELL AS JAPAN WILL FACE POPULATION DECLINE AND POPULATION AGEING.
REPLACEMENT MIGRATION REFERS TO THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION THAT A COUNTRY WOULD NEED TO OFFSET POPULATION DECLINE AND POPULATION AGEING RESULTING FROM LOW FERTILITY AND MORTALITY RATES.
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And as the European Union suggest:
Quote:“[EUROPE’S] POPULATION IS AGEING, WHILE ITS ECONOMY IS INCREASINGLY DEPENDENT ON HIGHLY-SKILLED JOBS. FURTHERMORE, WITHOUT MIGRATION THE EU’S WORKING AGE POPULATION WILL DECLINE BY 17.5 MILLION IN THE NEXT DECADE. MIGRATION WILL INCREASINGLY BE AN IMPORTANT WAY TO ENHANCE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF OUR WELFARE SYSTEM AND TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF THE EU ECONOMY.”
Clearly, this is a huge problem. It is, in my opinion, the single largest problem we face today. We can’t save Britain by replacing the British. If you replace the British, then Britain is no longer British. It’s just a piece of land inhabited by others.
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Most of Europe’s traitorous leaders have accepted this without so much as raised eyebrow. Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, however, has not. This week, we got news of further incentives that Orbán has put in place in his bid to increase Hungary’s native fertility rate. As Orbán wants to keep Hungary Hungarian, he wants to encourage population growth via families, rather than via immigration.
Orbán’s Plan
Back in August 2017 I wrote an article where I detailed Orbán’s plans. To summarise, in June 2017, Orbán said:
Quote:“THERE ARE TWO DISTINCT VIEWS IN EUROPE TODAY TO CONSIDER. ONE OF THESE IS HELD BY THOSE WHO WANT TO ADDRESS EUROPE’S DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS THROUGH IMMIGRATION. AND THERE IS ANOTHER VIEW, HELD BY CENTRAL EUROPE – AND, WITHIN IT, HUNGARY. OUR VIEW IS THAT WE MUST SOLVE OUR DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS BY RELYING ON OUR OWN RESOURCES AND MOBILISING OUR OWN RESERVES, AND – LET US ACKNOWLEDGE IT – BY RENEWING OURSELVES SPIRITUALLY.”
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The following month, he added:
Quote:“THE QUESTION OF THE UPCOMING DECADES IS WHETHER EUROPE WILL CONTINUE TO BELONG TO EUROPEANS, WHETHER HUNGARY WILL REMAIN THE COUNTRY OF HUNGARIANS, WHETHER GERMANY WILL REMAIN THE COUNTRY OF GERMANS, WHETHER FRANCE WILL REMAIN THE COUNTRY OF THE FRENCH AND WHETHER ITALY WILL REMAIN THE COUNTRY OF ITALIANS.”
In a nutshell, Hungary needs to increase her fertility rate from approximately 1.5 to 2.1. This is a goal which Orbán has set out to achieve by the year 2030. Highlighting financial concern as the primary reason why many couples struggle to have children, Orbán put forward the following measures back in 2017:- Any female who owes student debt will have her outstanding balance cut by 50% if she has two children. If she has three or more children, her debt will be wiped completely.
- Parents who give birth to three children will have their mortgage balance lowered by 1 million Hungarian Forints (just over £3000 pounds). Any additional child after the third will result in a further mortgage deduction of 1 million Hungarian Forints.
- Parents with at least two children will receive new tax benefits.
- The Hungarian Government will build and fund new nurseries and day care programmes.
- The Hungarian Government will establish a research institute with will study demographics and look at ways to organically increase the country’s population.
Orbán (who has five children himself) added:
Quote:“WHERE THERE IS SPACE FOR TWO CHILDREN, THERE IS SPACE FOR THREE, AS WELL AS FOR A FOURTH. THE BRAVER ONES CAN ACCOMMODATE FIVE AS WELL. THE GOVERNMENT HAS COME TO THE SIMPLE TRUTH THAT A LITTLE MORE SUPPORT MEANS A FEW MORE KIDS, WHILE GREATER SUPPORT MEANS A GREATER NUMBER OF CHILDREN.”
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This week, we’ve received further details of Viktor Orbán’s plans. According to Euronews:
The Hungarian government is offering married couples a 10 million-forint (around €30,590) loan, which they do not have to pay back if they have three children.
The loan makes up part of Orbán’s Family Protection Action Plan, a seven-point policy announced during the address, which devotes 4.8% of GDP to programmes to support families and encourage childbirth.
Other points in the plan include a loan programme to support home purchases, subsidies on cars for large families, and a lifetime exemption from personal income tax for women who have raised at least four children.
Couples must meet specific criteria to get the loan payment in the first place:- They must be married
- One of the two on their first marriage
- The wife must be aged 18 to 40
- One of them must have paid social contributions in the last 3 years and at least 180 days in Hungary
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For couples that have one child in a five-year time frame, the interest on their loan is suspended forever and monthly repayments are halted for three years. Adoption also counts.
The birth of a second child allows them a further three-year pause on repayments, with any money they have contributed returned and the loan written off upon the birth of a third child.
If the couple either fails to produce a child in five years or gets divorced, they must repay everything that they have borrowed plus interest in four months (120 days).
They are exempt if they can provide a medical certificate as to why they have not had a child.
Between its launch on July 1 and July 15, 2,400 families asked for the loan, according to the Hungarian State Treasury, while 14,000 families have so far requested at least one element offered in the plan.
Are Orbán’s plans likely to work?
Things are looking promising so far. In July 2018, the Institute For Family Studies revealed that Orbán’s plans have so far been a success. The author of the report, Lyman Stone, wrote:
Quote:“THE COUNTRY IS NOT JUST EXPERIENCING A FERTILITY SPIKE; HUNGARY IS WINDING BACK THE CLOCK ON MUCH OF THE FERTILITY AND FAMILY-STRUCTURE TRANSITION THAT DEMOGRAPHERS HAVE LONG CONSIDERED INEVITABLE.”
The report goes on to suggest that the rise in native births is down to a number of policy changes which together have made it easier and more appealing for young Hungarian families to have children.
Hungary clearly still has a long way to go, but I wholeheartedly believe that Orbán is doing the right thing. He genuinely cares about the future of Hungary and doesn’t want his nation to turn into a third-world Islamic caliphate. If he can succeed, then Hungary will stand as a shining example that all other European nations can learn from.
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Posted by: k.d. - 09-23-2019, 12:33 PM - Forum: Local Chatter
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In Wisconsin, 70 percent of the highest-earning public employees work for the state university system
Christian Schneider - Senior College Fix Reporter •September 23, 2019
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Fifty UW-Madison professors make over $300,000 per year
Of the 100 top-earning state employees in Wisconsin in 2018, the vast majority worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a few at UW-Milwaukee, according to an analysis conducted by The College Fix.
According to a list generated by The Fix using public state employee salary information maintained by the Green Bay Press Gazette and Wisconsin State Journal newspapers, 50 UW-Madison professors and assistant professors made over $300,000 in gross pay in the 2018 school year. Topping the salary list for professors at the public university was economics professor and dean of the department Ananth Seshadri, who made $537,000 in 2018.
Seshadri’s salary was higher than the president of the UW system, Raymond Cross ($525,000), and the chancellor of UW-Madison, Rebecca Blank ($500,000).
The most highly paid professors clustered primarily around financial-related fields. Of the 50 professors making more than $300,000 per year, 78 percent were instructors in a finance-related field (finance, economics, administration, real estate, accounting, marketing, management). Of these professors, 15 taught economics and seven taught finance.
In addition to professors, UW-Madison also employed seven deans that made over $300,000, led by former Business School Dean Barry Gerhart, who made $460,000. Law School Dean Margaret Raymond was paid $389,000, while former Dean of the College of Letters and Science John Scholz earned $388,000.
At the school, four vice-chancellors were paid over $300,000, led by Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs Sarah Mangelsdorf at $433,000. Mangelsdorf recently left to become president of the University of Rochester in New York.
“While UW–Madison does have a small number of faculty in that salary range, our average salaries continue to lag behind our Big Ten and national peers, which hurts our ability to attract and retain the best faculty,” said university spokesperson Meredith McGlone in an e-mail to The Fix.
As is typical in states with large Division I sports programs, the seven most highly paid university employees in Wisconsin were tied to athletics, with football coach Paul Chryst earning nearly $3.8 million and men’s basketball coach Greg Gard earning $2.4 million. Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez, who once coached the football team, made $1.2 million in 2018. Coaches’ salaries are largely funded by the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which accepts donations from alumni and other supporters.
UW system spokesman Mark Pitsch said salaries are determined using “market-based benchmarks.”
“Coaches and leadership largely populate the list, and faculty cited are in business, health care, and science, where salaries are higher in the private sector,” Pitsch said.
Other College Fix analyses have found states with a higher proportion of university employees among their highest-paid workers. In Virginia, for instance, 80 percent of the highest-earning state workers are in higher education. In 2018, 199 of Arizona’s 200 top-earning public workers were in higher education.
The lower proportion in Wisconsin is primarily due to the presence of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, which supervises the investment of over $100 billion for retirement and other public programs. Of the state’s top 100 public sector earners, 26 work for the investment board, with Chief Investment Officer David Villa earning $963,000 in 2018.
A SWIB spokesperson explained that many states outsource management of their investments to Wall Street firms, while Wisconsin handles their own funds in-house. Consequently, other states’ money managers are not listed as state employees, as they are technically contractors – even if another state is paying the contractors more money to manage their funds. Further, few states have departments that manage so many local and state funds in one department.
Together, the investment board and the university system claim 96 of the 100 top-earning state employees.
Taxpayer funding for the University of Wisconsin system has held stable over the past decade at about $1.1 billion per year, while tuition revenue over that time has increased from $981 million in 2009 to $1.6 billion in 2019 – an annual increase of 4.6 percent.
In 2017-18, the UW system employed 32,490 faculty and staff members, along with 3,124 student assistants. Of the faculty, 41.1 percent are full professors, 30 percent are associate professors, and 28.2 percent are assistant professors. In 2018, the average salary for a full-time professor at the UW-Madison was $136,200.
According to a report by the State Legislative Fiscal Bureau, 22.5 percent of the entire 2018-19 UW system budget was allocated to instruction, while 17.4 percent was dedicated to research.
The remainder of the budget is spent on categories including “Student Services,” which includes “all activities whose primary purpose is to contribute to the emotional and physical well-being of students and their intellectual, cultural, and social development outside of formal instruction.”
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Posted by: k.d. - 09-22-2019, 10:09 PM - Forum: The Nation
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By Doug Casey, founder, Casey Research
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Allow me to say a few things that some of you may find shocking, offensive, or even incomprehensible. On the other hand, I suspect many or most of you may agree – but either haven’t crystallized your thoughts, or are hesitant to express them. I wonder if it will be safe to say them in another five years…
You’re likely aware that I’m a libertarian. But I’m actually more than a libertarian, I’m an anarcho-capitalist. In other words, I actually don’t believe in the right of the State to exist. Why not? The State isn’t a magical entity; it’s a parasite on society. Anything useful the State does could be, and would be, provided by entrepreneurs seeking a profit. And would be better and cheaper by virtue of that.
More important, the State represents institutionalized coercion. It has a monopoly of force, and that’s always extremely dangerous. As Mao Tse-tung, lately one of the world’s leading experts on government, said: “The power of the State comes out of a barrel of a gun.” The State is not your friend.
There are two possible ways for people to relate to each other: either voluntarily or coercively. The State is pure institutionalized coercion. As such, it’s not just unnecessary, but antithetical, to a civilized society. And that’s increasingly true as technology advances. It was never moral, but at least it was possible in oxcart days for bureaucrats to order things around. Today the idea is ridiculous.
The State is a dead hand that imposes itself on society, mainly benefitting those who control it, and their cronies. It shouldn’t be reformed; it should be abolished. That belief makes me, of course, an anarchist.
People have a misconception about anarchists – that they’re violent people, running around in black capes with little round bombs. This is nonsense. Of course there are violent anarchists. There are violent dentists. There are violent Christians. Violence, however, has nothing to do with anarchism. Anarchism is simply a belief that a ruler isn’t necessary, that society organizes itself, that individuals own themselves, and the State is actually counterproductive.
It’s always been a battle between the individual and the collective. I’m on the side of the individual. An anarcho-capitalist simply doesn’t believe anyone has a right to initiate aggression against anyone else. Is that an unreasonable belief?
Let me put it this way. Since government is institutionalized coercion – a very dangerous thing – if you want a government it should do nothing but protect people in its bailiwick from physical coercion.
What does that imply? It implies a police force to protect you from coercion within its boundaries, an army to protect you from coercion from outsiders, and a court system to allow you to adjudicate disputes without resorting to coercion.
I could live happily enough with a government that did just those things. Unfortunately the US Government is only marginally competent in providing services in those three areas. Instead, it tries to do everything else conceivable.
The argument can be made that the largest criminal entity today is not some Colombian cocaine gang, but the US Government. And they’re far more dangerous. They have a legal monopoly on the force to do anything they want with you. Don’t conflate the government with America; they’re different and separate entities. The US Government has its own interests, as distinct as those of General Motors or the Mafia. In fact, I’d probably rather deal with the Mafia than I would with any agency of the US Government.
Even under the worst circumstances – even if the Mafia controlled the United States – I don’t believe Tony Soprano or Al Capone would try to steal 40% of people’s income every year. They couldn’t get away with it. But – because we’re said to be a democracy – the US Government is able to masquerade as “We the People,” and pull it off.
Incidentally, the idea of democracy is an anachronism, at best. The US has mutated into a domestic multicultural empire. The average person has been propagandized into believing that it’s patriotic to do as he’s told. “We need libraries of regulations, and I’m happy to pay my taxes. It’s the price we pay for civilization.” No, that’s just the opposite of the fact. Those things are signs that civilization is degrading, that the members of society are becoming less individually responsible. And therefore that the country has to be held together by force.
It’s all about control. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The type of people that gravitate to government like to control other people. Contrary to what we’re told to think, that’s why the worst people – not the best – want to get into government.
What about voting? Can that change and improve things? Unlikely. I can give you five reasons why you should not vote in an election (see this article). See if you agree.
Hark back to the ‘60s when they said, “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?” But let’s take it further: Suppose they gave a tax and nobody paid? Suppose they gave an election and nobody voted? That would delegitimize the State. I therefore applaud the fact that only half of Americans vote – although it’s out of apathy, not as a philosophical statement. If that number dropped to 25%, 10%, then 0%, perhaps everybody would look around and say, “Wait a minute, none of us believe in this evil charade. I don’t like Tweedledee from the left wing of the Demopublican Party any more than I like Tweedledum from its right wing…”
Remember, you don’t get the best and the brightest going into government. That’s because there are two kinds of people. You’ve got people that like to control physical reality – things. And people that like to control other people. That second group, those who like to lord it over their fellows, are naturally drawn to government and politics.
Some might ask: “Aren’t you loyal to America?” and “How can you say these terrible things?” My response is, “Of course I’m loyal to America, but America is an idea, it’s not necessarily a place. At least not any longer…”
America was once unique among the world’s countries. Unfortunately that’s no longer the case. The idea is still unique, but the country no longer is.
I’ll go further than that. It’s said that you’re supposed to be loyal to your fellow Americans. Well, here’s a revelation. I have less in common with my average fellow American than I do with friends of mine in the Congo, or Argentina, or China. The reason is that I share values with my friends; we look at the world the same way, and have the same worldview. But how much do I have in common with my fellow Americans who live in the trailer parks, barrios, and ghettos? Or even Hollywood and Washington? Not much.
How much do you really have in common with your fellow Americans who support Bernie Sanders, AOC, antifa, or Elizabeth Warren?
You probably have very little in common with them, besides sharing the same government ID. Most of your fellow Americans are actually welfare recipients, dependent on the State in some way. And therefore an active threat to your personal freedom and economic wellbeing.
Everyone has to be judged as an individual. So I choose my countrymen based on their character and beliefs, not their nationality. The fact we may all carry US passports is simply an accident of birth.
Those who find that thought offensive likely suffer from a psychological aberration called “nationalism”; in serious cases it may become “jingoism.” The authorities and the general public prefer to call it “patriotism.”
It’s understandable, though. Everyone, including the North Koreans, tends to identify with the place they were born, and the State that rules them. But that should be fairly low on any list of virtues. Nationalism is the belief that my country is the best country in the world just because I happen to have been born there. It’s scary any time, but most virulent during wars and elections. It’s like watching a bunch of chimpanzees hooting and panting at another tribe of chimpanzees across the watering hole.
It’s actually dangerous not to be a nationalist, especially as the State grows more powerful. The growth of the State is actually destroying the idea of America. Over the last 100 years the State has grown at an exponential rate; it’s the enemy of the individual. I see no reason why this trend is going to stop. And certainly no reason why it’s going to reverse. Even though the election of Trump in 2016 was vastly preferable to Hillary from a personal freedom and economic prosperity point of view, it hardly amounts to a change in trend.
The decline of the US is like a giant snowball rolling downhill from the top of the mountain. It could have been stopped early in its descent, but now the thing is a behemoth. If you stand in its way you’ll get crushed. It will stop only when it smashes the village at the bottom of the valley.
I’m quite pessimistic about the future of freedom in the US. It’s been in a downtrend for many decades. But the events of September 11, 2001, turbocharged the loss of liberty in the US. At some point either foreign or domestic enemies will cause another 9/11, either real or imagined.
When there is another 9/11 – and we will have another one – the State will lock down the US like one of their numerous new prisons. I was afraid that the shooting deaths and injuries of several hundred people in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, might have been the catalyst. But, strangely, the news cycle has driven on, leaving scores of serious unanswered questions in its wake. No competent reporting, and about zero public concern. Further testimony to the degraded state of the US today.
It’s going to become very unpleasant in the US at some point soon. It seems to me the inevitable is becoming imminent.
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Posted by: k.d. - 09-22-2019, 02:02 PM - Forum: The Nation
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Usually if someone calls out Trump he goes after them with a vengence. But, not a peep after Tulsi called him out. Hopefully she hit a nerve that will make him think.
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