The Skew reviews the Savage Manifesto

First, here are some highlights of the Savage Manifesto:

Domestic

D. Immediately impose tariffs on cars and trucks
owned by foreign entities, even if they’re manufactured in America.
F.
Increase pay for active duty combat troops by 10 percent. Number Two. Fire any
unmarried military person becoming pregnant while on active duty.”

G.
Make abortions illegal, except when the physical survival of the mother is
threatened, to be determined by three medical doctors. Require Norplant for all
women on welfare of childbearing age.

H. Close all houses of sex and
massage.

I. Expand the DEA, while decriminalizing most drugs.

J.
Regarding the media; one, eliminate all foreign ownership of any American media
entity. Two, break up overly large conglomerates, like News Corporation.

K. Encourage child bearing among tax paying citizens. Create a marriage
incentive, through lower taxes for married heterosexual couples. And a
government subsidy for each child conceived and carried to birth. Increase the
subsidies for each year the couple remains married.

L. Repatriate all
illegal immigrants now incarcerated. Encourage all other illegals to
self-repatriate through double taxation on wages and fines on employers.”


International

A. Iraq. Send in Iraqi troops to mop up pockets
of resistance. Make Iraq pay with their oil for the cost of the war. Cordon off
Sadr City, force all residents to leave, then go in and mop up all resistance
fighters. Divide Iraq into three to four sectors; Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, and
International. Next, remove all U.S. troops after above achieved.

B.
Iran. One, sanctions embargoes and mine their harbors. Nothing goes in, nothing
comes out.

C. North Korea. Destroy their launching platforms, impose a
Naval blockade on all goods coming in or out, except food.

E. China. 20
percent tariffs on all China made goods immediately; rising by 5 percent each
year for each year China refuses to revalue their currency.

G. Mexico.
Force Mexico to pay one barrel of oil for every illegal alien in the United
States of America per month.

Comments by Tony:

Personally, I support Michael Savage's message. I won't give the usual
caveats about how this will never happen ... that's obvious, with McCain and
Obama. I just know that if a legit candidate came out with this plan, I
would support them.

Comments by Damian:

Deep 4's like Savage have true insights into the state of affairs. I like
his manifesto because it crosses party lines and breaks liberal/conservative
labels. It's different. U.S. has been using the same old storylines for decades
now, just with different cast members. I want to see something innovative and
strong for once (GW Bush acting like The Authority with poor follow through
didn't pan out.)

Pseudoparodox -- The Price Increase Pattern

You can see the pattern everywhere. For example: Real Estate. Home prices have dropped. People owe more than their homes are worth ... so, they want to walk away from their mortgages because rent is cheap.

Well, guess what? Since so many people want to do that, the price of renting has started to creep up again.

How about this biofuel thing? The Corn Growers appeared on C-Span, talking about how cost-effective it is to grow corn and convert it into fuel, and how the waste products can be used to feed farm animals ... and how cheap the process is ... how cheap grain is, this and that.

Well, now that we're actually following their ideas, the demand for the crops went up, b/c now you have biofuel users competing with people who eat ... and the prices have gone up corn, rice, wheat.

And all this b/c we have this pseudoparodox ... this sick pattern. "Oh, Item X cheap! Let's use it!"

"Oh, now everyone wants it! The price has gone up!"

There you go.

Why not dig for shale in Canada, and turn into oil. It's cheap! Once we, as a society, actually commit to that course of action, we'll hear "Oh! It's so expensive."

It's a sick pattern.

***

I heard the golf bag (tm Michael Savage) on the other day, saying that capitalists are realists. They don't believe perfection is possible. Therefore ... caveat emptor. Fend for yourself. Rugged Individualism.

Perhaps he's right. Perhaps all that sci-fi Star Trek utopian stuff is a bunch of crap, and you can't have perfection when people are imperfect.

So ... there's no way to govern things perfectly, or maintain a good thing perfectly. Consumers are irrational. Leaders can be corrupted, can be become greedy, or can make mistakes even if they have the best of intentions. No one can truly predict the future on a consistent basis.

So ... perhaps he's right, and we all need a dose of realism (tm). Keep it real.

It's a pattern, one we have live with. There isn't any better way of running a society at the moment than what we have here.

The answer doesn't seem to be a better system ... the answer s within ourselves, the group, and community ... accepting (tm) what the situation is and holding leaders accountable for their actions.

It's a battle. It's a constant, everyday slog. It's a war on ignorance, greed, corruption. That's the pattern we need to strive for.