Community | March 14, 2011 | 2 comments

THERE IS NO FREE MARKET IN THE U.S.

source: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6388

RN features a debate between two supposed experts on whether public investment in green industry will create public jobs. While the pretext of this debate is worth of our attention, I find the subtext to be of even greater interest and value. While listening to Fred Smith, if you do, consider that this guy was associated with the EPA during the Nixon/Ford years only. There should be no question therefore, of why he was in that position, and it wouldn't be pro environment.

The white elephant which was not addressed in this, is the reality that pursuit of corporate profit, irrespective of environmental and social consequences, insures that those same corporations will manipulate events, facts, appearances and truth, in order to defraud the free market, that is also free of self serving manipulation, of it's natural unfettered evolution.

The cloaked dynamic of this debate is the attempt to limit government interference in the free market, so that united corporate efforts can manipulate the market; which by virtue of their manipulation is no longer free, to their exclusive benefit at the expense of the public.

Debate: Will Clean Energy Investment Transform Economy and Create Jobs?

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2 comments // THERE IS NO FREE MARKET IN THE U.S.

  • SparkyJP
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      SparkyJP  

    • Will Clean Energy Investment Transform Economy and Create Jobs?

      It could....... but it will not. The energy corporations that have their lobbyists write our energy policies and laws will never allow this to happen. They have spent good money buying our congress and demand a return on their investment. Corporations are represented .... not the people.

      What needs to happen is for the US to consider energy as a national security issue - because it is! If the US government invested in clean energy - in a big way - many jobs would be created and inventiveness and our economy would prosper.

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Wanderer_KS
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      The_Wanderer_KS  

    • Point 1: Nothing and I mean not a thing in the world of technology industry or science will ever transform the economy, at the most they will add one more factorto an already overly complex economic environment. The economy will not transform for anything less drastic the dissolution of currency or the opening of major insterstellar trade routes, both are equally likely in the next ten years, nil.

      Point 2: ALL EMERGING INDUSTRIES CREATE JOBS, no one ever got paid for doing certain things before, and people are getting paid to do them now... that's job creation is it not? The real question is will the niches within this new economic force cause loss of employment in other industries, simple example how many people are gaining jobs making compact flourescent light bulbs, and how many people that make incandescent bulbs have or are loosing thier jobs?

      This is an irrelevent debate, your right, the real interest is in the subtext, worthy of fuedal court intrigues... in this world it should go without saying to walk with your eyes open and your wits about you.

    • 1 year ago
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