5 Replies to “Economic Freedom In Disaster Recovery”
Yeah well, it ain’t rocket science/brain surgury to identify the difference in the recovery rates.
An entrenched bureaucracy, abetted by implacable/unyielding cnetral government……likely demanding bribes……
No one who is a captive of a corrupted fiat money system has “economic freedom”. Paper money backed with no real wealth and printed as needed by a corrupt governments has no value – it’s a house of cards, and like those homes destroyed by a big wind, the homes built with valueless paper money or unsecured credit will be swept away in an unavoidable economic collapse. A tornado is a perfect metaphor of the current US economic state.
Unlike the US, NZ has already had an economic melt down when their spendthrift politicians ran up a big debt and the IMF burnt their credit card. This is the forced austerity that they must endure to keep their currency from crashing. NZ government no longer has deep pockets because credit and ability to monetize problems is gone. If there are capital projects left wanting it is because the private sector is uninterested or the austerity of the people cannot capitalize such projects themselves. This is what the economic landscape looks like after a public debt crisis, this is what economic rationalization in a post decadent socialist world looks like – we need not make NZs or America’s mistakes. If our government was downsized and national debt were halfed or paid off we would be flush with solid currency.
Tall Dwarfs have it right.
Shame about Christchurch, I wonder how the Jersey Shore rebuild compares?
Same old scam, we are here to help, give us all your money, sorry can’t help.
Perhaps the Kiwis will recover their old can do spirit and bury all the grey parasites in the foundations of the new Christchurch.
A classic example of a self-organizing system at work. Likely something which is causing the same planners responsible for the “success” of the post Katrina cleanup great consternation and they’re busy drafting new regulations to deal with these pesky individuals who fail to follow proper procedure.
The Christchurch cleanup is a classic example of how bureaucracies slow down things but the people involved think they’re being helpful. What I’ve noticed living in a place where people used to do things without consulting anyone is that the civic government is intruding into what I consider none of their business more and more. Property taxes rise yearly and these seem to be spent on people who are intent on “planning” in minute detail. I’ve decided to start my program of resistance locally and that means giving any of the statist morons involved with civic “planning” a very hard time. Haven’t done this before because the place I live is relatively small and there’s a lot more interaction among people. However, my level of tolerance has been exceeded and I’ll be starting the process by paying my property taxes in cash and telling the clerk who accepts the money that I want to see the people engaged in facilitating organizational theft first hand.
If you want to slow down or reverse the “planners”, it means individual action to toss sand into the gearbox of bureaucracy with every action involving the bureaucrats. Such action is crucial if the future is going to be a success story like in Joplin or the nightmare of the deliberately planned Christchurch or New Orleans.
“to figure out the resources needed in that community, you need the price system”
That is such a rare thing to hear that when I do, it is music to my ears.
Thankfully, there is someone under the age of 40 that understands and is willing to communicate this concept.
Yeah well, it ain’t rocket science/brain surgury to identify the difference in the recovery rates.
An entrenched bureaucracy, abetted by implacable/unyielding cnetral government……likely demanding bribes……
No one who is a captive of a corrupted fiat money system has “economic freedom”. Paper money backed with no real wealth and printed as needed by a corrupt governments has no value – it’s a house of cards, and like those homes destroyed by a big wind, the homes built with valueless paper money or unsecured credit will be swept away in an unavoidable economic collapse. A tornado is a perfect metaphor of the current US economic state.
Unlike the US, NZ has already had an economic melt down when their spendthrift politicians ran up a big debt and the IMF burnt their credit card. This is the forced austerity that they must endure to keep their currency from crashing. NZ government no longer has deep pockets because credit and ability to monetize problems is gone. If there are capital projects left wanting it is because the private sector is uninterested or the austerity of the people cannot capitalize such projects themselves. This is what the economic landscape looks like after a public debt crisis, this is what economic rationalization in a post decadent socialist world looks like – we need not make NZs or America’s mistakes. If our government was downsized and national debt were halfed or paid off we would be flush with solid currency.
Tall Dwarfs have it right.
Shame about Christchurch, I wonder how the Jersey Shore rebuild compares?
Same old scam, we are here to help, give us all your money, sorry can’t help.
Perhaps the Kiwis will recover their old can do spirit and bury all the grey parasites in the foundations of the new Christchurch.
A classic example of a self-organizing system at work. Likely something which is causing the same planners responsible for the “success” of the post Katrina cleanup great consternation and they’re busy drafting new regulations to deal with these pesky individuals who fail to follow proper procedure.
The Christchurch cleanup is a classic example of how bureaucracies slow down things but the people involved think they’re being helpful. What I’ve noticed living in a place where people used to do things without consulting anyone is that the civic government is intruding into what I consider none of their business more and more. Property taxes rise yearly and these seem to be spent on people who are intent on “planning” in minute detail. I’ve decided to start my program of resistance locally and that means giving any of the statist morons involved with civic “planning” a very hard time. Haven’t done this before because the place I live is relatively small and there’s a lot more interaction among people. However, my level of tolerance has been exceeded and I’ll be starting the process by paying my property taxes in cash and telling the clerk who accepts the money that I want to see the people engaged in facilitating organizational theft first hand.
If you want to slow down or reverse the “planners”, it means individual action to toss sand into the gearbox of bureaucracy with every action involving the bureaucrats. Such action is crucial if the future is going to be a success story like in Joplin or the nightmare of the deliberately planned Christchurch or New Orleans.
“to figure out the resources needed in that community, you need the price system”
That is such a rare thing to hear that when I do, it is music to my ears.
Thankfully, there is someone under the age of 40 that understands and is willing to communicate this concept.