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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mises.org/community/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>F Dominicus Blog : politicians, economy</title><link>http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/tags/politicians/economy/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: politicians, economy</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>Has the "Endkampf" begun?</title><link>http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/2010/05/12/has-the-quot-endkampf-quot-begun.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:332296</guid><dc:creator>Friedrich Dominicus</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=332296</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/commentapi.aspx?PostID=332296</wfw:comment><comments>http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/2010/05/12/has-the-quot-endkampf-quot-begun.aspx#comments</comments><description>I wonder if we see the last tries for the social-democratic parties? Just imagine the following two numbers:
  8 700 000 000 000 
14 000 000 000 000

That are the debts of the EU and the US. Both are currently riding  on &amp;quot;experts&amp;quot; like Krugman, which say Inflation is not a problem
I just suggest  looking up hyprinflations in the last 60 years. Politicians seem to be unwilling or blank stupid to not learn such things from history.
If things break down, the only think which &amp;quot;survives&amp;quot; is free trade. You can not stop it by any means, you can call it black market or whatever, but
it&amp;#39;s what people  do to &amp;quot;survive&amp;quot;, and there all &amp;quot;political power &amp;quot; simply stops... As long as  we give politican the power over and over and over again
to manipulate money, we are asking for a bankupt (more sooner than later). The last european country bankruptcy is now Greece. See what happens over there.
Violence, protests etc.  That harm was done 99.5 % by Politicians. I propose to think over how such things would be handled in an economic sound environment. 
It means an  end to the &amp;quot;current&amp;quot; leaders and other take over. Things to not de-evaluate completly, there  are  always things worth something and
others pick it up and make money out of it. If you try to &amp;quot;fight&amp;quot; such things, the problems surely pile up higher an higher  an higher.  The  saying. The higher the climb the deeper the fall
never ever will be proofed wrong. Sure the EU has probably bought some time, but who can expect that &amp;quot;suddenly&amp;quot; the same in charge will suddenly proceed responsible?

I will not say they can not learn, but chances are slim they really do. Do I really have to point out some open questions?
- What good  has the TARP money done?
- What good has the German FmStg done.

Now we do not even have  to speculate about a few banks, but whole counties and countries. See what&amp;#39; has happened to the 8 larges economy in the world they are
bankrupt, by any practical means. See the troubles spots here in Germany, where complete cities go down the drain. This all  has  to do with &amp;quot;bad economic&amp;quot; behaviour. And what happens?
People take their stuff and &amp;quot;go&amp;quot;. We have thousands of examples here in Germany where politicians have harmed the  people, but still they are there and well it&amp;#39;s alway not 
their fault. It&amp;#39; s the circumstances, the speculator, the other politicians, the stupid people and whatever  you can think of but never ever the own stupidity or inaptitude.

How can that be suprising if the only thing which can happen is that you won&amp;#39;t get re-elected? You get paid nevertheless, you do not have to please customers you just get paid from &amp;quot;the governement&amp;quot;.
If you looes a few millions, well bad luck but it&amp;#39;s not your fault it&amp;#39;s the agencies like Goldman Sachs, Young or whatever which have deceived the littel poor politicians. They handle sums in the millions and billions but 
are not &amp;quot;responsible&amp;quot; they have to follow laws, regulations and if you follow the regulations you never ever can be guilty, can you?

We have decoupled the bearing of failure of successs. Just see the last 750 Billion raid in  the EU. Greece has lied to the EU, it does  not matter. We have laws against taking over debts of other countries in the EU,
it does not matter. Now the money was &amp;quot;celebrated&amp;quot; as a big win against speculants. So this was judges as success (well one should be carefulw with victory, Phyruss has put it properly) . If you think German papers just name it &amp;quot;a big raid&amp;quot; well think again. You have  to read the Züricher Zeitung, to  read a proper comment about this &amp;quot;gamling&amp;quot;.... And even the &amp;quot;independent&amp;quot; TV-stations just repeait the &amp;quot;mantra of the politicians&amp;quot; It&amp;#39;s the fault of the speculants. Well they do not mean the politicans with that.....



&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://mises.org/community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=332296" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/tags/politicians/default.aspx">politicians</category><category domain="http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/tags/economy/default.aspx">economy</category><category domain="http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/tags/Debts/default.aspx">Debts</category><category domain="http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/tags/piling+higher+and+higher/default.aspx">piling higher and higher</category><category domain="http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/tags/responsibility/default.aspx">responsibility</category><category domain="http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/tags/Endkampf/default.aspx">Endkampf</category></item><item><title>The "allmighty" politicians</title><link>http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/2010/02/16/the-quot-allmighty-quot-politicians.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:304006</guid><dc:creator>Friedrich Dominicus</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=304006</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/commentapi.aspx?PostID=304006</wfw:comment><comments>http://mises.org/community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/2010/02/16/the-quot-allmighty-quot-politicians.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;An intersting example of farsight of politicians. As some of you may know Greece, has terrible hard times with their deficits. some suggest that it has to be excluced from the EU currency area, however there are not provisions for such a&amp;nbsp; case. And now the others are navigatint along a path which is against their own given laws. as pointd out e.g here http://wirtschaftlichefreiheit.de/wordpress/?p=2636 (!! in German)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In short the paragraph says no country&amp;nbsp; has to bear the debts of another country, but now they are &amp;quot;considering&amp;quot; giving debt guarantee to Greece. This is simply perversion of justice. Germans are hunted for tax evaded, while buing stolen data from someone having worke in Switzerland. The have choosen a similiar failout plan as the US and they have dispossessed the owner of HRE.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You see the tendency? I guess you are not suprised. One intervention asks for the next one and sooner or latter you are trapped. You can just go on with stealing for a while, if theres nothing left, all ends in misery. Especially we Germans have a lot of experiences with starting from &amp;quot;scratch&amp;quot;. Do we really have to prove it yet another time.?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or maybe not? Is doomsday not that far away, the day the slavery through governement will end (for our &amp;quot;politicians&amp;quot;)?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I guess the answer will be we&amp;#39;ll see utterly nonsensical laws. I bet we&amp;#39;ll see the &amp;quot;dogs-not-eating-dog&amp;quot; agreements, maybe &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a &amp;quot;fair-game&amp;quot; economy or something along that lines. And I could imagine the only thing we&amp;#39;ll here from our politicians:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;give us more money, and abondon all our rights&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;taxes are good the more we get from you the better it will be for all&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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