Question:
Try this.
Call your local city planner and tell them that you've got an idea to start
your own business and you are looking for a place to locate it. You might be
surprised by the response, as I was.
There are a few who might show some limited interest, but certainly none
will roll out the red carpet for ya, and some even sound more discouraging
than optomistic. And this really led me to wonder why, in a period when
almost all of our manufacturing has gone down the toilet, nobody at city
hall gives a rats ass about saving one single bit of it.
It seems that they would like to really clean house and get rid of all our
heavy industry. Anybody got any ideas why this would be ?
I really got the impression from speaking to people at city hall that would
would rather not bother hearing about any plans for any new businesses in
their various municipalities. It really seems that this theory of capitalism
is just a phony, fake, invented - bullshit piece of fiction which is used to
somehow create a smokescreen for all the various frauds which are the true
foundation of our economy. Somebody tell me it aint that way - please !!
Anybody got any experience here ? Is government the enemy of small business
? Is it all just one big game of payola ? Or does capitalism really exist ?
Answer:
-I wont say what it was - because that would be too much information. But I
will say that it was something which any community would ordinarily consider
an asset, and a fascinating trade which produces beautiful works. Non toxic,
recycling / EPA friendly, and rather uncommon.
Now, even if it were a ski slope in Florida, who's business would that be ?
The government can say "NO SKI SLOPES ALLOWED !" ??? They just dictate
according to their whims ? This is really insane - more crazy than I ever
suspected them of. Now, I knew that government was completely fucked up all
along, but never did I realize that they would DISCOURAGE economic
development. This does not piss me off nearly as much as it really
fascinates me. I think that I am the point of amazement, and I'm well into
that realm that you would ordinarily reserve for encounters with aliens from
deep space.
I think I'll turn this into a sort of study, we'll just title this thing
"How fucked up your government really is - scary, aint it.". We'll make this
my doctoral dissertation for alt.prisons. We'll take a survey by contacting
as many local government officials as possible, expressing interest in
setting up shop in their municipality. We'll rate each one at how they
respond, and do a statistical analysis of our results. Each one will be
judged by the extent to which they express welcome toward of a new business
in their community. Then, we'll compare those statistics to the levels of
crime and per capita incarceration by municipality.
-, I used to hear alot of blacks talking about how the system is
trying to "keep you down" etc etc etc, and I never really believed it much.
But now, after having seen how various beaurocrats are truly
anti-development it seems that there may be some truth to it. I'm still
quite astonished by all this, because it seems like you'd have a lot less
problems in Mexico, Canada, Malaysia, China, and maybe even Europe.
It is very easy to see why jobs have been pouring out of the country. There
is tremendous competition, labor is cheaper elsewhere, and your government
dosent care if there are any jobs or not. The modern way of thinking is that
we can all work in offices or just sit on welfare and not raelly do anything
productive. This seems to be government policy. Amazing.
I know of one community which has made a lot of developments recently, all
through a federal grant. Lets face it - this is just welfare from the feds.
There is no reason why a community should not be able to foot the entire
bill for such developments. If they cant afford it, then they need to
increase their tax base by encouraging economic activity and small business.
If they cant do that, then they become a ghost town and everybody moves out
in search of better jobs elsewhere.
It is really starting to look as if prisons are just a throttle for the
economy, a place to put people after you've torn down their factory to build
a golf course.
