From banking to the climate, the wreckage of short-termism is stark, and the need for a 100-year committee is plain
It's hard to imagine how I'm going to survive even reading this article, let alone fisking it.
Banking isn't a problem. Government regulation of banking and the consequent rent-seeking is what caused the pain. There is nothing wrong with the climate that won't be fixed by George foregoing his 4x4 and electricity and leaving us to get along with our lives untrammeled. And the thought of a committee of government "wise men" turning their thoughts to dictating our lives for the next century is so horrible that I think Dignitas would be overwhelmed by the rush.
Really, how does someone this stupid get to be this influential?
A couple of truly egregious bits of fuckwittery leapt out at me:
While prime ministers in Italy and eastern Europe are demanding a bonfire of environmental measures in order to save the economy, in the UK politicians from all the major parties have made the connection between environmental destruction and economic meltdown. One of the fastest spreading memes is the proposal for a Green New Deal: a Keynesian package of environmental works designed to boost employment and channel public investment. If this idea is adopted, it won't be the first time that it has helped to rescue a major economy. The biggest and most successful component of Roosevelt's New Deal was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which employed three million people to plant trees and stop soil erosion.
This man truly has no grasp on history at all. None. FDR's "New Deal" dragged out the depression and if WW2 hadn't happened, the Depression would probably have carried on till the 60's. Keynes has been almost entirely discredited as an economist. Tax and spend for the last decade didn't help, how the fuck is borrow and spend going to achieve anything?
He's banging on about how much Britain can do to avert climate change by not farting in the thunderstorm of real economies.
He somehow thinks that his mythical 100-year committee will not be "ambushed by other nasty surprises", unlike current "short-termists".
God help me, he even wants us to worry about peak oil.
And finally, he has the temerity to quote Thomas Paine in an article where he is promoting the idea of governing us for the next century by his rules, whether they apply or not:
In 1791 Thomas Paine complained that "the vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies".
Is this some kind of post-modern, disappear-up-your-own-arsehole kind of irony, George?
I ask again: how did someone this fucking stupid become so influential?
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Tom Paine was the first person to suggest having a land value tax and dishing it out as a citizen's dividend. That was a good idea three centuries ago and is still a good idea now (remembering at the time there was minimal government and bugger all in the way of taxes or welfare).
Much like Ms Toynbee, if it wasn't for moonbat's wealthy and well-connected family, he'd probably have found his natural level as a second-rate geography teacher in a sink comprehensive.
On second thoughts, I apologise to all second-rate sink comprehensive geography teachers for this unwarranted slur.
It was either that or a real job and the cunt would have starved to death by know.
Re - The biggest and most successful component of Roosevelt's New Deal was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which employed three million people to plant trees and stop soil erosion.
I can just imagine our version of that, Prescotts green squad. The motto "The green belt is a Labour idea and we shall build on it"
Obnoxio,
You are being far too kind about the New Deal that was a non deal. Yes, Monboit is an idiot and so was FDR.
The problem with an idea like the New Deal is it seems superficially sensible. Never one's for evidence to the contrary, that seems to be enough for politicians.
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