KEYNESIAN ECONOMIES – WHO WINS FROM MILITARY, WAR THINKING?

It’s cute seeing children join archery clubs on Television. Shooting apples off heads on posters for recreational activities in New Zealand, is amusing NZ at this time. It’s also interesting watching news stories of 6000 youth join ‘penguin clubs’ in communities, where not much is going on, and do (of all things) military drills. Some as young as 4!

These images I witness on New Zealand TVNZ’s Breakfast show. The children are ‘model’ citizens, making an older generation feel more secure while they catch up on their stock market news over their breakfast. Israel have compulsory military duty, the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony showed Chinese people very disciplined in military-like choreography. Precise. In unison. so perhaps NZ’s kids can do with military clubs as a hobby.

Then I think of Chalmers Ashby-Johnson a renowned author, who warned against the temptation to fall into “Keynesian economies paradigms.” Ashby-Johnson posited that keynesian theory favors war for economic gain. He said that when the rich want to protect their elite interests (typically the wealthy are paranoid about security), and/or when politicians have acted more for the wealthy’s interests and not the wider populous of their citizens (eg: when inequality sky rockets, as it has the last 7 years), politicians lead by figures driving banking rhetoric policies – that tend not to be humane enough in their written thinking templates cause harm.

The policies exist only for the elite, politicians are bullied (through seduction) to pass them. An attraction tendancy to Keynesian theories of ‘management’ (ie: mass slaughters) is engineered to ‘solve’ these policies shortcomings. The truth is, keynesian theories are designed to do achieve such atrocities under a mask of polite rhetoric.

What is Keynesia theory? It happens, when there are not enough jobs created for people. Thus economic growth is also more stagnant then it should be. To solve this problems, a war is engineered ‘some place.’ People form teams into superpowers. Youth are strongly encouraged to be rounded up, put into uniforms and sent away to fight wars, thus reducing unemployment figures. In theory jobs have been created during wars. Some youth will return, others won’t. The rising costs of veterans’ pensions have often not been factored into keynesian agendas adequately either.

Who wins? Weapons manufacturers. All suppliers and manufacturers who supply ‘war efforts’ in the chain of the ‘war industry.’ The wealthy who are tipped off with prior knowledge years in advance stand to gain. In such instances, the rich ensure their investments are placed into the right areas, to benefit when wars are engineered. Mining interests in the territories conquered are also a part of the spoils-of-war carrots leaders buy into. Or trade off all to selfishly, for ‘positions’ in the hope of a ‘spotlight.’

Bonding allegiances between countries for Superpowers’ designs in the world, are also touted as being a benefit of cross-military exercises and operations. All of a sudden medals are given out, ‘years after the fact’ to recognise these ties too. The people probably deserve them, it’s just odd the late timing of the awards.

Who loses? Many young people, who protect and serve their countries in ‘good faith’ in these games. All of the lives lost in war lose too. Children of people in the lower third of society’s earners are also at risk of being rounded up for war, through a draft.

What people group are most at risk? Perhaps people of Arab descent are most at risk. North Koreans too. We are trained through our own media biases to see these people as ‘the enemy’ that we must be ‘very wary of.’ Some of them we do need to be very wary of. As a free thinker though (a result of education), I am still wary of Arab people, muslims, and North Koreans. I don’t really know why I am, although living in Los Angeles, I became less wary of people of Arab descent. Arab-Americans are very industrious people in California, for example.

A lot of Arab cultures have far more sophisticated tastes than many Westerners. They also speak several languages and excel in being successful merchants from and for the USA across the US and into the world. They epitomise what is known as ‘the American dream.’

Beverly Hills as a city is where wealthy Jews and people who immigrated from Iran, live side-by-side now, for example. Many of these people are friends. Neighbors. A different picture to what the news paints about Iran, for example. People who have left Iran are happy to live in the US, yet their traditions and worldviews are still, distinctly Persian.   (more…)

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