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Stating the Obvious by Workin' Tommy C.

"History IS Repeating Itself!"

Read the following excerpts and see if you don't recognize remarkable similarities between what was going on in 1939 and what has recently occurred and continues to occur here in these United States today:

From:

http://mises.org/store/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Under-Fascism-The-P371.aspx

Quoted from Chapter XVI, pp. 291-292, 298, 299:

"It was their hope that the Nazi party would serve as their tool. Especially was this the belief of the important industrialists who had feared the loss of their monopolies, and of the big agrarians who could not survive the crisis without fresh [national] subsidies. Both eagerly sought political power in order to safeguard their positions . . . against business competitors who attacked their monopolist privileges. They invested huge amounts of money in the Nazis . . . For the power they helped create all too soon became the master of its creators-- "authoritarian," independent of their will and regulation. Co-operation of the businessmen, big and small, with the [national] and Party bureaucracy is being enforced by those who now have political power, while those who command mere money power are forced to "co-operate" with the new government at the risk of their very existence. This co-operation entails generous spending and the greasing of official palms, but it does not in any way increase the businessman's chance of regaining economic independence and freedom . . .

"Like schoolboys, Nazi Germany's big bankers and industrialists had to listen to and applaud the [national] Secretary of the Ministry of Economics--formerly a Reichsbank employee of minor importance--who raised his finger warningly to Germany's biggest private entrepreneurs and threatened: "Either you do what we tell you and satisfy our demands, or we shall take away the 'freedom' still left you . . . !

"The Nazi regime maintains that private property is a basic principle of society, but in practice it controls and regulates the use of such property. This is not what the capitalist who favored the Nazi party during the 1931-32 depression had wanted. He merely wanted the [nation] to find a way out for him . . . Formerly the competitive struggle of business interests decided who would bear the inevitable capital losses during a crisis. Today it is the [national] bureaucracy which dictates who is to be eliminated from business. A private enterprise can survive only to the extent to which it has closer and better relations with the [national] bureaucracy than its competitors.

"The greater the economic difficulties, the more the individual businessman fears that he will be sacrificed by the authoritarian regime "in the interest of the [nation].

"Therefore the dictatorship of the [national] bureaucracy becomes increasingly a dictatorship over the capitalist entrepreneurs, the small as well as the big businessmen, the shopkeepers as well as the great corporations . . . "

NOW, does everyone understand why I continue to persistently use the "F-word?" "Fascism," as much as the liberals in both parties hate to hear it (much to my delight) is here and thriving.

2009 America has a lot in common with 1939 Germany. We beat the fascist military during WWII sixty+ years ago but their economic system whipped our butts.

Now, what are YOU going to do about it? Scream "green heil!" or join the resistance?

Note: The Vampire Economy was written by (Hans Steinicke writing as)Gunter Reimann who was at a member of the communist party in Germany at one point and married a socialist activist in New York. Surprisingly, his text points out, perhaps unintentionally, the faults of both systems--though concentrating, naturally enough, on Nazi Germany's fascism. He uses facts and figures and refers to reports throughout as well as presenting anecdotal evidence in abundance. He seems remarkably objective despite his own political stance. I recommend his book based on the very telling facts within and not for his politics which are not really in much evidence in the text.

wtc