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IMF Chief: Pay These Populist Fools to Shut Them Up

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The elitist answer to swelling populism. Pay them to lose their jobs, increase taxes and social burden, so that they’ll be okay with being unemployed.

Lagarde said policy makers “really have to think it through and see what can be done” given the feedback from voters who say “No.” Among measures that could be implemented are fiscal and structural reforms, she added. “But it needs to be granular, it needs to be regional, it needs to be focused on what will people get out of it and it probably means more redistribution than we have in place at the moment,” Lagarde told the panel.

My disdain for any answer which requires more government shouldn’t be taken as support for Trump’s populist bullshit, either.

“We need to go to a system where we are protecting workers, not jobs, and society will help people retrain or reorient,” Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, said in an interview in Davos. “There may just be a need to man up. We have to pay for the social cohesion that we need to keep our societies advancing, and accept that this may be a higher tax burden on people.”

The panel on middle-class anger saw former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers attacking Donald Trump while Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, struck a more pessimistic tone than Lagarde. “I want to be loud and clear: populism scares me,” Dalio said. “The No. 1 issue economically as a market participant is how populism manifests itself over the next year or two.” Now at Harvard University, Summers said populism is “invariably counter-productive” for those it claims to help. “Our President-elect has made four or five phone calls to four or five companies, largely suspending the rule of law, and extorting them into relocating dozens or perhaps even a few hundred jobs into plants in the United States,” Summers said.

I agree with Ray Dalio that populism scares me. The answer from populists is always “more government”. Even when America struck out on her own, seeking independence, there was no populist movement. There was a small, vocal minority of maybe 3% of the populace. Donald Trump is indeed suspending the rule of law or at least ignoring it, and extorting companies who are engaged in perfectly legal business activities. It is a disgusting abuse of power and the fact that it is celebrated by anyone in a free country, guided ostensibly by the rule of law, is shameful.


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    • Canderson

      Lagarde is just a common thug, a criminal who should be locket up in jail.

    • Canderson

      What Is Populism? David Icke
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpZOlVcKoo

      “IMF chief convicted over payout”
      “IMF chief Christine Lagarde found guilty of negligence”
      “IMF’s Christine Lagarde pleads with the UK to stay in the European Union”
      Communist- “Obama exhorts Britain to stay in EU, warns on trade if it leaves”

      Lagarede is a perfectly good example of political ponerology.

      She promote the permanent welfare state of scientific-socialism, then you rely upon the state pulled by your nose to slaughter, technocracy, a pathocracy, run by psychopaths. Remember: We all become the same in wartime, nr1, the ego, then the self is all for survival purposes.

      Pro Elitism, but presumes a sane mind: (lowest common denominator)
      Quote by Plato: “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”

      “And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.” — Plato
      Them made Socrates drink the hemlock.

      The people ruled when hunter gatherer. We threw the psychopaths off cliffs knowing they that destructive to the community, the tribe.

      Abel was a shepherd, Cain a farmer. Anyway shepherd and farmer is simply dualistics, carnivore and herbivore, and Jesus /Isas was of the shepard Kings, the most worthy according to astrotheology-prophecy, the most anointed, the bridge builder of 3 Empires, but Vespasian became the new Emperor anyway. Why? Because of the Piso Flavian dynasty monetary control.
      (see Ralph Ellis, I found this, not seen it. Origin of Christianity – The Piso Flavian Dynasty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS0WSEuousE)

      The people never ruled that is… not
      in the land of Cain, in the land of farmers, the needed building block of standing armies, and lasting empires, an hierarchy under the monetary elite control.
      society – The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals: working for the benefit of society.
      And not in the land of Shepard Kings either, they farmed people as cattle in their hierarchy, false dualism, ssneaky.

      But the lamb is king of kings and will prevail, the people are plenty, they “them” are few and wicked.

      Them! 1954 Movie Trailer
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5i-PVLMVY

      Alan Watt (Jan 15, 2017)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=advgTFXHESY

      The lesser of two evil, Int-zi or Communism, we can not have any of this as a core system.

      (1) The fascist-state, corporatism, public-private partnership, Neo-feudalism:
      Corporatism, the theory and practice of organizing society into “corporations” subordinate to the state. According to corporatist theory, workers and employers would be organized into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and controlling to a large extent the persons and activities within their jurisdiction. The corporate owners becomes the feudal Lords.

      (2) “The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.” – Karl Marx
      Communism, the collective ownership racket, it is also fascism, the difference is that the “state” owns all of the companies and all of the instruments of production. Everything is supposedly owned as a collective. But as always some are more equal than others, the politburo, the few super rich controlling families.
      Communism cannot exist without biased reporting, censorship, and other restrictions against individual expression. “Individuals” cannot exist in a collective, socialist state. The “common good” outweighs individual rights, and any news deemed unfit or threatening to the common good cannot be permitted.

      Bella Dodd was a leader of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) in the 1930′ s and 1940′s. Her book, “School of Darkness” (1954) reveals that

      Communism was a hoax perpetrated by financiers “to control the common man” and to advance world tyranny.
      Communists operate by subterfuge — pretending to be just like us. This is the “Popular Front” strategy that consisted of starting idealistic movements in order to ensnare well-meaning people, usually students, workers, women, artists or intellectuals. The membership was ignorant that their organization was funded and controlled by people with a totally different agenda. This is also the principle behind freemasonry, Zionism and Communism itself. Essentially the adherents are dupes.

      Psychopaths got no morals, they only got imprints, Instinct and lust.

      “Liberty becomes a question of morals more than of politics.”
      “Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.”

      • Canderson

        Just wondering, if the Hebrews were of Phonetician-Canaanite, also the black nobility, phonetician became Venetian (also Genoa), the sea people still. Then why the Vikings/Rus got the same red and white sails, striped red and white horizontal on their Dragon ships? Just copy cats?

        • Canderson

          sail of vertical red and white stripes.

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