American Totalitarians

Google is the face of totalitarianism in the United States. They are collaborating with the Chinese government on the implementation of their “social credit” system that collects data on what people read, what web sites they visit, who they talk too, what programs they watch and listen too, what products they use, where they go, deduces what they think and doles out social rewards in the form of privileges and punishments in the form of housing, travel, product purchasing, and other social restrictions.

It has been written that Google is being coerced into this arrangement so that they can get a share of the market in China, but this strikes me as piffle. This is Googles MO. They need a practice field on which to develop the expertise necessary to control a large population without the force of arms. As it is now, they only control what you see on line. Soon enough the controls will be more sinsiter.

Google claims to be the champion of diversity, but this a cruel hoax. If they did value diversity they wouldn’t have shunned and then fired James Damore, who shared their desire for gender diversity, but only suggested that they take another look at how to go about achieving the goal. Instead of welcoming the diversity represented by his input, they called him science denier, accused him of hate speech, and gave him the old heave ho.

As Google learns more about you, and gains more hungry and corrupt friends in government, don’t be surprised when like Harrison Bergeron you start to hear loud noises in your head every time you come near having a coherent thought.

But that’s just what an average guy thinks.

Obama’s Economy

Recently former president Barack 0bama has been on the campaign trail trying to take credit for the current economy claiming most of the credit for the currently booming economy. I would point out that improving the economy never seemed to be Barack 0bama’s goal. In support of that claim I would point out 0bama’s 2008 pre-election brag that his carbon plan would cause utility rates to skyrocket. Who would that benefit? Would it benefit the lower and middle classes? No. Would it benefit utilities? No, all of the money would be passed to the government as tax. In the same interview he bragged that his policies would bankrupt any utility that wanted to take advantage of new clean burning coal technologies that the federal government has been financing research on for decades. His Energy Secretary mused publicly that he wished we could have $8/gallon gasoline like they do in Europe. Who would that benefit? Would it benefit the lower and middle classes? No. Would it benefit oil companies? No, all of the money would be passed to the government as tax where it could be redistributed to favored industries unable to find traction in a free market.

In the attempt to hold oil and gas exploration and thus development and production down in order to limit consumption he limited exploration on federal lands.

His “Cash for Clunkers” program was said to get old cars off the road, but further examination revealed that the production of a new car uses more energy than is saved by taking an older car off the road. In addition to the fuel inefficiency of the program it lured over a half million people into increased consumer debt. Who benefited from that? Did the lower and middle classes who now had increased financial obligations for years benefit? No. Did taxpayers who financed the program benefit? No. Did the big auto lenders? Yes. Did the automakers and the United Automakers Union benefit? By $3 Billion.

The single best indicator of a nations standard of living is it’s per capita energy consumption and Barack 0bama did everything he possible could for eight years to reduce America’s standard of living. It was only the advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing that prevented it.

And now Barack 0bama is claiming that his policies resulted it economy that we feel, and see today. All I can say about that is that the man has a lot of damned nerve.

But that’s just what an average guy thinks.