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January 17, 2005
Someone worth reading
Thanks to Kathy of On The Third Hand, I have discovered another blog with some interesting thoughts. I agree entirely with the feelings expressed in a post on the blog Discarded Lies entitled "Bretton Woods and the new deal: The wrong answer" even though both parts of the first section of that do not affect me or the UK directly. The main thrust of the post is about the international structures which were set up at the end of WW2 and during the Cold War.
Many of these reflect the thinking of the time which saw Socialism as the coming political future and "redistribution of wealth" as the purpose of taxation. Some, of course, still do, but many now recognise that "Big Government", Socialist Dogma, and massive state funded welfare have had a disasterous effect on the industrialised nations and clouded a number of other issues as well.
My own pet hate - the faceless bureaucrats who now interfere directly in every aspect of our lives, the vast amounts of "aid" disappearing into Swiss Bank accounts run by various despots and dictators, and much of the blame for famines, third world debt, and poverty must lie with the UN, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation. It is easy to blame the Capitalist Bankers who lend money and facilitate much of this, but the real culprits are, as ever, the bureaucrats who run the governments and who make decisions based on the failed ideology of socialism.
Maybe, if enough people can be made aware of the failures of both Big Government and the Great Socialist Institutions, we can start to really address the problems facing the world. But maybe I'm just dreaming as well.
Posted by The Gray Monk at January 17, 2005 12:44 PM