Speaking at Military Industrial Complex Site
http://nashua.patch.com/articles/rom...#video-8507416
Mitt preaches to the choir at BAE (in Nashua, NH; formerly Sanders Associates) which produces components for missiles.
It is said that during the Cold War, several USSR warheads were aimed at Nashua due to the existence of this company
War is peace.
"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank."-Ron Paul
War is good for business. -Rules of Acquisition
Originally Posted by Tinnuhana
"The bird or the cage?"-The Lutece Twins
"A man chooses. A slave obeys."-Andrew Ryan
"There are three things the parasite hates: free markets, free will, and free men."-Andrew Ryan
"That every man may act... be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment. And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose"- Jesus Christ, Doctrine and Covenants 101:78-80
Is it possible the ferengi are victims of revisionist history?
http://www.starbase10.com/trek/trekonomics.htmIf anything the dominant political paradigm in the Federation is not socialism but Libertarianism (also known as Anarcho-Capitalism). The ideal is that free people can run their own affairs without resorting to higher authority in most cases.
Perhaps the Federation bemusement with the Ferengi stems more from the fact that while the Feds can appreciate the Ferengi love of free trade, the corporate franchise model of Ferengi capitalism seems a little dated and inefficient to ‘modern’ sensibilities and political attitudes than any hostility to capitalism or private enterprise. You see, a Ferengi DaiMon is not an independent operator; he must obtain his franchise from the Grand Nagus who acts much as a medieval royal monopolist with regard to the Ferengi economy. No Ferengi business venture is legal unless franchised by and remitting franchise fees to the Grand Nagus. Such a set up resembles an organized crime ‘protection racket’ more than a normative capitalist free market. While the Ferengi seem to understand the corporate and franchise business model fairly well, they seem to be a little uncomfortable with the small entrepreneur business model. Such uniformly collectivist attitudes towards the economy would be quite unfamiliar to Harry Mudd, Cyrano Jones, Maurice Picard or even Christopher Pike.
Star Trek is clearly a utopian vision of the future to one degree or another, but, even despite the desires of its creators, it ultimately owes more to the political and economic theories of Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises and Harry Browne than those of Karl Marx, George Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. And, that’s not such a bad future after all.
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