Government outsourcers

Miss him, me too. Perhaps he has been culled by trotskyist government agents in order to stifle his tea party style calls for freedom. I shall write a requiem for that badger, using post picadian rhythms and atonal form.

That was the non-canonical collection. This is the public one.


archive.org/details/AusterityBlender_201308

Only here to link that. I'm sorry if I came across on here as rather anti-socialist. It's a hard hatred to hide frankly. 
Coming from the Arts, our community really is the embodiment of the cliché of mad communists. Anyone to the right of Noam Chomsky is regarded as a Tea Partier.
(The irony being the Tea Party aren't anywhere near laissez-faire enough!)

Good luck all of you, and in case it wasn't clear before, I still believe in peer-to-peer. We just have to watch out for reds under the bed.

I was gonna say "peace love etc" but that's out-dated so:


Property rights and the non-aggression principle



PS. Yes point taken ref. Tea Party, but never having had anything to do with them it's not my problem. Ron Paul yes.



Agreed. Arts subsidies are a horrible idea. It speaks volumes that the current 'austerity' government didn't just abolish the entire budget at day one. They should have. What do we actually get for our buck that's any good? Nothing.
Boulez and the rest were perfectly feasible in market terms and to a limited extent remain so, though the subsidised arts establishment is trying VERY hard to write them out of history right now.
@past: your psychology isn't bad, that was pretty close. I've never bought into the whole grant-seeking thing in the arts, but have certainly worked for the (extended) public sector (not in the arts), to my shame. It's quite hard not to nowadays, since the State (via its 'outsourcers') runs half the economy or more. Nevertheless yes indeed, guilty as charged: spent ten years working in the public sector stealing from taxpayers at the barrel of a gun. Not proud of it and not making excuses.
@rejected: well this is true in the sense that the State is currently pursuing a 2% price inflation target and rigging interest rates such that cash ISAs are less than that. I realise that's not quite what you had in mind, but as someone who lives entirely on 'passive income' this is very much a "rejection", or perhaps a better way to put it would be persecution. We're all the hated enemies of the Thomas Piketty consensus, which is the main reason why most of us are even here. If the banks were offering ten year fixed rate bonds at 8%, the demand for risky investments would be greatly reduced.
You guys should read Hitler's disgusting "25 point programme for government". Most of it's racist nonsense of course but about half of it concerns nationalisation, the banning of usury and the need for businesses to share their profits for the greater good. The over-riding philosophy is "the good of society before the good of the individual". That's pretty much where the UK is at right now. Actually I was tempted to say "apart from the racist parts" but in light of recent changes to the personal allowance for income tax and the citizenship test, I'm not even sure about that. 

Anyway I have no plans to comment further on any subject but of course will respond to ad hominems.

The Tea Party are a creation of corporate rent-seekers. Of course they are not laissez-faire.

I can't detect anything FC related here, so another one for the chat forum??