Guest Post by Eric Peters
An easy way to establish the fatuity – the evil – at the core of what’s going on would be to apply it universally.
Every “lockdown” applies to everyone – including every politician and every government worker. If anyone is forced by decree to stop earning their living then everyone is forced to stop earning their living. The big box stores are shuttered, too.
Aren’t we “all in this together”?
Of course, “we” aren’t. There is the essential class – which issues and enforces the “mandates” – which it is important to constantly repeat are not laws but literally the arbitrary decrees of politicians grown fat, like blood-gorged ticks, with limitless power somehow acquired in the name of gesund – even though we’re healthy, thanks – and there is the rest of us, deemed non-essential.
We are supposed to just make do; figure out a way to keep a roof over our heads and food in the ‘fridge – without a paycheck. Or a third of one. To pay 100 percent of our mortgages/rent and power bills and so on.
Shutter our businesses; send our employees home to do nothing — while their bills pile up.
The essentials lecture, finger-point – and enforce. But never miss a paycheck. Which we are forced to pay for.
Their bills do not go unpaid. There is no sacrifice by those demanding it – the usual practice of the coercive sector as distinct from the private sector. The latter can only ask for your business; the former can force you to close it – and then make you pay them for doing it.
How about we all pay?
Them and us – alike.
If they decree we may not work, then they must be “in it” with us, together. No paycheck for us? None for them as well. No forcing us to pay for their paychecks, either. The taxes that pay for them held in abeyance until the cases! the cases! recede.
If, in fact, that is truly what this is all about.
In fact – literally – it’s not.
As should by now be obvious to anyone still capable of rational thought. What conclusions can be drawn from the coercive class declaring itself essential – and us, not? From our being “locked down” – told by them we may not move without their permission, while they are free to move as they like?
Ordered to accept economic death while they continue to feed – off of us?
While we get to watch them ignore their own “mandates”?
The restaurant owner in California (more here) who used his truck prevent an essential government worker from working was trying to make the point – to both the essential government worker and the essential government enforcers who came to make sure the essential government worker could go about his essential work.
It is easy to be unctuous when there is no cost to you – and possibly much to gain.
The essentials who are getting paid – by us – have more than just our money to pay their bills. The have our money to buy our losses. When a non-essential’s home goes into foreclosure or his business is shuttered, someone else is going to acquire the property. It will inevitably be someone with the means to pay for it.
That will be someone who hasn’t been bled white. It will probably be someone essential, who has spent the past year bleeding the non-essentials white.
Who, having taken everything away from the previous owner will now use the previous owner’s money – transferred via taxes – to own everything that was taken away.
Probably at a fire-sale price, too.
The same process is under way at the corporate level. The Big Box retailers were not locked down – which is why their profits have gone up (skyrocketed up) during the worst year – for us – since 1929. It is not hard to understand why. Wal-Mart and the rest were open while everything not Big Box wasn’t, by “mandate.”
The non-essentials were forced to do business with the essentials. Forced to facilitate the transfer of wealth from local, privately owned stores to massive, shareholder-owned corporations, who sold the same stuff and were not attacked by swarms of gesundheitspolizei for allowing more than 10 people within their stores at a time.
A simpleton should be able to draw the obvious conclusions.
The essentials want to use the corporations as feed lots are used for cattle. We – the nonessentials – are to be herded onto these feedlots, where we will be obliged to be obliging, else no more “corn” for us. The essentials want to be able to partner with a handful of big corporations who will employ everyone who is still allowed to work and sell everything we’re still allowed to buy.
When there are no alternatives, there are no options.
When you can work for yourself or work for someone who owns the business you work for you are much less under the thrall of a pyramidal hierarchy that mandates things which cannot be appealed – or avoided.
When there is no work except corporate work, the corporations own you. And then the coercive sector controls you . . . via the corporations. Neat, sweet and not petite.
It is all very essential – and has nothing to do with “stopping the spread.” If it did, then everything would be closed, everyone “locked down.”
If, in fact, we are “all in this together.”
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wrong answer–I’m NOT in any of this cow manure..duh
I saw a public service announcement on television that assured me that staying home saves lives, whether I have the virus or not.
ALONETOGETHER …
We are all alone together.
More good stuff from Mr. Peters. Is he like Tom Paine?
Him and John Rappaport.
Just heard today that wally world has taken sides & it is with the left. The power that is being used against us it that power “we the people” have given them through time. Perhaps it is time to stop feeding this corrupt beast. They use taxes extorted from the working to feed and support the socialist base. They use licensing & statue to enforce compliance.
Perhaps it is time we start shuttering the support to the massive blue areas. What they intend to do to us is reason enough to push back.
Together, we have been infected; together, we have been taxed; together, we have been inoculated; together, we have been lied to; together, we shall perish! What have we got left to lose? It must be our togetherness!
We’re in this together? Like the teacher’s union lady from Chicago who thinks it is too dangerous to go back to work…from her vacation in Puerto Rico? They are going to strike if they make them go back to work.
It reminds me of my daughter. She managed to get herself grounded over Christmas break. Nothing big, but just sending a message of what we won’t tolerate. Then I realized big Rachel and Tiny Tom have us essentially grounded already.
Anyway, my daughter decided that since she was grounded she shouldn’t be going anywhere, like helping with grocery shopping for instance. That was corrected quickly and now peace is restored to the household. She needed to be reminded who is the parent and who is the child, just like the union slugs need reminded who is the employer and who is the employee.
I had my business (bar/restaurant) destroyed by dictate in the People’s Repugnant of New Jersey with arbitrary shut down orders while watching Fortune 500 companies back up the Brinks truck. Sued the government in September, still waiting for my court date for expedited relief from restrictions 4 months later. The equitably of this situation is so out of kilter it’s sickening.
I have been asking this question since March 16th, “if we’re all in it together, why is everyone else collecting their paycheck?” “Why when I call a government agency, no one answers, but I haven’t realized not a red cent of reduction in taxes?” WTF?
I have never had any aspirations for politics, but I cooked up a single issue to run on about 10 years ago. It’s called, “Good for the Goose, Good for the Gander” bill. It would codify our link with our betters. We’re shut down for “safety”, all government shuts down same amount of time, no paychecks. You pass healthcare, you get same plan. Representatives get paid salary equal to median wage of district. Congressional office budget per member of $150k for administration, learn to economize boys. No more insider trading, no more lobbying, now viewed and prosecuted as bribery. So on so forth.
They don’t fear us, nothing will change until they have the most basic form of respect, fear.
“Representatives get paid salary equal to median wage of district.”
– SHamrock
That item alone would scare the daylights out of the (criminal scum sucking) politicians.
What a super idea for local criminals (politicians) as well. And civil servants!
Paychecks are not where the really big money is for politicians.
“They don’t fear us, nothing will change until they have the most basic form of respect, fear.”
100% correct, they do not fear us. why? because voting no longer works (and they know it) and murdering them is a crime, that’s why. when heads start getting blown off, then and only then, will they fear us.
I have siblings I most likely will never speak to again because of Covid.
Good. And that isn’t even taking into account the election fraud.
We have to stand on principle.
I call this a small start.
I wonder how many of those bags (Not Pelosi) will end up, unused in the landfill or ocean. Happy New Year indeed!!!
Looks like a pretty rushed job to get those bags up.
Can’t let the narrative be damaged for a second, now, can we?
We are all in this together…just not on the same side.
Here is an update to wally-world and how they are treating customers not wearing a mask. I had a family member go into one of the local walmart store without a mask. The person posted as the gate keeper got on the radio and announced that a, quote; “non compliant”, has just entered the store. They continued to do this to a number of individuals as they entered.
Everyone has to make up their own minds on where they want to shop and spend their money. The question is how do you want to be treated when you are shopping there?
There are a ton of places where Walmart is the only place to go. Not only that but all the big corporates are demanding obedience.
ALL LARGE ENTITIES OF ALL STRIPES ARE CORRUPT.
I am an a/c contractor in central Florida, with a customer base that is about 20% entertainment, and I can tell you for a fact that those customers have been destroyed. Hard to watch people I’ve known for years loose everything, and it’s worse than the 08 housing mess, so sad. Because of my very low overhead I am half the cost of the bigger outfits. “Lucky me” is a two edged sword, while I am grateful for the work, I am also buried alive with people ( unemployed ) coming at me from everywhere looking to save a few pennies due to the lock downs. Don’t think it doesn’t effect me, it does. I do what I can but it is overwhelming as the need is so great, and the worse things get the more work I have, November thru the end of February is my slow season, but I an buried alive with work. The thing is, its Florida where the lock downs are not as bad as other areas the country. What horrors do people in other states must suffer ? What happened to my country ? Will it ever end ?
Will it ever end? That is the only question to answer about our dictatorial bureaucrats. It will all end when they become afraid to go to work😎