Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
It has been known for a long time that US streams and lakes are contaminated with highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS. This means that fresh water fish are also contaminated.. But nothing is done about it, because the polluting entities control the EPA and use it as a protection agency.
From a recent report: “The Environmental Protection Agency has known about the health hazards of PFAS for decades but has failed to limit PFAS discharges into the air and water or set cleanup standards. The agency released a woefully inadequate PFAS action plan in 2019 that failed to include deadlines for action, and the EPA has made little progress.” https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/
The environment gets no more protection from the EPA than public health gets from the FDA.
The Big Banks are also protected by the SEC, DOJ, US Treasury and Federal Reserve. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gK3s5j7PgA
Approximately one half century ago, George Stigler, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and later awarded the Nobel Prize for economics, wrote that regulation never succeeds because the regulatory agencies are captured by those the agencies are supposed to regulate. This has proved to be the case.
Don’t expect Congress to do anything about it. Big Banks, Big Pharma, and Big Polluters sit on piles of political campaign contributions. Any politician that goes after one of these or other powerful interests finds his competitor well financed when he is next up for reelection, and he will also find that the media has been paid off to work against him.
It is long past time for Western peoples to escape their delusion that they live in democracies and control the government by voting. They live in oligarchies governed by private interests and agendas. No Western government represents the people it rules.
Fifty-two years ago I coauthored an article in an economic journal, Public Choice, that made the point that people would get better government if each country was ruled by another, the reason being that no people ruled by a different people would ever believe the government represented them.
Just consider how little the people in Britain’s American colonies put up with from England compared to what Americans today tolerate from “their” government.
Here is a partial list to get you thinking: mandated death jabs with an untested substance, mandated lockdowns, mandated masks, income taxes higher than extracted from medieval serfs and 19th century slaves and certainly far higher than King George’s Stamp Tax, home invasions by police and FBI SWAT forces, suppression of free speech and association.
After you draw up your list, compare it to the colonists’ complaints against King George. American colonists living under King George were far freer than Americans today living under “their own government.”
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No shit.
What was our first clue?
…Channeling ‘big mike’, 1st time in a long time i’m proud to say that.
” Fifty-two years ago I coauthored an article in an economic journal, Public Choice, that made the point that people would get better government if each country was ruled by another, the reason being that no people ruled by a different people would ever believe the government represented them.”
Or, in deaf sign language, just shrug.
This has been true since the so-called era of Progressive regulation. I read this book when it first came out and it still stands as one of the seminal histories of the United States.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/832525.The_Triumph_of_Conservatism
The US system is totally and thoroughly corrupt. The moral rot is metastasizing rapidly to the point it is “normal”. Regulatory Capture is the name of the phenomenon the writer describes. https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/advocacy/issues/regulatory-capture#sort=%40pubbrowsedate%20descending. It is endemic in the US and Western systems. This type of corruption originates from within and once it becomes widespread it is lethal; which is why we are experiencing the swift collapse and devolution of American society. The immorality is plunging America into the abyss and ushering in a dystopian nightmare that would astonish Orwell and Huxley and make Hitler envious. It is going to get much worse due to the spinelessness of the American people.
“wrote that regulation never succeeds because the regulatory agencies are captured by those the agencies are supposed to regulate. This has proved to be the case.”
Aaaah, the olde revolving door of corporate executive and dot gov “oversight”.
“As incestuous as a Deleware vacationing politician.”
The very first agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission, was crafted, organized, and promoted by the big railroads, all to create a protected cartel that would both keep other cartel members under control and to keep away the upstart smaller competitors. ALL agencies since have followed that model. This is nothing new. ALL GOVERNMENTS exist ONLY to protect the profits of those that truly control their power…and that is NEVER the common man.
So how come this dynamic doesn’t work with the ATF?
Why isn’t the ATF captured by the small arms industry and why is it not out promoting the personal ownership of firearms?