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It’s not a question of what people will do for money; people will do *everything* for money, and have throughout history. The question is, how does one exist within the system as it confronts us all?

I have told people for the past fifteen years that, as almost any type of health care provider, if you **truly** acted in the best interests of the patient (and I don’t mean “I have to live like a doctor,” best interests, either) , you would be out of business within a month. This is the reality of a health care system run by corporations, either directly or indirectly.

The problems we all face in this country are extremely complex and can not be solved easily. If you have solutions, speak up. The planet would love to hear them.

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Let’s talk about what you do for a living, Mr. Ethics (LS2008). How do you pay your bills? Do you exist outside of the U.S. economy?

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Let’s talk about what you do for a living, Mr. Ethics (LS2008). How do you pay your bills? Do you exist outside of the U.S. economy?

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Here’s the deal. 99.9% of all law is economic law. It is therefore the job of the government to provide the legal framework by which those who own exploit the rest. It’s just that simple…the government and Big Business are essentially THE SAME! It should be fairly obvious to all to see the revolving door which exists between the two. For example, do you see any connection between Big Oil and the government? It’s all this way. It’s the best of both worlds, the Nazi’s and the Soviet’s, in one wonderful package. And the kicker is that people think they’re free!!

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Here’s the deal. 99.9% of all law is economic law. It is therefore the job of the government to provide the legal framework by which those who own exploit the rest. It’s just that simple…the government and Big Business are essentially THE SAME! It should be fairly obvious to all to see the revolving door which exists between the two. For example, do you see any connection between Big Oil and the government? It’s all this way. It’s the best of both worlds, the Nazi’s and the Soviet’s, in one wonderful package. And the kicker is that people think they’re free!!

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You folks are completely unfair to the Realtors. I am in health care and what’s going on there would make your heads spin. You think Realtors are brutal, how about the report which suggested that over 80% of all open heart surgeries preformed over the past 20 years have been basically unnecessary. Can you imagine ripping somebody’s chest open and putting a patient and their family thorugh that horror for $$. The list goes on and on and on…

All institutions in the U.S. are corrupt, that’s just the way it is, so don’t make this about individuals. Most people are just doing what they need to to get by.

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You folks are completely unfair to the Realtors. I am in health care and what’s going on there would make your heads spin. You think Realtors are brutal, how about the report which suggested that over 80% of all open heart surgeries preformed over the past 20 years have been basically unnecessary. Can you imagine ripping somebody’s chest open and putting a patient and their family thorugh that horror for $$. The list goes on and on and on…

All institutions in the U.S. are corrupt, that’s just the way it is, so don’t make this about individuals. Most people are just doing what they need to to get by.

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The point of the original post was to bring attention to the fact that the market is anything but free. Remember, ‘property’ is where the powers’ that be bury their treasure. It is completely in their interests to keep the price of property, especially real property, as high as practical. Of course, historically, the price of real estate has only gone up at the rate of inflation (what else could you ask for?), and the diversion from this mean is but a temporary blip, indicating a fairly obvious corruption within the system, but the advantages placing one’s wealth in real property are numerous. If you ‘own’ the land, then you control much of what happens on, by, through, underneath, and above it. It’s sort of like controlling the currency, but in real instead of virtual terms.

Right now you are watching the various institutions, especially the banks, and their lackeys, the appraisors, the RE agents, insurance people, all the way down the line, manipulating their little hearts out, but of course, in the end, the natural order of things wins out, much of the corruption is weeded out, and things return to “normal,” that is, getting screwed in a perfectly moral, legal, and acceptable way.

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The point of the original post was to bring attention to the fact that the market is anything but free. Remember, ‘property’ is where the powers’ that be bury their treasure. It is completely in their interests to keep the price of property, especially real property, as high as practical. Of course, historically, the price of real estate has only gone up at the rate of inflation (what else could you ask for?), and the diversion from this mean is but a temporary blip, indicating a fairly obvious corruption within the system, but the advantages placing one’s wealth in real property are numerous. If you ‘own’ the land, then you control much of what happens on, by, through, underneath, and above it. It’s sort of like controlling the currency, but in real instead of virtual terms.

Right now you are watching the various institutions, especially the banks, and their lackeys, the appraisors, the RE agents, insurance people, all the way down the line, manipulating their little hearts out, but of course, in the end, the natural order of things wins out, much of the corruption is weeded out, and things return to “normal,” that is, getting screwed in a perfectly moral, legal, and acceptable way.

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You and your wife should be very thankful for your good fortune. Why don’t you give the $ to a charity you really believe in. It will be the best investment you’ve every made.

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You and your wife should be very thankful for your good fortune. Why don’t you give the $ to a charity you really believe in. It will be the best investment you’ve every made.

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Keep in mind that only the ‘money value’ of homes went up, not the actual (use) value. As our great-grandparents discovered, hyper-inflationary periods are always followed by deflationary ones, until price (use and money value in sync) and affordabilty come back into balance.

If nothing else, Capitalism is a self-correcting system.

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