tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post1705089596615379783..comments2023-11-05T06:18:25.377-06:00Comments on The Privatopia Papers: Economists see U.S. recovery weakening: surveyEvan McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04479661304143631524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-64852653153444209672010-07-13T22:25:05.372-05:002010-07-13T22:25:05.372-05:00"there’s too little money chasing a plethora ..."<i>there’s too little money chasing a plethora of products and services. They become undervalued instead of overvalued.</i>"<br /><br />We want homeowners to know that regardless of what happens to the economy, we will continue to value not only your dollars, but the services of our member property management companies and law firms. No matter how much you pay them, it can never be enough for what they do on the behalf of home owners across America.<br /><br />And the same is true of your state legislators, who make it possible for us to stay in business without having to treat home owners like customers.<br /><br />If there's one thing that we can guarantee will not cost less in the future, it is the value that comes with living in a common interest communisty governed by a homeowners association.Communisty Associations Institutehttp://www.caionline.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-88219577703292338052010-07-12T08:01:57.656-05:002010-07-12T08:01:57.656-05:00> The last time the economy was tanked by specu...> The last time the economy was tanked by speculation <br />> and excess leverage was in the Great Depression <br />> of the 1930s. It lasted about ten years.<br /><br />And we all know how that ended...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-9147478649660493332010-07-11T22:08:41.450-05:002010-07-11T22:08:41.450-05:00I'm waiting for the post-scarcity economy depi...I'm waiting for the post-scarcity economy depicted in <i>Star Trek</i> and <a href="http://jamesphogan.com/books/book.php?titleID=29&ed=69" rel="nofollow"><i>Voyage From Yesteryear</i></a>.<br /><br />Until then, we're screwed, regardless of what socio-economic-political theories are in vogue. As George Orwell wrote in his 1940 essay about <a href="http://www.orwell.ru/library/reviews/dickens/english/e_chd" rel="nofollow">"Charles Dickens"</a>, "The central problem — how to prevent power from being abused — remains unsolved...‘If men would behave decently the world would be decent’ is not such a platitude as it sounds." <br /><br />In the current real-world system, HOAs have shown that you can combine communism and capitalism into one entity and create <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-future-will-be-a-totalitarian-government-dysto,11540/" rel="nofollow">the worst of both worlds</a> (corporatism?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com