Your Self-Interest and the General Welfare

Pluralistic processes produce a social interaction of legitimate outcomes that is the application of an individual's choice, preference, that is the General Welfare.

If power is allowed to consolidate, to become non-pluralistic, but the legitimacy of the outcome is maintained to be pluralistic, there must be a mechanism in place to achieve this fraud.

The latest application is the current economic rescue plan being deliberated and soon to be legislated as the General Welfare.

Remember that the regressive tax policy of the Bush administration--the tax cuts for the wealthy that McCain says we NEED to make permanent--was argued to be everyone's self-interest, or the General Welfare.

The policy was decidedly not the self-interest of the vast majority of Americans, and management of this inequitable outcome--the rescue plan--is being sold as the General Welfare. Bush has, again with very certain terms, stated that not passing the rescue plan will mean a fate even worse than rewarding the corrupt and incompetent for an inequitable outcome that his administration argued with absolute confidence would not occur.

Yes, a crisis worse than we have now, that we were told would not occur to begin with, is definitely not in the self-interest of the vast majority of Americans. Notice how the self-interest of the vast majority has been sacrificed to preserve the self-interest of the rich all the way and is being called your self-interest.

This is how the Hamiltonian model of political-economy operates: exploitation of your self-interest is in your best interest. Slick, huh?

You should be ever-lov'n, hopp'n mad!

Let's try pluralism for a change!