| Author | Message | ||
     Fahren |
Really worth a view - referencing the Minnesota Transportation Act as a model: http://moneyaswealth.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Gregtonn |
That video is wrong on so many points I won't even comment on them. I will however ask you this. Do you believe in perpetual motion machines? G | ||
| Fahren |
And the state of our current debt-based economy is right on so many points? | ||
| Moxnix |
Imagine for a moment that you've chosen to smoke cigarettes all your life. You've ignored the warnings about them that appear all around you. Then, eventually, and unfortunately, you get diagnosed with lung cancer. Luckily, you've caught the disease in its very early stages. The doctor presents you with two choices. First, you can enter chemotherapy. The road to recovery, the doctor tells you, will be harsh. You'll suffer extreme nausea. You'll hardly be able to swallow from the ulcers you develop in your mouth. In short, you'll go through hell in an attempt to beat the disease. But because you caught the disease after the first symptoms appeared, you have a high chance at a full recovery. The doctor also offers a second alternative. He's worked out a deal that allows you to rid yourself of the disease instantly. No pain. No suffering. No hell. All you have to do is agree to give the disease to your 2-year-old grandson. Now, isn't this the deal our congress has chosen to accept, since Boehner caved in to raising the debt limit? | ||
| Skinstains |
I can't stand my 2 year old Grandson... | ||
| Fahren |
Yep, that's it. And every single time Congress has agreed to raise the ceiling, members of Congress have sworn that it will only happen if tied to tons and tons of cuts.... that never really happen. Big, and getting bigger. Where does it end? | ||
| Cityxslicker |
yes yes, damnit to hell lets repeat the last 100 years, Soviet style. Get a little revolution going because the central government has increased its power, and ownership over the farming class, and has assesed taxes and penalties on the industrial class, and any foreign investment that is successful is coopted/bilked/nationalized ! Let the killing begin Kill the Czar, his ministers, their families, get a military coup, and a united 'worker' front .... from students as well. Now, then, create a NEW currency that to avoid foreign speculation is not to be traded internationally, and all international transfers are only to be done with raw material exchanges if done at all. Seize any foreign investment (capitalists!) and nationalize their assets, accounts, land, and for good measure imprision their leadership. Administratively plan and account for every level of economic development and industry for the next five years. Require projected production ratios and taxation, and employment levels and pay structures. Ensure that in the new Union that every worker has a job and is contributing to the whole of society. From each according to their ability to every according to their needs. Dont forget to instill your cronies in upper level ministry positions, industry agencies, build and secure a national police force, and be sure to kill or imprision anyone that disagrees with you. Go read Lenin's 1921 What is to be Done because this administration is clacking off the chapters like mile markers Da komrade now all state union of americas is ewqual if you cant see it coming.... its because you think you will be spared - you are of course wrong. | ||
| Fahren |
It is not only the Soviet model, but the model of ALL closed societies. We started out as a republic, an open society. Our open society in danger, and has been for many years. | ||
| Moxnix |
If it quacks like a duck, it may be a central banker or an economist ignoring history. |
