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The Super Rich Deprive Us of Fundamental Rights

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We used to say that money made the world go round. But, that was a whole invention from the start of things just to make it look good and to make the world believe that we would not be able to revolve on our axis had the concept of monetary exchange not been thought up. Today it’s time to get to the real truth behind what money actually does. It doesn’t make the world go round any more than anything else. It’s just a motor for power and it creates nothing more than a divide between those that have it and those that don’t.

We have two sides. Those that are on the winning team have the money and they have the power to change the goalposts, to play the field and win that game and they will be left standing at the end alone on the podium. Those that are on the losing team (and that means that they were always destined to lose) have little or no power despite the fact that they have immeasurable numbers waiting on the touchline, sitting on the bench waiting to take part and kick the ball around.

Money means power. Money only deprives people on the losing team of their fundamental rights in society and it’s money that makes the world go round.

Money is power and power is money and it’s a two-way relationship these days even more so than ever before.

Money Deprives Us of Fundamental Rights

Whether it’s in Russia, China or in the USA, people that have the power are a handful of the few that are wallowing in the money. They bathe in gold and it’s not anything to do with spreading that money around and having the Midas touch. The powerful rich are the few that exploit, condemn, decide and amass whatever they might be able to get their hands on.

Money still does one thing that we used to say. It attracts more money. Not having money does nothing more than maintaining people that are poor in slavery of the masses and what’s surprising is that it’s money that is the object of all desire in society still today.

People (or most) are out there to amass as much as they can get, because they have been shown by example that getting rich means striking the reserve of power. The game is so unequal that just the sheer numbers of the masses of poorer people should be able to get their hands on what they want. But, for that, it would take a revolution and even then it wouldn’t change much. We replace monarchs with oligarchs and we chop off heads (of state) just to replace them with other wealthy people that take over the power and for a time allow the poor masses to believe that they are living in a democratic environment.

UK

The British did it when they ordered their Divine King to get down on his knees and pledge allegiance to the Parliament, chopping off his head to transform their country into a constitutional monarchy, with a handful of the elite taking the power today in the country. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister descends from William IV and he was formatted at the most elite school in the UK, Eton College, the hotbed of aristocracy and bourgeoisie.

  • At the UK General Election in 2010 which brought Cameron to power after the hung parliament, 6% of the Conservative Members of Parliament went to the same school as Cameron (costing $46, 491 per year).
  • That means that thanks to Cameron the number of Eton-educated elite in the UK Parliament has risen from 14 to 20 people.
  • Since when was that representative of the rest of the UK?
  • 34% of current UK MPs went to private school.
  • The national average stands at just 7%.
  • 54% of Conservatives were privately educated in the country’s top schools.
  • 41% of the Lib Dems were privately educated also.
  • 24% of all MPs went to Oxford University or Cambridge University.
  • That figure stands at 32% for the Conservative Party alone.
  • 27% of Conservatives have worked in the financial sector.
France

The French took their Bastille and marched en masse on the Palace of Versailles to chase after the fleeing monarch and his ‘Austrian woman’ (as she was known) to simply have today a set-up in which the elite buddy-system was there to play out a fantastic public show of Republicanism and democracy.

Democracy is the ‘power of the people’, but they forget to say that they defined ‘people’ in other ways. The plebs don’t have power. Today, just like all French politicians, you have to go to Sciences-Po to become a leader. But, even that is not enough to filter out the plebs. You have to study at the vanguard of bureaucracy, the elitistly revered École Nationale d’Administration.

There are few countries in the world where going to school determines so very much your career prospects. Want to get to the top?

  • Then, go to the schools like the ENA that cost the state 11 times more than going to any other school in the country.
  • The ENA costs 83, 000 euros ($112, 000) per year per student.
  • Yes, the democracy of France turns elitism into a byword for freedom and power.
  • Get into the ENA and the state will pay for your schooling so that you can become the elite of the elite, the crème de la crème, lapping up the salary that will be paid to you (yes they pay students there) for you to study in the hallowed walls of the school.
USA

Education was meant to be the great ‘equalizer’. But, which university wants a poor kid? They cost too much. Rich kids go to rich schools and it’s the rich kids that grow up to become rich(er) adults. You can be as high-achieving as you want, but if you have the poor label on your back, you aren’t going to get into the Ivy League or any league for that matter.

  • As from 2011, US admissions directors increased their efforts to get ‘full-pay’ students enrolling at their establishments by 35%.
  • 70% of colleges today in the US need to increase their revenue and believe that this is the way to do so quickly and easily.
  • States are spending out 28% less than in 2008 to finance tuition per student in colleges these days.
  • The money has got to come from somewhere.
  • Depriving the plebs of education means that that they will be deprived of a fundamental right: access to knowledge.
  • They will therefore be deprived of the ‘power of the people’.
  • The wealthy won’t.

The Ivy League is a training ground for power and money. The system has taken on dysfunctional proportions and the politicians are today ‘untrusted’ due to their privileges and ‘discredited’ because of their associations and ties with the banksters.

Today there is a growing feeling that shellacking will happen one of these days and the politicians will have to give up their place or have it taken from them. It’s either that or have them lunched, by turning them into lunchmeat.

Alternative

Let’s stop condemning the caste system that drove a wedge between people in a country like India. Let’s start condemning the people that maintain the underlings in inferior positions so that those at the top can amass the wealth, the money and the rights that go with it. Elite-bashing? Maybe, but it’s certainly time things were turned around. Our leaders and the wealthy were never trained to succeed in the world; they were only trained to succeed in the corridors of power in the respective capitals from where they dish out their orders.

That’s why their success in the global economy has constantly failed.

There’s a growing number of people that espouse the random selection of politicians from the public. Yes, this is no joke. Everybody would get a chance to be elected and randomly chosen from the public to get a revolving seat in Congress. Lottery-style selection would be the viable alternative of taking privilege away from the elite and putting the power back in the hands of the people.


Lottocracy: Power to the People

Lottocracy would be much better than democracy, which really never existed in anything more than text-book myth. The people that would be selected would not be vying to get to the top, they would be chosen randomly and that means that their decisions would probably tend to be much more responsive to the expectations of the people. It would mean that lusting after power and the distortion of interest would be a thing of the past. Political power has been allowed to accumulate in the hands of an elite few. It’s our turn to rule and they need to get a taste of what it actually means to be ruled by someone else.

Those who wish to govern in today’s politics are the least suited to do so it might seem.

How is there a hope of giving the power to the people when the people that have the power are the elite of the nation because they have the money to maintain that position? How is there a hope that money will be more equally shared around when the majority of people that govern countries have worked in or are intrinsically linked to the financial world? There’s little wonder that the world’s banking system is hardly going to be about to change, just a little and even far less in radical terms, when the people that rule the countries are financiers themselves. Why did we ever let them take the power in the first place and why do we condone the position of elitist leaders by complacently accepting what they say and do?

Climbing the greasy pole that politics has become is nothing to do with who you are and what you say. It has everything to do with where you come from and what you have in the bank account to back you up.

 

Originally posted: The Super Rich Deprive Us of Fundamental Rights

 

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Tue, 11/19/2013 - 13:16 | 4170136 novictim
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The author suggests that these wealth/power consolidations link back to educational systems that serve to identify individuals as being either within the tribe of power elites...or not.  Tribal membership bestows unequal opportunities that serve to promote the tribal member disproportionate to their merit.  And even the merit that is required for admission to these advanced institutions can be earned by the elites via private tutoring and teaching excellence that only the wealthy can afford.

Regardless of whether you agree with the authors goals, history should tell you that we are all on a roller coaster of human misery...short periods of ever growing wealth inequality/power consolidation punctuated by upheavals and sometimes violent redistributions.  Is this our fate...forever??

Wouldn't a lottery system of governance-body membership be a more rational and "fair" solution to our evolutionary tendency to form tribes and oppress our neighbors?  Wouldn't rolling the dice beat the rigged game we see all around us??

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 20:35 | 4171985 Bob
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Sure, put somebody as nobly good-intentioned and bribe-proof as Joe the Plumber in office.  I'm certain that the rich won't hustle and/or buy them off. 

Hell, they'll have the sophistication of the common man! 

What could serve us (or the oligarchs) better than that?

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 13:06 | 4170084 shovelhead
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I have absolutely no problem with people who make their fortunes honestly by providing their goods or services to the public. Their customers voted with their money that made them successful because they provided them with value.

It's the ill gotten gains from "private-public enterprises" monopolistic crony capitalism that chaps my ass.

As long as politicians are allowed to be 'entrepreneurial' in public office and then use the revolving door to sell influence, expect more of the same.

Being rich isn't a crime as long as it doesn't allow you to engage in a crime of bribery and theft.

The author fails to make this distinction, so to me, this article falls into the aimless 'share the wealth' codswallop so familiar from populist panderers.

If we all had to EARN our wealth honestly (and keep it), there would more than enough to go around.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 13:04 | 4170070 Flammonde
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I fail to see a difference between educated and uneducsted fools making decisions based upon prior foolish decisions.  The laws of the land are not wise nor are the men and women who execute them.  Simply without inverting the pyramid of power to maximally empower ordinary people-say letting them decide to pay a tax or pay for war or go to war-not much can change.  Representative governance fails like tyranny fails because the community is individual first and collective second.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 11:51 | 4169659 The Burning Planet
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"Religion is the only thing keeping the poor from eating the rich"

--Napoleon

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUswWA7cRc

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 11:57 | 4169679 odatruf
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And the fear of having to think and act for one's self.  But maybe that's the same thing.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:25 | 4169302 therearetoomany...
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Why???  Why did I click on this link.  Whhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???

Complete horseshit....as usual.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:09 | 4169186 Mercury
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Oh boy, ZH may have jumped the shark on this one. What’s next – an article on the tyranny and unfairness of mathematics?

This guy has betrayed a woeful misunderstanding of history.  Yes, -hold the presses- the finer things in life tend to come dear but the dominance of money, circa the 17th century, helped end the caste system in Europe and to hugely expand opportunities for whole segments of society previously constrained by their birth.

He doesn’t like the merit-based, free tuition system of French higher education and he doesn’t like that the expensive American system either. Of course, US higher education costs so much today exactly because of this kind of whining about “fairness”. In response the government has subsidized the cost of college education and tuition has goes through the roof. Thanks people-power people!

There is no fundamental right to “access to knowledge” and by the way, access to knowledge has never been easier for any given person on the planet thanks to (besides money) the internet, MOOCS and other developments that are mostly happening outside the academy.

But the joke is on Pivotfarm because this essay proves that you get what you pay for.

 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:14 | 4169260 IndyPat
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..."helped end the caste system in Europe and to hugely expand opportunities for whole segments of society previously constrained by their birth."

An unfortunate accident that they are working feverishly to correct.
Flush out your headgear, serf. You ain't in the club.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:18 | 4169281 Mercury
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OK, so if that is the thesis you/he should be advocating a return to sound money not the abolition of it.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:22 | 4169295 IndyPat
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I can only speak for myself...but yes.
Rule of law applied across the board certainly helps too.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:35 | 4169103 Eeyores Enigma
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Money = Life

No money = You DIe

With this in mind do you ever have enough knowing that it can go away in a blink.

We have allowed ourselves to evolve into a system that guarantees we bring out the worst behavior mankind is capable of then we berate mankind for those behaviors.

Greed is now a symptom not the decease. We will never address any of the converging constraints facing humanity and the planet until we remove the NO MONEY = YOU DIE paradigm.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:49 | 4169149 mick_richfield
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So you're saying that -- we should consider the lilies of the field?

They don't worry or kill themselves working, yet they are so well clothed!

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 12:00 | 4169690 The Burning Planet
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Go sit naked on a rock and see if nature spins a coat on your ass.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:53 | 4169163 IndyPat
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Arbeit macht frei

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:27 | 4169081 mick_richfield
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The author is like a cat that someone has beaten with a stick -- trying to fight the stick.

The problem is not money, nor the unequal distribution of money.  The problem is that we still do not treat all forcible interactions as criminal.  In fact we institutionalize the use of force in our 'governments'.

While the levers of force exist, people will always arise who are willing to use them.  Sometimes those people will be called the Unions.  Or the Revolutionaries.  Sometimes they will be the Rich, or the Corporations.

If you see this happening and say "Money is evil!" or "Corporations are evil!" or "Democracy is evil!" or "the Poor are Evil!" then you will remain trapped forever.

In my world, all people who use aggressive force are simply criminals whatever their clothing or rhetoric.  We do not sanitize and permit aggressive force because "It is the will of the people", nor because "it is the divine right of Kings".

Let us create a society that survives and thrives without the use of force.  Honest, non-forcible money will be one of the most important pillars of that society.

 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:35 | 4169106 d edwards
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In a related story: "DC fastest growing region of 1%-ers in the country."

 

Time to break up the DC cabal.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:29 | 4169090 Czar of Defenes...
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Bravo.  The misunderstandings and distortions of this author cannot be overstated.  It's akin to believing "money is the root of all evil" instead of PROPERLY, "the love of money is the root of all evil".

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:42 | 4169124 mick_richfield
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On my world there are still people who love money.   I think it's a little queer, but that's none of my business. 

But there are no people who are willing to get money by violating another human being's sovereignty.   Not by fraud nor by theft.  (Or if there are, they do not last long.)

Nor are we willing to let someone else steal on our behalves and then dress up the violation in fine words like Tax and Democracy, and then hand us wealth that was taken from other people's lives.

Even a man who loves money should see that sort of thing exactly as he would see the cannibalization of children. 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:10 | 4169030 Polonius
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 The single most important thing that could be done is radical reform of the debt based monetary system.  Debt is how the elite exert and retain control.  Credit is an inferior form of currency benefiting only those who own an economy's assets.  Money is asset based, such as silver and gold.  But currency can be an agreed upon scrip subject to market forces, such as bitcoin.  Government treasuries could, and should, issue currency directly without debt to pay for expenditures and this currency could compete with silver, gold and bitcoin or other electronic private currency.  The only way to save the world is to begin by allowing silver, gold, electronic scrip and treasury issued scrip to compete head on with credit.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 08:51 | 4168994 Ranger4564
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I've been advocating the Lottocracy concept for a while myself. I didn't look it up so I didn't know what to call it, but basically it's like Jury or Military duty requirements in some nations now, you get selected, you must participate for a limited term, I suggested 2 years. 1 year you'd have an understudy entering and another understudy leaving, so there's a 1 year overlap with 2 people. If you fuck up, one of them can take that position. That preserves continuity in information / knowledge, so someone doesn't have to learn everything on the spot. I also advocate the same mechanism for all sorts of community necessities... civil projects, municipal tasks, town planning, operations, etc.

Once you prevent those who seek power from attaining power, you've already improved conditions immensely.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 12:44 | 4169945 Withdrawn Sanction
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"I've been advocating the Lottocracy concept for a while myself..."

It's an ancient Athenian model of governance.  Government service by lot.  We should try it.  The current reverse patronage system sure as hell aint working. 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 11:21 | 4169537 odatruf
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I favor a system of selecting delegates to a new Constitutional Convention via a jury-duty-like process every 20-50 years.  The day to day legislating and administration between them can be left to those who seek the positions, in my opinion.

If, as hoped, the Constitutional Convention deals with many of the structural and systemic problems in the status quo, then the abaility of the politicians to further corrupt will be more limited and, thus, less attractive.

 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 08:45 | 4168979 Czar of Defenes...
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"Money is power and power is money...".

Yeah...as if this doesn't imply that stealing other people's money is morally justified in the name of "fairness."

*barf*

If you buy that, you've bought the whole totalitarian crapload.

Oh wait.

You anarchists out there are probably saying, "Wait! That includes ME, too!"

Riiiiiiiight.

Until the totalitarians wipe you out in a single sweep.

Worked every time throughout history.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 08:45 | 4168969 rustymason
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Rights come from responsibilities. If you give up a responsibility, such as schooling your children, you lose your rights to exercise that responsibility. Our problem in the West is that we have passed most of our responsibilities to other people, and have consequently lost most of our rights. We would rather complain about how badly someone else is doing our job than do it ourselves.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:07 | 4169024 Ranger4564
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Division of Labor. Task Specialization. I hate your kind of argument because it denies the very civilization in which we live. People say I'm utopian, but it's positions like yours that are mostly utopian. There is nothing wrong with having teachers teach, there is something wrong when teachers are undermined so they cannot teach, or when average thinkers decide they want to teach.

The sharing of responsibility is not a western concept as you claim, it's the basic structure of community... that's basically farming and metal-smithing and mining and building, every society eventually evolves into task specialization to maintain efficiency. However, I don't have any issue with someone who wants to and can practice many or every profession, more power to them. I just don't think it's reasonable to expect it out of everyone and then blame everyone for failing to achieve the nearly impossible benchmark.

I do think it's in everyone's interests to try to achieve mastery of many / every profession, because that strengthens society, but that doesn't mean you have to do it all yourself either.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:36 | 4169356 rustymason
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Ranger,

Rights can only come from responsibilities. Division of labor is a totally different concept.

One only has rights when one has responsibilities. Rights are the things you must have in order to carry out your responsibilities. If you give up your responsibilities, you give up your rights. They do not and cannnot exist separately.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 11:11 | 4169495 odatruf
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I totally agree with Rusty, and I think it is a very important point - one that is long overdue for a national discussion and understanding.

You can be a farmer or a banker or a doctor of a mechanic, they all still have the responsibility to engage in civic matters as thinkers and, if need be, as defenders.  From that responsibility comes the attendant rights. Yes, many of them are inalienable rights, but that simply means only you can forsake them. Someone else taking them from you is illegitimate.

Having children carries the same exchange. By having them, you accept the responsibility of educating them. This doesn’t mean homeschooling or that they can’t be taught by professional teachers at school. But it does mean that it is on you to teach right from wrong and to pass along the civic understanding under which we live – the social compact if you will. I think this is what Rusty is saying.

Many people on ZH talk about the need to stand up en mass to the powers that be, and that would be all well and good. But it is much more important that we individually think about the nature of the world and understand where we must put shoulder to the wheel. 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:29 | 4169089 mick_richfield
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There is something very wrong when men arrive at my door to say that I must allow their teachers to teach my children.

That is not specialization, it is tyranny.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 08:23 | 4168937 Racer
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"Everybody would get a chance to be elected and randomly chosen from the public to get a revolving seat in Congress."

This is what happened in ancient Greek civilisation

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 07:32 | 4168883 Quantum Darwinism
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We need a reset first before anything will change. The current system is beyond repair and some people need a good fuckin lesson.

Let them push the experiment to the max.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 08:27 | 4168942 Pemaquid
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Yes! Periodic purges! Actually, a lottery might be the best solution.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:34 | 4169100 mick_richfield
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Use a lottery to remove any last vestige of relationship between effort and reward, and see what happens.  We're already most of the way there.

My response is to try to protect my people until the cities stop burning, and then try to start a better world.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 07:29 | 4168881 doctor10
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Precisely. We deprive ourselves. Enough of us can demand, and therefore expect, Constitutional Law. It fails only when the serfs in sufficient numbers decide to let it fail-and that serfdom is preferable to freedom.

The rich do try to contrive things so as many as possible do choose serfdom

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 07:20 | 4168873 Ned Zeppelin
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Adhere tightly to the Constitution. It was designed to hold off tyranny.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 08:50 | 4168992 Randoom Thought
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IMO, the first question is whether people should simply semi-comfortably sit back being slowly poached or do something about it. The second question is what? 99.99+% of the well off people I know believe they ae doing nothing wrong. They believe that they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.

They believe they are supposed to: gain fiat money by any legal means possible, court power so that power can help them, take advantage when possible, use money to make money, educate their children as to how to be able to do more of the same and protect their family and resources... and then enjoy and give back some to those who are less fortunate. For simplicisty sake, lets call this the paradigm.

People in the above paradigm think they are doing nothing wrong ... and whether they are or not is immaterial. Some might be assholes and some might be essentially decent people who through their parents or hard work, intelligence or luck have been able to get over the hump in the curve. They are the people that the "American Dream" is designed to point us toward. And even though they may not be the architects of the system, they like the privilege and advantage they have and many are willing to give up their free will to the system and its archtects to keep the wife/husband happy/pampered and the kids in good schools and coming out with an advantage over others.

However, if one looks critically at the "paradigm", it is full of flawed assumptions, most of which, the well off tend to ignore: Why does fiat hold value ... and for how long? are the laws reasonable and fair? by what right does the power hold power? does taking advantage unfairly put others unfairly at disadvantage and is this wrong? is using fiat money to make money a reasonable and sustainable method of mainataining a caste system? when does privileged education become simply a method of maintaining an immoral and unethical caste system? ... and there are others as well. Most would say: "that is the game and our world and just being good at taking advantage of it is not wrong."

For the answers to the questions of the validity of the system, I think one needs to go back to its architects. The architects fall into two catagories: First, those who claim some superiority to rule over others by right of their birth, ruling by force and second, those who create the fiat money, which defines the caste system, enriching generations of some and impoverishing generations of others.... regardless of how otherwise worthy or unworthy. It is my opinion that both those who rule by force and those who rule by the power or fiat monopoly have done marvelous and hideous things for and to the world. They might say, that is is their right and power makes right ... or they may believe their power or righteousness comes from a higher source.

IMO, how we deal with it is our own and a test of ourselves. While I do on occassion tend to preach a touch... the only important battle that each of us fights is inside ourself.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 12:21 | 4169729 The Burning Planet
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The third question is whether we should be procreating and bringing life onto this planet at all: 

 

Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVPS8XBoBE

Death: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdlzMTVwaAc

Truth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MsuqvLIttk

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 08:03 | 4168912 negative rates
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Mathematics is the great equalizer, need I say more?

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:18 | 4169278 IndyPat
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The AR15 is the great equalizer. Say more if you want. I'll let my barrel do the talking for me.

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