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Forget 1%, 99% Or 47%: It Is The Turn Of The 70% To Be Pissed
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Whoever expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization expects what never was and never will be.
-Thomas Jefferson
Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
-George Carlin
The Seventy Percent
People are going to be pissed off no matter who wins this election and that is a very important social dynamic I believe is vastly under appreciated by the majority of mainstream pundits and analysts out there. This is also very distinct from the environment that prevailed in 2008. Four years ago, the financial markets were crashing and the economic future of America was circling the toilet bowl, yet a majority of Americans embraced the potential of a young, inexperienced biracial politician from Illinois who was saying all of the right things. Despite the gigantic disappointment he has proven to be as President, there is no denying that he had all of the Democrats and most Independents under his spell on this day four years ago.
Fast forward to 2012 and the country isn’t “divided” as mainstream media talking heads like to say. The country is pissed off. Genuine and legitimate frustration permeates the land from sea to shining sea and rightly so. Ever since the banker coup of 2008, crony capitalism has been institutionalized as the only real way to make money. If you aren’t connected or “too big to fail,” sorry but America isn’t the place for you. What makes the economic nightmare so much worse is that it is being coupled with a complete and total decimation of civil liberties. One by one the Bill of Rights is being ignored and indeed trampled on systemically by the political and economic oligarchs emboldened by their successful takeover of the executive, legislative and for the most part judicial branches of government. Many Independents disagreed with Obama’s economic philosophy but gave him a pass because he promised to end the wars overseas and restore civil liberties. Instead, what we got was a President who signed the NDAA on New Year’s Eve 2011, which included section 1021, allowing for the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial until the “end of hostilities.” Well, because now know the Orwellian “war on terror” is never-ending, the indefinite detention is forever. The worst part is that Obama claims he didn’t want these powers yet when a group of high profile plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against section 1021 and won a ruling deeming it unconstitutional, what was the President’s response? He appealed it to death until he found a panel of judges to agree with him. Not only did he want this power, he seems to crave it. Another well deserved Noble Peace Prize.
The above is just one example of many. His kill list, which the Administration now refers to as the “disposition matrix,” grows by the day to include people with zero affiliation with Al-Qaeda, and Obama seems to relish in the absolute power of being judge, jury and executioner. Tragically, a President Romney will be no different. He is already on record supporting the NDAA, war without Congressional approval and we heard his complete and total support of Obama’s drone strategy during the third and final debate. Sure, people that care about civil liberties will vote for Romney saying that he will at least be better on economic policy, yet that is the exact same thing people did with Obama in reverse. They ended up being disappointed with him and Romney will disappoint as well. These guys are both big government, crony capitalist puppets and that’s the bottom line.
Another thing that must be considered is basic math about the U.S. political landscape. According to the latest Gallup poll, 32% of Americans identify themselves as Democrats, 28% as Republican and 38% as Independents. Now of course, amongst the Independents a majority lean more toward one party or the other, but this is much less the case today than it was in 2008 or in any election prior. Furthermore, the mere fact that so many choose to identify in this manner makes it clear that they are unhappy with either of these political gangs. These Independents want legitimate third, fourth or fifth party options but instead end up herded into the mainstream parties by a sophisticated corporate scam, part of which centers around the Commission on Presidential Debates, the gatekeeper of these circuses which ensures no alternative candidates can debate and excludes any difficult or uncomfortable questions.
There was a fantastic article written in the Huffington Post yesterday that examines the rampant frustration within the Republican Party titled: Frightened Republicans Try to Close Down Election Competitors, Such as Gary Johnson. I thought the most powerful quote was:
Both the Republican and the Democratic presidential candidates talk about liberty, freedom, fiscal responsibility, free enterprise, choice and the Constitution. But neither candidate believes in those principles. Elect either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, and government will be bigger, spending will be higher, regulation will be more intrusive, the military will be fighting more wars, more service personnel will be dying, more money will be wasted abroad, civil liberties of more people will be violated, and more privacy of more citizens will be invaded. Overall, the free society will continue to retreat.
The above is invariably true and brings me to the key point of this article. Should Romney win, the 28% of Americans that identify as Republican will be thrilled, and the remaining 72% will be largely upset and on edge. Should Obama win, similarly, the 32% registered Democrat with be thrilled and the remaining 68% will be upset and on edge. Hence, the 70% referred to in the title of this article. This is a recipe ripe for social unrest and it will be coming to our shores as I outlined recently in The Global Spring.
Personally, I am done with the two part system and will be voting for Gary Johnson. I am not playing their games any longer and I will not fall for any more of their scams. In my brief voting years I have pulled the lever for both Republicans and Democrats, but I do not think I will vote for any one of them ever again. I implore everyone to do the same, no matter who you vote for, vote third party. The only wasted vote I see is one for either Mitt Romney or Barrack Obama.
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Heck Obama lots of his voters are pissed off with what has happened. BIG BANKS REALLY! Just as Bush voters were pissed about some of the stuff he did...massive government growth We are moving beyond pure party as major power people are now getting scared! I don't believe Obama can be swayed from his upbringing in the trench of Chicago and he has shown little understanding of what the heck he is doing. I am unconvinced Gary has much more depth! I do believe Romney will drag many republicans to do the right thing...and obviously he can lead democrats as well. I don't think he is as easily duped as Obama. Obama has never led a group of strong leaders(or anyone really)...so I think people expected too much from him. Having Jamie Dimon and Jeff Immelt as your advisors...come on! The entrenched have lead him by the nose! Better be the right choice as we only have one maybe two election cycles till the end. Gary Johnson...really? What has he done? We don't need home repair or to smoke more pot(though it might feel better the results won't be) I am praying that Romney doesn't believe the stuff he has shoveled the last couple of weeks...he is too smart.
Gary Johnson...really? What has he done?
Well, as governor of New Mexico: no tax increases in six years, a major road building program, shifting Medicaid to managed care, constructing two new private prisons, canning 1,200 state employees, and vetoing a record number of bills. He slashed the size of state government during his term and left the state with a $1 billion budget surplus. During his tenure, he vetoed more bills than the other 49 governors combined—750 in total, one third of which had been introduced by Republican legislators. Johnson also used his line-item-veto power thousands of times. Johnson was term-limited and could not run for a third consecutive term as governor in 2002. In the 2008 presidential election campaign, Johnson endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination.
Mitt Romney, Barack Obama...really? What have they done?
UT ex-Gov. Huntsman might have made a swell Pres. During the campaign for nomination he publicly said the actual net cost to taxpayers per gallon of gas (health, military excursion, etc.) is more like $13-15/gal.
There was a guy who clearly didn't belong with the rest . . . and failed the lying lunatic test.
I don't believe Obama can be swayed from his upbringing in the trench of Chicago
True, the o can't be swayed but you really should learn more about his "upbringing". He was already "brought up" by the time he crawled from the Chicago sewers.
DISCLAIMER-
I know nothing about presidential election. The following is posted only for entertainment purpose. OK, you are all being warned properly, here we go.
I predict Romey win. Why?
US is a deeply discriminating nation(in the subconscience level). Evidence: Look no further than all those laws banning discrimination.
So, when a white female compaigned against a half-white man, the half-white ( or is that half-black) man won. (Evidence 1: O-Ba-Ma won nomination. Evidence 2: Over 200 years, circa 50 presidential elections, no woman ever being elected into the WHITE house)
So, when a half-white man/ full white man campaigned against a full-white man/ full-white woman, the half-white/full white man won. (Evidence: Obama/biden won the presidency)
Now,
The proposition of a half-white/full white man campaigned against a full-white man /full-white man, obviously, if precedent held, then full white men combination will win out. (EVIDENCE????????Romey win..... then the premise that US is a deeply discriminating nation.....in their subconscience level...is proved beyond reasonable doubt.)
"I know nothing..." pretty much sums it up. You can stop reading right there and not waste your time.
"Desperation " , straightershooter
I' in no way condone your thoughts. Matter of factly, you need some " talk about".
Stick to the 'subject'. " < Legally managing $>
If Mittens wins, 70% of Americans will be happy.
No more deals with Islamic Radicals.
I thinki' Tyler has that covered.
The pre-text of the post, was designed to make people think. I don't recall "Religious Faiths" being part of it?
I like you " Lake City". don't blow up.
Thanks.
Don't eat kittens, vote mittens.
Even though a Romney win would help me financially I would rather eat dog vomit than voting for this Baines Capitol/hypocritical/US industry-destroying demagod of the nether reigions.
Hahaha, Mittens is going to stomp the Mastermind of Benghazi!
May all you naysayers wind up guarding a safe house in Khartoum with Chinese Gordon.
I can't negative your second line, but the threat from within is the only threat that must be addressed.
Hell, I'm already pissed.
go romney... at least for four years. if he doesn't work out- throw em out and vote for another... but don't waste your vote on a third party, period!
rand paul is no ron paul... he's a joke and a carpetbagger, a conundrum non-kentuckian!!!
they say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree,... well, the paul tree is on the very edge of a shifting fault-line, skirting the annual erosion of a, 'dowdy paralysis... a precipice without a base'? thusly, for randy's roots are scaled in shale rock that can't and won't support his feckless found[fund]ation. this rand sibling, this stunted scion is about to get grafted and spliced to a sprawling, creeping, flora-lavender, never too grow a trunk!
who would have thunk, that ron's, rand... is a punk'd wallflower?
jmo
WTF are you doing on ZH? You obviously don't belong here. Go back to your fellow sheeple.
Where in the " Heck is " > the Z/H Bretheren? managing thier portfolios/risk, on the Mediterranean I suspect ?
Hmmm... You think that is free air you are breathing?
Yes, might I interject? The , Free Air you breath, is going to be taxed!
You seem to be testing the waters though. Z/H isn't a cult.
Yes it is. For all the financially sophisticated 30+yr olds that couldn't get a date but want to watch some economic porn.
any ideas? Heck, I'm all ears.
All I'm seeing is wealth "Destruction" and I'm not GAY!
Man, you about nailed it. (But I could get a date if my wife let me. )
Alrighty then. Good on ya!
It's so funny how I hear this shit about "both candidates are the same", from the mouths of these so called independents, libertarians, "woken", etc...; but you'll also always see them republican-leaning. Just check Mike's page where he posted this, on the comments. And I see the same here at ZH most of the time, to the point it kinda tires-pisses me off; always the same bullshit. I can't believe anybody could take Romney-Ryan seriously, they're a joke on all fronts. Can't say I like Obama or the dems, just look at the results: more foreign killings, more liberties destroyed at home, more bailout and ass licking from the moneyed interests, etc... They wont advertise their position in the ridiculous terms of the Romney-Ryan one, and might have more of a velvet hand than, lets say, Bush Jr. But in the end, they're just not beneficial for their own country or the world at large.
And Mike makes one mistake with this assumption: the 70% of political disillusioned ain't the dynamic of change.
Remember North Africa and what made them revolt. It wasn't political dissapointment. It was hunger. The price of bread had sky-rocketed due to bad harvests globally summed up with QE programs which made commodities boom.
If I have to bet what's the dynamic that might spark a revolution in America, it's most probably the price of gas above anything else.
we have a winner, douchebag of the day!
Congratulations Dexter!
but you'll also always see them republican-leaning.
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'Americans' who are falling on the wrong side of 'americanism' are striken by nostalgia. They would love to be able to rejoin their former faction.
'Americans' know no other way than 'americanism'.
26 October 2012
Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts - Orwell's Final Warning
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/10/gold-daily-and-silver-w...
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors...
great read blindman, many thanks. hope you enjoy this. powerful lyrics, always a poet. . .
Patti Smith - Amerigo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teU97iOpViY
not to burden you with time consuming content
but ....
thanks.
Dr John ~ Let the Good Times Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-qX_1WSn68&feature=player_detailpage
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1) The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 1 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-qX_1WSn68&feature=player_detailpage
interview begins at minute 18.
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there is more but for another day? that is the
institutional question too ! as in the bond market.
the bond, the claim on people's value , there
we base our commerce and there we all die from
the perfidy and perversion of truth, usury
at the heart of our un-civilization making demands
to hell on ourselves and each other.
apologies.
yes, there is always another day, for now.
perversion of truths, perspectives set
against each other'd. always has been but
lately the realisation comes to a head.
stay awake in the dream.
there are none so blind as those who will not see.
@"STAY AWAKE in the dream" ..
look at your hands. !!
7 seconds of The Master
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIZaOsjP-RY
Has anyone out there taken the time to read the book "Shadowbosses"? Now, I'm sure the plentiful lefties here will say it is all just propaganda, but kind of hard to dispute the facts.If you can, please do.
I always wondered how the unions got exempted from the cadillac plan taxation of Obamacare........now I know.Don't get much of this info in MSM except by accident it seems.
I also always wondered who had the time to build and maintain Wikipedia.....now I know.
I also mistakenly thought unions were dead since only about 7% of private sector workers are in one. But, how wrong I was - did not realize the depth and breadth of public sector unionizing............and God know they need the union to protect them from their evil and money grubbing bosses - you and I.
Anyways, I would venture he isn't accurate with the 70% figure. probably more 60-40 depending on who wins.
Rumor has it that there's a tiny bit of corruption in some unimportant areas of government.
odummernomics
ONLY cares about the 1%...PRINT BABY PRINT to "save" the fat kitties = 1%.
screw the 99% with O-DEBT-O-NOMICS and O-FLATION-NOMICS...
fast n furiously demon-rat-idiocy you can believe in !!
tells cia operatives in benghazi to "stand down" = DON'T help the US embassy...
tells fast n furious to "stand down"..
STUPIDITY YOU can belive in !!
ENOUGH!
All the dumbshits, line up on the right.
All the other dumbshits, line up on the left..
Anyone not in line? Good: there's free kool aid til you fall in line.
Cause you know folks you only have the illoooosion of choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC_wjQtfhZQ
George Carlin's words are right up there with JFK and others who warned the whole world.
YouTube - Victim of Campaign He Blew his Mind out in a Fridge: Here's a Voter who would not Take It Anymore!
The Harlem Globetrotters AND the Washington Generals or as you know them the Democrats and Republicans are owned ....
(Two different ball clubs but their checks come from the same company....... )
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Carroll Quiqley on the Two Party System"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy... But either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same policies". -- Carroll Quigley, "Tragedy and Hope", 1966, p. 1247-48
Yes!
Carroll Quiqley's work is some of the most important history books that people should understand ... (Of course, it appears the vast majority never will.) Quigley's writing is especially interesting precisely because he was a relative insider, somewhat in favour of the established systems, who had his own peculiar reasons to bother to write books to explain how those systems evolved and worked!
always wondered what those peculiar reasons were. care to share your thoughts on the matter, dr. ganja?
The Quigley Formula - G. Edward Griffin lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVqPnMQ2sI&feature=related
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Prelude of Things to Come: Big Brother's minions don't always win. Go to 5/20. A great photo:
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR39ME5#a=5
check out #17
While sitting alone at a bar drinking Jack & Cokes (yes, they serve dogs at bar where I live), I've decided that I am a closet Librarian . . . er . . . Libertarian. Long live the Republic! Woof!
I'm voting for Gary Johnson, and yes on most of the propositions in CA. What the heck. At least it will keep these deviates spending more money and making less. Then when the Constitution of the US is re-instated we can go after those that have committed treason.
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light ...
This world has never been Utopia,
Yet I ave seen it digressing in so many ways the past 3 or 4 decades and many would disagree as they don't know any better. We did with less as we did not have credit cards, did not have 300 channels including porn, had no cell phones, could not fathom what a term facebook would mean and so on.
we had friends, family stuck together, even ate dinner together on occasion. When one of us was in trouble it wouldn't be the government they called as we were there.
I realize not all people had these experiences, some had it better, many worse. I came from a rural, small town environment, where most knew each other. That life seems to be disappearing.
The women seem to be looking better now than they used to as they aged, but other than that and better reliability in automobiles.I don't see that many real benefits to today versus yesterday.
I really cant really justify a medical system as being superior for most ailments than the doctor of yore who came to the house with a black bag and he did not tie a person into prescriptions for life.
We were free. No homeowner's associations with their petty gestapo enforcement techniques and there were not enough police around to make life difficult for anyone and if a person was evil enough to be worth apprehending he or she would eventually get caught.
There were no reality shows. We made our own reality.
CP--excellent post--so true-but-
It's us old fools who did not stand guard-for our kids-
Some of us were warned. My folks left a country that had the dual pleasure of Depression and Nazi occupation.
I'm a child of the Halcyon american suburban 70's and grew up with stories of how our existence was not enjoyed by most including prior generations.
Jimmy,
FWIW: I see that those who've been charged to stand guard over my generation have been severely undermined by the 'American Dream'. In pursuit of its security I have no doubt my parents' generation meant do do well by us. Looking at the Dream from a distance though its clearer what was overlooked. The man behind the curtain has always been there and has worked hard to keep his presence concealed.
What we (all generations present) need now is to reconcile the common denominator; the things we all agree are important.
Mitt Romney is an atrocious prospect for President and President Obama has absolutely proven once and for all just how captured the system is. All of us know these things are true and when we all come to the table without fear and prejudice, but with open minds and hearts we may finally regain our freedom.
I'm sentimental this morning.
Peace.
Last man behind the curtain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky
I've been eligible to vote since Bush/Dukakas and I've never voted because I've always felt the choice was either Shit A or Shit B.
This year, even though Romney winning my State is already a foregone conclusion, I'll be voting Libertarian.
Do I like Gary Johnson? No. But he is the only candidate is who supports a meaningful autonomy as opposed to the dictatorship that we've been living under for my entire life.
So you choose shit C, stay the fuck home and play with ur obamaphone.
This might be the last presidential election. I believe America-as-we-know-it might not survive 4 more years.
I think hyperinflation and currency collpase will be it.
Neither candidate can stop Bernanke and his printing press. Neither wants to either. They need $150 billion a month from that printing press to keep the government going.
$1.8 trillion a year added to the money supply to keep the government going, while GDP is shrinking, not counting a trillion or so for Wall Street.
That's just not sustainable. We may put up with it here in America, but the rest of the world won't. Sooner or later they'll get tired of watching their USD reserves lose value, and dump the dollar en masse.
If someone else comes up with a stable gold-backed currency (and can defend it militarily) it'll hasten the day the dollar dies.
When it happens it's game over for America, no more oil imports, no more imports from China, no more imports from anyone, prices here will skyrocket, people won't be able to make ends meet anymore, supply chains break down, and it's war in the streets, civil anarchy.
It could happen during the next presidential term.
I don't think their will be anarchy. There may be some riots and what not, but history shows that people will suffer much before something like a revolution or civil war occurs, and America is no different and the living standards are still way to good for that to occur.
Watch Spain or Greece or Portugal or Itally to see how long it takes before their populations finally, if ever revolt in masse. Spain has 25% unemployment and it still hasn't cracked yet.
Ah yes, but there is a vastly different social dynamic in Spain, Greece, etc. than there is in America.
The anarchy part sounds good. But I think there will be a dark side to economic collapse as well.
But, but, but I thought that in the US, majority rules, that democracy was the majority taking from the minority?
The figures are off by something like 20 pc.
The 52pc of the electorate that supports Obama would cheer. Same for republicans.
you're not factoring in the xx% of the electorate that are not voting and don't give a rat's ass about either candidate. but then you knew that, right?
your arguments are much stronger when you don't stretch the facts like taffy to make your point.
liberty, freedom, fiscal responsibility, free enterprise, choice and the Constitution. But neither candidate believes in those principles.
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They probably believe in the Constitution. The constitution endorses the ownership of people providing labour or service, 'american' PCness of those days to tell slaves.
Being an 'american' has always been about masquerading coercion as freedom.
Both Obama and Romney are your typical 'american'.
Why nothing is going to happen? Because due to incoming depletion of resources and the incapacity of 'americans' to back up their claim they were able to overcome the environment, the 'american' middle class is now an overpopulated class. Way too many 'americans', not enough Indians.
It has to be thinned.
The computations are wrong: for 'americans', everything is situational. And it happens that all those who keep voting are in the same situation: they are fighting to remain on the good side of 'americanism'. They share more in common than they share with those 'americans' who fell or are falling on the wrong side of 'americanism'
The 50 (32+28) who know that if they gain control over the State apparatus, they will gain something, have little in common with the others they are going to pushed under the train to sustain their 'american' way of life.
And being on the losing side of the election will not close the gap between those who are the wrong side and those who are fighting to get the better of being on the right side.
This is 'americanism' for ya.
Do you really think that this crowd is dumb enough to see how you attempt to connect general truths and make them 'american' in a negative context?
This crowd is a little more savvy than that. Heck, my kids know better. Which really just demonstrates your ignorance and contempt.
Maybe this is what you are being conditioned to think? Hmmm. Where are you again? What country? Maybe you ought to evaluate your programming before someone who strangely feels like a father figure to you puts a gun in your hands and activates said programming.
So, step up. Add something to the conversation. Otherwise, piss off. Your anti-American posts are as worthless as a one line post saying: Damn "_______" (fill in the blank with whatever you group you feel like).
F (word) Krieger...more BS from the resident coward
More BULlSHIT is on the mark. The math is wrong which makes the title premise wrong and throwing his vote away makes the author a double dumbass, a coward, and a moron.
When Nigel Farage makes the ballots here, in the Republic, for which it stands,I will vote.
Until then...The rest of comment is blocked to protect the innocent.
You may now go back to your regularly scheduled A-% Fu*^?)!
The USA is decades away from any significant civil unrest.
You guys are not warm blooded enough. Europe will be upside down before the USA even farts a little.
Let's forget this percentage bullshit propaganda that's used to divide us against ourselves, be 100% Americans and use the Constitution to restore sanity to goverment.
yeah, like Article V
Treason to the Constitution is the overriding issue. The ship must be righted.
Let's hope so. Nobody wants to see what 10 million+ crazy, armed Americans might do when pushed too far. A lot of Americans think the future is going to involve battling it out with government, like in the movie "Red State", but on a nationwide scale.
The government gets it's ass kicked pretty good in that movie, like a Waco event gone wrong. I still have Netflix.
I personally have never seen the country more divided and that is in large part thanks to Obama.
I saw this and thought of ZH ;-)
"The only people who ever worked for Goldman Sachs who had clean hands were the people who made their living there scrubbing the toilets."
Ding ding ding.
Your Mom says it's time for dinner, Chuckles.
"The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion... But these men who claim and exercise absolute and irresponsible dominion over us dare not be consistent, and claim to be our masters or to own us as property. They say they are only our servants, agents, attorneys and representatives. But this declaration involves an absurdity, a contradiction. No man can be my servant, agent, attorney or representative, and be at the same time uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to me for his acts." Lysander Spooner
"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assesssed, weighed, censored, ordered about... To be governed means to be, at each transaction, at each movement, noted, registered, taxed, stamped, measured, evaluated, patented, licensed, authorized, endorsed, admonished, hampered, reformed, rebuked, arrested... held for ransom, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed, and then, at the least resistance... to be repressed, fined, abused, annoyed, followed, bullied, beaten, disarmed, garroted, imprisoned, machine-gunned, judged, condemned, deported, flayed, sold, betrayed, and finally mocked, ridiculed, insulted, dishonored." Pierre Proudhon
"The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: "Your money or your life." But the highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he intends to use the money stolen for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence to enable him to "protect" those infatuated travelers who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money he leaves you as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will, assuming to be your rightful "sovereign", on account of the "protection" he affords you. He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him, by requiring you to do this and forbidding you to do that, by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so, and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures and insults and villainies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or slave. " Lysander Spooner
Hail Eris
Praise Bob
There is only one person in this world that represents your beliefs and opinions, and that's you.
You cannot vote someone into power to represent you. Although, you might be hypnotized by propaganda into believing so.
The only vote that counts is when you spend your money or trade for something in barter. The problem comes in when there is a Central Bank that prints up money out of thin air, and then use that "free money" in order to outvote the vote you made in the market with your money. We have the best Government that money and propaganda can buy, and the Central Bank has made your vote meaningless.
The people, the masses, used to have the power because they had the money in their hands, and politicians and the government used to have to actually work(beg?) on getting the people to give them some of it for government programs. Now the Government has captured control of money itself and doesn't need to ask our permission for much of anything.
When they took us off the Gold Standard they took away our money... in order to make it theirs.
I have a prediction I'd like to make.
Congress's approval rating is 11%. Will the Nov. 6 elections make any difference? Of course, doesn't voting always make a difference? </sarc> Here's how I predict the difference after the elections will "break down"...
After the elections Congressional Approval rating percentage:
10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Minsky moment.
Government is the problem - all government. And this will get figured out at the bottom of the market.
That's somewhere below the March 2009 bottom.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/sp500-ends-the-week-down/
Government itself isn't specifically the problem. What becoming part of the government does to normal, average unethical people is the problem.
Total agree Mike! VOTE for GARY JOHNSON! He's the future! Dont waste yer vote on the 1% candidates.
Total agree Mike! VOTE for GARY JOHNSON! He's the future! Dont waste yer vote on the 1% candidates.