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The 10 Commandments Of Government
Via Doug Ross' Director Blue blog,
I Generally speaking, government always grows -- it never shrinks -- whether times are good or bad.
II In each area it purports to "assist", government attempts to replace individual decision-making with central planning.
III In order to implement its grand central plans and solidify its power, government must take from one citizen to give to another; this is, in effect, lawful theft.
IV No matter how many times central planning fails, the self-appointed masterminds in government assert that "this time is different" and that with only a few tweaks and more money, their delusional plans will succeed.
V Because it uses funds confiscated from taxpayers, self-restraint is no obstacle to government's ambitions.
VI Its fundamental misunderstanding of human nature notwithstanding, government must claim to grant "rights", which require it steal the labors of one citizen to give to another (such as food, shelter, employment, and health care).
VII No matter how widespread the harm it causes, government will never provide an honest and historical accounting -- a report card -- of its failures.
VIII As more individuals and families are harmed by the failures of central planning, government must find suitable scapegoats, must lie to do so, and therefore must also repress dissent.
IX In order to build its network of redistribution and grow a culture of dependency on its services, government must inevitably undermine the family unit, religion, and the notion of God-given rights in order to cow, bribe, or intimidate its citizens.
X As government grows ever more powerful, it must also become increasingly oppressive through compulsion and force. To do otherwise would mean government must shrink, and this it cannot do.
Any of these characteristics recognizable?
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ROFL: 2 out of 3 ZH users support bigotry!!!!! Retards.
Looks like your math is off, a bit.
Give it time, the night is young...
It is a well known fact that 4 out of 3 people are bad with ratios.
Sorry bro. I was in the midst of editing the comment to add the caveat that the ratio was based on current up/down votes. Then I decided I didn't give enough of a shit and browsed to something else.
It's a non-Linear equation when you factor in the server output.
Phew - I guess we don'y have to send any more Clown Bucks to Tel Aviv?
***eliminate cash from the Israeli economy***
WHOW great news!! I guess this means that the $3 billion in military aid the US is planning to send to Israel in the coming fiscal year won't have to be sent now. I was wondering why they were cutting food stamps for Americans while increasing aid to Israel by $488 million. Glad to see they're going to reverse that. Good to see that Israel is going to stand on its own two feet and stop being a U.S. welfare bum!
Hi,
This is your governement sponsored propaganda bullshit channel. Please stare at the screen.
As human beings, you are no longer free individuals. You, your parents, and grandparents were all captured into .gov servitude and a couple of world wars.
Please stand by while the resources of the planet are extracted from your labor as slaves. You will have no chance to fight back or claim rights as humans when you extract benefits from our generous government payment plans.
Resistance is futile. Cheetohs are fully provided along with High Fructose Corn Syrup drinks and fluoride applications for the free thinking folks left.
Now, back to your regular scheduled programming...
Thou Shall Not Incarcerate One Of Ours
Thou Shall Obey The Laws of Theft Instilled By Those Doing G-ds Work
It can't be lawful theft, as theft is not lawful.
It is LEGAL theft, which is different.
Well stated. Legal does not infer lawful. It is merely mischief framed by a law.
Government is corrupt. Bigger government is more corrupt. The goal of government is to convert the citizens into running dogs totally dependent upon and servile to government.
There is only one rule for governments:
Sell thyself to the highest bidder.
Government Commandment XI (that's 11 kids):
"The next thing I say to you will be true; the last thing I said was false."
DEVO, "Enough Said": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YChGjkQk6dY
(link opens in new window/tab, from "New Traditionalists" circa 1981).
+1 for any DEVO.
Introduced myself to Mark Mothersbaugh in early 79 (I think, they only played from "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!") when I saw them at the old Beginnings Club in Schaumburg IL.
The place is a DMV now.Talk about DEVOlution...
I can brake it down even further.
Thou Shall Not.
...now
Eat your peas.
Stop the first and you can stop all of the others. If government is localized enough, the transaction costs of escaping tyranny becomes so small that government is subjected to the market. Tyranny needs a captive audience. Localism, A Philosophy of Government. http://www.amazon.com/Localism-A-Philosophy-Government-ebook/dp/B00B0GAC...
I guess it is old fashioned but I was raised with the constant repitition that "the world doesn't owe you a living son".
It is the opposite of that belief is how entitlements and transfer payments get started and government subsequently feels obliged to regulate the size of our drinks cuz they are paying for our healthcare.
Double you tee eff. What is #9. Roflcopters. I thought this website was supposed to be about economics and politics - not pandering to the religious mass. Ohz well. Back to finance.yahoooooo
1) Thou shall have no god other than the god of government.
2) Thous shall not make or have any ideas or thoughts or graven communication about your god, government.
3) Thou shall not take the government's name in vain.
4) Remember that the god of government recognizes no sabbath. Work, not recreation, frees ones spirit.
5) Honor Dear Leader and all of his representatives, as they are your true father and mother.
6) Thou shall kill only on my behalf.
7) Thou shall not commit adultery because you can only marry and reproduce with who we select.
8) Thou shall not steal, as your god, government, does not like competition.
9) Thous shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor unless your god, government, directs you to.
10) Thous shall not covet, as that is your god's main focus.
LOL, kchrisc, all too wickedly true! Since Government creates itself as the State Religion (but covertly controlled by Priests for their private benefit) it is all too appropriate to recast the 10 as you have done, with Government becoming God, and then everything else follows logically, no matter how utterly absurd and false the original premise was!
Commandment XI: There is no problem so bad that government cannot make it worse.
Double LOL, Seve in Greensboro, except I would modify Commandment XI to say:
There is no problem so bad that the ruling classes dominating the government can not make that worse, so that it will benefit them even more (at least in the short-term.)
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
She be Al-Qaeda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMAn91wYWU
Harry Browne's 7 principles. http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/PrinciplesOfGovernment.htm
The Principles
1. Government is force.
2. Government is politics.
3. You don't control government.
4. Every government program will be more expensive and more expansive than anything you had in mind when you proposed it.
5. Power will always be misused.
6. Government doesn't work.
7. Government must be subject to absolute limits.
Shorter definition
Everthing that is not forbidden is compulsory.
God damnit. I challenge anyone here to tell me that they are not currently benefitting from the big government that exists. The hypocrisy is making my mouth taste salty, and I don't like it. If your confident enough to tell me you don't benefit from the big government, please identify your current occupation, drinking water source, power source, food source, internet source, and shelter square footage. Then explain to me at what point a person should stop taking benefit from the government and at what point the government should stop providing benefits.
I'll give you a hint. If you aren't a farmer with a well and solar panels or wind mill that isn't using the internet or a phone line for personal gain(that includes shopping or selling things/marketing) THEN YOU RELY ON THE BIG GOVERNMENT. Congrats. Damn near all of us do. It's not a bad thing, it's not a good thing, it's a thing.
I would also down-vote people who made me feel ashamed of myself because I was too dim-witted to form an argument to put to them. In fact, I will down vote myself now!!!
You're a fat slob!!!
I am not!@# I just want people to be proud of the things they believe. Otherwise, how do they justify their thoughts?
I'm confused...THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF US. SO ARE THE SUPER-WEALTHY...am I supposed to say UBER-WEALTHY now? What's the phrasing that people like me associate with these days? Oh well...OBAMA IS A BAD PRESIDENT. After all, I am informed with the same information he is and therefore can make sound decisions in his place. I know everything and have people that agree with me to back me up, so I'm right, and the government is wrong.
Wait, aren't all presidents the United States have had both bad and good in some aspects? Doesn't hindsight typically give us a better place to make the determination of what the actions of people have done in the long-term?
No! Once I dislike the actions of a leader, group or anything, all people for all eternity will know that he/she/it has done wrong and is bad.
So...have you ever thought someone in authority was right about something, or are you just an idiot anarchist with no hope of being part of rational society?
No, you jerk...what the hell? Why are you being mean to me? There are some people in public office that have the same views as me. They are the only ones worth voting for and have tried to do as much good as they could. Sadly, the other members of their party and the majority of politcal office holding individuals have prevented them from passing legislation that would bolster the American dream.
Wait...so you know for a fact that if these politicians, you assume are looking out for your interests and the interests of the American dream, were to get their way, they wouldn't be doing so to benefit themselves or others aligned with them? Huh. Well...I guess you also know that in the future, no matter what, the ideas that you view as rational and good will still be viewed by people like you as rational and good.
You're stupid. Noone can know the future. What I know now is that some things are done the wrong way, and that is bad for people as a whole.
Well, are some things done the right way?
I mean, I guess. I mostly focus on the things that are done the wrong way. That's where you can make the most improvement.
Yeah, well by definition things that are done incorrectly can be improved a lot more than things done correctly. So, do you ever grow concerned that other people that share your opinions about the things that are wong with the world are simply trying to profit off of you?
No. People can't profit off of me for my views. It's the pro-government, socialist, consumerist mass of douches that try to profit. I'm against that group of ideals.
So....do you hold only fiat currency?
No you fucking idiot. Fiat currency is a ponzi scheme. I buy gold and silver every chance I get, so when the system falls I won't be screwed over.
Oh, so you buy your gold and silver at or below spot price? Where do you get it?
What? I buy it at coin shops and sometimes from ebay. I get it at the lowest price available.
Uhhhhh...no actually, the lowest price available to normal people is in bulk orders from dealers like kitco...who just so happen to buy it at even lower prices than they sell it. It's this weird thing called profit margin.
What the fuck are you talking about? Who cares you asshole. I am preparing myself for whatever will happen to this shit economic system.
Okay. Thats good I guess. But don't you think people in the business of selling you gold would have the incentive of encouraging you to buy gold? Perhaps they would pay for terrorist events that scare people into buying gold. Perhaps they would disseminate as much pro-gold propaganda as they could during economically stressful times. Perhaps they don't care whether gold is going up or down in price, just so long as people are buying it, they make money.
I don't give out red votes very often but I am going to have to give you one here bunz. We have all made poor posts in the past and I include myself on that list. No one is perfect after all but this is a shitshow litany of piss poor taste that you have posted here. You should know that there a lot of good people here and people who have been around the block a time or two. There are bond traders here, equities traders, metals folks and we all learn from each other. And yes, we are about making money because we have to feed ourselves.
When you come in here knocking gold and ripping this site you are not making any friends. If you do not like us then just leave.
Rule of 3s
Sum ting Wong?
Wi Tu Lo!
Wow, this reply-chain is getting too thin to read. What are we even talking about anymore?
I don't remember. I'm pretty sure we both just agreed that life will go on. People will exist. Everyone is plotting against everyone else, therfore plotting against themselves, and therfore plotting against no one at all. Equilibrium occurs every-so-often. Life goes on in different ways. Equilibrium occurs again, etc...
Fuck you. I'm not going to agree with you no matter what you say. I have my thoughts. I'm an individual, therefore unless I started off agreeing with you, I will never agree with you.
Uh. Okay. Nevermind then. I guess you're right.
This has to be one of the funniest, and most pathetic, threads I have ever seen on ZH --- Bunz arguing with all 27 of his psychotic inner personalities.
I just had an entire retarded conversation with myself, while people read and voted on it. Yet no one could represent that they were not reliant on big government. How cute :)
Fuck you. I don't have to defend myself to you.
Woah buddy. Settle down. Do you need a hug? Latent homosexuality creeping up again?
I mean...I like hugs. That doesn't make me gay.
You're right. It doesn't. So, I'm just curious...do you think it's wrong to be gay?
Well I'm not sure what "wrong" really means. It's immoral to be gay. So people shouldn't do it. I mean, the way I see it, if everyone did something, and it was bad for humanity, it's immoral. So if everyone was gay and acted on it, humanity would die off.
Well, in that case, Celibate priests are immoral. People who choose not to have children are immoral. Married couples that only have one child are immoral (sorry guys, math is invaloved on this one: big number, like 1,000,000 * .5 *.5 *.5 *.5, etc... = very close to zero).
Hush. I'm going to down vote you.
We're not reading the posts just down voting.
BTW it's not the hypocrisy making your mouth salty
You didn't build that windmill.
It's very simple: corrupt gov't, banksters & fraudulent big corp cheat, rob & pillage then 'circle the wagons'.....what was left of democracy has been hi-jacked !!!
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We are about to run out of other peoples money to spend...and that ...per Margaret Thatcher... is the end of socialism.
Most of what we see in the USA and Europe is the result of socialism. When that ends and governments can't borrow to buy votes, can't provide a safety net and can't keep all the stooges on the payroll (at current salaries)...then things will get 'interesting'...
What we are seeing is the rape of middle class people by the Federal Reserve aided and abetted by people like you who point to the socialist boogeyman instead of looking at reforming the current banking system.
Still one of my favs ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4BCUWopQQ4
And another - the rest of the world doesn't buy anymore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwR2qvrjmE
The way this system of crony capitalism works, a tiny fraction of the people make the lion's share of the wages, profits, and wealth. The average consumer is preyed upon, and yet most of us don't see this as "wealth redistribution", but it certainly is. How are the middle and lower classes ever going to see higher wages if .01% of the population take so much? I know many people here think taxing the wealthy at much higher rates isn't fair, but living under this current system is far from fair and will end up causing civil unrest.
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
“When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears not all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor–your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money, Is this what you consider evil?
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions–and you’ll learn that man’s mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.
“But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made–before it can be looted or mooched–made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.’
“To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss–the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery–that you must offer them values, not wounds–that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange ofgoods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade–with reason, not force, as their final arbiter–it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability–and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?
“But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality–the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he’s evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he’s evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth–the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money? Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
“Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men’s vices or men’s stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment’s or a penny’s worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you’ll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
“Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of money?
“Or did you say it’s the love of money that’s the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It’s the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money–and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.
“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another–their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
“But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich–will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt–and of his life, as he deserves.
“Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard–the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money–the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law–men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims–then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, ‘Account overdrawn.’
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are.
“You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it’s crumbling around you, while you’re damning its life-blood–money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves–slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody’s mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer, Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers–as industrialists.
“To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money–and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being–the self-made man–the American industrialist.
“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity–to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality.
“Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters’ continents. Now the looters’ credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide– as, I think, he will.
“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other–and your time is running out.” - Ayn Rand
tldr - get a website!
I wish I could show you what I see. But you're a fucking idiot and your head is too small. So, I understand when my equals choose to slaughter your kind. I was being nice. Go to hell.
the love of money makes you full of hubris; Midas was right.
You need the touch of communicating not of contemptuous obfuscating; whatever your message.
I read of a man like the One you seem to elevate to the acme of wisdom. His name was Enrico Dandolo; he invented the first silver coin of Venice that became universal money : the Grosso; after having "virtuously", in latin God's name, spread his mantra of money loving oligarch who conquered schismatic orthodox Constantinople thanks to Crusader help.
Money grows when honest labour like that earns rewards. It gave Venice a five hundred year line of financial preeminence. John Galt was a frustrated woman's wet dream. Her true son was Alan Greenspan. Can't do better than that in real life, not in a novel.
When theory meets practice we find out what is the message behind the message. The real face of power, monetary or otherwise, emerges. Thinking money and power are NOT inseparable is a pipe dream in human constructs.
The Scientific Management of Children by John Taylor Gatto
Greenspan is responsible for Greenspan.
I read the first sentence, and started saying WHAT.?? Ad then I skipped everything and went to the last sentience and said UHHH. I don't know what the rest said, but I know he first and last sentences.
Pretty cool.
Good stuff monad.
government is always a "recursive restrictive" in service
of some one and their things; stuff.
.
there is only that one commandment.
and i paraphrase ...
"do unto others as you would have them
do unto you". j.c.
.
then we have the notion phrased "justice".
justice.
here a pillar of the frame work of society
supporting the notion of and manifest rationality
and rational civility
as Europe and Britain, or is that the u.k., (including the usa and china
and anyone else who might like to gang on?), sodomize Ireland.
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[KR518] Keiser Report: Gutter Debt
Posted on November 2, 2013 by Stacy Herbert
http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/11/kr518-keiser-report-gutter-debt/
You allow the water to become polluted, you get the EPA.
You stop it before it becomes an essetial problem, and there is no need for the EPA.
I could list almost every governmental agency and how their existance is the result of an essential failure of our inability to regulate ourselves and so we get what we deserve.
We have met the devil and we're unable to break the mirror we are yelling at for fear of what we'll find.
Goldilocks
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Intro + Hour 1 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQiW_l848t8 (1:18:02)
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 2 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_KjUiqg0Q (1:01:30)
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 3 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGYyV7yMpY (1:03:37)
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 4 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xgYQM5S7as (52:30)
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 5 + Closing and Credits)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fxRwkBbHc (1:31:20)
Define polluted.
Use EPA in a sentence that portrays EPA less toxic than the alleged problem. Show us all your numbers. Prove your opinion.
the future of man, african or irish or other native
people.
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[KR518] Keiser Report: Gutter Debt
Posted on November 2, 2013 by Stacy Herbert
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http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/11/kr518-keiser-report-gutter-debt/
On number IV and their assertion "this time it is different", this is a conscious lie. They know it is not different ,but really believe that they are superior beings and the people are too stupid to make the right decisions and they are doing them a service by forcing them to that which they would not do absent coercion. People with serious character flaws are the ones that most often seek public office. Decent people do not want to force their will on other people. Good people achieve success and influence by providing goods and/or services that people want without first taking the means to provide them from others. They create wealth by being productive. Yes, they do build that.
rings bells and just cause i love this second one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Eu43RoaGQ
MOONGLOWS - TEN COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE
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Elvis Costello - Pidgin English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dldrqhTq7W0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNlz5P2pbk8
The Ten Commandments of Gubbamint with Charlton Heston in blackface as Obama.
fantastic.
that commandment issuance,
a scam, who pays?
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the hunter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCTivc4PtVY&list=UULwXLS-KHDAABP02xEzplsg
I have more respect for a common thief in the night than I do for government.
either ask and answer why or be gone.
"After September 11, and given the great speculative bubble that was created during the previous decade, it seemed that the American economy was about to collapse. Then Greenspan took action by cutting down the interest rates several times. The goal was simple: to encourage American consumers to borrow and spend. The consumers’ desires would become the engine that would stabilize the system. It was a huge risk, because cutting the interest rates to almost zero, Greenspan released a flood of cheap money into the economy, which in the past led always to inflation and dangerous instability. But this time it didn’t happen. A huge consuming boom began, bigger than any other in history, without inflation. Everything seemed to remain stable and the system seemed that it could manage itself without any direct political control.
But ultimately, the reason for this unusual booming was the exact opposite. It happened due to the massive exercise of political power, from an elite thousand miles away. The Chinese government kept the exchange rate of the country at a low level. Therefore, the Chinese products became cheap and flooded America. And to pay for them, the US dollars flooded China. But rather than spend this money for the population, the Chinese leaders loaned them immediately back to America by buying government bonds. It was a perfect system of cheap goods and cheap money inflow in the US, all controlled by the Chinese political power. And that’s what created stability. From this, came an orgy of lending from banks to even most unreliable borrowers in the US. Although this time, the deregulated market had been stabilized thanks to the political intervention of China, the bankers wanted to make more money."
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2012/07/the-illusion-of-self-regulati...
The tone of postings in ZH is getting so doomsday that we lose the constructive critique that is its bread and butter.
By going out on a limb to feed the populist, nihilist rage of the liberatarian and contrarian mindset ZH/TD are entering on a recurrent basis into dangerous intellectual territory :
"The abyss is before us. We have looked into it and its us..." Is not a palatable mindset.
I prefer a zest of looney tunes, à la WB7 zany parodying, and constructive reasoning, to forever beating the drum of doomsday machine in the making.
Lets see both sides of life: hope is an unassailable flag that we should never abandon, whatever our nihilistic penchant to be like Cia n Cia; man of no tomorrow in a nation state or global world heading south.
A true political platform or a true logic of freedom aspiration is not just based on rejection of a corrupt satus quo. No way.
Like it or not, Government has no alternative in a society based on Law since Roman days; as all substitutes rely on a legal structure to enforce its mantra.
The choice is between good and bad governance; never no governance.
Just my personal rant not set in stone. I'm not on that Hollywoodian boulevard with that NRA king of Cecil B DeMille fame.
I love it when people try to constrain my choices.
Red Team or Blue Team ... take your pick ... but, you must choose one of 'em.
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The heavens were rent asunder with a mighty crash. And the voice of the Lord rained down upon them as they toiled at the loom and at the plough.
"Behold, I am the Lord your God. I say to you, "Thou shalt not steal."
And the people cast down their eyes, for they had sinned.
Next thing you know, he added a caveat, "Well," he said, "maybe just a leeeetle bit of stealing would be OK. But, it absolutely must be for a good cause. Got that?"
The people lifted their eyes to give thanks, for they were voters and feared his wrath.
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But, the Lord was Gone.
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(Passage taken from "Bogbeagle's revised Bible for Christian Voters; a handbook for Minarchists.") ... buy it now, on Amazon.
Are you saying the Hebrews should not try to escape the Pharoah by following Moses through the abyss of the parted Red Sea?
Looks like what we have today only it doesn't go far enough. You need to add our constitutional rights to vacations, leisure time, leisure activities, cell phones, and a lot of other stuff. Obamanation needs to provide these rights also. Mr Yellen and Benjie just need to print it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ln8fLa9BEI&list=PLNsr-3FUNGt-uvUoTEGfLZM...
It was Leo Strauss, the neocon, the original neocon, who used the words 'the wise', 'the gentle', and 'the vulgar'.
Guess which category you belong.
And then you have his followers, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, that Kristol idiot, good thing he's dead now.
Anyhow, it's neoconservative 'persuasion'.
These fucksticks don't ever quit and the goal of making you a shit for brains vulgar never stops. You are on a 'need to know' basis and all you need to know is nothing.
When all of the neoconservatives are dead the earth itself will sing 'hallelujah' like Leonard Cohen does.
The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
Posted on November 2, 2013 by Ellen Brown
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed—from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th centuries, to the mid-nineteenth century “potato famine” that was really a holocaust. The British got Ireland’s food exports, while at least one million Irish died from starvation and related diseases, and another million or more emigrated.
Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika—the EU, ECB and IMF. The oppressors have demanded austerity and more austerity, forcing the public to pick up the tab for bills incurred by profligate private bankers.
http://ellenbrown.com/2013/11/02/ireland-ground-zero-for-the-austerity-d...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E
I think this letter concerning the government continued funding/shutdown vote (because disdain for PPACA) from a Veteran US Senator sums up the commandments nicely.
"While I deplored supporting yet another short-term Band-Aid (note copyright infringement), the only thing worse woild have been a continued government shutdown, The United States defaulting on its debt obligations (huh? the US Treasury as of September 30, 2013 just reported record tax reciepts) and the elimination of spending cut reductions enacted by Congress in 2011 ( huh? at this point I am starting to feel like this guy thinks I am retarded). To my disappointment, once again Congress is kicking the can down the road and ignoring what needs to be done".
My take on the above: Ok so what you are saying is that we have to spend more money to make more money, maybe his real name is Joe not Dan, so that is why we have to borrow some more money so you can kick the can while blaming Congress for your own admittadly deplorable vote that you made anyway, I guess to make Comgress fell good about kicking the can which you think should not be kicked any further?
A clever article.
How about the original 10 "commandments" for gov't: The Bill of Rights?
And the Constitution.
All governments are inherently evil, and with that in mind, the utmost contraints should be placed on them.
I thought this was interesting speaking of Government action. http://www.futuresmag.com/2013/11/01/finlands-gold-and-central-bank-manipulation?
That was an interesting link, thanks for posting it. The micro may be fractal with the macro. Be your own central bank:
Buy physical gold!
People ...PLEASE stop anthropomorphizing "government" Government is a FUNCTION. There are only men and women executing an allegedly letimate government function as another incorporeal entity the "STATE".
MEN AND WOMEN ARE OPPRESSING US NOT THE AMORPHOUS GOVERNMENT!
Until we correct the who and what of this in our communications nothing will be done.
We need to go after the individuals for misfeasance , nonfeasance and malfeasance.
There are legal remedies against the actors. There is no legal remedy against the "government"
Legal remedies to a corrupt state? The current regime is proffessing "love" of state and the equal and opposite reaction is "hatred" of the state.
"It is not left verses right, it is YOU against the STATE" Ludwig von Mises
All of the Commandments (observations actually) would be defeated with this one true commandment for a just government:
Government's only funtion is to protect our individual freedom.