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After The Fed Crushed The Middle Class, It Is Targeting The American Family

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On a number of occasions this month we’ve drawn attention to the divergent fates of the 80% of American workers whose wages are declining and whose general outlook is concomitantly deteriorating, and the other 20%, whose pay is increasing and who generally feel good about their economic future. We also pointed out that with the correlation between wages and consumer spending now nearly perfect at 0.93, depressed wage growth may indeed drag on US economic output going forward. Given this, we weren’t surprised to learn that the biggest threat to traditional American society is in fact class (i.e. income inequality). This is vividly illustrated in a new work by Robert Putnam (of “Bowling Alone” fame). One key observation: race matters far less than it did in decades past and class matters far more. 

From The Economist

Among the educated elite the traditional family is thriving: fewer than 10% of births to female college graduates are outside marriage—a figure that is barely higher than it was in 1970. In 2007 among women with just a high-school education, by contrast, 65% of births were non-marital. Race makes a difference: only 2% of births to white college graduates are out-of-wedlock, compared with 80% among African-Americans with no more than a high-school education, but neither of these figures has changed much since the 1970s. However, the non-marital birth proportion among high-school-educated whites has quadrupled, to 50%, and the same figure for college-educated blacks has fallen by a third, to 25%. Thus the class divide is growing even as the racial gap is shrinking.

As it turns out, having a vast network of Ivy League educated lawyers, doctors, and financiers is extraordinarily helpful in a bind...

At every stage, educated families help their kids in ways that less educated ones do not or cannot. Whereas working-class families have friends who tend to know each other (because they live in the same neighbourhood), professional families have much wider circles. If a problem needs solving or a door needs opening, there is often a friend of a friend (a lawyer, a psychiatrist, an executive) who knows how to do it or whom to ask.

… and when your parents are alums and probably endowment donors, it boosts your chances of getting into college even when, by virtue of extreme intellectual laziness occasioned by a misbegotten sense of entitlement or simply because you’re not very bright, you cannot pass the eighth grade…

Stunningly, Mr Putnam finds that family background is a better predictor of whether or not a child will graduate from university than 8th-grade test scores. Kids in the richest quarter with low test scores are as likely to make it through college as kids in the poorest quarter with high scores (see chart).

Here’s Putnam summing it all up for MarketWatch

“The most important thing about the experience of being young and poor in America is that these kids are really isolated, and really don’t have close ties with anybody,” Putnam told MarketWatch. “They are completely clueless about the kinds of skills and savvy and connections needed to get ahead.”

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The real slap in the face though, has to be the fact that while America's poor are imprisoned for petty drug offenses, the bread winners of the country's elite families can perpetrate multibillion dollar financial crimes and, thanks to the networking opportunities that come with belonging to the 1%, be virtually assured that no real punishment with ever be meted out even if said crimes inadvertently collapse the entire global financial system. As we put it in December, "the government is smart enough to realize that it is more lucrative to 'cooperate' with the world's biggest criminal syndicates than to wipe them out and cut off a major source of funding [and] when one is a criminal syndicate, the largest in world history, paying litigation kickbacks in the hundreds of billions to the government is just the cost of "doing business."

Of course this is perhaps all part and parcel of the Fed's implicit attempt to exacerbate inequality in America by equating the "wealth" part of the term "wealth effect" with financial assets. The result of this, despite Janet Yellen's best efforts at explaining to low income Americans that it's a good idea to have assets, is a growing divide between the rich and the poor and this divide is not only getting wider thanks to the central bank's efforts to inflate the value of the very types of assets that the poor are unlikely to own, but is in fact now destroying the American family. 

 

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Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:13 | 5915685 Jack Burton
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If I take a walk around my small town and look at what passes for young families among the lower middle class and poor, all I see is terminal decline, poverty and social cancers. Losers covered in tattoos, men and women, dirty and ill dressed. Would you hire one? I will not, if I need help, I turn to friends with kids whom I know are good families. That way you can get a youth of some value.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:33 | 5915742 Chuck Knoblauch
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Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:38 | 5915753 cossack55
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I don't intend to purchase any organs off of the poor, downtrodden masses.  

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:14 | 5915849 847328_3527
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When I want to visit with what's left of the middle class, I check under the highway intersections or begging outside the Dollar Store.

 

Trillions in QE and other spending the last decade ... almost all of it to bankers, Wall Street, the MIC and DC insiders with a smidgeon to the private sector Middle Class.

 

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Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:29 | 5915880 RaceToTheBottom
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And the only asset they were raised to produce goes unsold.....

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:38 | 5915894 NoPension
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There is a huge industry, called .gov, that has grown. It's job, it's purpose, is to keep these downtrodden fed,watered and penned. Bring em out once a year to do their duty.

The first Tuesday in November.

O'Malley sucks.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:32 | 5915743 Chuck Knoblauch
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Funny how you think in terms of the remainder of your lifespan, say 30 years.

When they are thinking in terms of 100 years out.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:53 | 5915782 new game
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duluth? two harbors, surely not grand marris?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:42 | 5916394 cynicalskeptic
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If I take a walk around my small town and look at what passes for young families among the lower middle class and poor, all I see is terminal decline, poverty and social cancers. Losers covered in tattoos, men and women, dirty and ill dressed.

 

Applies to the far better off as well.  Not exactly dirty but they're clearly in the same mold.  Ironic - so many kids of well off upper middle class parents idolize the 'gangsta rapper/pro ball player' types (though in large part BECAUSE of the marketing pushing those 'role models' and all the crap they sell).   I never cease to be amazed at how kids are so influenced and molded by the media.  One kid - in private school in Manhattan - has a 'crew' that spends their spare time spraying graffiti.... WTF?   I know Daddy bailed his ass out of trouble at least once - though he should have paddled it for getting into such things.


Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:16 | 5915696 q99x2
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Yep the way around the corporate attack on the family is to get a little religion and stress the importance of sticking together. Pass some gold onto the younger ones. A natural consequence of poverty for those that it doesn't destroy is that it brings people together. Use it to your advantage and if you ever get into a class at college with a homo professor drop the class; they are using the homos as weapons against the students. 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:25 | 5915723 CH1
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the homos...

Dude, let it go.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:57 | 5915806 Jonesy
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CH1,

Dude, wake up!

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:28 | 5915878 TBT or not TBT
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Cue pro homo Disney theme song "Let it Go". OK pro lesbian, which can be easier on the eyes, when aesthetically cast.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:03 | 5915823 aiaiai
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Ch1 likes to suck blood from kid's penis. Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:28 | 5915876 NihilistZero
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He's right about he gay inteligista.  Not in that there's anything inherently wrong with being gay.  But gays with positions of power have gained their station with the aid of authoritarian government, so they are logically inclined to support the source of their power.

That said I know I've chatted with some very libertarian gay folks.  Best to take people as individuals...

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:45 | 5915910 NoPension
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Yeah, being gay is natural. Kinda like cancer, eh.

Oh what a wonderful protocol to advance the species. Two dudes raising a daughter. Women who hate men. The new family.

I said it years ago. Parity won't be good enough. They'll teach it's preferable.

Kinda like tobacco smoking is the scourge of the earth, but smoking a joint is good for ya.

I also called tobacco being illegal everywhere, but you will be able to fire up a dooby in the hospital. You know, because it's medicine.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:13 | 5915985 roadhazard
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It's not the tobacco that kills you it's the chemicals. Pot is a whole different deal.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:59 | 5916097 NoPension
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See. Watch em come out in droves.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:30 | 5916033 11b40
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It's no wonder you don't have a pension.  Probaby couldn't find an employer willing to let you stay around long enough to earn one. Bitter, delusional, & paranoid, with a fair amount of ignorance, racism, & homophobia thrown into the mix.  Have a nice day.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:54 | 5916066 NoPension
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I would not describe myself as politically correct.
I am bitter. As I approach my golden years, the world has become somewhat twisted. Technology is great. But the social order that a thriving society depends on, is being degraded.
10% gay ( above or below my post) Bullshit. You wankers have got kids so fucked up in the head, they THINK they ay gay. Gay. How about we call it what it is. Your wires are crossed. It doesn't make you "bad", but it sure as hell ain't normal.
And normal is not good enough. All of social media is about how smart, and cultured, and nurturing, understanding, sweet, swell, good ( am I forgetting any?) our fellow gay citizens are. Is it no fucking wonder stupid malleable kids identify this way.
I wonder how many admitted to being Nazis( back in the day) And now. Hmm.

Save you arguments and whining. I'm a dinosaur. I'll be dead soon. You can have your fucking faggot Utopia. I hope it works out.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:58 | 5916445 cynicalskeptic
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10% of the population has been gay - a number that holds throughout history whether you can be open about it or not.  The number that's 'miswired' is pretty consistent. And if you have soemthing that recurrs throughout the history of mankind as a consistent percentage of the total, it IS just as 'Normal' as the other 90% whether you like it or not.  

By the thinking expressed above, ANY group that's a minority would NOT be 'Normal'.   If total numbers decide what's 'Normal' and what's not then you're NOT normal if you're not Chinese.

Other societies accepted homosexuality as a 'normal' (if minority) part of theoverall population and had roles for those people.  Many native American tribes recognized homosexuals and did not expect them to fill the same roles as most males did.  Other cultures had homosexuals in priesthoods (hmm... maybe the Catholic Church is just following ancient traditions?) while others had warrior cadres that were exclusively homosexual.   I remember that in Jackson Hole Wyoming one of the first ranches was owned by a woman - and her longtime 'maid'...... It's easier - and lower key being a lesbian.  Less threatening to other males as well.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 07:55 | 5917529 Bemused Observer
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Anyone who can't differentiate between ADULTS in a consenting sexual relationship and pedophiles has serious problems. Problems that are NOT going to be resolved here...

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:57 | 5916090 NoPension
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Oh, and one more thing 11b40.
Find an employer? Really. I've been signing the front and back of the check for 25 years. What branch of the government do you show up to?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:14 | 5916303 11b40
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I have been signing my paychecks, and those of others, since 1981, and working on commsiion since 1976 when I stepped away form a nice comfy corporate position.

I lost half of my sheltered retirement funds by not fully understanding the old saying about the FED being able to be irrational longer than an individual can stay solvent.  I then had to spend most of the rest re-building my company, which was essentially wiped out in 2008-2010.  If I can stay healthy for the next 2 years, I may catch up on all the back taxes I owe, but I will work for as long as I am able.  I could have walked away with no worries in 2008.

So, I am probably about as bitter as anyone you know when it comes to the FED, the Banksters, the politicians, regulators, Supreme Court, and a shitload of other wankers making life difficult to impossible for small business people.

But, I am not homophobic, and smart enough to understand that young people don't 'decide' to be gay.  You either find yourself becoming aroused by the opposite sex or someone of the same sex.  Just ask yourself -could I get it up for another man?  If your answer is yes, you may have found the root of your homophobia.  For me, the answer is no, as females (and only selected ones) are the only creatures I have any erotic interest in.  I do understand, however, that homosexuals have been with mankind for about as long as there have been hemans, and that is is seen throughout the animal kingdom.

Regarding pot vs tobacco, are you really that ignorant?  I just don't know what else to say about that subject, other than just educate yourself.  Pot is far, far safer than alcohol or tobacco in any regard you want to measure....and those are facts.

The biggest threat and destroyer of the family is the lack of decent, productive jobs - the loss of our manufacturing base that we allowed to be sacrificed to the purveyers of "free trade" policies as we turned into a facists state run by multi-national corporations.  

Have a nice day.

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 22:16 | 5916930 NoPension
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Just curious 11b... What would say to youth who confided in you that he is aroused by young girls? About say, 7 or 8. That's what gets his juices flowing, and he wants your advice, being you are so enlightened and non- judgmental.
I mean, he didn't choose to be that way. He just is.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 00:04 | 5917168 11b40
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I would explain that there was a huge problem, and that mental health experts should be consulted. You see, there are, and must be, laws against rape. I do believe that most here fully support the idea of consenual sex between adults, however. How about you?l

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 01:57 | 5917293 Full Faith and ...
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11b40, why must you donate your words to such futility? If a 7 or 8 year old boy were to confide in me his attraction for girls his age, I would give him a high 5, the same if I have been told the opposite. Being comfortable with who you are as an earthly passenger is the most important thing on this earth, everything else is an offshoot. 

Perhaps "NoPension", is bitter because of just that, no pension. He spent his, self-admitted, high school educated life working to make another man's dreams possible, and he finally realized it. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 12:46 | 5917472 11b40
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No Pension was talking about a "youth" expressing a sexual impulse toward a "child".

Commonly called a preditor, or child molester.  

His focus seemed to be on what he believes is perversion, which this is an accurate example of.  He is trying hard to equate adult consensual sex between 2 people of the same gender with perversion.  Next up - beastiality.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:37 | 5916042 logicalman
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It would appear that you know very little about any of the things you are commenting on.

10% of the population, give or take, are gay.

As for advancing the species, the biggest threats there are the psychopathic/sociopathic types in government and banking.

Pot is good for you, tobacco not so much, especially the way it is grown and processed these days.

Have a go at thinking. It can be difficult, but like most things, it gets easier with practive

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:06 | 5916080 NoPension
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Smoke a joint and suck a dick? Then I'm an Ace in your book?

The ONLY thing that separates homosexuality from pedophiles and every other sexual " disorder" is social stigma. Argue that.

The defense rests.

Put that in your bong and smoke it.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:26 | 5916179 logicalman
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Thank you for proving my point!

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:36 | 5916379 amadeus39
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If only that were always possible. In groups accurate generalisations can be the most intelligent choice.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 04:13 | 5917356 IronForge
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There exist however, factions very hostile to the Public and to the 98% Hetero as a whole.  Some are after Prop 8 Supporters - that's more than half the State, and an Opinion shared by POTUS_Obama and Madam_Secretary_Clinton.

It's in the Corporate Space.

1) When I was at a "Satellite Broadcasting Company in El Segundo" for a short stint covering a Datawarehouse Project gone bad (as in, overbudget, over-the-time-limit, over-scoped, and as I found out, deserted by the Project Leader who went on "medical leave") for a Siebel (now Oracle) Decision Support Suite in 2004.  Two of the Client Mgrs were Gay(I think one of them was a Sales VP at a firm I used to work for in Westchester County/NYC in the mid 90s);  and constantly subjected the Weekly Status Meeting attendees with their flirtatious banter to fill up the time - to each other not to cross the line.  One time, a Mgr expressed his disdain on an subject item by commenting that he wasn't "going down on that Rat Hole" - we couldn't stop laughing.  The Gays were allgedly offended by our laughing at their own Freudian Slips; and I know I had to walk out - didn't know about the others.

My Team started making headway and was able to start getting Corporate to respond faster(e.g., one Team Mbr submitted his own Patch he coded himself - doing the job of the Corporate Developers); but one of my Members got fed up with the Gay Mgrs giving him a hard time and quit.  They replaced our Team with a couple of H-1Bs a couple day afterwards.

2) I once had a Gay QA guy constantly follow me to the Men's Room, fondle himself in front of me, and make some type of sexual lamentations whenever he was around me when I worked for a small Defense Contractor near the LA AFB in El Segundo. 

I went to my Boss and the HR Mgr a few times, since I was up to be Promoted to the Program Mgr Slot (since I was more productive than the other Project Managers), I was going to fire his Ass (he was some sort of Gay Catholic Activist on the side).  However, the Security Clearance Admin and another PM (related - same surname as a guy I passed over in '90 for a Promotion in the Military) managed to get me dumped when the DoD/US Investigatve Service/DefenseSecurityService denied my Interim Security Clearance - claiming that I was unable to obtain a Clearance. 

It's all bullshit.  The Interim was not a Clearance in itself - and I rcvd my Clearance 7 months later, so it's Libel to start off. I couldn't get another job during that period and afterwards - especially in the Defense Community.  Another Hire to Fire situation. 

It was another vehicle to engage in the Whistleblower retalation and "Screw Job" the Navy, Defense Logistics Agency, the Air Force (all related to my previous assignments - conduct cases, money launderers, drug types) and their Contractors.  They were able to hire enough thugs to intimidate any Attorney save for - wait for it - one in Pasadena who, IIRC was a "Pride Parade Participant" I recognized on the NYC/NJ Subways on my way back from a Dinner with a Family Friend (working on her PostDocs at NYU - unfortunately arriving the same day as a fracking Pride Parade was going on.  The disgust of having to walk through the Subway Delays, Insanity on the Surface, and the (g)litter on the streets).  Some Negro Thugs who were hanging around my place of residence was bragging about intimidating Lawyers on his Cell Phone, so after I tipped the FBI, a group of them were getting evicted.  Some were allegedly being prosecuted as well.  No one is telling me directly, though - too many people (Priests, Politicians, and local Police) who want to sweep this under the Rug. 

The DoD Claimed that they were "concerned" about my state of mental health (I took some time off for Stress due to the Whistleblower Retaliation by the Navy in 2002 mild depression - funny that a Cult group in Anaheim (hosted by a "Prophetess" named "Corral" and others after I visited their supposedly Christian Church ONCE - appeared to kick off a Defamation Campaign by stalking Cult monkeys wherever I walked - accusing me of some set of crimes I never committed, along with "Insanity" and "Gay" Smearing). They're in league with the cult monkeys in the neighborhood around Gardena/Torrance/Redondo/Palos Verdes.

As for the reason behind the Interim Clearance Denial, there were  no documents, no consultations with my past/present Doctors - nothing.  Just a "concern" which wasn't addressed by a review board.  Just an arbitrary "opinion" of some paper pushing Civil Servant - off for another Screw Job.

Funny part is, that the Navy apparently tried to Investigate me several times after I left the Navy Base - all Cancelled after awhile, according to their FOIA response.  Allegedly, some Moron in Gardena/Carson/Compton/Redondo/San Diego tried to link me to Al Quaida/Taliban for some ridiculous set of (irrational) reasons.  Just like the Murder/Insanity/Gay smear - all Bullshit.  I'm presumiing that Morons thought up that Line of Shit since I went to the Gulf via the US Navy.

Too many Morons, Hackers, Plagiarizers, Stalking Gays, and Backstabbers in SoCal - and of course, in the DOD and its MIC.  It's so FUBAR'd it's safe to classify this region as a Failed State. 

I'm so looking forward to working abroad after this.   I just need to get through the Interference set up by Christian(latest participants are allegedly working out from (Rick Warren's) Saddleback Church Sponsored Activism/Ministries - where I never visited)/Cult/Community Racketeers who want to support the Con-Artists and prevent people from moving out with the Brain Drain.  

Conclusion
If you're a Tech-Savvy talented person not from California, avoid California.  SV may have some life left; but it's all coming apart here on its way to become a major Sinkhole of Suck.  Aerospace Alley, and the Pasadena/CalTech Intelligencia are but small enclaves.  Anglos and Corporations (especially mfg) have been leaving by the droves while the Illegals and Anchor Babies are piling in (I'm for fastracking Green Cards and letting law abiding applicants in; but this "Immigrant Haven" shit the Cities are pulling off is ridiculous); and the Public Assistance and Public Servant Payrolls outnumber the Corporate Headcount now.  I've never seen so many unskilled/untalented/unintelligent Cult Monkeys - go after to loot the talented.

Too many unproductive People, too little water, too little liveable real estate, too few good schools.  The Status Quo Parasites of the State "know" that the State can't handle the Population.  People making 90K/year qualify for Housing Assistance.

Visit the Beaches(Malibu or Laguna), visit the Amusement Parks, visit the Studios - then Leave.  Time and Money are better spent elsewhere. 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:34 | 5916017 HamFistedIdiot
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Sometimes there are extreme, polarizing views expressed here RE: race, religion, and gender. Sometimes I agree with them (though one should switch the term "Jew" which is unclear in meaning, to Zionist, which is crystal clear in its reference to anyone with an unflinching support for the world's sole theocacy that is Israel, regardless of its behavior or bloody birth).

But I am troubled by some of the large vote counts in support of positions or statements that are more divisive than insightful. I wonder whether the UK and USSA spooks aren't using their vote rigging backdoors that can alter "likes",  "shares", and upvote/downvote counts to make a site appear more racist (or whatever) than it is, or a social trend more popular and wide spread than it actually is ---- all for political gain.

At ZH I tend to read comments from posters I've come to see have valuable insights to share, or larger upvote counts (which may or may not be legitimate, but probably more often are).

BTW: I have a gay uncle who is all for war with Putin because: A) he trusts Obama who he believes is more pro gay-marriage and B) Putin does discriminate against gays. I have found gays and lesbians to be just as expert at being authoritarian boot lickers as any straight fascist.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:45 | 5916055 11b40
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Once upon a time, there was far more light than heat coming from this site, and the heat was primarily directed at the financial sector & the portions of government that should be regulating that sector.  

Gradually, there was an natural evolution to more politics, as once you start examining.gov, the journey down the rabbit hole accelerates.

Then, about 2-3 years ago, it seems the site started gaining attention from more mainstream segments of the media.  Rush Wimpbo cited ZH a few times, and the tone was degraded further.  A fresh crop of nitwits showed up almost overnight.

Getting rid of Captcha didn't help, either, but I guess it did allow the Tylers to build a much bigger audience and sell out for what must have been a tidy sum to ABC Media, LTD.  It sure was nice back in the day when a fundamental knowledge of math was required before you could post here.  The old timers know well what I am talking about.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:41 | 5916382 Monty Burns
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Your reference to the journey down the rabbit hole is apposite. Because the deeper down you go the more you begin to realize that the story of the Fed, the 1% and the decline of White America is part of a much broader systemic agenda. I used the opportunity provided by retirement to explore this whole area.  Anyone who does as I did must come to a similar conclusion.

So Tylers deserve credit for helping take our understanding that step further and for providing one of the few major sites where the Thought Police aren't poised to banish non-conformist opinion.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:53 | 5916430 11b40
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Yes, but don't forget that this site is not under the same management as it originally was.  Rest assurred, the thought police are here.  Plenty of trolls, and a ton of thread hijacking.  The thought police are very sophisticated, and I can feel their presence in the comments section.  The articles are still fabulous, but I spend far less time in the comments section now than in the past.  This house is being divided.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 21:12 | 5916763 conscious being
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It always was divided. That's why they call it The Fight Club. "The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." - Lord Acton

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 06:22 | 5917406 Monty Burns
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You could be right. Totalitarian systems often use similar if less sophisticated systems to flush out potential 'enemiesof the state'.

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:01 | 5915814 daveO
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The brown shirts of academia. They've been used before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

From;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm#SA_leader

 

Under Röhm, the SA also often took the side of workers in strikes and other labor disputes, attacking strikebreakers and supporting picket lines. SA intimidation contributed to the rise of the Nazis and the violent suppression of left-wing parties during electoral campaigns, but its reputation for street violence and heavy drinking was a hindrance, as was the open homosexuality of Röhm and other SA leaders such as his deputy Edmund Heines.[5][6] One American journalist later wrote, "[Röhm's] chiefs, men of the rank of Gruppenfuehrer or Obergruppenfuehrer, commanding units of several hundred thousand Storm Troopers, were almost without exception homosexuals."[7] In 1931, the Münchener Post, a Social Democratic newspaper, obtained and published Röhm's letters to a friend discussing his homosexual affairs.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:33 | 5915887 RaceToTheBottom
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Any value your thoughts have is overshadowed by your homophobic rantings.  

Pity, cause your non  homophobic points merit reading and thought.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:28 | 5916353 Monty Burns
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Race To The Bottom. mmmm.....does your avatar explain why you're so worked up about the homos?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:41 | 5916389 amadeus39
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Homophobic rantings to one can be construed as resonable, intelligent conversation to another. Homosexuals can be as clannish as any other group.

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 22:09 | 5916905 NoPension
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I wish to never broach the subject. I wish no harm or pain to another.
I wish society would show me the same respect.

I'm tired of having something I never gave a thought to, rammed down my throat. ( or up my ass, as it where)
I, for one, will not falter from my PURELY LOGIC driven conclusion that homosexuality, while not a personal threat, is a threat to a functioning society. Our purpose, as living entities, is to procreate and learn how to function better over time.
To me, that is a nuclear family, with a female mother and a male father. Redundant, I know, but that is what it has come to.
Now my wife of 32 years, abhors my views on homosexuality. But when I attempt to dialogue, to have a debate, the only thing I have to say is " I believe in pediphlia" . I ask her what is an ok age to start a young girl or boy ( whatever your pleasure, right!) . At which point she calls me sick and disgusting for even saying such a thing.
But whoa, now. Who is it that determines what sexual proclivity is ok, and which is not. ( for all you wankers who think I haven't put great thought to this) I bet if you have children, the thought is sick, eh.

Maybe, some time the the not too distant enlightened future......
We can all just fuck who or what we want. Without any consequences.
Ah, Utopia, right?
And if it's not, well why?

Edit. I don't believe in pedophiles. I think they are mentally disturbed, not quite fully functional and in someway, fucked up. Just like the other crew.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 00:33 | 5917207 Ginsengbull
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It's a lot easier to define homos than pedophiles.

 

Modern society considers it acceptable for a 16 year old boy to have sex with a 15 year old girl, but two years later it becomes a crime.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 02:27 | 5917307 Full Faith and ...
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I appreciate the fact that your old, decrepit ass has figured out how to use the keyboard, find ZeroHedge, and can then actually create an account. That being said, the views that you share, or rather the time that you have invested in formulating said views, is incredibly missed placed. 

A "nuclear", family has nothing to do with it's sexual makeup, rather the role makeup of its participants, meaning that a male could carry out the "homemaking", tasks as easily as a female.

At this point in time, NoPension, I wish it was your generation that took this fight to Washington. It is your generation ( oldest generation alive, not best, dont get wet) that has had the most similar existence with the "America" that we all talk about, and it is your generation with the most to give to the effort(you have benefited in a ridiculous amount about the financialization of residential real estate and everything else).

If all baby boomers were to take to Washington and demand change, change would occur, but they are all to big of pussies to take on the roll, (insert my father). 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 02:27 | 5917308 Full Faith and ...
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I appreciate the fact that your old, decrepit ass has figured out how to use the keyboard, find ZeroHedge, and can then actually create an account. That being said, the views that you share, or rather the time that you have invested in formulating said views, is incredibly missed placed. 

A "nuclear", family has nothing to do with it's sexual makeup, rather the role makeup of its participants, meaning that a male could carry out the "homemaking", tasks as easily as a female.

At this point in time, NoPension, I wish it was your generation that took this fight to Washington. It is your generation ( oldest generation alive, not best, dont get wet) that has had the most similar existence with the "America" that we all talk about, and it is your generation with the most to give to the effort(you have benefited in a ridiculous amount about the financialization of residential real estate and everything else).

If all baby boomers were to take to Washington and demand change, change would occur, but they are all to big of pussies to take on the roll, (insert my father). 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 00:24 | 5917196 Ginsengbull
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And now they are doing the same thing to the military.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:22 | 5915711 lawyer4anarchists
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the people running central banks won't stop until the people make them stop.  Simple as that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:23 | 5915718 phoenixdark
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yep and that ain't any time soon.  Everything is AWESOME

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:22 | 5915713 phoenixdark
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we EBT'ed some folks. When your part of the team everything is AWESOME.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:23 | 5915717 Fun Facts
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"it was an accident, I swear" - The Elders

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:24 | 5915721 Bunga Bunga
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Get over it, this how a depression looks like.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:29 | 5915735 Surging Chaos
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So... where are the conservatives saying that the Fed is destroying the family unit.

I'm hearing crickets.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:34 | 5915890 mayhem_korner
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Why would 'conservatives' suggest that?  Seems there's some foundation underlying your comment that you assume is understood...

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:47 | 5916053 Renfield
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I'm not Chaos but I'll take a crack at it.

Upvoted since I thought the same as you at first, but I think he means that 'conservatives' are known for their 'family values', and if you REALLY hold family values, then you should see the Fed as your enemy.

So if your political rallies are gonna have talking points around protection of the family, BUT you fail to mention family's great enemy the Fed, and how to get rid of that, then you aren't really about family at all, and as a conservative you are being shallow.

Conservatives, being known as pro-family, should also be known as be anti-Fed.

I don't really get the terms since 'conservative' and 'liberal' have been so co-opted by the establishment that they mean nothing to me anymore. But I agree that anyone who is genuinely pro-family, therefore must also be anti-Fed. And if you support both the Family AND the Fed, then you are being inconsistent.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:43 | 5916213 Surging Chaos
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Yep, you pretty much nailed it. Consider the following:

1. Dad works, Mom stays at home. There is no reason for Mom to work because money with lots of value means Dad can easily support his family and then some.

2. The Fed debases the currency. Dad now has to work longer hours for lower pay. This may or may not put strain on his marriage. It may lead to a possible divorce.

3. The Fed debases the currency even more. Dad can no longer support the family on his own. Mom now has to work to make ends meet.

4. With Mom no longer taking care of the kids as much as she used to, the kids may potentially run into more problems as they grow up.

5. Repeat the process as the Fed continues to debase the currency, making it harder and harder for families to support one another.

I have heard the argument made many a time from conservatives and other pro-family people about how the family unit has been destroyed, but there is absolutely ZERO mention of the Fed from them. To me at least it seems painfully obvious: inflation is a bitch and it not surprisingly hurts the same middle and lower-middle class families that are dysfunctional today.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:27 | 5916350 11b40
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Nice summation of what transpirred from the assasination of Kennedy til now.  I'm old, and lived this history.  

The various money/power factions have divided 'we, the people' into factions they have used to turn us against one another over what are essentially emotional issues.  Meanwhile, as we are distracted by the wrong things, they loot the country and turn us into dumbed down population of sheep lorded over by bankers, war mongers and 'Fatherland Security'.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 19:48 | 5916541 mayhem_korner
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Now I understand your premise. You left out a critical part, however...that being why does the Fed debase the currency?  Central banks don't print arbitrarily, they do so to enable (and perpetuate) false hoped of debt-driven expansion and social engineering.  It's a chicken-and-egg, though, as the debt expansion is, ultimately, sustained only by the lie that printed money is just as valuable as production-backed currency.

So in my view Fed debasement is both a symptom of underlying degradation and an enabler of it.

Curious...when you say "conservatives and other pro-family people" - are you affirming that liberals are "anti-family people"?  Just trying to understand your choice of labels.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 03:47 | 5917348 conscious being
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The Fed debases the currency because that is the source of their power. Magic Fed script, created from nothing, allows them go buy or manipulate anything. Eventually, the currency fails in a hyper-inflation as there's just too much floating around, chasing the available set of goods and the scoundrels move on.

No one, but the mark, in the Fed's case the American sheeples, believes the empty rhetoric about 'hoped for debt-driven expansion'.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:32 | 5915740 dizzyfingers
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"After The Fed Crushed The Middle Class, It Is Targeting The American Family"

Isn't that redundant?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:38 | 5915754 Caveman93
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Being a stay at home father never felt so good. Fuck working for fiat.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:12 | 5915844 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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That's one way to look at it.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:47 | 5916227 11b40
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I don't work for fiat.  I work for tangible things, and life-fullfilling experiences, that I can buy with fiat, and cannot have without it.

I guess it would be fine to be paid in gold or silver, but the net effect on dailey life is the same.  Would I feel more comfortable knowing my money was backed by something more than the full faith of the US Govt?  Yes, I would, and I understand the value of said money may not be eroded so much over time by inflation.  However, few of us would have the luxury of not working and not being paid.  That probably would not make us very good stay at home fathers, either.  That is, of course, unless you have a wife who is out working her butt off in a job paying her lots of fiatskies that she brings home to you and the children.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:32 | 5916228 11b40
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dup

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:42 | 5915763 Skip
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"One key observation: race matters far less than it did in decades past and class matters far more."

RACE IS EVERYTHING! Seriously, anyone who doesn't understand that hasn't been paying attention.

We were told many years ago, when affirmative action programs first were imposed on Whites, that they were necessary to remedy the plight of, then it was 'blacks' now it is ALL people of color and, for some reason in government set asides, ORTHODOX JEWS, "White racism" -- yet when asked when AA will be ended Obama said "NEVER"

Same thing with admittance to colleges AND Whites pay the full ride, whereas people of color are handed out scholarships and other goodies.

Affirmative Action hurts Whites and ALL people of color, legal and illegal get to leapfrog over Whites in education, employment, government contracts etc.

So Putnam, who HID for 7 years his research on the "joys" of DIEversity, tells us now that race doesn't matter? BULLSHIT!

We have a federal government and too many state and municipal governments, who BREAK THE LAW and permit and REWARD illegal invaders. There was a REASON our immigration law was changed in 1965, you can read about that here.

We have a race war of people of color against Whites on the streets of America with the mainstream media carefully hiding it from the White people.

So what the msm and the elites want you to do is doze on White man and woman, watch Honey BooBoo, Kardashians, NFL, Basketball, EMPIRE, American Idol etc

The thing for us to understand is that Affirmative Action is just a single aspect of a much larger agenda which Whites have been yoked with and which ends in their demise.

A Unemployed Reader Describes Language Discrimination By A Chinese(-American) Bank February 22, 2015

Of course, this is de facto racial discrimination–there are almost no whites fluent in even one kind of Chinese in America.

A White Reader Tells Of Being Rejected By A Chinese-American Firm Even Though He CAN Speak Chinese February 27, 2015 >

POLICE DEPTS HIRING 'WORK PERMIT' IMMIGRANTS AS OFFICERS

Feds Unclear on the Concept of Birth Tourism–“Material Witness” Moms Will Stay And Have Their Babies

Mickey Kaus’s Depublished Indictment Of FOX ONLINE: “Fox Makes It Easy For Amnesty”

Professor Warns H-1b Expansion Could End Tech Jobs for Americans

The current large supply of guest workers into the STEM labor market is displacing U.S. workers and depressing their wages.
American schools graduate twice as many students each year with STEM degrees as there are STEM jobs to fill.
The primary use of the H-1B and other IT-related guest worker programs is to either replace Americans workers at lower wages or to fill open jobs with workers at lower cost—it has nothing to do with trying to find the “best and brightest.” In fact, our current guest worker and green card policies discourage and displace talented Americans from realizing their dreams.
Increases in guest workers and university-based green cards in legislation such as the ‘Gang of Eight’ bill, I-Squared, and the SKILLS Act, would provide a large enough labor supply to allow tech companies to fill 100 percent of available jobs openings with foreign workers.

The Big, Fat “American Worker Recruitment First” Lie of H-1B March 17, 2015>

Miano’s testimony was particularly important because he explained how the little known “OPT” (Optional Training Program) for foreign students is being used to circumvent H-1B and supply large corporations with cheap foreign labor. President Obama has expanded this regulatory program by unfettered administrative fiat. As Miano noted: “OPT has no labor protections of any kind. Aliens on OPT do not even have to be paid at all. While DHS requires aliens to work in an area related to their major area of study, DHS has no ability to ensure that this happens. Under OPT, over 125,000 foreign workers a year are simply turned loose in America with no supervision or restrictions.”[Testimony of John M. Miano, J.D. before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary March 17, 2015]

Government Data Reveals Shadow Work Authorization System for Immigrants
February 2, 2015

Government data reveal that about 5.5 million new work permits were issued to aliens from 2009 to 2014, above and beyond the number of new green card and temporary worker admissions in those years. This is a huge parallel immigrant work authorization system outside the limits set by Congress that inevitably impacts opportunities for U.S. workers, damages the integrity of the immigration system, and encourages illegal immigration.

Since 2000, All Employment Growth Has Gone to Immigrants

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:47 | 5915774 CH1
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RACE IS EVERYTHING!

Epic FAIL.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:24 | 5915868 TBT or not TBT
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Yellow people are worse than white in California. 10 IQ point handicap for university entry and scholarships. Because Demcrats.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:49 | 5915921 NoPension
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Oh, don't bring science and facts into the argument.

As best as I researched, it was the US Army who were using IQ has placement. But a certain "pattern" became evident. So they had to stop using that shit.

Care to guess?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:23 | 5916335 cynicalskeptic
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Colleges are limiting enrollment totals for Asians because - on an academic performance level, Asians are outperforming all others.   City College used to limit the number of Jewish students in the 1930's for the same reason.  

One of the reasons my youngest decided against UC Berkeley was the large Asian contingent (and domination of the program he applied to).  He has had plenty of Asian friends but they do have a rep for being real 'grinds'. I remember the tour a year earlier where one Asian kid was panicking because UC Berkeley has a 'performinvg arts' HS elective requirement.  The kid was real math and science guy - he'd taken nothing like that.  Our son didn't want to spend 4 years in a brutally competitive academic environment - with little time for other activities - and I agree with his attitude.  Ironically Berkeley was far closer to the outdoors venues he loves  but it seems that the outdoors club where he's gong does MORE in the way of trips.    Our son prefered the more 'diverse' student population where he went - where students DID do other things outside class. The academic rigor overall is probably higher where he's going but ther is clearly a different 'feel'.  Ironically, there's a large Asian contingent in his dorm and the stereotype does hold - a singular preoccupation on academics. We met some of their parents when dropping off. They have almost unrealistically high expectations for their kids.  One poor kid had been in prep school since Middle School - he'd barely seen his parents or been back home for 7 years.

Like it or not some ethnic groups perform BETTER than others on an overall basis.  My kids were in a pretty well known summer G&T program.  You had a large number of ethnic Chinese and Koreans, South Asians (Indian  and Pakistani) and immigrant Russian kids - not so many 'Americans'.     Admission was dependent on minimum scoring on SAT's - you had to be in the top percentages for you age group (the program started in 7th grade).  

My oldest graduated from one of the top 10 universities in the US.  The whole Phi Beta Kappa contingent looked like they were Asian - all 4.0 pre-meds according to my son.   

Other cultures see their children as long term 'investments' worth sacrificing for.  They also expect far more of their children.   One of my sons was in the G&T the summer program cited earlier.  He was taking a class in Ancient Greek (because he was intereste in languages - and already had 2 years of Latin).  His roommate - taking the same class - was Korean.  His parents owned a produce place.  THEY chose the class for him based on the value they perceived ti to hold for his future applying to college.  He didn't even know what he'd been signed up for when he got there.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 21:18 | 5916777 conscious being
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My daughter graduated from UC Berkely. Big mistake. And that was years ago.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:43 | 5915765 Seasmoke
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What came first. The chicken or the egg ??

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:01 | 5915951 cornfritter
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The first one :-)

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:44 | 5915769 A Lunatic
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STFU and eat your Soylent Green.......   -El Presidente-

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:48 | 5915777 Batman11
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The rest of the world had to deal with the lunatic, psychopaths running the US to access it's massive middle class consumer base.

If the US middle class disappears .......

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:56 | 5916432 amadeus39
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Not to worry. The Chinese will have a massive middle class in a few years to continue the consumption binge. Why do I keep saying middle class. I mean sheeple class.

 

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:52 | 5915790 DaveA
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Social class exists because men are and always will be unequal in their abilities. The greatest prosperity for all is achieved when every man produces as much as he can and is allowed to keep most of it. But how does a society tolerate high wealth disparity without social strife?

Our ancestors solved this problem by not allowing sex outside marriage and not allowing marriage outside one's social class. Ironically, such repression afforded ordinary men much more and better sex than they get today. Even poor, gameless men could marry and have families because poor women needed husbands -- they couldn't get government jobs or EBT cards. Poverty doesn't feel so bad when you have pussy.

Our modern feminist welfare state is a conspiracy to liberate millions of women from the confines of marriage so they can join the rotating harems of a few apex men. Eventually the men not invited to this orgy will down tools, and the whole rotten system will collapse.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:10 | 5915834 daveO
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Speaking of apex men. Here's one. His 'state sponsored' wh*re received $3.7 million severance.

 

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/banking/article15513920.h...

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 19:14 | 5916470 DaveA
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Poor guy didn't even get any kids out of her. Next time he should get a Ukrainian wife, rent a house in Costa Rica, and keep his money in the Caymans. Wives are very nice when they have to ask you for stuff instead of stealing it!

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:10 | 5915795 Jonesy
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Big surprise the Fed is destroying the American family, since that is one of the things they set out to do when the Fed was created.  Listen to scumbag Zionists like Netanyahoo when he confides that Israel will leave America a corpse sucked dry.  Why else would vehement pro-Israel rats like Howard Schultz of Starbucks financially support Israel's racist policies while spending shareholder money to tell Americans to "race together", as if it has anything to do with coffee.

That's right, the goy must be more tolerant of other races and religions while Israel slaughters little kids to make Israel for Jews only (and Americans fund it). 

You draw your own conclusions, but I think the Fed is part of our overall social engineering. It greases the wheels for all the bullshit policies that turn western nations upside down while robbing them blind.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:11 | 5915839 Solarman
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You are a pretty fucked up person.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:15 | 5915853 daveO
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The FED pays the bills, of the welfare/warfare state, with fraudulent, debt-enslaving fiat. 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:56 | 5915804 nakki
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Janet Yellen telling the poor they should have more assets was her "Let them eat cake" moment. Seriously what is she talking about? This is the best and brightest!! Bullshit!! Stocks at all time high means, people with less means have absolutely no chance of getting in to stocks.  How about this Mrs Yellen, bring back Mark to Market, quite funneling money into S&P, NASDAQ, and every other stock index, and raise rates so corporations can't mortgage their future with stock buybacks. By allowing people who have saved money a real return by raising rates they won't have to chase this fraudulent equity bubble that the FED and the banks have created. What's the real value of the S&P? Nobody with an ounce of credibility could say since we can't see the FED'S books, the bank stress tests where fraudulent, and with mark market gone and extended and pretend still the norm its all a sham.

Then again she's just a very poorly chosen spokesperson and the oligarchy will always take care of their own. I dont mind arrogance or ignorance by themselves, but when you put the two together, and throw in entitlement you have serious problems. Thses are our best and brightest, book smart very intelligent people who have no common sense. If they did they'd know the only thing between them and the uber poor are the middle class. Take away that buffer, and just ask Marie Antoinette what's possible.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:13 | 5915983 cornfritter
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Grandma Yellen driving the bus over innocent women and children thoughout the US.  Not only that, but backing it up and doing it again.  Yellen likes to hear the skulls crush, see the juice and eyeballs of the lower class scum squirt out of their non thinking heads.  She is a dealer of death, and probably finds her career quite satisfying.  Tea?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 14:57 | 5915805 MedicalQuack
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What do I know about any of this:)  Two years ago I said code irresponsibly against consumers would stand to be the greatest attack we have ever seen against us.  All I had to do was listen to a video of corporate quants talking and it was all there.  It's basically profit ruling again and using data in any shape or format of "context" to do it.  

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2012/11/big-dataanalytics-if-used-out-of.html

There's also last years' study from the World Privacy Forum called "The Secret Scoring of America" and Pam does a good job on this explaining how this works, who scores you, who sells it and how you get denied access to something and nobody questions the proprietary code of how we "get secretly scored" and have no clue.

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/04/world-privacy-forum-report-scoring-of.html

Want to know why you can't keep your doctor?  Well it happens over there too with healthcare, "The Secret Scoring of America's Doctors"..all done by your favorite "narrow network" insurance company to keep cost down and probably keep more cash at hand for their stock buy backs.  This is a direct impact of course on America's families.  If you don't think so, I don't know what is.  

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-secret-scoring-of-americas.html

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:06 | 5915826 FreeShitter
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Destroying the middle class/american nuclear family...all done by design. Keep stackin' and keep God first.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 23:03 | 5917062 amadeus39
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And which god or gods do you have in mind?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 23:09 | 5917074 Bumbu Sauce
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Stupid question asked by an ignorant and infantile mind.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 18:22 | 5946842 MeelionDollerBogus
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Your stupid answer is the sign of a brainwashed ignoramous - there are many beliefs in many gods and no reason to believe any one of them is correct, morally good or anything but a poison on this Earth.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 18:21 | 5946840 MeelionDollerBogus
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My god Crom laughs at your gods.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:11 | 5915835 Binko
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Since about 15% of workers work for the Government it's no surprise that 20% in total are pretty happy with the economy.

Basically the 5% of upper-crust managers and professionals are happy. And the 15% of government workers are happy because their pay and benefits have continued to go up and up even as the pay and benefits of private sector workers has gone down and down.

I was talking to a friend the other day. He's a stay-at-home dad for two small kids while his wife works as an attorney for the county. He was telling me that, even though she is an attorney, she still is covered by a union. When asked to stay late and work on an important case she can just whip out the union work rules and say 'nope'. Can't be fired, doesn't have to work hard but gets the golden pay and benefits.

It's like some kind of twisted dreamworld. Trouble is the rest of us are paying for it while we struggle in our own lives. I'm an old guy and when I was young only losers worked for the government because the pay was crap and the work was lame. But now government work is seen as a golden ticket to prosperity just like in any other 3rd world country.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:29 | 5915862 daveO
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The Bolsheviks tried to get Buchanan fired (did get canned at MSNBC) for this;

http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2011/08/26/race-government-hypocrisy/

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:52 | 5915924 NoPension
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Binko nailed it.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:58 | 5915944 lordbyroniv
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And in 10 years...your student loan debt is forgiven too!!!

 

Its like having a job,...that pays multiples of the private sector isnt boon enough.

 

:(

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:42 | 5916211 bunnyswanson
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China has no unions.  Perhaps you should move there with your grandchildren.  Jobs can be found in hot warehouses.  Unions would never agree to the nets hanging below the upper floor, no sir, if the union member wants to jump, they have that right.  Oh wait.  If unions were in China, the factory workers who are forced to work 18 hours a day to meet some unrealistic deadline to get the contract at bottom dollar would cease.

As recent as 1940s, as an orphan, mother was sent to work in Niagara Falls at the age of 8 for the same reason - got the contract, now need the workers to meet the deadline.  She was sent on a train across the country and sewed for 4 months before being returned.  EIGHT YEARS OLD  you greedy bastard.

Unions were not perfect but they helped provide medical care and widow benefits to the coal miners who inhaled thick coal dust for 8-10-12 hours.

We are paid overtime because exerting ourselves regularly over 8 hours is a stress on our health and there will be consequences.

There is no reason at all when a blue collar worker should not be making 50 grand a year.  ACLU has done far more damage - by being in place for the protection of odd balls and freaks..and that is about it.  All progress came to a screeching halt when ACLU showed up as if the blank was filled and worker rights were now protected.  Nothing is perfect.  Work on it.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 20:50 | 5916686 g speed
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China has no unions?? yep they have --state sponsored unions --but they take job action outside union controls--something you will never see in the US

http://prospect.org/article/why-china-has-strikes-without-unions

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:15 | 5916310 Monty Burns
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It's the same in every Western country. Government employees, especially those at the top, are now the "worker" elite which just underlines the descent to Third World status. But of course this can't last as the productive sector continually shrivels.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 18:20 | 5946838 MeelionDollerBogus
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For a Banana Republic there's shockingly low inventory of bananas.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:53 | 5915840 One Eyed Jack
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Oldest game in the book see the British royals and thow they dealt with he Scots, welsh, and Irish. Prima nocta breed out the competition.

It's just the modern version. It destroys morals, it diminishes privacy and the concept of private property and it diminishes parents especially fathers.

It feeds the military and prison system, it creates disfunctional people.

It causes suspicion of everyone and division, all the things ideal to keep ruling elites and their families safe and in power and steering the masses of human cattle to the slaughter.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:19 | 5915845 Dre4dwolf
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If the U.S. Middle class gets wiped out, the entire world gets wiped out.

The only people consuming, developing, investing, building, designing, engineering, planning, hiring . . . are the U.S. Middle class for the most part a better part of global economic demand comes from the U.S. Middle class.

 

That being said. . .  if your goal was to cause a global catastrophe  . . . you could not have chosen a better segment of the population to impoverish/decimate.

 

Lets just be honest.

When it comes to inventing, investing, and innovating, thats Americas niche.

When it comes to mass producing/cloning/copying . . . thats Chinas niche.

When it comes to scheming, thieving and laundering stolen property under the guise of color of law, thats the British/Uk/Uber white vampire people niche (monetarists).

When it comes to fueling global commerce and providing it with energy, thats the middle easts niche.

 

All of it depends on the American consumer demanding ever increasing quantities of goods/energy/services.

The world quite literally didn't know what it wanted economically and financially until the U.S.  Middle Class showed them what they could have if they all played to the same tune.

As for college degrees  . . . in the future they wont matter. . . you will have online training and study guides and all professions will simply become a 50~150$ application and permit you recieve after passing a written / bubble in test / certification class, one day you will have brain surgeons who "got their degree online" thats the entire point of the internet. . .  mass availability of knowledge and experience sharing.

The key to upward mobility is low taxation, and the internet remaining a free and open source for knowledge and information, why do you think they are attacking the internet?

If they kill the internet , upward mobility will almost completely disappear.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:11 | 5916108 bunnyswanson
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I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.  There is something about Americans.  Raised expectations may have come from the sacrifices our great grandparents made when they first arrived and broke ground.  Unions helped give confidence but a strong family will as well.  A strong family is the basis of a sound individual.  In my years of meeting individuals, those who were adopted or came from broken homes in early childhood in comparison with the intact family, each playing their role to maintain a functionally running household have character traits as different as night and day.  It is confidence that is lacking.  Children require routines, and stability, so they are free to explore their worlds without distraction, find their gifts, talents, strenghts and weaknesses.  Reaching adulthood with your identity in tatters can lead to activities to relieve the anxiety which always accompanies a disorganized and uncertain life - where there are no guarantees adn anything can happen.  When dad is not in the house, we know it.  It leaves us feeling vulnerable.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 18:17 | 5946826 MeelionDollerBogus
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Slaves don't need a sense of identity, just a lot of debt and nowhere to run.

This is by design.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 17:09 | 5946652 MeelionDollerBogus
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Opposite: the largesse of the USA and middle class has been at the loss of everyone else globally. The destruction of the USA will create mighty empires in other nations.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:22 | 5915864 Monty Burns
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Destroy the family as an institutions and all the rest, race, religion, sexual morality will follow. The Frankfurt School and their predecessors clearly understoof this.  Here's KGB boss Beria to a group of American Communist youth. 

“Degradation and conquest are companions. By attacking the character and morals … by bringing about, through contamination of youth, a general degraded feeling, command of the populace is facilitated to a very marked degree. By perverting the institutions of a nation and bringing about a general degradation … a population can be brought psychologically to heel."

That is why the groundwork is being prepared for the acceptability of - IMO - the ultimate taboo..paedophilia. Sorry. 'inter-generational love'..Gotta have an innocent-sounding euphemism. http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2013/04/the-opostles-of-degradation.html

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:56 | 5915934 lordbyroniv
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This IS Aleister Crowley's Age of Thelma.

Do what Thou Wilt !!!!!!!!!!

 

Black Sun Worshippers 

 

:(

 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:28 | 5915877 I Write Code
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This is rather wider than the Fed, I think.  In fact, I'm not sure anybody is targeting anything, it's just kind of happening, self-stratifying.

Anyway even the 80/20 is too optimistic, it's much closer to 99/1.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:40 | 5915898 daveO
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Oh really? A news reporter in NYC, maybe a member of the CFR, decides to promote some divisive social agenda, like no fault divorce. If successful, his cousins, the lawyers and judges, profit from it. The now single mom needs support from the beneficent state to feed her hungry kid, provide it housing and medical coverage. Who's gonna pay for all the multiple layers of this welfare state. Well, the same reporter's cousins who are running the debt farm over at the FED, that's who! They transfer the wealth from dollar holders/earners to the state. Then call you racist if you don't want to support their cousins overseas. 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:56 | 5915931 mayhem_korner
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The family is the embodiment of personal sovereignty.  The framers understood this, and they aspired to construct a functional government that would persist on the foundation that the state was empowered by the people (thereby upholding the sovereignty at the family level).

That ideal has clearly broken down, and the family remains among the greatest impediments to the statists usurping all remaining authority from the people.  

The Fed is an implement of the statists' agenda, which penalizes families monetarily through transfer payments to the welfare state.  But the Fed is neither the driver nor the root cause.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 23:05 | 5917066 I Write Code
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I'm just not into this "cousin" thing whatever you mean by that and I suppose we can guess.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 17:02 | 5946626 MeelionDollerBogus
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Matching dual citizenships?

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 15:35 | 5915891 reader2010
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It is interesting to note that the “sexual revolution” was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word “household” suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.

— Michel Houellebecq, Atomised (The Elementary Particles

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 19:00 | 5916447 Mister Delicious
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sounds like horseshit to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq

 

typical French amrchair philosophizing, confusing a languid description of the world with the world itself...

 

but maybe I'm missing the inner, empirically-validated Truth of the assertion....

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:06 | 5915965 Farqued Up
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Too many bureaucrats. Why does Alabama have 67 counties and no wagons and buggy whips? With the county, we have have a commission, clerks, assessors, collectors, city cops, county cops, state cops, all duplicated 67 times. MS has over 80. NV has 13, I think, and that's far too many, most Interstate exits have no service stations. Some Texas counties have more rattlers than people. No need to go to the courthouse with the internet and a few thousand laws administered by satellite courtswith state police.

I would guess that with 3 million laws, the legal system is a farcical expense and I believe that the government is much too large even if slimmed down by 90%. 

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:46 | 5916057 logicalman
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Bureaucrats are a curse.

Once a bureaucrat makes a rule, he's out of a job unless he can come up with another one.

No wonder there are so many statutes and laws that nobody can hope to understand them all.

Just about every American commits a felony or two every day.

http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:54 | 5916085 Renfield
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No law should ever be passed without an expiration date.

This will keep the bureaus busy and in a paycheque. They can skim very quickly and re-pass the usual criminal ones, and review and archive most of the useless corporate statutes. Even re-argue them if they like.

Keeps 'em off the streets and out of trouble. Also will cut our legal systems down from thousands to mere hundreds of pages.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:10 | 5916133 One Eyed Jack
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Precisely. Just like the dept. of homeland security 21st century version of the civilian conservation corps. Just another make work program to redistribute wealth to those persons who are otherwise unemployable.

The solution, I think is to get the issue on a referendum ballot and bypass the courts and politicians and put the choice to the people. I think that it would pass especially with the current discontentment with politicians and bureaucrats.

I think that you could also make a case for reduced taxes as there would be no need for much of the taxes to support the bureaucratic infrastructure.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:16 | 5916148 Renfield
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Direct democracy? In North America? ANARCHIST!

We should think about whether we really need any law that isn't worth holding a referendum to establish.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 00:04 | 5917170 Ginsengbull
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The CCC built bridges, roads, dams, lakes, parks, and many other economic and recreational pieces of infrastructure that we enjoy to this day.

 

They slept in tents, woke up at 6am, worked until 9, had breakfast (weak coffee with milk and a piece of bread), worked until noon, ate lunch, then worked until dinner time.

 

If they left the worksite to take a shit, they had bettet bring a piece back on a stick to prove they weren't just slacking off.

 

It was so much like being in the Army, that one has to wonder if WW2 wasn't being planned for a long time.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 06:38 | 5917423 One Eyed Jack
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You miss the point, it's not effectiveness of the CCC it is that it did not exist without the government creating it to give people work that paid decent wages to attempt to stimulate the national and local economie.

Did these people in the CCC leave other better jobs to go work in the woods and on the highways to live in tents out of a sense of adventurism? No they went to the CCC to find a job.

So RELAX, I am not deriding your beloved CCC despite the fact that at the time those who worked for the Corps were called the card carrying communist (CCC)

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 07:44 | 5917507 Ginsengbull
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Well they certainly produced things both visible and durable, but DHS didn't.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 08:35 | 5917609 hootowl
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No. No. No.  Look at the long lines the DHS has produced at the airports (soon to be at your local train and bus stations and highway inspection statios)........And provided the opportunity for even the ugliest people to enjoy being molested and fondled.  Especially the most dangerous members of the public....the 85 year old Southern Baptist Grandmothers.....Lest they organize into terrorist sleeper cells disguised as quilting bees, bingo games, and church bazaars.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 08:26 | 5917594 hootowl
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It would have to be done by each state to reform its own internal system of governance.  The U.S. Constitution makes no provision for popular referendums, as we are/were a constitutional REPUBLIC.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:21 | 5916002 roadhazard
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The destruction of the American family started when both spouses had to work to make the purchasing power one income used to make. When that was no longer enough then came the credit card. Now there is no credit, not enough jobs and a 30 year old pay scale with 2015 prices.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:39 | 5916046 Monty Burns
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"The destruction of the American family started when both spouses had to work to make the purchasing power one income used to make. "

True up to  a pointbut in the fifties families got along quite well with only one income. We were pursuaded that we needed more and better and that the stay at home mother was wasting her talents and not contributing to the economy. Sadly we bought into it.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:48 | 5916063 logicalman
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The only reason women were encouraged to go into the workforce was so that there were more people to steal from, I mean tax.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:56 | 5916088 Renfield
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That, and so peasants would redefine their impoverishment as 'progress' and 'freedom'. Freedom to take a job outside the home is nothing, unless you ALSO have the freedom NOT to do this. Feminism failed to notice this, and so although it gave us some good things, it became another indoctrination tool of the establishment.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 23:55 | 5917151 Ginsengbull
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Feminism failed to notice, or deliberately ignored?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 01:07 | 5917252 Renfield
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Good question. Not being a feminist I wouldn't know, so I lean more toward the 'stupid' than 'malicious' explanation for stuff like that. Unless it's corrupt government, banksters, or other criminals, I try not to assume bad intent of people who think differently from me. Politics is a lot like religion: bad results, at the 'prole' level, usually result from ignorance. Not so at the 'leader' level but that's another story.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 08:22 | 5917587 hootowl
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If these destructive activities by the FED and its puppet politicos was from "stupidity", they would accidentally get something right,.....at least occasionally.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 16:55 | 5946601 MeelionDollerBogus
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Dealer accidentally hits 21 only 5 million times consecutively. Seems legit

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 08:19 | 5917580 hootowl
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It greatly hastened the destruction of the nuclear family.

It was also necessary to mask the deleterious effects of the planned increase in the FED/Nixonian debasement of the currency.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 01:40 | 5917280 dreadnaught
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God put us here to BUY things.  Thats why women are in the workforce  :D

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 08:15 | 5917566 hootowl
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"We've come a long way baby".

The feminazi mantra from the 1970s that duped many women into abortitoriums, surging breast cancers, STDs, heart attacks, divorce(s), and shorter lifespans.

The Tribe has been busy destroying Christendom for centuries culminating now in the mess were are experiencing today.

We are doomed as long as they control our money supply with their specious fiat, fractional reserve fraud.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 16:40 | 5946540 MeelionDollerBogus
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christendom's scourge destroyed so much else - had it coming and well-deserved.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 16:39 | 5946535 MeelionDollerBogus
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missing the point: the changes by the government, Federal Reserve, removed this and it should be restored, in addition to cutting all free trade agreements as a big part of that.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:26 | 5916016 kchrisc
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Zionism for Dummies: How to Plunder and Destroy a Country from Within.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

They can only plunder and destroy what we allow them.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 16:59 | 5916098 SMC
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Yet another case of “unintended consequences”.

Emigrate if you can.  GTFO.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 19:44 | 5916533 atthelake
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We'd love to GTFO, but where?

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 16:36 | 5946524 MeelionDollerBogus
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Uruguay, Paraguay, maybe Chile seems good from what I'm hearing, Thailand, perhaps

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17:13 | 5916139 q99x2
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My mother? Let me tell you about my mother.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:04 | 5916265 Monty Burns
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Race is important in that it's a key component of societal cohesion.  This is well recognized by the Cultural Marxists nation-wreckers, as embodied in the Frankfurt School.  The goal is a dumbed-down, miscegentaed, morally deparaved, heavily indebted atomized simulacrum of a true society. Not coincidentally this appeals to a certain ethnic group prominently represented in the FRB and such institutions.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 23:53 | 5917147 Ginsengbull
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But the building block of civilization is the family.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 16:37 | 5946528 MeelionDollerBogus
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No, it's tribe, hierarchy & technology, civil respect to strangers.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 18:27 | 5916346 cooperbry
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The American family has been the target of destruction for some time now.  The FED alone cannot possibly take all the credit for this.

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 23:52 | 5917143 Ginsengbull
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I blame the invention of the power steering assist unit in cars.

 

Before that, women stayed home, cooked, washed clothes, and made and cared for babies.

 

After that, they wanted to run around and have careers, and one or two kids at most, thereby minimizing interference with their careers.

 

Consider how many college and high school girls have abortions, so the "fetus" doesn't interfere with their careers.

 

Yes, the American Family has been under assault for decades.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 08:41 | 5917532 hootowl
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Do you think that maybe the 50+ million dead American babies since a demoniacal SCOTUS legalized the murder of our children might just be the reason the psychopaths in Washington, D.C. are deperate to import, legally or illegally, any body with a pulse that can pay taxes and keep the federal Ponzis afloat awhile longer.

Notwithstanding filling our streets with people with retrogressive, savage, uncivilized, cultural dispositions.

Tue, 03/31/2015 - 15:52 | 5946369 MeelionDollerBogus
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Legalizing murder of your children happened 100 years ago. Just peg a crime, plant a gun/knife and police can do anything. no limits

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 07:51 | 5917517 hootowl
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The current economic devolution of the U.S. must be laid 100% at the doorstep of the fraudulent entity known as the FED and the stateless psychopaths that control it.  ALL the wars, ALL the inflation, ALL the cultural degradation.

If you don't understand that, you are part of the problem.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:54 | 5923384 cooperbry
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Politicians deserve their share of the credit hoot, they are the big spenders...

Sun, 03/22/2015 - 19:03 | 5916395 Mister Delicious
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so its the Fed's fault that black America keeps having kids they can't afford out of wedlock?>

 really?

 That's a neat trick.  

Why is it "minorities" never means Asians - who tend to score not only better than whites, but when you correct for income, etc. - do better than anyone?  Are they discriminated against less? 

 Or do they do their fuckin' homework?

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