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The Real Reason The American Dream In Unraveling

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Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

Marketwatch posted an article this week titled Why the American Dream is Unraveling, in 4 charts. As usual, the MSM journalist and the liberal Harvard academic can create charts that reveal a huge problem, but they completely misdiagnose the causes and offer the typical wrong solution of taking more money from producers and handing it to the poor, with no strings attached. This has been the standard operating procedure since LBJ began his War on Poverty 50 years ago. Do these control freaks ever step back and assess how that war is going?

The poverty rate had plunged from 34% in 1950 to below 20% before LBJ ever declared war. It continued down to 15% just as the welfare programs began to be implemented. The percentage of people living in poverty hasn’t budged from the 15% range since the war began. This war has been just as successful as the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. Any time a politician declares war on something, expect a huge price tag and more of the “problem” they are declaring war upon.

The Federal government runs over 80 means-tested welfare programs that provide cash, food, housing, medical care, and targeted social services to poor and low-income Americans. Over 100 million Americans received benefits from at least one of these programs. Federal and state governments spent $943 billion in 2013 on these programs at an average cost of $9,000 per recipient (not including Social Security & Medicare). That is 27% of the total Federal budget. Welfare spending as a percentage of the Federal budget was less than 2% prior to the launch of the War on Poverty.

In the 50 years since this war started, U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs. Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all U.S. military wars since the American Revolution. In terms of LBJ’s main goal of reducing the “causes” rather than the mere “consequences” of poverty, the War on Poverty has utterly failed. In fact, a large proportion of the population is now completely dependent upon government handouts, incapable of self-sufficiency, and enslaved in a welfare mentality that has destroyed their communities.

The primary cause of their poverty and dependency on government are the policies implemented by liberal politicians which have destroyed the family unit, promoted deviant behavior, encouraged the production of bastard children, eliminated the need for personal responsibility, provided no consequences for bad life choices, and bankrupted the nation. The rise of the welfare state has coincided with the decline of the American state. The proliferation of welfare programs has broken down the behaviors, social norms and cultural standards that lead to self-reliance, generating a pattern of growing inter-generational reliance upon government handouts. By undermining productive social norms, welfare creates a need for even greater succor in the future.

So let’s get to the four charts that supposedly reveal why the American dream is unraveling. The Marketwatch article makes the following claim:

The upper-middle-class families Putnam profiles separate themselves into affluent suburbs, with separate public schools and social spheres from those of their poorer counterparts. As a result, the poorer children not only face greater hardships, but they also lack good models of what is possible. They are effectively cut off from opportunity.

The faux journalist makes the laughable argument the reason poor children don’t succeed in life is because people who have studied hard, graduated college, succeeded in life, and moved out of poor neighborhoods have left the poor children to face hardship and lack of opportunity. This is a classic liberal storyline. Blame those who have succeeded through their own blood, sweat and tears for the failure of those who languish in poverty due to their own life choices, lack of respect for education, and lack of work ethic. Chart number one reveals one thing to the Harvard academic Robert Putnam and another to me. He believes kids of people who have a college education have some sort of unfair advantage over kids of lesser educated parents:

“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. They are completely clueless about the kinds of skills and savvy and connections needed to get ahead.”

Why are poor kids isolated, with no ties with anybody? Isolated from whom? They don’t have ties to their family? That is a ludicrous contention, supported with no facts. All kids are completely clueless. You don’t get ahead in life through savvy and connections. You have the best chance to get ahead in life through opening a book, studying hard, and getting good grades, all with the support of concerned involved parents. There are no guarantees in life, but education, involved parents, and working hard dramatically increase your odds of success. It’s not a secret formula. Putnam believes the chart below reveals that kids in households with college educated parents have an unfair advantage over kids in households without college educated parents. To me it reveals the complete and utter failure of LBJ’s Great Society programs and the feminist mantra that men aren’t necessary to raise children.

The percentage of children living in single parent households with a college educated parent is virtually the same today as it was in the early 1960’s, just under 10%. The percentage of children living in single parent households with a high school educated parent in the early 1960’s was 20%. Today that number has risen to 65%. Liberals purposely misdiagnose the problem because admitting the true cause of this disastrous trend would destroy their credibility and reveal the failure of their beloved welfare programs. The key point is that prior to LBJ’s War on Poverty less than 10% of ALL children grew up in a single parent households. Today, that number is 33%. The lesson is you get more of what you encourage and incentivize. The liberal academic solution is for college educated households to give more of their money to the high school or less educated households. Academics with an agenda never ask why their solutions haven’t worked in 50 years.

The number of households in the U.S. in 1960 totaled 53 million and there were 24 million traditional married couple with children households, or 45%. There were 3 million single parent households with children, or 6%. Today the total number of households in the U.S. is approximately 122 million and there are only 25 million with traditional married couple with children households, or 20%. Meanwhile single parent families with children households have skyrocketed to 13 million, or 11%. The war on traditional two parent families by the government, liberal mainstream media, Hollywood, feminists, and academics has been far more successful than the War on Poverty.

The drastic increase in households with fatherless children, especially in the black community, is the primary reason the poverty rate hasn’t dropped over the last 50 years. It is the primary reason poor children remain poor. It is the primary reason why every urban enclave in America continues to degenerate into dangerous, filthy, lawless ghettos.  The statistics tell the story of decline, depravity, failure, and an endless loop of poverty.

  • An estimated 24.7 million children (33%) live absent their biological father.
  • Of students in grades 1 through 12, 39% (17.7 million) live in homes absent their biological fathers.
  • 57.6% of black children, 31.2% of Hispanic children, and 20.7% of white children are living absent their biological fathers.
  • Among children who were part of the “post-war generation,” 87.7% grew up with two biological parents who were married to each other. Today only 68.1% will spend their entire childhood in an intact family.

Annual divorce rates are only marginally higher today than they were in the early 1960’s. So that does not account for the drastic increase in fatherless households. But, the differences among races is dramatic. Blacks divorce at a rate twice as high as whites and three times as high as Asians.

Marriage rates of Asians are almost three times higher than marriage rates of blacks. Marriage rates of whites are two times higher than marriage rates of blacks. Is it really surprising that Asian children score the highest on all educational achievement tests?

The facts prove that people (no matter what race) who marry and stay married offer their children a tremendously better opportunity to succeed academically, thereby giving them a much higher chance of moving up the socioeconomic ladder. This doesn’t mean that children from a single parent household can’t succeed. It just means they have a better chance with two parents. It’s just simple math. Two adults working together can provide higher income, more help with school work, and offer a more stable environment for the child. The liberal media and those with a social agenda scorn the traditional family as if it precludes people from living however they choose. The results of the war on families can be seen in the chart below.

The unwed birth rate stayed below 5% from 1945 through the early 1960’s. As soon as the government began incentivizing people to not get married and to have children out of wedlock, the rates skyrocketed. Today, four out of ten children are born out of wedlock. Seven out of ten black children are born out of wedlock. Only two out of ten black children were born out of wedlock in 1964. These births out of wedlock are not the result of dumb teenagers making a mistake. Almost 80% of these births are to mothers over the age of 20, with 40% of the births to mothers over the age of 25. And these horrific results are after the 55 million abortions since 1973. This didn’t happen because of women’s rights or women feeling empowered to raise children on their own. Knowledge about and access to contraceptives is not a reason for unwed pregnancies. Poor women and the men who impregnate them receive more welfare benefits by remaining unmarried and receive additional benefits by having more children out of wedlock.

Children Living with Mother Only-bwh graph

So all of the data confirms the fact children who grow up in two parent households do better in school, are far less likely to be enslaved in poverty, and have a chance to succeed in life, not matter what the educational level of their parents. In the early 1960s there were very few households with college educated parents. My Dad was a truck driver and my mother was a stay at home mom until we were in high school. We were lower middle class, but all three of their children attained college degrees by studying hard, working part-time jobs to help pay for their education, and having the support of concerned parents. Could we have gotten college degrees if we had been raised by only my mother? I doubt it.

Harvard Professor Putnam prefers to ignore the politically incorrect fact that a return to traditional families would begin to reverse the 50 years of damage caused by the War on Poverty. He believes it is in the moral interest of wealthier families to help improve the economic prospects of poorer children. Liberals also don’t think the $13,000 spent per student per year is enough to educate them properly. He actually believes taking more money from producers and handing it to non-producers will boost the U.S. economy.

“The U.S. economy would get a major boost if the opportunity gap were closed. We cannot continue to live in our own bubbles, or compartments on a plate, without consequences. What I hope people take away is that helping poor kids, giving them more skills and more support would economically benefit their kids.”

The country has spent $22 trillion on the war on poverty and spends approximately $1 trillion per year, but liberal academics think if we just spend more, the complete and utter failure of their solutions will be reversed. They ignore the fact a Democratic President (Clinton) and a Republican Congress instituted welfare reform in 1996 that temporarily stopped the increase in spending, halted the rise in unwed births, and put poor people back to work. Today only one welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), effectively promotes self-reliance. Reforms that created TANF in 1996 moved 2.8 million families off the welfare rolls and into jobs. Those gains were reversed as the Obama administration and congressional leadership undid the employment and training requirements enacted 14 years ago. Liberals think it is cruel and inhumane to make poor people work.

Putnam’s final three charts just reinforce the fact traditional families, involved parents, and higher education lead to higher incomes and upward mobility for children in these settings. The reason children in households with college educated parents get more daily attention is because those households are far more likely to have two parents. The time was equal in the early 1970s when two parent families were more prevalent. Having strangers raise kids in government subsidized daycare centers as a substitute for fathers hasn’t worked out so well.

In another shocker, poor children, who are predominantly from single parent households, without a role model to replace their missing fathers, score far worse in tests that predict success in college. The key attribute to educational success is not the educational level of the parents, it’s the need for poor, middle class or wealthy households to have two parents invested in the future of their children.

Attributing obesity rates of children from non-college educated households to the parents’ eduction is quite a reach. In the early 1970’s the obesity rates were very close between high school educated households and college educated households. So why has it surged? The liberals claim the poor go hungry and don’t have enough food. Shouldn’t that lead to higher malnutrition rates and not higher obesity rates? Maybe the surging obesity rates are due to the government lunch programs, the fast food culture in urban ghettos, no fathers around to encourage outside activities, and using food stamps to buy junk food rather than healthier foods. Bad choices generally lead to bad outcomes. Obesity is a choice. Of course liberals now classify it as a disability which needs to be subsidized by the government.

The American dream has unraveled for many reasons. Not spending enough on welfare programs is not one of the reasons. The welfare/warfare state is bankrupt. We spend $1 trillion on welfare programs, $1.4 trillion on Social Security and Medicare, and over $1 trillion on the military/surveillance apparatus. It’s a bipartisan bankruptcy, as Republicans agree to increase the welfare state as long as the Democrats agree to increase the warfare state. The only thing sustaining this debt based house of cards is a Federal Reserve which provides zero interest financing and a never ending willingness to debase our currency to keep the status quo in power. The current rate of spending on the welfare/warfare state is unsustainable. We could voluntarily reduce the spending before the financial collapse or the spending will stop abruptly when our country undergoes a catastrophic financial implosion that will make 2008 look like a walk in the park.

Voluntarily putting the country back on a path of self reliance could be done if there was a will to do so. Reversing the culture of dependency would require a major dose of tough love that would upend the entire ideology of liberalism. Able-bodied, non-elderly adult recipients in all federal welfare programs would be required to work, prepare for work, or at least look for a job as a condition of receiving food stamps or housing assistance. This would promote personal responsibility and provide the recipients with some self respect.  Obama is a big proponent of national service, why not national service for recipients of welfare?

Anti-marriage penalties should be removed from welfare programs, and long-term steps should be taken to rebuild the family in lower-income communities. Marriage penalties occur in many means-tested programs such as food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, day care, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The welfare system needs to be revamped to reduce these counterproductive incentives. The appeal of welfare programs as an alternative to work and marriage could be reduced by requiring able-bodied parents to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving aid. Today government advertises in an effort to get more people to sign up for food stamps and dozens of other welfare programs. Government should be promulgating the facts on how marriage prevents social ills – poverty, poor education, juvenile crime – associated with children born to unmarried women.

Lastly, we need to cutoff the illegal influx of low-skill immigrants from the South, whose children will receive far more in welfare benefits than they pay in taxes, if they pay any taxes. The country must reject blanket amnesty or “earned citizenship” for millions of illegal immigrants who then could access the welfare system. The welfare system is already unsustainable and adding millions of illegals into the system would be the tipping point.

Lyndon B. Johnson’ s goal was not to create an ever increasing welfare state, but to give the poor a helping hand towards self-sufficiency. His idealistic aim was to cure and prevent poverty. But, once a program is put into the hands of politicians looking to get re-elected every two years, the unintended negative consequences expand exponentially. $22 trillion later the American Dream is virtually non-existent for the 47 million Americans languishing in poverty and the once prosperous middle class who have seen their real wages stagnate due to Federal Reserve created inflation and taxes increase to pay for the ever expanding welfare/warfare state. One chart provides a major explanation of why the American Dream has unraveled, but you won’t see Obama, liberals or the mainstream media talking about it. Traditional married, two parent families are the antidote to poverty, not government welfare programs.

The debate on how to help the poor has raged for centuries. A wise Founding Father told us how the war on poverty would unfold.

“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” - Benjamin Franklin

 

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Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:36 | 5920311 Oldwood
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But without the poor, what power would government have? Poverty is an absolute necessity for growth in government.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:44 | 5920334 nuubee
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...which is why the fantasy of the "super" single mother who raises good children will never be challenged by cold hard facts in a public forum. Women are lied to by TPTB, *AND* they're given financial incentives to blow up their marriages.

 

It's actually hard to not think conspiratorially and consider most of this a deliberate act of civilization-destruction.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:56 | 5920368 markmotive
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The American Dream is dead because the GOVERNMENT is the real 1%

Martin Armstrong:

http://www.planbeconomics.com/2015/03/government-is-real-1-martin-armstr...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:19 | 5920558 NoDebt
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Side story, only because the author used the "B" world (bastard)...

I am a bastard.  Shocker, right?  Least surprising thing ever, some would say, given my behavior.

But no, seriously, I am LITERALLY a bastard.  But how I became a bastard happened long after I was born...  

Eh?  How the fuck does that happen?  How does one become a bastard AFTER they are born in wedlock?  Good question.  Read on.

When my parents got divorced after 13 years and 3 children to show for it, my mother petitioned the Caholic Church to have the marriage annulled.  After much hand-wringing and scraping and groveling to the powers that be at the Church (and probably money, though she would never give me a straight anwer on that subject), it was granted.  My parents' 13 year long marriange was annulled according to the Catholic Church.

At this point I feel the need to tell you that I am not kidding you.  I'm not making this up.  I am not exaggerating.  In fact, I have official paperwork from the Arch Dicocese of Wlimington, DE to prove all of it.

Ahem.... moving on.  So, since my parents marriage was annulled, meaning it "never happened" according to Catholic Church, all children that flowed from that union were officially (and retroactively) considered to be born out of wedlock.  Me, my brother and my sister.  All of us became, officially, bastards from that day forward.

If you think I come by my distrust of any "official" institution by chance or accident, please understand that I do not.  Your ass can be erased off the roles with the stroke of a pen.  I hold no malice towards the Cathoic Church over this, but I'm not dropping any money in their collection plate, either.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:00 | 5920626 Charming Anarchist
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Get over it.  The same can be said about myself, my siblings and my own kids. 

I want my ass to be erased with the stroke of a pen by the Catholic Church.  I wish the state was easier and cheaper. 

 

My marriage is null and my kids are bastards too.  Big deal. Personally, I see it as a blessing.  All I can tell you is that you should respect your mother's choice.  There is no battle of the sexes here.  I know LOTS of good reasons why men and women, like myself and perhaps your mother, should hold their heads up high in seeking annullment. 

 

I do hold malice towards the Catholic Church for a handful of reasons but I still go to church with my kids. I teach them the distinction between the basic tenets of faith and all of the arbitrary traditions that were made up by man.  My hope is to see the Vatican hierarchy crumble and for Catholicism to disintegrate into a free-for-all of independent churchs.  Until then, church is still a good place to meet chicks.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:20 | 5921442 Joe Sichs Pach
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Methinks your malice is showing through just a wee bit here with your misinterpretation of No Debt's post. Get over it

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:46 | 5920562 juangrande
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Exactly! They have to keep the rabble placated ( on the country's borrowed nickel), while shipping away any semblance of a decent job over seas, so's they have  more money and can afford to give their great grand nephew a billion when they die. Meanwhile, they've succeeded in making enough desperate middle class rubes believe that it's the niggers and spics fault. SHIT, THE PRESIDENT'S A MUSLIM AND A NIGGER!!!!! FROM KENYA!!!! OH THE HORROR!!! AND THE FAGGOTS!!! FAGGOT DOCTORS GIVING ABORTIONS ON THEIR WAY TO GETTING MARRIED!! WAIT I'VE GOT NO TIME FOR CRITICAL THINKING. I NEED TO KNOW WHO THE COWBOYS ARE GOING TO DRAFT!!!!

 

As a country, we own this idiocy and will have to pay.

 

Edit: I'm sorry. I may have gone too far. In homage to the book from which this blog borrowed its theme.... I am juangrande's wine soaked and angy liver on a rant.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:31 | 5921308 StupidEarthlings
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I heard he's a fag too.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:06 | 5921229 patriotpayload
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American dream is alive more than ever, it is exported through out the globe. Sadly only  lazy americans themselves  and lazy greeks are failling on it.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:56 | 5920369 usednabused
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Have to love that spoor about kids getting ahead by reading books and studying hard. LMFAO. So tell me, how did GBush crawl to the top of the dung heap? Sheer fucking brains, right? LMAO Anyone can see its the filthier tricks you can do unto others that get you ahead in this country....

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:51 | 5920492 Majestic12
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"how did GBush crawl to the top of the dung heap?"

Exactly!

And worse yet, the justiying quote is from "Benjamin Franklin"???

The Illuminati, Masonic master himself!

Fuckin' 1% apologists.  Guillotines are on the way.
Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:06 | 5920524 Jonesy
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Illuminati? Pretty catchy name, wonder who came up with it. I doubt it was the guys in the club or goyim wouldn't be dropping it left and right.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:53 | 5921369 Brokenarrow
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Iy comes from Europe during the period of the knights of templar, moron

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 03:22 | 5920843 ebworthen
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It makes them run to lawyers and government, a perfect double whammy for TPTB.

It also makes the Father/Husband a "deadbeat Dad" and lets the system milk him.

Then...they can program the youngsters to be dependent upon .gov, fast food, EBT, and the system.  Then the Mom's can sleep around playing the "victim" fiddle.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:53 | 5920610 one_hundred
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I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... http://goo.gl/ezLA00

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 01:31 | 5920752 83_vf_1100_c
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  At a very high estimate of $50 you make off blowing one guy that works out to 140 bjs a month. Figure an hour to make each one happen, meet, talk about it, do the deed, return to the leather bar and start again, it's not quite a part time job now is it? You really can't trust anyone these days. Might just as well use your retiremnt funds to crowdfund an oil well in the Bakken. /s the whole thing

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:45 | 5921345 Hayabusa
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My kids were raised 1/2 their lives (on avg) by 2 parents, then 1 later (after the divorce).  Aside from being thrust into single parent homes as a result of the divorce my son (with me) and my daughter (with her mom) were bankrupted by the family law system and most of what I worked for all my life went to pay court costs, attorney fees, etc.  Then each of us had to work more to pay for daycare, etc., to pay the bills.  The family law system is a parasitic entitity which adds pain to misery... $300hr for their services?  I'm highly trained/educated and I don't make that kind of money.  Do I think it would have been better to remain married for my kids' sake?  Nope, she was hopelessly addicted to drugs and alcohol.  There's a LOT of reasons single parent homes are poor... and prior to my divorce the house was about paid for and we were doing well... afterward I was flat broke and essentially started over - my story is ubiquitious.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:40 | 5920325 Callz d Ballz
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R A C I S T

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:40 | 5920329 snodgrass
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The welfare system was partially about changing American norms to become more dysfunctional so the population could more easily be manipulated. But it also generated lots and lots of interest payments for the bankers. Always remember to follow the money.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:45 | 5920337 insanelysane
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And it made it easier for the politicians to allow manufacturers to move everything offshore.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:07 | 5920527 11b40
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You win the cigar!
The answer to the problem of single parent families, and much of the other ailments we suffer, lies in this question- what happened to all the jobs?

And guess what! We ain't seen nothin' yet! Just wait until all the nice shiny robots headed our way arrive.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:34 | 5920705 Miffed Microbio...
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Robots are being held up as the panacea today. Let me tell you, having to try and fix one the last couple of days has become a fucking nightmare. Manual methods done by a person and reagents may be labor intensive but far cheaper in the long run. The only claim to fame I can see is more throughput. However, because they breakdown all the time, you need more than one robot to get the work out.

They cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, require lots of maintenance, must have service constantly when they fail which must be done by specially trained people and are rarely user friendly. But the cool factor is there so that must make it ok.

Miffed

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 02:40 | 5920814 zhandax
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Our maintenance guys were pulling down over 100K a year with overtime when we had the robots.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:14 | 5921021 Big Brother
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I don't know which robots you speak of, but the Fanucs we use are literally 10 times cheaper to maintain than hiring an equivalent employee to complete the same task.

The robots work 23 hours per day, seven days a week, with minimum maintenance, mostly in the dark.  They require no bathroom breaks, lunch breaks, workman's comp, vacations; and they do the same task reliably and repeatedly.

I realize you're in a different industry, but give it time.  The Japanese and Germans are working hard to develop proficient robots to replace their declining workforce.  I visited the Fanuc and ABB exhibits and the last IMTS show, and spoke with their sales engineers regarding future applications.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:41 | 5921335 StupidEarthlings
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agreed Big brother.

 

We have 14 fanucs, working daily. In aircraft engine field. (the operators are button pushers 'PHD'- 'Push Here Dummy) 

 

They rarely 'break down'- maybe a whacky fault here n there.  I spend most of my time (that im on the floor) just programming, not Fixing.. and even the 'floor work' is only about 25% of my weekly duties.

I love robots, they were fun and exciting to me, which was how I stayed interested, and got to where I am today.

 

That said, robots may 'steal' jobs, BUT theyre always gonna need someone to program/fix/maintain the bots.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:49 | 5920345 booboo
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Bankers own the welfare system, they just hire the government to facilitate the day to day operations.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:20 | 5922090 mkkby
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Of course, but I've learned to love the welfare system.  Without it, what would 40 million inner city semi-retarded people be doing?  That's right -- attacking the rest of us.

Welfare is the gov paying the dregs of society a meager living to leave the rest of us alone.  It is worth the investment.  Side effects are one political party gets most of their votes, and the banksters get more profit, but it's still worth it.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:43 | 5920333 billwilson
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You have to love the "Christian approach". I can just see Jesus means testing folks before performing miracles.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:51 | 5920355 booboo
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um.... he did means test them, they had to believe before receiving anything.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:44 | 5920336 billwilson
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WalMart would never have gotten this profitable or this big without the war on poverty. Big business loves all wars.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:52 | 5920358 silverer
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In the 1950's, the unemployment rate among blacks in the US was virtually zero.  All they needed to "catch up" was a better education to earn more money, giving them the opportunity to be intellectual and class equals.  Along come the Democrats and the "Great Society", and they ended up with neither.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:09 | 5920401 Bobbyrib
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Rewrite that history.

 

The Civil Rights movement was completely unnecessary.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:36 | 5920581 Oldwood
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What does civil rights have to do with The Great Society and all the other progressive social policies that created and captured blacks in poverty for generations? Aid for Dependent Children is NOT a civil right anymore than state mandated healthcare.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 02:31 | 5920808 California Nigh...
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When the blacks rioted in the sixties, whites panicked and threw money at the problem. 

They should have "thrown" lead.

Now we have a huge FSA, And one with attitude.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:25 | 5922103 mkkby
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I think you've got it right.  Welfare is payment to leave the rest of us alone. 

Now we have 40 million incorrigables.  They are utterly useless, and there are no jobs even if they had some skills.  So what to do with them?  Build more jails or let civil war break loose.

I'm not waiting for the answer.  Soon moving to a non diverse small town.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 22:25 | 5923831 Bobbyrib
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silverer was acting like the "blacks" were fine in the 1950's until the Great Society ruined everything. He was forgetting the fact that half the country did not believe in rights for "blacks." What were the Jim Crow laws? If the black man just kept his head down and worked, he would not be as downtrodden as he is today. What a bunch of bullshit. Thanks for the downvotes.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:14 | 5920411 Bumbu Sauce
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Hey Pruitt_Igoe and Caprini Green were pretty awesome experiments!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:31 | 5920572 snodgrass
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Blacks only have an IQ of 85 so they will never be "equal" to whites. But they would have been better off than anybody in Africa. Note that the comparison is always with Whites even though Asians and Jews make more money than Whites. By the way, Jews are not white. They are Asian.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:54 | 5920612 juangrande
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85 is about twice your IQ. Oh, to save you hours of deliberation using fingers and toes, that equals 42.5.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 02:35 | 5920810 California Nigh...
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We now have a subclass of blacks who are very, very fucked up. 

No doubt they skew test results.  They're not even testable, I reckon.

What to do with those blacks? 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:55 | 5921068 Refuse-Resist
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Because facts are racist and because hurling insults invalidates facts.

 

Spoken by a true SJW.

 

I suppose that all the testing showing this to be true is racist as well?  Do you know any teachers?  Have you ever had occasion to ask them about their black students and how they act in class?

 

Or perhaps a La Raza member who screams BROWN POWER and RECONQUISTA?

 

Facts aren't racist. 

 

Fact: I downvoted your insult hurling ad hominem attacking ass.

 

Bring it, don't sing it.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:13 | 5921424 juangrande
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OK. here are my facts. Fundamentalists ( of any sect) have an IQ of 85. And, being from the deep south, white crackers have an IQ of 85. There are some in the mountain west and Appalachians as well. Oh and don't forget the most marginalized people of all. The first ones shuttled off to a ghetto; Native American.  Calling his statement a "fact" is just narrow and ignorant. Now, even tho the IQ test is not a real measure of intelligence, maybe a more accurate grouping would be the poor have an IQ of 85. Maybe socio-economics is the huge elephant in the room and not skin color. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:35 | 5921480 snodgrass
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Blacks have been given opportunities denied to white men including preferential admission to college, preferential employment, preferential contracting, preferential treatment under the legal system and they are still at the bottom. You can't make people smarter by giving them money. Look at Africa. Resource rich but stupid to the max which is why it is still a fourth world continent. No infrastructure that wasn't built by the west, no legitimate governments, incapable of feeding themselves. They have no space program, no hubble telescope, no education system beyond what the west brought them. The same is true of most hispanic countries. They are what they are because they have borrowed from white western countries. Whies create civilizations - blacks and hispanics borrow from them. Asians create hives. Jews create prisons.

Hell you don't even have to go to countries to see what happens when minorities take over. Look at Detroit. Look at any city where blacks are the majority. They turn it into a ghetto. Same with hispanics. They turn cities into barrios of corruption and gang warfare.

Don't like what I say. KMA.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:48 | 5922155 mkkby
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Yep.  I challenge people to name one city, or even neighborhood, that is mostly black or hispanic and not riddled with violence and decay.  If you think this is racist, then prove it is not true with examples.

I also challenge people to name significant inventions or scientific discoveries that came from black or hispanic people.  Few can name any.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:56 | 5920367 Callz d Ballz
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Refreshing as hell to see those who break the paradigm and rise up against this true enslavement.  The formula isn't that hard to follow, it just takes will.   

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:58 | 5920371 q99x2
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Thou shalt not drive the hog out of hog heaven.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:04 | 5920386 petkovplamen
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yet another total Libertarian total BS article that blames US problems on welfare but NEVER mentions corporate welfare or the trillions spent on fictitious "war on terror". What a total BS.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:08 | 5920396 Bumbu Sauce
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End the motherfucking handouts and free shit, then the people become self-reliant and start caring about how their tax money is wasted on stupid shit then they get involved and demand that government is more accountable.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:12 | 5920407 Chuck Knoblauch
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The FR shareholders will just suck up the excess moron.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:10 | 5920403 Chuck Knoblauch
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They are clueless as to who is stealing their money.

Brain dead monkeys.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:54 | 5921067 Fun Facts
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The 100 year old forgery [the protocols] conveniently explain everything.

23 potent techniques, executed with indefatigable precision over generations, have turned America into a hopeless cesspool. Exactly as outlined over 100 years ago. Must have been a 9 sigma coincidence.

https://understandingtheworldtoday.wordpress.com/

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:59 | 5920625 cynicalskeptic
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The problem is JOBS     THAT is the core problem.  

 You have more people collecting benefits BECAUSE there are LESS jobs for people.

 

UNEMPLOYED and minimally paid working poor are collecting benefits BECAUSE they cannot get a job or earn enough to live on.

You have an endless pursuit of the cheapest possible labor costs by corporations.

"Free Trade' has been backed by BOTH political parties and stripped the US of its working class jobs.  Manufacturing jobs have been sent overseas with whole factories disassembled and sent to places like China.

 Tech jobs - programming and systems jobs have been sent to places like India.

Service jobs - call centers, tech support lines and such have been sent overseas - to India, Ireland and all over the world.

Now you're seeing accounting jobs being offshored.

Jobs that CAN'T be moved overseas are filled with cheap immigrant help - H1B's for high paying jobs and illegal immigrants in low paying jobs.


Corporations are NOT sharing their vastly increased profits with workers - they are slashing labor costs to achieve record profits.   A very few top execs get rich - not even the stockholders of companies who are the actual OWNERS while everyone else gets poorer.

Destroying the job base in the US destroys the country.  Some saw this coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PQrz8F0dBI

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:27 | 5920686 Vullsain
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petkovplamen the Bullshit is your comment.. Numerous articles here daily that chronicle economic corpororate welfare, the military industrial complex etc. all from a libertarian/austrian economic perspective. Ever hear of libertarian guy named Ron Paul and what he believes, articulated and campaigned for.

You have willfully subjected yourself to a simplistic view of libertarian philosophy probably from some pathetic MSM source like MSNBC. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 01:39 | 5920763 ersatz007
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Just once I'd love to see one of these articles that discusses welfare AND the handouts given to corporations and bankers not to mention the MIC.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:06 | 5920387 Chuck Knoblauch
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Federal Reserve shareholders are the #1 welfare pigs on the planet.

They take every penny in taxes collected.

EVERY FUCKING PENNY!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:27 | 5920446 Bay of Pigs
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Not Quinns best by any means. Without the FED, none of the govt handouts, massive debt and deficit spending is even possible.

How the fuck does he miss that...come on.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:45 | 5921347 gswifty
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Exactly. This is a distraction piece intended to play on people's emotions backed by deceiving statistics. This is a symptom, not a cause. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:44 | 5920592 Oldwood
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Reality is unimportant to the population. Power is maintained through popular support and as such, as long as the PERCEPTION is that people receive more than they pay in taxes, as long as they think others are paying more if not all, then they will support redistributionist politicians. Reality is definitely different from perception, so through debt and slight of hand these thieves will rob us blind with the democratically elected power to do so.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:11 | 5920406 Duc888
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They didn't do one with "Bullshit" but this one will work.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSB7QpldGTQ

 

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:15 | 5920414 TeethVillage88s
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- Former IRS Employees Can Still Peruse Your Tax Returns? Lois Lerner in the spot light reveals IRS Policy?

- Machines could replace half of jobs over next 20 years...
- Cooks to truck drivers...
- WOZNIAK: Future 'scary and very bad for people'...

- PAPER: World's next credit crunch could make '08 look like hiccup...

- Russia's return to Nicaragua worrying many in Central America...

- US House urges Obama to send arms to Ukraine
Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
US promises billions to fund Afghan military through 2017
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
- Forced Adoption: UK families flee to Ireland to keep their children (DOCUMENTARY)

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:17 | 5920422 kchrisc
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Being nothing more than a criminal syndicate of violence backed theft, government can only produce four things: Poverty, misery, death, and lies. All evidence to the contrary is an illusion and temporary.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

I'm going to set my guillotine up in the lobby of a hotel. That way I can claim to be a lobbyist.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:56 | 5920506 Majestic12
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"I'm going to set my guillotine up in the lobby of a hotel. That way I can claim to be a lobbyist."

 

Priceless!!!  LMAO!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:11 | 5920910 Elliott Eldrich
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"I'm going to set my guillotine up in the lobby of a hotel. That way I can claim to be a lobbyist."

 

Ummm... that may not work out so well in the long run. Once people get surly enough to want to see guillotines applied, things get rather higgledy-piggledy pretty fast. Having the label "lobbyist" on your nametag may not be such a good idea when that happens; a review of the French Revolution soon shows how many who were quick to employ Madame Guillotine were similarly quick to end up on the receiving end of her tender mercies.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:04 | 5921397 tnquake
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+1 for "higgledy-piggledy"

Hadn't heard that in years!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:24 | 5920439 Prober
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The best, and almost zero cost, solution to poverty is:

1. Don't allow it to be created, ie if breeders cannot prove that they have the savings and income to fully financially support the new humans they want to create, then they are prohibited from creating them.

2. Don't import the billions of latin american poverty.

3. Implement the Natural Law Principle - those who do not achieve and maintain financial self-sufficiency are failures and get recycled.

Zero money wasted on corrupting entitlement programs, and poverty will be microscopic.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:38 | 5920465 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

Implement the Natural Law Principle - those who do not achieve and maintain financial self-sufficiency are failures and get recycled.

Not a bad idea if we start with the worst offenders like General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman, JPM-Chase, Lockheed-Martin...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:09 | 5920529 TeethVillage88s
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"General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman, JPM-Chase, Lockheed-Martin"

I'm not saying I disagree with you here.

Could be informative to hear ZH posts about their insight about the worst offenses by these corporations.

I think GM & GE both Started Financial Organizations/Subsidiaries which have either gone bankrupt or have gotten "Bailouts".

As you may know IMHO all Bailouts are to Benefit the Corporations not some asset or Industry or Sector or Important Employer. The problem is all Bailouts are misnomers. All Bailouts benefit the Bad Capitalist who Lent or Gave Too Much Credit or Lent to bad Credit Risks.

Bailouts are a Game. Bailouts are Corruption.

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All bailouts benefit the corporations that were bad Capitalists.

Kapitalismus Totet oder Toten.

Capitalism where Corporations and Banks are Protected is probably an old Europe thing that just came to the USA in 2009. But it is not Capitalism.

It is Fascism, Inverted Totalitarianism, or Corporate Socialism.

Bailouts are for the Elites. Start a business you are a target of the Banks and Wall Street. You don't get a Bailout.

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GM, Chrysler, Ford... what a joke. GE What a Joke.

Meet the foreign Automakers that took your Market Share.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:21 | 5920687 Prober
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Parasites like you must be at the top of the list.

You never created anything, you never built anything, you haven't earned anything - you are just a worthless ideology of envy and resentment with too much keyboard.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:20 | 5920918 cheech_wizard
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So you invented the anal probe?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:32 | 5921157 Prober
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Yes, and I am using it on the big anus between your eyes.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:59 | 5921379 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Weirdo.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:48 | 5920485 TeethVillage88s
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We probably have a common ground.

Not all People are productive. I'm not clear how to present this info.

- Federal government.gov doesn't really produce anything, but they can stimulate the economy through exponential spending every year... word is that money velocity is now crap... the return on Federal Spending is Crap

- You have Accountants working through complicated systems for Corporations of all kinds, Think Tanks, Foundations, PACs, Churches, NGOs, and more... the point is Tax Lawyers, Lobbyists, Financial Lawyers, Accountants, tax Accountants... there are many US Workers that don't add Value to the USA... The only get paid money from the overhead for complying with Federal and State Regulations

- So look at all the people working and not producing

- Look at all the jobs that are useless

- Look at the compensation of Executives and Sports Stars and Entertainment stars... this is useless... Excessive Compensation is Looting... Margin Corporations is an aggressive act to increase the compensation and responsibility of Private Executives... in the USA this means little Responsibility in the the True Sense (since the system is Rigged)... Private Executives command the power of Wealth and influence and status so they are not Increasingly responsible as they merge companies or take on more assets and liabilities

- Make Institutions and Corporations Smaller and they can't Increase their Compensations and Looting. They also can't hide more companies and projects within "Shell Companies".

- This is part of what Anti-trust Legislation was all about

- Yes, US Corporations are getting bigger, and so Compensation for Executives get bigger, but the incentives have nothing to do with Patriotism, Loyalty to the Federal Spending for Welfare, Right Action, Right Thinking, and Right Living to help the City, County, State, or Country

150 Million People on Welfare of some kind.

SNAP, Medicaid, Federal Tax Credits, TANF, Medical:

2014 Federal Outlays for SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $102.34 Billion
2014 Outlays Federal Grants to States for Medicaid = $301 Billion
2014 Outlays Federal tax Credits for the Poor = $ 81.5 Billion
2014 HHS Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF outlays = $16.267 Billion
2014 Total Medicare/Medicaid = $1,19 Trillion

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:11 | 5921101 overmedicatedun...
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If you get the special"eye ware", you will see the reptiles in control..the human child is beautiful, it must be killed to feed the evil. THEY LIVE.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqIDUUxFVFT0A_oosnIlQ;...

if we had leaders in DC who had the best interest of the citizens of this country we would not be here.

open your eyes wide shut.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:18 | 5921117 overmedicatedun...
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note: they live video has been taken down on many of utube sites, but it is still there if you" look"

this movie is a danger to our rulers : OBEY.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:25 | 5920442 TeethVillage88s
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"Vermont senator is expected to propose a war tax amendment to the budget, which would raise taxes on millionaires..."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is not a fan of the Republican budget that is working its way through Congress. The self-described democratic socialist believes the GOP budget helps the rich at the expense of the middle class and poor.

"The rich get much richer, and the Republicans think they need more help," Sanders said on the Senate floor on Monday. "The middle class and the working families in this country become poorer, and the Republicans think we need to cut programs they desperately need."

The ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee has made his dislike for the GOP budget proposal abundantly clear through his remarks and statements.

"Clearly in the eyes of my Republican colleagues, the wealthy and the powerful and the big campaign contributors need even more help," Sanders said, noting that “corporate America is enjoying record-breaking profits.” Because of that, the GOP budget "will do nothing to address the massive income equality that this country faces,” he added.

The full Senate is set to take up the budget this week, after it passed out of committee on Thursday. Sanders has been berating the proposal since then.

“Instead of being honest and upfront about their goals, the Republicans have used a number of budgetary gimmicks to cover-up the devastating impact that their budget will have on the lives of ordinary Americans,” Sanders said in a Sunday statement. “I find it particularly offensive that Republicans, who are demanding massive cuts in Medicaid, education, nutrition and health care in order to move toward a balanced budget, have no problem adding $38 billion to the deficit through the off-budget Overseas Contingency Operations fund. That is hypocrisy pure and simple.”

The Vermont senator is expected to propose a war tax amendment to the budget, which would raise taxes on millionaires to finance US military operations, The Hill reported.

“This is an issue that I and others intend to raise forcefully during this week’s debate on the Senate floor. I strongly expect that there will be amendments demanding that Republicans tell us how they will pay for another war,” Sanders said in a Friday statement.

The independent politician claimed that Republican tricks include using the Overseas Contingency Operations fund to significantly increase defense spending; masking the consequences of their policies by calling things “unallocated” cuts and “government-wide” savings; using made up “dynamic” numbers; and dismantling healthcare reform, but retaining the savings and revenues that support the Affordable Care Act.

He also slammed the GOP budget for making student debt worse, ignoring President Barack Obama’s proposals to better educate young students after high school and not asking corporations to pay their fair share of taxes.

“While the rich get richer and corporate profits soar, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages,” Sanders said in a statement on Friday. “Despite that, this morally repugnant Republican budget protects those on top who are doing the best while attacking the needs of the most vulnerable – working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor.”

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:06 | 5921005 lakecity55
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"democratic socialist=communist"

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:01 | 5922273 mkkby
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True, but the super wealthy got that way thru fraud and corruption.

I propose a 0.1% bail in.  For anyone with a net worth of $50 million or greater.  Your 2016 tax is 1/2 of that net worth.  (To include corporations with no clear ownership, ie shell corps.)

Nobody needs that much to live on.  The people need to be paid back what was stolen.  This should at least pay off the debt and make SS/medicare solvent again.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:54 | 5920500 RaceToTheBottom
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An interesting aspect of this argument is just how many successful black people come back to "help their people" out?  I can only think of one, Bill Cosby, and that appears to be just a way to get into some ladies pantsuits....

But any successful blacks rarely if ever let it be publicised that they are willing to help others they have "left behind"....

 

That basically removes race from any aspect of the issue.  All races want to separate themselves from those they have "left behind"....

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:01 | 5920514 Majestic12
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"how many successful black people come back to "help their people" out?"

 

Are you an idiot?  I suppose you call yourself a "capitalist"?

 

So, how many "successful" white people come back to 'help their people' out"?

 

How about dwarfs?  Jews?  Oh, wait....

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:16 | 5920554 RaceToTheBottom
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"All races want to separate themselves from those they have "left behind"...."

Are you a moron?  Or do you just play one on ZH.  I said all people want to separate themselves from their past, regardless of race.....  

That is why your family no longer comes to visit you....

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:02 | 5921080 Refuse-Resist
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But what about the acceptable and very anti-white terms like White Trash, Hillbilly, and Redneck?  Most often used, in my experience by blue state hive dweller hoplophobes who like to use the 'democracy' and their vote to enact violence on their poorer white cousins in flyover country.

 

I'd much rather live next to hillbillies and rednecks (and I do in fact) than statist hive dwellers. After all, the hillbillies don't vote for laws that restrict my liberty, unlike the traitors in the hive.

 

I for one am proud of my hillbilly and redneck farmer ancestors, who fought for the Confederacy. They did not own slaves.  They fought for states rights.  I know this because surviving elders on both sides during my childhood knew those men.

 

Even though its not politically correct to be proud of my white ancestors, I say fuck PC.

 

If you can't be proud of you ancestors, when what the fuck else defines you?  How many FB friends or Linkedin friends you have?  What model iCrap you carry around? The fact that you drink Starfucks and drive a Toyota Pious and support Bloomberg's national anti-gun initiatives.

 

With all due respect, I submit that you're generalizing here and assuming that all white people share the Hive Values.

 

Newflash: WE DON'T.

 

DON'T TREAD ON ME.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:45 | 5921182 Oldwood
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We are all fucked when my "liberties" must come at the cost of yours.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:14 | 5920543 Earl Slaughter-...
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"You don’t get ahead in life through savvy and connections."

 

The author of this article really might want to revisit and rethink this statement... 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:17 | 5920545 Jonesy
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I used to think about solutions to the problems, then came to realize it's all by design and working perfectly as planned, thus won't ever get fixed.  Not to mention the populace is dumber by the year (intentionally), and those on top have little problem convincing goyim they're working on the very issues (poverty, war, intolerance, immigration, etc) that they foster.

Protocols of Zion to a tee.  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:15 | 5920913 gregga777
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"The great importance of The Protocols lies in its permitting antisemites to reach beyond their traditional circles and find a large international audience, a process that continues to this day. The forgery poisoned public life wherever it appeared; it was "self-generating; a blueprint that migrated from one conspiracy to another."[27] The book's vagueness—almost no names, dates, or issues are specified—has been one key to this wide-ranging success. The purportedly Jewish authorship also helps to make the book more convincing. Its embrace of contradiction—that to advance, Jews use all tools available, including capitalism and communism, philo-Semitism and antisemitism, democracy and tyranny—made it possible for The Protocols to reach out to all: rich and poor, Right and Left, Christian and Muslim, American and Japanese."

Daniel Pipes, (1997), Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From, The Free Press, Simon & Shuster, page 85

Mr. Pipes is dead-on target in his observation that the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" poisons public life wherever it appears. That is certainly evident from the merely implied derogatory comments about Jews to the overtly Jew-hating rants that are regular features on ZeroHedge.

They certainly poison their own credibility and are a major disservice to ZH and the rational readership and commentators.

It's amazing that about 20 million people out of a world population of more than 7,000 million can so frighten and inspire such hate in some people.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:05 | 5921001 lakecity55
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So, how come the goals outlined in those protocols are being enacted???

Hmmmm?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:03 | 5920639 MDP
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"It’s a bipartisan bankruptcy, as Republicans agree to increase the welfare state as long as the Democrats agree to increase the warfare state. The only thing sustaining this debt based house of cards is a Federal Reserve which provides zero interest financing and a never ending willingness to debase our currency to keep the status quo in power."

 

Aaannd, boom goes the dynamite.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 01:53 | 5920691 Radical Marijuana
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Tons of information, complete with graphs, all presented through the WRONG FRAME OF REFERENCE, which was completed with the cherry on top quotation, that has become irrelevant, due to the deeper reasons for the real problems, for which superficial "solutions" are facile cruel jokes.

Jim Quinn fails to understand:

The fish rots from the head.

The problems that America has are primarily due to the best organized gangsters, the international banksters, capturing control over the political processes.

AFTER that fish first went rotten in the head, then that rot spread through to the tail. The American poor are the rotten tail of the rotting fish, whose rot started in the head of the American system, namely with the oligarchs, where the international ruling classes worked through the American ruling classes, to create social systems where there was almost nothing but organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups, manifesting cascading fractal patterns.

While I would NOT argue with any of the details presented in the article above, I would argue that its utter failure to address the real historical causes of those current problems is matched by a similar failure to comprehend what the real resolutions of those problems would require.

FIRST, one has to face the facts that the government is the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminal. SECOND, one should propose solutions which are consistent with those facts, namely, that there should be developed better organized crime.

The vast majority of people have become incompetent political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple, who have been brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories, which INCLUDES that the controlled opposition groups continue to stay within the same frame of reference. Therefore, although I do not believe that there is the slightest chance that enough people will understand and agree with this enough, in the foreseeable future, the only good solutions would be to democratize the death controls. Most of the problems outlined in the article above can be traced back to the ways that the public "money" supply was privatized, while those frauds continued to be enforced by governments, while then the tragic trajectory has been to more and more privatize the public murder systems, that backed up those already privatized "money" systems.

The deeper problems that Americans face are that they have already strip-mined the natural resources of a fresh continent, in seriously unsustainable ways. There is NO return to the days of Ben Franklin, when there was still an untapped abundance of natural resources which could be exploited. Instead, there must be adaptations to NOT being able to continue to grow at an exponential rate, which requires radically different death controls, which are theoretically possible, but yet, extremely improbable. The most likely futures are going to be that the ruling classes will arrange for conditions which will result in the majority of those that they rule over being mass murdered. The only genuinely realistic resolutions of the same problems would require better ways to operate the death controls, which are still absolutely necessary and vital to cope with the limits of exponential growth.

Indeed, I am attempting to combine the most probable theories with the most probable realities, which are that the runaway debt insanities are going to provoke death insanities, in which context some possibilities may emerge for the development of different death control systems. There is nothing less than different death controls systems which could work. However, first, I would expect that there has to be quite a bit more serious death insanities ...

For all of his apparent superficial intelligence, as manifested in the article above, Jim Quinn continues to have basically the wrong point of view, or wrong political paradigm. First, he does not want to admit the degree to which the government operates according to the principles and methods of organized crime, and so, second, he does not want to face the facts that the only realistic resolutions to those political problems are better organized crimes. In particular, the probable futures for America are primarily the issues of unsustainable exponential growth, running into the limits of diminishing returns from being able to strip-mine the planet's natural resources. By definition, that demands the development of different integrated systems of human, industrial and natural ecologies, and those are quintessentially going to be driven by different death control systems.

The idealized solutions would be to democratize the death controls as much as possible, through greater use of information, enabling higher consciousness, so that "We the People" recaptured more control over the combined money/murder systems. However, what one must expect will actually happen, since the money system has been already about 99% privatized, while the murder system has been about 75% privatized, is that the main thrust in the future will be towards achieving almost 100% privatization of the murder systems, which will manifest as provoking various Americans to mass murder each other, along with the imposition of democidal martial law. The ONLY realistic response to that would be to work towards directing those death insanity eruptions to evolve towards better death control systems. Of course, that appears to be practically impossible at the present time, but then, so are the consequences of economic collapse into chaos, provoking mass murders, and martial law.

Meanwhile, Jim Quinn is typical example of those who consistently underestimate what the real problems are, by orders of magnitude, and therefore, continues to indulge in various "solutions" based upon nostalgic nonsense, such as quoting Ben Franklin, back when there was a fresh continent full of natural resources to plunder and rape, versus now, when most of that has already been done.

Of course, there are an abundance of theoretical creative alternatives, but none of those are workable without some new death control systems to be their central core. The main way to help the poor would be to effectively democratize the death control systems. However, the more probable futures are death insanities done through increasingly fascist, privatized death control systems.

Overall, human beings and human civilizations should be understood as entropic pumps of energy flows, within their environmental ecology. There are no good solutions outside of that frame of reference. However, all of the established systems are run by the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, who maintain the maximum bullshit possible about what they are really doing, and thus, promote impossible ideals that actually cause the opposite to happen in the real world.

Jim Quinn's article above only superficially touches upon those deeper reasons why various efforts to "help the poor" have all ended up being badly backfiring bullshit. That superficial analysis tends to deliberately ignore the larger environmental factors, as well as even more so deliberately ignores how natural selection in the past has driven the development of cultural systems of artificial selection to become socially successful on the basis of the maximum possible deceits and frauds.

America has a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, which fish went rotten from its head to its tail. The poor, at the bottom of the social pyramid systems, have adapted to living inside of an overall debt slavery. They were never able to prevent that from happening. They were victims of the most scientific brainwashing that money could buy, convincing them to believe in the psychotic state religions of the monetary system and national security: debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits. Therefore, America has developed debt insanities, which are headed towards provoking death insanities. To better understand those problems, in order to perhaps weather the coming severe social storms that are going to blow through, we should be attempting to tack as close into the wind as possible, regarding those on-coming storms, so that the approaching death insanities may be directed to develop better death controls systems in the future ...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 04:33 | 5920884 gregga777
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Way too much information…

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:24 | 5920923 cheech_wizard
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Especially considering it would take far less time to use a nail gun...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:03 | 5921082 Refuse-Resist
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Way too short of an attention span.

 

RM knows his shit, and if you took time to read it and consider what he's saying, you might, if you have sufficient IQ, understand it.

 

the TLDR generation is fucked.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:14 | 5921427 gswifty
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Here's what you need to know that's directly 'on topic'. 

 

"Meanwhile, Jim Quinn is typical example of those who consistently underestimate what the real problems are, by orders of magnitude, and therefore, continues to indulge in various "solutions" based upon nostalgic nonsense, such as quoting Ben Franklin, back when there was a fresh continent full of natural resources to plunder and rape, versus now, when most of that has already been done."

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:53 | 5922458 Radical Marijuana
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Yes, gswifty, that is the gist of the most important point!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:04 | 5921221 Oldwood
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While I follow your logic and agree with much of it, what I fail to follow is your "effectively democratize the death control systems" which would suggest that you believe in some government enforced euthanasia determined by some democratic process. This scares the shit out of me far more than your "death insanity" if you consider that we are already suffering under a form of "democratic insanity" given that people seem to have voted for this shit and given as you point out it is all based on "organized gangsters" that use propaganda and disinformation to manipulate all of us. Our principle difficulties come from the simple abandonment of the constitution which is designed to limit the power not just of our government, but its principle tool, democracy. Democracy IS the weapon of choice to drive us into tyranny...as we have all been witnessing. Those who choose to live as sheep will die as sheep. Our choice is to be within the herd that is ultimately consumed for whatever purpose deemed necessary. I am not for eliminating democracy, only limiting it to its ability to define its own rights and not those of "others". Nature has always provided death control and really doesn't need our help. Nature has provided us the tools needed and if we fail to use them properly, nature will happily take them back.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:18 | 5921436 gswifty
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Good question. I can venture a guess towards an answer, but I much rather hear from Mr Marijuana on this.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:31 | 5923173 MEAN BUSINESS
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What Oldwood doesn't get is the "greater use of information leading to higher consciousness" so I'll take a stab at it: it's similar to people coming to read Zero Hedge articles in the hope of getting information to improve their situation. There is so much information out there it's getting harder and harder to absorb it all let alone make actual use of it. At the end of the day you'd like to think you've got better  information hence able to make better use of it to make better decisions. 

If you had great information that a force ten storm was headed your way would you immediately pack a picnic lunch and head for the beach? Or can you make better use of that great info and stay home and batten down the hatches? Hmmm, don't think getting washed away in the pounding waves leads to higher consciousness!

The information regarding the coming severe social storms is, as RM says, almost impossible to underestimate. That's why he rails against articles that candy coat the situation or leave people in a nostalgic haze reaching for impossible ideals (guilty! lol). It is info on the coming storms that pushes us to figure out how to make better use of it in uncomfortable ways that makes us start become more conscious of what we're doing and why. So when it comes to better death controls, death controls being central, it becomes pretty clear that having our sons and daughters marched off to die in wars because TPTB told us a pack of lies is about as un-democratic as it gets. This is where it starts to get complicated...

To be rather blunt about it, I think we're already seeing better info coming from Japan. Young women are tearing up their fake democracy ballots and beginning Feminism 3.0, voting with their uterus, and hence operating their own death controls. As the storm intensifies over the next several decades, there will be a time where very few children will be wanted. Like I said it's complicated and deeply saddening but I refuse to buy the "everything is awesome" bullshit. Listen again to what Michelle Jarraud, Sec-Gen of the WMO which co-sponsors the IPCC said just last November:

 

"Now we are at the point where some of the excuses which were used in Copenhagen 2009 for not taking action, which was basically some uncertainties on some of the questions, although there was a  lot of evidence on many of them, now is no longer valid. 

   It's no longer tenable. Ignorance can no longer be used as an excuse for no action and this is a fundamental difference compared to 2009. Why? Because in 50 years from now, actually in 30 years from now, governments, but not only governments, decisions makers at all levels can be held accountable for the decisions which are not taken now. Because knowledge is there. WE KNOW. We have no excuse for no action. Thank You."

 

Dr. Michell Jarraud, Secretary General World Meteorological Organization, 02NOV14 in Copenhagen speaking at the IPCC AR5 WG4 press release.

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It's highly questionable we will get meaningful action. Batten down the hatches starting now.

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"Girls and Boys together, paint the mirror black. The Mirror ALWAYS lies." -Rush / Presto / WAR PAINT / 1989

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 22:26 | 5923828 Radical Marijuana
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"Paint the mirror black.

The mirror always lies."

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:05 | 5922908 Radical Marijuana
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I agree Oldwood.

Any idealized theories about artificial selection systems tend to be based upon the relatively irrational hopes that enough people would understand that enough ... while, IN FACT, we are actually headed in the opposite direction. That is why I attempted to present a more nuanced compromise position:

"I am attempting to combine the most probable theories with the most probable realities, which are that the runaway debt insanities are going to provoke death insanities, in which context some possibilities may emerge for the development of different death control systems."

The more realistic issues are not so much who should control, but who does control in the groups that do survive. Given that, frankly, most of my attempts to better understand how the human cultural systems of artificial selection actual work within the natural selection systems have no practical political applications, since neither the ruling classes, nor most of those they rule over, want to address those more radical truths.

The idealized notions regarding the democratization of the death controls would be empowering more people with more information, enabling higher consciousness, so that human ecology decisions were made by more people, being more aware of what they we doing. Ideally, more people would be more aware of the facts. However, right now, asking for enough people to pay attention to even the most central social facts is asking for some series of prodigious political miracles!

The combined money/murder systems have resulted in the privatization of the powers of governments, while the vast majority of people have been conditioned to not want to know about that. The FIRST STEP towards democratization of the death controls would be for "We the People" to recapture control over the public money supply. However, for all the reasons which were beaten to death in Zero Hedge articles and comments, as presented for several years, that is NOT HAPPENING!

Ideally, death controls should be regarded as systematic, scientifically studied, sets of facts, through applying unitary mechanisms which included every phase of the life cycle. In that context, what we currently call "birth controls" are actually death controls. However, that the language we use is BACKWARD to the biological facts is typical about how damn difficult it would be to actually develop more efficient and effective death control systems ... while the automatic default settings of the established social pyramid systems are to for those at the bottom to perish, while those at the top, or the pyramidion people, manage to survive through those events. Ideally, enough people would understand enough that human civilizations are ACTUALLY TOROIDAL VORTICES, not static social pyramids, in order that the top and bottom could be better connected, because that was based on being able to perceive the ways that the top and bottom are ALREADY CONNECTED.

Although I have spent several decades developing my theories about artificial selection systems, my practical political conclusions continue more and more to be that "democracy" is already practically dead, since the public "money" supply has already been almost totally privatized, while the vast majority of people do not understand that, because they have been conditioned do not want to understand that. Since money is measurement backed by murder, there are no ways to fix the political economy problems outside of the human ecology problems. However, the established systems are entrenched in their attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance regarding those considerations.

Since the established systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS are still socially successful for the ruling classes at this time, while the vast majority of people are not willing or able to understand those ENFORCED FRAUDS enough to be able to change those, we continue to actually be TRAPPED IN THE VICIOUS SPIRALS OF THE PROFITS FROM FRAUDS BEING REINVESTED IN MORE FRAUDS, THROUGH THE FUNDING OF THE POLITICAL PROCESSES.

After spending much of the last few decades working on THAT PROBLEM, I have been forced into a stalemate situation.

IN FACT, ~99% of "We the People" ACT LIKE INCOMPETENT POLITICAL IDIOTS, while that continues to get worse, faster. Therefore, my ideas amount to nothing more than political science fiction and fantasy, that progress in political science is theoretically possible, although that continues to be practically impossible. Therefore, I endeavour to develop ways of thinking about things that "combine the most probable theories with the most probable realities, which are that the runaway debt insanities are going to provoke death insanities, in which context some possibilities may emerge for the development of different death control systems."

At present, I continue to indulge in the vain day dream that better understanding of the situation may enable better catalysis of the on-coming, currently out-of-control, transformations, so that the debt insanities, provoking death insanities, MIGHT be prevented from becoming as bad as they otherwise would become, and MAYBE we could recover from those developments faster than otherwise ???

At the present time, we can NOT be sure how hard and how fast running into the real limits of diminishing returns from being able to continue to strip-mine the planet's natural resources are going to be hit. Therefore, we can NOT be sure be sure how hard we are going to run into those walls, and so, only guess about how we might then bounce back over the edges of cliffs whose bottoms we cannot now perceive ...

As long as there are still enough technologies to continue to strip-mine the planet, then the current systems could continue. Most of the articles and comments published upon Zero Hedge are different perspectives regarding the various efforts being made to "kick the can on down the road" by being being able to continue to grow through increased growth, based on more strip-mining of the planet's natural resources, based on "paying" for that with "money" made out of nothing as debts.

Since the debt controls depend upon the death controls, since the banksters' frauds would not work unless those were enforced by governments, the established economic systems are based upon those ENFORCED FRAUDS, and so, the crucial questions for the future are to what degree will it be possible to continue to operate globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, by being able to back those up with the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs ???

In my view, anyone discussing the plight of poor people should perceive the overall issues of human ecology, within which are the issues of political economy. HOWEVER, there is no doubt that less than something like 0.000001% of the population are interested in thinking about the limits to growth, and that will probably continue to be the case until those limits force them to ... when that will probably already be too late to stop the runaway debt insanities from provoking corresponding death insanities.

At the present time, I am quite SURE that there are less than something like 0.000001% of the people who are interesting in thinking in more radical ways about how the death controls necessarily back up the debt controls. The first and foremost ways that the real limits of diminishing returns are going to manifest is through the established financial systems, based on the ENFORCED FRAUDS of making the public "money" supply out of nothing, in ways that always TOOK FOR GRANTED that there were still enough natural resources to continue to strip-mine at an exponentially accelerating rate ...

Many of the articles and comments published on Zero Hedge continue to avoid facing the facts that we are going to run into those limits at an exponentially accelerating rate. Jim Quinn's article above was another example of doing that. My responses are based on the currently unclear contingencies of how fast and how hard we are going to run into the limits of diminishing returns from the strategies of strip-mining the planet.

One expects that those will cause wild oscillations, and counter-intuitive consequences, such as the swings in the price of oil during the last few years. Eventually, that kind of volatility while result in the debt insanities causing collapses into economic insanities, which will then provoke death insanities. Then, and probably only then, enough people MIGHT start to think differently, and recognize the necessity of recognizing more radical truths about the political economy inside of the human ecology, which all tracks back to militarism, as the ideology of the murder system, being what should be changed more than anything else.

In that context, "democratization" of the death controls represents an idealized expression of how to conduct better death control systems, that enable a more wide-spread use of information, enabling higher consciousness, so that there could develop better artificial selection systems. HOWEVER, that idealized "democratization" may only have some remote chance to emerge out of the the context where there have developed runaway death insanities, after the economic systems based on exponentially strip-mining the planet's natural resources have deliberately ignored the limits of whatever could have been otherwise sustainable, to therefore collapse into overshoot in a nutshell ...

Human systems of artificial selection were made and maintained by the natural selection systems. Natural selection pressures will continue to be the back-up systems. However, the most probable futures, at the present time, given the existing social pyramid systems, are for the limits to growth to manifest primarily in the forms of some human beings mass murdering other human beings.

Although it is NOT possible for me to be sure about what the real limits to technological progress, and therefore, the continued strip-mining of the planet's natural resources may be, my current hunches are that, within the next Century of so, the total human population will probably become less than 1 billion, rather than more that 10 billion. However, what I can be reasonably sure about it the overall abstract theory regarding human artificial systems operating inside of the natural selection systems, which means, BY DEFINITION, the human death control systems would be the keystone to any system of alternatives, or the lynch pin that would hold together the possible trains of interconnected human, industrial and natural ecologies.

However, NONE of those sorts of political progress are possible while still using a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, based upon governments enforcing privately controlled banks' frauds. Moreover, there are no genuine, long-term, solutions to the problems of people who live at the bottom of the social pyramid systems that do not transform the basic structure of those social pyramid systems. There are no possible "reforms" that could be adequate. There MUST be some kind of revolutions, one way or another, sooner or later ... and those should be based upon intellectual scientific revolutions.

P.S.

I do not like to use the euphemisms of euthanasia, nor eugenics. I prefer to regarding murder systems through the ideologies of militarism, which therefore regards terms as euthanasia or eugenics, as having been merely more examples of deceits and treacheries, which end up being the opposite of what they pretend that they are. I prefer to call a spade a spade, in the sense that all aspects of death controls are death controls. I am interested in better militarism, as a better ideology for the murder system.

I believe that is made imperative by the development of weapons of mass destruction ... although, again, I am sure that less than 0.000001% of the population is able and willing to think about that in those ways which I am recommending should be thought about. Therefore, I agreed with your comment, Oldwood, and sympathize with your reservations. However, I do not think we are going to get a choice! People ARE going to run into the limits of strip-mining the planet's natural resources in ways which continue to be based on their attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance regarding them doing that ... as demonstrated by how the ENFORCED FRAUDS, of making more "money" out of nothing as debts in order to "pay" for doing that are the currently entrenched systems, whereby the profits from those frauds continue to be able to be reinvested in more frauds, through the ways that the political processes are being funded.

P.P.S.

Personally, I hope that we do have more time to continue to "kick the can down the road" in order to avoid the runaway debt insanities finally causing economic collapses into chaos, that then provoke death insanities. However, that hope tends to rely upon underestimating the mathematics of exponential growth of all those problems automatically getting worse, faster:

http://www.albartlett.org/

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

--- Al Bartlett

All of my studies, for several decades, have convinced me that things are actually way worse than most people still want to believe! (I hope that I am wrong!) But nevertheless, even IF we do have more time to adapt, the same basic theories regarding the development of better integrated systems of human, industrial and natural ecologies, in which the death controls are central, continue to be theoretically valid, nonetheless. Primarily, the requires that we develop social bookkeeping systems based on understanding general energy systems, rather than continue to use the established banksters' bookkeeping systems, which are ENFORCED FRAUDS that get away with pretending that those are not ENFORCED FRAUDS.

The established ENFORCED FRAUDS drive social polarization to manifest, as outlined in the social facts presented in the article above by Jim Quinn. Those ENFORCED FRAUDS also drive WORSE destruction of the natural world, which will probably trump the social polarization issues, (which is why I thought Jim Quinn's article was so pathetically superficial, and old-fashioned, due to the degree that he ignored that.)

To cope with the social facts that we have a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, which deliberately ignores the basic laws of nature, by making "money" out of nothing, one has to understand the deeper reasons how and why that systems was possible to exist WITHIN THE LAWS OF NATURE, AS ENFORCED FRAUDS. That deeper understanding requires the kinds of paradigm shifts that guys like Jim Quinn do not want to consider, because they do not want to face the facts that governments are the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. Since guys like Jim Quinn tend to underestimate those social facts, he can promote superficial "solutions" which do not recognize the ways that better government MUST be better organized crimes, which requires better death controls.

I am simply extrapolating real human history, which was the history of warfare, and looking at the high probabilities that human beings mass murdering each other will also continue to follow an exponential growth curve, as the temporary, relative, peace and prosperity, based on the industrial revolutions being able to strip-mine a fresh planet runs into the real limits of diminishing returns. I am not interested in developing euphemistical language. I am interested in more radical truths.

I embrace militarism as the supreme ideology, because it deserves to be. However, I do not believe that old-fashioned militarisms could survive the development of weapons of mass destruction. I believe that the same kinds of radical paradigm shifts in perception in the physical sciences that made those weapons of mass destruction possible to build should be applied to political science. Of course, meanwhile, I continue to recognize that less than something like 0.000001% of the population is currently interested in doing that, since the ruling classes want to continue to be able to operate their combined money/murder systems, as socially successful ENFORCED FRAUDS, while the vast majority of those they rule over have been conditioned not want to understand those ENFORCED FRAUDS either.

The combined effects are that the established social pyramid systems operate as organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition, which is why I assert that Jim Quinn is another typical example of controlled opposition, who does not want to face the degree to which the world is controlled by the principles and methods of organized crime, and therefore is able and willing to propose bogus "solutions" which are not based upon facing those necessarily existing social facts.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:29 | 5923165 MEAN BUSINESS
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lol, you kill me RM !!!! I was trying to write a reply to Oldwood because I was curious about your "democratization of death controls" too and saw your other replies here and figured you'd moved on. For the last time I wish to express my frustration over the lack of a notification here at Zero Hedge when someone replies to a comment. We aren't even given the option to turn a notifier on/off. Controlled opposition indeed!

I was just about to post my comment when I saw yours. I'm posting my comment [unedited] anyway even though it looks like kindergarden stuff compared to yours (and many others here!)

p.s. I would have added that not having children would hopefully push us to understand unitary mechanisms better to make the transition to a Translithic civilization... happier.

Cheers : )

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:02 | 5921387 bobdog54
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RM - like you said about Quinn, I can't really argue with many of your points but unless someone writes a 10 volume, 1,200 page per volume series, all the aspects that even you had to superficially cover in quite a long comment, can only be merely mentioned.

All of the issues of the human race can be summarized into one root cause: we are indeed all human, capable of infinite behaviors and responses to others' infinite behaviors. Cuz we are humans, Utopia can only be a dream...

Quinn describes just one aspect of the human condition and you grabbed on to a couple more at a very high altitude.....

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:01 | 5922496 Radical Marijuana
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Yes, bobdog54, I "grabbed on to a couple more at a very high altitude..."

After all, Jim Quinn's moral exhortations still do not explain how any American workers are supposed to compete with factories that were relocated to take advantage of peasants working for low wages inside of situations with barely any environmental regulations, etc.!

Moreover, the American Dream was not developed during a time when those who owned robots would not need human workers!

As I discussed in a comment under this article:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-22/biggest-threat-low-and-middle-s...

The Biggest Threat To The Low And Middle Skilled Worker: Robots

Pretty well everything I say cruises at the high altitude of attempting to comprehend what it means to human civilization that progress in physical science and technology has become more AWESOME at an exponentially accelerating rate, while our politics has stayed at ridiculously low altitudes that do not perceive that.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:27 | 5920692 Youri Carma
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Good then that those $1.5 Trillion a year war spending boosted productivity not top mention the permanent bankster QE subdidies. But don't feed the poor.

Cost of National Security https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Tue, 03/24/2015 - 02:15 | 5920792 Magooo
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Nah - these are the real reasons:

 

HIGH PRICED OIL DESTROYS GROWTH

According to the OECD Economics Department and the International Monetary Fund Research Department, a sustained $10 per barrel increase in oil prices from $25 to $35 would result in the OECD as a whole losing 0.4% of GDP in the first and second years of higher prices.  http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/high_oil04sum.pdf

 

THE PERFECT STORM (see p. 59 onwards)

The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf

 

The marginal cost of the 50 largest oil and gas producers globally increased to US$92/bbl in 2011, an increase of 11% y-o-y and in-line with historical average CAGR growth.  http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/05/02/983171/marginal-oil-production-costs-are-heading-towards-100barrel/

 

Sanford C. Bernstein, the Wall Street research company, calls the rapid increase in production costs “the dark side of the golden age of shale”. In a recent analysis, it estimates that non-Opec marginal cost of production rose last year to $104.5 a barrel, up more than 13 per cent from $92.3 a barrel in 2011.   http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ec3bb622-c794-11e2-9c52-00144feab7de.html#axzz3T4sTXDB5

 

Steven Kopits from Douglas-Westwood said the productivity of new capital spending has fallen by a factor of five since 2000. “The vast majority of public oil and gas companies require oil prices of over $100 to achieve positive free cash flow under current capex and dividend programmes. Nearly half of the industry needs more than $120,” he said

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11024845/Oil-and-gas-company-debt-soars-to-danger-levels-to-cover-shortfall-in-cash.html

 

OIL BECOMING TOO EXPENSIVE TO EXTRACT

It emerged this week that the drilling of wells in the North Sea has crashed by around 50% this year, compared to the year-ago period. The reason for this is simple: the cost of extracting oil in North Sea has quintupled over the last decade, discouraging companies from investing within the region.  http://www.fool.co.uk/investing/2014/07/18/surging-north-sea-project-costs-are-putting-the-regions-future-at-risk-tullow-oil-plc-premier-oil-plc-xcite-energy-limited/

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 03:31 | 5920849 John_Coltrane
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To summarize this article:  the most important personal and societal traits are personal responsibility and self-discipline.  Anything that reduces those traits destroys both individuals and society.  Those traits are the only way you reduce the entropy of the universe which is a sort of first law of life and the indeed the purpose of life.  So instead of order you get chaos-just what we are seeing all over our nation. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:26 | 5920924 cheech_wizard
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+1000

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 03:49 | 5920861 enloe creek
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I got it. They should have a world wide war on poverty. Just let the U N borrow money and fund welfare for the entire world. And probably some job program. Like building hospitals schools and jails cause they will be necessary. But all that will create lift off and the economy will be fixed. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 04:33 | 5920885 Mr. Class and Q...
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Grab a seat and enjoy the decline, folks!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 04:44 | 5920891 Magooo
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All those red arrows....

 

Anyone care to explain how 50 buck oil correlates with this?

 

The marginal cost of the 50 largest oil and gas producers globally increased to US$92/bbl in 2011, an increase of 11% y-o-y and in-line with historical average CAGR growth.  http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/05/02/983171/marginal-oil-production-costs-are-heading-towards-100barrel/

 

Sanford C. Bernstein, the Wall Street research company, calls the rapid increase in production costs “the dark side of the golden age of shale”. In a recent analysis, it estimates that non-Opec marginal cost of production rose last year to $104.5 a barrel, up more than 13 per cent from $92.3 a barrel in 2011.   http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ec3bb622-c794-11e2-9c52-00144feab7de.html#axzz3T4sTXDB5

 

Steven Kopits from Douglas-Westwood said the productivity of new capital spending has fallen by a factor of five since 2000. “The vast majority of public oil and gas companies require oil prices of over $100 to achieve positive free cash flow under current capex and dividend programmes. Nearly half of the industry needs more than $120,” he said

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11024845/Oil-and-gas-company-debt-soars-to-danger-levels-to-cover-shortfall-in-cash.html

 

Keep on red arrowing you bunch of fucking donkeys.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:30 | 5920926 cheech_wizard
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The only one fucking a donkey here is you. Let me ask you this, does it go in easier if you are lubed up with some thirty weight?

Try re-reading the fucking article, it is not about the price of oil, you jack-hole.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:33 | 5920930 Ohne Deckung
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In oder to move up the socioeconomic ladder, this piece of shame and honor must already be in place.

What is the topic of the article to resolve. To make the poor generally more rich it isn't because that would affect the existence of the ominous ladder.

Is it to pass over better ideas to outfit the poor, which has always been viewed as the most secure asset to situate said ladder, to climb it up.

How this.

The existence of social discrimination is not in quest, but the how to avoid it's consequences. What a Hütchenspiel.

Itself not poor that's of course not an easy question to promote the uprising of the underground without getting shaken in same time.

The poor would say, stop raping all my efforts that do outfit yourself not to be as I am.

Kind of justice would be asked.

The war against poverty had made the war against the poor delicate. No one is intended to give up his privileged position against a more poor subject at site. This but is the meaning of justice.

So, if not wanting make kaputt what is making kaputt your picture of a just society, the bitchy bullying ladder in particular, but enraged to do anyway something good for the poor - what might this be.

The money put in the project of change this has not had a chance to stay long in the hands of the poor. You could speak of the poor as of an alibi to make other people rich if going over the flow of that capital.

To give'em more emphasized strokes to fight, as for instance the public in an arena is used to do so for to fire up the fun, this, it's nearly all what rests.

There is much more to debate of the like on the table, the efforts, how to kick ball without kicking it.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 06:47 | 5920978 NoPension
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The war on poverty is a great success.

Look around. You can now be a dipshit, with no brains or edumacation, breed like a rabbit, have no work ethic, be functionality illiterate, and...

Be fed. Be FAT even. Have shelter. Have entertainment. Have an entire government, Fed and State pulling for you. Have politicians who make their bones shilling for you.

In essence, have a somewhat nice ,easy life in the greatest land in the world.

When, in reality....you should die of starvation. Of exposure. Breeding shouldn't even be a thought.

Darwinism in reverse. Idiocracy.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:33 | 5921040 basho
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bravo, well said

unfortunately the people that should read it, can't read.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:15 | 5921261 swmnguy
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I believe it's been referred to as "Taking the Blue pill."

If you think that life is "somewhat nice, easy," you should try it for a while.  It's hell for the unlobotomized.  Eating garbage and being fat is not an aspirational condition.  Feeling sick all the time is not something to be desired.  Replicating one's own misery for another generation isn't all it's cracked up to be.  Yes, it is "Darwinism in reverse" and "Idiocracy."  But it's not an existence to be envied.  

I can't understand the undertone of envy people display when they talk about those who can't function autonomously in society.  Is it such a misery to be functional?  I don't find it to be so.  I wouldn't have it any other way, myself.  But then again, time after time I've taken "the Red pill."

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:43 | 5921043 Marco
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Current unemployment was not caused by a laziness epidemic you know ... sure wellfare is bad for self discipline, but self discipline doesn't magically create jobs.

If you want people to take care of themselves there has to be economic opportunity for them and wishful thinking doesn't qualify. Otherwise they'll take their constitutional right to availability of cheap guns and find oppurtunity some other way. Even if you have the fantasy that on average rational markets can guarantuee full employment you have to admit markets can become irrational for a while and I would argue that markets can stay irrational for longer than government can survive.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:51 | 5921061 Refuse-Resist
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"To me it reveals the complete and utter failure of LBJ’s Great Society programs and the feminist mantra that men aren’t necessary to raise children."

 

No shit.

LBJ:  "I'll have those naggers voting democrat for 100 years".

 

Feminsim.. Who are the founding mothers of feminism?  Read it and weep:

 

http://theendofzion.com/2014/03/01/feminism-a-jewish-war-on-women/

Does anyone think this is a coincidence? Who controls the central banks?  Which nation do many American leaders use for their dual citizenship? Who owns the MSM and Hollywood? Who run bartertown?

 

I'm sure it's all just a coincidence. And undamaged passports can fall 100 stories from a building where 100,000 tons of steel can melt at 900F for 45 minutes.  And unicorns do shit skittles, too.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:04 | 5921081 Curiously_Crazy
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  "“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”"

 

Erm. Has anyone realised that the situation in Franklins day is rather different to that we have today.

It's all good and well to spout off quotes but what welfare is doing these days is stopping the soup lines that occured during the late 20's and early 30's (and thus hiding the real situation from public view). It's not rocket science people. A lot of these people recieving said welfare are highly educated and not the bums you think of them as. Many worked for decades before being layed off.

Find something else to do you say? Well fuck you if you don't think that millions of others haven't 'tried something else to do' only to come to the realisation there are now 100 people applying for each job they are trying to get.

There is no demand. People are now fixing there own shit instead of hiring an electrician or plumber. People are also now avoiding/putting off going to doctors, dentists and other professionals. People are avoiding accountants and doing their tax themselves because lets face it for a majority of filers they are capable of doing it themselves with fuck all research.

I could go on forever about this.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:11 | 5921100 Refuse-Resist
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$895 per month for a bronze plan with a $12k deductible, no pediatricians with a 50 mile radius 'in my network', and 5 new insurance cards THIS FUCKING YEAR from United Health CAre (the cheapest possible carrier) assigning me a new primary care physician with each iteration.

 

No, I haven't been to a doctor in years.

 

In fact, last year we were on Blue Cross. None of my family went to a doctor last year. BC raised our premium $150 per month, over the previous $800 per month they had been charging.

 

That's more than the mortgage on my modest home in a rural area.

 

And what do I get from the Mafia Protection Racket?  Not a goddamn thing except government torpedos threatening to break my kneecaps or burn down my house if I don't pay.

 

America?  FUCK YEAH!

 

Stares at red white and blue eagle soaring overhead in slow motion who happens to be leaving persistent contrails (or is that a Russian jet?), spottting terrorists with his eagle eye, and calling in the NSA and the drones.

 

Since once isn't enough to demonstrate my enthusiasm: FUCK YEAH!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:29 | 5921479 gswifty
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Bam! That's some hard truthiness right there.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:04 | 5921222 Batman11
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The decline in poverty stops in 1970 - what happened then?

1)    Real take home wages stopped rising

2)    The beginnings of financialisation

The power of finance being the power of debt and the debt sits with those least able to afford it:

a) Those with excess capital invest it and collect interest and rent.

b) Those with insufficient capital borrow money and pay interest and rent.

The source of the trickle up effect and growing inequality.

(The trickledown effect is a fictitious invention of US billionaires looking for lower taxes).

Note the latest financial fads, who can we target that needs debt (loans)?

Sub-prime housing; sub-prime auto-loans and students.

Welfare needs to keep rising to allow the poor to pay their debts to the bankers and maintain the trickle up effect.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:09 | 5921242 Batman11
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"Debt, The First Five Thousand Years" by David Graeber shows how ancient societies had debt jubilees.

These were entirely necessary before all the peasants became enslaved to the rich.

In those days you and your family were taken as slaves (debt pawns) when you couldn't pay your debts.

Not that the elite were being altruistic, they needed a free peasantry to form their armies when attacked.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:07 | 5921230 Batman11
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If you change your surname to Clinton or Bush you can join the Oligarchy and get to the top.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:09 | 5921236 swmnguy
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This article is a good summary of all the various apologetics for the status quo and the oligarchy of the Elites.  The Elites keep removing the rungs of the "ladder of success" and blame those who then can't climb up.

Of course hard work, self-discipline and tenacity are keys to success, for those who can't inherit success.  But it's well-documented that upward social mobility is at a low ebb right now.  Why is that?  The author, like all those born with privileges they think they've earned, says it's obvious that it's the fault of those born on the low end of the social spectrum.

The author described the symptoms of poverty well, but then he intentionally puts the cart in front of the horse and calls those symptoms causes.  Yes, of course, single-parenthood deprives a child of stability and security.  Yes, being obese, illiterate, anti-intellectual, and dependent will prevent socio-economic advancement.  Yet these are symptoms of poverty, which propogate poverty.  Poverty is the cause.  As any real Conservative can tell you, Poverty is about far more than a lack of money.  That is a temporary condition.  Poverty is not temporary.  I grew up in a family with no money, but I can't say we were in poverty.  I am the only member of my family going back 3 generations without a 4-year degree; much less the advanced degrees most of my family members have.  We had living, tangible examples of success in our lives; as well as a couple living, tangible examples of failure as warnings.  My family members have all joined the middle, and in some cases upper-middle, classes; through the hard work and discipline noted.  But we had the tools to work with.  

After 13 years and counting of exposure to the Public Schools of a large metro area, I can say with certainty that children of poverty, not just penury but poverty; do not have access to these tools.  They just don't.

I would agree that social welfare programs have not, and will not, provide these children with those tools.  Where I differ with the author and most critics of these programs is that these programs were never intended nor designed to provide access to those tools.  I have personal experience with these programs, having grown up poor.  My parents had education and the tools for success, but severe health problems got in the way. I started working farm jobs when I was 11, through a county "jobs for youth" program.  Every dollar I earned was subtracted, dollar-for-dollar, from our family's welfare grant.  That was to teach me the value of work, I guess; get out there, work hard, and be penalized and held back for moralistic reasons.  I did learn.  I got out of the jobs program and got the work on my own; cash under-the-table.

No, the purpose of social welfare programs is not to eliminate Poverty, no matter what people say or wish to believe.  The purpose is to maintain poverty, in docile acquiescence.  The Elites implemented these programs as a response to the 1930s, when those dumped into poverty, along with those accustomed to it, began to revolt.  The SNAP and EBT cards are the modern replacement for the soup kitchens and bread lines of the past.  With SNAP and EBT, however, the impoverished never get together in one place to see how many they are, nor do they share experiences of exclusion, nor do they decide to strike back against those who keep the status quo in place.

Go ahead and eliminate the Soma of welfare programs.  What will you say about the social disorder that will inevitably ensue?  It wasn't idealists who implemented these programs for idealistic reasons.  The Elites did it, to buy tranquility.  Forget that at your peril.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:35 | 5921500 gswifty
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Yes, sir. Mistaking symptoms for causes. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:19 | 5921272 Peanut Butter E...
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Single family head by female households result in children with less chance of being successful in the society. Those divorce Judges really need to pay attention to this part and assign fathers as main caregiver in the divorce cases in the future! Stop the default on female being the main caregiver and have all men be the main caregiver for all future divorce cases which should result in better outcome for our future generation!

This way at least those divorced mothers can stop gouging from their ex and no more spousal supports, and they can benefit by moving on to start another family without worrying about their children who are better off with their father.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:53 | 5921368 Winston of Oceania
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Might even lower the divorce rate all by itself...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:29 | 5922391 Peanut Butter E...
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I'm pretty sure the rate will stay the same as women will just marry another men to start a family which can lead to additional potential divorce case. But at least the kids are better off since father can take better care and provide for them better than mother.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:34 | 5921318 MuleRider
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That's because there was never a "war on poverty."  It was always just a "war to buy votes."

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:28 | 5921715 SweetDoug
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requiring able-bodied parents to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving aid.

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My sister is a fat-fuck-welfare-receving slob with her husband on disability. If those two lazy fucking seagulls, goddamn bluejaying, handout, grabbing lazy fucks had to be up and dressed, and downtown for 8 pm just to walk in and punch a clock and then return at 4 pm, just to punch the clock, they'd be off their bogus disability/welfare ticket in a month.

Let me quote them…

"Heh! Heah! Heah! Heah! We'd both have to be working to make this much money!"

 

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V-V

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:15 | 5921899 swmnguy
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You sound jealous.  What's so appealing?  The obesity?  The lack of purpose?  The ill-health?  The complete dependence on others to look out for one's own best interests?

Sorry.  While it's galling to see people mis-living their lives, I can't envy them.  I like work, self-determination, autonomy, and good health.  Indeed, I've taken it so far I won't even hold a job.  I got sick of supporting the social-climbing ambitions of my so-called superiors at my last job 11 years ago; walked out; and make more money now than I ever did then, working less and devoting more time to my family and the things I care about. Funny, a guy can make a pretty good living off the fruits of his labor, if he only has to feed his own family instead of layers of parasites above on the org. chart.

As much as I can't stand the parasitism and rent-seeking of corporate capitalism, I can't envy those who can't even get it together to begin to live their own lives purposefully.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:30 | 5922824 swmnguy
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By the down-arrow, without comment, I can only assume somebody really hates work, responsibility and self-direction, and is in fact jealous of people so fucked-up they can't fend for themselves.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:37 | 5921755 wwxx
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This is for the guy that wrote this article.

 

I could put everyone of those 'fuckers' to work, it would be easy and I would pay a decent wage of no less than $10/hr-40 hrs/wk, with diverse opportunities in many fields, international even.   

 

The problem is... I don't run this country, and the powers that be, be they liberal or conservative, have sold out--that too is a fact or statistic, dating back to the 1950's if you like.  I'm sure there is a bar graph somewhere that demonstrates this point, a bar graph dating back to the 1950's even, as if that time has anything whatsoever to do with the 'new normal': the current lack of common sense leadership.

 

So you can bitch & moan & point your crooked fingers, and don't be surprized if your welcomed with a good ole' American 'FUCK YOU & THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON".  And in case you don't understand that, think of it like this: really who gives a shit how fucked up these government programs are at this time? 

 

It seems the best you (the author of this essay) can do, is point your crooked fingers at people in general...and tell them how fucked up they really are.  You found every bad example your corrupted mind could think of, and I don't mind saying FUCK YOU & YOUR past HERITAGE.

 

I suppose (the author of this essay) would like to return to some 'dream' full of snow and black & white TV's.  As if, -somehow- poor people were simply not part of 'the dream'.  FUCK YOU, YOUR SO FULL OF SHIT, AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU JUST HOW FULL OF SHIT YOU REALLY ARE. 

 

And how come you don't have a dream with poor people in it?  How come your dream doesn't have some weeds growing in the front yard?  How come when you wake from 'your dream' your soaked in piss and you rather enjoy it?  How come your dream requires a college education to create a vast parking lot?  Some like you might even say 'we educated some folks', and actually believe that is their job, their destiny in life...to spread this tripe far and wide, in full confidence that the statistics somehow justify 'your dream'.  It seemed victorious in your dream, yeah many dreams, as you squished the guts under your treads, marching to some song full of pomp.

 

Your (the author of this essay) honour is backward, believing that marriage will save the day.  Have you never dreamed of a divorced couple?  And the stupid shit they must go thru to break that partnership.  Obviously your dreams have never known disgust, distress, embarrassment, and disappointment...as if those things don't exist...heyyyyyyy lets air out our dirty laundry in court, to make it public, because the law requires it.  The law required it, and 'your dream' never thought twice about paying the money and asking permission from the government so you could uphold your past heritage with the issuance of yet another marriage license.  And somehow in your article, you seem to think that those without a marriage contract are beneath you.  FUCK YOU.  They exist, they are real, and you are no better than them, and their heritage is just as good as yours, albeit different.

 

Oh and by the way, do you want to see some stupid people?  Just go to your box of statistics, and see if you cannot find college educated people that are poor, working below their educated means.  That too is part of the 'new normal', or haven't you heard?  Perhaps you haven't noticed the statistics of all those 'highly educated immigrants' imported especially for the likes of the author of this fucking essay.

 

wwxx 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:54 | 5922015 gswifty
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That was one of the best Fuck yous I've heard in a while. Cheers!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:55 | 5921839 sam site
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Protestant historian Eric Jon Phelps describes how the government promotion of the population expansion of black and later hispanic populations have been used to destroy American National Sovereignty. 

The hidden agenda is to use minorities to grab greater centralized control from state to federal to world domination by a hidden criminal cabal obsessed with power and control over the entire planet. 

This is analogous to the British drawing up Iraq with three opposing factions making it far easier to control by foreigners - similar to a divide and conquer strategy.

According to Phelps, foreign elements blocked the re-settlement of blacks back to Africa after the civil war and used the granting of US citizenship to blacks in the

14th Amendment as a way of grabbing power for the Federal government over states rights.  After the 14th Amendment passed Federal law took precedence over state law as we all became US citizens first, then state citizens. 

The opposite was true before this 1868 law passed.  Of course that wasn't taught in our controlled education.

Blacks were used in a similar Federal power grab with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that vastly expanded Federal-level nanny-state thought-police regulatory powers. 

The expansion of minority populations through immigration "reform" and welfare programs that rewarded illigitimacy at public expense, served the interests of those who seek to dilute a common American culture, heritage and sovereign national laws, paving the way for a NWO globalist takeover. 

The next time you see advertisements showing inter-racial couples as a normal occurrance, you are seeing the power of this hidden foreign control and manipulation furthering their "weakening of America" and ultimate takeover agenda.

Just like their tarring with the racist brush anyone critical of Zionist Israeli policies, you can also expect a racist tarring if you even whisper the suggestion that minorities are being exploited by a hidden, foreign, parasitic agenda.

see Eric Jon Phelps - Vatican Assassins, Jesuit Order, Knights of Malta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31TmQ9GwU

 

 

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:06 | 5922042 Dr. Destructo
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"The primary cause of their poverty and dependency on government are the policies implemented by liberal politicians which have destroyed the family unit, promoted deviant behavior, encouraged the production of bastard children, eliminated the need for personal responsibility, provided no consequences for bad life choices, and bankrupted the nation. The rise of the welfare state has coincided with the decline of the American state. The proliferation of welfare programs has broken down the behaviors, social norms and cultural standards that lead to self-reliance, generating a pattern of growing inter-generational reliance upon government handouts. By undermining productive social norms, welfare creates a need for even greater succor in the future."

 

Straight out of the mind of Leo Strauss, who the father of Neoconservatism.  

The delusion is strong with this author.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:59 | 5922251 Monty Burns
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Doesn't matter who else said it. What Quinn wrote is true. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:53 | 5922442 Dr. Destructo
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All sides believe their delusion is true, but all sides no matter how they differ serve the same purpose: dividing the people.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 15:29 | 5930620 TeethVillage88s
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Can't determine if Quinn just looks at the Symptoms and not all possible reasons/problems.

If Outsourcing Overseas, Off Shore Production, Free (Slave) Trade, Automation reducing employment, computers reducing employment, Robots reducing employment, lack of Domestic Investment, Big Corporations getting bigger and merging to reduce employment, Poor Education, Few Nationally available Apprentice Programs, decrease in ingenuity and inventions per capita (not by Corporations)... could mean poor jobs environment is getting worse especially since 1979.

Probably Investment in Capital Equipment and Facilities is Decreasing also ....as we see more businesses closing... and more control by the few. And it appears large Corporations can cope with the heavy regulations, tax laws, get financing easier, and have advantages over smaller businesses in many ways... including Lobbying for Advantages and Tax Loopholes.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:39 | 5922861 draego
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>> Liberals think it is cruel and inhumane to make poor people work.

 

I think more than that that liberals realize that people tend to get more conservative when they work, so it's to their disadvantage to help people wean themselves from the public tit.

The take-away being that liberal politicians are willing to perpetuate policies that will destroy the nation in the long run in order to keep their positions in the short run. Nice.

 

Steven in Dallas

 

 

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