[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

The flat earthers are the mindless enviro fanatics who are oh so firmly committed to a return to feudalism. Their breathless, witless, fascist preachments are the stuff of nightmares and monsters. Avoid them, at all cost.

[Raycpa]

We should not rob from the gleaners.

[babble-on]

That’s a stupid article.

[Aevery_Freeman]

...the sweating slave and the stench of Babylon...

The rich love the poor but hate the middle-class.

Nothing makes the mountain feel magnificent more than a deep valley.

[GOPJ]

"Microlending and financial literacy — what is this really about?" Buffett asks. "People will certainly learn how to integrate into our system of debt and repayment with interest. People will rise above making $2 a day to enter our world of goods and services so they can buy more. But doesn’t all this just feed the beast?"

To the slum dwellers, the beast isn't capitalism, it's that gnawing feeling in your stomach when you haven't eaten for a day. But Peter Buffett, who lives a life almost as privileged as Prince Charles, bemoans the idea of getting people to the point where they aren't worried about where their next meal is coming from because it just turns them into capitalists and consumers. And before you know it, they're buying big screen televisions and writing op-eds in the New York Times on the futility of philanthropy.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if for one week - just one week - liberal elite blowhards could live at the dump outside Managua Nicaragua and 'pick' along with the folks who live there?

[blueunicorn6]

Greenfield is brilliant. He has an eye for the important issues. His level of analysis is remarkable. He is an excellent writer. He does this almost every day. The man is amazing.

[GOPJ]

Communist modernism was a Potemkin village, a cheap tacky curtain and behind it, the sweating slave and the stench of Babylon. The modernism of the progressive the same facade covered in sociology textbooks, New York Times op-eds and teleprompter speeches. Behind it lie the ruins of Detroit, tribal violence in the slums of every major city and an economy in which there is no more room for the middle class except as clerks in the government bureaucracy.

New York Times won a Pulitzer for covering up this horror...

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[TADSLOS]

The liberal billionaire who clamors about sustainability likes progress. What he dislikes is the middle class with its mass produced cars and homes, cheap restaurants full of fatty foods and television sets and daily deliveries of cardboard boxes full of stuff and shopping malls. He thinks, in all sincerity, that they would be happier and more spiritually fulfilled as peasants. It's not an original idea.

Feudalism never really went away.

[Mercat]

A book comes to mind - The Ghost Map by Stephen Berlin Johnson. Its about London in the mid 1800s when the last great cholera epidemic occurred. Without going into detail, it describes the sanitation system which consisted of people who cleaned out cisterns and cess pools and sold the night soil to the farmers. There was a whole class of people who made a living off of collected dog poop to sell the the tanners who used it to soften leather. It goes on and on. Fascinating book. One of my favorites. We’re not that far from those times.

[Popman]

The Global Warming hysteria is about absolute power over every man, woman and child on earth.

That's it in a nutshell...

Owl Gore who started this should be hung for treason...

[GeronL]

They have already won.

The bills we cannot repay will come due soon enough.

[GeronL]

Somehow this shows how concerned about the poor they really are. lol.