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Stick to the Constitution~ It's the best formula.
Posted on 01/22/2011 7:21:47 AM PST by Repulican Donkey
We always yearn for new ideas. They really do not exist.
Truth is we are not in unchartered waters. US history is filled with cyclical financial booms, bust, bubbles and boondoggles. We had a national bank, then we killed the national bank under Jackson and then we created a new national bank with the Fed. In the 1840's America was on an "internal improvement" binge driven by the success of the Erie Canal. Everybody wanted to invest in canals, but the locomotive was already chugging along so by the time the canals were dug they were obsolete. Charles Dickens hated the United States because he lost a fortune on canals and hated even more that he had to come here to give readings of his works to make ends meet.
The Chicago Fire devestated the national economy because insurance companies were leveraged so badly they could not cover the claims.
The Depression of 1919 was more severe than the so called Great Depression but it ended sooner because the government cut its budget and lowered taxes instead of launching the New Deal welfare concept.
This retired educator has seen all the recycling of "new" ideas nearly annually through thirty years. First we grouped kids by ability then we decided not grouping them was a new idea. There was new math but it went away quietly. Self esteem was a new idea but that didn't work out either. Whole language was supposed to be far superior to grammar, spelling, punctuation and practice. So we have a generation of young adults with language skills that are like, u know, totally awsome, dude!
There are no new ideas. Infection is huge problem and we spend millions training people to wash their hands, something they should have learned in tottlerdom except dad had left mom and she was too busy trying to find herself back then. So there are millions of Americans who see no problem wiping their backsides and walking away without washing their hands and many of them are the doctors examining the patients in hospitals!
Life is now reteaching people some of age old truths but it seems many politicians are having difficulty learning. Examples of those truths are:
One can only spend more than one earns for a limited time.
Saving for a rainy day is important because rain is inevitable.
If printing money is a solution why can't we all just print our own?
Our nation will always have enemies and we need to be tougher and meaner than they are.
Nothing is ever free. Somebody, somewhere is paying for it.
Strong families make a strong nation.
Marriage will always be between a man and a woman no matter what the government claims.
Something being legal does not make it right.
Wash your hands to stay healthy.
Most of what we humans consider important is folly.
No new ideas under the sun. Even Owl Gore had to make things up like his famous quote “A Zebra can not change its spots”.
“We always yearn for new ideas. They really do not exist. “
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What was yer first clue???
Apologies...couldn’t resist!
Semper Fidelis, friend!
Gunny G
aka: Dick Gaines
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“There is nothing new under the sun” was first uttered almost 3000 years ago.
and is still true today.
Almost everything you see around you in this world was a new idea at first: computers, cars, TV, ipods, microwaves, etc. But human nature has not changed and that is why we can understand what people said in ancient times.
In The Republic, Plato sought to define ‘justice.’
The computer is an entirely new and original tool.
It only became possible after early 20th century physicists conceived of quantum mechanics. Also completely new.
Yes, and the new army brigades are essentially the same as the regimental combat teams that fought the Korean War.
Penicillin
water chlorination
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Stick to the Constitution~ It's the best formula.
There are six billion humans, and the human soul is constant.
But even though Calculus had its antecedents in Archimedes Method of Mechanical Theorems and James Gregory’s and Isaac Barrow’s Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Isaac Newton created the product rule, chain rule, law of higher derivatives, taylor series and analytical functions. Not bad for a new idea.
Then again, Gottfried Leibniz came up with most of the same ideas, and published them, leaving Newton sincerely but falsely accusing him of plagiarism.
With respect, a man named Babbage developed the first mechanical computer in the early 1800’s.
The most important truths:
Everyone dies.
Heaven and hell are real.
You can only get to the Father through the Son.
Before the "progressive" einstein wannabes and their campus colluders set about trying to "improve" society they should consider that the "wisdom of the ancients" has brought us this far.
I don’t mean to quibble, but the Colt 45 (I own two) evolved from the Walker Colt that evolved from the Sprinfield 1825 Colt, that evolved from the pepperbox with rotating barrels. It was an innovation, but not a new idea.
Penicillin was a discovery, but not a new idea. China existed as a concept before Marco Polo popularized it just as antibodies existed before they were discovered and standardized.
Water chlorination is a bit tougher, but I think I could, after some research, show it was an innovation but not a new original idea. I’m not diminishing the revolutionary importance of any of the three at all.
Actually there are plenty of new ideas. Just not in politics, economics or religion. But then again, new ideas in those three tend to hurt people.
Even the Consitution, for which I have great respect, is based on the original idea of divinely endowed human liberty. The Constitution is the best shot anybody has had at limiting the powers of government to diminish that liberty.
-- Goethe
We are too busy consuming to conceive new ideas.
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