Posted on 11/27/2008 7:16:07 PM PST by BCW
“If you want to know what’s happening to America, it’s simple: a large percentage of the population is simply irrelevant in today’s world.”
But do not sell the world short. A large percentage of the population of the WORLD is irrelevant and treated as such.
As for education, mine began when I left School. Whose didn't? I work in an industry which has learned the hard way that an education WITHOUT experience is no match for experience without a degree.
This kind of brings into focus why our founders had such huge arguments about a 'National Bank' back at the beginning of our nation. Seems all those boring history lessons that we've forgotten are now being repeated.
many of your comments are parodies of conservatism, pro-life, capitalist,etc. and not particularly good parodies. I know that a good number of folks who post here are struggling in many ways, so I find your remarks somewhat offensive and naive.
Conservatives, Christians, handicapped, and elderly.
But do not sell the world short. A large percentage of the population of the WORLD is irrelevant and treated as such.
That’s what bothers me. Look at how the world treats the irrelevant.
You can't have global socialism as long as the richest nation in the world harbors political freedom and a capitalist-friendly free market economy. This is the underlying issue for the Marxist project described above. Obama isn't interested in mass exterminations. But he is interested in destroying the fundamentals of the free market-- meaning the currency, among other things.
For confirmation, watch Paul Volker. My guess is, he's a figleaf to ease Obama's seizing of power, but he won't want to go along with the Obama agenda. I say he gets his hat and leaves the administration within six months.
That will be the signal to batten down the hatches as much as you can.
I don’t know..I think I should make a decent wage based on my market value. I damn sure know it’s not 60 cents an hour though. Like I said before, you do what you need to in order to make your profit. I won’t judge you as long as it’s legal. Me, I have a day job that pays all right and I trade. I like trading more and will probably be making the switch over to full time in 09. We all make our way differently.
As Sherm Potter used to say, “horse hockey”.
Better.
You are not foolish. You are prescient. I have lost track of how many books of history I have read. I have studied the Bible for over 30 years. I have the same feeling deep in my gut. Not just because of politics. Something bad is coming. Call me a whiny Jeremiah,but something is close. Wordsworth wrote words to the effect that “The center will not hold, things fall apart,and what rough Beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.” (from memory,forgive my sloppy quote.) A more contemporary poet(?) put it this way: “I see a bad moon arisen’ I see trouble on the way.” It’s coming.
"THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45"
by Milton Mayer
The University of Chicago Press
From the chapter, "But then it was too late" pages 169 to 172, 1966 edition.
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?---well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty."
"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'
"And you ARE an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh- pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have."
"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to---to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait."
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worse act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked---if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jew swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in---your nation, your people--- is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibilty even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way."
"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succesion of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably everyday, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany could not have imagined."
"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done, (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the University when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair."
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Welcome aboard noobie.
Get some FReeper education.
Mark my words: The first to go will be the registered sex offenders. Everyone here (and most everywhere else) will cheer -- but when you see that happening better make tracks to get out fast because the precedents will be set.
Thanks...It’s more the challenge than the profit. I only need enough for my family to get by and the hardware to protect them from the disaster that’s coming with the Dems in control. Good luck to you as well..
I think it all boils down to a series of congresses made up of self serving men and women who are only concerned with gratifying their immediate need for power and money. Their only justification for passing laws and catering to certain interest groups is to get themselves re-elected. They cannot see any future beyond the next election. They care not for their country, and some may actually hate it. After the coming American Revolution, they deserve to be rounded up and sent to the proposed (by me) penal colony on Attu.
What would you sell to the 6o cent per hour workers that you would profit so much? Keep thinking about it, you are only half way there.
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