Posted on 08/02/2009 7:31:04 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
President Barack Obama talks about restoring economic growth. But his science adviser, John Holdren, once called for zero economic growth while writing with Paul and Anne Ehrlich--who predicted mass starvation in the 1970s.
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Admittedly, President Obama hasn't formally adopted this goal. But by putting the economy into hock and running up government borrowing, which even the Congressional Budget Office warns will crowd out private investment, the president seems determined to prevent a robust recovery. Maybe John Holdren will get his wish after all.
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Zero? How about negative growth!
If the insane ideas they’re trying to push through get passed, we’ll likely end up with permanent zero growth, or very close to it.
Always room for improvement isn't there.
Zero GDP with population growth (immigration, births, or both) is NEGATIVE growth per person.
" . . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the penshioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, lusury, foppery, selfishness, meanness and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Further, it was not just the founding leaders who were well-informed about their constitution and approaching threats to its protections. By 1830, when the French jurist Tocqueville traveled America, he wrote admiringly of the citizenry, observing that even the backwoodsman was far more well-read and informed than those in other parts of the world, and that they understood their Constitution, and had with them a Bible and a newspaper. Today, with all modern means of communication, Americans possess little understanding of threats to their liberty and, thus, risk losing it to charlatans whose only goal is power.
Glenn Beck mentioned this the other day on his show — and this is an article from American Thinker from September 2008.
Check it out. It’s chilling:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
He doesn’t want growth. Growth to him is a roadblock in implementing his plan. Fomenting unhappiness and unrest with the viable voting masses (i.e., Democrats, liberals, fascists, marxists, communists, illegals and those of ethnic persuasion). He needs to rouse these people to riot and to cry out for ‘more change’. The end result he is seeking is total domination and confiscation of all wealth and resulting consolidation of his domination over his new subjects.
See various stories on crops around the world here:
http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/07/world-facing-food-crisis-in-second-half.html
We’re looking UP at zero growth!
Hence the manipulation of the market to show faux growth.
Right on. Just my comment.
Certaintly the news that The Economy “Grew” at an annualized rate of Minus One Percent is Proof that Stimulus is working.
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