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"One thing Americans take for granted is that they will always be the richest, most successful people on earth. They think that because that is what they have always known. The US economy became the biggest in the world before 1900. Americans had just what it took to become the richest people on the planet. They worked hard. They saved their money. They had little government interference. They had the industrial revolution at their backs...and nothing in their way. And they had a dollar that was 'as good as gold.' By the time the baby boomers were born the US had such a big lead over the rest of the world, it seemed like nothing could stop it. Free enterprise guaranteed new innovations and new wealth. Democracy guaranteed a political system that would adapt to the needs of the evolving economy.
"But nothing lasts forever. As it matured, the US economy and its political system became more and more rigid and more and more costly, with handouts and bailouts...at every level. Large companies are protected. Millions of people are encouraged not to work. The whole financial industry is dipped in honey. And the whole population is urged not to save, but to spend."
Depressing, or not? What is to be done?
Nothing is to be done as long as George Soros runs our country. This is exactly what he wants. I was in Las Vegas recently. Most of the visitors were from other countries.
Villain? How so? Would you not rather live in a 1st world country where inventions make your life oh, so much easier, where advancements in medicine make your life oh, so much better, where creature comforts are being expanded on a daily basis, where there is no real reason to suffer the perils of everyday life on an everyday basis? Would you not rather live in a 1st world country where even as destitute you might be, you can still find shelter and warmth and probably a hot meal, take a hot shower on a more-or-less regular basis? Where you can hitch a ride with little if any caution, in a four-wheeled vehicle or even a 2-wheeler rather than riding on a donkey or a camel? Where you can be protected from the elements with windscreens, and have cool, clear, running water most of the time? But then, you didn't really answer the question in the first place, did you? I ustabe amazed with folks like you, now I'm more amused with Utopian ideals.
Now you sound like an unsympathetic character in a GB Shaw play
Nothing is to be done as long as George Soros runs our country. This is exactly what he wants. I was in Las Vegas recently. Most of the visitors were from other countries.
These four sentences sound like snippets of four random conversations. A sound collage...
These four sentences sound like snippets of four random conversations. A sound collage...
You are right. I should have tied them together. Obama does not like Vegas. He has discouraged companies from going to Vegas for conventions. Las Vegas has an unemployment rate of at least 14%. George Soros must be so happy to see the fall of capitalism.
1: a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system; broadly: the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system 2 a: the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity b: a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder 3:chaos, disorganization, randomness
Nothing can be done, Wall Street is happy, all else be damned.
Remind me again exactly why Obama had to have Geithner as his Treasury Secretary, what with Geithner's tax evasion and sweetheart deals for his Wall Street pals and all?
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