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Originally posted by gorgi
Originally posted by HappilyEverAfter
When I see bait, I mean threads, like this,
I think several things,
1-very young and inexperienced writer.
2-bored and just posting to cause trouble.
3-collecting a paycheck and reaching the quota.
4-a litmus test to gauge response and record data.
Yes sir, those are my thoughts when I come across morsels like these.
All are wrong. Simply because i have shown you and Paul to be wrong does not mean that I am trying to do anything with alternative motives.
I never said they are one and the same thing. Maybe you should reread my post.....
If your saying corporations are not part of capitalism then your making a VERY DISHONEST arguement!
What more needs to be said? Is coca-cola a sole proprietership? No its not...but it DOES make profit just like you selling your potatoes in the local flea market.
Originally posted by Foodman
reply to post by lostviking
hey noob, ever since qe1 on march 2009, stock markets have soared. the s&p has doubled. qe was a huge success.
Originally posted by mishigas
reply to post by OG_SWAGGA_KING
The FED is garbage. 40cents of every dollar the government spends is borrowed. Then we have to pay 20-30% interest on it. So can anyone calculate 20-30% interest on the Trillons of dollars of the deficit. Thats why it is mathmatically impossible to get rid of the deficit. ABOLISH THE FED!
The FED may be garbage, *BUT*.... excessive government spending is the fault of THE CONGRESS!
but if the FED was not there to buy up the debt and loan the money to Congress it wouldn't be spending like it does..
Originally posted by LexiconRiot
For you fans of "smaller government" please Google Cultural Imperialism and Class Dominance. You would all unwittingly make the middle class the slave class. Less government leave a power vacuum. Who do you think would fill that void? The state governments have proven just as ineffective as the federal. The void will be filled with BIG business. You all love to talk about going back to the way things used to be run. The Battle of Blair Mountain. Do we really want to repeat of the bloody history of corporate oppression. At least with the government we have a voice no matter how splintered the political realm gets.
Originally posted by lostviking
Are you for real? I thought you were being facetious! You demonstrate no comprehension of the way the world works. You are delusional if you think any of King Bernake's policies favor any one but the elite. QE 1 and 2 a success? This is one of the most pathetic posts I have read to date. Where is your logic, your rationale? Do you eat GMO cereal for breakfast? Too much Corexit exposure? Did you have the flu shot last year? Just wondering......edit on 8-5-2011 by lostviking because: (no reason given)
It all started with ronald reagan and his so called *reaganomics*-privatisation of everything.... No one stated the deomcrats were socialists or communists, in fact how can anyone state that when the president of the socialist party himself called obama "the farthest thing from socialism"...obvious exaggeration on his part but still his point is/was democrats are mild capitalists and republicans are extreme capitalists.
None dare call it conspiracy.
by Gary Allen with Larry Abraham
....What happened was this: At the turn of the century the Populists, a group of rural socialists, were gaining strength and challenging the power of the New York bankers and monopolist industrialists. While the Populists had the wrong answers, they asked many of the right questions. Unfortunately, they were led to believe that the banker-monopolist control over government, which they opposed, was a product of free enterprise.
Since the Populist threat to the cartelists was from the Left (there being no organized political movement for laissez-faire), the Insiders moved to capture the Left.Professor Quigley discloses that over fifty years ago the Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Leftwing political movement in the United States.
This was not difficult to do since these Left groups needed funds and were eager for help to get their message to the public. Wall Street supplied both. There was nothing new about this decision, says Quigley, since other financiers had talked about it and even attempted it earlier. He continues:
"What made it decisively important this time was the combination of its adoption by the dominant Wall Street financier, at a time when tax policy was driving all financiers to seek tax-exempt refuges for their fortunes…" (Page 938)
Radical movements are never successful unless they attract big money and/or outside support. The great historian of the Twentieth Century, Oswald Spengler, was one of those who saw what American Liberals refuse to see that the Left is controlled by its alleged enemy, the malefactors of great wealth. He wrote in his monumental Decline of the West (Modern Library, New York, 1945):
"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist, movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, in the direction indicated by money, and for the time being permitted by money — and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact."
While the Populist movement was basically non-conspiratorial, its Leftist ideology and platform were made to order for the elitist Insiders because it aimed at concentrating power in government. The insiders knew they could control that power and use it to their own purposes. They were not, of course, interested in promoting competition but in restricting it. Professor Gabriel Kolko has prepared a lengthy volume presenting the undeniable proof that the giant corporate manipulators promoted much of the so-called "progressive legislation" of the Roosevelt and Wilson eras-legislation which ostensibly was aimed at controlling their abuses, but which was so written as to suit their interests. In The Triumph of Conservatism (by which Kolko mistakenly means big business), he notes:
the significant reason for many businessmen welcoming and working to increase federal intervention into their affairs has been virtually ignored by historians and economists. The oversight was due to the illusion that American industry was centralized and monopolized to such an extent that it could rationalize the activity [regulate production and prices] in its various branches voluntarily. Quite the opposite was true. Despite the large numbers of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of this century was toward growing competition. Competition was unacceptable to many key business and financial interests…"
The best way for the Insiders to eliminate this growing Competition was to impose a progressive income tax on their competitors while writing the laws so as to include built-in escape hatches for themselves. Actually, very few of the proponents of the graduated income tax realized they were playing into the hands of those they were seeking to control. As Ferdinand Lundberg notes in The Rich And The Super-Rich:
"What it [the income tax] became, finally, was a siphon gradually inserted into the pocketbooks of the general public. Imposed to popular huzzas as a class tax, the income tax was gradually turned into a mass tax in a jiujitsu turnaround....
Originally posted by allprowolfy
Originally posted by Foodman
reply to post by lostviking
hey noob, ever since qe1 on march 2009, stock markets have soared. the s&p has doubled. qe was a huge success.
Hey, was that before or after the government revisions.
1) the U.S. is at a 15 TRILLION debt ceiling -14 of that is in less than 10years of the Fed, and the same banksters regulating our treasury. So what's with the name calling with your blantant disregard of facts
As for the op's sure cited troll thread with 30 flags, it has become clear even to a toddler that if America keeps the course, a 3rd world country will prevail.
Go,Pauledit on 8-5-2011 by allprowolfy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Janky Red
So why does the conservative supreme court keep advancing corporate personhood???
The political notion of conservative changed dramatically in 1964 and in 1980 - you guys are the corporatist now
once you adopted trickle down nonsense
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
The Republican party used to be for a long time the party of the people, meanwhile the Democrat party was the party of the rich. What's the best way to destroy the party of the people? to infiltrate it, corrupt it, and try to reverse the roles.
Most Americans don't even know that it was the Democrats who wanted to keep slaves, and it was the Republicans, with a Republican President known as Abraham Lincoln, that wanted to free slave
Originally posted by gorgi
Originally posted by lostviking
Are you for real? I thought you were being facetious! You demonstrate no comprehension of the way the world works. You are delusional if you think any of King Bernake's policies favor any one but the elite. QE 1 and 2 a success? This is one of the most pathetic posts I have read to date. Where is your logic, your rationale? Do you eat GMO cereal for breakfast? Too much Corexit exposure? Did you have the flu shot last year? Just wondering......edit on 8-5-2011 by lostviking because: (no reason given)
QE1 and QE2 have worked.I have provided evidence showing so. If you disregard those facts, there is no help for you.