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The Road to Economic Hell

One more comment. I realize very few people's minds can be changed by blog chatter, I think most of us are just venting.
BUT, I would ask you this- keep your eyes open on one piece of proposed legislation, the unbelievably named " Employee Free Choice Amendment".
If passed, this will remove the right to provate ballots, when choosing yea or nay on joining a union. This is by far the scariest idea the Dems have, to take away freedom of secret voting. This is Chicago thuggery at it's most craven.

The Road to Economic Hell

There are planes leaving hourly, pick one and knock yourself out.
Funny though, how we have immigrants from every corner of the globe trying to get here. Funny also how we were the ones to put a man on the moon; invented chps, computers, software ( not just USA, of course, the free world, our partners ), curing many diseases, more to come, extended life expectancy by decades, promoted progress across every sector, all the while keeping and expanding personal freedoms.
But at the first sign of crisis, many of you pussies want to cut and run, let's go socialist.
This country was built by pioneers, people with guts,and they overcame many challenges for over 200 years. They didn't whine, they didn't throw out the Constitution and say let's start over, they fixed the problems and moved on.
Like I said, if you see a nanny country you like, go there.


On Mar 05 11:03 AM plumstupid wrote:

> Patio:
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> I've lived in socialist countries. Everyone seemed to be doing quite
> well. Good jobs, nice homes or apartments, good free health care,
> good free education thru PhD if ability and interest was there, clean
> streets, well maintained infrastructure, one month paid vacation
> every year.....
>
> Looked pretty good to me!

The Road to Economic Hell

Actually, you bring up a very interesting point. To answer your question, I would say, no, the covert agenda is more frightening. I am very hopeful that Obama and crew have over-reached, gone too far too fast, and the overtness of their intentions are now obvious to anyone paying attention.
Whether the country will react ( the stock market surely has reacted ), and have the same sort of mid-term Congress seachange like when Clinton tried to socailize health care, we shall see.
Look, if you naysayers want to actually experience socialism in your lives, instead of lookig around the world to see how it has ruined countries and other lives, you may unfortunately get your way. Ask your Canadian friends how their health care system is going. Compare N. Korea to S. Korea, East Berlin vs. West Berlin, etc.
The problems we face have complex, multifaceted genesis, but they are not due because capitilism is a worse system than any of the alternatives. Free enteprise, duly regulated, is still the best way to live.
I myself will fight against the creation of a nanny state, that oppresses achievemnet, untill I die.


On Mar 05 10:27 AM plumstupid wrote:

> Is an overt socialist agenda worse than a covert socialist agenda?
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>
> Is it socialism to privatize profits and socialize losses?

The Road to Economic Hell

Bush was indeed a very poor president. We haven't had a true leader in quite a while. I'm just saying the current power grab, the move toward massive socialism, is 100x worse than all Bush's mistakes.
Anyone who wishes to work themselves, and not be reliant on a nanny state, should be alarmed.
Free enterprise is the only thing that creates lasting jobs, true wealth, the government is an unproductive bloated bureaucracy staffed with career politicians that never produced anything in their lives.
We have severe problems to fix, but have handed stewardship to folks with a now overt socialist agenda.




On Mar 05 09:15 AM Herbert Hoover wrote:

> "If we don't have a conservative uprising in 2010, we are doomed."
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>
> LOL - that's what we were supposed to have from 2000 - 2008. No one
> watched that fool so now we have a natural reaction to that excess.
> Obama is no more a socialist than Bush was a fascist. Bitch and moan
> all you want, Your lack of concern over that moron in the White House
> caused the current administration
>

Government's Next Lesson: Small Is Beautiful

A- freakin-men!

If Only Hope Were an Investment Strategy

In past markets, if you ever wanted to surely be guffawed at, all you had to say was, " It's different this time". 'Cuz the old-timers, the wizened greaybeards would sagely tell you how wrong you were.
Well, sorry, but it's different this time. The markets are merely reflecting the daily unfolding of just how bad the fundamentals truly are, and how they are going to get a lot worse. And no matter how many people wake up to projected future, and the new lower projections, the visceral impact isn't really felt until the realities blast you in the fact each day- lower and lower unemployment numbers, all asset classes deflating, stocks swooning worldwide, US gov't wasting trillions throwing good money, our money, after bad, on and on.
I believe we are only in the second or third inning of this Bataan death march.