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JH: America is socialist, all of Europe is socialist, England is socialist, Sandanavia is socialist....Japan is socialist, Canada is socialist. In fact, all the first world countries are a combination of capitalist and socialist. The far right screams about socialism -- but show me a country you admire that has no 'socialist' elements, such as unemployment insurance, national health insurance or some form of social security for their elderly.
A nation that has no heart for its weak and its young and its elderly is a country that should not be admired.
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It's in that gray zone between private and public. To whom does the Fed really answer? To Congress, officially. But does it really answer to the Congress?
I think the Fed is more concerned with keeping the banks rich and happy than it is with keeping Congress happy.
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Panic is ALWAYS a mistake. Fear is not a mistake. Panic is an unreasoned response to fear. I think Andrew is correct. If half the world panics that does not mean you should panic. You should try to see clearly what is happening and what response is best for you.
Panic is always a mistake, even if you are being attacked by a wild boar. It is understandable if you are being attacked by a wild boar -- but that doesn't make it a reasoned response. A reasoned response would be fighting off the boar with one hand and finding a sharp pointed object with the other.
Panic is always a mistake -- but panic can't always be avoided. We are all human afterall.
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Hardly. Capitalism and colonialism and racism have deep historic roots. Take your blinders off. When America was deeply enmired in slavery and was approaching a civil war, we were not socialist, we were capitalist. When European countries had enslaved half of the world with their colonial empires, was that socialist or capitalist societies driving the world?
Hitler was no socialist, even though he called himself a National Socialist. The form of economy in Nazi Germany was State Capitalism, very much like what we now have in America, similar to what China has today. State Capitalism is where the state protects private corporations and enjoys the rewards with the capitalists. Sound familiar?
That is not to suggest that the Far Left, Communism, doesn't have its own forms of tyranny. But they are most often based on classism and paranoid schizophrenia rather than racism.
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Historically, racism, fascism and capitalism all come from the same impulse for personal empire and individual triumph over the dark masses. Racism, fascism and capitalism are on the same branch of the tree.
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I agree with Benny. We have enough 'playgrounds for the rich and famous'. No more country clubs; no more golf courses. No more playgrounds for the Phillistines. Let's build a real culture based in depth and human compassion. We've had enough of the superficial culture based in the worship of the material (dead) object. We've had too much worship of quantity, and not enough worship of quality.
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Also, perhaps REAL ESTATE FACT #12: How many people are desperate to sell their house, but cannot now because there are so few buyers. They have not even put their houses on the market yet.
Force and fraud are involuntary transactions, that means one person is harmed for the benefit of another. A voluntary transactions is an attempt to make both lives better. You can never regulate that to even make sure you improve the odds. If you could, no nation on earth would have any poor people. ___ Fraud is not an involuntary transaction. It is based on misinformation. So who decides what ia 'voluntary' transaction and who decides if the information is true. I buy swamp-land in Florida because I'm stupid or don't have the information I need. Regulators make fraud a crime. Regulators are the police who enforce this crime.
Leave everything to the honesty of business? Businessmen liked slavery, and child-labor, and dirt-wages, and the 7-day work weak....regulations changed society. Regulations keep us from living in the jungle of dog-eat-dog.
Regulators ARE the police. Their job is to enforce the law. We don't need regulators if we are all saints. The last time I checked we were not saints.
You guys that say Washington regulations caused the Housing Bubble: can you tell me how Washington regulations created housing bubbles in Ireland, Spain, France, Britain, China, Vietnam...?
Day belongs to the empiricists, the entrepreneurs, the technology-makers. The capitalists.
The night belongs to the socialists. 2010 to 2028 is the night.
The capitalist power peaked in 2001 and will weaken and weaken and weaken until 2019, when the socialist power will reach its apex (see 1983 as another example of this).
Men and women share power in the world -- "men" and "women" used here to designate a different way of perceiving and experiencing the world. Men = the heroic individual on his quest for glory and empire; Women = the quest for social justice (familial not individual) in an era of lessening wealth. The Sun-Hero and the Moon-Goddess.
The Men's time will come back, but not until they descend into judgment and Hades for the selfishness of their empire. They need to confront the shadow side of their ideology. While standing in the Sun (the Ego's spotlight), everything is good; they ARE the right side; in the shadow, they get to see their actions from another side, from the side of the suffering individuals injured by capitalist doctrine and the selfish nature of the king.
Anyway, Father and then Mother. Sky-God and the Earth-Goddess. Riches and then poverty. That's why Judaism stresses: "Honor both the Father and the Mother." The Father gives us power and wealth; the Mother gives us wisdom and love. And, of course, the mother gives us rebirth. We can't have rebirth -- as individuals or as a nation -- until we 'go down' into the valley/belly, into the place of diminishment, the place of emptiness (the womb, metaphorically). In the emptiness the seed meets the womb, and begins to germinate (see 1974-1983 as a recent example).
In a very real sense, the Deflation (the emptying out, downsizing, getting on one's knees) is God punishing us (through the Laws of Nature -- what goes up comes down, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, etc. -- the laws of physics are also the laws of metaphysics) for our worshipping Money, a false god.
There is much good that comes out of the socialist Night-Cycle. In truth, money is not the only virtue in the world. Culture comes out of the Darkness, out of the soil. Civilization is the fruit; culture is the seed.
We think we don't need philosophy; all we need, in our wonderful modern era, is facts, facts drive science. But there is no vision without philosophy. And the problem with 'Men' today, as the darkness grows, is that they can no longer see, can no longer see the future. How do you come to see the Future again. You have to visit and pay homage to (on your knees) the Past, where you find God again.
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I think that partner from Facebook willingly renounced his US citizenship so he could save on taxes. No, I don't think we need him.
Are you guys really saying you'd like America to become a whore for the world's rich? Rather than make housing affordable for ordinary Americans again? Ok. I guess we know where you stand on the issue.
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There is something wrong with the financial system when it prices Americans out of their own housing market. When this happens it becomes clear that the system is being run for the rich, not for the rest of us.
The rich have enough benefits in life. They really don't need to own the government so that ALL the benefits in life go to them.
If that makes me a socialist, I don't mind. I think there are higher principles in life than money and getting rich. I think America is in trouble because we have been willing to shortsell those other values and obsess about the wealth factor -- that's why our prisons and mental instituttions are full and our houses are empty and rotting.
Call me a socialist -- or call me a Christian. I don't mind. Just don't call me a plutocrat.
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A nation that has no heart for its weak and its young and its elderly is a country that should not be admired.
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The Current U.S. Stock Market Collapse Makes No Sense [View article]
The Current U.S. Stock Market Collapse Makes No Sense [View article]
I think the Fed is more concerned with keeping the banks rich and happy than it is with keeping Congress happy.
The Current U.S. Stock Market Collapse Makes No Sense [View article]
Panic is always a mistake, even if you are being attacked by a wild boar. It is understandable if you are being attacked by a wild boar -- but that doesn't make it a reasoned response. A reasoned response would be fighting off the boar with one hand and finding a sharp pointed object with the other.
Panic is always a mistake -- but panic can't always be avoided. We are all human afterall.
11 More Hard Facts About The Housing Recovery [View article]
Hitler was no socialist, even though he called himself a National Socialist. The form of economy in Nazi Germany was State Capitalism, very much like what we now have in America, similar to what China has today. State Capitalism is where the state protects private corporations and enjoys the rewards with the capitalists. Sound familiar?
That is not to suggest that the Far Left, Communism, doesn't have its own forms of tyranny. But they are most often based on classism and paranoid schizophrenia rather than racism.
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The Housing Recovery: An Update [View article]
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Fraud is not an involuntary transaction. It is based on misinformation. So who decides what ia 'voluntary' transaction and who decides if the information is true. I buy swamp-land in Florida because I'm stupid or don't have the information I need. Regulators make fraud a crime. Regulators are the police who enforce this crime.
Leave everything to the honesty of business? Businessmen liked slavery, and child-labor, and dirt-wages, and the 7-day work weak....regulations changed society. Regulations keep us from living in the jungle of dog-eat-dog.
Regulators ARE the police. Their job is to enforce the law. We don't need regulators if we are all saints. The last time I checked we were not saints.
The Housing Recovery: An Update [View article]
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Another rhetorical questions.
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Day belongs to the empiricists, the entrepreneurs, the technology-makers. The capitalists.
The night belongs to the socialists. 2010 to 2028 is the night.
The capitalist power peaked in 2001 and will weaken and weaken and weaken until 2019, when the socialist power will reach its apex (see 1983 as another example of this).
Men and women share power in the world -- "men" and "women" used here to designate a different way of perceiving and experiencing the world. Men = the heroic individual on his quest for glory and empire; Women = the quest for social justice (familial not individual) in an era of lessening wealth. The Sun-Hero and the Moon-Goddess.
The Men's time will come back, but not until they descend into judgment and Hades for the selfishness of their empire. They need to confront the shadow side of their ideology. While standing in the Sun (the Ego's spotlight), everything is good; they ARE the right side; in the shadow, they get to see their actions from another side, from the side of the suffering individuals injured by capitalist doctrine and the selfish nature of the king.
Anyway, Father and then Mother. Sky-God and the Earth-Goddess. Riches and then poverty. That's why Judaism stresses: "Honor both the Father and the Mother." The Father gives us power and wealth; the Mother gives us wisdom and love. And, of course, the mother gives us rebirth. We can't have rebirth -- as individuals or as a nation -- until we 'go down' into the valley/belly, into the place of diminishment, the place of emptiness (the womb, metaphorically). In the emptiness the seed meets the womb, and begins to germinate (see 1974-1983 as a recent example).
In a very real sense, the Deflation (the emptying out, downsizing, getting on one's knees) is God punishing us (through the Laws of Nature -- what goes up comes down, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, etc. -- the laws of physics are also the laws of metaphysics) for our worshipping Money, a false god.
There is much good that comes out of the socialist Night-Cycle. In truth, money is not the only virtue in the world. Culture comes out of the Darkness, out of the soil. Civilization is the fruit; culture is the seed.
We think we don't need philosophy; all we need, in our wonderful modern era, is facts, facts drive science. But there is no vision without philosophy. And the problem with 'Men' today, as the darkness grows, is that they can no longer see, can no longer see the future. How do you come to see the Future again. You have to visit and pay homage to (on your knees) the Past, where you find God again.
11 More Hard Facts About The Housing Recovery [View article]
Are you guys really saying you'd like America to become a whore for the world's rich? Rather than make housing affordable for ordinary Americans again? Ok. I guess we know where you stand on the issue.
11 More Hard Facts About The Housing Recovery [View article]
The rich have enough benefits in life. They really don't need to own the government so that ALL the benefits in life go to them.
If that makes me a socialist, I don't mind. I think there are higher principles in life than money and getting rich. I think America is in trouble because we have been willing to shortsell those other values and obsess about the wealth factor -- that's why our prisons and mental instituttions are full and our houses are empty and rotting.
Call me a socialist -- or call me a Christian. I don't mind. Just don't call me a plutocrat.