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» Links To Visit – 06/25/10 NoisyRoom.net: The Progressive Hunter — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:02:40 +0000

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By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:36:34 +0000

Nero was said to have fiddled while Rome burned. A sort of lesson on how a apathetic leader condemns his own people to starvation and death.

But historical accounts imply a different version of the tale. Nero confiscated the burned property and erected a huge monument to his own narcissistic self. Never waste a crisis, you see. But this crisis, given how fast he reacted, was most probably started by Nero himself or his orders. He ordered the burning of Rome because the aristocracy refused to give up so much land to Nero’s self-aggrandizement. Well, he taught them a thing or two about the true meaning of power.

By: garyp

garyp — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:15:31 +0000

Danny, good list and you are correct we have no choice but to do these things if we wish to maintain our economy and our form of government.

However, what if the goal among the elite is not to fix our problems, but make them worse, forcing us to turn to a totalitarian government because our economy collapses?

Alternately, maybe they aren’t trying to destroy our economy but are so ignorant that the idea that there are limits to how much debt our nation can support doesn’t occur to them.

I think you have to consider these two possibilities (malicious destruction or economic ignorance) are the motivating forces behind our current descent into economic madness.

OR…Could they just want to live like rock stars until the money runs out. Kind of a “let’s fiddle while America burns” kind of an attitude since they know they are the smartest guys in the room, they’ll come out on top, they always have.

Lot’s of possible motivations, none of which make me think that anything helpful will be done before it is too late. As the lady said, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!”

By: Indigo Red

Indigo Red — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:31:44 +0000

Folks almost always remember, with a misattribution to the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson’s words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Few, however, remember this gem from the same paragraph of the D of I, “… all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” It explains so much of human behavior from avoiding simple medical treatment to the slow loss of liberties. We so easily become used to unpleastries til we no longer see them as abnormal. From time to time, we must be reminded.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:12:07 +0000

It remains to be seen whether the host will be able to survive the cure for this parasitic infection, given how far it has progressed. It appears that a series of treatments will be needed, including:
1) Weaning the public off the government teat
2) Taking personal responsibility for each individuals’ lives.
3) Learning to make and sell real things of value, rather than ethereal illusions.
4) Massive layoffs in the public sectors.
5) Massive haircuts to public pension systems (including bankruptcies in order to effect change).
6) Miassive cuts to public university systems to cleanse them of worthless rent-seeking degree mills, such as ethnic and gender studies, social services, community organizing, education and related “studies”.
7) Elimination or massive restructuring of entire branches of government, such as Depts. of Energy, EPA, OSHA, USDA, FDA and Education.
Massive deregulation of industry, such as repeal of Obamacare and the long-overdue restoration of healthcare to private enterprise.
9) Massive tort reform
10) Reduction of personal taxation and the re-incentivization of personal and corporate investment.
11) Tangible Social Security and Medicare reform.
12) Free-Trade
Think that the American Public is ready to take the cure?

Nah…didn’t think so. But we really have no choice!

By: TREGONSEE

TREGONSEE — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:10:53 +0000

It has long obvious, IE since at least the 1930s, that we have this infection. It breaks out whenever the country needs its strength to deal with external threats, and to make reasoned responses to internal problems. Until recently, our constitution and Constitution have been enough to hold it at bay. With the most critical part of our immune system, the press, co-opted, it has finally become a fully fledged outbreak. With luck, and a good bit of prayer, we can drive it into remission for another generation. Sadly, it appears impossible to permanently excise.

Treg

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”