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Socialism as a Primitive Coping Mechanism

Posted by CarolSeer2014 10 years, 8 months ago to Government
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Socialism is the most materialistic, instantaneously gratifying politico-economic system in history. Capitalism is an economic and moral advance, because it not only celebrates individual choice, in free markets, but it works to ensure future growth in that it is the accumulation of capital for investment purposes. Any monies gov't takes from business for tax purposes is money not usable for investment in future growth and jobs. You wonder what has happened to our economy?
Government has been taking from the producers and giving to those who don't. No society can last for long with that idiotology. Even China is rethinking economics.


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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The opposite of what America stands for. It is amazing how Obama's ploys have so easily crushed the American spirit of excellence,
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  • Posted by wiggys 10 years, 8 months ago
    agreed. as for china, yes they are rethinking their situation since it is dependent upon export, they need and internal economy as we once had and that is mostly gone so our situation will continue to deteriorate.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's not even that sophisticated, just more indirect in its manipulative tactics.
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  • Posted by rsmcswain 10 years, 8 months ago
    Socialism or Liberalism cannot exist without division, envy and class war.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're off by at least a couple of months. It has to happen by November 2016. Once elections take place, it will already have been decided that the reign of the usurper in chief is over.
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  • Posted by $ arthuroslund 10 years, 8 months ago
    How To Create a Social State
    by Saul Alinsky

    There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.
    1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people
    2) Poverty - Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
    3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
    4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
    5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)
    6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to - take control of what children learn in school.
    7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools
    8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
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  • Posted by Animal 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No, it won't. There will be an election in 2016 and Obama will leave office in 2017 precisely as all of his predecessors have.

    Don't tarnish the message by spreading paranoid nonsense.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Most of them have investment arms that take their deposits and seek to increase the return over the paltry interest rates.

    From an article in SkyNews Sep '13: But while the scale of the bond-buying since the financial crisis has boosted recovery by driving interest rates to record lows, it has left financial markets addicted to the low-cost credit and investors worried about the effect of turning off the taps.

    The money also helped push banks and other investors towards risky investments in emerging markets, where the prospect of tapering had resulted in huge withdrawals from currencies and stocks.
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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I see what has happened and what is happening. I risk my own earnings based on my own decisions to create as much future value as I can. How is that like James Taggart?

    Some time after the ending of QE, the fed will stop forcing rates down to zero. The market will start to go down more than it has in years, before that happens.

    I don't short the market and I don't violate individual rights. That's just the kind of person I am.
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  • Posted by empedocles 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're sounding like James Taggart.

    The Fed plans to end QE in October. If you really think the market is going to go down after that event, wouldn't you short it? Or are you not confident that it will actually go down?
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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Who's shorting? Those short the market and those saving for a rainy day are the losers during this time. Wall-street is making tons of money while taking on more risk going long.
    The music has not stopped yet and the limited number of chairs simply remain in close sight. Most players are ready to jump just before it does. Not everyone will get a seat.
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  • Posted by edweaver 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What world are you living in. I am a small business owner and while I am financially sound I have went from 9 employees to 4. Better open your eyes.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. And more should be expected. O needs a casus belli to assume full dictatorial power. It will occur before 1/20/2017.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    While QE is "winding down" the Fed is still pumping significant money into the economy - principally through banks which is pumping money into the stock market. This will soon stop, and the financial sector and stock market will tank. We'll see if the remainder of the economy will sustain whatever "growth" has been occurring, or if (more likely) the entire house of cards collapses.
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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "The economy is doing great."
    Financial repression can make it seems that way for the short term, yet history shows that a little before the fed stops forcing rates down things begin to go wrong, get worse and...
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    Posted by empedocles 10 years, 8 months ago
    I don't like absolutes.

    The economy is doing great, save for a few bumps in the road. People are eating less junk food and purchasing more goods online, rather than in stores. Unemployment is improving, and the fed is unwinding QE. I'm not happy with fixed asset yields being so low, so hunting for yield is still a challenge.

    What do you think about the companies doing tax inversions? And what do you think is wrong with the economy?
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  • Posted by tkstone 10 years, 8 months ago
    Socialism is a three legged stool supported by the arrogant who think they know better, ie James Taggart, the groping masses who covet their neighbor, and the ruthless thugs who know how it all ends but don't care and just want to ride out the wave. I question whether the masses have ever learned that lesson. The genius of our founders has never been appreciated. What they unleased was so powerful it took over a hundred and fifty years to reign in, but unfortunately only fifty years to completely hobble. I hope we have the radical vision to let it fly again.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 10 years, 8 months ago
    Well just look at all the Obama people rioting and looting in Ferguson. That is about as primitive as you can get.
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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 8 months ago
    Agreed. Once humans could reason and think longer term, the utopian promises of socialism became a bad joke. The world relearns this lesson ever couple of generations.
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