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9435. jayackroyd - 3/15/2012 5:35:24 PM http://youtu.be/jFEVazV6W 9436. jayackroyd - 3/15/2012 5:36:11 PM Sorry. Thought the embed failed. 9437. jayackroyd - 3/15/2012 5:40:10 PM I'm fucking up all over here. Sorry. Here's the link, which you do need if you want to read the comments.
http://youtu.be/jFEVazV6WYM
A guy from Stockholm is saying that Johnston is wrong about real estate ownership in Sweden.
The video is an excerpt from an interview I did with David that will be broadcast on March 29th at Virtually Speaking.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking 9438. concerned - 3/19/2012 5:07:15 AM Re. 9434 -
The PIIG's predicament will never be considered by this guy. So he should be discounted accordingly. 9439. concerned - 3/26/2012 6:45:34 PM Another great editorial by Mark Steyn, even though he gets the title of Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' wrong:
U.S. Isn't Doing So Well Compared To Other Nations Anymore
After providing several specific examples of the USA actually being in worse shape than the majority of EU countries (even the PIIGS), Steyn concludes with this:
The reality is, given the dollar's decline over the last decade, that most Americans can no longer afford to flee to any place worth fleeing to. What's left is the non-flee option: taking a stand here, stopping the spendaholism, closing federal agencies, privatizing departments, block-granting to the states — not in 2040, but now. "Suddenly" is about to show up.
It's time to give fiscal sanity a chance.
9440. concerned - 3/27/2012 6:31:06 AM Anybody besides me getting the feeling that if an 'extremist' (using the latest LW term of art) like Rand Paul doesn't think we can balance the budget until 2040 with his 'extremist' plan to cut spending, that maybe, just maybe, we are about out of time to mend our profligate Federal ways? Or does any Lefty give a shit about not collapsing the US economy any more? Be honest here, Lefties. Are you really all baby Marxists now, since that is what you are by default if you don't care if the economy collapses? 9441. concerned - 3/27/2012 6:31:55 AM Or anarchists.... 9442. concerned - 3/27/2012 6:35:41 AM Of course, if you don't care if the economy collapses, you have to give up any presumption of ethical superiority, since you are advocating a great deal of law of the jungle dog eat dog suffering among millions of US citizens. Be honest and admit that you are at best being very thoughtless and stupid (= 'useful idiot') or quite possibly totally amoral. 9443. judithathome - 3/27/2012 7:22:14 PM Way to encourage civil discoure. 9444. concerned - 3/27/2012 8:04:59 PM Sorry, but it's difficult to express how frustrated I am by all this. There seems to be virtually no willingness by the Left to accept that current governmental spending policies are putting the whole country in a very bad place and that our descendents will have to pick up the pieces - whatever is left of them.
Increasing taxes has virtually reached the point of negative returns - less, not more, revenue is the most likely result of further tax increases, along with further stifling of the private sector.
Also, don't forget that the ever more fashionable Marxism among Lefties has not ever got along at all with the existence of a middle class or especially entrepreneurs - a middle class that is also the linchpin of the US economy.
In the Soviet Union, the kulaks who roughly corresponded to US entrepreneurs (in a very small way - their actual per capita resources amounted to $100 - $200) were declared to be 'enemies of the state', with the Politburo in 1930 voting for their extermination as a class. Most of them wound up in gulags or in Siberia. 9445. concerned - 3/27/2012 8:16:46 PM Who was considered a Kulak?
From Wikipedia:
In May 1929, the Sovnarkom issued a decree that formalised the notion of "kulak household" (кулацкое хозяйство). Any of the following defined a kulak:
use of hired labor
ownership of a mill, a creamery (маслобойня, butter-making rig), other processing equipment, or a complex machine with a mechanical motor
systematic renting out of agricultural equipment or facilities
involvement in trade, money-lending, commercial brokerage, or "other sources of non-labor income".
and:
Often local officials were assigned minimum quotas of kulaks to identify, and were forced to use their discretionary powers to "find" kulaks wherever they could. This led to many cases in which a farmer who employed only his sons, or any family that had a metal roof on their house, was labelled as kulaks and deported. The same fate was the end of those labeled as podkulachniks (подкулачник), so-called "kulak helpers".
A new wave of persecution against "ex-kulaks" was started in 1937. It was part of the Great Purge, conducted by Nikolai Yezhov after the NKVD Order no. 00447. Those deemed ex-kulaks were either executed or sent to labor camps. With few rich or middle-class peasants left to arrest, to satisfy the conviction quotas demanded by Stalin and Yezhov the NKVD terrorized more of the peasantry to induce more denunciations. In the wave of round-ups that followed, the term 'kulak' lost its previous distinction and became a general accusation (like wrecking), which could be leveled at anyone whom the troikas wished to convict. During the Great Purge, hundreds of thousands of peasants were falsely accused of being ex-kulaks and sent to the Gulag or executed based on circumstantial evidence, forged evidence or none at all.
This is the kind of thing that Marxism leads to to whichever extent.
9446. Wombat - 3/27/2012 9:26:58 PM Good thing we are not and will never be Marxist. 9447. Jenerator - 3/28/2012 4:50:04 PM Wombat - forgive me if you have alerady answered this, but what kind of work do you do? 9448. Wombat - 3/28/2012 11:38:35 PM I have been most recently doing intelligence work. 9449. concerned - 3/29/2012 12:58:07 AM Do tell! 9450. concerned - 3/29/2012 12:58:44 AM Jes' funnin! Jes' funnin! Don't want you going all Trayvon on me! 9451. vonKreedon - 6/19/2012 11:12:51 PM Apparently Mubarak is dead, or "clinically dead", after suffering a stroke, though a military spokesman denies this, saying, "He is not clinically dead as reported, but his health is deteriorating and he is in critical condition." I think he's dead, but let the conspiracy theories begin. 9452. judithathome - 6/20/2012 4:37:52 AM A Russian ship carrying weapons and equipment to Syria reversed course this afternoon.... 9453. vonKreedon - 6/20/2012 4:23:21 PM I just heard on NPR that the ship turned back because the British insurer withdrew the insurance under guidance from the British government. Nice use of soft power there.
In other news, Mubarak is not dead...yet. 9454. Wombat - 7/3/2012 1:02:13 AM How about Generalissimo Franco? He still dead?
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