The last three posts above.....good posts, interesting posts.


Exo said this:

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....the variouos monetized securities of the world and it's great cultures are all....intertwined to a point that if one of the LARGE economic powers goes down, it will drag numerous others with it....

That is exactly what happened in the 1930s after the economic crash in America in 1929. When the U.S.A. economically crashed it took the entire rest of the developed world with it. Just imagine what will happen this time around.....it's coming. When.....I don't know, but......it is coming.

All the increasing talk by the political and economic *movers and shakers* about a one world economic system (and by default, a one world government) that would not have been heard 30 years ago.....are rather......interesting.

This post of mine, and the last three above it put it in some perspective.

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LOL! Since when does economic freedom need to be kept in check???

Too much freedom leads to tyranny? Really? Who says? Fidel Castro? Chairman Mao?

I can agree partially with Ash. I am for laws agains monopolies and I appreciate shorter work weeks and laws against using and abusing children in sweatshops. I'm very against the government handing out of money, price controls, bailouts and almost any interference into the actual financial part of business.

As I said, there IS a line, that once crossed, creates problems. Where, exactly, that line is, I'm not so sure......

Socialist practices are what stabilizes a country from falling into a great depression.

For example..

Unemployment insurance was created of that very purpose.. to stabilize the economy.. so that it takes less of an over-all hit when there are large fluctuations of job loss. Unemployment insurance is Socialist.

Unemployment did not exist in 1929.

The Federal Reserve was created to follow suit with what the British discovered during their economic collapse during the same period in 1929... that if the government temporarily stabilized large banks and business's.. it could hugely aid in stopping an economic free-fall.

Of course, the Federal Reserve and Bailing out Banks is a Socialist practice.. and has a long history of both being an "uncomfortable thing to do" and of also stabilizing economies that are free-falling. Also, I find it interesting that Reagan still has the record of passing the largest Economic Stimulus bill, even over Obama's. It was way over a trillion dollars and he boasted years after it was passed that it was a huge success.

If one has to choose between the Unconstitutional Bailing out of certain banks and industries and the allowing of a Recession to turn into a Depression... I believe 99 percent of people would choose the Unconstitutional Danger.. over the not being able to afford food.

IMO Socialist practices make people lazy, and drain the economy. I despise socialism.

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Good point alldat. As i've said, there probably needs to be some oversight but we're so far past that we have created a welfare society that is bankrupt.

Welfare society does not equal loss of productivity, per capita. ( per individual)

If that was true... Austria and Germany.. which have more Welfare than we do.. and work MUCH LESS that we do, would not have a much higher productivity level per capita that the average US woker does.

They have more leisure time, work less hours and yet produce more per person, then we do.

I believe this has to do with the fact that their many Socialist Systems are run more efficiently and better.

So..can welfare (Socialist) systems be run badly..? Absolutely.

For example.. that is one of the reasons why the Healthcare system NEEDS to be reformed. Medicare and MEdicaid.. while being very successful for the most part.. do have flaws. Financially.. as well as in other areas.

Does that mean that any Social welfare system is a bad thing? OF course not.

Find your average lower and middle class retired person and tell them that their Medicare is bad and teh only reason they need it is that they are too lazy... and see how they feel about that.

The healthcare system needs to compete in the private sector. Get rid of the smurfin regulation. Keep the smufin government out of it. Man I get riled up when I think of how much I despise socialism.

Today the House voted for another 2 billion dollars for the Cash For Clunkers plan. In the several days this plan has been in effect, the government so vastly underestimated the demand that this emergency measure was necessary.

Do you really want an organization this inept at predicting demand to be in charge of your health care?

I don't.