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black321
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Nov 10, 2010 - 8:37am |
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Romulus wrote: Wars are financed through Debt and the Printing of Money. Take those away, and you force to pay for war with actual cash on hand - none of which governments have.
Central banks = War. They fund both sides for profit.
"War is a racket." -Smedley Butler
you forgot about looting...that's the best way to pay for a war.
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Romulus
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Nov 10, 2010 - 8:10am |
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sirdroseph wrote:So, are you saying that all wars have been and are caused by government entitlment programs or incurring debt? If it is the latter, are you trying to imply that Obama is in any way unique in incurring massive amounts of debt??? Wars are financed through Debt and the Printing of Money. Take those away, and you force to pay for war with actual cash on hand - none of which governments have. Central banks = War. They fund both sides for profit. "War is a racket." -Smedley Butler
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cc_rider
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Nov 10, 2010 - 8:06am |
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romeotuma wrote:"The captain is the consumer...the consumers determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities...They are merciless egoistic bosses, full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. For them nothing counts other than their own satisfaction...In their capacity as buyers and consumers they are hard-hearted and callous, without consideration for other people...Capitalists...can only preserve and increase their wealth by filling best the orders of the consumers... In the conduct of their business affairs they must be unfeeling and stony-hearted because the consumers, their bosses, are themselves unfeeling and stony-hearted." —Ludwig von Mises
This quote really seems to get at the heart of the problems, e.g. our current economic woes. As a sidenote, we engineers use a calculation called 'Von Mises Stress' in strength calculations. That Von Mises guy really got around, huh?
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Romulus
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Nov 10, 2010 - 8:03am |
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plaice3 wrote: LOL! I remember that one!!!
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Romulus
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Nov 10, 2010 - 8:01am |
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oldslabsides wrote:Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
~Mao Zedong
Mass murders agree: Gun control works. -unknown
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Nov 9, 2010 - 12:40pm |
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Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.' Rodney Dangerfield
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fidget
Location: The dreaming spires Gender:
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Nov 9, 2010 - 12:11pm |
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If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? GEORGE CARLIN
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Jul 14, 2010 - 4:30pm |
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oldslabsides wrote:Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
~Mao Zedong "A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." —Theodore Roosevelt
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 14, 2010 - 4:25pm |
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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
~Mao Zedong
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(former member)
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Jun 29, 2010 - 10:20pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
"In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness." —Karl Marx
"The captain is the consumer...the consumers determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities...They are merciless egoistic bosses, full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. For them nothing counts other than their own satisfaction...In their capacity as buyers and consumers they are hard-hearted and callous, without consideration for other people...Capitalists...can only preserve and increase their wealth by filling best the orders of the consumers... In the conduct of their business affairs they must be unfeeling and stony-hearted because the consumers, their bosses, are themselves unfeeling and stony-hearted." —Ludwig von Mises
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betterdaze
Location: Here. Gender:
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Jun 2, 2010 - 6:11am |
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ~~~Thomas Jefferson
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sirdroseph
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May 8, 2010 - 7:28am |
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Atheists and the devoutly religious are like Democrats and Republicans, they line up as adversaries, but behind closed doors they are both the same.
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May 1, 2010 - 8:06pm |
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"Pain shared decreases, joy shared increases." ~Spider Robinson
I've been thinking about, and being grateful for this truth a lot lately.
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plaice3
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May 1, 2010 - 11:55am |
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You see, if it weren't for bitchy judgmental gay men, the world would be a dreary place where everyone dressed like Communist China and no one would know the difference between a salad and a dessert fork. True story. ~ TLo
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sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
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Apr 23, 2010 - 7:34am |
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miamizsun wrote:"The natural right to be free of the debts of a previous generation is a salutary curb on the spirit of war and indebtment, which, since the modern theory of the perpetuation of debt, has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating."
— Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:272
(Jefferson referring to the government financing continuous/perpetual war, literally soaking the ground with blood, by borrowing and printing money for the benefit of the entitled. Just like we're doing right now.)
So, are you saying that all wars have been and are caused by government entitlment programs or incurring debt? If it is the latter, are you trying to imply that Obama is in any way unique in incurring massive amounts of debt???
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fidget
Location: The dreaming spires Gender:
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Apr 23, 2010 - 2:08am |
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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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miamizsun
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Apr 18, 2010 - 7:20am |
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"The natural right to be free of the debts of a previous generation is a salutary curb on the spirit of war and indebtment, which, since the modern theory of the perpetuation of debt, has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating."
— Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:272
(Jefferson referring to the government financing continuous/perpetual war, literally soaking the ground with blood, by borrowing and printing money for the benefit of the entitled. Just like we're doing right now.)
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miamizsun
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Apr 18, 2010 - 6:39am |
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"Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
~ H.L. Mencken
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Apr 18, 2010 - 1:32am |
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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. G.K. Chesterton
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