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January 18, 2015
Six Conundrums
The word conundrum is defined as a complex problem that is often puzzling or confusing. Here are six conundrums of our contemporary United States of America:
1. America is capitalist and greedy – yet almost half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet politicians (mostly progressive socialists) claim they want America to become more like those other countries.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 18, 2015 2:00 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
If 1-6 are correct can any good come from it?
Yes.
The players and everyone within their slipstream will hit the bottom with a crash and with very few survivors.
Those of us that managed to stay out of the way will pick up the pieces and move on.
Without all the baggage we now have to drag along, we may be able to make some decent progress on the next effort...until the next crash.
Einstein said, and I'm paraphrasing, "I don't know what WW3 will be like but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
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at January 18, 2015 7:21 PM
The Rise and Fall of Democracy
"About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'
'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage'
Posted by: chasmatic at January 19, 2015 6:12 AM
There was a time in which the left at least pretended to be for the poor, went through the motions, made speeches, and claimed to be for the little guy.
No more. They don't even pretend any longer. Their policies almost always are harder on the poor than anyone else. They almost always involve increased costs and decreased value for poor people, while benefiting the powerful and wealthy.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 19, 2015 9:03 AM
To paraphrase Lincoln, the left must love the poor, because they keep making so many more of them.
Posted by: james wilson at January 19, 2015 11:26 AM
The Left sees the poor as Sir Walter Raleigh saw his cloak.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at January 19, 2015 3:13 PM
Who said "the rich, they come and go; the poor will always be with us"?
Posted by: chasmatic at January 20, 2015 12:22 AM