Re: What Explains America's Achievements of the Last 150 Years?

I was responding to Ixtelan

On Aug 22, 5:22 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "I've never been unemployed ... you?"
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> Once, for about a month,  right after I got out of the Army in 1979....There
> was a recession going on then too,  and I was a 22 year old dumbass who
> thought I knew a whole lot about most everything.  Don't get me wrong, there
> have been some lean times,  but in general,  anyone can get out and go make
> a little money....Might not be what you want to do,  but that is the
> distinction between those who are successful and those who are not:
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> "*Successful folks do the things that unsuccessful folks don't want to do*"
> Dale Carnegie
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> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:07 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Today, our foreign competitors have recovered, sweatshops and slavery
> > have been abolished, and our natural resources are exhausted. Welcome
> > to the 21st century, unemployed America!
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> > our? where are you from?
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> > I've never been unemployed ... you?
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> > On Aug 20, 5:45 pm, Ixtelan <drbuck...@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> > > Wow. This one is turning up everywhere.
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> > > In the 19th century, the United States benefited from the theft of
> > > other peoples' labor (slavery), took no care to preserve the air,
> > > water, or forests, put women and children into sweatshops, and enjoyed
> > > pacified neighbors on its northern and southern borders.
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> > > In the 20th century, the U.S. Air Force blasted the crap out of our
> > > main economic competitors, Germany and Japan, and did precious little
> > > to help our allies, Britain and the USSR, to recover. If you have the
> > > only functioning industrial economy in the world, you can do pretty
> > > good for yourself.
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> > > Today, our foreign competitors have recovered, sweatshops and slavery
> > > have been abolished, and our natural resources are exhausted. Welcome
> > > to the 21st century, unemployed America!
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> > > On Aug 18, 1:59 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
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> > > > The Economic Foundation of FreedomWhat Explains America's Achievements
> > of the Last 150 Years?Howard Buffett
> > > > September 2003 • Volume: 53 • Issue: 8 •
> > > >http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-economic-foundation-of-f.
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