Monday, October 10, 2011

Re: Employers not hiring the unemployed - here's what to do about it

On Oct 10, 2:30 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> There's 2 houses of congress.  One is controlled by the dems.  It was
> in all the papers

It would have to be a Senate bill...
but I won't argue the point with you, neither party is interested in
creating jobs.
Both are however very interested in getting campaign donations from
rich people, who will in turn make you believe the stupidest of things.

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Re: The truth about taxing millionaires

On Oct 10, 2:49 pm, Keith In Köln <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are espousing Moonbattery Studio.
>
> What's the point?   I have shown you continuously how and why you are
> misguided.  A picture says a thousand words.

Keith if you have nothing to say because you're not interested in the
truth, why keep saying that?

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Re: Scared and Unbalanced

There can be no doubt that Fux News doesn't like Ron Paul at all.
He'd take too much of their control away from herding their sheeple.

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Re: The truth about taxing millionaires

You are espousing Moonbattery Studio. 
 
What's the point?   I have shown you continuously how and why you are misguided.  A picture says a thousand words.
 


 
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:55 PM, studio <tlack@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is that a picture of yourself?

You made my point beautifully... you have zilch to say about it
because the truth is something you're not at all interested in.

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Re: Herman Cain -- as phony as a Federal Reserve $3 dollar note

There's absolutely zero chance that Herman "Godfather" Pimp Daddy"
cain is ever going to be nominated for the Republitard Party no matter
how ignorant he/they seem to be.

He's simply another flavor-of-the-day Sarah Palin.

I wonder which flavor they'll settle on???
Possibly lemon flavor?
Or will they go with delicious biter lime?

I'm almost certain they'll go with Perry flavor.
Why?
Because they want to see how a Bush Jr. clone would have stacked up
against a Obama.

And naturally because of that, they'll wind up losing again.

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Notice Anything Similar?


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Re: Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

On Oct 10, 2:29 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> You're there

No. I'm here.

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Re: How stupid does your Republitard think you are?

On Oct 10, 2:32 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 99%.  Who's calling themselves that?

Most Americans that know when they've been ripped off by the 1%.

Of course, I include you in the 49.5% who don't have a clue.

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Re: How stupid does your Republitard think you are?

99%. Who's calling themselves that?

LOL

On Oct 10, 2:22 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Extremely!
>
> 49.5% of people are too busy working to know what's happening or why.
> 49.5% of people are underemployed and more concerned about whether
> they'll have a roof over their heads tomorrow.
>
> That leaves the 1% that know exactly how ignorant the 99% of people
> are, and to take full advantage of it.

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Re: It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong

On Oct 10, 9:54 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "I wish I had been able to develop a unified theory of quantum
> gravity, but then there wouldn't be much left for anyone else to do" -
> Stephen Hawking

Republitards who's religious beliefs trump science would just say it
wasn't so anyway.

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Re: Employers not hiring the unemployed - here's what to do about it

There's 2 houses of congress. One is controlled by the dems. It was
in all the papers

On Oct 10, 2:07 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2:02 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Half of congress is dem
>
> What percentage is that bright boy?

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Re: Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

You're there

On Oct 10, 2:06 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2:01 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I'll keep that in mind when I'm in Hymietown next week.
>
> > Lower?
>
> True, you can't go any lower when scraping the bottom.
>
> *** "I don't understand what the nature of these Wall Street protests
> are. These people should go get a job". - Herman "Godfather" "Pimp
> Daddy" Cain
>
> And this from a guy who said; "Blacks don't even take the time to
> consider what Conservatives are saying".
>
> No wonder. He doesn't take the time to hear what they're saying.

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How stupid does your Republitard think you are?

Extremely!

49.5% of people are too busy working to know what's happening or why.
49.5% of people are underemployed and more concerned about whether
they'll have a roof over their heads tomorrow.

That leaves the 1% that know exactly how ignorant the 99% of people
are, and to take full advantage of it.

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Michelle Bachman

Calls what's happening on Wall Street and other places "protests".
Yet she refers to the Tea Party protests as "demonstrations".
As though their were some kind of big difference?

When are Republitards going to learn plain English?

Answer: Never, they're retards.

Yeah, you better believe it's a protest!
protest: The act of making a strong public expression of disagreement
and disapproval.

demonstration: A public display of group feelings (usually of a
political nature).

So is she saying Conservative feelings have been hurt?
awwww; too bad little cry babies.

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Re: Employers not hiring the unemployed - here's what to do about it

On Oct 10, 2:02 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Half of congress is dem

What percentage is that bright boy?

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Re: Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

On Oct 10, 2:01 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'll keep that in mind when I'm in Hymietown next week.
>
> Lower?

True, you can't go any lower when scraping the bottom.

*** "I don't understand what the nature of these Wall Street protests
are. These people should go get a job". - Herman "Godfather" "Pimp
Daddy" Cain

And this from a guy who said; "Blacks don't even take the time to
consider what Conservatives are saying".

No wonder. He doesn't take the time to hear what they're saying.

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Re: Employers not hiring the unemployed - here's what to do about it

Half of congress is dem

On Oct 10, 1:54 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The latest scam is a Bill to Congress by Obama that would supposedly
> stop discrimination by employers not hiring anyone out of work.
>
> #1. It would never pass in a Republican held Congress.
> #2. Employers are never going to state that's the reason they won't
> hire you.
> #3. They won't catch anyone, and is another wasteful spending measure.
>
> It's all politically motivated with no basis in logic.
> i.e. I've been out of work for 6 years now; I applied for a job that
> wanted 5 months experience and wrote them I had 35 times that
> experience and (knowing they wouldn't hire me) would consider dumbing
> myself down for the position.
>
> So what unemployed people need to do (and feel free to pass this on),
> is create their own "current" work history.
>
> i.e. I made my g/f (wife, mother, sister, friend, who ever can help
> you with this) assistant human resource manager for a known small
> legitimate company. Chances are the potential employer will have no
> idea who the Human Resources Manger is there.
> If any employers want to call her (some may, some won't), she will
> verify I am indeed gainfully employed by her company with no issues.
>
> In this time of political lies and deception by both major political
> parties, you have to do what they do; fabricate and lie.
>
> Obama knew *exactly* what the unemployment situation was when he came
> into office.
> But what did he do?
> Instead of address the problem from the start, he gave Health Care
> plan the priority (a plan that doesn't kick in for another 3 years
> anyway!), because when people are employed, they don't need his health
> care plan.
> So he waited, and waited, and waited to address employment... now
> making it a campaign issue, and not an actual job creating plan.
> All the while neither major political parties had zero plans to
> stimulate the real economy and create jobs.
>
> Why do you think Bush Jr. came up with a $700 billion bailout for Wall
> Street? And Obama continued the bailouts with half the money Bush Jr.
> didn't spend on them?
> Because both major political parties love the huge amounts of money
> that gets kicked back to them in the form of political campaign
> donations.
> Wall Street simply asks the politicians; which political party will
> give me the best deal for my donations?
>
> And you wonder why your bank fees go up?
> Don't be so ignorant.
>
> Wall Street kick-back donations far out-weigh donations given to them
> by all grass-roots ordinary people.
> Combine that with unions, big oil, telecoms, law firms, and other big
> business interests... and the common people have zero chance of having
> any of their real concerns addressed.
>
> By the people, for the people?
> If by "people" you mean "big business", then yes.
> Otherwise it's just meaningless words on a very old wrinkly piece of
> paper.
> Remember; the Supreme Court validated that money donated by big
> business is speech.
> That simply means anything you have to say about anything is
> worthless.
>
> And all of this because "the people" can't hold the leaders
> accountable for what a average 3rd grader is expected to accomplish in
> math class.

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Re: Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

I'll keep that in mind when I'm in Hymietown next week.

Lower?

LOL

On Oct 10, 1:57 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 10, 1:43 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > What, no Jew jokes?
>
> I don't lower myself to do Jew jokes...
> maybe ask one of your Conservative friends for them... plainolidiot is
> pretty good for that lower common denominator stuff you seek.

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Re: Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

On Oct 10, 1:43 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What, no Jew jokes?

I don't lower myself to do Jew jokes...
maybe ask one of your Conservative friends for them... plainolidiot is
pretty good for that lower common denominator stuff you seek.

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Re: The truth about taxing millionaires

Is that a picture of yourself?

You made my point beautifully... you have zilch to say about it
because the truth is something you're not at all interested in.

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Employers not hiring the unemployed - here's what to do about it

The latest scam is a Bill to Congress by Obama that would supposedly
stop discrimination by employers not hiring anyone out of work.

#1. It would never pass in a Republican held Congress.
#2. Employers are never going to state that's the reason they won't
hire you.
#3. They won't catch anyone, and is another wasteful spending measure.

It's all politically motivated with no basis in logic.
i.e. I've been out of work for 6 years now; I applied for a job that
wanted 5 months experience and wrote them I had 35 times that
experience and (knowing they wouldn't hire me) would consider dumbing
myself down for the position.

So what unemployed people need to do (and feel free to pass this on),
is create their own "current" work history.

i.e. I made my g/f (wife, mother, sister, friend, who ever can help
you with this) assistant human resource manager for a known small
legitimate company. Chances are the potential employer will have no
idea who the Human Resources Manger is there.
If any employers want to call her (some may, some won't), she will
verify I am indeed gainfully employed by her company with no issues.

In this time of political lies and deception by both major political
parties, you have to do what they do; fabricate and lie.

Obama knew *exactly* what the unemployment situation was when he came
into office.
But what did he do?
Instead of address the problem from the start, he gave Health Care
plan the priority (a plan that doesn't kick in for another 3 years
anyway!), because when people are employed, they don't need his health
care plan.
So he waited, and waited, and waited to address employment... now
making it a campaign issue, and not an actual job creating plan.
All the while neither major political parties had zero plans to
stimulate the real economy and create jobs.

Why do you think Bush Jr. came up with a $700 billion bailout for Wall
Street? And Obama continued the bailouts with half the money Bush Jr.
didn't spend on them?
Because both major political parties love the huge amounts of money
that gets kicked back to them in the form of political campaign
donations.
Wall Street simply asks the politicians; which political party will
give me the best deal for my donations?

And you wonder why your bank fees go up?
Don't be so ignorant.

Wall Street kick-back donations far out-weigh donations given to them
by all grass-roots ordinary people.
Combine that with unions, big oil, telecoms, law firms, and other big
business interests... and the common people have zero chance of having
any of their real concerns addressed.

By the people, for the people?
If by "people" you mean "big business", then yes.
Otherwise it's just meaningless words on a very old wrinkly piece of
paper.
Remember; the Supreme Court validated that money donated by big
business is speech.
That simply means anything you have to say about anything is
worthless.

And all of this because "the people" can't hold the leaders
accountable for what a average 3rd grader is expected to accomplish in
math class.

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Re: Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

What, no Jew jokes?

On Oct 10, 1:40 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> *** "My father taught me not to steal a Cadillac from the rich, but to
> work hard and buy my own Cadillac". - Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy"
> Cain
>
> #1. No one is saying that your Cadillac Pimp-mobile should be
> stolen... who would want to be seen in that piece-o-shit anyway???
> Except maybe another pimp.
>
> #2. Your father taught you how to get rich off the backs of the
> working poor. That's why you started a shitty pizza joint and hire
> people at minimum wage... you just wish the wages were lower so you
> could be a even richer phoney.
>
> *** "I'm a Christian, and what I was taught was; to do the right
> thing". Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain
>
> You'd lie to Jesus Christ himself if you could pimp daddy Cain.
>
> You and all the other Republitards are nothing more than evil
> personified who do the bidding of Satan himself.
>
> *** "I don't understand what the nature of these Wall Street protests
> are. These people should go get a job". - Herman "Godfather" "Pimp
> Daddy" Cain
>
> I thought you were supposed to be smart enough to tell that's what the
> problem is moron; no jobs.
>
> What a complete moron, or is he trying to gauge just how much stupider
> other people can be???
> As if the Republitard Party is going to nominate him anyway?
> You gotta be kidding me with these morons.

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Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

*** "My father taught me not to steal a Cadillac from the rich, but to
work hard and buy my own Cadillac". - Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy"
Cain

#1. No one is saying that your Cadillac Pimp-mobile should be
stolen... who would want to be seen in that piece-o-shit anyway???
Except maybe another pimp.

#2. Your father taught you how to get rich off the backs of the
working poor. That's why you started a shitty pizza joint and hire
people at minimum wage... you just wish the wages were lower so you
could be a even richer phoney.

*** "I'm a Christian, and what I was taught was; to do the right
thing". Herman "Godfather" "Pimp Daddy" Cain

You'd lie to Jesus Christ himself if you could pimp daddy Cain.

You and all the other Republitards are nothing more than evil
personified who do the bidding of Satan himself.

*** "I don't understand what the nature of these Wall Street protests
are. These people should go get a job". - Herman "Godfather" "Pimp
Daddy" Cain

I thought you were supposed to be smart enough to tell that's what the
problem is moron; no jobs.

What a complete moron, or is he trying to gauge just how much stupider
other people can be???
As if the Republitard Party is going to nominate him anyway?
You gotta be kidding me with these morons.

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Re: The truth about taxing millionaires



On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, studio <tlack@hotmail.com> wrote:
Obama tax on millionaires... absolutely no different than Ronald
Reagan's
(2 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK8mR-uJCzU

But the Republitard Party isn't the Party of Reagan anymore is it?
No it's the Party of smart rich people giving money to other smart
rich people to tell the middleclass that the poor are to blame for all
the economic problems.

Leo Hindrey on taxation, and how the rich take advantage of the poor
and middle class... not the BS tax plans you get from ideologues,
pundits and politicians.
(42 minutes, A+++ must see, share with others)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Ratefo

Not the ignorant tax plan of Republitards, or Herman "Godfather"
Cain's 9-9-9 plan, or flat-tax plans for idiots that would shift more
of the burden towards the poor and middle-class.

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The truth about taxing millionaires

Obama tax on millionaires... absolutely no different than Ronald
Reagan's
(2 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK8mR-uJCzU

But the Republitard Party isn't the Party of Reagan anymore is it?
No it's the Party of smart rich people giving money to other smart
rich people to tell the middleclass that the poor are to blame for all
the economic problems.

Leo Hindrey on taxation, and how the rich take advantage of the poor
and middle class... not the BS tax plans you get from ideologues,
pundits and politicians.
(42 minutes, A+++ must see, share with others)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Ratefo

Not the ignorant tax plan of Republitards, or Herman "Godfather"
Cain's 9-9-9 plan, or flat-tax plans for idiots that would shift more
of the burden towards the poor and middle-class.

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‘On behalf of the Secretary of Defense and a grateful nation …’





From: matt
Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:37 PM
Subject: 'On behalf of the Secretary of Defense and a grateful nation …'

This is a letter that my good friend's husband wrote today after his uncle's funeral yesterday.
If obama does not want his name associated with our military, too bad he wanted his name associated with "The President of the United States."
Dear Sean,
Today I was incensed at the conclusion of a traditional Serbian-Orthodox funeral for my beloved 85 year old uncle, Daniel Martich, who proudly served in the US Army during The Korean Conflict. During the committal service at a Pittsburgh cemetery the local military detachment performed their ritual, then folded and presented the American Flag to my aunt. As I'm sure you have witnessed during military funerals, a soldier bends to one knee and recites a scripted message to a surviving relative that begins 'On behalf of the President of the United States and a grateful nation, I wish to present you with this flag in appreciation for your husband's service …'. However, today the dialogue was 'On behalf of the Secretary of Defense and a grateful nation …' After the service I approached the soldier who presented the flag to my aunt to inquire about the change in language. His response was "The White House notified all military funeral service detachments to immediately remove 'the President' and insert 'the Secretary of Defense'. I couldn't believe what I heard and the soldier smiled and said "You can draw your own conclusion sir but that was the order". 
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=26379

He, too, was ashamed of what he was required to say.


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Occupy Wall Street: Shocking photos show libturd defecating on POLICE CAR


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Re: Fwd: Occupy Bell Buckle

Davidson and Wilson counties

On Oct 7, 4:47 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I may move back
>
> What county are you?
>
> On Friday, October 7, 2011, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com>
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> > so, what 'spy info' have you garnered?
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> > On Oct 6, 2:20 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> rofl
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> >> I am on their mailing list to spy on them and I got this
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> >> Bell Buckle is a town in Tennessee with 300 people in it
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> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Mary Kay Henry, SEIU President <i...@seiu.org>
> >> Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM
> >> Subject: Occupy Bell Buckle
> >> To: majors.br...@gmail.com
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> >>    [image: SEIU]
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> >> Dear friend,
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> >> By now you've seen the thousands of brave students, workers and the
> >> unemployed occupying Wall Street.
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> >> But did you know that as of yesterday, there are over 300 solidarity
> "occupy
> >> events" happening across the country and around the clock?
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> >> In Philadelphia, 1,000+ individuals took to City Hall on Tuesday night.
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> >> In Washington, D.C., people have camped out in McPherson Square,
> >> symbolically located on K Street, since last week.
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> >> In L.A., citizens have spent six straight days and nights outside City
> Hall
> >> protesting against income inequality and joblessness.
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> >> The crowds and peaceful demonstrations will only get larger and louder as
> >> more Americans find the courage to stand up and demand Wall Street, CEOs
> and
> >> millionaires pay their fair share to create good jobs now.
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> >> *This is the moment that determines whether this movement succeeds or
> falls
> >> flat. Will you pledge to help the movement spread by visiting an Occupy
> >> event in Bell Buckle? You can sign up and find a comprehensive list of
> >> events here:*
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> >> *http://action.seiu.org/occupy-wall-street<
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> >> Over the last few weeks we've seen crowds of "Occupy Wall Street"
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> >> capture the nation's attention as they stood their ground despite
> aggressive
> >> police behavior and hundreds of arrests.
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> >> These courageous young activists have given us all a shot of inspiration
> and
> >> hope that we can indeed turn this country around.
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> >> We are proud of the actions taken by 1199 United Healthcare Workers East,
> >> SEIU 32BJ and other SEIU local unions to support the Wall Street
> protests.
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> >> But as we talk to other "Occupy" participants across the country, they
> tell
> >> us their first need is people.
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> >> So we're working with our friends at Daily Kos to see if we can help.
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> >> *Find an Occupy event happening in your city and pledge to sign up to get
> >> involved. You can do that here:*
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> >> *http://action.seiu.org/occupy-wall-street<
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> >> As part of a peaceful, united movement we can do so much more to
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> >> the increasing urgency of the crisis our country faces and shine a light
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> >> those responsible.
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> >> Let's go for it!
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> >> In solidarity,
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> >> Mary Kay Henry
> >> President, SEIU
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> >> SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION
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> >> SEIU
> >> 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
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Re: Why Oppose Interventionism?

Why Oppose Interventionism?
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because we know who promotes it and why

let'em fund their charities with their own soldiers and money

On Oct 10, 8:32 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Why Oppose Interventionism?What conservatives have forgotten – and libertarians rememberbyJustin Raimondo, October 10, 2011
> I often hear a variant of the following from conservatives (and some liberals) when confronted with theforeign policy viewsoflibertarians: "Sure, I'm all for a more peaceful foreign policy, but you guys take it too far – isolationism won't work in our increasingly interconnected world. Besides, we have real enemies we have to deal with."
> There are several problems with this response. First, there is no such thing as "isolationism" andno such creatureas an "isolationist." Sure, there are some who oppose international trade –labor unions, for one, and other "fair traders" – but libertarians are not included in their ranks. The "isolationist" label wascooked up by interventionistsas a scare word to define the terms of the foreign policy debate and smear their opponents as unrealistic troglodytes.The War Partyis the one really consistent advocate of what might be called isolationism: byforcefully interveningin the internal affairs of other nations, by occupying countries and effecting "regime change," we isolate ourselves from the rest of the world and retreat into an imperialist cocoon, cutting off all normal – i.e.economicandsocial– relations, andlaying the groundworkfor the kind of "blowback" that results in terrorism directed against the US and its allies.
> Secondly, it would be impossible to take the principle of non-intervention "too far." Properly applied, that principle means US foreign policy is to be formulated and applied in accordance with the concept of non-aggression: that is, US policy would be consistent with thelibertarian axiomthat the initiation of force is always wrong, andalwayslead to bad results. Nothing bad can ever come of abjuring aggression. On the other hand, an inconsistent or erroneous interpretation of the non-interventionist principle could have equally disastrous results: e.g. the failure to repel an attack on the US in the mistaken belief that such an action would be "interventionist."
> Yes, but – our imaginary interlocutor might reply – weren't we attacked on 9/11, and aren't our actions since then fully justified?
> This brings us to an essential corollary of the non-aggression axiom: that retaliatory force is justifiedonly against those who initiate its use.Which means:invading Iraq– andoccupying Afghanistanforover a decade– is out of the question as a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, as dramatic and earth-shaking as these actions were, did not bring us a single step closer to taking out Osama bin Laden and his cronies: that happened only when we engaged in the kind of old-fashioned and decidedly un-dramaticpolice workwhich enabled us to track the terrorist leader to his lair – and then we were in and out of there in a matter ofhours.
> All of which proves that weknowhow to go after terrorists and terrorism inthe right way– but we'd rather not, unless it's preceded by a long series of wars, because there's a whole other agenda behind our endless "war on terrorism." And with the extension of America's wars of aggressioninto Africa, and a "regime change" campaign underway againstIran,Libya, andgod-knows-who-else, that agenda is not hard to fathom.
> The United States has been lording it over the rest of the worldsince the end of World War II: the United Nations, anembryonic world government, was established at the behest ofAmerican elites. They saw it as the instrument of an emerging "world order" in which Washington, along with its junior partners inLondon,Paris, and –for a while– Moscow, would extend a controlling influence over the entire globe.
> During the cold war era, asramshackle Russiacowered under the pretext of "socialism in one country," while the US used anticommunist ideology as a rationale to buildan empire of bases– andUS-supported dictatorships– in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The interventionist impulse drove us to supportthe Afghan mujahideenin their war of "liberation" against the Soviets – and led to the peculiar concatenation of circumstances that made the creation of al-Qaeda possible.
> Funny how, at every turn, America's great "allies," who owed their continued existence to US generosity, wound up becoming our worst enemies. FromLend-Lease to Stalinto US aid to Afghan "freedom-fighters," the lesson of history is clear: blowback from one era wafts easily into another. We arestill payingfor the sins of our 20thcentury politicians.
> Not that our 21stcentury "leaders" are doing a better job: far from it. The post-9/11 era has seen us replicate every mistake we ever made,times ten. In its ferocity and scope, America's post-9/11 rampage has no precedent in history:the Mongol invasions, which depopulated large portions of Asia, and extended into parts of Europe, were sporadic by comparison with the relentless American march through the Middle East and Central Asia. It took Genghis Khan and his descendants a hundred years to build an empire on thescaleUS policymakers have constructed in just the last decade.
> The sheer velocity of intervention has picked up, as if our rulers are in an awful hurry to create that "world order" Washington policy wonks areconstantly telling usis necessary fortheirour own "security."
> This escalation, you'll note, coincides with theescalating economic crisisthat has gripped the international banking system based onfiat money and government debt– the biggestfinancial weaponsin the War Party's arsenal. Without the ability to "monetize" the debt – that is, "pay" the debt in devalued dollars issued by the Federal Reserve – America's matchless military machine and the empire it defends would not exist.
> The real estate "bubble," the hi-tech "bubble," and all the many instances ofmalinvestment created by the Federal Reserve– the "private"gang of banksterswho really run the US economy – have their reflection in the foreign policy realm. Sure, we're going bankrupt, yet you can be sure thebubbleof American imperialism is going to be the very last to pop. Our wise and benevolent rulers would sooner see 90 percent of homeownersforeclosedthan give up a single one of theircherishedcolonial possessions. In thedecadentand rapidlyfailingpolitical culture of what was once a great country, hubris is the defining characteristic of our elites.
> Libertarians oppose our foreign policy of global intervention because the history of America's wars is the story of how Big Government came to dominate the life of the nation. The outcome of every military conflict with the exception of the American Revolution has been a series ofunprecedented extensionsof government control into new areas. Wartime "temporary emergencies" inevitably hardened into routine regulations, and measures that were formerly unthinkable – e.g. Lincoln'sshutting down of opposition newspapers, Truman'sseizure of the steel millsduring the Korean War, the"PATRIOT" Act, etc. – entered the realm of possibility. In wartime, when expressions of dissent are met with "Don't you know there's a war on?", the collectivist mentality is dominant: the whole nation is militarized, and failure to march in lockstep is considered evidence of "treason." Libertytends to perishin such an atmosphere, as itnearly didin the war hysteria following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
> Libertarianism seeks to limit the power of government as much as possible. This means opposing the extension of governmental power in every instance,including its extension abroad. That's why conservatives, whoagreewith the libertarian program of cutting government to a bare minimum on the home front, are caught in an unsupportable contradiction. They are faced with the conundrum of opposing, say, aid to the elderly and sick in this country, while supporting "foreign aid" that supposedly advances our "national interest."
> In reality, the flow of American tax dollars abroad only advances the economic interests of ourthieving sock-puppets, and certain USexporters, who vacuum up those aid dollars as quickly as they are appropriated. In economic terms, the game of empire is a bust, a net loss by any measure. Conservatives used to know this. It was that old right-wing reactionaryGaret Garrett– prolific writer, noted editor, and prominent enemy of the New Deal – whosaidof the American Imperium that it is an empire without precedent in the history of the world because "everything goes out and nothing comes in."
> It was the conservatives ofGarrett's timewho were first accused of being the dreaded "isolationists," and now their lineal descendants hurl the same charge atus. That's due to a lapse of historical memory, the saddest case of political amnesia ever recorded. In their more reflective moments, conservatives may wonder why Big Government has only gotten bigger over the years, andneverany smaller. The best they've managed to do is todecrease the rate of increase– albeit only incrementally, and temporarily.
> Conservatives won elections, yet still the "march of progress" was always in the direction of bigger and more aggressive government. This happened, and continues to happen, due to their blind spot on the question of war and peace: thereflexive belligerenceof the cold war years, and theperseveranceof neoconservatism in spite of its catastrophic failures in the realm of policyandpolitics, has created an inner contradiction at the core of the modern conservative credo. Conservatives must choose between the moral and political strictures ofthe Constitutionand theperverse joysof militarism. We can have a republic, or we can have an empire: we cannot have both. It's as simple as that.
> Our message to American liberals varies very little from this essential axiom. The problem is that modern American liberals trace their ideological lineage back to the left wing of the New Deal, and are constantly invoking their hero,Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as an example for President Obama – their current hero – to follow. I'll bet the Japanese-Americans among their number are a little shocked to hear this, but being so very polite, they no doubt fail to remind their progressive friends of such inconvenient details as theinternment camps.
> In terms of sheer deceptiveness and demagogic power, no American president has ever been such an effective warmonger as FDR. He not onlylied us into war, as Clare Booth Luce so trenchantly put it, but he executed his war plan in such a manner as to make the next war – the "cold" war that sometimes got very hot – practically inevitable. Liberals who complain – rightly – about the erosion of civil liberties in Obama's (and George W. Bush's) America will find nearly all the legal precedents were set during FDR'slong and repressivereign.
> Yet the liberal-left of that time didn't make so much as a peep of protest as Japanese-Americans were hauled off to concentration camps, "subversive" newspapers were banned from the mails, and various dissidents on the right and the left were prosecuted for "sedition." Indeed, the left-wing media gloried in the persecution of the Japanese, with commie cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss," givingfull ventto the mostviciousbigotry – from a "progressive" and impeccably "anti-fascist" perspective, of course. WhenLawrence Dennis, a widely-read author and former US diplomat, was tried for sedition on the grounds that the pro-Hitler German American Bund hadcitedhis writings, the American Civil Liberties Union was nowhere to be found.
> Theneoconized conservativesand theObama-ized liberalsare immune to the anti-interventionist argument, and are quite naturally hostile to libertarianism. The only hope, if hope there be, is in the new movements that are emerging on both sides of the political spectrum: the so-called Tea Party, and the Occupy Wall Street movement, which are both in rebellion – in their different ways – against the ideological status quo. While both are also misguided in their separate ways, it is only in the context of a serious rethinking of what it means to be on the "left" or the "right" that a real challenge to the War Party will emerge.
> There are many signs that this is happening, but it is too early to tell if these forces will ever jell into a unified movement with a coherent critique of the modern Warfare State. All we can do at the moment is to push both sides, ever so gently, inthe right direction, provide the space for a new realignment – and hope for the best.http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/09/why-oppose-interventionism/

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Re: It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong

"I wish I had been able to develop a unified theory of quantum
gravity, but then there wouldn't be much left for anyone else to do" -
Stephen Hawking

On Oct 8, 8:54 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> These "truths" are immutable, and the universe is and always will be
> subject to them.
>
> Furthermore, these rules are self-evident, which is to say that
> although we may attempt to understand their workings, their
> truthfulness requires no explanation or proof.
> ------------------------------------
>
> Ah, but 95% of the universe is unaccounted for.  We don't know shit,
> let alone immutable shit.

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Re: Panetta To Netanyahu:” Israel May Not Survive

In its essence, this law shackles every American president with a
legal obligation to ensure that Israel maintains its military
dominance over the Middle East.
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know the enemy

they don't get this power by being good Americans

On Oct 10, 8:15 am, excalliber stevens
<excalibur.stevens.bis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Panetta To Netanyahu:" Israel May Not Survive
> The Current Arab/Islamic Awakening"
> By Franklin Lamb
> 09 October, 2011
> Countercurrents.org
> Beirut: Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January
> 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
> during his first day on the job which was February 12, 2009, Leon
> Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a March 2009 "eyes
> only" CIA Report that had just been completed by his new agency.
> As reported at the time, the CIA Report predicted the demise of Israel
> within 20 years, if present political trends in the region continued.
> The CIA intelligence analysts concluded that it was unlikely that
> Israeli leaders would grant even minimal concessions in order to
> achieve a settlement with their neighbors, which comprise increasingly
> disillusioned and rapidly growing dignity and justice seeking
> populations.
> The CIA Report noted that Israeli officials felt emboldened in taking
> Palestinian land by the myriad support Israel was receiving from the
> leadership of Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and three
> other Arab leaders.
> Israel and its two most powerful US lobbies, the US Congress and
> AIPAC, quickly squelched the 2009 Report and only seven copies were
> eventually acknowledged, one by AIPAC and the others by staffers of
> select supporters of Israel on key Congressional Committees.
> During last week's meetings with Israeli officials, both sides knew
> that the 2009 CIA study was front and center even without Panetta
> being the first one to refer to it.
> President Obama sent Panetta to engage in frank discussions which
> included the White House displeasure at Netanyahu's repeated
> humiliation of the President over the past 18 months and Israeli
> threats to cut off Jewish aid to Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
> Panetta did deliver public statements which allowed Netanyahu to put
> the best hasbara face on the meetings and he thanked the US Secretary
> of Defense for "helping to improve US-Israeli relations."
> Panetta repeated at a news conference with his Israeli counterpart,
> Defense Minister Ehud Barak some pointed generalizations. "At this
> dramatic time in the Middle East, when there have been so many
> changes, it's not a good situation for Israel to become increasingly
> isolated. And that is what's happening," he said.
> "There's not much question in my mind that they maintain that
> (military) edge. But the question you have to ask he added is: was it
> enough to maintain a military edge, if you're isolating yourself in
> the diplomatic arena? At this dramatic time in the Middle East, when
> there have been so many changes, it's not a good situation for Israel
> to become increasingly isolated. And that is what's happening," he
> said.
> In private, according to Washington sources, the atmosphere was quite
> different. Panetta reportedly made plain that given recent changes
> among Middle East countries, meaning the Arab Spring and Islamic
> Awakening, Israel was quickly running out of time. Its only choice was
> to make peace with the Palestinians and her neighbors or perish.
> During frank and sometimes heated exchanges, Panetta told the Israelis
> that time is running out for a two state solution, which means time is
> running out for Zionist Israel and that similar to apartheid South
> Africa, following the Reagan years, the days of American propping up
> of Israel are coming to a close.
> Seemingly dwelling on the subject of the US being unable to continue
> funding Israel in real terms with more than $6 billion every year and
> being able to continue to guarantee Israel's Qualitative Military Edge
> (QME), Panetta told the Israelis that it was out of the question given
> American domestic problems and the US process of substantial, if
> partial, disengagement from the region.
> At issue with the American inability and increasing unwillingness to
> prop up Israel's QME is the innocuous sounding 2008 Naval Vessel
> Transfer Act shepherded through the Congress a month before the 2008
> US Presidential election by one of Israel's unwavering lobbyists, Rep.
> Howard Berman.
> In its essence, this law shackles every American president with a
> legal obligation to ensure that Israel maintains its military
> dominance over the Middle East.
> It is designed to assure that Israel's regional hegemony is legally
> mandated via Israel's"Qualitative Military +*Edge" (QME). The US
> Government must guarantee that "the sale or export of the defense
> articles or defense services will not adversely affect Israel's
> qualitative military edge over any military threats to Israel."
> The term 'qualitative military edge' means the ability to counter and
> defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual
> state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while
> sustaining minimal damages and casualties, through the use of superior
> military means, possessed in sufficient quantity, including weapons,
> command, control, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and
> reconnaissance capabilities that in their technical characteristics
> are superior in capability to those of such other individual or
> possible coalition of states or non-state actors.
> Panetta reportedly reminded Ehud Barak, during heated discussions
> between the two defense ministers of the statement of an Egyptian
> general back 1973 as reported by then President Nixon.According to
> Nixon, an Israeli official asked an Egyptian general convalescing in
> hospital, "We have defeated you Arabs three times (1948, 1967 & 1973)
> why to you continue to resist us?" The Egyptian replied, "You may have
> defeated us three times, and you may defeat us 11 times. But the 12th
> time we will win and Palestine will be liberated."
> The unavoidable signs seen by Panetta, as by his predecessor, Defense
> Secretary Robert Gates, include nearly one dozen uprisings in the
> region that share the goal, among others, of returning Palestine to
> its rightful inhabitants.
> The Egyptian people are reclaiming Egypt's proud Arab position and
> helping lead the cause to liberate Palestine as evidenced by their
> intentions to expel the Israeli Embassy, scrap Camp David, abrogate
> the capitulation agreements, including Egypt's natural gas giveaway to
> Israel subsidized by the Egyptian people, and made by the Mubarak
> family doing business with Israeli officials. Panetta, and an
> increasingly number of American officials as well as the American
> public knows that the genie has been released and that Arabs, Muslims,
> and all people of good will continue to inexorably confront the
> remaining 19th Century colonial enterprise which is the artificial and
> illegitimate Zionist implantation on Palestinian land.
> Franklin Lamb is doing research in Libya. He is reachable c\o
> fpl...@gmail.com. He is the author of The Price We Pay: A Quarter-
> Century of Israel's Use of American Weapons Against Civilians in
> Lebanon.
>
> http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb091011.htmwww.realindianews.blogspot.com

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Why Oppose Interventionism?


Why Oppose Interventionism?
What conservatives have forgotten – and libertarians remember
by Justin Raimondo, October 10, 2011

I often hear a variant of the following from conservatives (and some liberals) when confronted with the foreign policy views of libertarians: "Sure, I'm all for a more peaceful foreign policy, but you guys take it too far – isolationism won't work in our increasingly interconnected world. Besides, we have real enemies we have to deal with."

There are several problems with this response. First, there is no such thing as "isolationism" and no such creature as an "isolationist." Sure, there are some who oppose international trade – labor unions, for one, and other "fair traders" – but libertarians are not included in their ranks. The "isolationist" label was cooked up by interventionists as a scare word to define the terms of the foreign policy debate and smear their opponents as unrealistic troglodytes.

The War Party is the one really consistent advocate of what might be called isolationism: by forcefully intervening in the internal affairs of other nations, by occupying countries and effecting "regime change," we isolate ourselves from the rest of the world and retreat into an imperialist cocoon, cutting off all normal – i.e. economic and social – relations, and laying the groundwork for the kind of " blowback" that results in terrorism directed against the US and its allies.

Secondly, it would be impossible to take the principle of non-intervention "too far." Properly applied, that principle means US foreign policy is to be formulated and applied in accordance with the concept of non-aggression: that is, US policy would be consistent with the libertarian axiom that the initiation of force is always wrong, and always lead to bad results. Nothing bad can ever come of abjuring aggression. On the other hand, an inconsistent or erroneous interpretation of the non-interventionist principle could have equally disastrous results: e.g. the failure to repel an attack on the US in the mistaken belief that such an action would be "interventionist."

Yes, but – our imaginary interlocutor might reply – weren't we attacked on 9/11, and aren't our actions since then fully justified?

This brings us to an essential corollary of the non-aggression axiom: that retaliatory force is justified only against those who initiate its use. Which means: invading Iraq – and occupying Afghanistan for over a decade – is out of the question as a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, as dramatic and earth-shaking as these actions were, did not bring us a single step closer to taking out Osama bin Laden and his cronies: that happened only when we engaged in the kind of old-fashioned and decidedly un-dramatic police work which enabled us to track the terrorist leader to his lair – and then we were in and out of there in a matter of hours.

All of which proves that we know how to go after terrorists and terrorism in the right way – but we'd rather not, unless it's preceded by a long series of wars, because there's a whole other agenda behind our endless "war on terrorism." And with the extension of America's wars of aggression into Africa, and a "regime change" campaign underway against Iran, Libya, and god-knows-who-else, that agenda is not hard to fathom.

The United States has been lording it over the rest of the world since the end of World War II: the United Nations, an embryonic world government, was established at the behest of American elites. They saw it as the instrument of an emerging "world order" in which Washington, along with its junior partners in London, Paris, and – for a while – Moscow, would extend a controlling influence over the entire globe.

During the cold war era, as ramshackle Russia cowered under the pretext of "socialism in one country," while the US used anticommunist ideology as a rationale to build an empire of bases – and US-supported dictatorships – in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The interventionist impulse drove us to support the Afghan mujahideen in their war of "liberation" against the Soviets – and led to the peculiar concatenation of circumstances that made the creation of al-Qaeda possible.

Funny how, at every turn, America's great "allies," who owed their continued existence to US generosity, wound up becoming our worst enemies. From Lend-Lease to Stalin to US aid to Afghan " freedom-fighters," the lesson of history is clear: blowback from one era wafts easily into another. We are still paying for the sins of our 20th century politicians.

Not that our 21st century "leaders" are doing a better job: far from it. The post-9/11 era has seen us replicate every mistake we ever made, times ten. In its ferocity and scope, America's post-9/11 rampage has no precedent in history: the Mongol invasions, which depopulated large portions of Asia, and extended into parts of Europe, were sporadic by comparison with the relentless American march through the Middle East and Central Asia. It took Genghis Khan and his descendants a hundred years to build an empire on the scale US policymakers have constructed in just the last decade.

The sheer velocity of intervention has picked up, as if our rulers are in an awful hurry to create that "world order" Washington policy wonks are constantly telling us is necessary for their our own "security."

This escalation, you'll note, coincides with the escalating economic crisis that has gripped the international banking system based on fiat money and government debt – the biggest financial weapons in the War Party's arsenal. Without the ability to "monetize" the debt – that is, "pay" the debt in devalued dollars issued by the Federal Reserve – America's matchless military machine and the empire it defends would not exist.

The real estate "bubble," the hi-tech "bubble," and all the many instances of malinvestment created by the Federal Reserve – the "private" gang of banksters who really run the US economy – have their reflection in the foreign policy realm. Sure, we're going bankrupt, yet you can be sure the bubble of American imperialism is going to be the very last to pop. Our wise and benevolent rulers would sooner see 90 percent of homeowners foreclosed than give up a single one of their cherished colonial possessions. In the decadent and rapidly failing political culture of what was once a great country, hubris is the defining characteristic of our elites.

Libertarians oppose our foreign policy of global intervention because the history of America's wars is the story of how Big Government came to dominate the life of the nation. The outcome of every military conflict with the exception of the American Revolution has been a series of unprecedented extensions of government control into new areas. Wartime "temporary emergencies" inevitably hardened into routine regulations, and measures that were formerly unthinkable – e.g. Lincoln's shutting down of opposition newspapers, Truman's seizure of the steel mills during the Korean War, the "PATRIOT" Act, etc. – entered the realm of possibility. In wartime, when expressions of dissent are met with "Don't you know there's a war on?", the collectivist mentality is dominant: the whole nation is militarized, and failure to march in lockstep is considered evidence of "treason." Liberty tends to perish in such an atmosphere, as it nearly did in the war hysteria following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Libertarianism seeks to limit the power of government as much as possible. This means opposing the extension of governmental power in every instance, including its extension abroad. That's why conservatives, who agree with the libertarian program of cutting government to a bare minimum on the home front, are caught in an unsupportable contradiction. They are faced with the conundrum of opposing, say, aid to the elderly and sick in this country, while supporting " foreign aid" that supposedly advances our "national interest."

In reality, the flow of American tax dollars abroad only advances the economic interests of our thieving sock-puppets, and certain US exporters, who vacuum up those aid dollars as quickly as they are appropriated. In economic terms, the game of empire is a bust, a net loss by any measure. Conservatives used to know this. It was that old right-wing reactionary Garet Garrett – prolific writer, noted editor, and prominent enemy of the New Deal – who said of the American Imperium that it is an empire without precedent in the history of the world because "everything goes out and nothing comes in."

It was the conservatives of Garrett's time who were first accused of being the dreaded "isolationists," and now their lineal descendants hurl the same charge at us. That's due to a lapse of historical memory, the saddest case of political amnesia ever recorded. In their more reflective moments, conservatives may wonder why Big Government has only gotten bigger over the years, and never any smaller. The best they've managed to do is to decrease the rate of increase – albeit only incrementally, and temporarily.

Conservatives won elections, yet still the "march of progress" was always in the direction of bigger and more aggressive government. This happened, and continues to happen, due to their blind spot on the question of war and peace: the reflexive belligerence of the cold war years, and the perseverance of neoconservatism in spite of its catastrophic failures in the realm of policy and politics, has created an inner contradiction at the core of the modern conservative credo. Conservatives must choose between the moral and political strictures of the Constitution and the perverse joys of militarism. We can have a republic, or we can have an empire: we cannot have both. It's as simple as that.

Our message to American liberals varies very little from this essential axiom. The problem is that modern American liberals trace their ideological lineage back to the left wing of the New Deal, and are constantly invoking their hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as an example for President Obama – their current hero – to follow. I'll bet the Japanese-Americans among their number are a little shocked to hear this, but being so very polite, they no doubt fail to remind their progressive friends of such inconvenient details as the internment camps.

In terms of sheer deceptiveness and demagogic power, no American president has ever been such an effective warmonger as FDR. He not only lied us into war, as Clare Booth Luce so trenchantly put it, but he executed his war plan in such a manner as to make the next war – the "cold" war that sometimes got very hot – practically inevitable. Liberals who complain – rightly – about the erosion of civil liberties in Obama's (and George W. Bush's) America will find nearly all the legal precedents were set during FDR's long and repressive reign.

Yet the liberal-left of that time didn't make so much as a peep of protest as Japanese-Americans were hauled off to concentration camps, "subversive" newspapers were banned from the mails, and various dissidents on the right and the left were prosecuted for " sedition." Indeed, the left-wing media gloried in the persecution of the Japanese, with commie cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss," giving full vent to the most vicious bigotry – from a "progressive" and impeccably "anti-fascist" perspective, of course. When Lawrence Dennis, a widely-read author and former US diplomat, was tried for sedition on the grounds that the pro-Hitler German American Bund had cited his writings, the American Civil Liberties Union was nowhere to be found.

The neoconized conservatives and the Obama-ized liberals are immune to the anti-interventionist argument, and are quite naturally hostile to libertarianism. The only hope, if hope there be, is in the new movements that are emerging on both sides of the political spectrum: the so-called Tea Party, and the Occupy Wall Street movement, which are both in rebellion – in their different ways – against the ideological status quo. While both are also misguided in their separate ways, it is only in the context of a serious rethinking of what it means to be on the "left" or the "right" that a real challenge to the War Party will emerge.

There are many signs that this is happening, but it is too early to tell if these forces will ever jell into a unified movement with a coherent critique of the modern Warfare State. All we can do at the moment is to push both sides, ever so gently, in the right direction, provide the space for a new realignment – and hope for the best.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/09/why-oppose-interventionism/

The Top 100 Statistics About the Collapse of the Economy That Every American Voter Should Know


The Top 100 Statistics About the Collapse of the Economy That Every American Voter Should Know

The U.S. economy is dying and most American voters have no idea why it is happening. Unfortunately, the mainstream media and most of our politicians are not telling the truth about the collapse of the economy. This generation was handed the keys to the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen, and we have completely wrecked it. Decades of incredibly foolish decisions have left us drowning in an ocean of corruption, greed and bad debt. Thousands of businesses and millions of jobs have left the country and poverty is exploding from coast to coast. We are literally becoming a joke to the rest of the world. It is absolutely imperative that we educate America about what is happening. Until the American people truly understand the problems that we are facing, they will not be willing to implement the solutions that are necessary.

The following are the top 100 statistics about the collapse of the economy that every American voter should know....

#100 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.

#99 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

#98 Since Barack Obama was sworn in, the share of the national debt per household has increased by $35,835.

#97 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration.

#96 It is being projected that the U.S. national debt will hit 344% of GDP by the year 2050 if we continue on our current course.

#95 The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that U.S. government debt held by the public will reach a staggering 716 percent of GDP by the year 2080.

#94 In 2010, the U.S. government paid $413 billion in interest on the national debt. That is projected to at least double over the next decade.

#93 According to one new survey, one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.

#92 State and local government debt has reached an all-time high of 22 percent of U.S. GDP.

#91 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for 18.4% of all income.

#90 U.S. households are now receiving more income from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#89 According to a new study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.

#88 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.

#87 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately 16.3%.

#86 The cost of a health insurance policy for the average American family rose by a whopping 9 percent last year, and according to a report put out by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, the average family health insurance policy now costs over $15,000 a year.

#85 One study found that approximately 41 percent of working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.

#84 An all-time record 49.9 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all at this point, and the percentage of Americans covered by employer-based health plans has fallen for 11 years in a row.

#83 According to a report published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60 percent of the personal bankruptcies in the United States. Of those bankruptcies that were caused by medical bills, approximately 75 percent of them involved individuals that actually did have health insurance.

#82 Average yearly tuition at U.S. private universities is now up to $27,293.

#81 The cost of college tuition in the United States has gone up by over 900 percent since 1978.

#80 In America today, approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans.

#79 In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately $25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day.

#78 The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

#77 One-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don't even require college degrees.

#76 In the United States today, there are more than 100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

#75 In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

#74 In the United States today, approximately 365,000 cashiers have college degrees.

#73 It is being projected that for the first time ever, the OPEC nations are going to bring in over a trillion dollars from exporting oil this year. Their biggest customer is the United States.

#72 U.S. oil companies will bring in about $200 billion in pre-tax profits this year. They will also receive about $4.4 billion in specialized tax breaks from the U.S. government.

#71 The United States has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976, and since that time the United States has run a total trade deficit of more than 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world.

#70 The United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#69 The U.S. trade deficit with China is now 27 times larger than it was back in 1990.

#68 Today, the United States spends more than 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.

#67 China has surpassed the United States and is now the largest PC market in the entire world.

#66 In 2002, the United States had a trade deficit in "advanced technology products" of $16 billion with the rest of the world. In 2010, that number skyrocketed to $82 billion.

#65 In 2010, the number one U.S. export to China was "scrap and trash".

#64 Do you remember when the United States was the dominant manufacturer of automobiles and trucks on the globe? Well, in 2010 the U.S. ran a trade deficit in automobiles, trucks and parts of $110 billion.

#63 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#62 If you can believe it, more than 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed down since 2001.

#61 Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.

#60 Back in 1970, 25 percent of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs.

#59 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades.

#58 If you gathered together all of the workers that are "officially" unemployed in the United States today, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the world.

#57 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States right now than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.

#56 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.

#55 Only 55.3% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 were employed last year. That was the lowest level that we have seen since World War II.

#54 Today, there are 5.9 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 that are living with their parents.

#53 The economic downturn has been particularly tough on men. According to Census data, men are twice as likely to live with their parents as women are.

#52 According to one recent survey, only 14 percent of all Americans that are 28 or 29 years old are optimistic about their financial futures.

#51 Incredibly, less than 30 percent of all U.S. teens had a job this summer.

#50 According to one study, between 1969 and 2009 the median wages earned by American men between the ages of 30 and 50 dropped by 27 percent after you account for inflation.

#49 Since the year 2000, we have lost approximately 10% of our middle class jobs. In the year 2000 there were about 72 million middle class jobs in the United States but today there are only about 65 million middle class jobs.

#48 In 1980, 52 percent of all jobs in the United States were middle income jobs. Today, only 42 percent of all jobs are middle income jobs.

#47 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.

#46 According to Paul Osterman, a professor of economics at MIT, approximately 20 percent of all employed Americans are making $10.65 an hour or less.

#45 Half of all American workers now earn $505 or less per week.

#44 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.

#43 New home sales in the United States are now down 80% from the peak in July 2005.

#42 The all-time record for fewest number of new homes sold in the United States was broken in 2009. Then it was broken again in 2010. It is on pace to be broken once again in 2011.

#41 At one point this year, U.S. home prices had fallen a whopping 33% from where they were at during the peak of the housing bubble.

#40 U.S. home values have fallen approximately 6 trillion dollars since the housing crisis first began.

#39 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.

#38 Historically, the percentage of residential mortgages in foreclosure in the United States has tended to hover between 1 and 1.5 percent. Today, it is up around 4.5 percent.

#37 According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, at least 8 million Americans are currently at least one month behind on their mortgage payments.

#36 According to a Harris Interactive survey taken near the end of last year, 77 percent of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck. In 2007, the same survey found that only 43 percent of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.

#35 Starting on January 1st, 2011 the Baby Boomers began to hit retirement age. From now on, every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65. That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years.

#34 According to a new poll by Americans for Secure Retirement, 88 percent of all Americans are worried about "maintaining a comfortable standard of living in retirement". Last year, that figure was at 73 percent.

#33 One out of every six elderly Americans now lives below the federal poverty line.

#32 In 1950, each retiree's Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 U.S. workers. According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are now only 1.75 full-time private sector workers for each person that is receiving Social Security benefits in the United States.

#31 According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security system paid out more in benefits than it received in payroll taxes in 2010. That was not supposed to happen until at least 2016.

#30 The U.S. government now says that the Medicare trust fund will run out five years faster than they were projecting just last year.

#29 According to one study, the 50 U.S. state governments are collectively 3.2 trillion dollars short of what they need to meet their pension obligations.

#28 A different study has shown that individual Americans are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire comfortably.

#27 Between 1991 and 2007 the number of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 that filed for bankruptcy rose by a staggering 178 percent.

#26 According to a shocking AARP survey of Baby Boomers that are still in the workforce, 40 percent of them plan to work "until they drop".

#25 Last year, 2.6 million more Americans dropped into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

#24 Back in the year 2000, 11.3% of all Americans were living in poverty. Today, 15.1% of all Americans are living in poverty.

#23 More than 50 million Americans are now on Medicaid. Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, approximately one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.

#22 More than 45 million Americans are now on food stamps.

#21 The number of Americans on food stamps has increased 74% since 2007.

#20 Approximately one-third of the entire population of the state of Alabama is now on food stamps.

#19 Right now, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

#18 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.

#17 The poverty rate for children living in the United States increased to 22% in 2010.

#16 There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity.

#15 In Washington D.C., the "child food insecurity rate" is 32.3%.

#14 More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.

#13 It is estimated that up to half a million children may currently be homeless in the United States.

#12 The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased by 46% since 2006.

#11 According to a recent report from the AFL-CIO, the average CEO made 343 times more money than the average American did last year.

#10 The wealthiest 1% of all Americans now own more than a third of all the wealth in the United States.

#9 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.

#8 The percentage of millionaires in Congress is more than 50 times higher than the percentage of millionaires in the general population.

#7 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.

#6 According to one recent poll, 90 percent of the American people believe that economic conditions in the United States are "poor". To put this in perspective, only 11 percent of Americans rated economic conditions in the U.S. as "poor" back in January of 1999.

#5 According to another recent poll, 80 percent of the American people believe that we are actually in a recession right now.

#4 Our dollar is being systematically destroyed by the Federal Reserve. An item that cost $20.00 in 1970 will cost you $116.78 today. An item that cost $20.00 in 1913 will cost you $457.67 today.

#3 The Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their friends during the last financial crisis.

#2 The Federal Reserve is a perpetual debt machine. Today, the U.S. national debt is more than 4700 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913.

#1 According to a new CNN/ORC International Poll, 27 percent of all Americans have never even heard of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

We need to educate America.

Please share this with as many people as you can. Time is running out for America, and 2012 is going to be an absolutely pivotal year in the history of this nation.

We are in the midst of a long-term economic decline that is rapidly accelerating. If dramatic changes are not made very quickly, we will soon witness a full-blown collapse of the economy.

Wake up as many people as you can.

We are running out of time.

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