Most of them don't know a thing about him past his being a socialist. Can't even name the war he fought in.
I think the same goes for the Palestinian scarves and different other extreme symbols. I'm frightened when teenagers, especially they, dress up like that.
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It's not a "give up" mentality but a recognition of what is coming. We are in a pretty deep hole and to a great extent there is nothing we can do about it. Its prudent to think about how to get through it on an individual basis.
The 1930's was very, very different in several respects. People were more self-sufficient, something like 60% of the population lived in rural areas and grew at least some of their own food. Many people didn't even have electricity or indoor plumbing, phones were not a household item, transportation was slow. In many ways, people had to survive on what they had locally. And the nation was not very dependent upon foreign nations for goods. The Great Depression was difficult, but many people had their own safety nets (family, community) to rely on.
Today, we are a service economy, not a production economy. Most people live in urban areas and are helpless without their electricity, plumbing, clean water tapped right into their home, gasoline, and food at the local mega-mart. People don't have their own safety nets, either. A person can't move back to their family farm like they could in the 1930's.
It's not a "give up" mentality but a recognition of what is coming. We are in a pretty deep hole and to a great extent there is nothing we can do about it. Its prudent to think about how to get through it on an individual basis.
The 1930's was very, very different in several respects. People were more self-sufficient, something like 60% of the population lived in rural areas and grew at least some of their own food. Many people didn't even have electricity or indoor plumbing, phones were not a household item, transportation was slow. In many ways, people had to survive on what they had locally. And the nation was not very dependent upon foreign nations for goods. The Great Depression was difficult, but many people had their own safety nets (family, community) to rely on.
Today, we are a service economy, not a production economy. Most people live in urban areas and are helpless without their electricity, plumbing, clean water tapped right into their home, gasoline, and food at the local mega-mart. People don't have their own safety nets, either. A person can't move back to their family farm like they could in the 1930's.
I could. All I'll have to eat are pecans but it's no biggie to just grow another crop. Suffer for that 1st year and then eat like a king.
Communists...
oop:I really don't like them and their superiority complex despite the fact humans would need to be something other then what we are to work. I mean really, do you think everyone is just going to sing songs and hold hands with no gov't to maintain order or that the capitalists will just go away?
I think the world is heading for a major economic meltdown, and since the USA is a very important player in it, they would fall first. We have already seen the first signs towards the end of 2008. Instead of belting up, the world decided to throw more money around. There is too much interference by Government in trying to maintain the status quo such as bailing out financial institutions that should have gone bankrupt. If this interference becomes more like a regular event to the point of controlling the economy, something is bound to give.
I don't think national leaders can see the wood for the trees. They are so focussed on small parts of the economy, that they can't see the big picture. By the time they get a glimpse of it, a new Government is in place. Telling the public what they have learned would probably also never happen, as the public rarely hears the truth, what we get to know is on a "as needed" basis only.
I really don't know what to do? I like having other people around me, I'm not a doomsday profit. To prepare for it, one probably would have to buy your own island and become completely self-sufficient in it.
Communists...
I really don't like them and their superiority complex despite the fact humans would need to be something other then what we are to work. I mean really, do you think everyone is just going to sing songs and hold hands with no gov't to maintain order or that the capitalists will just go away?
What i find most difficult to believe is their theory on how the state will just magically fade away. Why the hell would the state dissolve itself? The state is a power-craving institution. It needs to be forcefully removed or constitutionally limited. And technically, a constitution threatens the democratic process. But is vital to it. Paradox.
For the state to be dissolved, we would require incredible democratisation, a miracle (unlikely), or force. What's more, ultimately, it's a utopic dream. (Anarchism isn't, by the way).
Definitely does not make sense, most of all because people are mostly creatures who look after their own self-interest first. That does not make for selfless people who would not mind sharing power for the good of the people. People in general are just not perfect enough to make a utopic dream like that come true.
Some people (I'm looking at you Dr. Hawking) would say that we should genetically engineer ourselves to be passive. This ignores the fact that we're predators and more then that apex predators. The lion that sleeps with the lamb starves to death.
Now if such was done while also eliminating our need for food (hello, photosynthesis) then it could work and I'd even support it. Until then, it'd just screw up nature.
Not to mention that we are a species, and in order to survive we have to be competitive. So we would basically have to go against our own nature to make a Government like that happen.
China is now openly using the US securities it holds (i.e., the US debt) as a weapon, and is also openly talking about reducing purchases of US debt.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6183KG20100209
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/10/chinese-see-us-debt-as-weapon/?feat=home_top5_shared
The end is approaching.....
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6183KG20100209
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/10/chinese-see-us-debt-as-weapon/?feat=home_top5_shared
The end is approaching.....
The Chinese are smart, they're like a new Soviet Union. They know how to challenge the United States, and their tactic is very dirty.
Well of course all countries have to take the consequences of their choices, and I do believe the US are taking their part of the blame for it. The problem now is that the Chinese are using this to their advantage, and they know exactly how and when to do it.
