New Year Resolution: Learn From The Past

Nietzche is Dead ^ | 2 Jan 09 | foutsc

[foutsc]

Can we learn anything from our current economic situation? With Uncle Sam throwing his protective tarp over the investment bankers who got us into this mess, you know those pirates won't learn anything other than, "let's do it again!"

We commoners must be content with nothing but good advice. WikiHow provides us with seven steps for applying lessons from the Great Depression:

1. Stop using credit

2. Nurture positive relationships with family and friends

3. Do it yourself

4. See Frugality as a virtue

5. Treat food with respect

6. Reuse, reuse, reuse

7. Be thankful

Those of us who grew up in a working class family already have these steps emblazoned upon our consciousness. Do it yourself is the only answer for those who have more time than money. As for #5, I learned as a child that wasting food is a sin and calling food "crap" was considered an insult to God that earned swift retribution.

So leave the tarp to the rich and powerful, it'll likely blow away in a windstorm anyway. These effete bankers have probably never heard of bungee cords. We're better off with the advice. It's worth more than all the money that used to be in the US Treasury.

Happy New Year!

[kindred]

Learn from the past or be as stupid as a democrat who learns nothing but how to steal money and jobs using government handouts, the biggest thieves are not the poor the the politicians and bureaucrats and rich leftists and scum union workers who control and steal using America's tax and election system.
The only hope for America's workers may be the total collapse of the economy in the next 4 years by the stupid is as stupid will do democrats and republic-rats of America.

[taxcutisapayraise]

[geologist]

#1. Stop using credit.

This one is vital.

We are drunk on credit as a nation, and as a people.

#4 See Frugality as a virtue.

This is a virtue that has not been taught for forty years or so. It gradually disappeared from all but a few older Americans that had experienced hardship during the dust bowl days and the time great depression.

We are to blame for not teaching these character skills to the youth.

We gladly jumped aboard the materialism train, and never looked back.

Big mistake. People are molded by their culture and their experiences.

It is almost as if it is in their DNA to spend, spend, buy, buy keep wanting more, more. It is never enough.

Our government has endlessly contributed to this process ... from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson, to Bill Clinton, To George W. Bush ... and coming now the biggest spender of all Obama.

God help us.

[ronnie raygun]

New years resolution: hope less for the best and prepare for the worst!