I submit to you that Liberals are incapable of turning away from their big fat bloated government policies and big spending monetary malfeasance. All you have to do is look at places like Detroit here in America or even to other nations like Hungary or Argentina, where Liberal Progressive policies have decimated the economies and destroyed entire societies. The people that live in the places where the collapses have occurred turned right back to the same corrupt, dishonest, big spending statist and Progressive Liberals even after they've lost everything.
I think the best example of this is Argentina!!
“Let it collapse” may make the Keyboard Kommandos here feel good, but it does nothing to help either that country or the US in the long run. Germany collapsed, and that’s how Hitler took over.
I made the big mistake on my most recent visit of heading back to the airport with >700 pesos in my pocket. Couldn’t exchange them.. so, I’m STUCK with them till my next visit.... I hope they still have SOME value by then.
Liberals are inherently incapable of ever “learning a lesson”. The only skills they ever hone to a very high level of sharpness is shifting the blame elsewhere, no matter how implausible that rationale may be.
That the “protected classes” they represent manage to do well in the zero-sum game they depict the world as being, is the whole reason for their satisfaction with their agenda. The “bad people”, i.e., the producers, are severely chastised for trying to be “too stuck-up” for everybody else, and getting rich is an “unfair advantage”.
Argentina, at one time, had a great potential for being a leading world power, and in fact, their per-capita national product probably was as great or greater than that of the United States of America at the time, probably about 1906 or so. But Progressivism is a disease that knows no national boundaries, and its fever shook Argentina to its very foundations, and it its worst, led to Eva Peron and total decimation of whatever stores of national treasure they ever possessed.
The parallels of the collapse of Argentina to the collapse of California are too eerie to ignore or dismiss.
Just like the citizens of Philly, Newark, Chicago, Camden, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, etc.
No matter how bad and corrupt the people in power are (democrats)...
No how much they have ruined and bankrupted the great cities of America (democrats)...
The keep get re-elected. In fact, they rarely (if ever) lose elections. The citizens keeping wanting more of failure and destitution.
So f*ck them.
You are most likely right. A rare example to the contrary might be that of British Tories writing off the American colonies in the 1780s, no doubt some thinking that the colonists ought to be left to their own devices, to teach them a lesson. That turned out well, then. The outcome would be very, very different today, however, if that viewpoint prevailed and large parts of America were surrendered to the mind-disease of progressivism. The inheritors would not have the same constructive intentions as our own Founders, but would bring to any new political project the mentality of the rapist and the looter, for decades to come.
Lot’s of yackety-yack in the article. Almost nothing about about utterly corrupt, socialistic governments and fatally destructive monetary policy. I bet if you overlaid a chart of relative inflation of the peso over the GDP growth chart, there’d be a perfect correlation. Really, no other explanations besides the two I mention are necessary. The rest is all just academic BS.
What is mentioned in the first few words of this article? The PESO!
Allow socialist/progressive politicians to debauch a currency for political ends, and this will always be the result.
In the USA, we have the Federal Reserve, which is the foundation of progressive government in the USA. Although it may take longer, we are on the same path as Argentina. Study Argentina’s society, economy and politics and you will see many similarities with the USA.
Glancing through recent posts I find a story of a Seattle Council member Kshama Sawant who is "...throwing down the gauntlet." for a $15 an hour minimum wage. These elected officials are beyond irresponsible. What combination of stupidity, ideology, idiocy and ignorance produces these people? And their constituents support them and elect them and re-elect them. How do you propose to turn this around?
We can all name dozens of US cities that have lost population in the last thirty years. Detroit is the most glaring example and, for me, the closest. When I was growing up Detroit really was the shining city on a hill. The decline started in the 1960's under various liberal/progressive mayors. The riots of 1967 and subsequent democrat administrations looted the city treasury and drove it to third world status. Anybody who could, black and white, voted with their feet and fled the city limits.
Now, that city on the hill has a school system that produces "graduates" who are not ready for higher education or the labor force. Half of them can't even read. That's okay, though, because most of their fellow citizens are also functionally illiterate. They are, however, able to present little plastic government issued and government funded cards to obtain their daily bread. That is about the extent of their abilities.
Welcome to 21st century urban America. The only fix for this problem is a drastic reset. That's a polite way of saying that, in terms of decline, you haven't seen anything yet.
Progressive Liberal governments feed their populations on the 7 deadly sins mainly through the “something for nothing/it’s free: ideology. The sheeple buy into the progrom even when the temple is falling on their heads.
now you know why Obama and Kirchner were laughing it up, taking selfies and playing footsies at Mandela’s funeral. Birds of a feather....America’s future if this a-hole and his corrupt cronies don’t get booted out soon.
To start with "They found that whereas literacy rates stood at 95% in Chicago in 1895". Brings up the question of what is the real literacy rate in todays Chicago? Not some governmental manipulation but the truth. As you go through the article point after point just jumps out.
" Argentina had among the highest rates of primary-school enrolment in the world and among the lowest rates of secondary-school attendance. Primary school was important to create a sense of citizenship, says Axel Rivas of CIPPEC, a think-tank."
" But only the elite needed to be well educated."
"Without a good education system, Argentina struggled to create competitive industries."
"Technological innovation needs not only educated people but access to money."
The comparisons are some what disturbing, they are close but not exact. With the correct leadership perhaps we as a nation can avoid being Argentinized. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tragedy-of-argentina-a-century-of-decline-2014-2#ixzz2tXBxwcqI