PCR, still crazy after all these years.....Ping!
Ruthlessly exploited the Greek people.....by lending them more money to waste on their bloated government? Money the Greeks will never repay? LOL!
That's some funny exploitation.
When the Politicians get tired of all the reelections , yes
A more interesting question is, is freedom dead in the west?
I might comment here, you can’t be free on borrowed money. Sooner or later the lender calls the tune.
Can democracies remain free? Not if the voters think they can remain free on someone else’s money.
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx
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On the otherhand....
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Winnie KNEW what democracy WAS ....and.... WASN'T
Better question... Is Liberty dead?? Too many conflate the two but Athenian Democracy executed Socrates. Ordered Liberty requires ordered not unbridled Democracy.
City of God. Augustine.
Democracy is alive and well. That’s the problem.
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Roberts absolves the Greeks of any and all responsibility for their predicament. Totally bogus article.
Democracy is kickin a$$.
It’s the idea of constitutional republicanism that’s dead.
I’m of two minds about Greece. On the one hand, the Greeks have been absurdly profligate with public funds and run up huge debts. On the other hand, everything that is being done is being done to ensure that creditors who were foolish enough to lend money to the Greek government under those circumstances don’t take a loss on their bonds.
Quite frankly, Greece ought to leave the Eurozone, if not the EU, issue its own worthless fiat drachmas, and its creditors, the ECB and IMF included, should get their money back in new drachmas or not at all for being fools with their money and lending it to fools.
It's where guys like him go when they lose their mind.
9. The management of a great funded debt and a extensive system of taxes will afford a plea, not to be neglected, for establishment of a great incorporated bank. the use of such a machine is well understood. If the Constitution, according to its fair meaning, should not authorize it, so much the better. Push it through by a forced meaning and you will get in the bargain an admirable precedent for future misconstructions.
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act.
10. “Divide and govern”...
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
Rules for Radicals? No…
Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One - 1784-1796 - Philip Freneau
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm