Twenty-Nine Reasons to Be Angry And/Or Scared

The American Thinker ^ | Jun 20, 2011 | Monty Pelerin

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, on the bright side, the Taliban is finally winning in Afghanistan. Oh, wait, that’s not the bright side ...

[givemELL]

Yes, Monte Pelerin...http://mises.org/Community/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=19047

[ForGod'sSake]

I hope he's wrong, but I suspect he's not.

Looks like the moneychangers has the world by the nads.

[AlexW]

“7. Unrest will grow worse as food, energy and other necessities become more expensive. The unrest started in poorer countries but, as prices continue to rise, will spread to more affluent nations. Can “Democratic movements” occur in supposedly already democratic societies?”
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I guess that depends on the country.
Here in the Philippines, the climate does not change, so
no one will go cold.
No one has any money, and most live in third world housing and conditions, but they entertain themselves and stay happy.
Veggies, fruit, and fish are plentiful all year.

I can easily see many horrors in the US and Europe, but for
here, I feel safe.

[Daffynition]

**Real world experience led me to Austrian Economics, which I have studied for the past quarter century. This branch of economics, in my opinion, best represents how people and economies behave. Its neglect by policy makers is a chief reason for our economic problems, and why most policy responses are harmful rather than helpful.**

Looks like he’s new to the blogosphere.

[Quix]

END TIMES, DREAMS, VISIONS, PROPHECY PING LIST

PING . . .

I guess about all I can safely say to these points is that they are worth prayerful pondering in light of BIBLICAL END TIMES SCRIPTURES.

[Joya]

Thank you bro.

[wintertime]

Ping for later

[seowulf]

I can easily see many horrors in the US and Europe, but for here, I feel safe.

What do you think will happen when all of those billions of cold, hungry people find out who has all those veggies, fruit, and fish?

[AlexW]

“What do you think will happen when all of those billions of cold, hungry people find out who has all those veggies, fruit, and fish?”
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Errr, they will have to swim a very long way.

[seowulf]

All of those Filipinos got to the Philippines somehow.

If they did it, so can some motivated marauding hoards of human locusts.

[AlexW]

“All of those Filipinos got to the Philippines somehow.
If they did it, so can some motivated marauding hoards of human locusts.”
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OK, let me put it to you this way.
Given a choice of being on my island, or in Detroit
or any other US city, what would YOU choose?

[Robert357]

Many good comments.

Atlas shrugs at the economic mess we are making? Where will the productive members of failed societies go? I think that they will flee from Greece, China and other countries to the USA.

I have great faith in the American people as long as we don't loose sight of what made this country.

Most of Europe is toast with a few exceptions. China has a real potential to implode in violence and bloodshed. The Middle East is also likely to implode in violence and bloodshed.

[Baynative]

* (1) the Department of the Treasury; Timothy Geithner
* (2) the Department of Defense; Robert Gates
* (3) the Department of Justice; Eric Holder
* (4) the Department of the Interior; Ken Salazar
* (5) the Department of Commerce; Gary Locke
* (6) the Department of Labor; Hilda Solis
* (7) the Department of Health and Human Services; Kathleen Sebelius
* (8) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Shaun Donovan
* (9) the Department of Transportation; Ray LaHood
* (10) the Department of Energy; Dr. Steven Chu
* (11) the Department of Education; Arne Duncan
* (12) the Department of Veterans Affairs; Eric Shinseki
* (13) the Department of Homeland Security; Janet Napolitano
* (14) the Environmental Protection Agency; Lisa Jackson
* (15) the Federal Communications Commission; Michael Copps
* (16) the Office of Management and Budget; Peter Orszag
* (17) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; John Holdren * (18) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; R. Gil Kerlikowske
* (19) the Council of Economic Advisers; Austan Goolsbee
* (20) the Domestic Policy Council; Melody Barnes (former VP at Center for American Progress)
* (21) the National Economic Council; Gene B. Sperling
* (22) the Small Business Administration; Karen Mills
* (23) the Council on Environmental Quality; Nancy Sutley
* (24) the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs; Valerie Jarrett
* (25) the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs; and such other executive branch departments, agencies, and offices as the President or Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, designate. Chris Lu (or virtually anyone to be designated by the 24 people named above)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Daffynition]

I set as a goal this summer to re-read Ayn Rand’s *Anthem*, as my beach book. I’m well enough in to it, that the observations made above are ringing in my ears.

“We are one in all and all in one, There are no men but the great WE, One, indivisible and forever”

When Equality 7-2521 finds a light bulb and a cell battery,left over from the “Unmentionable Times”, he brings it to the Council of Vocations and is told “What is not thought by all men cannot be true”and “What is not done collectively cannot be good”. They pointed out that it took twenty men to invent the candle one hundred years before and that is why that invention was good.

Prophetic stuff.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

It amazes me that Mr. Pelerin does not see the dark hand of Communism behind all this. They have been at this for over 100 years and the end game is described in George Soros Open Society Institute. He and they intend a Stalinist state with brutal totalitarian control of “the masses”. You and I are the masses.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

I agree with him. I think it's all going to fall apart on us, real soon. The center will NOT hold. I think the rebels were right. Federal central power is extremely dangerous in the long term.

This country is about 100 TRILLION dollars in debt. Even if they balanced the budget today and then some, say cut back so that we were 500 billion a year to the good, it'd take 80-100 years to pay off all the debt these politicos have built up for us over the last 40 years.

And we all know the chances that they'll drop their spending demands to where we're 500 billion to the good every year.

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[Daffynition]

Much of the rest of the world does not punish productive people.....Atlas Is Shrugging In The US And Flexing His Muscles Elsewhere