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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

He lost me when he started pushing Argentina as a place to be. There’s something in his writing and thinking that hits me as kind of a double secret reverse sociopathy.


30 posted on 03/31/2012 9:50:39 AM PDT by Stentor ("All cults of personality start out as high drama and end up as low comedy.")
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To: Stentor; Excellence

Again I say, there is some good meat in this article should some of the circumferential fat be trimmed.

Doug Casey was one of the rare winners on the Bre-X gold scandal, which was a complete fraud. AFAIK, he did nothing unethical, he was just on the right side of the trade...short, I assume. Or, very early, and he could afford to exit while the price was on the ascendency. Like 97% of all newsletter authors, his “do what I did and you, too can retire comfortably in [xx] on $350 a month” isn’t for everyone. Nothing is, really.

And, I’m not advocating bailing to another country, though I do not rule it out. It’s certain to mark the emigree as a target, in multiple ways.

Really, the essential nugget I wished to point out by posting the article was just that top-to-bottom, our society has become the reflection of the conclusion that 51% are now predators, takers, and willful saboteurs. There is no longer this exalted principled stance associated with “government service”. “Government service” has become a license to steal and ideally, to build up ones’ bureaucratic defenses against prosecution once one decides to shift the theft from covert to overt. And many of the non-takers are seeing the rewards showered upon the new (not really) uber-criminal class and wondering, “why work for a living?”. It’s pervasive, from bankster to brutha. And it does not bode well.


34 posted on 03/31/2012 10:25:33 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The only economic certainty: When it all blows up, Krugman will say we didn't spend enough.)
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