Posted on 10/30/2013 1:14:29 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Detroit was to be a workers' paradise, a symbol of progressive success. Instead, it has become a symbol of big government failure, corruption, violence, and decay. In 2013, after a great withdrawal of more than a million productive residents, once-great Detroit became the largest American city ever to declare bankruptcy.
"The Great Withdrawal" explores why Detroit failed, why other liberal cities may soon follow, and how this could drag America into insolvency and prolonged depression. It explores the bizarre Nanny Statist Progressive movement that took power in America in 1913 and has driven America on a 100-Year detour away from the ideals of our nation’s founders and toward the stagnation of Euro-socialist welfare states.
Smith and Ponte, in this their fourth book, look at how Progressivism has used addiction to welfare and easy money, as well as psychological manipulation politics from “crisis-ocracy” and “the herd inside our heads” to the sinister brain science techniques known as “nudge” to win elections, manufacture consent, impose invisible taxes, and control us.
He was on Beck’s show the other day....
Very interesting...
Craig R. Smith’s website.
http://www.craigrsmith.com/
He was interviewed on Coast-To-Coast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOkDmHJA3aM
Interview starts at the 9:00 mark and ends at about the 39:00 mark.
You can get his book here.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Withdrawal-Progressives-Debasement/dp/0989847101/
100 years is also the anniversary of the Federal Reserve. If you want to see currency debasement, look at the purchasing power of 1 dollar over the last 100 years.
Conservatives have to learn - the cornerstone of progressive government IS the nationalization of the money supply and bureaucratic control of interest rates. If you have that - you can fund any social-engineering scheme you want through debt, printed money, and inflation.
Just Imagine — what the US Government would look like if the Feds had to compete with the citizens for hard money, could only spend what they could collect in taxes, and had to pay REAL interest on debt they incurred?
For instance, I know some progressive millionaires. But billionaires remain quite rare.
What happens when this all shakes down, the SHTF, to these low-level rich progressives? Their money surely can't protect them from the wrath of the mobs. Their security will turn on them and devour them. Will they all fly to Argentina on their private jets?
Would make a good Beck novel.
Or it’ll be eaten by hyperbolic inflation!
Craig Smith mentions that the current median American income is about $53,000USD. If the collectivists had not devalued the Dollar that number would be about $330,000.
Of what political persuasion are billionaires?
Name me some filthy rich conservatives.
But there are lots and lots of millionaire progressives, you probably know some or know of some around you. They are the ones who go to the fund raisers that the billionaires invite them to.
What happens when the SHTF to the millionaire progressives? Will they see it coming, when their bodyguards strangle them for the jewelry on their wrists? When the servants take over the mansion and eat the food? I'm just posing a scenarios, which might make a good piece of thriller fiction.
A lot of Billionares are Control Freak Statists who got where they aret by using manipulation of progressive government to gain advantages over their competitors by using it as tool of “fairness” or so the people are fooled to believe. They come up with a regulation or law to make things fair, but the well researched consequences are intended to look onthe surface fair, but in reality skewer their competition...
They are masters of manipulation, almost a predator class of human who have deep contempt for Hard working middle to upper middle class people and small and medium business owners..
I sure hope they are referring to BOTH the Republican Progressives and the Democrat PRogressives. They are both to blame.
Just read my tag line.
Soros.
Buffet.
All (12-15)of the older Pritzkers, each of them worth $2B+
Peter B. Miller and I believe he has siblings.
That’s the public billionaire progressives, just off the top of my head. There are plenty more, I’m sure.
Don’t know how much more bad news I can take.
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