Partisanship kills. Blind partisanship kills blindly. 
Posted on 02/28/2005 11:54:16 PM PST by beyond the sea
Gee, I only stayed at a Holiday Inn.
A lot of good it did me. I'm raising perennials and in the soil every day of my life.... but I love it.
90 hour work weeks from Mid-March through December, then THIS!
Yoi, double yoi!
Hey, Pitt's basketball team finally played a good game last night.
Is it your position that once the words pass the omniscient ones lips they are to be accepted as truth?
Partisanship kills. Blind partisanship kills blindly.
It doesn't remain stable. There is no reason why it should. Stability is not a virtue, adaptability is, in such matters. The world changes. Economies that adapt to those changes perform well, those that resist them suffer. The overall result of successful adaptation is that more total value is created tomorrow than was created yesterday. 3% more per year, typically.
And the US economy has very unstably seen to that, like clockwork, through initial povertyin a howling wilderness, settlement, slavery, civil war, mass immigration, huge technological changes, world war, collapses of world wide trade, inflation, nuclear threats, changes in currency regimes, stock market crashes, socialist governments, 94% top tax rates, you name it. Our prosperity is not an ephemeral result of secret formulae by remote masters of the universe cabaling in Davos. It is the predictable and systematic consequence of our enourmous efforts to work and our willingness to change what we do and how, as conditions change.
"when we become dependent on the goodwill and continued "friendship" with foreign economies"
You might as readily ask how it is that you can survive when you don't perform subsistence hunting and gathering yourself. You don't depend on the friendship, but on the self interest, of others who perform tasks for you in return for the tasks you perform for them. If you focus simply on making sure you perform useful tasks for others, then you will create new value. And in the large, you will enjoy new value created by others in return - in roughly equal measure. If you are prudent about what you pay for things and what you actually need or want, prudent about when you need it, and conscientious about doing things that others truly want done, then all the rest takes care of itself.
And the US economy as a whole is simply overflowing with these things. We work vastly harder than people in Europe do. We work vastly smarter than people in China do. And we adapt to new developments in the world, more consistently and more thoroughly, than just about any other people on earth - now, or at any time in history. And that is quite sufficent to keep us rich. Whatever the rest of the world thinks or does.
If someone will do something for you cheaper, let them. If they raise the price, look for other ways or get into doing it yourself. It is really not that complicated. But some people worry for a living, others can't stand the fact that free people doing whatever they want actually works fine in the long run, and want to order them around instead. They predict falling skies and tell you to do what they say or else. If you laugh at them, the sky will not fall. They are soothsayers and doomsayers, not wise men.
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Who is the omniscient one and where did you get this idea? Surely your talking points flowchart is better than that. Better call your supervisor for instructions.
Or perhaps you're saying there are multiple omniscient ones.
If someone will do something for you cheaper, let them. If they raise the price, look for other ways or get into doing it yourself. It is really not that complicated. But some people worry for a living, others can't stand the fact that free people doing whatever they want actually works fine in the long run, and want to order them around instead. They predict falling skies and tell you to do what they say or else. If you laugh at them, the sky will not fall. They are soothsayers and doomsayers, not wise men.
Excellent, are you sure you're not Rush? Great post.
There an article posted (I wish I had bookmarked it) that proved, using cites and analyses of federal reports, that illegal immigrant "employment" is included in those numbers.
The key to greatness is large families with multiple sons,
a high standard of living, and good education. The government and corporations need to take note of this. An artificially inflated economy, soaring housing costs, and a high-stress society with both spouses working, designed to promote population control, does not advance the "greatness" of America.
Dang!, Petronski.
You take me to the heights of optimism with one post and dump me to the depths with your "clarification".
WE ARE SELLING OUR AMERICAN BIRTHRIGHT TO GLOBALISM FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE!
Are you talking about the Household Survey and the Employer Survey? I guess they would have to include at least the Household Survey. However, I don't know how many employers would claim they put illegal aliens on their illegal payroll. At one time that would be tantamount to admitting breaking the law.
DOGS AND CATS . . . LIVING TOGETHER . . . MASS HYSTERIA!
Did pre-WW2 Germany not have a central bank?
There are significant differences between our situation and Germany's hyperinflation of the 1920's.
But, there are also frightening similarities.
But adaptability is the method to regain and maintain stability, like the balancing adjustment of a man walking a tightwire.
You don't depend on the friendship, but on the self interest, of others who perform tasks for you in return for the tasks you perform for them.
This is the fallacy of the global trade thought. Ideology and lust for power easily trumps economic self-interest. This is the repeated lesson of history. And the reason for the tale of the goose that laid the golden eggs. The fallacy assumes that all those who come to power in trading nations will be intelligent and ethical.
For the economic good of America, I see no need for any large investment in foreign trade. What does it gain us to lose production capabilities so that we must depend on others for goods, opposed to keeping production capabilities and sell to each other? Peace? See above paragraph.
If history shows anything, it shows that peace is only possible through strength, physical strength.
They've been having high school graduation ceremonies in Arabic for years in Dearborn (according to my sister-in-law that moved out of there).
Correct me if I'm wrong.
It is my opinion that the employment and unemployment numbers are cooked and spun. Many high paying GS jobs are at stake based on how well the various agencies have run the country, not to mention political careers.
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