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Founder Of Reaganomics Says That "Without A Revolution, Americans Are History"
ZeroHedge ^

Posted on 08/16/2010 4:08:30 PM PDT by tired1

The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery.

The United States and the welfare of its 300 million people cannot be restored unless the neocons, Wall Street, the corporations, and their servile slaves in Congress and the White House can be defeated.

Without a revolution, Americans are history.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: elections; obama; palin; paulcraigroberts; politics
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Much insight here again from Zero Hedge
1 posted on 08/16/2010 4:08:30 PM PDT by tired1
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To: tired1

It does seem like things are quickening to something.

Whatever the case, what we are doing now isn’t sustainable.


2 posted on 08/16/2010 4:18:21 PM PDT by chris37
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To: tired1; sickoflibs; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; mkjessup; Grampa Dave; Liz; rabscuttle385

I have been posting pieces of this article for years. Roberts gets it. Roberts is not enough to save us. Too few people understand the problems endemic to our economy, and even more sadly, too few care.


3 posted on 08/16/2010 4:22:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (.Go troops! " Vote out RINOS. They screw you EVERY time" Jim Robinson)
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To: tired1

Violent reactions are exactly what “they” want. “They” will continue to provoke until one occurs, then watch the totalitarian crackdown....


4 posted on 08/16/2010 4:28:11 PM PDT by JPJones (There are no conservative Democrats. Just ones scared of re-election.)
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To: tired1
The neocons allied with Israel, who control both parties and much of the media, are strung out on the ecstasy of Empire

Dem Jews been busy. I think they pissed in his Wheaties, too.

5 posted on 08/16/2010 4:28:59 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: tired1

Just waiting for a good leader give me marching orders and to tell me which way the enemy is.


6 posted on 08/16/2010 4:29:20 PM PDT by Captain PJ
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Bookmark


7 posted on 08/16/2010 4:32:17 PM PDT by Britt0n
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To: tired1
I've always admired PCR, but I could do without the Israel bashing.

I don't know what that has to do with the coming economic collapse - Obama is as antisemitic a president as there's ever been and his policies have stomped on the accelerator as we head over the cliff.

8 posted on 08/16/2010 4:34:28 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: MARTIAL MONK

It`s Da Jooz, DA JOOZ !!!


9 posted on 08/16/2010 4:34:40 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: tired1

Military spending is...wait for it... CONSTITUTIONAL

Medicare,Medicade,Social security, Dept. of Education etc, etc, is not.


10 posted on 08/16/2010 4:36:50 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: tired1
When did Paul Craig Roberts become the "founder of Reaganomics"?

Doesn't Ronald Reagan deserve some of the credit?

11 posted on 08/16/2010 4:37:35 PM PDT by x
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To: skeeter
I read Paul Craig Roberts almost daily. He is a mixture of conservative economics and anti Israel, anti military. He is correct in bringing the jobs home. He is wrong in his rants against our military.
12 posted on 08/16/2010 4:38:37 PM PDT by Murp (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: tired1

Yep, Paul Craig Roberts comes to the rescue once more! At the root of our problems, it’s always those damned JOOS:

“Here is what can be done. The wars, which benefit no one but the military-security complex and Israel’s territorial expansion, can be immediately ended. . . . The neocons allied with Israel, who control both parties and much of the media, are strung out on the ecstasy of Empire.”

Even crazy old Ron Paul, not to mention Pat Buchanan, would probably blush!

(And all those traitorous neo-cons like Bill Kristol and Norman Podhoretz no doubt will be pleased to learn they control the Dhimmi party!)


13 posted on 08/16/2010 4:39:37 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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> Doesn’t Ronald Reagan deserve some of the credit? <

Certainly not. No credit at all. Don’t forget that he was a strong supporter of Israel!


14 posted on 08/16/2010 4:42:32 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: tired1
Yes, some insight. Also, an astounding amount of hypocrisy. PCR was the author of the supply-side tax cuts. So where are the tax cuts in his "solutions?"

His old song and dance, "cut the military, hate Israel" overlooks the fact that America's growth decades included PLENTY of military spending. I'm pretty sure that in the Reagan years, military spending as a share of either the federal budget or of GNP was higher than today, yet we created 14 MILLION net new jobs.

"Bring American jobs home." The old PCR: cut taxes here. The new PCR, impose new taxes, just on someone else.

In reality the answers are as simple (and painful) as they were from 1981-1983: choke the money supply; cut taxes (even more drastically now); and do something even Reagan didn't do---CUT THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT AT EVERY LEVEL, ACROSS THE BOARD.

15 posted on 08/16/2010 4:44:45 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Roberts is off on a lot here. The “old” PCR got it. This guys simply hates Israel and apparently loves terrorists.


16 posted on 08/16/2010 4:45:24 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Para-Ord.45

Right up the zero’s alley. This guy wouldn’t know how to balance a budget on the Arizona border.


17 posted on 08/16/2010 4:49:28 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: tired1

Without a revolution, Americans are history.
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I’m down for it. Just let me know when and where to show up!


18 posted on 08/16/2010 4:49:46 PM PDT by no dems (To Every Democrat in the U.S. House and Senate: "Shame, shame. Shame on all your houses.")
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To: Murp

Bring them back how, with a Smoot-Hawley II ?


19 posted on 08/16/2010 4:57:26 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: tired1

Yes, the military should have SOME cuts. It would save much more, would it not, to cut all foreign aid? And to give a drop-dead date on welfare?

If they bring the jobs home, they need to cut the payments to couch potatoes an equal percentage each year until there is no more welfare.


20 posted on 08/16/2010 4:58:30 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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