Welcome to the party George.
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Russia and The U.S. share a tv get me t style. We live in an oligarchy. It is more clear now after this weekends BS in DC. If you are a corporation or person with gobs of money you can double your donations. The rest of us just suck it up and pay.
It is time to water the tree of Liberty.
Our government lies and the media support them.
Winston Smith is earning his little blue check.
Mr. Mano, they are not the mainstream media, they are the propaganda media. Words have meaning calling the media mainstream is to confer a legitimacy upon them they do not deserve. Same thing with illegal aliens. They are not immigrants. Also the government and the propaganda media has been lying to us for decades, decades, and decades. Glad you have finally noticed Mr. Mano.
"Lying is routine for evil governments. Once a regime starts down the path of dishonesty, it never turns back."
Many on the conservative side believe we will reverse the dishonesty of our government by winning elections. We won't. We have many laboratory examples of this right here in the US. Look at state, local and city governments. Take Chicago, a corrupt cesspool, why have the wheels of elections not reformed this corrupt city? Unfortunately I know of no example where dishonest government has been reversed through elections. Maybe there are some but I personally know of no example where this has taken place.
This IMO is the reason to forget about national elections and concentrate on an article V convention of the states. Article V convention was the founders answer to corrupt central government. It's time to use it while we still can.
A good article but one glaring inaccuracy: “Unfortunately, Americans are not as savvy to government mendacity as the Soviet citizenry were.”
Actually, Americans probably are about as savvy. The way that’s expressed though is different. In the soviet union, everyone voted...or else. In the US, in spite of endless ads, extended hours, exhortations to civic duty, etc. only about 36% bothered to show in 2014 That was the lowest participation rate for a midterm since WWII.
We live in a society where the elites are at best amoral and worst immoral. While some members of the elites may feign to believe in God, they are not religious and they do not hold themselves to any religious standards of behavior much less try to live virtuous lives.
The very definition of morality has become muddied and political. This week we were treated to the spectacle of politicians, academics, and social leaders condemning the heavy handed interrogation of terrorist prisoners as illegal and immoral. Those same leaders will not condemn the arbitrary killing of individuals, in nations not at war with us, by drone strikes. In fact the current president claims the legal authority to kill foreigners and US citizens around the world without any form of due process. Not a whimper of concern or protest by the same actors crying for George Bush and Dick Cheney to be tried and convicted of crimes against humanity.
Likewise we see in Ferguson the casting aside of the rule of law in favor of a lynch mob. Progressive leaders and thinkers are quick to throw away the principles of “equal justice under law” and “innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” for an arbitrary system of justice they can administer from afar and use to dole out political favors.
At the University of Virginia, unproven accusations of criminal conduct by unidentified assailants against an anonymous victim resulted in the immediate and arbitrary suspension (punishment) of all members of social fraternities. This occurred without any investigation of the facts or any opportunity for the accused to respond. The court of public opinion demanded action so the heavy hand of the state administered the justice of the lynch mob, punishing over a thousand students in an effort to bring justice to the seven they could not identify and which likely do not exist. Even today, with the accuser and the charges discredited, the fraternities remain suspended and the freedom of the thousand remains restricted. Here the political ends justified the means and justify the the continued restriction of liberty.
Our politics and institutions are corrupt because the soul of the nation is corrupt. We elect men and women who have no moral compass or standards to office and then complain about the results. The majority of our citizens do not practice a religion (i.e. read the scriptures and attend a house of worship). Our society no longer upholds Christian values and ethics as standards to which all should live by. Without shared values and a culturally ingrained view of morality, a society cannot survive.
As long as our souls are corrupt there will be no improvement. It isn’t enough to vote in an election. If the people we chose to lead us cannot discern from right and wrong, they will take the path of least resistance. Sodom and Gomorrah were not cleansed at the ballot box.
He's right. But there are so many Census, BLS, and other government tables. Even the Employment Situation tables have the truth you just have to look a little. Even the MSM employees know about the labor force participation rate.
I have the time to look for those other tables. The "progressives" like to compare Reagan and Obama administrations vis-a-vis the economy. The tables help prove that whatever Obama claimed the unemployment rate was earlier this year is a lie even without considering labor force participation rate.
Source:
Choose Total nonfarm, Seasonally adjusted then
- scroll down and click Retrieve Data button
- Change Output Options from date to 1979,
- Click Go button.
(abridged) Total nonfarm seasonally adjusted employed Establishment Data 1979 - 2014
Series Id: CES0000000001
Seasonally Adjusted
Super Sector: Total nonfarm
Industry: Total nonfarm
NAICS Code: -
Data Type: ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual |
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1979 | 88810 | 89054 | 89480 | 89418 | 89791 | 90109 | 90215 | 90297 | 90325 | 90482 | 90576 | 90673 | |
1980 | 90802 | 90882 | 90994 | 90850 | 90419 | 90099 | 89837 | 90097 | 90210 | 90491 | 90748 | 90943 | |
1981 | 91037 | 91105 | 91210 | 91283 | 91293 | 91490 | 91602 | 91566 | 91479 | 91380 | 91171 | 90893 | |
1982 | 90567 | 90562 | 90432 | 90152 | 90107 | 89864 | 89522 | 89364 | 89183 | 88906 | 88783 | 88769 | |
1983 | 88993 | 88918 | 89090 | 89366 | 89643 | 90022 | 90440 | 90132 | 91247 | 91518 | 91871 | 92227 | |
1984 | 92673 | 93154 | 93429 | 93792 | 94100 | 94479 | 94792 | 95034 | 95344 | 95630 | 95979 | 96107 | |
1985 | 96373 | 96497 | 96843 | 97039 | 97313 | 97459 | 97649 | 97842 | 98045 | 98233 | 98442 | 98609 | |
1986 | 98734 | 98841 | 98935 | 99122 | 99249 | 99155 | 99473 | 99587 | 99934 | 100120 | 100306 | 100511 | |
1987 | 100683 | 100915 | 101164 | 101502 | 101728 | 101900 | 102247 | 102418 | 102646 | 103138 | 103370 | 103664 | |
. . . | |||||||||||||
2007 | 137448 | 137536 | 137724 | 137802 | 137946 | 138017 | 137984 | 137968 | 138053 | 138135 | 138253 | 138350 | |
2008 | 138365 | 138279 | 138199 | 137985 | 137803 | 137631 | 137421 | 137162 | 136710 | 136236 | 135471 | 134774 | |
2009 | 133976 | 133275 | 132449 | 131765 | 131411 | 130944 | 130617 | 130401 | 130174 | 129976 | 129970 | 129687 | |
2010 | 129705 | 129655 | 129811 | 130062 | 130578 | 130456 | 130395 | 130353 | 130296 | 130537 | 130674 | 130745 | |
2011 | 130815 | 130983 | 131195 | 131517 | 131619 | 131836 | 131942 | 132064 | 132285 | 132468 | 132632 | 132828 | |
2012 | 133188 | 133414 | 133657 | 133753 | 133863 | 133951 | 134111 | 134261 | 134422 | 134647 | 134850 | 135064 | |
2013 | 135261 | 135541 | 135682 | 135885 | 136084 | 136285 | 136434 | 136636 | 136800 | 137037 | 137311 | 137395 | |
2014 | 137539 | 137761 | 137964 | 138268 | 138497 | 138764 | 139007 | 139210 | 139481 | 139724(P) | 140045(P) | ||
2015 | ???? |
Re: 2009 and 2010. While those Dem pukes were gallivanting around Washington with their victory and opportunity to use health care to fundamentally change America into a Marxist, centrally controlled state 8,660,000 Americans lost their jobs. Starting with election years
Reagan years, Jan. of each year 1980 - 1987
Using column A in a spread sheet for each administration
Of course I could have done that last step and been done with it but
That's what Senator Schumer was referring to. .. and what of the domestic millions added to the population and the tens of millions more that Obama and the Republican Chamber of Commerce are inviting to "Come on in!"?
The reason I wanted to try to step through this carefully as I can be is that I cannot believe that such things happen in America. That the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats really did get control.. it really happened just like I feared that it would.