A masterpiece, Phil.
Posted on 02/18/2009 12:09:57 PM PST by Scanian
Exactly. Putin needs a some what healthy US economy to serve as the main “trigger” to stimulate the demand for crude, trade, etc... which effects a lot of countries.
Sorry, effect = affect
Is there a video link of this speech?/Just Asking - seoul62.......
A masterpiece, Phil.
Dragoo’s graphics catch the mirror image Putin’s “boy”.
If memory serves he suggested that the professoriat hated the USA on account of hot dog vendors making more money than they. They simply couldn’t abide a country where a laborer could make more money than those in ivory towers. There’s some truth to this; people generally hate what they envy. And these vermin are the most zealous in their support for Obama.
Yes. Joseph Schumpeter did have a lot to say as to why Democracy would always lead to Socialism. I can still remember him saying it (from the tape!).
The election of Obama is the final vindication.
Of course, for those who are reading this post and do not know who Schumpeter was, he was from the Austrian school of economics and was far from a Socialist himself. He simply saw it as an inevitable result of Democracy, as did Karl Marx.
The similarity ends there, as Schumpeter was a total free marketer, but he described his observation as such: (From memory and not a verbatim quote!)
"I say that we will eventually drift towards Socialism not because I like Socialism or am a proponent of it, but more like a doctor who sees that his patient is dying and there is absolutely nothing he can do about it. To be sure, the doctor does not want his patient to die, but he knows that there is nothing he can do to stop it.I have come to this realization too.
It may even end in civil warfare or at the very least serious civil disturbances if not sporadic fighting on a scale we have not seen since Lincoln.
Caption for this fine photo: “. . . Shadows fall on leaders of East and West at the end of the day, as the world sinks slowly into the sunset of civilization as we have known it. . .”
—Aunt Raven, UK
Putin does he is talking about. Obama would tell him that Stalin would have made it work. He just didn’t have the time considering old Koba was cut down in the flower of his youth.
That’s for sure. And yet we seem hell-bent on racing to embrace it.
Imagine the disappointment when people find that not only can’t Obama please all of them, but the socialism they clamor for won’t care to please any of them.
Pootie-poot for Prezy-dent!
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