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America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution (Long, but very worthy and important read)
The American Spectator ^
| July, 2010
| Angelo M. Codevilla
Posted on 07/18/2010 4:50:26 PM PDT by LuigiBonnafini
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: class; codevilla; elections; obama; palin; politics; rulingclass; rushlimbaugh; talkradio
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To: Soul of the South
So should we simply ban television then? Maybe in 20 years from now the same things will be said of the internet—i.e.: roads that will lead to serfdom.
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posted on
07/18/2010 7:53:26 PM PDT
by
GOP_Raider
(Please consider the logging and timber industries when printing this tagline)
To: LuigiBonnafini
The revolution begins in earnest in November, what comes after is anybody’s guess.
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posted on
07/19/2010 9:56:50 AM PDT
by
muddler
(Obama is either incompetent or malicious, and it makes little difference which.)
To: LuigiBonnafini
Rush is really getting into this right now. He is tying it in with the Trent Lott disdain for the Tea Party movement. Rush rarely leads off the show with such a ringing endorsement.
Pinging entire article for later.
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:01:29 AM PDT
by
Upstate NY Guy
(Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
To: LuigiBonnafini
spectator.org is off line Too much traffic?
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:04:18 AM PDT
by
Edgerunner
(Second Amendment Spoken Here)
To: Upstate NY Guy
Rush listeners have crashed the site...lol. It won’t even load right now. Will try again later. it sounds like a must read.
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:04:44 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
("Did you plug the hole yet daddy?")
To: LuigiBonnafini
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:05:28 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Edgerunner; All
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:07:49 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
("Did you plug the hole yet daddy?")
To: Upstate NY Guy
I like the phrase Rush just said “no one gets out of High School”
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:12:28 AM PDT
by
bigjoesaddle
(HEADLINE: Spoiled Brat Man-Child Poops in Potty....Wins Nobel Prize!)
To: donna
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:14:02 AM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
To: All
D.C really is becoming the new Rome circa 6th century. While the ruling class continued their feasts, games and debauchery under supposed Roman pontiffs and false Christianity, the empire was crumbling. Rome itself was outragously wealthy and prospering under a burgeoning bureaucracy and olicharchy. All the while the provinces were becoming unmanageable and the whole empire teetered on collapse as pointy hatted emperors, bishops and other Holy Roman whores continued to their welfare state fantasies and tyrannical control over the populace. What's old is new again.
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:16:36 AM PDT
by
pburgh01
To: penelopesire
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:28:15 AM PDT
by
pallis
To: donna
Ephesians 6:12
Perfectly condenses it.
So how do we insure the new guys voted in don't get "the meeting" in the room of those we don't vote for?
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:35:46 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: LuigiBonnafini
Explains the likes of Newt and McCain. Also explains the shots taken at Sarah Palin. We can only vote them out of office. It also explains the uphill battle J.D. Hayworth has. The “party” has lined up against him as he is not part of the “ruling class”.
To: LuigiBonnafini
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:40:24 AM PDT
by
PMAS
To: LuigiBonnafini
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posted on
07/19/2010 11:01:15 AM PDT
by
mick
(Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
To: Niuhuru
The irony of the ruling class is not that its made up of the wealthiest and most talented, but instead run by the dregs (entertainers) and run by the welfare class, the perversely develop idle class who live on the money of the taxpayers.
I dont mind helping out the mentally ill and genuinely handicapped, but so many are having dozens of kids out of wedlock and the responsible are having less children because they have to work day in and day out.
This ruling class involves Frank, Dodds and many other liars and cheats that should rot.
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posted on
07/19/2010 3:46:32 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
To: LuigiBonnafini
Great [loooong] article. America today is plain and simply Rome of the first few centuries A.D. Our fate will be the same. We no longer have the will or the ability to govern ourselves. So now we have rulers. The Barbarians are at the gates...ask Arizona. What we once were, we are no longer.
God help us...or at least those of us who still care.
To: LuigiBonnafini; stephenjohnbanker; rabscuttle385; mkjessup; exit82; AuntB; pissant; NFHale
If people could only understand the premise of this article, they would be begin too see why some of us have such hair triggers when it comes to people who profess to be Conservatives.
There’s a big game being played on us, and very few people have any idea what is taking place.
This is a keeper, because it pretty well lays reality out for those who need to know.
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posted on
07/19/2010 4:50:00 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Latest most accurate Az Poll to date, of 14 likely voters: McCain 137%, Hayworth -37% (+/- 92%))
To: DoughtyOne; LuigiBonnafini; rabscuttle385; mkjessup; exit82; AuntB; pissant; NFHale
” Theres a big game being played on us, and very few people have any idea what is taking place. “
Very few people know because they don’t care enough to know. I learned nothing in particular from this article, but I hope many people read it.
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posted on
07/19/2010 5:00:08 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
To: LuigiBonnafini
Discrediting is not good enough. I want these people in jail, proscribed, deprived of liberty and property, with no judicial review via Article III Sec II. I want them UNDER the jail. They aren’t elites. They’re pigs.
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posted on
07/19/2010 5:02:15 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
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