Over at TCCC’s, (insiders will know who I’m talking about), conversation abounds with explanations for why the American median income is stagnating or falling, and why the country seems on an unstoppable collision course with a protracted recession/depression and diminution of world influence. (Read Peter Schaeffer’s comments for some righteous ownage of TCCC’s libertardian equalist crew and open border nutjob mercenaries, and then read Chris’s comments for the traitorous filth viewpoint.)
However, no one, in my opinion, comes as close to nailing in as succinct a manner as possible, what is really ailing America (and by extension the West) as commenter Charlesz Martel, who broadsides:
In a previous post, I mentioned that real-estate developers own politicians, or end up owning them. In this case, the bankers ended up owning the regulators.
What is happening to this country is simple: We are being re-assessed as to whether we are truly a first world country, or not. For years, America was a first-world country with a third world country inside it. This third world portion has now grown to almost a third of the country. We are now somewhere between a first and a second tier country; we just happen to be the biggest kid in the sandbox.
Read all about it:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/10/real-mark-to-market.htmlAnd then lay down by the rivers of Babylon, and weep for what was and should have been.
Final note: Anytime you see a situation you don’t understand, look for the financial interest angle. (HT- Karl Marx). or, as Lenin said; “Who? Whom?”
It’s a funny thing. By their actions, every single motherfucking elitist liberal agrees in practice with what Martel wrote above. And yet not a one of them will cop to it. No, they’ll at best speak in euphemism, or they’ll gloat like moralistic hypocrites.
It’s status games all the way down… until the bottom is reached and it’s too late to crawl back out.
I’ve always believed that what makes a country strong is not their intellectuals or educators, but their backbone of laborers who actually find joy in their hard work.
Today, with every child of any intellect being given not just a grade school basic education but even a college level degree, we have lost our middle class laborers — the very people who keep the engine of my world running smoothly.
My plumber, who earns a solid 6 figures, is Guatemalan. My electrician, who earns a solid 6 figures, is Polish. My HVAC guy, who earns a solid 6 figures, is Croatian. My car mechanic, who earns a solid 6 figures, is Slovakian.
My “native” friends all have big degrees, and suffer through mediocre incomes working for someone else. The backbone people in my life, listed above, all work for themselves — and all of them want to return to their birth countries well before “retirement age”, taking their wealth — and knowledge, and hard work ethics — with them.
An interesting mirror of this is the movies. I watched The Deer Hunter for the first time (b. 1975) a couple years ago and was struck by how “blue collar” it felt: the guys worked in a steel mill, and when one of them got married, it was done in a VFW hall type-of-place, on a Friday night after finishing his shift, and for the honeymoon the newlyweds spent the weekend at a motel in the Poconos.
These days, if a movie has a blue-collar protagonist, it’s a safe bet that the whole thing is going to be some mix of voyeurism and allegorical catnip for the SWPLs to engage in Walter Mitty-esque fantasizing about being the oppressed worker for once. It’s like a FOAF who is an acquisitions editor for a NY publisher once complained–all the book submissions she gets these days are about writers and writing. She said she’d kill to get a novel from a truck driver.
SWPL education, law, science, engineering, academic, and “business” jobs are killing off whites. And in the long run, Asians. Minorities who drop out and do real work are happier, healthier, and they have the offspring to show for it. The intellectual whitey is “remembered” in an obscure journal that measures the populations of Arctic whales in correlation with global warming. What a legacy.
Curiously enough (or not, rather), religious fanatics like Orthodox Jews and Amish are the only populations that enjoy both high IQs and high fertility. Secular schools are the death of the West. Women just don’t like the betas who would actually rear kids at home instead of dropping them off at khildren kamp.
TCCC?
something something about cheap chalupas. H seems to have noticed a trend towards open-boarders fetishism on the part of libertarian economists. I’ve found that lefties openly admit to craving openboarders as a way to get around that whole western civilization breeding people to yearn freedom thing. just replace the population with easily manipulated newbies.
Libertarians are not lefties. Libertarians are Classical Liberals and lefties are Marxists. Lefties love the fact that no one can seem to get the terminology correct. it allows them to hide their lies behind false labels, like Liberal.
yeah, they get so smugged up over how there’s some sort of magical difference between marxist, communist, and socialist. Nope, they’re all just thugs who want to steal your shit and be in charge of everything. Oh, sorry for failing to see the microparticle sized policy difference between the reasons why you’re starving millions of people and conducting show trials.
But yeah, libertarians are generalized as cosnervatives who smoke pot, but this open borders cheap chalupas shit shows that they, like liberals, don’t care about our culture or history and would have it washed away because it just don’t matter (whereas to lefties, all that culture and history just stands in the way of their goals, which is another reason why lefties try to appropriate language to their ends…see Joe Biteme’s tax is patriotic idiocy).
Tyler “Cheap Chalupas” Cowen, or whatever the fuck his last name is.
Over my head too, even after these good commenters’ explanation. Guess I’m not “inside” enough.
“Cheap Chalupas,” as in, the only benefit of free trade multiculturalism.
Tri County Community College. Thats where CH matriculated.
Very true, but at least we can take comfort in the knowledge that many of these hypocrites will themselves feel the full force of their stupidity when TSHTF. I’m sure many of the true believers you speak of plan to ‘slip through the back door,’ so to speak, when things turn sour, but in all likelihood it won’t work out that way. The Third-Worldization of the US will affect everybody, not just those who can’t afford to postpone the inevitable by fleeing to gated communities. What will the hip, slick, trendy politicians do when their gated communities are being invaded by gun-wielding thugs and there aren’t any policemen or federal agents to protect them?
I spend a lot of time thinking about the differences between Asia and America.
My observation: In America, a Hulk Hogan can get a date more easily than an Albert Einstein, and in Asia it’s the reverse.
No wonder our boys don’t study math and science as hard as those Asian boys!
I think you hit something. Back when I was ignorant of game, I always studied really hard to impress the girls (with no results, which seemed surprising at the time). Now that I know the truth, I succumb to laziness far more easily than before.
Get the sexual incentives aligned properly in a country, and you’ll have many more people reaching their full potential. High IQ nerds who accomplish the most should be the ones getting the greatest amount of pussy, because without nerds to do science and invent stuff, a society is doomed. But in our society, politicians, actors, artists are rewarded with pussy instead of the really valuable people.
I don’t know why you say ‘politicians, actors and artists’ as though these are equivalents of Hulk Hogan. So you wouldn’t encourage Rembrandt or Mozart to breed? What about good presidents, like Jefferson?
Scientists aren’t the only ones who make a society successful, nor are they necessarily the ‘brightest’; of course they’re bright, but so are plenty of others, others who are equally shut out of the mating game in the US.
IMO, the problem in America is that excellence is discouraged across the board; if you excel, you’re seen as ‘elitist’. In America anyone who attempts to lift themselves above the mass is looked upon with great suspicion. The US is what a Nietzschean would call the ultimate ‘herd society’ because people are absolutely opposed to anyone rejecting mediocrity in favor of exceptionalism.
The problem is not that politicians and artists can get laid, the problem is that phony, incompetent politicians and artists can get laid.
In fact, there is little reason to want to totally shift to an East Asian societal model, because the emphasis on conformity doesn’t help for innovation, including scientific innovation.
‘politicians, actors and artists’ can be distilled down to ‘fame’.
Have you looked at the asian birthrates? The women aren’t fucking their men. Low testosterone is a terrible curse for men who like having sex.
It didn’t start w/ Obama.
As much as I recognize the damage done to the job market by the requirement to pretend we’re all equal (liberal bs), there is also capitalist bullshit: starting about 1970, the middle class has been under attack, and has been decimated over the past 40 years.
This is why Feminism happened: adding a second full-time income earner hid the effects of inflation (the dollar is worth 1/10 what it was in 1970).
And it’s why illegal immigration keeps happening: to maintain a cheap supply of labor, primarily in food production, to hide the true cost of food today. Americans are willing to work hard, but not work hard AND STILL BE POOR; $10/hr today is like $1/hr in 1970 (i.e., poor).
The Demos AND Repubs serve the richest less-than-one-percent (and Israel); they ignore and violate what’s in the best interests of the vast majority of U.S. citizens.
People have far higher expectations for the good life today than before. Most people in DC could still afford one salary if they grew up like I did in Ravensworth. Feminism wasn’t a disguise as much as an attempt to greatly expand the economy. It was a truism before it actually happened. Its one of the big reasons the Bolsheviks were so in favor of womens’ liberation. They wanted to tap into an underutilized pool of labor, especially since they killed so many people establishing their workers’ paradise.
That’s an insightful analysis right there. Raise the price of a Big Mac to $10, and you’d have a genuine mass riot on your hands – one that might actually make a difference.
I disagree, the situation has nothing to do with the intelectually empty third-world / first-world dichotomy. Third-world countries have leaped in their development by simply adopting policies that are inducive to growth, just look at Estonia, from former communist shithole to a really wealthy ‘Baltic tiger’, i.e. labels don’t matter.
A misguided-policy fueled bubble has burst in the US. Bad investments were made. Had they been liquidated 3 years ago, unemployment would now be declining, the economy would’ve been back in a course of recovery and the guys Occupying Wall St would probably not be protesting Goldman, Citi because they would have gone bankrupt years before and bought by some foreign conglomerate for cheap.
Instead, the people who fucked up were rewarded because their generous contributions to the administration makes sure they get preferential treatment and trainfuls of newly printed Benjamins while everyone else foots the bill, hence the ‘people getting poorer part’.
Its just 1929 all over again, a depression lasting for years because the government bases their actions on faulty ideas and wrongheaded theories.
“just look at Estonia”
Estonia has a benefit that most other 3rd world countries don’t have: an average IQ of about 100 or slightly higher.
As a citizen of Romania, I can tell you that even the difference between an average IQ of 100 and one of 94 – like in my country – is clearly visible. We are poorer than most other ex-communist countries in Eastern Europe, except for our Southern Slavic neighbors that have the same relatively low average IQ.
I’m cool with restricting immigration–though strongly favor the “staple a green card to the cover of every Ph.D. thesis in an STEM field” idea–but hasn’t the US always been a mix of classes? Fifty years ago indoor plumbing and electricity were major advancements in Appalachia and the deep South.
Wait for some more time, and no body would come to the US. It enjoyed its glory now it is time for some other country and society….see what happened to Britain!
Can I get a, “Wake up white man”?
Wake up, Whitey!
What happens when he wakes up and finds the real nightmare?
You know what I mean. Most of us choke on that red pill.
Good. Let the lemmings choke and the strong survive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/7198329/Labours-secret-plan-to-lure-migrants.html
ministers wanted to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”, had been correct in his account of Labour’s immigration policy.
Teddy K wanted the same thing here, eh?
see also
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/26/alone/
from the preview in my feed I thought TCCC was the council of conservative citizens and you just ultra-DHVed a WN blog… oh well, good post anyway
Charlesz Martel
What is happening to this country is simple: We are being re-assessed as to whether we are truly a first world country, or not. For years, America was a first-world country with a third world country inside it.
Pointing out the problem is easy.
The solution is the resolution at those gates of Vienna.
Anything else is a pretty word dance.
Then we need a Prinz Eugen and Baron von Muenchhausen to throw back the Turk.
No. You need a John III Sobieski, not another blogger.
No. A Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising
Roll on the Asian century and the death of the cultural marxist west.
The idea that the Chinese or Japanese or Indians are in any better shape is absurd.
Weirdly, America has been able to financially opiate itself via export of the US Dollar as international money.
This mechanism permits America to sustain an immense DoD — otherwise totally unaffordable.
It’s our top ranked export. It’s also the reason why we keep getting sucked into being the global police — c.f. Libya — even when the populace objects.
Even a poltroon like the Wan can’t help himself.
Not mentioned in the screed: the Leveraged Buyout of Congress by alien and crony interests.
Lacking any way to deal with the DoD in a head to head battle the opposition has shifted to corrupting our control mechanism.
Hence, the fantastic corruption whereby the Wan received political donations from designated terrorist entities in the Gaza Strip!
You seed the highest posts in government based on the melanin quotient or genitalia of your appointees, you’ll end up with a quadriplegic lesbian Inuit with a dumbed-down law degree from Yale, negotiating the country’s trade with a Chinese counterpart who has risen to his post through ruthless selection of the best brains in a pool of 1.3 billion brains.
mark to market.
Unfortunately, the aggregate economic decline we are experiencing is caused by a perfect storm of dysgenic social, political, legal, and commercial factors. By far the best insight to the malady is the study of human nature. Economic incentives are but a mask for our true desires, which given free reign, will swiftly grind any civilization to dust. There is no one person to blame, as this malevolent symphony is performed by talented men and women, as human as you and I. As long as we live in a society which is built upon the denial and obfuscation of human desires, catastrophe is ensured.
Abolishing public sector unions pretty much fixes all evils. Fixes finances, stops incentivizing more poverty, leninist SEIU, defunds democrat party… a fierce republican president solves this, signaling a turnaround.
Overall economy is dynamic and incredibly strong, once the shackles of unionism, litigation, unnecessary regulation is lifted. Doom is not at hand… once the unions are tamed in Europe, the EU will be fixed.
Prepare for a storm of hate against Heartiste.
Heartiste can write about the joys of dating women who cut themselves, the occasional need to slap a woman, or the sexual attractiveness of 15 year old girls and this will bring some mild responses in disagreement.
But when Heartiste writes about politics (or any issues that displease libtards or libertardians) LOOK OUT FOR THE HATE STORM THAT FOLLOWS!!!
With that said don’t believe that America’s move to 3rd world status is some accident. It’s a necessary part in the move to global governance. The populations of the West have always been the biggest problem for globalist smaltzfuckers (great word Heartiste). The populations of Europe and America are well educated, independent minded, well armed, and relatively wealthy. These people won’t stand for a global standardization scheme.
So something had to be done about them. Here’s the basic plan:
1) Immigrants from the “developing world” would be flooded into the West.
2) These immigrants and any national minorities would then be forced integrated with the White populations and communities. This would be made law by removing freedom of association, creating affirmative action and quotas. Anyone who objects to this is denied economic opportunities, status, and in some cases freedom itself.
3) An information campaign is then implemented which demonizes Western culture and history. The old myths that helped form the identities of the West are replaced with new mythologies that make Whites into enemies of humanity and non-whites (like MLK) as morally superior heroes. People who oppose the mass immigration and forced integration are portrayed as mentally ill, evil, and pathological. The people of the West are constantly reminded of the inevitable brown future and that anything short of celebrating this makes you a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
Last, it’s important to remember that so called “anti-racism” is actually a code for anti-White.
Shit looked worse under Carter. No gas for cars, Stagflation, Soviets about to nuke us, a pencil necked cunt President getting tooled by foreingers and balling us out for malaise, revolutions in the Mideast, hostages and military failures. Even Delta took a kick in the face at Desert One. All it took was Reagan, and we were back kicking ass and taking names in just four years, and by ’89 the Soviets were history.
America is the greatest country on earth. Take out all the backstabbing Liberal pussies, and we will kick any other country’s ass, in about two seconds flat.
All we need is a real leader, who hates Liberals, and holds them up to be the enemies of our nation that they are. All we need is for the country to realize how disasterous Liberalism is.
Thanks to 0bama, we’re already well on our way there.
Don’t be so sure. Men’s wages haven’t risen in 35 years when adjusted for inflation. 40% of all children are bastards. We have a larger proportion of prison inmates as a share of our population than Russia or China. I wouldn’t be so comfortable if I were you.
Regarding the marginalrevolution.com comment thread, Geoff Olynyk had the most insightful take on things. He detailed a very profound theory. Peter Schaeffer’s points were of some interest but his points were successfully counter-argued for the most part by a person named Chris.
[Heartiste: No they weren’t. Chris is an idiot.]
And the lamest, most simplistic and utterly meaningless points are made by WMD above. WMD-so Liberals are the reason it is taking 10 plus years to kick Afghanistan’s ass? And in just 4 years, how much debt did Reagan add? The Soviets are were not about to nuke us, the Iranian revolution was a result of our government meddling in the overthrow of their government back in the 50′s, and the Soviets are not history-do not for a minute underestimate Putin. What we are finding out and waking up to, is how disasterous conservatism has been to our economy and the average working man.
The bottom line is if we didn’t have Liberals in this country, the war against AQ would have looked radically different. Think Grozny. No nation bulding bullshit, just “Fuck with us and you and your family will mysteriously die, and no medical examiner will even know what killed all of you, let alone who did it.”
I know, too manly for Liberal pussies, but effective, as the Russians have shown. How many Saudi Imams protested Grozny, or any other Russian adventures in the Caucasus?
Preach hate against the US, anywhere in the world, and you will die, and so will your family.
I know, too loyal to the US, and not supportive enough of our enemy’s interests for a Liberal, but again, effective none the less.
Oddly enough, I suspect fewer people would have died in the long term if these policies were implemented, as most of the terrorist leaders would have decided terrorism isn’t that good of an idea. The leaders are always the ones who try to live by hiding out, and without them, the guys in bomb vests wouldn’t be able to string two thoughts together, let alone work out logistics.
Our economy would look different without Liberals too. No welfare handouts. The leaches who eat up that crap would either begin to work and contribute, or voluntarily move to Canada, Britian, and other welfare states, leaving the productive in the US, to produce greatness unfettered.
Every citizen would be free, and could strive, without some Liberal loser telling him he is evil for succeeding, or trying to tie the failure of someone who never even tried to succeed around his neck.
I know, that doesn’t reek with a loser’s envy enough for a Liberal, but again, it would produce a productive nation of producers.
The bottom line is all the handouts (which Liberals support) are unsustainable. The miracle fairydust 0bama promised, isn’t going to stop the collapse. Let’s face it, 0bama was the birghtest, most competent Liberal Liberals could find. He was Liberalism’s best shot. He was going to fix everything. And all he’s done is turn the country into a laughingstock. Peace in the mideast? Jobs? Obamacare? The only things he’s done right are continuations of Bush policies in Iraq and Afganistan, and bowing.
As a result, we are on a path where sooner or later the handouts will stop, because the productive won’t be able to support the unproductive. There literally won’t be enough money. What is it they’re saying, by 2040, all the US will be able to pay for is Social security, Medicare, DOD, and debt service?
Either the handouts are going to be voluntarily stopped, and the government will be shrunken massively voluntarily before 2040, or the handouts are going to be involuntarily stopped, and the government will be shrunken massively involuntarily after then.
Either way, the Democratic voter in 2040 will be to Canada what the Mexicans are to us today. Bet on it.
From Rome to the USSR, your model of government is unsustainable. Ruthless, Darwinian Capitalism is the only model which will tool along indefinitely, until Liberalism infects it and begins to undo it.
Cheers.
WMD
Shit looked worse under Carter.
I agree with you in spirit. But, no – it was not worse under Carter…
All it took was Reagan, and we were back kicking ass and taking names in just four years
…because Reagan had factories with jobs to put Americans back into. Now, it is WE who are the Soviets; close to collapse due to Governmental mismanagement.
All we need is a real leader, who hates Liberals, and holds them up to be the enemies of our nation that they are.
Don’t you see? The black, the Illegal, the SWPL and all their supporters will prevent that as passionately as you believe your own ideology.
This time, voting alone will not save America.
Practical day to day was worse under Carter. I mean 2 mile lines at the gas pumps, to get a ration of gasoline?
The outlook may be worse now, but it doesn’t have to be.
“The black, the Illegal, the SWPL and all their supporters will prevent that as passionately as you believe your own ideology.”
There is one difference. Liberalism can’t win. The logic of nature won’t allow it. If Liberals get everything they dream of into law – the government collapses. No handouts, no social programs, nothing Liberals want will survive.
Liberals live in a fantasy land of unlimited money, that never runs out. A government which is always there. a world where a small productive class manages to work ever harder to support an unproductive class that is exploding in number exponentially.
Liberals did the same thig in Rome, where they increasingly taxed agriculture to provide welfare – to the point all the farmers stopped farming and went on welfare.
Opps. No food. Liberals back then never thought of that. And today, none of them can see the day, just around the corner, when the whole system will collapse becasue there simply isn’t enough money to pay all the apparatchiks they need to administer all their cherished social programs.
What will reemerge after the collapse will be a smaller government, more local in nature, and a self regulated economy, where people trade things of value for things of value. Don’t have anything of value? Well you better get your ass moving, as nobody will be in the mood to support you.
There is no realistic means by which Liberalism can persist in mankind.
It may get ugly for a while, but the US will always be free, and real (non-Liberal) Americans will always find a way to make it great.
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
-Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, Monticello, 28 May 1816.
“when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
-Declaration of Independence
Tommy would do well to revivify and study some modern military armaments. Laser rifles, sound cannons, bio-bombs, robot aircraft & tanks …. there will be no throwing off of anything.
Oh come on:
Blue collar jobs began to decline in the 80s with power assistance on assembly lines, robots plus computer assisted inventory. That, plus the new generation of super efficient cargo ships meant that blue collar labour became priced internationally.
Therefore in the 90s politicians restructured the US banking system to give the working class jobs by stimulating building. The trouble is, you only need so many houses eventually the thing ran out of steam.
That, plus computerization meant that many white collar clerking jobs have vanished forever.
“The Gods of the Copybook Headings,” by Rudyard Kipling
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall.
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn,
That water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision, and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market-Place;
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch.
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch.
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshiped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbor and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selective Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four —
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man —
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began: —
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
(As explained by Glenn Beck below… note paragraph six, please.)
Funny how people have to pay to listen to Glenn Beck now. Personally, I think I should be paid every time I have to listen to his paranoid drivel.
So it’s the brown man’s fault… as usual… RACIST
No, darling–it’s the white man’s fault for letting the brown man foul up the party. xoxoxo
i don’t know if this embed tag’ll work but ….
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEUZNfOtPlE&w=560&h=315
look at this mega-beta schlub slavoj zizek picking spergerly at himself as he attempts to rabble-rouse amid a flock of dumpy SWPLs
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/8654/3/?single_page=true
i thought this was a fascinating article that goes in line with what you have always been saying.
Nice find. Fuck her.
On a related note, here’s evidence of decline of a once great American publication:
Hef gets slim pickings in Houston.
http://www.29-95.com/photo/photo-8408?gid=689839
WMD
What will reemerge after the collapse will be a smaller government, more local in nature, and a self regulated economy, where people trade things of value for things of value. It may get ugly for a while
Ugly is an understatement. Collapse means the LA riots – with guns – unending, in a barter economy where food is traded for protection. Think Haiti and Rwanda stirred by heavily armed ethnic tribes. All civilization and peace vanishes into real war, where you sleep in freezing dirt, amazed you wake up alive.
And, you make your enemy feel likewise. Only if you are prepared to endure until your enemy is destroyed will you survive.
…but the US will always be free, and real (non-Liberal) Americans will always find a way to make it great.
“Always” is a dangerous word.
Especially in a US where I see no cohesive group to make it great – even in the midst of all this splendor.