EAR WASHINGTON, I’m not very big on competition as a way of life. Capitalism, unrestrained, seems to me as an economic system of little guys feeding themselves to bigger guys. Socialism, on the other hand, while it seems to be the grass-roots economy preferred by the Gospel, is a failure on the [...]
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How is this God?
Posted in contemplation on 16 November 2008 - 19 חשון 5769
`You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest.
OW IS This God? To-day’s [...]
History Repeats
Posted in politics on 20 September 2008 - 21 אלול 5768
NE OF THE First acts of the newly created Federal Gov’t, at the end of the 18th Century, was to decide to pay off debt to businesses and wealthy land-holders incurred during the war against the British King. This they did by raising taxes on all other Americans - some of whom could ill [...]
Context is Everything
Posted in other geekery, politics on 15 September 2008 - 16 אלול 5768
HE NASDAQ closed today up 737% compared to the crash of 87. Up 115% from the Correction in ‘02. The DOW is up 63% from ‘02 and 534% since ‘87.
What’s the problem? Most people keep wanting more money. More and more. And, in fact, they don’t invest, they gamble: they want [...]
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» Wikihistory: Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did.
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