Don't cry for me Argentina/America

[727Sky]

Let me start this off by saying if you have never read the account of one Man's family survival in Argentina during their great reset and crash it is worth a read. Many many real life survival tips. http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2008/10/thoug...-2005.html

Also there is this:


Lord help us if this latest batch of socialist democrats ever take power is my opinion.

This is a oldie but still applies IMO.

FATHER-DAUGHTER TALK

This is one of the best emails I have received. It gently explains the difference in thinking  between people with
opposite outlooks.
 
A young woman was about to finish her first year of  college. Like so  many others her age, she considered herself
to be very liberal, and  among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes  to support more government
programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
 
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly  expressed.
Based on the lectures  that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father
had for years  harbored an evil, selfish desire  to keep what he thought should be his
 
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the  need for more government
programs.
 
The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.
He responded by asking how she was doing in school.
 
Taken aback, she  answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA,  and let him know that it was tough to maintain,
insisting that she  was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out
and party like other people she knew.
She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time
studying.
 
Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?"
 
She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA.
She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast.  She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't
even show up for classes because she's too hung over."
 
Her father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give
it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal
distribution of GPA."
 
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair!
I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing
toward her degree.
She played while I worked my tail off!"
 
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the conservative side of the fence."
 
If you ever wondered  what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great  test!
 
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
 
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned
for everyone.
 
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take
care of him..
 
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be
shut down.
 
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and
Jesus silenced.
 
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it..
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
 
If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh. A liberal will delete it because he or
she is "offended."

Maybe someone will find some truth is some of this stuff 

[F2d5thCav]

Society is apparently trapped in a cycle of affluent times, revolution, mediocrity, counter-revolution and so on.

We've cycled back to 1920.  The revolution is building and the new Cheka is designing a landscape of decades of state violence.

Cheers

[Bally002]

Enjoyed this post Sky.  

A good watch and thought provoking read.

Kind regards,

Bally:)

[beez]

Not sure (If Biden is elected) how raising taxes and growing the size and scope of government is going to help people.

No one has ever really explained that to me.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Society is apparently trapped in a cycle of affluent times, revolution, mediocrity, counter-revolution and so on.

We've cycled back to 1920.  The revolution is building and the new Cheka is designing a landscape of decades of state violence.

Cheers

 
It seems we never learn.

I don't know if we keep thinking,  "this time will be different", or we just can't break the chain.

[F2d5thCav]

Society is apparently trapped in a cycle of affluent times, revolution, mediocrity, counter-revolution and so on.

We've cycled back to 1920.  The revolution is building and the new Cheka is designing a landscape of decades of state violence.

Cheers

 
It seems we never learn.

I don't know if we keep thinking,  "this time will be different", or we just can't break the chain.

Radical political notions are in one sense like a virus.  There are some people who keep the notions alive even after they've been discredited.  Thus the notions continue to "live" until enough generations pass on that the lessons learned in the past are mostly forgotten.  The people who keep the notions alive serve as a "host" for the notions until conditions again ripen for their spread.

Cheers

[727Sky]

Socialism and Communism has always been about the blood suckers at the top; certainly not about the poor and disenfranchised. They both start out with nirvana/utopian promises to get the masses onboard yet always end up with the masses suffering equally while the few at the top suck the people and country dry in their well maintained mansions. This does not take as long as some might think IMO.