tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096804090522313433.post3403756952818186733..comments2023-11-18T06:53:03.821-08:00Comments on Los Angeles - My City: Financial Repression Coming to Americamyles111ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05727652448443356303noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096804090522313433.post-62518245439338479992011-08-08T17:04:17.019-07:002011-08-08T17:04:17.019-07:00My problem with the whole thread is that it is poi...My problem with the whole thread is that it is pointing out what the government isn't doing. I agree that what they are not doing is a whole lot and a lot of what they are doing is more self-serving than helpful.<br /><br />However, somebody has to do something. I cannot fix the whole problem, but PERHAPS I can fix mine. If I can't find a job out there (20 months and counting) then maybe I have to create a job for myself. I have an idea, I need to learn how to set up a business and getting it running. I need a bit of capital, but that isn't nearly as important as how to set up & start.<br /><br />I think that those of us who are in this same bad economic place are all going to have to do something just like that. The 50's through 80's economic era was great for its time, but it looks as though that time is past and we, each of us, is going to have to find some niche in which to survive.<br /><br />I have confidence in the American People. The government will take credit for the recovery, but it will be driven by the will and ingenuity of each of us who finds ourself at the edge of the cliff and decides to turn aside rather than simply step off. <br /><br />I saw this time and again in business...at company-wide meetings the C-level management would spout about how the people were their most important asset. I'm sure they thought they were just stroking the peons, but they were right-right-right. The front-line and second-tier workers were producing everything the company brought to market and the upper echelon took both credit and reward for it.<br /><br />Now it seems that we, the people, are on our own and we have to use our talents to survive, and survive we will once we look past "What's Available" and look to "What's Needed" and work to supply that.Richard Clintonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096804090522313433.post-70670067626302796882011-06-19T03:14:24.060-07:002011-06-19T03:14:24.060-07:00Appreciate your comments but disagree. There is no...Appreciate your comments but disagree. There is no such thing as neosocialism inthe sense of anyone trying to make America socialist. This is a false interpretation and defense against those of us who disagree with Austrian type "trickle down" economics. Regan began the fight against our Government as the Beast that must be starved" and promote the elimination of all efforts to protect the least powerful and the least able to compete. AynRand Austrian Economics is survival of the strongest and the Free Market as the solution to all problems and the God of all aspects of our lives including religion, family etc...this is incorrect Self correcting Free Markets will dictate the elimination of the weakest and OUR CONSTITUTION's interest in Domestic Tranquility and promoting (enhancing) common welfare and acting as a referee between competing capitalists is what has made America Exceptional. Our Government is what we should be proud of and not the false pretenses that Free Market leads to absolute freedom. This is a fallacy. There are millions of Americans in poverty and defenseless against an economic machinery that if not guarded against by government can destroy the nation as a heartless monster embracing everthing. The Obama administration is making sure that this does not happen and I favor this 100%Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096804090522313433.post-58174960830788999232011-05-28T12:50:57.857-07:002011-05-28T12:50:57.857-07:00@Mahilena
Both Political Parties are in the pocket...@Mahilena<br />Both Political Parties are in the pockets of Corporate America. Thinking that Democrats have the answers is just a vote for "Progressive-ism". A simple search on the internet will show you what that is all about = Neo-Socialism. Sorry I do not what a world of shared poverty & pseudo Marxist ideas.<br /><br />The current mess is a combination of deregulation from both the Clinton Administration & the Bush Administrations.<br /><br />To try to summarize the entire Tea Party movement as an extension of "Rand-ism" is a false one. Your anger at the Tea Party is though well intentioned is misguided.<br /><br />The real political battle going on right now is the battle of the free individual & free society vs the current Corporatacracy where the current government is largely influenced by corporate interests.<br /><br />They own the media & the politicians so pretty much anything that does not serve their profitability will not hear heard about or addressed. Virtually the last place on earth where you can get true data & real stories is the internet but even that is a job sifting through the various viewpoints.<br /><br />While disagree with the atheist aspect of Rand's work much of her writings had to do with the individual rising above the MOB or the Collective Subconscious which tries to strike down anyone who would rise above it.<br /><br />The real enemies lie in the vast Big Oil & Big Pharma cronies of the Bush administration & the Wall Street crowd of the Obama Administration. Ron Paul & the Libertarians are more YOUR friend then any other political group out there. You are swallowing the hype.<br /><br />Wordpress ID: KR1963Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096804090522313433.post-51502115998404996692011-05-19T18:49:39.300-07:002011-05-19T18:49:39.300-07:00This is not a children's dispute or fight it i...This is not a children's dispute or fight it is a true war for real american values being challenge by the ignorance of the Teaparty extremism and subscription to libertarian values totally in opposition to our constitution and following the AynRand "Virtue Of Selfishness" idol. Republicans want to impose this on all, Democrats are defending this outrage!!http://mahilena.typepad.com/blog/2011/05/fallacy-behind-ayn-rand-individualismcapitalism-vs-the-american-constitution.htmlMahilenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043689830194739786noreply@blogger.com