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By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:34:48 +0000

Just thought you and like minded individuals would like to read

http://www.alternet.org/economy/149659/stop_the_austerity_craze!_massive_budget_slashing_can_lead_to_economic_disaster,_violence_and_repression/?page=1

You don’t have to agree with all the points, but it sure does shed an interesting light on the history of austerity.

By: FauxCapitalist

FauxCapitalist — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:03:07 +0000

I read Atlas Shrugged for the first time last year, and only got about 20% through it when I had picked up on enough interesting points and got bored of her tiring writing.

She lost credibility as any hero when I heard her, as an alleged atheist, despite being from a Jewish background, predictably take the side of the Israelis over the Palestinians, and feed into the racist notion that exists in Israel today that a Jewish guy I went to university with saw himself, and came back only to proclaim his atheism.

The woman had some serious flaws in logic and character.

By: Cool Breeze

Cool Breeze — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:57:55 +0000

Questions:

• Is any white person’s right an individual or collective right?
• Is the right to take a negative or positive right?

“[The Native Americans] didn’t have any rights to the land … Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent.” ~Ayn Rand, US Military Academy at West Point, March 6, 1974

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:41:50 +0000

I’m not sure what you meant by all that, or if you just like trying to hurt people, but I will say this: when you go to a bank to borrow, the bank just gives you a bunch of IOU’s so you can borrow from someone else. If it is to “buy” a house for example, you are borrowing a house from a lender of a house. The lender doesn’t see himself as a lender because he can transfer the debt conveniently in a large economy. If you have money in your pocket, it is already extinguished if you are going to use it for a bank payment. If not, you are a lender. You are the lender, not the bank. The bank makes compounding interest when you are the lender.

By: Kim Briggs

Kim Briggs — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:08:11 +0000

Eric,

You may or may not have a point. If you do, I cannot tell what it is by reading half of the rants so far. The “foaming like a mad dog” description is not that far off.

Lots and lots of what capitalism isn’t. Would you please consider learning to create a paragraph when you write? Maybe even jot down a few notes before you write instead of simply a train-of-thought diarrhea?

Money should be issued by the people. Good point. It said that in the US constitution. It also says it should only be gold and silver. The reason, I believe, is that this idea that a smart group of people in a room can predict the proper amount of currency (not money, because it is not a store of value, according to you) that could be in circulation has never worked in history. It is a pipe dream, as in, “No, no, but they never had the REALLY smart guys who cared about justice in the room like I would have.”

Ramble on, baby.