tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post6340815963012453626..comments2023-10-27T03:41:13.171-07:00Comments on Warning Signs: Are We Being Hustled?Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-42027125649118545602009-01-14T15:00:00.000-08:002009-01-14T15:00:00.000-08:00Guy,Your comment is spot on. I have been fascinat...Guy,<BR/><BR/>Your comment is spot on. I have been fascinated by history all of my life. Reading history (deep history) is the greatest form of self education that I can think of. <BR/><BR/>Very often I will get into discussions about these events and I will give the rhyme and verse as to the history of what occured and why.<BR/><BR/>The question invariably turns out to be the same. "Don't they know that?" My answer is always the same. "Yes..I learned it the hard way....they were taught it...they just don't care."<BR/><BR/>All of this reafirms something that I have observed over and over again. Many prominent people are only good at being prominent.<BR/><BR/><BR/>RichRich Kozlovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-15034552360130801622009-01-13T12:14:00.000-08:002009-01-13T12:14:00.000-08:00"Tell them you don’t want them to run up any more ...<I>"Tell them you don’t want them to run up any more debt for the U.S.A."</I><BR/><BR/>Sorry Alan, the majority of "grown ups" can't even spell "debt", let alone understand what it means. I suspect most of these morons are drooling in anticipation of their "free money" and are already casing the malls for stuff they didn't get last month.TheBigHenryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917973198063733316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-75252850196241596042009-01-13T07:54:00.000-08:002009-01-13T07:54:00.000-08:00Keeping the populace obsessed with man-made crises...Keeping the populace obsessed with man-made crises is good for business for those who follow the global pantheistic socialists' agenda.<BR/>Woodrow Wilson, the Fabians and others began to orchestrate the tune we're now being serenaded with. We lost the educational system, we have outlawed instruction in virtue and morality, and, up until now, we have been mollified with $1.59 six-packs and plasma TVs.<BR/>Obama's masters will print more money, and many of us will taste the bitterness of $5.00 bread. However, there's always hope in the resilience and courage of America's heartland, wherever that may be.Dave's Daily Day Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491764990082380190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-60839017595326973912009-01-12T21:03:00.000-08:002009-01-12T21:03:00.000-08:00You've hit the nail on the head again Alan. Howev...You've hit the nail on the head again Alan. However, every time I find myself wondering why so many of our leaders, who are supposedly educated people, cannot see the simple solution to this mess, I can't help but come to the same conclusion .... they understand the situation perfectly well, but they are corrupt to the bone, and they're just grabbing what they can get before the next band of thieves takes office. Is it really just a cooincidence that this economic "crisis" just happens to be hitting us right in the middle of an administration change, when there are political debts to be paid, palms to be greased, and the public is consumed with so many other things to worry about? While the cat's away, the mice will play. Sadly, we're the ones getting played ... big time. $700 BILLION of our tax dollars are being doled out like crack to a bunch of hoodlums, while we're busy being mesmerized with things like global warming, "the messsiah", and the supposed failure of the auto and mortgage industries. I have smelled a rat since this all hit the news, and like you, I can hardly accept their screams of doom, gloom, and depression. Fully 93% of people are still employed, and people are hauling big screen TV's out of Sam's Club by the dozens. Foreclosures are at or about ONE PERCENT of all mortages, but they'd have you believe that half the people on your street are being thrown out of their homes. I wish I could believe that writing my congressman or senator would do any good, but I think it would be a lot like calling for a policeman and telling them you've been robbed in a third world country. If they don't lock you up or deport you, they'll certainly take whatever you have left and dump you off in some back alley .... In light of all that's happened in the last ninety days, I don't have a lot of hope for the future of this country, and right now, all I can concentrate on is protecting my family and loved ones. I hope I'm just overreacting, but there's nothing I know of that can ruin a society faster than apathy and rampant corruption, and I'm seeing what looks like a LOT of both right now....Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10903448394061019454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-43491327888958937952009-01-12T20:52:00.000-08:002009-01-12T20:52:00.000-08:00Is it me- or have both political parties merged in...Is it me- or have both political parties merged into a colossal and destructive glacier of socialism?<BR/>Has an entire generation of new voters been reared without knowledge or fear of what socialism will do to the prospect of living their lives without true liberty or freedom? Have the capitalists engineered their own demise with an entertainment industry (to include the news) that specializes in demonizing capitalism and individual responsibility or achievement and promoting anti-Americanism?<BR/>We are going the wrong direction, and it does not seem to matter to anyone in leadership positions.<BR/>I hate to be a pessimist but I truly worry about our kids and grand-kids and am wondering what it will take to stop our inevitable decline as a free nation as people trade away choice for entitlement.libertyforusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08584974436761909593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-36067576465912697942009-01-12T16:30:00.000-08:002009-01-12T16:30:00.000-08:00Rich, I had two grandfathers like that, one from R...Rich, I had two grandfathers like that, one from Russia and one from Italy. Both learned English and both prospered in America.Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-8156544089630005302009-01-12T16:19:00.000-08:002009-01-12T16:19:00.000-08:00Alan, It is fascinating that so many with so much ...Alan, <BR/><BR/>It is fascinating that so many with so much education understand so little. <BR/><BR/>My immigrant grandfather was the best economist I ever knew. <BR/><BR/>He grew up and lived in poverty much of his life. He worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania (and if anyone knows anything about that era they know what he went through) while working his own farm and raising five children. <BR/><BR/>Of course he didn’t have an education, but he did learn how to speak, read and write English. <BR/><BR/>He said that if you keep spending more than you make you will go broke. He was also the smartest man I ever knew. <BR/><BR/>RichRich Kozlovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com