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Why Democracy is not Working - The difference between our values and our leaders' values.
Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:48 PM EST
Given teh central role that democracy is supossed to play in our lives, Im always concerned that 99% of the people I talk to tell me that virtually none of our political, entertainment or business leaders share their basic values.
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What Are you really - Conservative, Socialsit, Facist or Communist? How to figure out your actual Political makeup!
Sat Jan 7, 2012 2:07 PM EST
This tool is about the best indicator I have seen of how 3 dimensional our political views are, and how a Communist, capitalist and centrist can have the same basic government and social structure despite widely different state economic and social goals. Another key point is t …
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Did we not listen to Orwell's 1984?
Sun Jan 1, 2012 10:57 PM EST
The British author George Orwell, best known for his anti-authoritarian works Animal Farm and 1984, was a soldier in the International Brigades supporting the Anarchist/Socialist Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell meticulously documented his first-hand o …
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Politics 2011: Whihc guy is going to puish those who caused the economic crisis?
Wed Dec 7, 2011 9:30 PM EST
Its 4 years since the economic "crisis" began. We got rid of a president widely seen as part of the cause with his experiments in trickle down economics.
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Economic Crisis: We need a Paradigm shift, not a Stimulus
Sun Dec 4, 2011 2:14 AM EST
..the borrower is the slave of the lender. --Proverbs 22:7 (English Standard Version) ...and the borrower becomes the lender's slave. --Proverbs 22:7 (New American Standard Bible) ...those who borrow are slaves of moneylenders.
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Occupy Wall Street - Why it is Important.
Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:11 PM EDT
Thomas Edison siad in 1921: "People who will not turn a shovel-full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of materials will collect more money than will the people who will supply all the materials and do all the work." This situation is the fundamental problem in the wor …
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Capitalism at the Crossroads - Can our Political / Economic System heal itself?
Sun Sep 4, 2011 2:34 PM EDT
Three years after the Mortgage Crisis caused the Great Depression 2.0, we are faced with the prospects of another "recession", joblessness, economic and financial malaise.
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The Best Quote you've Never Read - Thomas Edison on Government Debt and Banks
Sun Jun 5, 2011 2:40 PM EDT
In 1921, Thomas Edison wrote an article in the NY Times. It was related to a large puclic works project, and dealt with some very important topics we are dealing with today. Namely, government debt, Usury, banks and how money comes to exist.
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The last True Republican?
Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:23 AM EDT
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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Why is America so bad at producing quality Music today?
Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:18 PM EST
I get BBC radio 1 on my satellite radio. I was amused to hear that another breakout UK star Jessie J. is actually the song writer behind Mylie Cyrus's top hit, wrote for Chris Brown and other stars.
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Are taxes wealth Redistribution? Do we need to be more or less independant in the Future?
Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:18 PM EDT
We have to look at the bigger picture. Human soceity is a organization based on mutual benefit. We often forget that. Government is the facilitation and management of that benefit. Even if we look a higher primates, we see "laws", rules, traditions governing social interaction.
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Pay too much taxes? Do you know why? The history of wage income taxes.
Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:29 PM EDT
Most Americans have no idea the era of Income taxes and modern banking coincided in the legislative calender of Congress in 1913. The Federal Reserve act and the 16th Amendment began the modern economy of the USA, and most of the world.
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"It's the economy, stupid" - Can Obama possibly fix the economy to save himself (and his party)?
Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:24 PM EDT
It’s the economy, stupid
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We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It [the banking problem] is the most important subject intelligent pers
Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:00 AM EDT
Robert H. Hemphill (Credit Manager, Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta): "We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit.
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Poll: How can we hold companies Like BP, Hallibuton, Transocean accountable for Environmental disasters?
Sun May 23, 2010 1:50 PM EDT
As we watch, the mess in the Gulf is rapidly becoming the Worlds worst environmental disaster. It will dramatically effect the lives of Millions of Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, and other residents of the Caribbean.
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Are all the Government Bailouts going to Destroy Capitalism?
Wed May 12, 2010 8:49 PM EDT
I watched an interview with Ron Paul on Monday following the $1T Greek Bailout by the EU, IMF and Fed Reserve. He was asked did all these bailouts really matter? He said, correctly, that sure they did.
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Is there ever a reason that what's good for business should be more important than what's good for the people?
Tue May 4, 2010 11:31 PM EDT
In the last 2 years we have seen dramatic examples that many in the Business world, and our elected representatives feel that actions that benefit the business and its shareholders while injuring the general public are an acceptable trade off.
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What Are you really - Conservative, Socialsit, Facist or Communist? How to figure out your actual Political makeup!
Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:49 AM EDT
Adrian Thorn originally posted this link to the political compass test.
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Did Reaganomics ever work, or was it just campaign contributions feuling welfare for the wealthy?
Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:30 PM EDT
I grew up hearing about how tax breaks for the rich would improve the economy, improve the economy, help the poor and bring world peace (also change lead into gold, and frogs into princes too!) All based on some flawed economics which directly linked increased investment with a …
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Personal Responsibility, Manufacturing Consent, Is our soceity destroyiong the ability to think in the name of profit and sales?
Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:14 PM EDT
Are we providing people with the basic tools to "filter" the information they have at hand? If not, why not? Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky have both looked at how, as a soceity we have been conditioned to "buy" into whatever they are selling.
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Wealth Redistribution - Reality or Capitalsit Dogma? Is Government Intervention in the economy necessary, beneficial or harmful?
Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:59 AM EDT
First of all, without the government there is not ECONOMY, no private property, no money. So the fact that government creates a framework upon which the economy can function means it is the "backbone" of the economy.
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Is Capitalism still a valid economic system or has its time passed (and we are too blind to see it)??
Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:48 AM EDT
Is Capitalism still a valid economic system. The stated purpose of all economic systems is to maximize economic efficiency by organizing social, legal, technological and educational system to manage the communal resources of a soceity.
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Do you beleive Capitalsim is better than Socialism? Only 53% Agreed that Capitalsim is better ....
Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:02 AM EDT
Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.
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Is Health care a test of Friedman's Mantra of Privatization and that's why there is so much debate?
Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:34 AM EDT
"Most New Orleans schools are in ruins, as are the homes of the children who have attended them. The children are now scattered all over the country. This is a tragedy.
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Can Republican or Conservative Economic and Social Policies ever work to fix America's Economic Problems?
Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:05 PM EDT
For the most part the last 30 years have been an experiment in Conservative, trickle down Economic and Social policies. We were told that cutting social programs, passing the "savings" on to the rich would get people off welfare, back to work, and everything would be better.
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Why Democracy is not Working - The difference between our values and our leaders' values.
Given teh central role that democracy is supossed to play in our lives, Im always concerned that 99% of the people I talk to tell me that virtually none of our political, entertainment or business leaders share their basic values.
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