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When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence.
Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The Immorality of Austerity
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Economic Solutions GoldRing 33 Debt Money Chaos to Sovereign Honest Currency: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BQVUk566Tw
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#1 - Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:07 PM ESTSigns that the American swineherds are preparing to abandon their own herd by imposing an austerity program on it are displayed in the report of Obama's Deficit Reduction Commission and the insistence of our Republican Congressmen that spending on "entitlements" either be reduced or paid for while spending on wars, foreign aid, and the military be allowed to continue and even increase without any provisions whatsoever for paying for them. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that warfare and foreign aid are necessary economic principals while the American people have fallen into that group of economically irrelevant people that those like Andrew Mellon would have the government liquidate. So the unemployed should be allowed to starve, and the ill should be allowed to perish—both of which principles are perfectly consistent with the "morality" of classical economics.
This should be completely reversed.
Military budgets should be cut at least in half within two years and again as necessary to meet the needs of the US citizens.
The US needs to quit empire building and become a nation that has a government that represents and takes care of its own citizens instead of being a brand name for a corporation that has gone global.
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#2 - Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:34 PM ESTMillions of people find that they are obsolete and have been herded into a system that extorts wealth by delivering ignorance, sickness, and death. All the numbers are built into the system that controls the market and determines how wealthy the rich are and how successful their genocide is proceeding. The sheeple just keep on giving .... mindlessly.
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United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Just as the Dream of Daniel, with the Gold Head, the Breastplate of Brass, the Iron Legs, and the feet of iron and clay... (if you have feet of Iron and Clay, the Gold Head falls too.)
...Just as the Sin of Sodom was haughty pride and neglecting the poor even though they were rich... (Ezekiel 16:49)
We are all in this together. Human Economies are not natural, therefore, they need rules that aren't natural.
God, Nature, What Ever gave us a mind for a reason and we should use it to create a more perfect union.
If the top 1% who make more income than the bottom 50% have no allegiance to those bottom 50%, then the bottom 50% are really nothing more than slaves with no rights.
But the bottom 50% are working to create the wealthy that the top 1% are claiming is theirs. The top 1% benefit from the taxes, the infrastructure, the military, the economic conditions that created the wealth, from nature, by mans mind and efforts.
No one is an island, we are humanity, we are not dogs fighting over the carcase of a wounded deer, we are supposed to be civilized, humane, and following the true religion of Love!
Healthy Pride is recognizing ones reasonable relation to others, as in, United We Stand.
Haughty Pride is an unreasonable opinion of ones superiority over others. That is the Pride that comes before a fall, as in, Divided We Fall.
Look what we had before America created the World's Greatest Middle Class out of the Depths of a Depression, with economic policy and a top tax rate of 90%, the New Deal.
Look what we had before we had a democracy, based on everyone voting for their best interests as a society... we had Kings who made compacts with other Kings to go to War, using the people as pawns and scape goats in their wars while pretending to be their protectors, condemning the people to serfdom, or even slavery, under feudalism.
We can do better, we've done it in the past, when we believe we can and vote for it.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt forged the greatest middle class in history with his economic policies, which included a top tax rate of 90%.
These are some quotes on the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC:
http://www.wheelmeon.org/roosevelt.html
"The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself"
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.
Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order."
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose a path of social justice... The path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
"Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men, and no forgotten races."
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;
It is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in simple work...
More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."
"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
"We have faith that future generations will know that here,
in the middle of the twentieth century there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite,
and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance and slavery and war."
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
"Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race,
the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today - Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
Freedom of Speech ~ Freedom of Worship ~ Freedom from Want ~ Freedom from Fear"
http://www.wheelmeon.org/roosevelt.html
"The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself"
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Isaiah 1:15-18
He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Galatians 5:14
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