tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post7784583654363906716..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : The Empire of PovertyDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-32662704490135026252012-05-03T04:11:10.006-04:002012-05-03T04:11:10.006-04:00This makes perfect sense. It shows why the greens ...This makes perfect sense. It shows why the greens would be able to shut down food production in Oregon, and later on a much larger scale in the San Joaquin valley over some ridiculous fish or snail concern. It's about creating food scarcity. Very good article, thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-79740917931441179142012-05-01T21:29:07.274-04:002012-05-01T21:29:07.274-04:00Wow! Have you read Atlas Shrugged lately??Wow! Have you read Atlas Shrugged lately??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-73360475793971848752012-05-01T20:29:29.837-04:002012-05-01T20:29:29.837-04:00This discussion brings to mind one of Solzhenitsyn...This discussion brings to mind one of Solzhenitsyn's quotes: "What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38652845536069760312012-05-01T08:40:51.363-04:002012-05-01T08:40:51.363-04:00Dedicated Dad:
There's nothing inherently wro...Dedicated Dad:<br /><br />There's nothing inherently wrong with "preaching to the choir." In a cultural and political environment hostile to reason, freedom, independence, and capitalism (or completely indifferent to them), the choir is often the only company one can keep. And remember that it was a "choir" that began and finished the American Revolution. Only about one-third of the American colonials were for freedom and did something about it. It's minorities with radical ideas who make the difference in cultures populated by people satisfied with the status quo.Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-14151117060747944322012-05-01T02:40:46.051-04:002012-05-01T02:40:46.051-04:00As always, OUT OF THE PARK!
Too bad the folks who...As always, OUT OF THE PARK!<br /><br />Too bad the folks who MOST need to understand this never will!<br /><br />Instead, they'll be at the next "million hoodie march" demanding the lynching of what I'm coming to understand is the sort of man we should all aspire to be.<br /><br />Or worse, they'll be at the "may-day" riots scheduled nationwide, demanding the destruction of what's left of our Republic!<br /><br />Looking back now, the plan was SOOOooo clear!<br /><br />(1) "free trade" combined with "Union rights!" destroys all manufacturing, moves it to China<br />(2) Wal-mart makes it possible for people to still get their goodies even as they devalue the fiat making all wages a net minus<br />(3) Creeping bureaucracy + taxation forces wives to work - but without any increase in standard of living.<br />(4) Encourage Rampant divorce thus GUARANTEEING kids will be handed over to "public education" for suitable "training"!<br />(5) Create dependency. A MAJORITY must look to Unlce Sugar for his sustenance!<br />(6) Demonize and discourage producers! <br />Truth is irrelevant - they must be vilified as "not paying their fair share" - and the only way to escape punitive taxation is to FURTHER CUT PRODUCTION!<br />(7) Likewise, the middle-class must be discouraged from climbing higher. Ideally, all income above a certain arbitrary level would no longer benefit them at all, with it all being seized for taxes! (true story: I recently cut my gross income 50% and my NET actually WENT UP! What are the odds I'll *EVER* work like that again!<br /><br />I could go on, but there's no need.<br /><br />Preaching to the choir!Dedicated_Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06375339835638311982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-53808719854129379922012-05-01T01:38:15.700-04:002012-05-01T01:38:15.700-04:00This is not looking very good.This is not looking very good.careyrowlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17958687878367659875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-86242201323244429562012-05-01T00:48:15.015-04:002012-05-01T00:48:15.015-04:00Never give them what they want. Your stuff remain...Never give them what they want. Your stuff remains yours as long as you are willing to keep it. You might experience hardship keeping your stuff. They must come and try to take it from you while you must make it expensive for them to do so. Always poke your thumb in their eye and never bend to their will.bubbahttp://summitpost.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48963059123466300622012-04-30T19:59:39.643-04:002012-04-30T19:59:39.643-04:00I'm guessing this fine column is intended to b...I'm guessing this fine column is intended to be a companion piece to "If I Wanted America to Fail."<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc<br /><br />One of the most effective and potent political videos I've seen in decades.Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30623862152354577692012-04-30T18:29:08.766-04:002012-04-30T18:29:08.766-04:00Most folks don't understand that the Arab Spri...Most folks don't understand that the Arab Spring was about bread and debt. <br /><br />Which curiously, is also the crux of the <i>Our Father</i>. <br /><br />Politics as a religion would make an atheist out of the pew warmers, and bishops and Popes out of the bureaucrats.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-35272276437937964802012-04-30T16:16:27.866-04:002012-04-30T16:16:27.866-04:00There are groups like WRSA (western rifle shooters...There are groups like WRSA (western rifle shooters association) and others who consider themselves the "three percent" who are unwilling to bend to the new dictatorship.<br /><br />There will be at some point an incident which shakes many of walking dead. This is a broken, sad and deplorable nation. Perhaps the 50% of the nation who still yearns for freedom will pursue whatever means they can to rectify the situation. I doubt it.<br />PAACAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1670098660892667082012-04-30T11:58:27.236-04:002012-04-30T11:58:27.236-04:00Anony--you're right.
No matter how miserably ...Anony--you're right.<br /><br />No matter how miserably a politician fails--even in his or her first term--people vote for idiot a second time.Keliatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065269001128979990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4511034694380605372012-04-30T11:57:11.407-04:002012-04-30T11:57:11.407-04:00"Global Warming has given the Empire a global..."Global Warming has given the Empire a global crisis and an unlimited mandate to resolve the crisis."<br /><br /><br />That is all too true. In the 1990s my college would refuse to turn the heat on in the hallways and lecture halls until mid Novemeber as a cost saving measure. Mid-November was arbitrary. Who cared if it got really cold in late October?<br /><br />Here I am sitting in my apartment with the heat on the last day in May and wondering if at some point the government will pressure National Grid to limit heat use in May just because...?Keliatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065269001128979990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-75123389813793438022012-04-30T07:46:44.894-04:002012-04-30T07:46:44.894-04:00“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing t...“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”<br /><br />So long as the empires can work you from sunrise to sundown for your daily bread, your mind is kept busy on survival I/O politics. <br /><br />The rule of the game in no different in tyrannies nor in democracies.<br /><br />As long as people choose time after time the same tyrants to rule them I/O using their democratic power to oust them out of office, let them not be surprised of the consequences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-36844962129795115592012-04-30T07:19:31.093-04:002012-04-30T07:19:31.093-04:00Nice article and gets right to the point.
I think...Nice article and gets right to the point.<br /><br />I think I might change the title to "Empire of Dependence", because it is that particular drug that the politician and bureaucRAT pushers use to snare their wards into helplessness and desperation. <br /><br />Our false saviours have to have someone to pretend to save or they just look like the nasty, selfish and power-hungry narcissists they really are.Mr EDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38067950605379593682012-04-30T00:27:47.473-04:002012-04-30T00:27:47.473-04:00Well done; keeping our eye on the ball when the ba...Well done; keeping our eye on the ball when the ball was never there...Wealth never created is difficult to conceive, yet it is the missing factor in public debate...No one will ever know of the businesses never created, the jobs never created, the cancer treatment drugs never created because of govt regulation and restrictions...But because something never existed does not it should be ignored...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-55377623807360496482012-04-30T00:07:58.388-04:002012-04-30T00:07:58.388-04:00Free nations do not have to control.
FDR began the...Free nations do not have to control.<br />FDR began the destruction of family farms in America. We were largely agrarian at one time, farming being the greatest work one can do. Now that is ruined.<br />It is sad that one has a hard time being self sufficient in America anymore.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.com