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2008-12-04 Home Front Economy

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Posted by tipper 2008-12-04 08:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 One of the big appeals to many of socialism is the perception of risk avoidance, that's why when people get comfy they forget they got there by a natural process of social dynamics. By removing the dynamic to preserve what you got, you end up at various measures that result in stagnation and eventually decline. You then throw ever growing and consuming bureaucracy and its rules and regulations at the prospect of the decline only to feed the monster and not stave it off. So we all go down rather than just those elements within the society which are losing the evolutionary adaption game.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-12-04 09:57|| 2008-12-04 09:57|| Front Page Top

#2 P2k is correct to a point.

Having such a booming economy with more and more safety nets has made Americans not risk averse, but consequences averse. The time of economic bubbles bursting with little or no consequences led to the current disaster. There was no risk because there would be no consequences no matter how big the flop.

We'll see if this flop was big enough to re-introduce the concept. If it is than that staticists will take over with the bureaucratic monster stomping in to avert risk with the economic version of the precautionary principle.

This is all just another perspective on the kind of problem we have with civil rights. There are no rights without responsibilities and duties. So, you get gov't to regulate away responsibility and your rights go with it.

Posted by AlanC 2008-12-04 10:24|| 2008-12-04 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 "Frontier spirit" > And now you know, Virginia -again - why that guy from Guam favored and argued for Hollyweird to make J. F. Cooper's
"Leatherstocking Tales" [e.g. LAST OF THE MOHICANS], and other, into Trilogy Movies = Serials.

NOTHING SAYS "FRONTIER SPIRIT" LIKE COOPER'S
"NOBLE SAVAGE" INDIANS, ACORN-EATING DANIEL BOONES = HUNTER-SCOUTS, + MILYUHNS AND ZILYUHNS OF "INJUN VERSUS INJUN", INJUN VERSUS SETTLER", "SETTLER VERSUS ARMY/GOVT", "BRITS VERSUS FRENCH VERSUS EUROS", ETC, EARLY AMER WARS + CONSPIRACIES + MASSAKREEES IN RIGHTEOUS, GOD-HELL FEARING, INDIGNATION.

* A YOUNG JOHN WAYNE in "THE SCOUT" > "WE GOTTA SUFFER, WE CAN'T GIVE UP ... BECUZ WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD A NATION/COUNTRY"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-04 19:03|| 2008-12-04 19:03|| Front Page Top

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