It's about time!
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If left alone, it would have stopped naturally where it should have stopped to take out all the corruption and incompetence, all by itself. It would have been a painful process, but it would have had a bottom. Now we have simply traded a lot of little failures for one big one. The entire problem started with the bundling of subprime loans into ever larger and larger bundles, all the government has done is to create the largest possible bundle of all. Now, we have all become pulled into that mess, regardless of how responsibly we handled our own personnal finances. We responsible citizens are the greatest suckers of all time.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Stan Shannon wrote:
If left alone, it would have stopped naturally where it should have stopped to take out all the corruption and incompetence, all by itself. It would have been a painful process, but it would have had a bottom.
What bottom ? Collapse of human civilisation as we know it ? Wipe the slate clean and start all over again ? Human civilisation is something we built over thousands of years. I wouldn't want to conduct that kind of experiment to see if it recovers half way down or hit's rock bottom and takes us back to the stone age. You are probably looking forward to living in caves, hitting women over the head with a club and dragging them off to your cave. That is what you really want, isn't it?
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Stan Shannon wrote:
If left alone, it would have stopped naturally where it should have stopped to take out all the corruption and incompetence, all by itself. It would have been a painful process, but it would have had a bottom.
What bottom ? Collapse of human civilisation as we know it ? Wipe the slate clean and start all over again ? Human civilisation is something we built over thousands of years. I wouldn't want to conduct that kind of experiment to see if it recovers half way down or hit's rock bottom and takes us back to the stone age. You are probably looking forward to living in caves, hitting women over the head with a club and dragging them off to your cave. That is what you really want, isn't it?
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Sahir Shah wrote:
What bottom ? Collapse of human civilisation as we know it ? Wipe the slate clean and start all over again ? Human civilisation is something we built over thousands of years. I wouldn't want to conduct that kind of experiment to see if it recovers half way down or hit's rock bottom and takes us back to the stone age.
No, that is the direction we are heading by trying to stop business from failing. There is no way that letting a few businesses fail could bring down civilization, unless you get the government involved trying to stop it.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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Sahir Shah wrote:
What bottom ? Collapse of human civilisation as we know it ? Wipe the slate clean and start all over again ? Human civilisation is something we built over thousands of years. I wouldn't want to conduct that kind of experiment to see if it recovers half way down or hit's rock bottom and takes us back to the stone age.
No, that is the direction we are heading by trying to stop business from failing. There is no way that letting a few businesses fail could bring down civilization, unless you get the government involved trying to stop it.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Stan Shannon wrote:
There is no way that letting a few businesses fail could bring down civilization
Letting a few businesses fail? That seems like an attempt to trivialise the problem. Don't tell me you still subscribe to the "fundamentals of the economy are still sound" theory ? That's what lost him the election and thank God for that. Remember what happened during the last great depression ? Did it not take government intervention (in the form of the mobilisation for the second world war) to end it ?
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Stan Shannon wrote:
There is no way that letting a few businesses fail could bring down civilization
Letting a few businesses fail? That seems like an attempt to trivialise the problem. Don't tell me you still subscribe to the "fundamentals of the economy are still sound" theory ? That's what lost him the election and thank God for that. Remember what happened during the last great depression ? Did it not take government intervention (in the form of the mobilisation for the second world war) to end it ?
Sahir Shah wrote:
Did it not take government intervention (in the form of the mobilisation for the second world war) to end it ?
Why didn't the ten years of government intervention which preceeded WWII do anything?
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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MrPlankton wrote:
I wonder.
What bothers me is that the NRA isn't reporting an equal boom in gun-safety classes. If that means that folks who know what they are doing are just buying a backup that's fine. If, as I suspect, it means that a whole bunch of nutjobs are keeping a loaded revolver in the kitchen drawer, we're going to be reading about a lot of schools being shot up when the weather gets warm.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
Oakman wrote:
reading about a lot of schools being shot up when the weather gets warm.
Gun training is always a good thing, but not all gun training involves the NRA. My wife and I paid for firearm training from a local security firm. Later we joined the NRA, but they offer no personnel training classes in our area. 200 years with families having the family rifle over the door or over the fireplace with minimal incidents. I don't think there are any more nut jobs as a percentage of the population then as now. Poorer parenting, maybe… However as in the Clinton administration, every crisis no matter what thew nature, if a firearm is involved, will involve restrictions in gun ownership for the whole nation.
MrPlankton
Mexican boy: Viene la tormenta! Sarah Connor: What did he just say? Gas Station Attendant: He said there's a storm coming Sarah Connor: [sighs] I know.
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Oakman wrote:
reading about a lot of schools being shot up when the weather gets warm.
Gun training is always a good thing, but not all gun training involves the NRA. My wife and I paid for firearm training from a local security firm. Later we joined the NRA, but they offer no personnel training classes in our area. 200 years with families having the family rifle over the door or over the fireplace with minimal incidents. I don't think there are any more nut jobs as a percentage of the population then as now. Poorer parenting, maybe… However as in the Clinton administration, every crisis no matter what thew nature, if a firearm is involved, will involve restrictions in gun ownership for the whole nation.
MrPlankton
Mexican boy: Viene la tormenta! Sarah Connor: What did he just say? Gas Station Attendant: He said there's a storm coming Sarah Connor: [sighs] I know.
MrPlankton wrote:
Gun training is always a good thing, but not all gun training involves the NRA.
No, didn't mean to imply otherwise. But it would seem likely that their classes would have more students if these n00bs had any sense.
MrPlankton wrote:
200 years with families having the family rifle over the door or over the fireplace with minimal incidents
I'm less worried about folks like that than guy who bought a snub-nosed .22 pistol 5-shot because he thought it was kewl. There are a lot of folks in the burbs who make me just as nervous as the guys in the ghetto. You know the type. They hold the handgun in one hand, twisted 90 degrees from proper firing position - just like they saw Stallone do it. The good news is they're like to break their wrist after the first shot - the bad news is that first shot will hit anywhere but what they thought they were aiming at.
MrPlankton wrote:
I don't think there are any more nut jobs as a percentage of the population then as now.
But the population has doubled since I was a kid. And the doubling hasn't necessarily taken place in the middle class.
MrPlankton wrote:
However as in the Clinton administration, every crisis no matter what thew nature, if a firearm is involved, will involve restrictions in gun ownership for the whole nation.
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police." ~ Adolph Hitler; Edict of March 18, 1938 "Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal." ~ Janet Reno, US Attorney General In other words, a well-regulated population being necessary to the security of a police state, the right of the Government to keep and destroy arms shall not be infringed.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
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MrPlankton wrote:
Gun training is always a good thing, but not all gun training involves the NRA.
No, didn't mean to imply otherwise. But it would seem likely that their classes would have more students if these n00bs had any sense.
MrPlankton wrote:
200 years with families having the family rifle over the door or over the fireplace with minimal incidents
I'm less worried about folks like that than guy who bought a snub-nosed .22 pistol 5-shot because he thought it was kewl. There are a lot of folks in the burbs who make me just as nervous as the guys in the ghetto. You know the type. They hold the handgun in one hand, twisted 90 degrees from proper firing position - just like they saw Stallone do it. The good news is they're like to break their wrist after the first shot - the bad news is that first shot will hit anywhere but what they thought they were aiming at.
MrPlankton wrote:
I don't think there are any more nut jobs as a percentage of the population then as now.
But the population has doubled since I was a kid. And the doubling hasn't necessarily taken place in the middle class.
MrPlankton wrote:
However as in the Clinton administration, every crisis no matter what thew nature, if a firearm is involved, will involve restrictions in gun ownership for the whole nation.
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police." ~ Adolph Hitler; Edict of March 18, 1938 "Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal." ~ Janet Reno, US Attorney General In other words, a well-regulated population being necessary to the security of a police state, the right of the Government to keep and destroy arms shall not be infringed.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
Where is Hitler's government now?
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Where is Hitler's government now?
Brady Kelly wrote:
Where is Hitler's government now?
under the dust of 6,000,000+ bodies.
Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
Where is Hitler's government now?
under the dust of 6,000,000+ bodies.
Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
Too true. :-(
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Where is Hitler's government now?
Brady Kelly wrote:
Where is Hitler's government now?
The question should be asked: Where are his disciples now?
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
Where is Hitler's government now?
under the dust of 6,000,000+ bodies.
Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
Mike Gaskey wrote:
under the dust of 6,000,000+ bodies.
13 million, actually. 6 million+ Jews; 7 million+ Gypsies, Communists, Trade Unionists, Homosexuals, and other "undesirables."
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
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Sahir Shah wrote:
Did it not take government intervention (in the form of the mobilisation for the second world war) to end it ?
Why didn't the ten years of government intervention which preceeded WWII do anything?
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Stan Shannon wrote:
Why didn't the ten years of government intervention which preceeded WWII do anything?
What government intervention. They went and elected another Republican (Hoover) in March 1929. He took Andrew Mellon's advise and did nothing for another four years.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Why didn't the ten years of government intervention which preceeded WWII do anything?
What government intervention. They went and elected another Republican (Hoover) in March 1929. He took Andrew Mellon's advise and did nothing for another four years.
Sahir Shah wrote:
What government intervention. They went and elected another Republican (Hoover) in March 1929. He took Andrew Mellon's advise and did nothing for another four years.
Yeah, thats exactly what happened.... :rolleyes:
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.