Galt's Gulch

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    Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 6 months ago
    When BO writes the memoir of his oval office years, he will record as his greatest disappointment that he was unable to get the USA placed last behind Myanmar. No matter how hard he tried.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 6 months ago
      Obama's hard left view is that superpower USA is the cause of all the ills in the world and needs to be taken down a few pegs. That is why he has diminished the military and our nuclear defenses. That is why he refuses to listen to our top generals and strategist on the best way to destroy ISIS. I could go on about that's socialist why, that's socialist why, that's socialist why . . .
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 6 months ago
    As a kid, I remember how proud we were to be #1, in everything. But over time, we got so used to being #1 that it escaped our notice that we were that no longer. We just continued to assume we were. When we finally came to the realization that we were not only not #1 but way down the list, we couldn't understand what happened. That "We" represents them -- the low information voters, the middle roaders, the busy-with-our-own-lives folks. Not us, of course. The big question is, can we fix it? We can't the way things are today. "Hope springs eternal..." Not BHO's kind of hope, but hope based upon what free people can do. Are there enough of those left? I guess we'll see in the next few years.
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    • Posted by hattrup 9 years, 6 months ago
      It's a nice thought, but I am not sure the US has been a great source of Economic Freedom for quite awhile. If so, it was because other countries were so horrible, that it made the US restraint on trade, regulations, tariffs, etc. look only relatively good.

      Many administrations and many congresses full of republicrats and decimcans have, and continue to contribute to less economic (and other) freedoms.

      The problem is everywhere -
      ... I wonder what city shutdown a 12-year old selling lemonade today?
      and although many people think that lemonade stands are a good thing - those same people care little about how the same regulations shutdown other legitimate businesses. And keep many more times that amount of businesses from even starting up.
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      • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 6 months ago
        I cannot argue with a single thing you've written. However, I keep looking for that tiny glimmer of the fire of freedom. It's pretty faint and may be blown out any minute now, but perhaps someone will come along with a gasoline can.
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        • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 6 months ago
          I see a glimmer. There is a backlash against irrationalism in a number of scientific and academic areas. Now, none of this backlash is mainstream, let alone in the majority, but these attacks on the fundamental basis of irrationalism could not be found 10-15 years ago.

          I will give you one obscure example. There is a backlash occurring in modern physics. This includes plenty of professional physicists, including Carver Mead and many others. Often they focus just on the irrationalism of modern physics constructs in their area. But when looked at as a whole they are challenging the Copenhagen construction of quantum mechanics, parts of relativity, wave-particle duality, the Big Bang and much of modern Astronomy, etc. and together this is a challenge of much of the purposeful irrationalism put into modern physics.
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          • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 6 months ago
            DB, could you be a bit more specific? Quantum physics is a hobby of mine, in the sense that I understand the concepts but don't expect any new equations from me. In what way are they challenging the Copenhagen and the wave-particle duality?
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            • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 6 months ago
              The Copenhagen Interpretation (CIQM) is explicitly non-causal. The pilot wave interpretation of QM proposed by De Broglie is causal and is being re-explored. Other people have pointed out that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is actually a property of waves. Other people are proposing that matter is really just standing waves.
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  • Posted by Fish 9 years, 6 months ago
    Socialists need poverty to gain votes.... the unavoidable conclusion is that socialism promotes policies to preserve poverty as a self preservation strategy.

    I'm from Chile, witnessing how a bunch of politicians can destroy one by one the pillars of our progress. Ironically enough they call themselves "progressives".
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 6 months ago
    "Legal system: 36th place, which was down from 10th in 2000, and from 1st in 1980. This is due to eminent domain use, as well as property seizures and violations as a result of the auto bailout, where the government negotiated away bond-holder and stock ownership rights to the benefit of labor unions." It is amazing to me we are not hearing more about this. Why aren't people outraged? When I graduated HS, we were the freest country in the world. Why did we allow this to happen?
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    • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 6 months ago
      Because sheeple bought into the notion that giving up your freedom for perceived security was a good thing. And being fed a steady diet of fear-based propaganda by the government fosters that notion.

      Can you say nine-eleven, freedom fries, WMD, Homeland Security, Evildoers? Now they're working hard to put the fear of Ebola out there to wrest more control from the hands of we the people to enslave them...
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 6 months ago
    once you leave the usa you go into a primitive world all of it is. our current and past government employees i.e. pres and congress are trying to bring us into the primitive world too. so in order to do this they have to destroy our economy.
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    • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 6 months ago
      Hear hear, but the rest of the world is no so primitive. And what is more primitive than a country that spies on all its citizens, that has armies of bureaucrats tell you what you can and cannot do (including lemonade stands), and police that think they are above the law?
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      • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 6 months ago
        just last week i spoke with a military man who has been all over the world during his career which is still going on and i used the word primitive TO DESCRIBE THE REST OF THE WORLD and his response was" that is a good description". if one reads AR's "return to the primitive" one understands the direction we are going. I just read that hagel is down in south america discussing what the US military is planning with regards to "climate change" THE NON-EXISTENT HAPPENING. wasn't it the moron mayor of chicago who said never let a good crisis go unnoticed. hell we have been in crisis after crisis for the past 6 years and they are now getting worse and worse. THEY WILL ONLY END WHEN WE ARE DEFINITELY PRIMITIVE.
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