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Go Browsing and find something that makes you want to get a soap box of your own.
I found:
What's Yours is Yours
What's Mine is Mine
The Second-Hander believes what's Yours and Mine are His.
Custom Objectivist Fridge Magnets& Coasters
Go Browsing and find something that makes you want to get a soap box of your own.
I found:
What's Yours is Yours
What's Mine is Mine
The Second-Hander believes what's Yours and Mine are His.
The descendants of the Morgans and Rockefellers do not want us to understand the Federal Reserve. Trust me. Read his book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_G... certainly wasn't very complimentary and the next three seemed to focus so much on money==debt without seeming to admit that there were any other alternative ways to describe it, that I got the impression that the Mandrake Mechanism is likely its own kind of cult explanation.
My suspicion is that fiat money can (and does) work just fine in real life unless some external force mucks it up... like a Federal Reserve, a Fannie or Freddie or something like that.
Thanks for your explanation and I'll keep an eye open for more explanations.
Some (probably simplistic) videos on YouTube seemed to imply that fractional reserves held by banks should actually work pretty well for everyone involved (i.e., 'everyone'!).
Again, it seems as if the commercial and private Banks can create a workable system under fractional reserves, but when a National Bank gets involved, things get mucked up.
I'd love to understand this issue better. Got any links?
Thanks!
"How Could You Say That?!" was her attitude, and my reply was, "well, it's inexpensive and economical, easy to park... "... and I don't carry the same anti-German attitude she did. I was and am 'anti-Nazi and THEIR 'attitudes' and actions, but I could separate the two in my mind and emotions. I had trouble 'understanding' why she apparently couldn't.
My future father-in-law was very surprised when I first arrived at his house, driving my Toyota Celica. He said he thought I was much more patriotic than that. I responded that I was much more free-market capitalist than that.
to "E.M.?" -- who is E. M.? -- j
A few decades ago I was in the market for a new car and our local City Fathers had started a campaign of "Buy Local", meaning, 'support our City's merchants.'
I informed them that I'd love to go along with that, but with the budget that I had available and the kind of automobile I had chosen to meet my needs, there was only one powertrain combination that was satisfactory to me.
One was sold by a Chevy dealer IN our town; the other sold by a Buick dealer but was a Japanese manufacturer.
I closely examined the specs on each car and compared features and the Japanese model was WAY ahead of the GM one in many, many areas.
So I bought the Japanese version and apologized (really 'informed') the City Fathers of the reasons for my decision.
On a next larger scale, the Buy Local 'logic' can or should be extended to either larger OR smaller circles.... if it's logical on a city level, is it just as smart on a county or state level?
If I want corn flakes and my State doesn't grow much corn and when Local Farmers Do, they use it for animal feed and it never reaches the cereal manufacturers, What Should I Do? Stop eating corn flakes?
And at the Country Level, I LOVE blueberries in my cottage cheese or yogurt breakfast bowl. But in the winter in NC, there Just Aren't Very Many Locally-Grown blueberries around in February.
On the other hand, the 'models' from Argentina and Chile are bigger, plumper and sweeter than the Locally-Grown are at ANY time of year... even the "locally-grown" California versions.
So some of my dollars ship off to Chile or Argentina to possibly better the lives of ME AND some unknown farmers down there.
And, as one of my financial gurus points out, if you draw the circle Large Enough, it encompasses the Entire World, and as money AND energy are 'conserved,' money moves ALL around the world and rarely keeps collecting in ANY one country, state, city or village.
Ah, hell... let's not get into another religious discussion again, ok, and that's what this will become. I apologize.
And I will continue to buy the best blueberries available at my local market any time of year.
And I SHOP locally because to drive all over hell and such looking for cheaper or 'local' blueberries costs me money I conclude does not return me any better results. :)
My Fridge magnets are not produced in China.
I "slept on" your argument that "moochers" should be used in place of "secondhanders" in quote which we have been discussing.
I agree. General principle share between the two aside, the quote with "secondhanders" could be confusing.
I am removing that quote from my site until I can change the word "secondhanders" to "moochers".
On a related note...when used the term "spiritual" I did not intend the common usage of "body of light" but the collections of intangible values governing individuals' characters and choices.
Thanks for pointing out this potential problem. Let me know if you spot any more.
---- americansoapboxpress
Here are my disciplines/ lessons for today:
"When in doubt, check your premises"
----Ayn Rand
to be so cynical, but I've lived in the world awhile
now.
In front of Al Gore's mansion also.
And the White House.
And Congress.
And the EPA.
(The above is a raw train of thought as fast as a light bulb flashed in old dino's mind).).
There are very few who kept their wealth in England or resided there full time. John Lennon, Ringo Starr come immediately to mind in the arena of instant wealth. One of the few that remained and presumably paid the confiscatory tax rates is Bryan May lead guitar of Queen who went on to become a Professor of Astrophysics and University Chancellor.
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