Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
…love it or hate it, it’s a reality now.
The rich, as a group, are no longer getting richer. Over the last two years, they have become poorer. And many may not return to their old levels of wealth and income anytime soon.
For every investment banker whose pay has recovered to its prerecession levels, there are several who have lost their jobs — as well as many wealthy investors who have lost millions. As a result, economists and other analysts say, a 30-year period in which the super-rich became both wealthier and more numerous may now be ending.
And I have the perception that if we were to conduct a vote on it, the folks who say this is a good thing, would outnumber the folks who say it is not. At least, that’s the way things have been up until now…when the vision of “social justice” and income equalization was a distant dream.
Now that it’s “Mission Accomplished” I wonder how much that’s going to change. The most likely future is one in which our kids swap stories about the good ol’ days, when there were rich people. Before we got rid of ’em. You know, it’s kinda tough to nurture those dreams for a better life, when there are fewer people around who’ve managed to achieve it and hang on to it.
“Brother, you asked for it!” — Atlas Shrugged, Ch. 25.
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Didn’t Karl Marx foretell some kind of “worker’s revolution” where the rich would be pulled down, their wealth confiscated, and redistributed among all the people? It now seems that his vision is coming true after all. The worst part is that the other half is coming true too – that this redistribution will occur with broad popular support.
Worst of all, something like a trillion dollars in privately-held American wealth has simply disappeared in the last year or two. Poof. Gone, into thin air. Nobody has it. It’s because so many things – houses especially, but other investments as well – simply aren’t worth what they used to be.
Did any of you ever stop to wonder about the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, after the czar had been executed and the Bolsheviks firmly in power? How long did it take the Russian people to figure out that however bad ol Nicholas had been, that Lenin’s goons were even worse? Apparently it was only a few years, because I have heard that when the Nazis rolled into Ukraine and the Baltic states in the summer of 1941, they were actually welcomed as liberators. At least initially, until the Germans proved to be worse still.
Will history repeat itself? I don’t see either open revolt or a foreign invasion taking place on this soil (I could be wrong)…but what I do see is our government just sticking it to the providers of jobs and the creators of wealth, and sticking it to them and sticking it to them yet again, until all of them have either run broke or fled the country. Then we, the “proletariat” will get our comeuppance. No, we won’t be dividing any spoils, we’ll be fighting amongst ourselves for the scraps like dogs under a table.
Buy ammo. Now.
- cylarz | 08/26/2009 @ 13:09Ya’ know cylarz, a few months ago I’d read something like what you wrote and think to myself “Man, get a grip”. But now…I’m leaning towards your way of thinking.
People are getting feed up; the Town Halls & Tea Parties are just the tip of the ole iceberg. If this Health Care crap gets passed AND the Cap & Trade…whoa, look out!
As a small business owner I see the effect this is all having, people/businesses are holding their breath (and their money) and waiting, waiting to see what happens.
The recession is far from over, I actually believe things are going to get worse, a lot worse. For example, my customers, contractors, have work now, though very little, but they tell me that their not necessarily worried about today, they don’t have anything on the books for the upcoming months.
If/when unemployment goes up and people are out of work for long amounts of time, the feces will hit the fan.
I’ve got my ammo, cash (small bills), food/water and other supplies, plus a place to go away from the city. Not crazy, just prepared for any disaster, natural…manmade…pissed off populace…whatever.
- tim | 08/26/2009 @ 13:39Tim, thanks for the vote of confidence in my thinking….even if it was a backhanded one. Anyone who does think I’m nuts ought to spend a day over at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler…nicedoggie.net. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many keyboard warriors in my life. I often wonder if those people are for real. It’s clear enough that many are posting from within Southern states and have kind of a separatist mentality, to put it gently.
I’ve got my ammo, cash (small bills), food/water and other supplies, plus a place to go away from the city. Not crazy, just prepared for any disaster, natural…manmade…pissed off populace…whatever.
Same here. I was talking with a friend awhile back, who has picked up three guns (one for each, ah, purpose) and something like 6000 rounds of ammunition. He was talking hither and yon about being prepared with the excrement hits the wind-distribution device, and I said, “You can’t be serious about wanting to overthrow the government. First of all, they’ve got Apache gunships and B52’s, and secondly, whatever replaced them through violent revolution would likely be worse.” (As was quickly discovered by the French, Russians, Chinese, and any number of Third World countries.)
He said, “It’s not the government I’m going to be fighting. It’s my fellow man.”
He was right about that part. He wants to be able to defend himself from looters and rioters…as well as kill animals for food if necessary. It’s truly a nightmare scenario – the thought of abandoning our homes and spending even a few weeks hiding in the mountains like the partisans in “Red Dawn” or “Defiance.”
I found that I preferred not to think about such things – the breakdown of law and order for whatever reason – but then I saw what happened in New Orleans after Katrina, and that was only a few weeks of chaos, confined pretty much to one city.
- cylarz | 08/26/2009 @ 22:41cylarz,
“Backhanded”??? WTF, I agreed with you!
- tim | 08/27/2009 @ 06:43Heheh. I suppose you did. Tim, you’re all right.
- cylarz | 08/27/2009 @ 08:10