Arthur, does the silence of this list imply approval?
Ed. I agree with you about "silly" however the roots of this in English
culture are deep. The parallels the belief that the Puritans and the other
nonconformists were the health of the society as they destroyed the culture of
the country and inserted a repressive regime. Once expelled by the Winston
Churchill ancestors who believed culture was something to fight for, they were
expelled to the Abenaki and Iroquois Confederacies where they proceeded to
destroy what they couldn't in England. The roots of that go all the way back
to the Abrahamic religious structures when Abraham the nonconformist son
rejected his father and started the Abrahamic religions under the guise of
monotheism which he then claimed to have invented. The only reason any of
this is taken seriously is a lack of historical knowledge. There is even
some doubt as to the approved history of those roots and their connections to
Akhenaton in Egypt. Who would von Hayek claim to be his intellectual
ancestors? The same attitude in neo-classical economics is especially true
in today's aesthetics where anything goes and everything is subjective.
"Silly" is an interesting word. Even for an ignorant savage like myself the
parallels are Glen Beckian. Consider the German word Selig or in Yiddish
Zelig where it means "blessed", hence the opening of the Brahms Requiem "Selig
sind die Toten" "blessed are the dead" a thought that parallels "Blessed
are the meek". It's a crazy world filled with ignorance, incompetence and
thus "complexity" ("incompetence", not the Santa Fe version). :>))
REH
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[mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Ed Weick
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 10:29 AM
To: ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Futurework
Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Ottawadissenters] The Fed Has Wasted Trillions and
the US Remains in Depression
I believe that governments are stuck. They're not quite sure of what they're
dealing with and don't know what to do. The Keynesian solution of pumping money
into the economy hasn't really worked and the austerians have recently come to
the fore, arguing, for example, that national debt must not exceed 90% of GDP.
The US government has been influenced by this rather doubtful line of thought
and initiated sequestration.
The Government of Canada's solution to the wild ride into the unknown appears
to be based on balancing the budget within the next few years (a specific year
is usually given, but I forget what it is - perhaps 2020). The Government will
then spend no more than it takes in in taxes and other revenues, or at least
that's what it intends.
I can't imagine a sillier idea. Given all the the economic, political and
international uncertainty governments face, nailing down something as specific
as a balanced budget by a certain date strikes me as thought at the highest
possible level of abstraction.
Let's face it. We don't know where we are or where we're going. We have to be
prepared to tackle whatever comes along.
Ed
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From: Arthur Cordell <denar...@sympatico.ca>
To: ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 10:34:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Ottawadissenters] The Fed Has Wasted Trillions and the US Remains
in Depression
I think that silence is consent.
The ham handed support of the “banksters” is evident to most. We talk about it
as do others but it seems as if nothing can be done.
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[mailto:ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of balfourarch
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 12:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ottawadissenters] The Fed Has Wasted Trillions and the US Remains
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Steve
no response?
likely folks agreed with you,
they do out here.
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On 2013.09.07, at 3:24 AM, Steve Kurtz wrote:
Even part-time jobs are tougher to get in the US now. Printing fiat does not
create natural wealth nor provide more well-being. It merely reprices things;
and in this case the bad investments (bonds, mtges, other loans) that should
have gone to zero were purchased BY THE FED at bogus prices to bail out the
power elite. Hierarchy at work! The free lunch to them is at the expense of the
National Debt. I posted 2 pieces explaining this by Charles Hugh Smith, and
there was no response.
Steve
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-09-06/fed-has-wasted-trillions-and-us-remains-depression
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