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________________________________ From: Andrew Vonderwueste <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:27:40 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Protestant Capitalism Hi X acto. Nice bumper sticker. Nice Volvo station wagon. "Fear is the killer of minds" ... In some sense yes, I agree. But fear is also the preserver of bodies. Fear is biological quality. Could it be that the chemistry of fear ( adrenaline ) anesthetizes the cerebral cortex to some degree? The chemistry of Schlitz is known to posses such properties. Any chemists here? Have a nice day. Have a coke and a smile. Hate is not a family value. United we stand. Bless the beasts and the children. --- On Wed, 5/13/09, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: From: X Acto <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MD] Protestant Capitalism To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 12:07 PM The lamenting of frightened old men. Fear is the killer of minds ________________________________ From: Platt Holden <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:49:15 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Protestant Capitalism Hey Ham, Thanks for sharing. Well done. By all means include it on your site. I'm looking forward to Memorial Day on May 25 to honor members of the U.S. military who died to preserve our freedoms now being threatened by Obozo and the forces of socialist darkness. Best regards, Platt On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Ham Priday <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Platt -- > > The election of Obama is a shining example of the power of the statist >> propaganda machine. You can bet they will continue to use it to justify >> their takeover of banks, auto companies, the health care system and >> whatever else they want. Note that the first thing they do to bamboozle >> the public to accept their grab for power is to create a phony crises, >> e.g., >> global warming. >> > > Right you are, Platt. > > Here's a fable you won't find on the Internet . . . > > > THE EMPEROR'S NEW WEALTH > > There came a time in this restive world when the people of the most > prosperous nation gathered to choose a new Emperor. The man they appointed > had no experience running a company or managing an economy, but he was > "cool" and in many ways different from his capitalist predecessor. He spoke > eloquently and with confidence, promising that he would usher in an era of > fairness by "spreading the wealth" so that "we can all get along together". > That had great appeal to the people who were looking for a change ? > especially a change that would end the rift between rich and poor and make > everybody equal. > > Now it so happened that when the new Emperor assumed power he found the > nation's financial institutions in disarray. The people had been purchasing > houses they couldn't afford and the loan companies had run up so much debt > they had no more money to lend. That was a challenge for the Emperor who > had no wealth of his own but felt bound by his promises. So he consulted > with his advisors to determine what to do. Among them was the Imperial > Wizard who said: "Never let a crisis go to waste; it's an opportunity to do > everything you promised to do. Besides, the people won't notice if you > remind them that it's a crisis we inherited from the previous reign." > > So the Emperor took his wizard's advice. Because he believed that only he > and his imperial minions could fix the problem, he called for money to bail > out the banks. He ordered up more money to bail out the auto companies > because they were "too big to fail." When that didn't work he turned > ownership of the companies over to the workers' union. To stimulate public > spending he gave out tax rebates to everyone in the land ? even those who > didn't pay any taxes. He allocated money for construction and energy > conservation projects to put people back to work, and he even nationalized > healthcare to fulfill his promise to the people. In his first hundred days, > he raised the nation's debt to four times what it had ever been before. (You > see, no one dared tell the Emperor that you can't cure a credit crisis by > spending money you don't have.) But that didn't seem to matter, because the > Emperor's heralds were also pledged to the Fairness Doctrine, and they > proclaimed throughout the land that the new policies were Good and Wise and > beyond repute. > > After eight years under his rule the problems that had caused the credit > crisis still persisted, but the people were no longer buying houses and > automobiles. Instead they were trying to grow or beg enough food to keep > from starving. For, although more money than ever was being printed, > whatever was left after taxes was worthless paper. Light, heat and power > were unaffordable luxuries under the Emperor's energy restrictions. National > Healthcare had forced hospitals and physicians to cut costs and ration > treatment, and they were turning away long lines of people seeking medical > care. Drug companies that could not market products meeting the fair price > guidelines went out of business, and manufacturing was reduced to farm > implements, prefabricated housing units, and basic commodities. > > Riots and pillaging were rampant everywhere, and the Imperial Security > Force was ordered in to quell them, since only the military could now own > weapons. Most of the employed were part of what was called The People's > Fairness Party which even illegal immigrants were invited to join and upon > which the rest of the empire depended. Those who once earned wealth had > most of it taxed to support the Party, and there was no incentive to work > without profit. Capitalism was no longer taught in the schools, since > everybody knew that it was evil, and "Socialism" had been replaced by > "Fairness" which was added to the standard curriculum of Reading, Writing, > and Arithmetic. > > The world's most prosperous nation had at last achieved its change to > Fairness ? its people were now neither rich nor poor but "equally > impoverished". A few realized that they had been rooked by an Emperor whose > "new wealth" was actually extorted from them. They weren't happy, free or > productive, but they couldn't complain because the Fairness Doctrine made it > politically incorrect. As for the rest of the world, the new empire had > become just another third-world country that could get along with everybody > else by just talking away their differences. > > And that was fair, too. For who could be resentful of a country that had > no more than they did? > > . . . but I'm considering running it in my Values Page column next week. > > What do you think? Suggestions are welcome. > > Regards, > --Ham > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
