I'm sorry women find you repulsive, but the way you imagine the world is, simply isn't true. The vast majority of men are in fact excessively nice to women, especially the undesirable ones like yourself because they stupidly believe that is what women find attractive.
Now, I don't know how attractive you are physically. It's very likely that you are very ugly, in which case you simply aren't part of the sexual marketplace, except perhaps as a buyer of sex services. But if you aren't, simply ceasing this supplication will do wonders for your personal life.
It's 2013. There is a shitload of information on the internet, both serious social science, and less serious conjecture, that proves your fantasy to be bullshit. Feel free to continue in your delusion if it makes you happy, but for the rest of us who are getting laid - please. We find your desperation and hatred of us really, really annoying.
No, the way of the future is a managed eugenics system and the gradual reduction of the human population to sustainable levels. This is already official state policy in China, and the Beijing Genomics Institute is very close to identifying key genetic markers of ideal traits, especially intelligence. You combine this with China rapidly establishing sovereignty over Africa, and the major cause of world overpopulation will be eliminated and hundreds of millions of acres of prime farmland will be freed up for productive use.
How can you possibly think the future is processed algae? Do you realize a billion people would rather burn your civilization to the ground?
I would take very careful note of history, and current worldwide events.
Secular societies simply won't last more than a few decades. Your religion is sort of like the Shakers. You fervently believe all sorts of nonsense like this forcing other people to do what they think is wrong, but you've forgotten all about why civilization arose.
It didn't arise for your abstract principles. It arose to allow for people to thrive and reproduce.
All of you are so selfish, and so self absorbed, you couldn't care less about whether or not society will last. You only care about yourself to the point few of you ever have children.
Well, your enemies are having lots of children, and your foolish leaders import them in vast numbers into your country.
In a few decades, all of you will be dead and greatly outnumbered by people who find your worldview sick and inhuman.
And so too can religion rally sufficient people to reorder society, and the law, however they see fit. Contrary to the delusions of believers in the Enlightenment faith, there are no rights. Might makes right, and quite frankly - no one is going to bother dying for something as absurd as redefining the word "marriage" contrary to its definition in every single human language on the whole planet.
Many a gadfly has inevitably been swatted.
The downfall of modern society is the illusion of strength that the internet provides. One need merely look at the mass propaganda agitation efforts in Eastern Europe that have been crushed with popular support with relative ease.
It's not entirely the party, but the Democratic Party has a major faction that is opposed to genetics, and maintains the fiction that humans are born equal and only propaganda and socialize creates human differences.
Modern genetic research soundly defeats this myth, so the science is suppressed in various ways. This is a surprising one, as so far it usually has focused purely on academic research.
You're like a grade school girl cattily shunning a classmate, getting all her friends to do the same, and then proclaiming innocence to the teacher that you have every right to behave as you did. It's the behavior of a coward, a man who has lost any and all ability to confront real danger.
It may seem as if this kind of social pressure works at the moment, but your occupation as a crusader/inquisitor for the God of Equality and the Tabula Rasa Myth has a few major problems.
1) In reality, no one really gives a shit about sodomy or those who practice it. It may make your fellow inquistors feel good about yourselves, which is easy for white people, but they certainly aren't going to fight and die for butt sex.
2) Like most believers in the God of Equality, you undoubtedly deny genetics except to attack Christians for believing in evolution. Well, I've got news for you spud. Homophobia is genetic. As genetic as fear of spiders and fear of snakes. Which means it is one of the few inborn fears. Which means it conferred a survival advantage. Those you attack, who are largely non-white in other parts of the world as only white people as adults have this pathological openness to outsiders, cannot change the way they feel.
3) What this also means is that homosexuality, aka butt sex, is a deviant inclination that is bestowed upon an infected person by an as of yet unidentified germ. It is a similar condition as toxoplasmosis, the infamous protozoa that causes crazy cat ladies to obsess with acquiring as many cats as possible. Obviously, this germ is an evolutionary dead end, so it's only natural that we evolved a defense against it. You'll note, if you study behavioral psychology, that children are absolutely repulsed by the notion of butt sex and homosexual behavioral traits. Now you know why. They are the most vulnerable to this infectious agent, just as they are more vulnerable to venom.
4) In the very near future, this germ will be identified. There will be a period of time, hopefully not particularly long, before a vaccine is identified. For all diseases that cause neurlogical changes that affect behavior, it cannot be reversed. It is likely the case here as well. White people, as always, will do everything they can to praise these deviants in the few countries they have left, but do you think people in say, Saudi Arabia, are going to bother waiting for that vaccine? Can you say quarantine of a scale unheard of in history?
5) See, you hate hate hate bad ideas, bad thoughts, and especially bad people who have them. But, since you don't really accept or understand science, you don't grasp that virtually all behavior is genetic. Your grand dream of propaganda and thought control to turn humans into perfect moral beings who follow your will is an impossibility.
6) You are, in fact, contributing to a hostile society that will for the above reasons blow up in your face in the not so distant future. Keep to your omega male passive aggressive behavior all you want, but if you really give a shit about queers - I would prepare for the above inevitability rather than obsessing over changing people's minds.
It might in accurate in the case of Card, but it's not an inaccurate word.
There have been a large number of studies on homophobia, so much so it pretty much proves that homosexuality is caused by a disease. Key factors 1) It is highly genetic, which indicates it confered a survival advantage. 2) It follows a similar pattern as other innate fears, such as fear of spiders or snakes. It is strongest in the young, who are most vulnerable. It dissipates with age, which varies based on ethnicity. 3) It is weakest in white people, who have the most openness to outsiders of all kinds. It is stronger in all other ethnic groups, who tend to be much more clannish.
Knowing what we now know about toxoplamosis, the protozoan that causes crazy cat lady syndrome, there are likely many as of yet undocumented diseases that affect behavior. Homosexuality, in this respect, would seem to fit the bill perfectly. It causes behavior that has no genetic advantage, and is in fact harmful. The behavior, in this case the urge to fornicate, borders on the pathological. Partner counts for gay men, for example, are orders of magnitude greater than straight men, and it doesn't decrease with age. Contrary to mass propaganda, anal sex is a SERIOUS disease vector, far more so than any other kind of sexual activity. Also contrary to mass propaganda, homosexuals are in fact much more likely to be sexual predators of children.
In any event, here are some great studies on the subject.
The point is also made that a major danger here is when this gay germ is identified. The positive is that, in time, a vaccine will be developed. Chances are, the neurological changes are permanent, as with toxoplasmosis.The negative is that outside of western countries, there will undoubtedly be mass violence against gays. So, this is potentially a very dangerous situation.
What this proves is what should be expected regarding all tradition. Traditions evolved for a reason. Morality isn't subjective, but is the way we humans - who are social animals - pass down learned behavior that is good and prevent behavior that is bad. With good being reproductive success, and bad being failure. It should be no surprise that all religions condemn homosexuality. It also should not be a surprise that aversion to it is genetic, as it completely prevents reproduction.
I'm sorry, that's not a particularly amusing or witty rebuttal.
Why should I waste my time reiterating such a perfect, eloquent aphorism that is demonstrative of a mastery of brevity? Especially when it completely demolishes your childish drivel?
What ridiculous, hedonistic nonsense. Your know nothing of being a human. Yours is the value system of animals.
Whether it is hedonism or pessimism, utilitarianism or eudaemonism - all these ways of thinking that measure the value of thing in accordance with pleasure and pain , which are mere epiphenomena and wholly secondary, are ways of thinking that stay in the foreground and naivetes on which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artistic conscience will look down not without derision, nor without pity. Pity with you - that, of course, is not pity in your sense: it is not pity with social "distress", with "society" and its sick and unfortunate members, with those addicted to vice and maimed from the start, though the ground around us is littered with them; it is even less pity with grumbling, sorely pressed, rebellious slave strata who long for dominion, calling it "freedom". Our pity is a higher and more farsighted pity: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller - and there are moments when we behold your very pity with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this pity - when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable .
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin. its inventiveness and courage in enduring, persevering, interpreting and exploiting suffering and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? In man creature and creator are united: in man there is material, fragment, excess, clay, dirt, nonsense, chaos; but in man there is also creator, form giver, hammer, hardness, spectator divinity, and seventh day: do you understand this contrast? And that your pity is for the "creature in man". for what must be formed, broken, forged, torn, burnt, made incandescent, and purified - that which necessarily man and should suffer? And our pity - do you not comprehend for whom our converse pity is when it resists your pity as the worst of all pamperings and weaknesses?
Thus it is pity versus pity.
But to say it once more: there are higher problems than all problems of pleasure. pain. and pity; and every philosophy that stops with them is naive.
This means, besides the fact it is the mouthpiece of the usurious billionaire ruling class, it abides by one singular ethic: hedonism.
If it does not maximize pleasure, it is evil. If it maximizes pleasure, it is good.
There is a reason the members of this class seem like robots, especially to the European Faustian soul - they possess no understanding of what differentiates men from animals. Their ethic is that of a dog, that shivers when it is cold and wishes it was not so. They do not understand why men would go to the moon anymore than they can understand why Europeans commenced on the creation of the modern world with the beginning of the Age of Discovery. They can conceptualize the works of great artists only in terms of brilliance that would get them into Harvard or some other type of artificial hierarchy. They do not feel deeply, they do not see further. They have nothing to say except that they want to be good.
Which brings us back to their pathetic and simplistic ethic.
As you can see, the aggregate manufacturing output is 12% of the GDP, less than that attributed to real estate. The aggregate value of industrial production in the US is $1.7 trillion dollars. If you honestly believe the aggregate value of all manufacturing in the world is $8.5 trillion, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
The US does have some industry, but it is not relevant to the employment and purchasing power of the average citizen. Back in 1960, a substantial portion of the populace earned a solid living employed in these sectors.
The question becomes how do we have a country when so little of our economy involves the actual basics of economics - production of the necessities of life? How do we import so much crap from China and simply trade rice, wheat, and trash in return?
The answer is financialization, summarized in my previous post. I would recommend Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism: Origins and Fundamentals of US World Dominance to understand the exact mechanics of how this works.
PS: Your 1/5 number was probably true in the 1950s and 1960s. I'm not going to lookup that data however.
Those economic policies were necessary as the nation transitioned away from being an industrial power under the bretton woods system to an Empire that extracts money from the global economy through wall street and down to the peasants via the "service economy". His failure, if there was one, involved not using our military enough to scare the world into using USD for international trade. Subsequent presidents, regardless of party affiliation, have not had this problem. In fact, Obama might be the best one yet.
Politicians in the 1970s were still by and large honest. Even Nixon pails in comparison with Obama. Carter's failure was not believing the true horror of America - that it has a very small productive economy and thrives exclusively on plunder.
No offense, but your country is a weird construction of the British Empire. I wouldn't be surprised if it ceases to exist in the next 10 years.
Very strange how the British just loved to group unrelated people together and declare a country out of it. Divide and conquer was their way unfortunately, even on the European continent. I guess they just wanted a foothold in case another Napoleon appeared.
Political correctness has turned into a witch hunt that makes the Spanish Inquisition seem preferable.
There are many, many people being persecuted because they say or think things the state has deemed dangerous.
Toronto, in particular, has become surreal. The iron fist necessary to maintain their multicultural paradise is at times shocking.
Canada has ceased being a civilized country. It is now a totalitarian dictatorship, which means it simply won't last. Expect the country to break up in the years ahead.
The important answer is: whatever the government says it is worth.
Steve Forbes is an idiot, and he simply does not understand how money functions in an advanced economy. His idealized vision has NEVER existed.
Money is the primary projection of sovereign power. When a country collapses, so too does its currency. A sovereign is only as powerful as his ability to force people to use state currency, which is usually done through taxes. This is why tax collection was so important in ancient times - it literally was the only way cohesion of large empires was maintained.
Within a generation of the Roman Empire collapsing, and hence the tax man no longer being a problem, people stopped using currency and reverted to barter. In the 19th century, the British engaged in all sorts of social engineering to get Africans to work for money. It's really a counterintuitive thing that exists only due to outside coercion.
There is zero evidence that the Economics lie of efficiency every occurred.
They have them at major train stations, like Penn Station in NYC or Union Station in DC. They usually just have bomb sniffing dogs. There are no metal detectors or anything.
Yet, nearly every liberal refuses to believe that evolution applies to humans.
The reality is in America, both parties are religious expressions of Puritanism and the Enlightenment. The only difference between Puritanism and the typical modern liberal is the latter has replaced faith in god with the notion that evolution ceased for human beings the moment they appeared on this earth.
Meanwhile, anyone who says that intelligence, temperament, and all the qualities we assign to animals are genetic in origin is crucified in the endless witch hunt to track down the racists, sexists, and homophobes who are the real reason group differences exist.
The truth is liberalism is a religion, and its adherents are going to be just as shocked once we finally figure out the specific genes for intelligence. No one is going to be able to handle it. And we are very close, which is why Watson was so persecuted.
What precisely is the "TEA Party" working to take away from "you"?
The US is a third world country because the elite decided it was a great idea to import 50 million people from the third world. You really have no idea what you're talking about.
You really have no idea what you're talking about.
Money is whatever an elite says it is and governments have always simply created money. Taxes are what is used to force demand for said currency. They serve no other function.
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What he means to say is that he doesn't believe intelligence is genetic, and he believes East Asians and Chinese are "white".
White knighting nerds.
I'm sorry women find you repulsive, but the way you imagine the world is, simply isn't true. The vast majority of men are in fact excessively nice to women, especially the undesirable ones like yourself because they stupidly believe that is what women find attractive.
Now, I don't know how attractive you are physically. It's very likely that you are very ugly, in which case you simply aren't part of the sexual marketplace, except perhaps as a buyer of sex services. But if you aren't, simply ceasing this supplication will do wonders for your personal life.
It's 2013. There is a shitload of information on the internet, both serious social science, and less serious conjecture, that proves your fantasy to be bullshit. Feel free to continue in your delusion if it makes you happy, but for the rest of us who are getting laid - please. We find your desperation and hatred of us really, really annoying.
No, the way of the future is a managed eugenics system and the gradual reduction of the human population to sustainable levels. This is already official state policy in China, and the Beijing Genomics Institute is very close to identifying key genetic markers of ideal traits, especially intelligence. You combine this with China rapidly establishing sovereignty over Africa, and the major cause of world overpopulation will be eliminated and hundreds of millions of acres of prime farmland will be freed up for productive use.
How can you possibly think the future is processed algae? Do you realize a billion people would rather burn your civilization to the ground?
I would take very careful note of history, and current worldwide events.
Secular societies simply won't last more than a few decades. Your religion is sort of like the Shakers. You fervently believe all sorts of nonsense like this forcing other people to do what they think is wrong, but you've forgotten all about why civilization arose.
It didn't arise for your abstract principles. It arose to allow for people to thrive and reproduce.
All of you are so selfish, and so self absorbed, you couldn't care less about whether or not society will last. You only care about yourself to the point few of you ever have children.
Well, your enemies are having lots of children, and your foolish leaders import them in vast numbers into your country.
In a few decades, all of you will be dead and greatly outnumbered by people who find your worldview sick and inhuman.
Enjoy the decadence while you can, sucker.
I rarely read anything on slashdot I find truly insightful. But your comments are are fantastic. Thank you.
And so too can religion rally sufficient people to reorder society, and the law, however they see fit. Contrary to the delusions of believers in the Enlightenment faith, there are no rights. Might makes right, and quite frankly - no one is going to bother dying for something as absurd as redefining the word "marriage" contrary to its definition in every single human language on the whole planet.
Many a gadfly has inevitably been swatted.
The downfall of modern society is the illusion of strength that the internet provides. One need merely look at the mass propaganda agitation efforts in Eastern Europe that have been crushed with popular support with relative ease.
It's not entirely the party, but the Democratic Party has a major faction that is opposed to genetics, and maintains the fiction that humans are born equal and only propaganda and socialize creates human differences.
Modern genetic research soundly defeats this myth, so the science is suppressed in various ways. This is a surprising one, as so far it usually has focused purely on academic research.
You know damn well that is not what you intend.
You're like a grade school girl cattily shunning a classmate, getting all her friends to do the same, and then proclaiming innocence to the teacher that you have every right to behave as you did. It's the behavior of a coward, a man who has lost any and all ability to confront real danger.
It may seem as if this kind of social pressure works at the moment, but your occupation as a crusader/inquisitor for the God of Equality and the Tabula Rasa Myth has a few major problems.
1) In reality, no one really gives a shit about sodomy or those who practice it. It may make your fellow inquistors feel good about yourselves, which is easy for white people, but they certainly aren't going to fight and die for butt sex.
2) Like most believers in the God of Equality, you undoubtedly deny genetics except to attack Christians for believing in evolution. Well, I've got news for you spud. Homophobia is genetic. As genetic as fear of spiders and fear of snakes. Which means it is one of the few inborn fears. Which means it conferred a survival advantage. Those you attack, who are largely non-white in other parts of the world as only white people as adults have this pathological openness to outsiders, cannot change the way they feel.
3) What this also means is that homosexuality, aka butt sex, is a deviant inclination that is bestowed upon an infected person by an as of yet unidentified germ. It is a similar condition as toxoplasmosis, the infamous protozoa that causes crazy cat ladies to obsess with acquiring as many cats as possible. Obviously, this germ is an evolutionary dead end, so it's only natural that we evolved a defense against it. You'll note, if you study behavioral psychology, that children are absolutely repulsed by the notion of butt sex and homosexual behavioral traits. Now you know why. They are the most vulnerable to this infectious agent, just as they are more vulnerable to venom.
4) In the very near future, this germ will be identified. There will be a period of time, hopefully not particularly long, before a vaccine is identified. For all diseases that cause neurlogical changes that affect behavior, it cannot be reversed. It is likely the case here as well. White people, as always, will do everything they can to praise these deviants in the few countries they have left, but do you think people in say, Saudi Arabia, are going to bother waiting for that vaccine? Can you say quarantine of a scale unheard of in history?
5) See, you hate hate hate bad ideas, bad thoughts, and especially bad people who have them. But, since you don't really accept or understand science, you don't grasp that virtually all behavior is genetic. Your grand dream of propaganda and thought control to turn humans into perfect moral beings who follow your will is an impossibility.
6) You are, in fact, contributing to a hostile society that will for the above reasons blow up in your face in the not so distant future. Keep to your omega male passive aggressive behavior all you want, but if you really give a shit about queers - I would prepare for the above inevitability rather than obsessing over changing people's minds.
It might in accurate in the case of Card, but it's not an inaccurate word.
There have been a large number of studies on homophobia, so much so it pretty much proves that homosexuality is caused by a disease. Key factors
1) It is highly genetic, which indicates it confered a survival advantage.
2) It follows a similar pattern as other innate fears, such as fear of spiders or snakes. It is strongest in the young, who are most vulnerable. It dissipates with age, which varies based on ethnicity.
3) It is weakest in white people, who have the most openness to outsiders of all kinds. It is stronger in all other ethnic groups, who tend to be much more clannish.
Knowing what we now know about toxoplamosis, the protozoan that causes crazy cat lady syndrome, there are likely many as of yet undocumented diseases that affect behavior. Homosexuality, in this respect, would seem to fit the bill perfectly. It causes behavior that has no genetic advantage, and is in fact harmful. The behavior, in this case the urge to fornicate, borders on the pathological. Partner counts for gay men, for example, are orders of magnitude greater than straight men, and it doesn't decrease with age. Contrary to mass propaganda, anal sex is a SERIOUS disease vector, far more so than any other kind of sexual activity. Also contrary to mass propaganda, homosexuals are in fact much more likely to be sexual predators of children.
In any event, here are some great studies on the subject.
http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/a-gay-germ-is-homophobia-a-clue/
The point is also made that a major danger here is when this gay germ is identified. The positive is that, in time, a vaccine will be developed. Chances are, the neurological changes are permanent, as with toxoplasmosis.The negative is that outside of western countries, there will undoubtedly be mass violence against gays. So, this is potentially a very dangerous situation.
http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/gay-germ-fallout/
What this proves is what should be expected regarding all tradition. Traditions evolved for a reason. Morality isn't subjective, but is the way we humans - who are social animals - pass down learned behavior that is good and prevent behavior that is bad. With good being reproductive success, and bad being failure. It should be no surprise that all religions condemn homosexuality. It also should not be a surprise that aversion to it is genetic, as it completely prevents reproduction.
So, you think censorship is obscene, yet you're taking pleasure in persecuting someone for thoughtcrimes.
You are so tolerant and exemplary of how awesome modernity is.
I'll help you out, 'cause you're so good with google. This is a bit easier to understand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnPGJnOhDY
I'm sorry, that's not a particularly amusing or witty rebuttal.
Why should I waste my time reiterating such a perfect, eloquent aphorism that is demonstrative of a mastery of brevity? Especially when it completely demolishes your childish drivel?
What ridiculous, hedonistic nonsense. Your know nothing of being a human. Yours is the value system of animals.
Whether it is hedonism or pessimism, utilitarianism or eudaemonism - all these ways of thinking that measure the value of thing in accordance with pleasure and pain , which are mere epiphenomena and wholly secondary, are ways of thinking that stay in the foreground and naivetes on which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artistic conscience will look down not without derision, nor without pity. Pity with you - that, of course, is not pity in your sense: it is not pity with social "distress", with "society" and its sick and unfortunate members, with those addicted to vice and maimed from the start, though the ground around us is littered with them; it is even less pity with grumbling, sorely pressed, rebellious slave strata who long for dominion, calling it "freedom". Our pity is a higher and more farsighted pity: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller - and there are moments when we behold your very pity with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this pity - when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable .
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin. its inventiveness and courage in enduring, persevering, interpreting and exploiting suffering and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? In man creature and creator are united: in man there is material, fragment, excess, clay, dirt, nonsense, chaos; but in man there is also creator, form giver, hammer, hardness, spectator divinity, and seventh day: do you understand this contrast? And that your pity is for the "creature in man". for what must be formed, broken, forged, torn, burnt, made incandescent, and purified - that which necessarily man and should suffer? And our pity - do you not comprehend for whom our converse pity is when it resists your pity as the worst of all pamperings and weaknesses?
Thus it is pity versus pity.
But to say it once more: there are higher problems than all problems of pleasure. pain. and pity; and every philosophy that stops with them is naive.
This means, besides the fact it is the mouthpiece of the usurious billionaire ruling class, it abides by one singular ethic: hedonism.
If it does not maximize pleasure, it is evil. If it maximizes pleasure, it is good.
There is a reason the members of this class seem like robots, especially to the European Faustian soul - they possess no understanding of what differentiates men from animals. Their ethic is that of a dog, that shivers when it is cold and wishes it was not so. They do not understand why men would go to the moon anymore than they can understand why Europeans commenced on the creation of the modern world with the beginning of the Age of Discovery. They can conceptualize the works of great artists only in terms of brilliance that would get them into Harvard or some other type of artificial hierarchy. They do not feel deeply, they do not see further. They have nothing to say except that they want to be good.
Which brings us back to their pathetic and simplistic ethic.
It is all simple pacification.
What you mention is one of the amazing aspects of all this. There is clearly something else afoot.
The purpose of the raids is not to deter violent crime, but future revolutionary violence.
Actually, I study all of this in rather significant detail. Your 1/5 estimate, by any reasonable measure, is completely false.
I would encourage you to look at the GDP breakdown by industry sector, conveniently summarized in this wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
As you can see, the aggregate manufacturing output is 12% of the GDP, less than that attributed to real estate. The aggregate value of industrial production in the US is $1.7 trillion dollars. If you honestly believe the aggregate value of all manufacturing in the world is $8.5 trillion, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
The US does have some industry, but it is not relevant to the employment and purchasing power of the average citizen. Back in 1960, a substantial portion of the populace earned a solid living employed in these sectors.
The question becomes how do we have a country when so little of our economy involves the actual basics of economics - production of the necessities of life? How do we import so much crap from China and simply trade rice, wheat, and trash in return?
The answer is financialization, summarized in my previous post. I would recommend Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism: Origins and Fundamentals of US World Dominance to understand the exact mechanics of how this works.
PS: Your 1/5 number was probably true in the 1950s and 1960s. I'm not going to lookup that data however.
Those economic policies were necessary as the nation transitioned away from being an industrial power under the bretton woods system to an Empire that extracts money from the global economy through wall street and down to the peasants via the "service economy". His failure, if there was one, involved not using our military enough to scare the world into using USD for international trade. Subsequent presidents, regardless of party affiliation, have not had this problem. In fact, Obama might be the best one yet.
Politicians in the 1970s were still by and large honest. Even Nixon pails in comparison with Obama. Carter's failure was not believing the true horror of America - that it has a very small productive economy and thrives exclusively on plunder.
No offense, but your country is a weird construction of the British Empire. I wouldn't be surprised if it ceases to exist in the next 10 years.
Very strange how the British just loved to group unrelated people together and declare a country out of it. Divide and conquer was their way unfortunately, even on the European continent. I guess they just wanted a foothold in case another Napoleon appeared.
Mild cluelessness?
Political correctness has turned into a witch hunt that makes the Spanish Inquisition seem preferable.
There are many, many people being persecuted because they say or think things the state has deemed dangerous.
Toronto, in particular, has become surreal. The iron fist necessary to maintain their multicultural paradise is at times shocking.
Canada has ceased being a civilized country. It is now a totalitarian dictatorship, which means it simply won't last. Expect the country to break up in the years ahead.
The important answer is: whatever the government says it is worth.
Steve Forbes is an idiot, and he simply does not understand how money functions in an advanced economy. His idealized vision has NEVER existed.
Money is the primary projection of sovereign power. When a country collapses, so too does its currency. A sovereign is only as powerful as his ability to force people to use state currency, which is usually done through taxes. This is why tax collection was so important in ancient times - it literally was the only way cohesion of large empires was maintained.
Within a generation of the Roman Empire collapsing, and hence the tax man no longer being a problem, people stopped using currency and reverted to barter. In the 19th century, the British engaged in all sorts of social engineering to get Africans to work for money. It's really a counterintuitive thing that exists only due to outside coercion.
There is zero evidence that the Economics lie of efficiency every occurred.
They have them at major train stations, like Penn Station in NYC or Union Station in DC. They usually just have bomb sniffing dogs. There are no metal detectors or anything.
Yet, nearly every liberal refuses to believe that evolution applies to humans.
The reality is in America, both parties are religious expressions of Puritanism and the Enlightenment. The only difference between Puritanism and the typical modern liberal is the latter has replaced faith in god with the notion that evolution ceased for human beings the moment they appeared on this earth.
Meanwhile, anyone who says that intelligence, temperament, and all the qualities we assign to animals are genetic in origin is crucified in the endless witch hunt to track down the racists, sexists, and homophobes who are the real reason group differences exist.
The truth is liberalism is a religion, and its adherents are going to be just as shocked once we finally figure out the specific genes for intelligence. No one is going to be able to handle it. And we are very close, which is why Watson was so persecuted.
No, he produced a certificate of live birth. These are provided to anyone, and you can get them saying you were born wherever.
The long form birth certificate signed by the doctor who delivered him was not produced until May.
Are you such an Obama fanatic that you missed this? It was pretty big news.
What precisely is the "TEA Party" working to take away from "you"?
The US is a third world country because the elite decided it was a great idea to import 50 million people from the third world. You really have no idea what you're talking about.
You really have no idea what you're talking about.
Money is whatever an elite says it is and governments have always simply created money. Taxes are what is used to force demand for said currency. They serve no other function.
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