CULTURE OF IGNORANCE – PART ONE

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”

– Thomas Edison

The kabuki theater that passes for governance in Washington D.C. reveals the profound level of ignorance shrouding this Empire of Debt in its prolonged death throes. Ignorance of facts; ignorance of math; ignorance of history; ignorance of reality; and ignorance of how ignorant we’ve become as a nation, have set us up for an epic fall. It’s almost as if we relish wallowing in our ignorance like a fat lazy sow in a mud hole. The lords of the manor are able to retain their power, control and huge ill-gotten riches because the government educated serfs are too ignorant to recognize the self-evident contradictions in the propaganda they are inundated with by state controlled media on a daily basis.

 

“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.” Hendrik Willem van Loon

The levels of ignorance are multi-dimensional and diverse, crossing all educational, income, and professional ranks. The stench of ignorance has settled like Chinese toxic smog over our country, as various constituents have chosen comforting ignorance over disconcerting knowledge. The highly educated members, who constitute the ruling class in this country, purposefully ignore facts and truth because the retention and enhancement of their wealth and power are dependent upon them not understanding what they clearly have the knowledge to understand. The underclass wallow in their ignorance as their life choices, absence of concern for marriage or parenting, lack of interest in educating themselves, and hiding behind the cross of victimhood and blaming others for their own failings. Everyone is born ignorant and the path to awareness and knowledge is found in reading books. Rich and poor alike are free to read and educate themselves. The government, union teachers, and a village are not necessary to attain knowledge. It requires hard work and clinging to your willful ignorance to remain stupid.

The youth of the country consume themselves in techno-narcissistic triviality, barely looking up from their iGadgets long enough to make eye contact with other human beings. The toxic combination of government delivered public education, dumbed down socially engineered curriculum, taught by uninspired intellectually average union controlled teachers, to distracted, unmotivated, latchkey kids, has produced a generation of young people ignorant about history, basic mathematical concepts, and the ability or interest to read and write. They have been taught to feel rather than think critically. They have been programmed to believe rather than question and explore. Slogans and memes have replaced knowledge and understanding. They have been lured into inescapable student loan debt serfdom by the very same government that is handing them a $200 trillion entitlement bill and an economy built upon low paying service jobs that don’t require a college education, because the most highly educated members of society realized that outsourcing the higher paying production jobs to slave labor factories in Asia was great for the bottom line, their stock options and bonus pools.

Instead of being outraged and lashing out against this injustice, the medicated, daycare reared youth passively lose themselves in the inconsequentiality and shallowness of social media, reality TV, and the internet, while living in their parents’ basement. They have chosen the ignorance inflicted upon their brains by thousands of hours spent twittering, texting, facebooking, seeking out adorable cat videos on the internet, viewing racist rap singer imbeciles rent out sports stadiums to propose to vacuous big breasted sluts on reality cable TV shows, and sitting zombie-like for days with a controller in hand blowing up cities, killing whores, and murdering policemen using their new PS4 on their 65 inch HDTV, rather than gaining a true understanding of the world by reading Steinbeck, Huxley, and Orwell. Technology has reduced our ability to think and increased our ignorance.

“During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.” – Bernard M. Baruch

The youth have one thing going for them. They are still young and can awaken from their self-imposed stupor of ignorance. There are over 80 million millenials between the ages of 8 and 30 years old who need to start questioning the paradigm they are inheriting and critically examining the mendacious actions of their elders. The future of the country is in their hands, so I hope they put down those iGadgets and open their eyes before it is too late. We need many more patriots like Edward Snowden and far fewer twerking sluts like Miley Cyrus if we are to overcome the smog of apathy and ignorance blanketing our once sentient nation.

The ignorance of youth can be chalked up to inexperience, lack of wisdom, and immaturity. There is no excuse for the epic level of ignorance displayed by older generations over the last thirty years. Boomers and Generation X have charted the course of this ship of state for decades. Ship of fools is a more fitting description, as they have stimulated the entitlement mentality that has overwhelmed the fiscal resources of the country. Our welfare/warfare empire, built upon a Himalayan mountain of debt, enabled by a central bank owned by Wall Street, and perpetuated by swarms of corrupt bought off spineless politicians, is the ultimate testament to the seemingly limitless level of ignorance engulfing our civilization. The entitlement mindset permeates our culture from the richest to the poorest. Mega-corporations use their undue influence (bribes disguised as campaign contributions) to elect pliable candidates to office, hire lobbyists to write the laws and tax regulations governing their industries, and collude with the bankers and other titans of industry to harvest maximum profits from the increasingly barren fields of a formerly thriving land of milk and honey. By unleashing a torrent of unbridled greed, ransacking the countryside, and burning down the villages, the ruling class has planted the seeds of their own destruction.

When the underclass observes Wall Street bankers committing the crime of the century with no consequences for their actions, they learn a lesson. When billionaire banker/politicians like Jon Corzine can steal $1.2 billion directly from the accounts of farmers and ranchers and continue to live a life of luxury in one of his six mansions, they get the message. Wall Street bankers are allowed to commit fraud, reaping profits of $25 billion, and when they are caught red handed pay a $5 billion fine while admitting no guilt. No connected bankers have gone to jail for crashing the worldwide financial system, but teenage marijuana dealers are incarcerated for ten years in our corporate prison system. The message has been received loud and clear by the unwashed masses. Committing fraud and gaming the system is OK. Only suckers play by the rules anymore. A culture of lawlessness, greed, fraud, deceit, swindles and scams was fashioned by those in power. Reckless disregard for honesty, truthfulness, fair dealing, and treating others as you would like to be treated, has permeated the beliefs and behavior of our society.

The ever increasing number of people in the SNAP program along with abuses committed by retailers and recipients, the skyrocketing number of people faking their way into the SSDI program, billions of taxpayer dollars lost to Medicare fraud, billions more lost paying out earned income tax credit refunds based on non-existent children, public schools falsifying test scores, students cheating on SAT tests, credit card fraud on a grand scale, failure to report income and falsifying tax returns, and a myriad of other dodges and scams are just a reflection of a moral and cultural collapse. The dog eat dog mentality glorified by the media, with such despicable men as Dimon, Greenspan, Corzine, Clinton, Trump, Rubin, Bernanke and Bloomberg honored as pillars of society, has displaced honesty, compassion, humanity, shared sacrifice, and caring about our descendants. Self-interest, self-indulgence, and a narcissistic focus on what is in it for me today has led to an implosion of trust and an attitude of “who cares” about our fellow man, morality, right or wrong, and the fate of future generations. We ignored the warnings of our last President who displayed courageousness and truthfulness when speaking to the American people.

“As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Me Generation has devolved into the Me Culture. While the masses have been mesmerized by their iGadgets, zombified by the boob tube, programmed to consume by the Madison Avenue propaganda machines, enslaved in chains of debt by the Wall Street plantation owners, and convinced by their fascist government keepers that phantom terrorists are hiding behind every bush, they surrendered their freedoms, liberties and sense of self-responsibility. There will always be evil men seeking to control and manipulate the ignorant and oblivious. A citizenry armed with knowledge, critical thinking skills, and moral integrity would not passively submit to the will of a corporate fascist oligarchy. Well educated, well informed citizens, capable of critical thinking are dangerous to rich men of evil intent. Obedient, universally ignorant, distracted, fearful, morally depraved slaves are what the owners of this country want. As the light of knowledge flickers and dies, we sink into the darkness of ignorance.

 

“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”Samuel Adams

Cult of Ignorance

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”Isaac Asimov

  

“While every group has certain economic interests identical with those of all groups, every group has also, as we shall see, interests antagonistic to those of all other groups. While certain public policies would in the long run benefit everybody, other policies would benefit one group only at the expense of all other groups. The group that would benefit by such policies, having such a direct interest in them, will argue for them plausibly and persistently. It will hire the best buyable minds to devote their whole time to presenting its case. And it will finally either convince the general public that its case is sound, or so befuddle it that clear thinking on the subject becomes next to impossible.

In addition to these endless pleadings of self-interest, there is a second main factor that spawns new economic fallacies every day. This is the persistent tendency of man to see only the immediate effects of a given policy, or its effects only on a special group, and to neglect to inquire what the long-run effects of that policy will be not only on that special group but on all groups. It is the fallacy of overlooking secondary consequences.”Henry Hazlitt

America’s cult of ignorance, combined with the selfish interests of various constituencies, the character weakness of the people elected to office, a lack of understanding or interest in basic mathematical concepts, and inability to comprehend the long term and unintended consequences of every piece of legislation, have brought the country to the brink of fiscal disaster. But still, the vast majority of Americans, including the supposed intellectuals and economic “experts”, are basking in their ignorance, as the stock market reaches a new high, the local GM dealer just gave them a 7 year $40,000 auto loan at 0% on that brand new Cadillac Escalade, Bank of America still hasn’t foreclosed on their McMansion two years after making their last mortgage payment, and they just received three pre-approved credit card notices from Capital One, American Express and Citicorp. As long as Bennie has our back printing $1 trillion new greenbacks per year, nothing can possibly go wrong. Our best and brightest economic minds are always right:

“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” – Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

“Many of the new financial products that have been created, with financial derivatives being the most notable, contribute economic value by unbundling risks and shifting them in a highly calibrated manner. Although these instruments cannot reduce the risk inherent in real assets, they can redistribute it in a way that induces more investment in real assets and, hence, engenders higher productivity and standards of living.” – Alan Greenspan – March 6, 2000

“We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s gonna drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.” Ben Bernanke – July 2005

The profound level of ignorance displayed by economists, politicians, business leaders, media personalities, and the average American, regarding the mathematically unsustainable path of our fiscal ship is perplexing to me on so many levels. If the Federal government was a family, the budget ceiling debate would be put into the following terms. Our household earns $28,000 per year, but we spend $38,000 per year and add $10,000 to our credit card balance, which stands at the limit of $170,000. In addition, we owe our neighbors $2 million we don’t have because we promised to pay if they voted for us as Treasurer of our homeowners association. We celebrate our good fortune of getting approved for another credit card with a $30,000 limit by increasing our spending to $39,000 per year. Intellectuals scorn such simplistic analogies by glibly pointing out that the family has a crazy uncle with a printing press in the basement and can pay-off the debt with his freshly printed dollars. And this is where the deliberate and calculated ignorance by the highly educated Ivy Leaguers regarding long term and unintended consequences is revealed. They ignore, manipulate, cover-up and obscure the facts because their wealth, power and influence depend upon them doing so. But ignorance doesn’t change the facts.

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley

Nothing exposes the ignorance of various factions within our society better than a debate about budgets, spending, and unfunded liabilities. This is where every party, group, special interest, and voting bloc ignore any and all facts that are contrary to their selfish interest. They only see what they want to see. The fallacies, errors, omissions and mistruths of their positions are inconsequential to people who only care about their short-term self-seeking interests. When I question the out of control spending on entitlements and our impossible to honor level of unfunded liabilities, those of a liberal persuasion lash out with accusations of hating the poor, starving children and throwing granny under the bus. Anyone suggesting we should slow our spending is branded a terrorist by the overwhelmingly liberal legacy media.

When I accuse Wall Street bankers of criminal fraud and ongoing manipulation of the financial markets, the CNBC loving apologists for these felons bellow about the market always being right. When I rail about the military industrial complex and our un-Constitutional invasions of other countries, the neo-cons come out in force blathering about the war on terror and imminent threats. When I point out the horrific results of our government run educational system and how mediocre union teachers are bankrupting our states and municipalities with their gold plated health and pension plans, I’m met with howls of outrage about the poor children. The common thread is that facts are ignored because each of their agendas requires ignorance on the part of their team’s fans.

The following chart of truth portrays an unsustainable path. Ignoring the facts will not change them. This isn’t a Republican problem or a Democrat problem. It’s an American problem.

 

“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: “In the long run we are all dead.” And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.” Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt may have written these words six decades ago, but they aptly describe Paul Krugman and the legions of Keynesian apostles whose bastardized interpretation of Keynes’ theory has led us to this fiscal cliff. How anyone can truly believe that borrowing to consume foreign produced goods versus saving and making job creating capital investments is a rational and sustainable economic policy is the height of ignorance. One look at this chart exposes the political party system as a sham. When it comes to the fiscal train wreck, set in motion thirty years ago, the ignorant media pundits peddle a narrative about politicians failing to compromise as the culprit in this derailment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Compromise is what has gotten us to this point. The Republicans compromised and allowed the Democrats to create a welfare state. The Democrats compromised and allowed the Republicans to create a warfare state. The Federal Reserve compromised their mandate of stable prices and preventing financial calamities by inflating away 95% of the dollar’s purchasing power in 100 years, while creating bubbles every five or so years, like clockwork. There are a myriad of facts related to the chart above that cannot be ignored:

  • It took 192 years for the country to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. It has taken us 30 years to accumulate the next $16 trillion of debt. We now add $1 trillion of debt per year.
  • If the Federal government was required to use GAAP accounting, the annual deficit would amount to $6.7 trillion per year.
  • The fiscal gap of unfunded future liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and government pensions is $200 trillion.
  • Using realistic growth assumptions adds another $6 trillion of state and local government unfunded pension benefits to the equation.
  • The Federal government has increased their annual spending from $1.8 trillion during Bill Clinton’s last year in office to $3.8 trillion today, a 110% increase. The population has increased by 12% over that same time frame, and real GDP has advanced by 25% since 2000.
  • Defense spending has increased from $358 billion in 2000 to $831 billion today, despite the fact that no country on earth can challenge us militarily.
  • The average Baby Boomer will receive $300,000 more than they contributed to Social Security and Medicare over their lifetime. Over 10,000 Boomers per day will turn 65 for the next 17 years.
  • The Social Security lockbox is filled with IOUs. The funds collected from paychecks over the last 80 years were spent by Congress on wars of choice, bridges to nowhere, and thousands of other vote buying ventures.
  • A normalization of interest rates to long-term averages would double or triple the interest on the national debt and increase our annual deficits by at least 30%.
  • Obamacare and the unintended consequences of Obamacare will add tens of trillions to our national debt. The initial budget projections for Medicare and Medicaid showed only a modest financial impact on the financial situation of the country. How did that work out?
  • Entitlement spending in 2003 was $1.3 trillion. Entitlement spending in 2008 was $1.7 trillion. Entitlement spending in 2013 was $2.2 trillion. Entitlement spending in 2018 will be $2.8 trillion, as these programs are on automatic pilot.

When you consider the facts in a rational manner, without vitriolic denials, bitter accusations, acrimonious blame, and rejection of the entire premise, you come to the conclusion that we’ve passed the point of no return. Decades of bad choices, bad leadership, bad men in important positions, bad education, bad governance, and bad citizenship have led to bad times. But very few people, across all socio-economic classes, have any interest in understanding the facts or making the tough choices required to save future generations from a life of squalor. We willfully choose to ignore the facts.

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” Aldous Huxley

Our degraded and ignorant society is incapable of comprehending their dire circumstances or acting for the common good of the country. We are a nation on the take. Greed really is good. Everyone needs to play the game. From the top floor corporate CEO suite to the decaying urban wastelands, we have chosen comforting ignorance to uncomfortable knowledge. Our warped form of democracy enriches the few at the top, while dispensing enough subsistence payments to the lower classes to keep them from revolting, while enslaving the middle class in debt and convincing them it’s really wealth. Mencken understood the pathetic impulses of the American populace decades before we reached our point of no return.

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” – H.L. Mencken

The only way a democracy can survive is if the population is knowledgeable, vigilant, skeptical, educated, individually responsible, self-reliant, moral, capable of critical thinking and willing to accept the consequences of their actions. A nation of takers, fakers and blamers will not last long. We’ve degenerated into a nation of knowledge hating book burners. Our culture of ignorance will lead to the destruction of our culture and the ignorant masses will wonder what happened.

 

“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.”Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

In Part Two of this examination about our culture of ignorance I’ll explore the roles of technology, family breakdown, government, and propaganda in creating the ignorance that is consuming our system like a mutant parasite. If you are seeking a happy ending, I suggest looking elsewhere.

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valerie jarrett why do you keep down voting me???? i could write “big tits, yum” and you’d still do it. bugger off!!

AWD

Finally got around to reading the article and full comments. Since admins only a few months older than me, I can say we lived through some of the good times. But what’s happened since 2000, and 2001 is beyond belief. I don’t think anybody could have predicted we’d have gone so far down so quickly. Government spending has doubled. The government has taken over everything, and grown to mammoth proportions. Instead of fighting this, people opted for the free shit. And you have to be purposely ignorant to think making a living off the government and taxpayers is sustainable, but more than half the population believes in this thievery.

What happened to the work ethic? What happened to work? Only fools and idiots work anymore. The princes and princesses of this country don’t work, they vote and reproduce for a living. We have more people on welfare than entire countries in the G-20. We have the largest welfare population in the history of the world. We have socialism on a scale never seen before in human history.

We quit manufacturing goods, and instead manufactured debt, our greatest export. The central banks of the world are liquidating the value of their currencies faster than people can spend the money. One of these days, people are going to quit accepting dollars for the goods they ship us in container ships that end up on the shelves at Wal Mart (all $500 billion of ’em a year). We played a good game, a confidence game, a con game, on everyone else–the U.S., the great economy, the great country. People really believed that crap for the last 30 years. I don’t think many believe it anymore. They are making other plans now, and trying to figure out how to decouple from the U.S. When they put those plans into effect, and all faith will be lost, and those piles of green paper will be worthless.

Our greatest mistake has been to make equal that which will never be equal. Women will never be the same as men. Minorities will never be the same as white men. The intelligent will never be the same as the imbeciles. But, in making everyone “equal”, we’re wiped out our humanity. We have incompetent people in positions of power and authority based on their sex or skin color. And so we’re degenerated into an incompetent nation. You can never raise the bottom by tearing down the top. Leaders have been trying it for centuries, and it’s always failed. Our experiment, as a nation, has failed, in the end. It’s failed miserably. We just gave it all away, and are now selfishly clutching at the remaining goodies before they too run out. All nations start in slavery and tyranny and end in slavery and tyranny. We’re at the end. We’re finished, pasted the point of no return. Game over.

a cruel accountant
a cruel accountant

It all ends when the sun burns out. What then?

crazyivan
crazyivan

That is an actual picture of SSS’s paternal great great Aunts who both turned to prostitution due to the times and their really long legs and knobby knees

John Coster
John Coster

The video below on the history of the banking system from the early Rothschilds through to the present clusterfuck seemed to make a lot of sense to me. It attributes much of the evil we confront to private control of national currencies created as debt by those who really are just parasites, This whole notion of creating money as debt, debt to an elite that in fact produces nothing of real value, seems insane and profoundly, irredeemably corrupt. The government, in this scheme, gives up one of its most basic functions and becomes essentially the the enforcement arm of a massive counterfeiting operation designed to supply the elites with unearned wealth. Hence, the Fed, however much its functions may be obscured by endless amounts of complex academic spew, is really just the front for a giant Ponzi scheme. Of course the debt will grow infinitely in such a system and leave behind only small percentages of value stored in money. What do people think? Is the privatization of money creation really the core problem, that and the bankers’ use of fractional reserves? I am not well versed in such matters compared to many of the folks on TBP. Are we just seeing the end result of the practice started in Europe whereby goldsmiths issued certificates (paper money) for quantities of gold that vastly exceeded the amounts they had in their vaults and thus began to earn interest on capital that didn’t really exist? Nice work if you can get it! What I do see clearly all around me, among people I know, is a very large % of the money being spent coming either directly from the Government or from passive investments and a surprisingly small % coming from productive employment. Indeed, the people I know with the most stable incomes seem to be a among the least productive. Do others find the video below useful?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUC7BbBC3mU

SSS

crazyivan

Bite me. The math problem from the 19th Century that I cited was clearly based on volume, not weight. Welcome to the generation of New Math, dipshit.

Stucky

I finally have you in a corner. There is no escape. You said ….

“120 cu ft / 1.24445602149 cu ft per bushel = 96.42767436348 bushels, therefore;

SSS is wrong with his bullshit 96.43 answer (clearly, an amateur).”

96.42767436348 DOES round off to my 96.43 bushels, not your stated 96.42 bushels. Even a certified CPA like Admin can see that.

What say you, Admin? Am I correct, or is that ignorant slut from New Jersey correct?

Zarathustra

AWD says, “Minorities will never be the same as white men.” I guess that depends on what you consider “white.” Civilization certainly wasn’t invented by northern europeans, although they did create bitching spear points and cave paintings.

howard in nyc

Maybe your best essay, Jim. Wonderful, just wonderful. Your work is what keeps me coming back.

Hey AWD~

You wrote: “Minorities will never be the same as white men.”

Yeah, wow. If some folks have their way, I suppose.

Speaking for this one minority, all I can say is thank fucking goodness.

crazyivan
crazyivan

SSS,
The rounding error is insignificant in light of factual weights and measures.
You sir, suck at math.

SSS

“SSS says: (@5:38)

I got 96.43

Why did you concede SSS? From what I remember in maff classes, one does round up if > or = to 5 which means your answer was better than government work as it was more exact. Sorry Stucky, fair is fair.”
—-T4C @ 11:22 pm

I didn’t concede, T4C. See following. Stucky is a mathematical midget.

“96.42767436348 DOES round off to my 96.43 bushels, not your stated 96.42 bushels. Even a certified CPA like Admin can see that.”
—-SSS @ 10:30 pm

James Workman

is everyone ignoring the fact that America is being destroyed?

Small Farms.

Manufacturing.

and who owns the Lobby Whores in Washington DC?

So why are the Zionists (they are self proclaimed, they ARE! the Super Majority of Class A shareholders and management of the largest companies on Wall Street! I am NO! Nazi! I am regurgitating Numerical Facts!)

so why is NO ONE!! talking about it except the idiot skin heads who don’t really understand the scope and scale of the take over or the amount of damage that has been done over the past 40 years!

Here are some FBI reports pre 1970s off the gold standard for good! http://irmep.org/ila/About/news.htm

50k Jobs China Forbes Shadow Stats REAL Jobs Numbers and China Manufacturing Take Over Economist

http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2011/02/14/intelligence-community-fears-u-s-manufacturing-decline/

50,000 Manufacturing Jobs per month were sent to China by Wall Street.. and the America Tax Payer PAID!! Wall Street to DESTROY!! Americas Manufacturing Base! Tax Breaks, Tax Credits and Out Right CASH!!! Subsidies! Bush signed into Law and Obama ignored it! Because they Obama and Bush are working together! For their owners!
that has been ignored for over a decade now! and its fixed!! itself!!! Look!

http://www.economist.com/node/21549956

and look at America!!

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

Who is controlling Wall Street? Who is the Numerical Super Majority?
Wait! This won’t make you feel good so you will NOT! want to believe it.

http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=Jewish

The Largest Lobby, dollar wise.. in dollars used to Bribe the Lobby Whores in Washington DC is.. the Zionists! Of Wall Street.
The Second Largest Lobby in America, using dollars spent to bribe the Lobby Whores in Washington DC are?? Zionists, hiding behind the word Jew.
Zionists are NOT! Jews. Men and Women of God do NOT! Openly support genocide against anyone for any reason. Period. God is NOT pro-Genocide. And Zionists are.

And who controls Hollywood? Who controls the Media in America? ZIONISTS!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
those are the companies and now go search SEC documents and see who controls the largest amounts of class A non-public shares of those companies. Not the trash you buy on the new York stock exchange the real shares of stock that are NOT! Publicly traded.

Once again, numerical facts are numerical facts.. but don’t take my word for it.. read what the FBI has t say.. before the Zionists took over the FBI completely. http://irmep.org/ila/About/news.htm

Maybe this will make more sense to you when you watch it after you know the truth about who owns Wall Street and the Lobby Whores in Washington DC! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asGvjbfIASA

And you Christians! Are EVIL!! And You Christians who believe in the Constitution of the United States of America! Are even MORE!! Evil!! Dangerous!! Says the Department of Justice! And the FBI!! YOU!! Are a Threat!!
so.. Christians are a HATE GROUP!! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/06/1117242/-Remember-the-DHS-Right-Wing-Extremist-Report

and here is the Department of Homeland Securities own words.. about those Waskily Christians! (the Department of Homeland Security being Elmer Fudd and the Christians being Buggs Bunny) http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/lexicon.pdf

Zarathustra

Obviously “96.42767436348 should have been rounded off to “96.4276743635.

bvt
bvt

Jim you are a national treasure. Keep up the good work, especially enjoyed this part:

“Henry Hazlitt may have written these words six decades ago, but they aptly describe Paul Krugman and the legions of Keynesian apostles whose bastardized interpretation of Keynes’ theory has led us to this fiscal cliff. How anyone can truly believe that borrowing to consume foreign produced goods versus saving and making job creating capital investments is a rational and sustainable economic policy is the height of ignorance. One look at this chart exposes the political party system as a sham.”

bb

JOHN COSTER , this how the whole system works.So simple yet so deceptive .This is why the elites will never give up central banking.This gives them power and control over the world.They can print all the money they need to buy anyone and anything.It is corrupt to the core and when you realize it is thievery on a scale only GOD knows you see the hopelessness of our situation…only could watch about an hour but it does have some good information.will watch the rest later.thanks

Vic Steel

The ignorant. Zombies. The Walking Dead. Meaningless creatures, who are incapable of the one thing that would make them alive: Choice.
Preprogrammed, fear beaten, and hungry for the food on the tele, the walking dead overpopulate the only habitable planet I know of.
What a shame.

Bruno de Landevoisin
Bruno de Landevoisin

The likeness of God is to create not consume………………..

Bruno de Landevoisin
Bruno de Landevoisin

You nailed it Jim!

The Dude Abides
The Dude Abides

T4C –

Your rounding lesson is incorrect. You don’t *ALWAYS* round up at 5. You *ALTERNATELY* round up and round down. Continuous rounding up will, across a series of calculations, end up in an incorrectly high figure.

Stucky is still just as much correct as SSS.

Stucky

I was about to concede to SSS regarding the rounding issue ……

….. but THE DUDE ABIDES — Peace Be Upon Him — hits a bottom-of-the-ninth Grand Slam HOME RUN to set the record straight!! Yeeehaahhh!!!

To THE DUDE ABIDES (PBUH) — I forthwith bestow upon you an honor never before granted to anyone else; Honorary Judge Apprentice. This means you may, in my absence, judge and settle all disputes. (You will be promoted to Full Judgeship, i.e., Da Judge II, if you continue to agree with me.)

Mary Malone
Mary Malone

@Stucky: “Corey Booker. Yeah, I’m still bummed and disgusted that the people of NJ willfully and knowingly elected a massively corrupt liar. Booker represents everything wrong with American politics. ”

I agree with your POV on Booker. Disgusting. Especially since the candidate Booker does not live in NJ and was still elected.

But the NJ voters are turning right. May land somewhere in the middle.

In 2012, Obama won ALL but 3 counties.

Booker race?
Lonegan took 9 counties. And three additional counties were razor thin – he only won by 500 votes.

Booker won the race by getting the lion’s share of votes from the 3 largest counties with the highest SNAP rate: Essex, Hudson, Camden.

What does that tell us?

Even in NJ, the bluest of blue states, working people of all political stripes are voting AGAINST Dem, liberal, progressive candidates. They want to SNAP entitlement gravy train to end.

If we had an additional month (Christie gipped us from) Lonegan would have won the seat.

So, as bad as it is, I think the worm has turned. Solid small gov candidates, who support small biz and average Joe taxpayer can win – even in NJ. We have to build on this success –

They, of course, want us to retreat. No can do. Resist. Always, always resist.

Stucky

“If we had an additional month (Christie gipped us from) Lonegan would have won the seat.”
———– Mary Malone

Good points, MM.

This was a temorary election. Booker will still have to run in next year’s mid-term election. Hopefully the Producers will outnumber The Free Shitters.

AWD

howard

Whites, blacks, Asians, Middle Easterners, Pacific Islanders, Mexicans, and on and on. They’ll never be the same, and some revert back to their natural state of culture and work ethic when they immigrate someplace. Nobody, including yourself, can see past their noses of racism, and so everyone must be equal although they will never be equal, and instead of trying to make everyone equal, they should celebrate their differences.

Some races simply refuse to assimilate with the majority of others, and instead seek to be victims, with all the entitlements associated with institutionalized victimhood. One of my friends from Africa, whom I worked with when I was there, came here. He was disgusted by American blacks, saying they were lazy and uneducated. He couldn’t believe all the opportunities they had, and how so few took advantage of those opportunities. He gave lectures at several colleges and universities around here, and he was not well received. He was telling the victims of white oppression they shouldn’t be calling themselves “African Americans” because they weren’t from Africa.

We’ve bankrupted this country on the assumption that everyone deserves all the free stuff they want, based further on the assumption that everyone is equal and is entitled to it. This country used to reward hard work, thrift, and investment, no matter what color you were. Now we penalize work, with 1/2 your money stolen by criminal politicians and given to people that won’t work. And we have the worst form of real racism there is: giving jobs, promotions, money, responsibility etc. based on skin color and sex, instead of on merit, competency, and work ethic. Socialism simply doesn’t work. The productive quit being rewarded for being productive, and instead become milk cows for the lazy. The criminals in government are borrowing $1 trillion a year to maintain the fallacy, and they are quickly running out of other people’s money.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Kim Kardashian Reveals She’s Taking Kanye West’s Last Name—Watch Now! -ADMIN

WGAFF?

Anonymous
Anonymous

No Stucky, the final arbiter must be agreed upon by both parties in a dispute you cant willy nilly appoint a jr arbiter to settle feces flingers fecund arguments. =)

Stucky

“However, rounding is NEVER allowed when calculating food volumes, such as, bushels of wheat. Rounding down encourages wasting food. Rounding up encourages Free Shitters to believe they have more food than what is available. Neither is acceptable, so answers must be given to 11 digits to the right of that that decimal thingy.”
———— A.A. Frempong, Elementary Mathematics, page 218, footnote #1A.

It took a while to find that. Anyway, I did provide the necessary 11 digits. SSS did not. I win.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Obviously none of you has ever harvested grain and loaded it into a wagon. You pile it up until the leaf springs creak and as long as you drive slow you can overload that thing by 20% minimum.

I was taking a half acre of corn silage per load in my F-350 dump body last month, back and forth from the field to the bunker, probably 800 pound more than the bed was rated for, but I did the entire field in two days time.

The correct answer is 120 bushels unless you’re a pussy.

Stucky

“The correct answer is 120 bushels unless you’re a pussy.” ———- hardscrabble farmer

Fuckin’ HILARIOUS.

However, based on your “pussy” analysis ………. SSS IS the clear-cut winner.

Stucky

Post #100.

I win.

drew
drew

Admin:

no time to read 100+ comments. i have a family. just wanted to say this piece was one of your best in my opinion! can’t wait for part 2.

SSS

“The correct answer is 120 bushels unless you’re a pussy.”
—-hardscrabble farmer

Hmmm, I see you can be a feisty little critter. BTW, you write well. You should ask Admin for posting privileges.

We need someone with your farming experience to share your views on agriculture in America. Or even just your experience in your area or state. From ancient times to today, there are two basic pillars of any civilization. Farmers and soldiers. We have too few of the former here.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

SSS

People who eat and/or enjoy GMO foods are pussies.

Don’t you enjoy GMO foods?

SSS

“People who eat and/or enjoy GMO foods are pussies. Don’t you enjoy GMO foods?”
—-hardscrabble farmer @ SSS

I don’t get hung up on GMO and/or organic foods, unlike many visitors here. If it tastes good, I’ll eat the fucking shit. Having pasta tonight. GMO wheat? Don’t know, don’t care.

Let me know if the preceding lacks clarity.

howard in nyc

That’s all you’ve got, AWD?

Projecting your own racism upon me?

Damn, all those words you typed, so empty. Nothing fucking there. Maybe try clipping a picture or a cartoon. Cause the words failed you, big time. As usual.

Beautiful logic. Minorities will never be the same as white men because Howard is as raciss as I. Fucking brilliance. In just the right thread.

When (if) you figure out that a man is a man is a man, shit, your head might fucking explode.

A man is not defined by the color of his skin. Least of all me. Despite the attempts to do so. If you do not understand this essential fact of life and reality, or otherwise choose to reject it, I got nothing but pity for you. I sure as fuck have no time for you.

howard in nyc

“Nobody, including yourself, can see past their noses of racism…”

Fucking priceless. Fucking bullshit, too. Speak for your own damn self.

SSS

Admin

So far I’ve counted 13 blogs, including one foreign language blog that appears to be Dutch, which have picked up on this article and published it on their blogs. In just two days.

That’s a pretty good track record and speaks well of your efforts. I’m sure Stucky will be doing his own audit of my math on the “13 blogs” I counted. Jerk.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

SSS says:

“People who eat and/or enjoy GMO foods are pussies. Don’t you enjoy GMO foods?”
—-hardscrabble farmer @ SSS

I don’t get hung up on GMO and/or organic foods, unlike many visitors here. If it tastes good, I’ll eat the fucking shit. Having pasta tonight. GMO wheat? Don’t know, don’t care.

Let me know if the preceding lacks clarity.

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I didn’t post that, someone else did. Apparently there is no way to keep someone from using a handle and claiming to be you-

Stucky

“I didn’t post that, someone else did. Apparently there is no way to keep someone from using a handle and claiming to be you-” ———– hardscrabble farmer

It’s what we call “dopple-ganging”. It is an ABHORRANT act practiced only by pussies. SAH and myself have been trying for years to get Admin to ban such individuals. To no avail.

HOWEVER … a person with even a modicum of observational powers would be able to immediately spot that the doppleganger Avatar is DIFFERENT than YOUR Avatar. Unfortunately, due to his advanced age, too much sunlight, and a bad diet … SSS does not have such powers.

efarmer

Good one Jim!

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backwardsevolution
backwardsevolution

Admin – another stroke of brilliance from the mighty Quinn! Very well written. Thank you. Just letting everyone rant keeps us half sane.

P.S. Yeah, us girls hate it when it rains and the power goes out too!

—–

The Dude Abides – “…what really binds my britches is people who grasp the concept of living within your FINANCIAL means who remain completely, willfully ignorant about living within our ECOLOGICAL and THERMODYNAMIC limits. But regardless of whether we want to acknowledge it or not, like so many other things it’s going to come back to bite us in the collective ass.”

Well said!

s. petersen

i have noticed you guy’s talk to each other in an endless loop of contradictory obfuscation. It is a loop whereby you validate the existance of your opinion’s by seeking commentary from the general public, but nobody answer’s accept assholes who never bother to check facts.

You are right. the united state’s is going down.

not because of your mother

not because of drone

not because of socialist

because you have so so many factions who believe their way is the only way

WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS

pray.

maybe your god is the right one.

Stucky

Jim,

Yesterday Ms Freud was on the phone with the IRS for several hours, literally. She still has not gotten her refund check … she filed in February. For some STRANGE reason they cannot verify who shoe is. Seriously. Endless phone calls, often to numbers that work, and endless redirections to websites, which also don’t work.

Anyway, she is not an internet person … spends less than 30 minutes a day on the web. But not yesterday. I told her to read some of your stuff. She started with this article.

I just want to tell you that she went on and on and on about how incredible the article is … what a WONDERFUL writer you are. Krist … she even mentioned it again this morning, twice. If I didn’t know better, I’d wonder if you two were having an affair. lol

Just thought that might bring a smile to your face … (the article appreciation, not the afffair).

Vladimir Votnotsky
Vladimir Votnotsky

Your readers will want to read an excellent document that has found its way onto the web recently. It addresses practically all the arguments Muslims throw at those who disagree with them, and effectively demolishes them. Although this document focuses on the futility of dialogue with Muslims, its arguments apply to many different situations. It is free to download.

http://www.rutherfordreader.com/newspages/pdfs/interfaith-dialogue-with-islam-for-non-muslims.pdf

symphony

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