The chart below reveals much about what has happened since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, allowing politicians, controlled by the Wall Street banking cabal, to spend our country into $33 trillion of debt, while accumulating another $200 trillion of unfunded pension and welfare obligations. The age of the growing middle class ended in the early 1970’s after a couple decades of progress. Eisenhower and Kennedy were moderates, while the Fed was run by William McChesney Martin, who wasn’t afraid to pull away the punch bowl before the party got out of hand.
We began our spiral when LBJ inflicted his Great Society upon us, while waging a nonsensical costly war in Vietnam, choosing guns, butter and encouraging the indolent to go on the dole. Nixon picked the spineless Arthur Burns as his Fed chairman and unleashed the inflationary genie from its bottle by unlinking the USD from its gold peg. The USD has lost 87% of its purchasing power since 1971, and the middle class was obliterated.
I was seven years old in 1970. We were a lower middle class family of five, living in a three bedroom, one bath row home in the inner suburbs of Philly. We lived in relative comfort on a truck driver’s salary, with a mom who stayed home. This arrangement is no longer possible in America, after fifty years of willfully generated inflation, averaging 3.9% annually. The wealth of the middle class was absconded by the banking cartel and the parasites which feed off this vile bloated corporate fascist creation.
The 1970 price chart says it all. The average household income of $9,400 in 1970 has risen to about $75,000 today, an 8 fold increase in fifty three years. Meanwhile, the average cost of a new home has risen from $23,450 in 1970 to $513,000 today, a 22 fold increase. A new car has risen from $3,450 in 1970 to $48,000 today, a 14 fold increase. Gasoline was 36 cents per gallon in 1970 and I paid $3.96 a gallon this week, an 11 fold increase. And the same goes for most other living expenses. Of course today’s youth can’t buy houses or in many cases even rent an apartment. Living in their parent’s basement is their only option.
Decisions made in the mid-1960’s and early 1970’s by politicians, central bankers, and the billionaires behind the scenes truly running the show have turned a nation of savers into a nation of debtors. The credit card wasn’t even a concept until the late 1960’s, and now Americans owe over $1 trillion on these cards, paying 20% interest. There are very few who have benefited from turning America into Financialization Nation. Bankers, politicians, and the blood suckers who orbit these greedy bastards have reaped and continue to reap ungodly riches, while utilizing these riches to ensure their system rigging never ends. The system is completely captured, and thinking you can vote yourself out of this mess is a fool’s errand.
The system is rigged, but the perpetual issuance of debt to fund their lifestyles is unsustainable and will collapse. They will do everything in their power, including destroying the planet, to try and retain their wealth, power and control. We are headed into a global war and a financial collapse, with a climax date sometime in the early 2030’s. The good news is this will sweep away the existing corrupt social order. The bad news is it will entail much bloodshed and wealth destruction for average Americans. Buckle up, a shitstorm is a brewin.
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(((Wall Street Cabal))). TFI.
August 1971 was a month that will live in infamy.
What is TFI?
There, fixed it.
Use of FIFY, fixed it for you, is probably more appropriate than TFI…
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Nixon declared that the $ would no longer be redeemable for gold. I remember that weekend still.
The USA is a bank with a standing army.
The USA is bankrupt with a flaming army.
This is funny.
When I used a nickname, I never got upvotes like I do now.
-Expect to see $2-$3 trillion annual deficits whether Biden or Trump is n office.-
In other words Trump ain’t gonna save US.
Further, IMHO, Biden is not going to be the other side of the same coin.
Trump is just a foolish distraction of false hope for the maga crowd and ignorant Christians that are putting their hope in the world and not Jesus and the word of God.
That being said he’s still the last trump and trump of God sign post for the coming rapture of the true church of Jesus the Messiah.
Not much different then the old testament Jews that demanded a king rather than God Himself to rule over them.
They picked man’s choice an unprincipled Saul and today they’ll likely pick similarly in Donald Trump.
Saul was the wisest. Trump an idiot.
So you are saying Trump and Trumpet as in last are one and the same?
I think you mean king Solomon was the wisest not king Saul.
Trump is not literally the last trump of the rapture but a flashing neon sign of it’s soon occurrence. His worldwide prominence and biblical timing is perfect.
I think God has an incredible sense of humor.
Possibilities to consider;
Government shutdown October 1.
FEMA alert October 4.
Declare national emergency and Bank Holiday to coincide.
Ya never know.
The Queen, before going to the “land of feet together”, dissolved the District of Columbia (DC)
The Queen, before going to the “land of feet together”, dissolved the District of Columbia (DC) into a water based puree, that when applied topically makes green skin look white.
ALESTEIR CROWLEY SON for (P)resident in 2024
Yep, my bad.
Solomon was not the wisest.
He was Paligula. [Palestine’s Caligula]
He was soft, easily influenced by women, basically a cuck.
He was so wise, he collapsed the kingdom.
Peter said many other things to warn them. He begged them, save yourselves from these evil people. Acts 2:40
God has at times made good use of flawed men.Trump included.
That argument is b used for Biden
and TrumpTards go ballistic.
God did not create man, rather man created the concept of God to control the masses. The bible is plagiarism taken from ancient text, most of it from Sumerian text. Learn your history there has been at least 10,000 Gods and over 100,000 religions. You have been brainwashed if you still believe in fairy tales of a imaginary man in the sky. The earth is but a grain of sand in a endless universe and you are insignificant matter in the scheme! How can anybody be so foolish to believe in such nonsense just astonishes me!
Oh the white youths and their noble Occupy movement.
Looks like they moved on to bigger and better protests.
Seems sucking niggercock is a young white democrats main focus now.
No the occupy movement, with funding from the WEF morphed into trantifa and BLM. If you do not see that, it is high time to widen your own field of view.
Democrat proxy soldiers ( antifa, BLM , OWS )funded by tax money filtered down thru all the leftist NGO’s and Soros money . Fuck these sociopathic clowns and their compliant NPC minions .Call a thing what it is .
Did you learn that from teevee ?
Those figures are all wrong. The minimum wage did not to to $2.10 until 1974, my first job paid $1.65. Homes averaged under $20,000 even in CA. Plymouth used to run an advertisement in 1969 for a 383 Roadrunner for $1999.
Inflation has been a lot worse than they are telling you.
I’m pretty sure I paid just over 3K for a new 1971 Charger. Same price point as the RR.
What was your income at the time and what were you doing for work?
LOL I was 18. There was a good reason I had 3-4 K in the bank, college, but I didn’t want to go. I had a promising retail job and thought I knew everything.
I was in college working delivering pizza 7 days a week. I was making about $1000 mo. My apartment was $140 mo.
You were living damned good. Just saying. $50 a week on entertainment was nothing compared to that income.
In 1972 at 22 I bought a beautiful brand new zippy harvest gold 72 MG Midget for $2,800. Was making $4.65 an hour at Delco Remmy (union) making car batteries…making about $9,000.00 a year.
Shared a decked out two bedroom bachelor apartment with a boyhood friend who also was not long out of the Marines. The place had a large dining room (we put a black light in, posters, a giant pillow floor with bean bag chairs…and a weekly party – often woke up the next day with many people (both sexes) asleep in the bean bag chairs and on the pillows who we did not even know!
Also had a part time job as a bartender $1.50 an hour under the table not counting tips. It was really an amazing and highly productive way to meet women – I selectively handed my own personal card I had – had professionally printed with my name and phone number with my 3 initials as the logo…If the woman was interested they would call me…a great way to screen potential dates.
I was swimming in MOUR blue collar money and MOUR lips, hips, and the other ahhhh…attractions of the opposite sex I could spend or seduce…or be seduced by!
Ahhhh sweet bird of yout!
I was still in high school. But when I graduated in 1975 I got a full-time job at (((Levitz Furniture))) making $1.85 an hr. Shared a 2br 2 bath apartment with a high school friend at $200 a month, all utilities paid except phone. My parents sold their 2br 1 bath house that was 25 years old for $25K and moved to Denver. I got laid off 3 yrs later as we slid into the recession. I did manage to find another job.
I’d like to see 2 high school grads making min wage get by sharing an apartment now. You would have to live in a really scary part of town.
This is why people complain about boomers.
Well No Name…if your Yout wasn’t sweet…just blame the guy in the mirror.
When I was young…it wasn’t wasted on me.
Hi mark…hey check out Adak Island Alaska.
All the roofs are painted red, purple and magenta with a couple old buildings with white roofs.
OANN has a lahaina story on right now.
7 pm.
Adak Sat view
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Better link for adak city:
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1971. I was in viet nam and my mother took $2100 out of my savings account and bought a brand new VW super beetle. ( joint account in case I died. dumb ) My first job back, 1972, was $ 3.50 overnight stocking shelves For Jewel grocery. Then $4.80 filling paint cans for Sears. ( desoto chemical )
I guess I am the youngster here. In 1970 I was a little kid watching Scooby Doo and Johnny Quest. My dad was a Dodge mechanic and brought home new Chargers and Challengers to install a hang under dash AC on these after dinner. He was paid 40 bucks for every install.
A test drive with peeling out through intersections was enjoyed by me.
No, Chargers were more expensive and better equipped. RR was a stripped Satellite no frills designed to be a cheap 1/4 mile runner. for $ 1999 you probably did not even get a radio. Back then you could nearly double the cost of a car with options if you chose to do so.
Why is the name on the Driver
License back to front, with the last name first?
What is the all uppercase
text because it does not appear to be any correct form of English text in relation to
the Oxford English Styles Manual?
all caps name is your STRAWman, all .gov contracting deals only with the strawmen
According to the Black’s Law Dictionary 4th Edition, DOG-LATIN, is the language of
the illiterate, it is the: LATIN-ALL-UPPERCASE-TEXT usurped into the
English Descriptive text, appearing under the grammatical rules of Descriptive
English Text, (ALL UPPERCASE SYMBOLIC TEXT without the hyphens) and not
appearing under the true correct grammatical rules of Latin and done in order to
deceive the illiterate, being the ignorant masses. “Ignorance is negligence”. It is
the hidden secret that destroys the dominion of living man over the land, the sky, the sea and the thing that creep, (SURNAME). (Genesis 1:26) DOG-LATIN is the
“Babylonian” language of the VASSAL, being the third party, debtor of the debtor.
(Vassal of the Vessel) It is found on the ledger, (TOMB-STONES) and by you being
attached to it, renders the presumption of conformation “SIGN” that you have
sinned and you are dead. You are no longer the servant of the God of living man,
you have become the servant of the underworld, the Gods of the dead Corporation,
the servant of the VATICAN, the debtor of the debtor, subject to the Justinian
Corpus Juries, (Language of the DEAD). The VATICAN holds the souls of the dead
and the DOG-LATIN is the language of the DEAD.
The all caps corporate version of a living flesh and blood human was created SO WE COULD CONTRACT with corporations.
Something about a law maxim of two different things can not legally contract.
A corporation is literally a “dead body”
Whereas a living human is..well..alive.
The trick here is ONLY IDENTIFY as your corporate self when CONSENTING TO DO BUSINESSS.
It is not evil or wicked, it was created so you can do the business of buying and selling from/with corporations.
Be careful about this topic.
There are a lot of sovereign nutjob types who while carrying drivers license contracts they freely entered into which EXCEED CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS want to suddenly say their constitutional rights are being denied.
Your rights are not being denied, you opted into a more restrictive driving contact of your own free will, then failed to understand the distinctions in law to which you were now bound.
You all do it to yourselves.
By not understanding…you legally exist as a person, and a corporation.
I noticed you said Driver License. “Driver ” implies you are engaged in commerce (i.e. bus driver, truck driver, stagecoach driver). However, in fact are you are traveling, an unalienable right that has had a lien put upon it by these bastards. Also, license allows you to do something illegal. I guess it’s illegal to operate a motor vehicle. I dunno.
“Passenger car” not “motor vehicle” is what I use.
US code 18 contains the definitions.
The term “motor vehicle” means every description of carriage or other contrivance propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used for commercial purposes on the highways in the transportation of passengers, passengers and property, or property or cargo.
(10)Used for commercial purposes.—
The term “used for commercial purposes” means the carriage of persons or property for any fare, fee, rate, charge or other consideration, or directly or indirectly in connection with any business, or other undertaking intended for profit.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/31
If you are not a paid driver, you do not need a driver license.
I returned from Turkey in 1976 and bought a brand new Vega for $3200 and a used 1BR house near GFAFB ND for $10,000.
I worked for a company whose owner’s daughter-in-law said she was not going to live in a used home as she and the son , both fresh out of college, began looking for a house. They graduated from Texas A&M.
Me and the guys that did the work for that survey company got a kick out of the spoiled brat attitudes , the “family” connections to the business. The two bought a brand new fucking house and lived happily ever after.
The two bought a brand new fucking house and lived happily ever after.
Then, in 2021, due to an extremely heavy handed sales campaign, they both had foreign materials installed into their biomes she developed a turbo cancer, and he dropped dead due to several blood clots.
Actually the Road Runner was a deliberate low-buck pony car without the bells and whistles; basically a bare bones Plymouth Satellite with a big block and some badges, plus the beep-beep horn.
In 1971 i could not afford the $ 5,200 sticker price,but the Porsche salesman let me sit in a show room new,bright yellow 2 seater. I had on my USAF duty uniform so that helped.
Where I lived gas was only about 22-25c per gallon in 1970. I clearly remember going with my Mom to fill up the family station wagon and it only cost about $4-5 to fill the 25 gallon tank. I worked at a service station (remember those?) in high school 1975-76 and gas was up to 35-40c per gallon then, after the OPEC thing. That was also the period when unleaded gas started becoming available, plus this strange concept called ‘self-serve’ gas pumping
Even in Chicago, ethyl very high Octane, was only 25.9 in the mid 60’s. We would pitch in dimes and quarters so we could cruise around for a while in one of my older brothers junkers.
Cars up until, say 1990 or so, needed Full Service, esp. for women. Oil burning lemons, battery needed water, tires lost pressure, etc. To the best of my knowledge, the last place offering that in Mecklenburg Co. (Charlotte) was Matthews (NC) Exxon, and it closed 2+ years ago.
Oh…forgot – check the transmission fluid.
lamont,
funny that you should mention trannie fluid —
my wife got a wild hair & went out & bought a 2 yo kia soul —
after she had had it for a few days i was checking everything under the hood & could not find a dip stick 4 the trannie fluid —
you car guys probably know this but cars are coming now with sealed transmissions & the fluid cannot be checked —
TR-
Yes, its been that way for 20+ years, by and large. And the fluid is synthetic. In my long-ago married life was a member of the American Society of Tribologists, as we re-packaged bulk lubricants.
All I noticed was coffee @ $1.90/lb. That can’t be right.
Brief and brilliant report of why we’re fucked!
G.R.E.E.D. is the most destructive human trait. We will become a 3rd world shithole. I believe it is baked into the cake. There will be no shitstorm.
Grimy Repugnant Entitled Elite Dorks
No shitstorm. It will be a simple slow ride down into 3rd world shithole.
You may well be right but God I hope not because the opposite has the potential to much more of a “teachable moment ” . Rip that fuckin bandaid off so’s we can get real, if only for a moment !!!
Pain (and Hunger)is not an acceptable American feeling….
Until It is, then you had better be proficient in self preservation.
I am Not Kidding… South Africa is coming, slowly but fatally.
Hate to tell you this Donkey but the slow ride down to 3rd world shit hole banana republic is almost over…not too much more coming…and TSHTF is just around the corner of 4th & Tribulation.
The Whore of Babylon is about to be devoured as long prophesied…and that Whore (London – DC – Vatican) is drunk…here is a picture:
Now what are these three interconnected City States (really making one demonic westeran captured power center) drunk on?
POWER!
Where does their POWER come from?
FIAT counterfeited currency…and the non-American dollar is the head of that hydra headed snake.
Who does God use to devour the Whore?
Looks likes the BRICS to me. That is where the Antichrist (the little horn) will come from.
When…I don’t know.
I am not years early preparing for that inevitable DEVOUR…I am decades…because the US Empire is going down and me and mine are not going down with it…we will be with God’s Remnant.
No matter what happens to us.
The Whore of Babylon is the system that prevents humans from fulfilling our assignment to “fill the earth, cultivate the earth, have in subjection the animals”
By removing us from the garden, and teaching us to rely on the system instead?
They are preventing gods plans for the earth.
What was out assignment?
Fill the earth and subdue it,
Have in subjection the animals of sea, land and air. Cultivate the earth.
The garden is still just sitting here, waiting for gardeners.
Well hop to garden boy.
Chop chop!
As Ed McMann use to oft say to Johnny back in the day ” YOU ARE CORRECT SIR !!!Its all about the money , or , economy /economics seems to be the best way to understand the human condition, outside of the Bible , which has its own economic prescriptions that ironically reach the same conclusion . Economic activity encapsulates human interaction and the human condition , starting with the staff of life and then descending down from there in order of priority . Living inside of a fake and gay clown world may seem to suspend these realities for a time for its inhabitants ,but negative interest ( interest payed on debt ) never sleeps and sooner or later the inevitable becomes, well , inevitable . Good write up Sir , you and I are apparently the same age and have roughly the same experience of a seven year old living in 1970 Americana .One thing though, for most of us, it was actually a more austere material lifestyle than the majority of people live in today , its just that we didnt think we could expect more because thats just the way it was ,and in real prosperity , which is a matter for the psyche or soul we we’re much better for it . One car , one telephone ( hanging on the wall with a rotary dial ) one television ( with three channels that signed off sometime after the afore mentioned Johnny was done ) , no computers , no micro waves , no credit cards( for anyone but the wealthy who could afford to use them to their financial advantage ) no video games , no calculators , virtually no pornography etc .
Amazing , the changes that have takenplace in the relatively short span of our lives so far and it is excellerating to God knows what .
Johhny, The Great Carnac:
“Hindoo”
Opens envelope and looks at paper..
“The moisture that gets on your “Hin”
I thought it were Lay’s Eggs
Giraldo Rivera, Madonna and a diseased yak.
Name two things that stink and an animal.
Nice!
Fine wine and the Los Angeles Lakers.
Name two things you find in the cellar
Materially more austere. But if possible, I would go back in time, in a heartbeat.
I dont know where you live, but I can cross a certain floating bridge and feel like I am going back in time at least 20 years in many respects . Its why I love those places that are essentially nowhere and not really on the way anywhere . Where I live used to be like that but is quickly becoming a somewhere on he way to somewhere so the secret is out and now the places is going to hell . O h well , it was good while it lasted , time to move yet further out so I can hold onto my sanity and peace of mind for a bit ;longer .But at sixty perhaps thats all I really need , a bit longer . I don’t plan to” live longer wronger ” (hat tip to the late Roy Masters) .” Just let me go naturally” as the old Blood Sweat And Tears song went .
Jimmi Carter’s wife tried to convert the owner of Hustler
Magazine to Christianity during President Carter’s tenure
as POTUS.
Porn has been at the forefront for over a half century.
And Anita Briant stopped selling Florida Orange Juice during
Carter’s term, too.
MOU
Do you have a point fag?
What’s a ‘point fag’, homophobia-flash?
Grammar much?
MOU
Are you mentally ill because you take it up the ass or you take it up the ass because you’re mentally…I’m not judging, bruh …just trying to understand your sickness.
Relying on gratuitous, tired profanity for punctuation is literally the hallmark of the left. And drunk freshmen.
One minute it’s quoting the bible, then it’s this crap. TBP is really funny.
Yeah, some of the people here have sides of themselves they are incapable of perceiving.
A point fag is a fag at attention.
anita bryant was fired b/c she would not back off from publicly expressing her beliefs —
the gay lobby was strong even back in the 70 s —
gay lobby, supported by the MSM
Genesis 19:5
“And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.”
King James Version (KJV)
Don’t do it Lieberman, they want to ‘know him’, not ‘know him’
Lolz.
This was after his 1976 Playboy interview where he confessed he’d “looked on a lot of women with lust” and had “committed adultery in my heart many times” (still, a lot better than Bill Clinton trying to explain how that stuff got on Monica Lewinsky’s dress)…and now Fetterman…what next? Wife-beater shirts in the White House?
On a more positive note. Don’t be a fool and make yourself a slave of the system. We are what we think. This is clearly outlined in the hundred year old 20 page classic”As a Man Thinketh.” If you want more information and really want to go into a deep dive on the subject, you can take it to the next level with 1960’s classic “The Flute of God.” While God is the Macrocosm creator of our Universe. Soul created in the image of God is the Microcosm creator of our own world. To many people are stuck in the victim consciousness. These books help you get back to excepting Gods gifts.
excepting or accepting ? Which God – there are dozens .. Marduk or Odin ? Tiamat or Anubis ?
The list of questions to which there are multiple choices but only one correct answer is, I’m fairly confident , near infinite . Wouldn’t you say ? ( no, you probably wouldn’t, but I’m sayin it anyway ) reee?( Sorry, you’re not the “ree “guy lol.
accepting. When I speak of God, I am referring to the creator of Soul and the heavenly kingdom.
Only one God has ever demonstrated power over death. He is the only true God and He is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Believe that He died on the cross for your sins and mine and the truth of this will be revealed.
Only one God has ever demonstrated power over death
Really?
Where and when?
Jesus was not a man. He was God manifested AS A HUMAN. After the resurrection, he still appeared to his disciples in both human form and in spirit form.
If you take away the added Magic Jesus stories, [walking on water, making 72 virgins appear, hypersonic flight] you find his message was to go back and do the original assignment.
Expand the garden by cultivating the earth.
Procreate and fill the earth.
Have in subjection the animals.
Which religion actually cares about returning to our OG assignment?
Not one, that I know of.
When was that assignment ommited?
When we abandoned it and the garden.
As far as I can tell, the garden assignment stands, and is still awaiting us.
The one that talks to you, in the background of your life, while you listen to the absurdities of a life not lived and have nothing to hold onto.
That one !
This is where the more dogmatic beleiver’s will see your point as an allusion to “mystery religions ” with your micro /macro reference ( “as above so below “)but I am not neccasarilly one of them in that knowing “occulted ” knowledge isnt neccasarilly bad . The reason is because if bad people want the information “occulted ( hidden ) then people like us knowing about it would neccasarilly be the opposite of their intention . “and you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free” huh ? I appreciate your posts AK , not afraid to go your own way spiritually and or intellectually ( which is another word that has gotten a bad rap or been corrupted ) Good Sunday to you Sir .
Thank you. The truth is always hidden from the masses and only available to those who are willing to seek it.
Well I’d be a fool to claim I have drilled down on exactly what the truth is either in any universal sense of the word or as it pertains to many specific issues , but I’m at least far enough along that I know what it isn’t usually .
Where do you come down on the theory that perhaps there has been a small group of people who have retained much of the knowledge that has been all but lost to time for the vast majority of mankind ( what was in The Library at Alexandria and going back much further for instance ?) and have been a “breakaway “civilization unto themselves ,” occulting “the esoteric knowledge ( that in and of itself is A-moral) as the eons pass ?I’ll give you it is a what if question , but I’m a ” what if ” kinda guy so ?
The Vairagi adepts of Eckankar is the oldest line of Spiritual adepts on the planet. They always have representatives on earth and every spiritual plane. They are the keepers of the ancient wisdom. There are other orders too, but they are just copies. All the purveyors of Wisdom as Jesus and Buddha had contact with them, and gave what they knew of their wisdom to the world. The basic teaching is it is every Souls destiny to one day be a coworker with God, which is the meaning of Eckankar. The history of the Spiritual adepts is in the book titled, “The Spiritual Notebook,” by Paul Twitchell. Many of the adepts and or their students are known in the Western world. Saint Francis, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, and many others are mentioned. A fascinating read. Exoteric or Orthodox teaching are for the masses who have an interest in God. The Esoteric teaching are for those who have a love of God and Truth. Only the bold, courageous, and adventuresome can find them.
Sometimes I think a phone chat with you would be fun AKJOHN.
We have some common ground.
Read “Cosmic Memory” by Rudolf Steiner to learn the COMPLETE history of mankind.
Though I am not a big believer in Orthodox religion, it is a stepping stone for the esoteric teaching and truth.
Exactly , Jesus himself upset the proverbial orthodox apple cart of the time ( the pharisee’s ) because the mosaic law couldn’t be that rote , dogmatic and inflexible and be any good to anyone other than a group of folks intent on being in control of others . It’s rather more like external circumstances decide what is the right or wrong course of action . There is obviously “a time for every purpose under heaven “. Proper discernment , and the spirit in which one acts to any given set of external circumstances is what makes the act moral or immoral . I think there are some exceptions, so that would not be a universal maxim .
Paul in his letter to Galatians perfectly describes the purpose of the mosaic law. It has already served its purpose, so any attempt to keep it is both futile (always was) and LARPing.
The parts of it that are eternally in effect (such as the 10 commandments) are specified there and elsewhere in the Bible, but as Galatians points out, depending on law keeping for salvation is not possible.
Well said . Not a Bible scholar per say or a saint by any stretch myself . But not being able to heal people on the sabbath ,if that is your vocation ,and their healing cant wait for the morrow , because of the Mosaic law would be an example of the point I was trying to make . Paul is perhaps my favorite writer in the New Testament . “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you “it seems would encapsulate most (but not all of course) of the laws that Moses brought down from the mountain .
The law was a schoolmaster and showed that each and every one of us could not keep the law. There is none that doeth good, no not one. We are all condemned to Hell because of our failure to keep the law, but Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, became sin for us with His death on the cross. We who trust this one fact are not condemned to hell, but to life eternal.
The bible has books from Saul/Paul the Pharisee.
It has four “gospels” containing overlapping versions of jesus record.
Jesus spoke 31,426 words in the bible..
Saul/Paul wrote 13 books for a total of 44,301 words.
The bible has more words from the Pharisee Saul/Paul than Jesus, even though Saul/Paul never served an apprenticeship like the fishermen did. Heck, he never even met jesus, and dont get me started on which of the three different Damascus Trip conversion stories he wrote and shared might be true.
The problem with the “maosaic law code” was their God broke it regularly.
Where and when?
The king David and Bathsheba saga.
King David not only covered his neighbors wife, [a top ten sin] fucked his neighbors wife [death is the punishment] lied about it [another top ten sin] then had the guy murdered. [Another sin punished by death]
A few days later, [reaking of schnapps] Schmuel shows up, condemns David and Bathsheba for gross sinning, and then?
Pronounces judgement….against the baby the only innocent one in the entire story.
So David and Bathsheba get to continue on together…but the baby?
Killed by god.
Points for Maosaic Law
Yes cerritos akjohn,
Parts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Christiandom [along with the ancient “pagan” religions] all point to a greater truth about reality.
But sadly most take the literal lessons as allegory and the allegory lessons as literal.
It’s way more profitable for the keepers of the cheese to keep the masses at a perpetual n/dumbed down sundry school level of understanding.
Let you in a secret, the company that really runs the world has a name. Cede and Company has an estimated worth of about 54 trillion dollars. Every Transaction on most of world trade goes through Cede&Co. Honestly if there is an institution that runs the world it’s Cede&Co. You don’t own stock, they do. See for yourself
https://www.dtcc.com/settlement-and-asset-services/issuer-services/how-issuers-work-with-dtc
All “world transactions” are seedy.
Wasn’t “Fool for the Cede” a foghat song?
so these are the top of the ladder crooks ?
You better believe it. Multi trillions in the hands of a private company, what could go wrong? Cede is the illuminati laundry mat, literally. The market is manipulated by Cede, It will rise or fall at their whim. They are the gasoline in the economic engine of the world. By their own admission, they control nearly every transaction on the world stock market. Think about that.
I am one of those dopes that sees wisdom in doing things the old way. When I look at those numbers I see the wisdom of my grandparents, not my parents who were Boomers and part of the Me Generation. Take out the word dollar and you can see it. Call it seashells, beer tabs, or whatever; the ratios are good if we could just stick with them and not listen to the siren song of consumption.
What the hell is he talking about? The ratios… A home cost ~2.5x of your income & a car cost ~37%. Don’t spend more than that. You can adjust your wages or your expectations but only one of those is really something you control.
Seems in the old days one rule for personal finance was your abode whether renting or buying should not exceed 25% of your net income.
Now what sounds like crazy talk to average sheeple if Minimum Wage kept up with price inflation it would be $46 per hour and if you add medical insurance and retirement costs all transferred to wage earners it should be $86 per hour !
Meanwhile add student loan debacle while burying young people in debt for a degree allowing them to enter a job market lower than whale shit then criticize them for not saving , being apathetic as the are systematically screwed up the ass at every turn !
Yes the BIG CLUB has raped pillaged and plundered the American Middle Class and a generation of young Americans !
That’s why the leftist lunacy of flooding the nation with illegals creating an army of underclass filled with dissent and hatred as they attempt to continue the destruction of America from within violating citizens rights and categorizing all who could possibly make a stand against the final nails driven in America’s coffin as insurrectionist especially white males .
It’s a treasonous plan in plan sight !
Refuse and Resist
FORGET ME NOT
Yeah yeah , all painfully true . so where do we find the balance between “caveat emptor ” ( we ought known better cuz if it( easy money ) sounds to good to be true …..well you know ) and” Odious Debt” (as a legal concept that pertains to tyrannical rulers and governments maxing out the credit cards in the names of the very people whom they are subjugating ?Or debt slavery ). I mean this shit was all decided before I was born really , nobody told me the gravity of having a social security number for myself established so I could do whatever the hell it was I needed one for in order to be able to do ?We all got suckered on some level I suppose but should the contract be binding if some of the down the road painful costs were intentionally obfuscated , by these pricks ?
These numbers are about right when I consider my high school job working at Caldors in Norwalk Ct in the late 1970s . When you measure against asset prices and the stock market being below 1,000.
Sooner or later people are going to cough up some of those asset prices for retirement and medical costs. How shit can not hit the fan is impossible?
Stop fighting inflation. You can’t stop it. Learn to embrace it and use it to your advantage.
Stop being victims.
I don’t think you fully comprehend the macro picture. All institutions will fail. The bill still needs to be paid. To whom? The Fed. Even though, all the monies ever created were artificial. They still need to be honored. All the assets of the U.S. will then merely be transferred onto their books. Done. And done. Wait and see.
‘The Great Taking’, by David Rogers Webb – available for reading free on the internet. They secretly made new rules so that they own everything we thought WE owned. Read it and weep.
“The 1970 price chart says it all.”
No, it doesn’t. You should have taken 1960, when the money was still made of silver.
Back to 1913, when the jewish federal reserve was created.
The intrinsic value coinage, to an extent that they didn’t like at all, helped keep them in check. Once they got rid of that the brakes were off.
The brakes were already off. The massive over-printing of currency by the federal reserve – as in large multiples of the actual gold reserves – predated the closure of convertibility by decades.
Once the Europeans started asking to cash in the dollars they held for American gold, the scam began winding down and the dollar has been seeking it’s actual worth – on an ever downward path.
” . . . large multiples of the actual gold reserves – predated the closure of convertibility by decades.”
Yes. Nixon was forced off the gold standard because de Gualle demanding conversion bankrupted the US gold reserves.
But the silver standard (the actual legal foundation of the US economy) mattered because it was directly accessible by The People, on demand, at any bank.
If a dollar were still a dollar (a silver coin by legal definition) you could still get a dollar out of it.
One roll of 1964 quarters at melt value will get you a 55″ TV today, and you’ll get a few back.
A roll of today’s quarters won’t get you the remote control, which greatly expands the Fed’s ability to overprint.
I am still unclear how the 1913 US Congress was purchased.
Based on what we know about how they operate, I’d expect blackmail was involved.
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My 11 year old grandson has read this!
I thought it was the usury rather than the money specifically ? I can only carry so many chickens around in my wallet( if I’m a chicken farmer ) with which to barter with the cobbler so its convenient and efficient to have a medium of exchange and also facilitates a thriving free market .
Woodworker Buddy,
Gold & Silver has been the standard for 5,000 years BACKING THE SYSTEM…since 71 the WHORE of BABYLON dollar (and them all the other fake counterfeited currencies) has used petrol and the American MIC to rule, bully, bribe, buy, kill, destroy countries…looks like that Petro/Bully system is riding on empty and almost out of gas.
But the Whore’s brain trust is poisoning the world and making their multi front Big Play to bum rush God with Tower of Babble 2.0 and actually think they will
win!
HA!
Never underestimate the blind, bold, blundering stupidity of evil or the unlimited power of GOD!
When I bought an edition of the book the deal included a Morgan silver dollar.
Wilson knew what he was doing. He was not saint, for damn sure.
Every time I drive over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in DC I roll my window down, curse him, and spit on him. Always a big gob I slowly work up!
Wife eye roll usually follows…then I tell her what he did for the 20th time.
Under 8 minutes:
THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND…Part 1… Happy 100th Birthday to the FED
the federal reserve act was passed on christmas eve 1913 most senators had
left for the holidays, there were the enough lackeys present for it to pass,
it was the biggest rort in US history
LOL, purchasing Congress is easy. First by generous campaign contributions, and second by telling them what stock to buy to get uber wealthy in 5 years. They did it the same way then as they do now. What do you think the passage of the Federal Reserve Act did for the stock price of the Fed’s member banks?
Are the Rockefellers and Carnegies Jews?
Do they behave like jews?
RiNS,
The Fake Boo’s currently running most of the power centers are really just Satanists, luciferins, etc. The Rockefellers are the same.
Whether you claim a blood like you don’t really have or not doesn’t matter to me…
Satanists/Luciferians are well just…Satanists/Luciferians.
I don’t see it as complicated…Good Vs evil.
The little g-god worshipers are in for what my father use to call: ‘The Rude Awakening’…for eternity…that is a lot of rude to experience.
Accurate description of the problem. I think the corrective action is accurate as well. Regardless hang on to your ass. It is going to be a rough ride. When rule of law is over protect yourself.
Wait, there’s rule of law now???
Yes. The bad news is that it’s the Halakha.
Is this article meant to be a joke? Homes are almost twice as big today as 1970. Oil is more difficult to extract today compared to 1970. Cars have a lot more tech in them today compared to 1970.
The joke is you. Median size of home in 1970 was 1,500 sq ft. Today it is 2,261 sq ft. Therefore, the cost per square foot is up 14 fold. I love when bloviating assholes act like they know shit. You are now in contention for TBP village idiot.
1970 19inch color TV=$500,00
2023 55″ TV=$139.00
Most appliances are WAAAAY the fark cheaper than when it was all made here.
“More tech.” What if you just want a car without all that superfluous “tech?” Nobody is making them. If you think it’s worth paying 15-20 times the price for transport, you’ve been had.
Go to India or Pakistan and get a tuktuk!
They look like fun!
https://tukshop.com/buy-a-tuk-tuk
Good points, JQ. This economy has almost hit Critical Mass.
My older brother, who in the last decade has had three kids, and insists on being the only bread-winner, is feeling the pinch now. He is a FOREX trader, and knows all about the market trends, but that is playing with other peoples’ money; he is living up to his means personally, and probably beyond just like every other American.
He has shamelessly been trying to work my mother to get money out of her because of it. At 57, he is a renter, and rather than sensibly move some place affordable, chooses to stay where the rent is rising almost monthly. I know he is a good father and takes care of my niece and nephews, so I understand his desperation: the last people who ought suffer are the children. He is afraid for his family. Everything is getting out of hand, and his salary is not rising monthly to compensate, like everybody else.
I wish I could help, but I too am starting to get concerned financially, and besides, all my brother wants is money so he can handle his immediate needs. What about next month? Because anything I gave would be spent and then Square One again. This is nothing new with him — but lately it has gotten worse. I have to protect our mother, just like he has to protect his family. I promised my father I would, and I keep my promises. Mother is 82 and retired and on a fixed income; it is not her responsibility, or mine, to subsidize my brother who is living too high. This tears me up inside. It is a quandary.
Anyway, there is no way this runaway inflation can continue for much longer. The center cannot hold. Our families are near the breaking point. I think that breaking point is coming soon, and I am not a doomsayer and never have been. But we all know this is all going to end badly.
Protect your families as best you can.
I have a text book Psychopath for a twin sister and she ripped
my parents off for their money as they got older and older and
could not defend themselves against her daily tirades.
There was nothing I could do about it after my evil twin sister
convinced my parents to give her power of attorney for property
and care. Once that happened she riffled their bank accounts
and had credit cards made in her name whilst all power my parents had
was removed from them legally.
Your brother sounds like my evil fraternal twin sister.
If your brother checks all the boxes on the Hare Psychopathy Check List
watch out.
MOU
I have a twin also. He is a little messed up. But after your story it looks like I hit the jackpot.
MOU
I just took the Hare test got a 23.
But I try to use my crazy for good.
Everyone take the test let us know what you got.
Link
https://psychology-tools.com/test/pcl-22
i was a 6 out of 44 —
i guess that i am like a girl i heard one day in the projects when i was selling insurance —
she had been temporarily committed but was let out b/c the shrinks said she was not crazy —
a couple of gals were on her ass & she said that she was the only one there who had been certified sane so “you crazy bitches need to shut up.”
23.
Meh.
I remain unconcerned.
I was a 9.
If I would have taken that in my early to mid-20s the score would have been much, much higher.
A good woman/marriage/fatherhood/grandfatherhood can’t save your soul, but they can save your life.
Damn, surprised I scored so low.
I passed the test.
wink!🤣
My brother would have a hard time doing any of that madness. He knows I would come at him with the Wrath of God.
Plus, he does love my mother, same as me, but the difference is respect. If I needed something, I would not play sympathy games with Mama, I would just swallow my pride and ask, because I do not know of anyone who has ever gotten indigestion from swallowing pride.
Seriously, calling up your mother and saying things like, “If it wasn’t for these kids, I’d probably just kill myself” is the vilest thing you could ever do. I would never do that. I have too much self-respect. But my brother has gone there. I used to look up to him; how can I now?
And, of course, there is the fact that my mother is going to leave everything to me anyway, so that door is closed for him. She knows if she leaves him anything heirloom he would sell it. I really loath the day I have to deal with this — hopefully that will not come soon.
Don’t worry man. It will be all better on January 20, 2025. I promise this time Charlie Brown.
There’s always a fatal wrong assumption in every one of these articles that worries about the “national debt”, pretending that “economics” is not a pseudo-science bag of BS… for one simple obvious reason, the Creature from Jekyll Island (fed reserve of the chosen tribe).
When will they get it through their heads that it’s fake, Jim ?
It’s printing press money, and if you’ve got the ashkenazi genetics (highest rate of schizophrenia, btw) and a friend with the printing press, it’s all Kosher as they say. Home Depot, Star-sucks coffee, etc etc…..
And sure, the shit will hit the menorah some day, but it will be WHEN THEY decide, and not because some debt comes “due” or other wild illusion inside a simulated reality. These articles assume an actual logic and honesty which simply does NOT exist, and I was lucky enough to have an economics Prof who explained this to me at a young age.
Sounds like BS to me , there is math and there is human nature and there are things people need in order of priority( human economy) whether or not the central banksters happened to exist or not. I agree that they do and have distorted everything to a point where it would seem that these inviolate rules would no longer apply . But for my money ( pun intended ) I still beleive ultimately that there are overarching constraints imposed by the reality of the physical universe that we occupy and that sooner or later ” what goes up must come down ” whether or not these psychopathic wanna be masters of the universe want or or not. They’ve just been ridin high at others expense so damn long that they believe their own BS that they are immune .
Professor Emeritus Karl Marx posited revolution of the masses
due to aggregated wealth sloshing around in too few hands more
than 200 years ago.
Fuld leveraged Lehman Brothers 44:1 as a gambit for bank supremacy
on Wall Street, but he blew Lehman Brothers out of the water along with
the entire Western Capitalist Fractional Reserve Banking System in his
own personal quest for power over his peer group of bankers that speculate.
Speculation alone is what fosters wholesale market decoupling. Mandelbrot
was warning everyone about speculation in 1963 long before Nixon came on the scene
in August of 1971.
Once Nixon launched the U.S. Petrodollar based currency it was only a matter of
time before that energy gambit ran out of speculative territory to gamble extremes
of wealth away via U.S. dollars.
Ukraine & Taiwan defense is absorbing every bit of energy lost to climate change
initiatives for decarbonization. Ukraine & Taiwan are also eating up all the social
programming money as society rots further into an abyss the Greeks likened to
the Necropolis or graveyard of civilization.
Nixon said the temporary closing of gold convertability was a necessary evil, but
he didn’t give anyone a timeline on what ‘temporary’ meant in August 1971. They
didn’t call him Tricky Dicky for nothing, folks.
I watched Nixon close the gold window with my Chartered Accountant Senior Rulings
National Revenue Canada Oil, Mines, & Resource Taxation father who was poached
off of Bay Street in Toronto in 1971 so that he could work for the Government of Canada
on their tax files for Oil.
Any idiot knows that oil is a commodity that has a lifespan & halflife vis-a-vis
pollution via the combustion engine that spews cabon dioxide CO2.
The concept of a biosphere was not very evident in 1971 to many scientists.
MOU
Master,
If you believe the carbon dioxide is harmful hoax, nothing else you say can be taken seriously, even if by chance you may even be correct. Just sayin’.
SciFi-entists:
“Carbon Dioxide is essential to plant life, yet a threat to planet life”
Did anyone say a cognizant dissonance?
Nixon and Kissinger sold this nation down the tube when they normalized trade relations with China. Robert McNamera organized our defeat in Vietnam. Clinton gave China preferential trading status. All these men should be vilified in history. These idiots failed to learn any lessons from the Roman Empire the longest lasting empire in western history. When you get your opponent down, finish the job. Mercy is for God and the weak.
I disagree with the author on one thing. I do not believe it will take to the 2030’s for SHTP. It is going to happen sooner than that. Since Biden was sworn in America has gone downhill really fast. Much faster than I thought it could. When the left/deep state steals or cancels the 2024 election it is going to get crazy. The economy will continue to erode all the way to the election. Millions more illegals will pour into the country. Maybe another pandemic. Riots in the cities. Higher crime.
Most of the Fed chairmen have been members of the liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), including Powell, Yellen, Greenspan, Volcker, Miller, Burns, Martin, McCabe, Black, and Meyer.
Likewise for Presidents of the NY Fed: Dudley, Geithner, McDonough, Corrigan, Solomon, Volcker, Hayes, Sproul, Harrison, and Strong.
Likewise for Treasury secretaries: Yellen, Lew, Geithner, Paulson, Summers, Rubin, Bentsen, Brady, Baker, Regan, Miller, Blumenthal, Simon, Shultz, Kennedy, Fowler, Dillon, and Anderson.
Same stuff, different century. Banker Paul Warburg of Kuhn Loeb, the “architect of the Fed” and a founding member of the Federal Reserve Board (1914), was also a founding director of the CFR (1921).
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/paul-m-warburg
Very interesting. I was not aware of all the globalist attachments to the fed res.
Read the book. “The Creature from Jekyll Island.” Control the money and you control the World.
And how many are amish?
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
Truth is my sword.
stop noticing. It’s just a cohencedence goy
Many of the talking heads in big media are also members of the CFR:
Where the hell is Stephanie? I got here late and figured I’d see what she said to all of us old fuckers.
I will say this: eggs were more expensive then in relation to wages. They only 96 cents a dozen at Aldi.
Boiled Eggs kept me alive in college 1965-69 at 3 dozen for a dollar. Yes you are correct that factory eggs are cheaper relative to wages now; home grown eggs are about the same.
So that’s how roach coaches made some dough selling boiled eggs to hapless construction workers at job site to job site. Those hapless construction workers could never figure out how to bring a lunch so they be hungry you know and buy them boiled eggs off the roach coach.
Hardboiled egg on a lunch truck?
Bleck.
Like eating a pickled egg at a bar….?
When the fed res bunk took over America. 1913 FIFY
The SWHTF soon; blacks already plunder stores and destroy cities; illegals flood cities; no money for infrastructure because it all goes to Welfare; Food & Fuel will run short soon; the banks will kill cash and implement FedCoin Tyranny; Vote Fraud is Normal; the BRICS will embargo US; a Depression is coming; the US Government & Military is a joke now; Strikers and FSA Voters are dumber than Roman Citizens were; FEMA is broke and Uncle Stupid is running out of Bread and Circuses. .
” The United States has been the Center of the New World Order Controlled by Satan for 250 Years ”
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Another squirrel story because Biden investigations?
NEWS Austin PD asks robbery victims to not call 911 as the department is understaffed.
In the 1960s, the Banksters discovered that by getting both parents in the work place (the mother AND father) they could jack up the prices on everything; cars, houses, loans, etc. Prior to that, a man could provide a home and a decent car for his family and still manage to save money for the kid’s college education. After the 1960s, it was get whatever you wanted on credit. “Get It Now, Pay Later.” And then it was off to the races. Consumer credit was the worst thing that ever happen to mankind. Now you really will ‘get it now and never get it paid for AND then get it taken away from you – house, car, toys, and bank accounts. It will be “Own nothing and be happy (on Soma).”
While both parents were working two or more jobs, the kids became “latch-key” children. They spent their day in government indoctrination camps (public schools) and then brain-washing at home watching CIA-provided TV “programming.” (Then came Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll.) So is it any wonder drug addiction and sexual perversion is at an all-time high? All according to plan…
In the fall of 1970 I started working at 15 years old as a busboy for $.75/hr. That was half the minimum wage allowed in Arizona for tipped employees (I think minimum was $1.45/hr) . I would make a whopping $2 to $4 a four hour shift in tips; good money to me at the time.
Leo Hohmann just posted an article and gives it 6-9 months before it all comes tumbling down. It’s hard to tell the actual time frame but the SHTF is coming and it won’t be fun.
Tom Hoefling/Leo Hohmann 2024
And yes, the reason this all occurred is they convinced everyone that the cost of government only had minimal inflation effects – a monumental gas lighting lie. We expected raises to at least cover inflation and they largely did for most but it was fake. Employers loved the rigged CPI. The middle class wages barely covered half of real inflation, resulting in two wage earners to prevent bankruptcy. That should have been a wake up call long ago, if not for the MSM.
Isn’t it just a bit ironic that, after such a good piece one sees the following?
“As an Amazon Associate I Earn from Qualifying Purchases” followed by a link to click.
Not to mention all the annoying pop-ups which make reading the TBP so unpleasant, and now so infrequent. Talk about being “captured.” One day TBP’s platform is gonna burn down too. Whoomph! There it is! Whoomph! There it is!
The cost of a beer the year you turned 21
I am always amused by the “unfunded” pensions bit. Governments have effed themselves through their slight of hand. In the case of SS, it was originally set up as a trust. Trusts require segregation of funds, payments only to those entitled by the terms of the trust, and that the trustees must exercise the prudent person rules of fiduciary responsibility or they can be held personally responsible. Congress changed all of that, and SS has been the piggy bank. When talking about pensions, the plan sponsor is responsible for deficits but also owns surpluses. How many times have plan sponsors raided surpluses? Governments, in particular, have used the their plans in many different ways. One way is not to contribute until retirement, then use the actuarial value of the plan’s return over that time, rather than the actual rate of return over that time, to add to the plan assets. Over the working life of the employee, the actual rate of return is always higher. I was a trustee on a pension plan for 15 years. When I started, the plan’s assets were about $3.2 billion. Through the 2oo1 downturn, the 2008 fiasco, and the 2012 dip, when I left in 2015 he plan assets were $6.8 billion for 2014. Last year it was over $12 billion. The Board of Trustees took things very seriously, because we understood that if there were any slip ups, we could be sued personally. The governments’ pension liabilities are due to mismanagement.
The 1970 price chart says it all.
I notice you left all the big ticket items in 1971 like televisions and appliances off yoi list.
“In the early 1970s a good, 21-inch console color television might cost you $500. In today’s money that would be around $3300. A good tabletop set might be $350, or about $2200 today.”
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/tv-technology-and-prices-then-and-now
A 19 inch inch color TV was $500.00, 1970s.
How much is a 32″ TV? $98, 2023.
Nice when people only include the facts that support the angle being pushed, do we still call this propaganda?
TV’s were expensive, and everything else was cheap, stick your propaganda bullshit up your lying ass.
Nope.
Everything else was super expensive.
Granted, a dollar bought more, but there were far fewer of them.
Toys were expensive.
Meat was expensive.
We rarely ate steak at home in the 60s and 70s.
Well, probably everything left off the list was more expensive-relatively to earnings.
But that’s why you leave things off a list like this, when your goal is propaganda.
Nice chatting respectfully with with you.
Vulgar epithets, the argument style preferred by those with no viable stand.
Milton Friedman’s Friedman Doctrine was where I saw where it was going in the 70s.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html
“The difficulty of exercising “social responsibility” illustrates, of course, the great virtue of private competitive enterprise — it forces people to be responsible for their own actions and makes it difficult for them to “exploit” other people for either selfish or unselfish purposes. They can do good—but only at their own expense.”
What an elegant way of saying take the money and run.
sorry America, the “jews” successfully did to you what they tried to do to Germany in the 1920s. The difference is the Germans actually had some patriotism, dignity, racial pride and sense of history and were willing to fight back.
Bend over, spread em, close your eyes and accept the Tikkun Olam !