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Memories of a better time....
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Originally Posted by oldno7
There is a thousand page book written about this...Altas Shrugged.
Read it and we're living it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Byron
^ We're not the only ones living it. We fall, all of mankind falls. Every freedom loving person on Earth gets demoralized and probably gives up. Israel begins a path of falling. Iran gains a permanent prop up. Hong Kongers last hope is wiped away. On and on.
We are the last and only hope for human freedom on Earth.
Beyond belief that we're 3 weeks away from voting in permanent, one party Marxist rule.
Funny thing about that...They came begging to Galt because all the brains had gone on strike and they were desperate. Ayn Rand couldn't have possibly imagined this computer age...anything anybody wants is available at their fingertips...Amazon will see to that. No brains necessary, just cheap foreign labor.
I wonder what she would say if she were alive today...probably "We're screwed".
The future belongs to whom? The US will drown in 3rd world immigrants and be bankrupted. Done. Europe on that path as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Byron
China seems the logical winner. Who else? India seems hopelessly dumb on policy and weak in societal structure.
Oh hell...anything can happen, Doug. Sure would be interesting to get into a time machine and travel 50 years into the future, huh? Just to have a look around...maybe hang out if it's appealing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dougrz
I was too young to remember, but a lot of people in 1968 figured it was all soon to come to a screeching halt. I reckon that's where the bum with "The End Is Near" sign was born? We've been living with the next big uppercut one way or another ever since.
The biggest crazy twist that no one saw coming was what happened in '16...it very well may be that 5 years from now the lay of the land with be far different than what some may imagine...not nearly as dire, perhaps.
Hey, I'm hopeful...what else is there to be? Just stock up a camper for buggin' out in case things get weird every now and then.
Capitalism is still the engine that financially drives this country, it is the haves and have nots for a reason and rightly so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Byron
When government makes it impossible to survive in business, due to over regulation, business adapts--goes elsewhere or retires and goes to a business friendly clime(Galts Gulch)
Look no further than Cal. and Washington state for running business away and states like Texas are sucking them all in with business friendly politics.
The steel mills of yesterday are todays tech giants.