Excuse me, I studied government policy and administration at the college level. Did you say I do not understand how government works? The most importa...
It appears there is no awareness of intentional propaganda to double the workforce, such as the USSR saying "the full-time homemaker is a non-producti...
It is only Satan. The Bible has told us of the last days and here we are. I think that is as much of a fact as I believe Plutoncrats are the problem. ...
Jack, my post to Corvus is a rather long explanation of the US no longer looking like the God-blessed nation we thought we had. I think your notion of...
You are wise. The US today is not the US of the past. We did not pay much in taxes before WWII and since WWII we have continued to pay almost as much ...
The price of the $5 dress is sweatshops and low wages. This is a consumer choice, not just the plutocracy's choice. Greenspan would have loved to have...
I think that needs to be clarified by saying most educated men. The masses were not educated except by their church. Some churches had well-educated l...
:lol: Zuckerberg sponsors public broadcasting shows, and with my limited hearing I hear "suck a bird". Not until I saw your spelling of the name did I...
Oh yeah! If it were not for government contracts there would not be so much wealth. This is one of the biggest problems with big government! There is ...
Do you mean Adams Smith's book The Wealth of Nation's? Morality plays a strong role in economics and in family and I think I bit off more than I can c...
Yes. That is the main point of this thread but it could be lost in verbiage. Everything is so complex. I really do not understand the difference betwe...
I have found information about Cicero and economics that I think might interest all of us. Accoring to Neal Wood, Cicero was.... I think we can assume...
As far as I know, he did not. And that is why I fault him for not understanding the economic problem. Owning land stopped being a requirement for mili...
Your post was beautifully written and we have plenty of agreements. But I do not know why we should object to... However, that is a little simplistic....
:lol: That is a good idea. In a way, he was a wonderful President because he gave us wonderful feelings of patriotism. Unfortunately, that was good ac...
:heart: I love your reasoning and it is my understanding too, except we have a little difference of opinion about helping the lazy. I hold that enabli...
Reagan scapegoated our poor for our economic troubles and he lied to us about not needing to conserve, so he could slash the domestic budgets and pour...
Okay, same cohort. I have to question the right of feeding lazy people. However, it could be argued getting rich by what one owns rather than by worki...
My memory is poor, but seems to me, Cicero was clueless about the reality of those who went to war for Rome and lost their land while they were gone t...
:grin: Philosophy is fun because we can look at the same thing, but it does not look the same from different points of view and like the gods we can s...
As much as I like Cicero, I fault him for having a very poor understanding of economics. An economic system that exploits some to benefit others, may ...
I am glad you have a better understanding of what I am talking about than some do. However, I do favor public assistance, but as Locke said of kings, ...
Okay I have the book on Family Law and it is authentic. What is your source of information? And I would not claim it was a wonderful past. Actually, s...
It is a matter of liberty and power. When Roosevelt was the president he and Hoover created a government with much more control of everything. We did ...
What difference did the Morrill act of 1862 make? It had nothing like the social, economic and political ramifications of the 1958 National Defense Ed...
I don't think I have come across someone who understands the problem as well as you do. In 1958 President Eisenhower asked congress to passed the Nati...
Awe, that is why you are so smart and thought of Mussolini. We now have a great discussion going because you do know more than the average person. I a...
Perfect! :cheer: You win the prize! WE did not! there would be no reason for me to say anything if people understood what happened. "The Plutocracy mi...
So where did you study public policy and administration and what books do you recommend? Liberty and responsibility go hand and hand. We fought a war ...
This would not be possible without the adoption of the German bureaucratic model that destroys individual liberty and power. Before we adopted the Ger...
How old you are really matters to your perception of change. I have largely withdrawn from society because phone trees and trying to get things done b...
Something went wrong preventing me from completing that thought. Being a full-time homemaker can be a personal sacrifice that we do not want to make, ...
:grimace: I speak because I am not at peace with my thoughts. Spartan women had much more freedom and equality with men than Athenian women. I like th...
I love your post. Everything you said is true and spot on. For sure the Military-Industrial Complex was put in place at the beginning of WWII. One of ...
You did an excellent job of seeing an important difference with the family model. The Greek gods fought a war with their parents and the parents' gene...
Oh please do make yourself a nuisance and ask again. So many thoughts are coming up and my head is in a swirl of competing thoughts. I find myself res...
Thank you.:grin: But this mentality is not limited to Spartans. The Christian god said his people are not to be slaves, but they could own slaves. The...
Thank you. And I must mention Trump. What is up with that? I am absolutely blown away by the power so many have given Trump, and as Hitler and Neitzch...
Wait a minute you lost me. Enslaved humans are the machines a society uses, they are not part of that society. Only Spartan men and women were part of...
Nicely said. Before 1958 we had education that promoted families and being cooperative. In 1958 we began education for Military-Industrial Complex and...
There are so many excellent posts! We can see what will happen by learning how different sets of values, played out in different nations. The US has a...
Okay, let us compare fascism with democracy. Where does one's loyalty lie? With the state or with the family? What are the values that are best for so...
I am not sure if you are trying to make a point by being sarcastic or if you are being sincere? I suspect what you said is based on misogyny and that ...
His take on the civil war issue is not the same as mine. I don't think anyone promotes civil war more than Trump and this division of those who seem t...
I want to address both of you on this understanding of economics. When the USSR "liberated women" they said the full-time homemaker was a none product...
Please, explain what you think I said, and how you think your idea of good child-rearing is different from mine. My point was, Sparta had on family va...
Thank you. When the US entered the first world war, Industry attempted to close the schools claiming the war caused a labor shortage and they were not...
That is an excellent explanation of Sweden's problem. The disparity between who feel like they are on the inside of Sweden's social order and those wh...
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