Ever since the Big Bang, Someone out there has been up to no good! The entire universe is now an endless succession of FREE LUNCHES that must have American Conservatives seeing RED!!! No wonder they're working overtime to rectify the situation. I think this says it all: One way to look at it is this: On the one hand, society compells us to participate in its institutions in certain ways before we've even had a chance to have any say in the matter. Some might think this is unfair. But on the other hand, society also provides us with basic needs without which our very existence would be unimaginable in the first place -- and that also happens before we've ever had a chance to have any say in the matter. That's just the way life is, and it could hardly be any other. Just think about the vast social inheritance that all of us enjoy automatically. There is the physical built environment: libraries, schools, etc; there is the cultural patrimony: art, music, science, technical knowledge, even language itself; and then there is the ecological patrimony: air, water, forests, etc. We enjoy and depend on all these things from birth without ever being consulted, and without having to open our checkbooks as soon as we exit the birth canal. In fact, we never had to do anything at all or store up any "merit" in advance of entering this world, in order to earn the right to enjoy them. (from the article about the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG): http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/337624.shtml)
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Why did Eisenhower and Churchill stop short of Berlin and give Stalin so much at Yalta? Two great conservatives of the old guard, George S Patton and James Forrestal tried to go public about what they considered a dangerous association with Communist Russia. They died before they could.
"From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."--Winston Churchill, stated to the London Press, in l922.
Why, despite a raging war in Vietnam and cold war with the USSR did the Nixon Administration (of which Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, etc., were a part) sign a "Presidential Determination" in 1972 that lifted bans on trade of 400 different commodities to the Soviet Union and allow the Export-Import Bank (a government secured global trade bank) to finance trade with the USSR, extending our Communist enemies $1.5 billion of credit? That was one Hell of a FREE LUNCH, wasn't it? And your God-fearing Republican heros gave it away to a country that was supplying North Vietnam with weapons to kill Americans.
Why did stallwart conservative, Prescott Bush, lend money to Thyssen Steel to support the build-up of the national socialism in Nazi Germany when he was president of Union Bank in the 1930s?
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."--Herman Goering
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think!"--Adolf Hitler
NE1, you are a fascist's dream. You think you are God-fearing and conservative, yet your party leaders have lured you into betraying your country and your faith. What are they doing to rectify the situation of political and sociological discourse in this article? Nothing, I assure you, except to make sure that you continue react with conditioned responses to certain words like "liberal," and "peace," so that you defend not the Constitution of the US, but the tyrants who are out to destroy it?