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Post by gridley on Mar 26, 2024 12:34:53 GMT
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Post by ratty on Mar 27, 2024 8:43:27 GMT
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Post by code on Apr 17, 2024 4:17:36 GMT
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Post by Sigurdur on Apr 17, 2024 5:05:04 GMT
He shouldn't have been placed on any leave. The actions against him are an example of NAZI tactics. |
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Post by code on May 31, 2024 3:18:40 GMT
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Post by ratty on Jun 22, 2024 8:00:02 GMT
This has been around a long time and may have been posted before. Are the comparisons drawn realistic?
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 22, 2024 13:47:00 GMT
The vested, bloated, unproductive bureaucracy that is our Federal government (and many State governments) and its/their associated trough feeders does/do not love our children.
Thank you Code. This little piece stimulated me to re-read the original (and interpretations) of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". I am on the record (on this site in past years) as re-postulating that the great engine of American Democracy and economic growth occurred in the North American Midwest during the period ~1800-1900. This coincided with the great wave of Western European immigration (after the Revolution) that took advantage of largely unsettled territory and a new, weak Federal Government to build a new economic/social system in the agriculturally productive heartland of the North American continent. An event that had not been replicated in magnitude perhaps since the Indo-european expansion out of the Pontic steppe some several thousand years before. Since about 1945, the concentration of increasingly unproductive power in the Federal and many State governments have eroded our economic system to the state that we see today. Have we created a new, untalented assemblage of bottom-feeders that threaten to sink the entire system?
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Post by walnut on Jun 22, 2024 14:17:23 GMT
The vested, bloated, unproductive bureaucracy that is our Federal government (and many State governments) and its/their associated trough feeders does/do not love our children.
Thank you Code. This little piece stimulated me to re-read the original (and interpretations) of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". I am on the record (on this site in past years) as re-postulating that the great engine of American Democracy and economic growth occurred in the North American Midwest during the period ~1800-1900. This coincided with the great wave of Western European immigration (after the Revolution) that took advantage of largely unsettled territory and a new, weak Federal Government to build a new economic/social system in the agriculturally productive heartland of the North American continent. An event that had not been replicated in magnitude perhaps since the Indo-european expansion out of the Pontic steppe some several thousand years before. Since about 1945, the concentration of increasingly unproductive power in the Federal and many State governments have eroded our economic system to the state that we see today. Have we created a new, untalented assemblage of bottom-feeders that threaten to sink the entire system?
The system is not working, the cream is certainly not rising to the top, if it ever did before. We are distilling some filthy product, and receiving something more like toxic methanol and sulfates and not ethanol. That's about all of the distillation analogies I can think of for now. I think that you are right, the best part of our national success and identity was developed during that period and in that region. The Ohio River Valley and that broader region and the Midwest generally achieved a level of success by many criteria which the world had probably never seen before or since. China is currently the worlds industrial hearth, however I do not believe that they are making real money like the Americans did, and the other social and cultural benefits which America enjoyed do not seem to be accruing either. |
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 30, 2024 17:52:21 GMT
Could our civilization be obliterated? Or do we have something that those other entities didn't? Victor Davis Hanson.
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Post by code on Jul 12, 2024 15:34:23 GMT
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Post by code on Jul 21, 2024 17:21:44 GMT
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Post by ratty on Aug 6, 2024 0:57:04 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 13, 2024 16:20:30 GMT
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Post by ratty on Sept 13, 2024 22:54:18 GMT
Could it be that both pilots and ATC staff are chosen under the pressure of DEI criteria?  |
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Post by gridley on Sept 14, 2024 14:01:45 GMT
Could it be that both pilots and ATC staff are chosen under the pressure of DEI criteria? And both lost at least some people to the "vaccine" mandates. |
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