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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Because the whole scheme is another Ponzi scheme.  Sooner or later the whole 
thing comes tumbling down.  All the "great" civilizations have, so why would 
any reasoning person think the the U.S. Ponzi scheme would last forever. 
Absolutely NO country has lasted indefinately.  They collapse.  AND, they 
all collapse for the same reason -- greed and, <<eg>> James' favorite 
people, ass-sitters!

And, I gotta tell ya it is quite possible to out Barnum and Bailey, Barnum 
and Bailey!  The sheople have been well programmed to accept that you can 
fool most of the people most of the time!

Seriously, what other people in the world would keep electing people like 
Byrd (91 y.o.,  50 years in Senate), Kennedy (76 y.o., 46 years in Senate), 
Inouye (84 years old, 45 years in Senate), Biden (66 y.o., 35 years in 
Senate), Leahy (68 y.o., 34 years in Senate), etc., etc., etc.  A)  This 
isn't supposed to be a lifetime occupation!  B) Some of these guys are just 
plain senile!  Everyone else is supposed to retire at 65, it is time they 
put a mandatory retirement age on these guys too!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Political Qualifications?


> About the absurdity of what is going on in this country and maybe the
> rest of the world...
> I had a discussion the other day with someone who suggested something
> really far out, but that has had me thinking about it more and more...
> He suggested that there is something coming down the pike-pole
> shift-planet X-comet/asteroid impact-alien invasion-global economic
> collapse or whatever that some of the powers that be know about, but
> also know that nothing can be done to prevent it.  The powers that be
> won't alert the public and cause mass panic, but since the 'discovery'
> was made, there has been an attitude of apathy develop about the
> problems in this country.  He did not think that everyone guilty of
> apathy or dishonesty was in on the secret, but that over time the crap
> has risen to the surface because no one wants to put in the energy to
> fix problems.   He said it is like when the captain abandons ship and
> the rest of the pirates run amok and go wild.  We can see everyone
> running amok, because there is no discipline, no consequence to bad
> behavior, but only the captain knew the secret.  Maybe the captain is
> holed up on an island somewhere, maybe he offed himself, maybe he is
> just getting drunk in the dingy, but he surely isn't expending energy to
> bring sanity and order to the ship.
> Why are our leaders spending billions of dollars like there is no
> tomorrow? Maybe there is no tomorrow?
> Why are we sitting by while people die in Darfur or Gaza or the Congo or
> Zimbabwe?  Is it that millions will die anyway?
> I don't personally feel this way, but the person I spoke with wondered
> why Bush isn't being tried for war crimes... is it that
> His answer to all of those questions is that time is short, and the
> powerbrokers of the world are quietly panicking.  The least of their
> worries is what happens in American politics.  Perhaps even
> subconsciously people like Blago or Madoff realized that there was no
> captain of the ship-that people are indeed numb to it all, and felt that
> they could get away with anything...
> He had a bunch of other 'rhetorical questions' that also made his point,
> but I just can't remember them.
> Obviously this is a far out conspiracy theory, but I swear the world is
> so strange right now that stuff like this really starts making sense to
> people.  The guy who told me all of this is one of the local
> farriers-not a lunatic or someone of questionable mental health.  (I
> personally don't think the end of the world as we know it could be kept
> a secret for very long, so I discount this whole thing, but it is
> interesting to think about)  I think we can all agree that the world
> seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, but the real question is WHY.
> How did we get so screwed up?
>
> Bev
>
> Cathy wrote:
> > When it comes to our politicians, I'm afraid reason has left the
> > building. I'm almost numb to it. Do you think that's the plan?
> >
> > Cathy
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Lynn Wigglesworth
> > <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Is it just me, or is someone who failed to pay taxes he owed not
> > > the best candidate for head of the Treasury Department? It's
> > > considered just a 'complication', not a disqualification, and Obama
> > > still supports him?
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