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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Political Qualifications?
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:49:39 -0800 (PST)

I'm having a hearty laugh, knowing that you did the same when you read the
book ;-)

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--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Political Qualifications?
> To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 1:08 PM
> I was leafing through a few books at the library while I was
> waiting for
> youngest (she volunteers there) and one of them was a sort
> of Lies My
> Teacher Told Me type book.
>
> I'm reading away and quickly figured out it was a sort
> of Christian
> apologist book. However, because of the title and the
> general method used
> to write it, the average sheople wouldn't have noticed.
> It was a donated
> book and had been well used. I only spent a few minutes
> going through it
> but was amazed at the "logic" used in the book.
> Then thought about how many
> people would buy this stuff wholesale.
>
> Now, before Bob jumps up with and down with giggles, the
> books starts with
> the Pilgrims, I didn't go looking for the white guys
> vs. the red guys <g>
>
> According to the book the Pilgrims didn't steal any
> land from the Indians.
> Ah, y'all sitting down? Wanna know how he comes to
> this conclusion? Well,
> because the King gave the folks who came here land grants,
> therefore they
> weren't stealing land. And they didn't really
> think the Indians were
> different. I mean, forget everything that the gov of
> Plimoth said in his
> diaries. They just thought they were white people who used
> too many stains
> and didn't bath enough.
>
> Now, Leslie, there are lots of people who believe this
> stuff. So, how can
> you be the least bit surprised that they won't believe
> that the free ride is
> going to end? They choose what to believe regardless of
> how far fetched it
> is. The old comedy routine about "don't confuse
> me with the facts" is the
> bumper sticker on the Hummer of all the sheople!
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
>
>
> WHY? The simple answer is because the fiat currencies of
> the world are
> collapsing.
>
> "You can not have your cake and eat it too." The
> US government has promised
> a lot of cake - but it already ate all the cake decades
> ago. Reality comes
> crashing down eventually.
>
> I just got done reading a long article about chaos and
> change by Dr. Petrov,
> from the Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It
> is long but very
> good... and to sum it up, the global monetary system is at
> a critical
> juncture, fast approaching a breakpoint - the point where
> the whole system
> either explodes or implodes at lightning speed - it is a
> chaos transition
> point.
>
> People like the blacksmith you mentioned sense the
> unfolding chaos. They
> know something is wrong, but don't know what. Just
> about everyone alive
> today has lived under a lie - under a fiat money system.
> They have no basis
> of reasoning - no knowledge - to understand the lie,
> acknowledge it is a
> lie, and that the reality of the outcome of the lie is
> responsible for the
> unfolding chaos they sense.
>
> Attempts to educate people about the lie are meet with
> denial of reality -
> because people want to have their cake and eat it too. They
> do not
> understand the piece of paper in their wallets is worth
> more as toilet
> paper - it is not wealth in any form.
>
> They just know something is wrong. Without a basis of
> economics, or an
> understanding of the function of money (both the lies of
> fiat currency and
> that outcome, and the gold standard and the morality
> required to uphold it),
> irrational explanations are given - such as the belief that
> a comet is on
> the way and the government knows it - as an attempt to
> explain that which
> they either don't understand, certainly were never
> taught, or refuse to
> believe if one makes an attempt to explain it to them.
>
> The reason the government is spending money out of control
> - is quite
> simple. The government politicians made trillions in
> promises long term to
> citizens for their short term political gains. The bills
> are coming due (in
> the form of Treasuries maturing) and they didn't save
> the money to pay....
> therefore they print the money out of thin air.
>
> The real estate and other bubbles didn't happen by
> accident either. Pension
> funds (government and private) need to get a 6% return
> (promised).... but
> when "safe" interest rates on Treasuries are low
> (i.e. 1% back in the
> Greenspan days) the fund managers MUST resort to riskier
> investments, which
> then snowballs.
>
> In an attempt to keep the party going, the misguided Fed is
> printing money
> to bail-out everyone that they favor. Ha, GMAC was bailed
> out, and became a
> bank. GMAC borrows from the Fed at 1/4% interest, and loans
> out $ at
> 0%............. hello, guaranteed 1/4% loss on the interest
> spread
> alone....... is this logical??? It is a bankrupt idea of
> fools.
>
> The snowball has grown to the size that the government can
> not prevent
> collapse,,,, but I seriously doubt that more than a handful
> of our electeds
> have any understanding of the monetary forces in play.
>
>
> You wrote the man you spoke about indicated: "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. "
>
> True - the government will not alert the public - if they
> did it would be
> game over instantly, and the politicians would lose their
> perceived power.
> And mass panic - definitely.
>
> What was discovered? Their unsound monetary concepts
> failed.
>
> In on the secret? They don't even recognize the source
> of the problem.
>
> Fix the problems? Oh they are trying tons of ways to fix
> the unfixable....
> If they would acknowledge the problem is not fixable they
> would put their
> energy into return to a system that works. They will never
> choose the path
> that requires voluntarily. Only through natural economic
> forces will it be
> forced on the government.... chaos and collapse of the
> existing system.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 1/14/09, EarthNSky
> <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> About the absurdity of what is going on in this country and
> maybe the
> rest of the world...
>
>
>
>
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