[aflurry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kingcoal', 'W')hat exactly is chicken fried steak? Is it a beef steak fried in chicken fat? Pardon my ignorance, but I'm from Philly and I know only of cheesesteaks.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')t has always been about controlling resources. The stuff we buy, even our crappy wooden homes, are just metals, oil, and timber packaged up and made shiny and pretty. We live in Suburban Ghettos because we are easy to control that way. If you have a big ranch, farm or some industrial timberlands you don't want people nosying around and stealing firewood and game. You don't want people to be producers you want them to be consumers of your, the real wealth.

All revolutions are about land and redistribution. It will not happen here because most Americans don't even know what real land is, or what to do with it. They have been herded and are willing to feed and die in their paddocks.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')-bear, your OP lacks the usual intellectual sparkle of your stuff.

We already know all this. We know you know it and you know we know it.

Yes, commodities are the only real game in town, and greedy clever people will try to make hay out of them while the haymaking's good. So what is new here?

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')t has always been about controlling resources. The stuff we buy, even our crappy wooden homes, are just metals, oil, and timber packaged up and made shiny and pretty. We live in Suburban Ghettos because we are easy to control that way. If you have a big ranch, farm or some industrial timberlands you don't want people nosying around and stealing firewood and game. You don't want people to be producers you want them to be consumers of your, the real wealth.

All revolutions are about land and redistribution. It will not happen here because most Americans don't even know what real land is, or what to do with it. They have been herded and are willing to feed and die in their paddocks.

[threadbear]

Bull shit. PStarr. There's plenty we can do about it. Central banks could stop this, in a heart beat by doing what the IMF prescribes for all irresponsible govts. Raise interest rates. Reregulate banking, commodity markets, etc...

[GeoJAP]

If I could make an objective comment, the original poster is reacting in a classic "liberal" fashion. As this article explains, a study concluded that liberals cannot rationalize inequality and are frustrated by it.

Article Link

[DefiledEngine]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Life can't be completely fair, but it isn't in my nature to ignore what could become murder, suffering and deprivation on a massive scale. It gives my life substance and meaning to simply care. That may seem foolish, but man doesn't live by chicken fried steak alone.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GeoJAP', 'I')f I could make an objective comment, the original poster is reacting in a classic "liberal" fashion. As this article explains, a study concluded that liberals cannot rationalize inequality and are frustrated by it.

Article Link

[threadbear]

And furthermore......

GeoJap--Soros on market fundamentalism.

A. Since the 1980s, the global financial system has been dominated by an ideology I call market fundamentalism - the idea that markets are perfect and regulations are always flawed. But markets aren't perfect. Left to their own devices, they always go to extremes of either euphoria or despair. The Federal Reserve and other regulators should recognize this, since they've had to bail out the markets in crisis after crisis since the 1980s.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/12/pf/soro ... stversion=

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'B')ull shit. PStarr. There's plenty we can do about it. Central banks could stop this, in a heart beat by doing what the IMF prescribes for all irresponsible govts. Raise interest rates. Reregulate banking, commodity markets, etc...

[threadbear]

And I will give them a knuckle sandwich.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'S')o you have no problem with Vulture capital, working through real estate investment trusts, for example, buying up distressed American mortgage debt for pennies on the dollar?

[threadbear]

Jack, I guess being "American" is a little like being "black". It is a general consensus creation. It's not simply what you consider yourself, it's what you are considered by others.

I understand why people reach a point where they conclude it's just easier to go with the flow, too, like you, Jack. A person can only take so much chronic disappointment in their fellow man without becoming cynical. I'm trying very hard not to end up there...but then I haven't been exposed to some of the things I'm sure you've been exposed to.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I') understand why people reach a point where they conclude it's just easier to go with the flow, too, like you, Jack. A person can only take so much chronic disappointment in their fellow man without becoming cynical. I'm trying very hard not to end up there...but then I haven't been exposed to some of the things I'm sure you've been exposed to.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aflurry', '(')...)
So now we're berating each other for how much or how little we care for morality, suffering, and the end of civilization? we suck. none of us know each other well enough for that, which pretty much guarantees that any comments about someone else's moral turpitude or naiveties are more likely emissions of our own buried fears, for we are each of us our own psychology's bitch.