Comments on: The Conservatives Battle with Adam Smith http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/11/the-conservatives-battle-with-adam-smith/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Greg http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/11/the-conservatives-battle-with-adam-smith/#comment-32275 Greg Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:06:42 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4809#comment-32275 No serious discussion can be undertaken until Federal Reserve is abolished. I am continually amazed at so called "experts" who bloviate on the issues without any comment on the rape of the people by the private banking cartel. Continued Federal Reserve = NO CHANGE. PERIOD. EVER. No serious discussion can be undertaken until Federal Reserve is abolished. I am continually amazed at so called “experts” who bloviate on the issues without any comment on the rape of the people by the private banking cartel. Continued Federal Reserve = NO CHANGE. PERIOD. EVER.

]]> By: Ramsefall http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/11/the-conservatives-battle-with-adam-smith/#comment-32236 Ramsefall Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:33:34 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4809#comment-32236 John, great opening analogy with the herd going from one end of the pen to the other, hoping to find something different, but not quite the mechanized world of Sinclair's meatpacking plants in Chicago, appalling either way. Low interest money to fund speculated short-term investments for a quick buck, their greed will be the end of them, hopefully. If it weren't for more than 1 million workers who will lose their health insurance, I'd say let companies like GM sink without hesitating. But, other realities are at stake. Bonuses shouldn't even be permissible, let alone discussed. It has to collapse in order to recover, the entire system must break down. Truly dire circumstances could change the focus of enough people to redesign a system that is sustainable, where greed is not a by-product of a sickly dysfunctional system that simply caters to those who continue to run the show. It can't be much longer now, we're on our way. It's time to abandon financial costs/monetary profit/petroleum based thinking and living. Intelligent resource management and green tech infrastructural development owned by public coop is the key to our survival and stewardship of the planet. Before the logic and feasibility of that approach is embraced, it may take complete cataclysmic failure in order to implement. But the awareness curve is accelerating, so anything's possible. Best to you. John,

great opening analogy with the herd going from one end of the pen to the other, hoping to find something different, but not quite the mechanized world of Sinclair’s meatpacking plants in Chicago, appalling either way.

Low interest money to fund speculated short-term investments for a quick buck, their greed will be the end of them, hopefully. If it weren’t for more than 1 million workers who will lose their health insurance, I’d say let companies like GM sink without hesitating. But, other realities are at stake. Bonuses shouldn’t even be permissible, let alone discussed.

It has to collapse in order to recover, the entire system must break down. Truly dire circumstances could change the focus of enough people to redesign a system that is sustainable, where greed is not a by-product of a sickly dysfunctional system that simply caters to those who continue to run the show. It can’t be much longer now, we’re on our way.

It’s time to abandon financial costs/monetary profit/petroleum based thinking and living. Intelligent resource management and green tech infrastructural development owned by public coop is the key to our survival and stewardship of the planet. Before the logic and feasibility of that approach is embraced, it may take complete cataclysmic failure in order to implement. But the awareness curve is accelerating, so anything’s possible.

Best to you.

]]> By: bozhidar bob balkas http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/11/the-conservatives-battle-with-adam-smith/#comment-32227 bozhidar bob balkas Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:33 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4809#comment-32227 bears repeating: we r ok. but having been disinformed/mistaught for millennia by clero-ruling class in all lands and empires, we r at sea. we need education. a broad one. in which history wld be studied for what it teaches. a history, in which every event ever to have occurred is conected w. every other event. education, in which history wld be just one aspect of it. connect to this religion (or, rather, its misteachings) sport, industry, arts/music, money/its (ab)use, political power, farming/fishing, etcetc. then add to it the study of our powerful emotions: hatred, envy, anger, resentment, fear that cause so much havoc, and a child wld obtain an education that wld guide him/her. we need less competition and more cooperation. am i the only one who thinks this broadly? i see that even journalists writing stylish and syntacticly/grammaticly correct pieces dwell on a narrowest possible outlook. such as what a person may do or have said. thnx bears repeating: we r ok.
but having been disinformed/mistaught for millennia by clero-ruling class in all lands and empires, we r at sea.
we need education. a broad one. in which history wld be studied for what it teaches.
a history, in which every event ever to have occurred is conected w. every other event.
education, in which history wld be just one aspect of it. connect to this religion (or, rather, its misteachings) sport, industry, arts/music, money/its (ab)use, political power, farming/fishing, etcetc.
then add to it the study of our powerful emotions: hatred, envy, anger, resentment, fear that cause so much havoc, and a child wld obtain an education that wld guide him/her.
we need less competition and more cooperation. am i the only one who thinks this broadly?
i see that even journalists writing stylish and syntacticly/grammaticly correct pieces dwell on a narrowest possible outlook.
such as what a person may do or have said. thnx

]]> By: Ron Horn http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/11/the-conservatives-battle-with-adam-smith/#comment-32223 Ron Horn Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:57:31 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4809#comment-32223 The "enemy is us" is true only to the extent that we believe all the lies that this capitalist system puts out through its propaganda machine, the mainstream media. The “enemy is us” is true only to the extent that we believe all the lies that this capitalist system puts out through its propaganda machine, the mainstream media.

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