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I am looking at an internet ad that asks, “should the GOP let them take your guns away..?
“THEM”??…seriously?
We've still got ours. I have yet to see any legislation to take our guns away.
Economic World Cup: Citizen Democracies 2, International Banksters 0
First the Citizens of Iceland, now the Citizens of Greece, have decided that the banksters have gotten enough and that their threats and extortion should end:
Letting banks have the responsibility for their own bets sounds like a good thing to me. Subjecting a citizenry to austerity as some kind of moral curative for excessive "taking" goes against our high-mined principles and most of the evidence:
Austerity has failed everywhere it's been tried. But that won't shake the belief, certainly among America's Conservatives (this includes Fiscally Conservative, yet Socially Progressive /smileyface) Democrats and Republicans alike, that austerity is the only way to deal with. That belief sits on foundation that says the poor really don't need our help and that the rich really do deserve unlimited wealth with no strings attached. But people are noticing the gaping moral hole in that belief:
That's where we are today. Some of our political leaders have taken notice: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, who are attacked for advocating common sense and proven economic policies. Others are quiet, satisfied the system is working fine, or afraid of being lumped in with the socialists or populists.
There is a moral question at the heart of all the friction between lenders and debtors, makers and takers, banksters and citizens. The people, when given the chance, will choose fairness and compassion over vindictiveness and profit.
Greece……
Would it be fair to say that Greece is to the left what Kansas is to the right as far as economic models go?
Only if you include the things that make it uniquely Greece.
The Scandinavian countries are more of an example of the "left" compared to Kansas' "right" – but they're successful, so they don't make much of a rhetorical counter-point to Kansas.
Greece has had other issues for a long time; their problems are more than a bad economic model – they're bad implementation and poor math. The math in Kansas isn't bad – they managed to balance their budget. Their implementation is purposeful. It's just the economic model that's screwed up. In Greece the problems as I understand them are unbalanced budgets, bad tax collections, and systemic corruption/waste. Those aren't a left/right thing.
Unlike many of the left leaning countries of northern Europe, Greece has a massive tax evasion culture. Basically people just don't pay taxes as a matter of course and it's kind of tough to fund all those benefits without them.
Got this email from Dan Thurlow. I never emailed him, but I'm on the RMGO mailing list (shhh) and they probably sent him something in my name.
This District 55 update is going out to all of you who emailed me about my votes on Gun issues during the 2015 Legislative Session. I wanted to thank you once again for your input and keep you informed of what's going on in District 55
The full email, which regards an article in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, is here:
http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9ba5aa9dcba56d165af693895&id=7c5ad62b54&e=26a67e0d38