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History repeating itself and who knew it would be the Americans to elect a disturbed, bitter and twisted fascist
Really?
Is he serious?
So Elon's OK with inter-planetary colonization, but international migration is a problem?
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana / The Life of Reason (1905)
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." Hegel
note on re-learning painful lessons of the past:
With good luck, Trump will re-learn that trade-war, tariffs are not the panacea to prosperity he's determined to believe.
That's quite different from patterning his administration's political methodology on Hitler, and Stalin.
The former is based on ignorance.
The latter is based on ignorance.
See the difference?
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But sure, thank Jesus for all that. The new Sec Def is literally an insider threat.
I don't mind a little "inside" joke now & then.
Might have crossed the line here ...
Not that it's not true.
Instead, does it meet the definition of "joke"?
- Mass hysteria?
- Over 50% of the U.S. electorate below average?
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No idea where to put this so here we are:
“Daddy, why did we stay in Holland, why didn’t we just run?
We could have gone to stay with friends you knew.”
“Did you know on the cattle trucks, the things that they would do?
Or did you hope we’d all stay with you, here?”
“Mumma, they took me there without you, I screamed and cried for you
They said we were going to shower, before we played.”
“The orchestra were playing, it was such a pretty song
It reminded me of happy, sunny days. “
“Are any of them here yet, we’ve been waiting before the dawn?
Eighty years of Auschwitz are long past.”
“I’ve heard the King is coming, and several heads of state
But I only want my family here at last!”
“Most of us are already here, generations gone
A final quick solution, for their needs!”
“Would we even have climbed upon the trucks, if we knew what happened here?
If only we had known just what would be. “
“Daddy, they’re arriving, auntie will be proud
All three children and their Kinder too.”
“Mumma, will they remember us, and the language that we spoke?
Surviving Romany folk, were very few?”
“Oh look, they’ve got an orchestra, the Auschwitz families thrive
Living on through music, as they should.”
“It just gives me an awful chill, they played through all the death
I can’t even bear to listen to what’s good.”
“Do you remember the composers, who wrote a tune, then lied?
They’d pick an obscure German group to blame?”
“The guards here so conceited, they’d believe them every time
Thankfully, we had our little games.”
“Here come all the children as they meet as one again
Looking through the windows for their toys!”
“At least we all look normal now, no longer in the stripes
Millions of us here, family, girls and boys.”
“We need you to remember us, every single one
Don’t let them tell you camps were all a lie
Never let us die in vain, our value was our names
Imprinted numbers, on those who all survived!”
Musicians of Auschwitz, keep their memories alive. Don’t ever repeat this again.
“Daddy, why did we stay in Holland, why didn’t we just run?
We could have gone to stay with friends you knew.”
“Did you know on the cattle trucks, the things that they would do?
Or did you hope we’d all stay with you, here?”
“Mumma, they took me there without you, I screamed and cried for you
They said we were going to shower, before we played.”
“The orchestra were playing, it was such a pretty song
It reminded me of happy, sunny days. “
“Are any of them here yet, we’ve been waiting before the dawn?
Eighty years of Auschwitz are long past.”
“I’ve heard the King is coming, and several heads of state
But I only want my family here at last!”
“Most of us are already here, generations gone
A final quick solution, for their needs!”
“Would we even have climbed upon the trucks, if we knew what happened here?
If only we had known just what would be. “
“Daddy, they’re arriving, auntie will be proud
All three children and their Kinder too.”
“Mumma, will they remember us, and the language that we spoke?
Surviving Romany folk, were very few?”
“Oh look, they’ve got an orchestra, the Auschwitz families thrive
Living on through music, as they should.”
“It just gives me an awful chill, they played through all the death
I can’t even bear to listen to what’s good.”
“Do you remember the composers, who wrote a tune, then lied?
They’d pick an obscure German group to blame?”
“The guards here so conceited, they’d believe them every time
Thankfully, we had our little games.”
“Here come all the children as they meet as one again
Looking through the windows for their toys!”
“At least we all look normal now, no longer in the stripes
Millions of us here, family, girls and boys.”
“We need you to remember us, every single one
Don’t let them tell you camps were all a lie
Never let us die in vain, our value was our names
Imprinted numbers, on those who all survived!”
Musicians of Auschwitz, keep their memories alive. Don’t ever repeat this again.
Last month PBS ran a ~1 hr documentary on bombing Auschwitz. The documentary included two concentration camp prisoners that escaped, and brought word to the outside world about Auschwitz.
We'll see where public opinion rests on Trump a few months from now, if a U.S. / Trump based tariff war heats up.
We'll see where public opinion rests on Trump a few months from now, if a U.S. / Trump based tariff war heats up.
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Don't worry - Trump's sycophants will simply blame the "libtards" among us. Or Biden. Or Obama. Or Hillary. Or ...
Which is not a denial, merely a false attempt to misdirect blame. Thus vindication for those that sounded the warnings.
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Generations ago the Republican party had the reputation for conservative economics.
The reputation lingers, the merit does not.
What Republican today is renown, revered for economic wisdom, acumen, justice?
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Almost everything Republicans get wrong about the economy started with a cocktail napkin in 1974
The Rosetta stone of Reaganomics.
Gwynn Guilford
The sealing of America’s fiscal fate began in 1974, over cocktails.
As afternoon faded to evening on December 4, Dick Cheney and a young economist named Art Laffer shuffled into a booth at the Two Continents restaurant in the iconic Hotel Washington—it had appeared in scenes from the Godfather II just months earlier—two blocks from the US Treasury department. Cheney was US president Gerald Ford’s deputy chief of staff. He and his boss, Donald Rumsfeld, were looking for alternatives to Ford’s plan to raise taxes 5%. Raising taxes was a bad idea, said Laffer. If Ford really wanted to spur economic growth, and therefore government revenue, he should cut tax rates.
Cheney wasn’t following. So Laffer grabbed a napkin, uncapped a Sharpie, and drew two perpendicular lines and a blimp-shaped curve, halved by a faint dotted line. With the tax rate on the y-axis and tax revenue on the x-axis, the chart showed that, except at its bend, there were always two points on the curve that generated the same amount of government funds: a higher rate on a smaller base of economic activity, and a lower rate on a larger base of economic activity.
“The conventional wisdom was: You want more revenue, you raise taxes,” Cheney recalled 30 years later, in a Bloomberg interview reenacting that landmark 1974 meeting. “What Art brought to the table with these curves is that if you wanted more revenue, you were better off if you lowered taxes, to stimulate economic growth and economic activity.”
This moment remains one of the most famous legends of modern economic history. Its message—that tax cuts pay for themselves—endures too. (Look no further than president Donald Trump’s budget plan for proof.)
Art and his chart in 1981, the year president Ronald Reagan put his ideas into action.
Growth, argued Laffer, depends on how much people work and how much businesses invest. He believed both those things hinge on tax rates: the more income the government takes away in taxes, the less motivated people are to work and save (leaving businesses less money to invest).
The government that thinks that raising taxes is necessary to pay for social programs and other public services is short-changing itself, argued Laffer. When tax rates are too high—in the “prohibitive range” of his chart—people work less and businesses invest less, stifling growth and shrinking the total amount of income available for the government to tax.
“We’ve been taxing work, output and income and subsidizing non-work, leisure and un-employment,” Laffer scribbled above his napkin chart, dedicating the napkin to Cheney’s then boss at the White House, Donald Rumsfeld. “The consequences are obvious!”
By letting people keep more of their earnings—encouraging work and investment—tax cuts fire up enterprise, he argues. The growth that results broadens ....
CONTINUED
I learned of the Laffer curve via a current events forum like this, decades ago. My initial impression was it was a theory.
Later William F. Buckley Jr. chiseled it in stone for me. I paraphrase:
100% taxation is slavery. Zero % taxation is anarchy. The ideal therefore is somewhere in between.
Thanks W.F.
I'm not the first to make the observation, perhaps Laffer was among the first to formalize it.
Though it's not likely to remain one fixed triple decimal precision tax rate for long, there is a tax rate range that yields maximum government revenue.
A few questions based on that premise:
a) In our era of astronomical federal $debt: $36,221,443,082,611.85 is there a plausible ethical justification for NOT taxing at the Laffer curve government revenue peak? *
b) And after the federal debt is 100% paid off?
* "What's pernicious about deficits for conservatives is this. It makes big government cheap. What we're doing, we're turning to the country, the "conservative" administration turns to the country and says:
We're going to give you a dollar's worth of government, we're going to charge you seventy five cents for it. And we're going to let your kids pay the other quarter." George Will Nov 30, 2003
note:
The diminutive napkin is credited with many historic landmarks, also including Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Of possible interest:
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Which explains why he got elected ....
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Speaking of the swamp (from 2020) ....
