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Here is an older article that still has relevence, I think: Inflation and the Federal Reserve: The Consequences of Political Money Supply

From “Francisco’s Money Speech” by Ayn Rand — Capitalism Magazine

“But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made–before it can be looted or mooched–made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.’

There was so much good stuff there, I had to pick one paragraph only because I would’ve put the whole thing here otherwise.

Here is an editorial you might want to read:Take the Limbaugh Challenge - Los Angeles Times

The mainstream media (a.k.a. the Matrix) don’t want you to listen to Limbaugh because they’re afraid he’ll wake you up and set you free of their worldview. You don’t want to listen to him because you’re afraid of the same thing.

I don’t listen to Rush. I don’t listen to any talk radio, mostly because the commercials drive me batty. I do listen to the Hugh Hewitt podcasts from time to time, though, but only for the interviews.

Having said that, I don’t disavow Rush. I watched his speech about a month ago, and I like what he had to say. Many people do.

If you are going to attack the man, at least know who you’re attacking. That should be true of everyone. Get more information than a soundbite, get more than the media will spoon-feed you. They have an agenda. Don’t make their agenda yours without some serious thought.

Here is something I think you should read. I forget sometimes that hard, honest, physical work is just as important, and perhaps more so, than what I do for a living. Lucky for me I have a passing acquaintance with some of the trades. Hopefully I won’t have to put that knowledge to the test some day, but you never know.

This is so me. I still dream that I have some high-school classes that I have to take. I still dream about classes I have forgotten to attend that I need to pass to get my PhD. I dream that I’ve applied for yet another graduate program somewhere.

It’s crazy, man.

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Comment by happyfeet on 3/6 @ 8:53 pm #

A toxic political environment? It’s a toxic media environment. Same thing, but calling it political obscures what’s happened. NPR isn’t accidentally dirty socialist. It’s by design. Look at the dirty socialist foundations what support them. Duh. And it’s no different with MSNBC and that gay jewish guy on Comedy Central what used to be pretty but now just looks bitter and more Bill Maheresque every day and well, Bill Maher’s HBO what buys Nancy Pelosi’s bimbo daughter’s movies or Newsweek or Warner Bros. animated penguin movies what they make for your special needs child. They all hate you.

But there’s no convincing the audience if you’re a Republican. The dirty socialist media learned in Katrina that they have impunity to hold the fucking audience in as much contempt as they want. I will tell you how to convince the audience. The way you convince the audience is by laughing at their dumb hopeychangey faces when their taxes go up. When their food spoils cause of rolling brownouts. When they can’t afford gas again cause their dipshit pezzydent canceled tons of oil leases the first week him and his skeezey woman moved their Chicago street trash asses on up into the deluxe bedroom in our White House what George Soros bought them. By giggling at people who spent a fortune getting their kids through college but what can only get green jobs changing lightbulbs in the hood. By pointing and gawking at the maimed people what have less extremities than is optimal cause they couldn’t get a timely appointment with their government surgeons. Learn how to say oh, yeah, paying union dues does kind of suck, but then, you and your slackjawed wife both kinda voted for it didn’t ya? Yeah I think you did cause I remember you had that HOPE sign in your yard what was really impressive cause it told me you were just the kind of white guy that would have no problem voting for a dirty socialist piece of shit black man cause of how sophisticated you so self-evidently are.

No. I’m not interested in persuading these weak-minded losers. Too late for that. I just want to watch their dumb smiley fat hopey faces guzzle every delicious hopey changey ounce of what they’ve done to our little country and give them a friendly, knowing wink as they spew every rancid drop onto the floorboards of their Baracky-subsidized Prius.

From Ace, Obama is, of course, going to cut defense spending. Ace said near the end:

We can spend millions on studying the correlation between estrus and flatulence in bi-curious gophers but talk about building an F-22 and suddenly it’s “wasteful.”

That cracked me up.

Defense spending is one of the few legitimate items in the budget. If Obama stepped up the schedule for F22 delivery, and perhaps even ordered more, he could give the economy an immediate kick in the butt. It’s the same with other military equipment. A lot of it really needs to be replaced. Why not do that? It makes us more militarily ready and stimulates our economy at the same time.

Just heard on FauxNewz: “Predatory lenders.”

Predatory lenders my fucking ass!

If you take out a loan you know you cannot repay, whose fault is that? Take a look in the fucking mirror, you fucking idiot.

Nothing against those who have lost their job. That is not the same thing at all. Most people can comfortably assume they will keep their jobs. It’s different when you couldn’t afford the loan when you took it out.

This goes doubly for the morons who took out new mortgages against the increased “value” of their homes and did anything with that money other than repair/improve their home. You idiots who pissed money away like that can suck it.

Yes, I’m a bit annoyed with some of my fellow citizens these days.

Just heard on CNBC: “The White House is putting its money where its mouth is.”

WRONG.

The White House is putting OUR MONEY where its mouth is. And its mouth and the brain attached to it is somewhere outside the normal sane universe.