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Mt Reagan and Sawtooth Lake. Sawtooth Wilderness – Idaho. All images© Copyright by Benjamin Charles Mitchell / They may not be used in any way without written consent.
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Sawtooth Lake & Mt. Reagan. Sawtooth Wilderness – Idaho. All images© Copyright by Benjamin Charles Mitchell / They may not be used in any way without written consent.
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DO YOU REMEMBER THIS GUY ?? --Ronald Reagan?
by Elaine FarmerQUOTES FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN~~~~~~ ‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.’ – Ronald Reagan ‘The most terrifyi…
QUOTES FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN~~~~~~ ‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.’ – Ronald Reagan ‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’ m from the government and I’m here to help.’ – Ronald Reagan ‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.’ / - Ronald Reagan ‘I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.’ – Ronald Reagan ‘The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.’ / - Ronald Reagan ‘Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.’ / - Ronald Reagan ‘It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.’ – Ronald Reagan. ‘Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.’ – Ronald Reagan . ‘No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.’ – Ronald Reagan. ‘If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.’ - Ronald Reagan
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Ponzi Schemes and How Conservatives Are Duped Into Believing They Work
by HabeneroWere conservative values satisfied by Reagan’s Piss on Those Lower Than Yourself, or Spread Manure not Money policy (he called it “Trickl…
Were conservative values satisfied by Reagan’s Piss on Those Lower Than Yourself, or Spread Manure not Money policy (he called it “Trickle Down”)? I think not. In order for that theory to work, benevolent employers would spread wealth throughout their companies. Instead of that happening, greed dominated corporate America. Ponzi scheme after Ponzi scheme played out as a company shifted manufacturing out of the US in order to boost profits by cutting costs. For a while, jobs were still plentiful so no one noticed the real costs. The Reagan tax breaks made it easier for some people, eager to cash in, to form new companies that paid lower wages to startup. These companies absorbed employees that had been let go and started to prosper. As they prospered, many were bought by investors that saw an opportunity to make more money. Investors are not the same as owners, in that an owner usually takes time to make sure the employees are taken care of, investors look towards the bottom line and not much else. In a global economy it is always easy to find cheaper workers. As more work is sent out to the lowest cost workers, more workers here get laid off. Our economy is based upon people spending money. The wealthier people did not get that way by spending money. Thus, no matter how much money a wealthy person has, all they are interested in doing is making more money via investing it. It made no difference if goods were being produced locally or abroad, as long as they got a return on their investment they didn’t care. Well paid workers, spend money. It is the goods and services they buy that drives the economy forward. But the trend in America has been to get rid of the production workers. This set us up for a series of recessions. TV’s were among the first things that became so cheap to produce from outside our borders, that now none are made here. But the workers that made TVs were able to find other work for a while, so people still bought them. The auto industry has become another victim. Even though it is cheaper to assemble the cars here than to ship in finished products, most of the parts are now made elsewhere. The workers that used to make the parts sometimes find other work, but often end up going into other fields that pay a lot less. They end up not buying as much. The same trend occurs with other industries and goods, textiles, appliances, and so forth. The US now has a “service based” economy, we no longer make goods for others to buy, we sell information and cater to tourists. Most of the things we buy are produced elsewhere, but as long as some people are able to find work at menial wages, the greedy investor class is happy. The only industry that could never leave, housing, was delivered into the hands of the Ponzi artists via deregulation of the mortgage banks. This meant that a shell game could be played and the last person holding the mortgage may not have a good one. Banks protected their interests by creating layer upon layer of paper “derivatives” they could sell to the lowest levels of investors (those that bought into the market last). As the shell game raised the cost of housing, people were forced to stop buying houses. Temporarily, to protect the banks, interest rates were dropped. In order to keep the only sector still able to generate a profit for the banks, due to the deregulation, the banks issued riskier loans. It is impossible to have houses assembled elsewhere and ship them to a location. In order for builders to cut costs, cheaper labor has to be brought in from elsewhere. In order to actually employ the cheaper labor, trade unions would have to be destroyed. Thus we get “right to work” laws. Why hire a union worker when a non union one will cost you less than 1/3rd the amount in dollars and you can get away without paying for medical insurance as well. Once again, investors are happy to look the other way if labor costs are reduced so the loss of good paying jobs in this field didn’t bother them. The bubble was now primed and set to burst. Problems arose, when the oil companies allowed their market to be overtaken by speculators. Instead of having the direct cost of production and delivery setting the price for oil, deregulation allowed in gamblers that made bets and side bets which eventually came to be the dominating factor in the cost of a barrel of oil. The oil barons made so much more money making these bets that they pretty much have stopped much of their search for new sources of oil. They currently sit on 65,000,000 acres of land that they could explore and drill if necessary, but would rather steal more land from us than spend the money on exploration of their current assets. The obscene profits announced by Exxon Mobil every quarter are not poured back into production or exploration, they are placed into the betting pool. When the cost of getting to work started seriously eroding people’s ability to continue spending money on other goods, the schemes that hid the true cost of Reagan’s legacy started to unwind. People started curtailing their spending, layoffs increased, prices rose, as people lost jobs, mortgage defaults increased. As banks started tightening credit, people cut back further. The cut backs caused more layoffs in order to protect the investors bottom line. The recession started. The only way out of a recession is for people to spend money without using credit. That cannot happen without having jobs here in America. Investors will not part with their money, if they don’t see a benefit to them. Since manufacturing is not done here on a scale that creates the extravagant profits they seek, they are not willing to invest here in America. The only way to prime the economy is to take money from the upper 2% that control most it and get it into the hands of people that will spend it. But in order to get them to spend, you first have to stabilize their housing, food, medical, and transportation costs. It doesn’t matter if you call it socialism, it needs to be done. It always takes liberal policies to get the country out of the recessions caused by conservative greed. History repeatedly shows this to be true. Obama may not be liberal enough to get us out of the mess we are in, but he is a far better hope than McCain (one of the principal architects of deregulation) would ever be.
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Politics and Stupidity
by HabeneroThe problems America faces really are a result of stupidity. Dumb people chose our president by voting for the guy they think is mos…
The problems America faces really are a result of stupidity. Dumb people chose our president by voting for the guy they think is most like them. Just because Bush was the guy they’d most like to have a beer with, the fact that he bankrupted 2 oil companies in Texas (an oil rich state) due to his incompetence was overlooked. His goal from day one has always been about getting as much money for himself and his friends from the stupid tax payers as possible. Lets look at how sports arenas are now built. The team owners threaten to leave a city unless the city builds them a new stadium. The city council members often cave into these jackals (I suspect they are bought off) and give them lucrative deals that make it impossible for the city itself to make any money from the stadium itself. The city pays for the stadium and its upkeep, lets the team owners have the concession, parking, and most of the ticket revenue and the stadium is rarely used for anything else without giving most of that revenue to the team owner as well. By the time the stadium is paid for, the team owners will demand a new one due to the age of the old one. There are many that claim to want change but continue to vote for the incumbents. It is almost always a case of your incumbent is bad, but mine is OK that rules in the voting booth. Congress has a very low rating, but my Congressman is not part of the problem. Try thinking, if congress is bad, all congressmen should be replaced, including yours! Single issue voters are the biggest idiots out there. If the person running is decent in most respects and has promoted good fiscal policies, but is pro choice, isn’t he a better choice to be given the purse strings than the antiabortion guy that has a reputation for reckless financial choices? Then again, many of the morons in the anti-abortion crowd are for the death penalty. What part of being pro life justifies this? Doesn’t your bible say “Thou shalt not kill.”? If so, I don’t see any loophole that says that you can kill if the other person has done bad things, it is only a 4 word commandment. No wiggle room seems to be included. Think carefully, if the 95% of Americans earn less than $250,000 aren’t they going to have more money to spend if their taxes are cut? Is the country going to prosper if the majority of the residents has more money to spend? Consumer spending is the engine that built the economic engine of the country. We didn’t prosper because the rich people bought all the cars and houses. We prospered because the middle class had extra income and spent it. Reaganomics, has been doomed from the outset. The rich do not spend enough to keep the country afloat. There are too few of them. For capitalism to work properly, you need a broad market. If too few people can buy your products or services, you can’t sell them. If more and more of the wealth goes into the hands of fewer and fewer people, there is not going to be enough demand to drive the economy. Under liberal government policies, the rich bear a larger tax burden. This places more spendable income into the hands of more people. Many of them spend and the economy prospers. If you place more dollars into the hands of fewer people, you cut off the economic engine of the country, and throughout our history, liberal politics increased our prosperity. If you are dumb enough to vote for the “Deregulator General” and his fundamentalist fool, you may as well plead for them to provide some lube before they ream you. You won’t be getting any mercy from them. The only option this country has for now is to elect Obama because at least then the economy can start to recover from the disaster Reagan’s policies has caused.
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05-31-08 – Dixon IL. / Couldn’t resist grabbing a pic. I pass by the house a lot, but never seemed to have my camera with me when I did.
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Turbine of tub mill at the Alfred Reagan Place on Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, store owner, and mill owner. He was also a lay preacher at a church that he helped build on land that he donated. The house and the mill are the only buildings left. / Great Smoky Mountains National Park, May, 2008
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16” x 20” oil on Canvas of President Ronal Reagan.
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An anagram of Ronald Reagan
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At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California
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Remembering Ronald Reagan
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