We Get What We Deserve?

"The collapse of the monetary system is only Act One in the destruction of the rule of law, of democracy, of the republic itself. Just what time is it exactly? How bad is it?"

Playwright Edward Albee said,

"Here's the thing about democracy, we can have anything we want but, we get what we deserve."

From: THIS IS AMERICA
[video archive: show 1110]

And from the Humorous Libertarian Blog Badtux The Snarky Penguin

' H.L. Mencken once said of democracy, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." '

We deserve what we get if we don't pay attention to what's happing now, and in history.

The collapse of the monetary system is only Act One in the destruction of the rule of law, of democracy, of the republic itself. The military industrial complex has trumped all the elected institutions through K-street lobbyists -- in plain view; and under the table through the corruption of elected officials who with out the lobby of mass movements to hinder their voting, are free to rake in illegal corporate cash in exchange for votes in our democratic institutions.

Just what time is it exactly? How bad is it? We all need to know.

From the right, Libertarian Presidential Candidate Ron Paul



On the same topic from the radical left website GlobalResearch.ca an article entitled Crisis of the U.S. Dollar System by journalist F. William Engdahl

From the left, with an indication of how bad it really is, economist James K. Galbraith who teaches economics at the University of Texas, from the Real News Network




James K. Galbraith is talking about large scale interventions in the economy, much like his father John K. Galbraith instituted to pull America out of the 1930's great depression under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Guardian.co.uk printed an except from John K. Galbraiths' last novel -- The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time(which you can read at Google Books), published in '04 before his death at 97 years in '06 -- entitled:

A Cloud Over Civilization - Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and the slaughter in Iraq.



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Vendor and Consumer Face Economic Depression in Kinky Role Playing Game Run Amok

Kinky Economics

"On the verge of a economic crash landing, and perhaps a great depression, the dark side of the mythos of the 'consumer driven economy' -- the collapse of it -- is now in play."

The play between vendor and consumer in the 'affluent society' is like a kinky role playing game run amok. Unless we envision a new out come, a lot of people will get hurt.

The vendor knows the cost of the widget; the consumer is addicted to the act of purchase; not the object itself but the act of buying and subsequently the act of replacing it; thus the higher the price of the widget the higher its value rather than the use-value of the object. The consumption of the new new and the garbaging of the old new is the modern consumer fetish. One up on displaying the new car, the new living room set, is the display in the garbage, the box that the new thing came in. Now the Jones's garbage may be better than yours. The garbage is always better garbage on the other side of the fence.

On the verge of a economic crash landing, and perhaps a great depression, the dark side of the mythos of the 'consumer driven economy' -- the collapse of it -- is now in play. In this neo-con fantasy, the consumer and the vendor strive for the dream of conspicuous consumption driven by the fear that the whole thing will collapse soon. They both 'know' they must eventually pay for their 'good times'.

The global economy is now resolving this self fulfilling prophesy; unless we think otherwise, no other out come is possible.

The other thinking is that the neo-con myth is just that; and that the solution is in a socialist direction; we need a new New Deal, another Great Society vision.



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Aaron Hill is Developing a Swing Outside the Strike Zone

Last night, late in the innings against Seattle, I watched Aaron Hill put a sweet swing on a pitch that was WAY down and in. The ball rocketed through the infield for a single.

Great hitters have good swing mechanics even out of the strike zone. Like Ichiro Suzuki or the great Barry Bonds - to me it looks like Aaron Hill may become a one of those.

















Aaron Hill Baseball card from www.sportsautosttm.com/

The Personal Blog of Don Mac Arthur has Morphed...

One of my favorite blogs, The Personal Blog of Don Mac Arthur has morphed - comments are no longer requested. This key change to this 'filter blog' is original in my experience, and may help create a commercially viable blog if Mac Arthur chooses - an Internet version of 'filter media' like NBC's Today Show or ABC's Good Morning America.

The publisher Don Mac Arthur is creating a finished product every day that he alone creates. Don Mac Arthur's witty comments around news items he quotes from, are as original as the quality sources he links the reader up with. Those interested in science, politics and the human condition will enjoy these irreverent swipes at perception and habit, and find a treasure trove of bookmark worthy links.

In an earlier post on Don Mac Arthur's site, I opined that my comments may have gotten me blocked from the site. My fetish for tipping the intellectual apple cart may have something to do with it. I sometimes challenge people to unravel logical extensions; sometimes my 'poems' are miss-interpreted.

The new format re-titled, 'Caught My Eye - The Personal Blog of Don Mac Arthur' ends the bloggers head ache of responding to comments every day - and at the same time fixes the problem of 'phishing' and 'hit collecting' that clutter comments pages of may blogs and can devalue a project(I do not plead guilty to this, I was linking in the spirit of the blog-o-sphere) .



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