tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post4616732008917852176..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: How K Street Pimps AmericaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-29877994637481645092009-05-16T04:18:00.000-07:002009-05-16T04:18:00.000-07:00The time for revolution may have come and gone. Th...The time for revolution may have come and gone. There is nothing left now but to provide for one's self as best one can. The current recession is but a tame preview of apocalypse. <br /><br /> Pretty much sums up the future of the United States.Trade deficit,budget deficit,National Debt,useless wars and the growing income gap it will get much worse.Crime and poverty will increase at alarming rates.I don't know if the time for revolution has gone but if it hasn't who will participate in it?Fringe groups,white supremacists or the masses that have been eviscerated by the economic policies of the last 30 years?The one thing i truly don't understand is why do they hate the middle class so much?Why was being rich not enough for them?gingyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06728011145301196029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-24203812316239693212009-05-16T03:03:00.000-07:002009-05-16T03:03:00.000-07:00Eddie said...Right on, Len! Thanks for this insigh...Eddie said...<BR><BR><EM>Right on, Len! Thanks for this insightful article describing the pay-to-play system ...</EM><BR><BR>Thanks, Eddie. There are so many 'sub-plots' to this 'auction'. One of them has to do with the fact that as wealth is literally TRANSFERRED upward to the top one percent, venal right wing politicians have REFUSED to make those who benefit most from US wars of aggression pay for the wars fought for their benefit. Rather, the elites get a TAX CUT. The costs of war are always born by those who least able to pay for them. <br /><br />This process is known for the treason and crooked theft that it is in fact. The time for revolution may have come and gone. There is nothing left now but to provide for one's self as best one can. The current recession is but a tame preview of apocalypse.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-29796204457180930762009-05-14T16:55:00.000-07:002009-05-14T16:55:00.000-07:00Right on, Len! Thanks for this insightful article ...Right on, Len! Thanks for this insightful article describing the pay-to-play system, and whose agenda matters more to elected officials.<br /><br />It is most certainly not the ordinary wage-slave American.Eddienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-30128367437852822032009-05-14T05:59:00.000-07:002009-05-14T05:59:00.000-07:00Ryan (Biloxi Marx) said...Karl's work was altered,...Ryan (Biloxi Marx) said...<BR><BR><EM>Karl's work was altered, communism was cooperation, but those who are best used by the same ilk for eons ... have always been "violently opposed" by the freaks of nature who need their isms.</EM>The 'ism' du jour is 'corporatism' or ISM, INC. Another word for it fascism and we are sorely fucked! <br /><br />Thanks for your very interesting post and sharing your BG. As you may know, I have oft quoted your cuz. Recent events have proven him to be absolutely correct on a number of issue not the least of which is the very source of 'wealth'. Sadly, because of the big right wing noise machine, it is always forgotten that it was not only Karl Marx but also so-called 'conservative' economists like Adam Smith and Ricardo who espoused a 'labor theory' of value. In America, the elite have managed to convince themselves that they alone create wealth and that it 'trickles down'. The harm done mankind by that stupid notion may never be assessed. <br /><br />Thanks for posting and sharing with us.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-69486698347694418142009-05-13T18:50:00.000-07:002009-05-13T18:50:00.000-07:00My cousin is Karl Marx and although this to me has...My cousin is Karl Marx and although this to me has never been anything other than a skeleton to hide in our family closet, I have found it of great interest during this time. My brother studied him (Karl) as a scholar. Karl's work was altered, communism was cooperation, but those who are best used by the same ilk for eons ... have always been "violently opposed" by the freaks of nature who need their isms. It's my understanding Karl did not believe in isms, a yoke, ism.<br /><br />Karl knew of this time because it is nothing new. My brother also told me of almost everything we are experiencing, in the 1960s. Robin de Ruiter is difficult to read due to his multi-lingual capacity, but well worth the struggle to read. His bibliography is the same as my brothers' was.<br /><br />This said, I want to say that the so-called presidents of the US have been nothing more than an altered or genetically engineered stooge for the god government of earth.<br /><br />All of them. Mostly poly-addicted and the Mengeles' style "modern medicine" has certainly been an effective WMD.<br /><br />Perhaps one or maybe even two have had some consciousness, however, all in all the kings and queens of America have been easily corrupted by the predatory vampires of antiquity.<br /><br />Technology and poisons.<br /><br />Bio-engineered human beings are robots: GMO has shrunk the brains, thus harvesting the most important organ for thinking. Not only brains, but hearts, lungs, livers, pancreas, spleen, etc.<br /><br />Ooops.<br /><br />No less than how many generations of brain dead do we have as "Americans?" Add the GMOs to the other forms of poisons ... <br /><br />fluoride in the water, chemtrails in the skies, hyper-active drugs in the children ...<br /><br />it goes on and on to what has been manufactured in the US with respect to the 'human being.'<br /><br />Queen Elizabeth I sent Sir Walter Raleigh to purchase Virginia and he did. She sent Sir Francis Drake to purchase California and he did.<br /><br />She was the first successful CEO and CAPITALIST. Saw the "new world" flowering and so she recalled her father's error of loose money distribution, recoined and sent her foreign agents to represent England's interest in owning 'America.'<br /><br />Time for a new idea?<br /><br />I love your writing Len. You are, in my opinion, one of the greatest political writers and not just a political writer - a poetic scholar of the English language.<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />Biloxi Marx (using my son Ryan's blogger ID).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-4887233778526897482009-05-13T01:59:00.000-07:002009-05-13T01:59:00.000-07:00More info re: Ronald Reagan:
Milton Friedman's R...More info re: Ronald Reagan: <br /><br /><A HREF="http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/11/milton-friedmans-role-and-his-influence_27.html" REL="nofollow">Milton Friedman's Role and His Influence on the Two Worst Regimes in US History</A><BR><BR><A HREF="http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-ronald-reagan-blew-worlds-last.html" REL="nofollow">How Ronald Reagan Blew the World's Last Chance for Peace</A><BR><BR><A HREF="http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-gopneocon-axis-of-evil-threatens.html" REL="nofollow">How the GOP/Neocon Axis of Evil Threatens America, Advocates Terrorism</A>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-80600583586451664902009-05-13T01:22:00.000-07:002009-05-13T01:22:00.000-07:00gingy sez..tumbled on this site looking for eviden...gingy sez..<BR><BR><EM>tumbled on this site looking for evidence to refute "Reagan created 21 million jobs "crap. </EM><BR><BR>It is crap. If Reagan created ANY jobs at all, he lost many more. In fact, Reagan was among the very worst Prezzes in history in terms of 'job creation'. You may be interested in this excerpt from the article I wrote for Intel Daily: <BR><BR>January 28th, 2008<br />How Ronald Reagan Blew the World's Last Chance for Peace<BR><BR>By Len Hart<BR><BR> Ronald Reagan is remembered for doubling the Federal Bureaucracy, tripling the national debt, and ushering in a two year long depression. He is remembered for making the rich, richer, the poor, poorer and all at taxpayer expense. As bad as all that is, Reagan's lasting legacy is his worst and most dangerous. Reagan may have blown the world's last chance to achieve a non-nuclear peace. ...<br /><br />Reagan's tax cuts were the foundation of a generation of American prosperity. The facts are these: 1) The regime of Ronald Reagan is characterized by anemic overall growth. 2) Jimmy Carter ranks second only to LBJ in over economic growth among American post-war Presidents. It is a myth, if not a deliberate GOP lie, that Reagan is among the best US Presidents in the category of job creation. He is, in fact, among the very worst:<BR><BR> Job Growth Per Year Under Most Recent Presidents<BR><BR> Johnson 3.8%<BR> Carter 3.1<BR> Clinton 2.4<BR> Kennedy 2.3<BR> Nixon 2.3<BR> Reagan 2.1<BR> Bush 0.6Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-91196471416953899062009-05-12T17:58:00.000-07:002009-05-12T17:58:00.000-07:00Wow,stumbled on this site looking for evidence to ...Wow,stumbled on this site looking for evidence to refute "Reagan created 21 million jobs "crap. Interesting and impressive blog.Reaganomics destroyed the middle class.Are you familiar with the book"Agents of influence"?not well written but it highlighted the dangers of foreign lobbyists.I look forward to reading your blog in the future on another note ny favorite book is "The Stranger"gingyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06728011145301196029noreply@blogger.com