Post by mikekerstetter on Apr 10, 2011 4:55:28 GMT -5
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America has been brought to its knees by a Left that has empowered the state and a Right that has subsidized big business. The nation has been disempowered by an axis between the apparatchiks of State elites that pass laws that concentrate wealth in the hands of the financial elite that funds them. Over the last century, the Left have tended to harp on about the corruption of corporate and financial interests, while the Right have tended to harp on about the corruption of State interests.....
Two maxims appear to be more pertinent today than ever in American politics.
The first is, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” known as Herbert Stein’s Law.
The second is Churchill’s observation that “the Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted all other possibilities.”
America has been brought to its knees by a Left that has empowered the state and a Right that has subsidized big business. The nation has been disempowered by an axis between the apparatchiks of State elites that pass laws that concentrate wealth in the hands of the financial elite that funds them. Over the last century, the Left have tended to harp on about the corruption of corporate and financial interests, while the Right have tended to harp on about the corruption of State interests.....
Two maxims appear to be more pertinent today than ever in American politics.
The first is, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” known as Herbert Stein’s Law.
The second is Churchill’s observation that “the Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted all other possibilities.”
