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BAD SIR BRIAN BOTANY
by A.A.Milne Sir Brian had a battleaxe with great big knobs on. He went among the villagers and blipped them on the head. On Wednesday and on Saturday, Especially on the latter day, He called on all the cottages and this is what he said: "I am Sir Brian!" (Ting-ling!) "I am Sir Brian!" (Rat-tat!) "I am Sir Brian, "As bold as a lion! "Take that, and that, and that!" Sir Brian had a pair of boots with great big spurs on;. A fighting pair of which he was particularly fond. On Tuesday and on Friday, Just to make the street look tidy, He'd collect the passing villagers and kick them in the pond. "I am Sir Brian!" (Sper-lash!) "I am Sir Brian!" (Sper-losh!) "I am Sir Brian, "As bold as a Lion! "Is anyone else for a wash?" Sir Brian woke one morning and he couldn't find his battleaxe. He walked into the village in his second pair of boots. He had gone a hundred paces When the street was full of faces And the villagers were round him with ironical salutes. "You are Sir Brian? My, my. "You are Sir Brian? Dear, dear. "You are Sir Brian "As bold as a lion? "Delighted to meet you here!" Sir Brian went a journey and he found a lot of duckweed. They pulled him out and dried him and they blipped him on the head. They took him by the breeches And they hurled him into ditches And they pushed him under waterfalls and this is what they said: "You are Sir Brian -- don't laugh! "You are Sir Brian -- don't cry! "You are Sir Brian "As bold as a lion -- "Sir Brian the Lion, goodbye!" Sir Brian struggled home again and chopped up his battleaxe. Sir Brian took his fighting boots and threw them in the fire. He is quite a different person Now he hasn't got his spurs on, And he goes about the village as B. Botany, Esquire. "I am Sir Brian? Oh, no! "I am Sir Brian? Who's he? "I haven't any title, I'm Botany; "Plain Mr. Botany (B.) |
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This country needs to address the real causes of our economic deterioration and not pander to the people who puts us where we are today.
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When government both runs and regulates a business it is under the same corrupting influences as any other business that tries self-regulation within the same chain of command. Worse, gov at the top has been experimenting with social engineering for the past 50 years as it wages an expensive and losing "War on Poverty." So when the gov sets the laws that govern the business with the profit as secondary and runs the business as a social agency and manages the regulators it should come as no surprise when the gov totally focks it all up. |
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OK then, let's get government out of the way and solve this situation once and for all. Oh wait, they already tried that in the 1920's and 30's.
Also FYI: Fannie and Freddie were privately-run institutions until last year. So was Wall Street.
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In the post WWI era the Republicans raised huge tariffs to protect domestic production from "unfair" foreign competition. In response, foreign countries raised huge tariffs to protect their own products. Worldwide the governments raised tariffs which precipitated the Great Depression. Look up "Smoot-Hawley" for an explanation of events. Then when FDR came into office he raised gov spending and created socialist spending programs in the USA. Businesses collapsed, tax receipts plummeted, exports slowed and commerce slowly ground to a halt and then began shrinking until Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo pulled the world from the downward economic spiral and into the all-consuming fire of war. |
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- Peter.
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A Prius?
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The economy collapsed before FDR came to office. You have your timeline upside down.
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This is a very timely article that juse came online today. http://mises.org/story/3318
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I would say that's more a matter of opinion than anything else. Even today it's impossible to say accurately and objectively how much the bailouts have helped if at all, since it's very difficult to track every dollar.
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It's not necessary to track each dollar, but you can track every dollar. Care to hazzard a guess at the decline in the value of the dollar since government intervention in the economy became big business? I'm not putting this all on FDR, but you have to give him credit for really running with the ball on it.
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