Footnote from “How To Do Economic History”
Joseph Salerno
So-called "neoconservatism," which dominates the conservative movement and the Republican Party in the United States, is merely a variant of modern liberalism. Its leading theoreticians envision a slightly smaller and more efficient welfare state, combined with a larger and more actively interventionist global-warfare state.
You can’t have a war without an enemy.
If you don’t have an enemy create one.
War has always been used by the ruling elite as a way of
CONTROLLING THE POPULATION.
Lenny Ladner
“It is an age-old axiom that rulers often, in periods of dire economic distress, seek by a bold foreign policy to divert attention from the home front to distant stormy horizons.
Some historians believe that, in 1937, President Roosevelt followed this axiom with regard to his famous quarantine speech delivered in Chicago on October 5, 1937.
There is no doubt that he was deeply concerned over the severe economic recession in the United States which became manifest in the late summer of 1937. After a conversation with the President on august 11, Ambassador Dodd recorded in his diary that the Chief Executive was “greatly troubled about the danger of war and also the continued depression in the United States.”
From Charles Callan Tansill’s “Back Door to war.”
Page 342.
Quote from Ambassador Dodd, “Ambassador Dodd’s Diary.”
“When you have a crisis try and make the most of it.”
White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel.
(Financial Crisis, 2008, Health Care, Louisiana Oil Platform)
6/24/10
Just one of those days.
Government gets bigger.
Your taxes go higher.
Your paycheck buys less.
The dollar becomes worth less, and less until it becomes
WORTHLESS.
Lenny Ladner
"I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another."
~ George Washington, draft of First Inaugural Address, 1789
