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sumptuousdigs9 months ago

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Now it's no secret that some people who consider themselves very conservative and 'true republicans' have leveled a death wish for the Obama administration's policies. Some tout fiscal shrewdness and let the chips fall were they may conservatism. These people are obviously prepared to ride it out.
Others cite their desire to regain power, apparently risking all to win it all.
Any Capitalist worth his dollar knows that the end is not to amass wealth (it is just a means) but to amass power.
At the very outset of our National endeavor, the new government reneged on it's promise to pay the veterans of the revolution. Hamilton's argument was (as unsavory as he admitted it was) that the masses would just spend the money, but a select group would turn it into capital!

...and the rest, my friends, is history.

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  sumptuousdigs9 months ago
  
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  Oh yes, and one more thing. Germany's collapse precipitated it's defeat in the "Great War". The economic shamble was the Weimar Republic's to fix. And yes, lessons can be learned from this. Unfortunately, to many $$-men bought the idea that Iraq was a vein that was ours to mine.
  It's turned out to be the Mother(lode) of all shafts. While soldiers are making the sacrifices, it was high times in old Berlin...er Washington.
  
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