12-08-2016, 07:11 PM
(12-06-2016, 05:59 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-06-2016, 04:51 AM)taramarie Wrote:(12-06-2016, 04:18 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-05-2016, 04:55 PM)taramarie Wrote: So yeah....don't listen to the media. Listen to the actual kiwi's who have to put up with his bs.
It looks like he put NZ on the path to a financial disaster of epic proportions. Kind of like the US.
Yeah and people are now worried who will take his place. I said, well hey at least if the next asshole who takes over is worse it may motivate people to scream for revolution. Not a bad thing really. Has to get worse before it gets better. Like a virus.
Given the current debt loads that western governments have it looks they will all have to slim down whether they like it or not. That is probably why the following SNL skit works.
The fourth turning is where the can kicking stops. At some level the left knows this but they don't want to face it.
But the debt has created the infrastructure that allows much of the economic activity that exists. In that it effectively pays for itself.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.