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[farmerjan]

@Senile_Texas_Aggie I cannot give you specific dates for the Glen Beck programs because I listen to them on "talk radio" on a local station. However, "The Blaze" network carries his podcasts. Since what I listened to was this past week, (Nov 9-13) I would think that it should be easy to find. I am not on the internet near as much as I was and continue to curtail my activity as I just am not comfortable with some of the tracking that is done. It shows up in the types of ads, that continue to bombard different forums I have gone on.
Atrocities have and continue to occur on both sides of any political situations. But I cannot believe that allowing for the government to have such total say so in every aspect of our life is something that you can attribute to the right or conservative side. As a conservative, and someone that believes in less government, what the "left" is preaching is as scary as anything I have ever heard. Look at some of the very healthy economies that socialism has brought down and destroyed in short spans of 20-30 years. The conservatives are not pushing for socialism. If you are concerned about your retirement, you need to sit up and take notice of several things that the "left" is preaching..... and the taxes that they are "suggesting" should be imposed. And yeah, they say only people in income brackets over xxx dollars.... until they run out of "give away money" and then they change the thresh hold and lower it more??? ( Look at VENEZUELA..... do a time line on the way the government takeover and control has destroyed it in 30 years.) High taxes on what you have put away for your retirement, through your own hard work and saving...... because others have not had the same "advantages"..... so you must help subsidized them?????? Sorry, I can be generous, but I will be d$#@ed if I am going to let them tax my retirement any more than it already is because some other smuck hasn't worked his tail off like me to try to get ahead and save for the future. I have a small enough retirement nest egg..... and I am not asking anyone else to "contribute" their hard earned money to mine.....But I will not leave it there to be taxed to give to someone else either.

 

[farmerjan]

Also, Glen Beck is one of the more reasonable and open minded of the "conservative talk show hosts" and he is big on FACTS.....

 

[Baymule]

10 pictures reveal the huge amounts of cash Venezuelans need to buy everyday things

On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced plans to raise the minimum wage and create a single exchange rate pegged to his government's petro-backed cryptocurrency, which would effectively devalue Venezuelan money by 96%.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[farmerjan]

If people on here think that what has happened in Venezuela can't happen here, you are fooling yourself. If we get into the socialistic "share everything, take care of everyone, no one has more than anyone else" way of life, there will be this and worse. He// it was tried back in "Plymouth", with the pilgrims, and didn't work because some people are never going to contribute their fair share if they can get away with not working.....
You have to have a reason to do some thing. You have to have an incentive to have pride in what you do. Giveaways to everyone for everything is not going to do it. And when there is little or nothing left there will be riots, there will be hoarding, there will be violence. Those of us that try to take care of ourselves, and help others, will be the targets of those that have no sense of anything except gimme and I want it now.......
Inflation is going to go crazy. I remember the 60's when my sister was born and we were building our house. I was 11 when she was born in 64 and we built the house in '66. Us kids helped to fill the foundation blocks with rocks, we picked up after the carpenters in the evenings and saved nails and scraps of lumber. My father worked a 2nd job a couple nights a week driving truck. I know that their interest rate on their mortgage was like 14%.
Right now things are very cheap as far as things like mortgage interest rates. Anyone who hasn't refinanced to take advantage of it is not only crazy but downright STUPID. If the inflation starts to go up, you might be able to keep your house..... but if the interest rate is alot higher, the value of your money is going to shrink and you might not be able to continue to make those payments. You may not be able to buy food with the dwindling dollars.
Look at the article that @Baymule referenced..... IT CAN HAPPEN HERE.

 

[farmerjan]

I am going to check cows. Had a heifer that was off by herself last evening and she will have maybe calved. Got to go find her. Go feed the horse at Deb's. Get the buckets filled with chicken feed and make sure the feeders are filled before I go test this afternoon. Tomorrow I will have to fill feeders again in the morning, then go to the PT at 9 and then leave and continue north to the 200 cow jersey farm in winchester 125 miles north to be there by 12:30 to test. Going to be a push. I will have to get enough sample bottles all racked up here today so that I can just drop off the ones from this afternoon/eve and get the rest, for tomorrow.
Anyone dealing with DMV in this craziness????? Getting a new title for the car is a nightmare.... not sending it in by mail as DS said that 2 of his friends are now dealing with LOST IN THE MAIL titles..... they have tracking numbers and all at least to deal with..... but getting an appt is over 30 days out at the soonest. He said that I can print off a confirmation e-mail that I have an appt..... with the title and bill of sale and can transfer my tags off the other car and have proof of ins.... and it will pass with our state police if I should get pulled over for anything...... that directly from a state cop friend of his..... since they are having all that to deal with at the state vdot also..... can't get a title for a new truck at work no less....
I tried 5 different offices to see if I could get an appt sooner.... NOPE.....
I will call the insurance office in the morning and get the ins transferred over off the forrester to the outback. 2x2 ranger clutch is about non-existent and don't want to continue to drive it, until it is fixed. Looks like th heater core is leaking... so it will be getting replaced.... HEY, it has 296,000 miles on it.... I am not complaining and I am certainly not going to get rid of it and take on payments..... NO WAY JOSE.....Fix the small stuff..... even fix the medium and large stuff.....If I spend 1,000 on it, it will be cheap.... and I don't think that I will spend more than 4-500......
Gotta go.... may not be back on for a day or 2 due to work schedule....

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

But I cannot believe that allowing for the government to have such total say so in every aspect of our life is something that you can attribute to the right or conservative side.

I started posting my response here but it had gotten so long that I decided to move the post to my journal. You can find my response here.

I watched a YouTube video titled "How the downfall of socialist Yugoslavia is STRIKINGLY similar to America today" on Glenn Beck's YouTube channel. Quite interesting. She made an excellent case for how to cause the downfall of a country. She claims it was socialism that did it. I am not convinced that it was socialism, although that may have been the cause. Instead, I think there were different groups who were present in Yugoslavia and saw the downfall of Communism in their country as an opportunity to seize power. They decided to use religion as the basis of sowing division. Regrettably, it worked. We saw it at work in Northern Ireland, where Protestants and Catholics, both of whom claimed to worship the same God, could slaughter each other in the name of that god. I see that at work in this country, where some people who want to seize power are using many different points of diference to create the "Other", some group of people who are different in some way. They follow the reasoning of "different from us" = "they are inferior" = "they are subhuman" = "they are bad and must be dealt with".

Does anyone have a reference for what happened in Venezuela that is presented in as objective a way as possible?

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Bruce]

While I am not an expert on Nazi Germany, I have read a good deal about it, as I have wanted to understand how a whole nation could be led by Hitler to perform such atrocities

In 1989(ish) Dad and Stepmom were vacationing in Europe. They talked to Germans who went through the Hitler years. The answer to your question is "By the time we knew what was happening it was too late to stop him". I suspect much of the atrocities were "I'll be killed if I don't do what I'm told".

What would make ME nervous? A leader that would send the country's military in to squelch its own people.

I know that their interest rate on their mortgage was like 14%.

My mortgage in 1988 under Ronald Reagan was 13.75%, I guess he was a Socialist? Interest rates rise and fall with the economy, I don't believe they are directly connected to any area of the political spectrum.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

What would make ME nervous? A leader that would send the country's military in to squelch its own people.

Ditto!

 

[rachels.haven]

Wow @Bruce , my great grandmother would not talk about the World Wars that she grew up in in Germany (immigrated to the US during early WW2 if memory serves). She wouldn't even speak German or let her children speak it at home. You're lucky they got someone to talk to them. I'm not sure what happened on an individual level socially around that time, but I get the impression it was very shameful and very bad.

 

[Mini Horses]

@farmerjan is this a floor sanding week? Would be nice....weather is decent.