The Republican's in-house Jew, Cantor, says "the Republican party MUST be inclusive and Rush's crap doesn't help anyone.
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damned well be concerned about their direction of hatred and
obstructionism.
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Cantor Says Rhetoric Harmful, Republicans Must Be Inclusive
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Lorraine Woellert
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in
the U.S. House, said his party needs to be inclusive and specifically
said that some comments by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh were
inappropriate.
“The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we
ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,”
Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s
“Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing today.
Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that “Adolf Hitler, like
Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate” and his comparison of the
administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said Limbaugh was
wrong.
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?”
Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that
conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
He also took issue with some of the harsher rhetoric of Republican
colleagues in the House.
Cantor, 46, said Republicans must stay unified if they’re to win
elections. “That’s the lesson learned” from the Nov. 3 Republican
gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia, and the defeat in
the New York congressional race that divided the party, he said.
Tax Cuts
On the economy, the issue voters said was most important in the
elections, Cantor said he would seek individual and corporate tax cuts
as a way to boost the economy as unemployment breaks 10 percent, and
align the U.S. tax structure with those of other developed countries.
He said he also would cut spending.
“Right now the United States has one of the most disadvantaged tax
structures in the industrialized world,” Cantor said. “We better start
looking very seriously at reducing these tax rates to attract
investments so we create jobs.”
Reducing the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from the current 35
percent would rank the U.S. in the middle of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, he said. He also proposed
reducing the capital gains rate, even temporarily, to spur
investment.
“If we could make sure that we maintain the lower capital gains rate
that we have now, we provide a lot of certainty to investors that are
on the sidelines,” Cantor said. “If we could lower it even further in
the interim to jump-start some investment activity,” he said, “that
should be priority one.”
Health Care
Cantor said the Republican gubernatorial election victories by
Christopher Christie, 47, in New Jersey, who defeated Democratic
incumbent Jon Corzine, 62, and Bob McDonnell, 55, who beat Democratic
state Senator Creigh Deeds, 51, in Virginia, will affect this
weekend’s planned House vote on the Democrats’ $1.05 trillion health-
care overhaul.
“The frustration exhibited among the voters in Virginia were focused
on the policies in Washington and the government overreach,” Cantor
said. “The sense really is that the agenda being pursued here is far
outside the mainstream of what most people want.”
He called the Democratic plan “an expansion of government health care,
period,” adding: “We know that there is an unsustainable system in the
government right now. We can’t afford it.”
Obama has said that he wants a bill that won’t add to the federal
budget deficit, currently about $1.4 trillion.
Republican Plan
A Republican alternative designed to lower health-care costs has a
price tag of about $61 billion. The Congressional Budget Office
estimates that the Republican plan would cover about 3 million
additional Americans, or about one-tenth of those helped by the
Democratic plan. It also would reduce the deficit by less than the
Democrats’ plan.
“Our bill will reduce health-care costs,” Cantor said. “And if we go
back to the very beginning of this debate, President Obama said this
country can’t afford the rising health-care costs. And we can’t.”
At the same time, he refused to say whether he would cut entitlement
spending to help reduce the deficit.
His comments about Limbaugh and other members of his party put him at
odds with some party leaders. Michael Steele, chairman of the
Republican National Committee, also took issue with Limbaugh’s
comments, then relented.
Cantor was critical of Republicans such as Representative Virginia
Foxx of North Carolina, who called the Democratic health plan a
greater threat to America than terrorists, and Minnesota Governor Tim
Pawlenty, who took fellow Republican Olympia Snowe to task for voting
with Democrats. Pawlenty later said the Maine senator is “absolutely
welcome” in the party.
Cantor defended Snowe, saying she “is talking to Democrats the way she
does a lot, the way we all do.”
The House and Senate, Cantor said, are “plagued by a political
mandate” from Democrats. “The only time that you would have a chance
to get an insertion in the bill is to talk to a Democrat.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Lorraine Woellert in Washington
at lwoe...@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 6, 2009 13:41 EST
sr
Sen. McCain is so popular with the talking heads.
I don't think Democrat monitor their own party like the Republican do.
Republicans have too much of an individual attitude for a pack mentality.
So there is conflict in the party, not a bad thing. Glad to know you are
worried about the Republicans and others.
Thank you for caring for others
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> Ya, Democrats like it when Republican speak against their own, that is why
> Sen. McCain is so popular with the talking heads.
> I don't think Democrat monitor their own party like the Republican do.
> Republicans have too much of an individual attitude for a pack mentality.
> So there is conflict in the party, not a bad thing. Glad to know you are
> worried about the Republicans and others.
> Thank you for caring for others
>
really stupid as usual there el shitheaded hillbilly,
hey gomer, if you crackers know it all, why is it that everything you
do ends with monumental fuckups and why ain't yall as wealthy as your
owners,
I mean since all you plans and policies are so great why aren;t you
shitheads in power ?
did those mean old Democwats cheat ?
WWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
El Castor
>On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:51:04 -0800 (PST), GLOBALIST
><free....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Reducing the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from the current 35
>>percent would rank the U.S. in the middle of the Organization for
>>Economic Cooperation and Development, he said. He also proposed
>>reducing the capital gains rate, even temporarily, to spur
>>investment.
>
>Eric is not too damn bright. It was not high taxes that caused this
>financial collapse. It was the shady activities of the big
>banksters.
Sadly, Gary, you're the one that's not too bright, but we already knew
that didn't we? Eric Cantor was exactly right. Cutting the corporate
tax rate is the correct thing to do, and so is reducing the deficit
and cutting the capital gains rate.
And, by the way, "In house Jew"? Anyone who hasn't plonked the
jackass anti-semite who dreamed that one up should be ashamed of
themselves.
Anyhow, I don't know what to say about that lack of brain power Gary.
I suppose its plagued you all your life. Maybe there's a pill, or
something?
Jean Smith
wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:51:04 -0800 (PST), GLOBALIST
> <free....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Reducing the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from the current 35
> >percent would rank the U.S. in the middle of the Organization for
> >Economic Cooperation and Development, he said. He also proposed
> >reducing the capital gains rate, even temporarily, to spur
> >investment.
>
> Eric is not too damn bright. It was not high taxes that caused this
> financial collapse. It was the shady activities of the big
> banksters.
Like rating liars loans AAA.
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> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:30:48 -0500, Gary <n...@none.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:51:04 -0800 (PST), GLOBALIST
>><free....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Reducing the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from the current 35
>>>percent would rank the U.S. in the middle of the Organization for
>>>Economic Cooperation and Development, he said. He also proposed
>>>reducing the capital gains rate, even temporarily, to spur
>>>investment.
>>
>>Eric is not too damn bright. It was not high taxes that caused this
>>financial collapse. It was the shady activities of the big
>>banksters.
>
>
> Sadly, Gary, you're the one that's not too bright, but we already knew
> that didn't we? Eric Cantor was exactly right. Cutting the corporate
> tax rate is the correct thing to do, and so is reducing the deficit
> and cutting the capital gains rate.
How are you going to cut taxes and reduce the deficit?
Josh Rosenbluth
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From my whole nature, and to an even greater degree from my temperament, my father
believed he could draw the inference that the humanistic Gymnasium would represent a
conflict with my talents. A Realschol seemed to him more suitable. In this opinion he was
especially strengthened by my obvious aptitude for drawing; a subject which in his opinion
was neglected in the Austrian Gymnasiums. Another factor may have been his own laborious
career which made humanistic study seem impractical in his eyes, and therefore less
desirable. It was hus basic opinion and intention that, like himself, his son would and
must become a civil servant. It was only natural that the hardships of his youth should
enhance his subsequent achievement in his eyes, particularly since it resulted exclusively
from his own energy and iron diligence. It was the pride of the self-made man which made
him want his son to rise to the same position in life, orJ of course, even higher if
possible, especially since, by his own industrious life, he thought he would be able to
facilitate his child's development so greatly.
It was simply inconceivable to him that I might reject what had become the content of his
whole life. Consequently, my father s decision was simple, definite, and clear; in his own
eyes I mean, of course. Finally, a whole lifetime spent in the bitter struggle for
existence had given him a domineering nature, and it would have seemed intolerable to him
to leave the final decision in such matters to an inexperienced boy, having as yet no
Sense of responsibility. Moreover, this would have seemed a sinful and reprehensible
weakness in the exercise of his proper parental authority and responsibility for the
future life of his child, and as such, absolutely incompatible with his concept of duty.
And yet things were to turn out differently.
Then barely eleven years old, I was forced into opposition for the first time in my life.
Hard and determined as my father might be in putting through plans and purposes once
conceived his son was just as persistent and recalcitrant in rejecting an idea which
appealed to him not at all, or in any case very little.
I did not want to become a civil servant.
Neither persuasion nor 'serious' arguments made any impression on my resistance. I did not
want to be a civil servant no, and again no. All attempts on my father's part to inspire
me with love or pleasure in this profession by stories from his own life accomplished the
exact opposite. I yawned and grew sick to my stomach at the thought of sitting in an
office, deprived of my liberty; ceasing to be master of my own time and being compelled to
force the content of a whole life into blanks that had to be filled out.
And what thoughts could this prospect arouse in a boy who in reality was really anything
but 'good' in the usual sense of the word?
School work was ridiculously easy, leaving me so much free time that the sun saw more of
me than my room. When today my political opponents direct their loving attention to the
examination of my life, following it back to those childhood days and discover at last to
their relief what intolerable pranks this "Hitler" played even in his youth, I thank
Heaven that a portion of the memories of those happy days still remains with me. Woods and
meadows were then the battlefields on which the 'conflicts' which exist everywhere in life
were decided.
In this respect my attendance at the Realschule, which now commenced, made little
difference.
But now, to be sure, there was a new conflict to be fought out.
As long as my fathers intention of making me a civil servant encountered only my
theoretical distaste for the profession, the conflict was bearable. Thus far, I had to
some extent been able to keep my private opinions to myself; I did not always have to
contradict him immediately. My own firm determination never to become a civil servant
sufficed to give me complete inner peace. And this decision in me was immutable. The
problem became more difficult when I developed a plan of my own in opposition to my
father's. And this occurred at the early age of twelve. How it happened, I myself do not
know, but one day it became clear to me that I would become a painter, an artist. There
was no doubt as to my talent for drawing; it had been one of my father's reasons for
sending me to the Realschule, but never in all the world would it have occurred to him to
give me professional training in this direction. On the contrary. When for the first time,
after once again rejecting my father's favorite notion, I was asked what I myself wanted
to be, and I rather abruptly blurted out the decision I had meanwhile made, my father for
the moment was struck speechless.
' Painter? Artist? '
He doubted my sanity, or perhaps he thought he had heard wrong or misunderstood me. But
when he was clear on the subject, and particularly after he felt-the seriousness of my
intention, he opposed it with all the determination of his nature. His decision was
extremely simple, for any consideration of w at abilities I might really have was simply
out of the question.
'Artist, no, never as long as I live!' But since his son, among various other qualities,
had apparently inherited his father' s stubbornness, the same answer came back at him.
Except, of course, that it was in the opposite sense.
And thus the situation remained on both sides. My father did not depart from his 'Never!'
And I intensified my 'Oh, yes!'
The consequences, indeed, were none too pleasant. The old man grew embittered, and, much
as I loved him, so did I. Ally father forbade me to nourish the slightest hope of ever
being allowed to study art. I went one step further and declared that if that was the case
I would stop studying altogether. As a result of such 'pronouncements,' of course, I drew
the short end; the old man began the relentless enforcement of his authority. In the
future, therefore, I was silent, but transformed my threat into reality. I thought that
once my father saw how little progress I was making at the Realschule, he would let me
devote myself to my dream, whether he liked it or not.
I do not know whether this calculation was correct. For the moment only one thing was
certain: my obvious lack of success at school. What gave me pleasure I learned, especially
everything which, in my opinion, I should later need as a painter. What seemed to me
unimportant in this respect or was otherwise unattractive to me, I sabotaged completely.
My report cards at this time, depending on the subject and my estimation of it, showed
nothing but extremes. Side by side with 'laudable' and 'excellent,' stood 'adequate' or
even 'inadequate.' By far my best accomplishments were in geography and even more so in
history. These were my favorite subjects, in which I led the; class.
If now, after so many years, I examine the results of this period, I regard two
outstanding facts as particularly significant:
First: I became a nationalist
Second: I learned to understand and grasp the meaning of history.
Old Austria was a 'state of nationalities.'
-- Andy
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skilled craftsman, but was obliged to seek my daily bread as a so-called helper and
sometimes as a casual laborer.
I adopted the attitude of all those who shake the dust of Europe from their feet with the
irrevocable intention of founding a new existence in the New World and conquering a new
home. Released from all the old, paralyzing ideas of profession and position, environment
and tradition, they snatch at every livelihood that offers itself, grasp at every sort of
work, progressing step by step to the realization that honest labor, no matter of what
sort, disgraces no one. I, too, was determined to leap into this new world, with both
feet, and fight my way through.
I soon learned that there was always some kind of work to be had, but equally soon I found
out how easy it was to lose it.
The uncertainty of earning my daily bread soon seemed to me one of the darkest sides of my
new life.
The ' skilled' worker does not find himself out on the street as frequently as the
unskilled; but he is not entirely immune to this fate either. And in his case the loss of
livelihood owing to lack of work is replaced by the lock-out, or by going on strike
himself.
In this respect the entire economy suffers bitterly from the individual's insecurity in
earning his daily bread.
The peasant boy who goes to the big city, attracted by the easier nature of the work (real
or imaginary), by shorter hours, but most of all by the dazzling light emanating from the
metropolis, is accustomed to a certain security in the matter of livelihood. He leaves his
old job only when there is at least some prospect of a new one. For there is a great lack
of agricultural workers, hence the probability of any long period of unemployment is in
itself small. It is a mistake to believe that the young fellow who goes to the big city is
made of poorer stuff than his brother who continues to make an honest living from the
peasant sod. No, on the contrary: experience shows that all those elements which emigrate
consist of the healthiest and most energetic natures, rather than conversely. Yet among
these 'emigrants' we must count, not only those who go to America, but to an equal degree
the young farmhand who resolves to leave his native village for the strange city. He, too,
is prepared to face an uncertain fate. As a rule he arrives in the big city with a certain
amount of money; he has no need to lose heart on the very first day if he has the ill
fortune to find no work for any length of time. But it is worse if, after finding a job,
he soon loses it. To find a new one, especially in winter, is often difficult if not
impossible. Even so, the first weeks are tolerable. He receives an unemployment benefit
from his union funds and manages as well as possible. But when his last cent is gone and
the union, due to the long duration of his unemployment, discontinues its payments, great
hardships
begin. Now he walks the streets, hungry; often he pawns and sells his last possessions;
his clothing becomes more and more wretched; and thus he sinks into external surroundings
which, on top of his physical misfortune, also poison his soul. If he is evicted and if
(as is so often the case) this occurs in winter, his misery is very great. At length he
finds some sort of job again. But the old story is repeated. The same thing happens a
second time, the third time perhaps it is even worse, and little by little he learns to
bear the eternal insecurity with greater and greater indifference. At last the repetition
becomes a habit.
And so this man, who was formerly so hard-working, grows lax in his whole view of life and
gradually becomes the instrument of those who use him only for their own base advantage.
He has so often been unemployed through no fault of his own that one time more or less
ceases to matter, even when the aim is no longer to fight for economic rights, but to
destroy political, social, or culturaL values in general. He may not be exactly
enthusiastic about strikes, but at any rate he has become indifferent.
With open eyes I was able to follow this process in a thousand examples. The more I
witnessed it, the greater grew my revulsion for the big city which first avidly sucked men
in and then so cruelly crushed them.
When they arrived, they belonged to their people; after remaining for a few years, they
were lost to it.
I, too, had been tossed around by life in the metropolis- in my own skin I could feel the
effects of this fate and taste them with my soul. One more thing I saw: the rapid change
from work to unemployment and vice versa, plus the resultant fluctuation of income, end by
destroying in many all feeling for thrift, or any understanding for a prudent ordering of
their lives. It would seem that the body gradually becomes accustomed to living on the fat
of the land in good times and going hungry in bad times. Indeed, hunger destroys any
resolution for reasonable budgeting in better times to come by holding up to the eyes of
its tormented victim an eternal mirage of good living and raising this dream to such a
pitch of longing that a pathological desire puts an end to all restraint as soon as wages
and earnings make it at all possible. The consequence is that once the man obtains work he
irresponsibly forgets all ideas of order and discipline, and begins to live luxuriously
for the pleasures of the moment. This upsets even the small weekly budget, as even here
any intelligent apportionment is lacking; in the beginning it suffices for five days
instead of seven, later only for three, finally scarcely for one day, and in the end it is
drunk up in the very first night.
Often he has a wife and children at home. Sometimes they, too, are infected by this life,
especially when the man is good to them on the whole and actually loves them in his own
way. Then the weekly wage is used up by the whole family in two or three days; they eat
and drink as long as the money holds out and the last days they go hungry. Then the wife
drags herself out into the neighborhood, borrows a little, runs up little debts at the
food store, and in this way strives to get through the hard last days of the week. At noon
they all sit together before their meager and sometimes empty bowls, waiting for the next
payday, speaking of it, making plans, and, in their hunger, dreaming of the happiness to
come.
And so the little children, in their earliest beginnings, are made familiar with this
misery.
It ends badly if the man goes his own way from the very beginning and the woman, for the
children's sake, opposes him. Then there is fighting and quarreling, and, as the man grows
estranged from his wife, he becomes more intimate with alcohol. He is drunk every
Saturday, and, with her instinct of selfpreservation for herself and her children, the
woman has to fight to get even a few pennies out of him; and, to make matters worse, this
usually occurs on his way from the factory to the barroom. When at length he comes home on
Sunday or even Monday night, drunk and brutal, but always parted from his last cent, such
scenes often occur that God have mercy!
I have seen this in hundreds of instances. At first I was repelled or even outraged, but
later I understood the whole tragedy of this misery and its deeper causes. These people
are the unfortunate victims of bad conditions!
Even more dismal in those days were the housing conditions. The misery in which the
Viennese day laborer lived was frightful to behold. Even today it fills me with horror
when I think of these wretched caverns, the lodging houses and tenements, sordid scenes of
garbage, repulsive filth, and worse.
What was-and still is-bound to happen some day, when the stream of unleashed slaves pours
forth from these miserable dens to avenge themselves on their thoughtless fellow men F
For thoughtless they are!
Thoughtlessly they let things slide along, and with their utter lack of intuition fail
even to suspect that sooner or later Fate must bring retribution, unless men conciliate
Fate while there is still time.
How thankful I am today to the Providence which sent me to that school! In it I could no
longer sabotage the subjects I did not like. It educated me quickly and thoroughly.
If I did not wish to despair of the men who constituted my environment at that time, I had
to learn to distinguish between their external characters and lives and the foundations of
their development. Only then could all this be borne without losing heart. Then, from all
the misery and despair, from all the filth and outward degeneration, it was no longer
human beings that emerged, but the deplorable results of deplorable laws; and the hardship
of my own life, no easier than the others, preserved me from capitulating in tearful
sentimentality to the degenerate products of this process of development.
No, this is not the way to understand all these things!
Even then I saw that only a twofold road could lead to the goal of improving these
conditions:
The deepest sense of social responsibility for the creation of better foundations for our
development, coupled with brutal determination on breaking down incurable tenors.
Just as Nature does not concentrate her greatest attention in preserving what exists, but
in breeding offspring to carry on the species, likewise, in human life, it is less
important artificially to alleviate existing evil, which, in view of human nature, is
ninety-nine per cent impossible, than to ensure
from the start healthier channels for a future development.
During my struggle for existence in Vienna, it had become clear to me that
Social activity must never and on no account be directed toward philanthropic flim-flam,
but rather toward the elimination of the basic deficiencies in the organization of our
economic and cultural life that must-or at all events can-lead to the degeneration of the
individual .
The difficulty of applying the most extreme and brutal methods against the criminals who
endanger the state lies not least in the uncertainty of our judgment of the inner motives
or causes of such contemporary phenomena.
This uncertainty is only too well founded in our own sense of guilt regarding such
tragedies of degeneration; be that as it may, it paralyzes any serious and firm decision
and is thus partly responsible for the weak and half-hearted, because hesitant, execution
of even the most necessary measures of selfpreservation.
Only when an epoch ceases to be haunted by the shadow of its own consciousness of guilt
will it achieve the inner calm and outward strength brutally and ruthlessly to prune off
the wild shoots and tear out the weeds.
Since the Austrian state had practically no social legislation or jurisprudence, its
weakness in combating even malignant tumors was glaring.
-- Your good buddy blanko
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Hi right wingers. Hope you're having a lovely day. Be sure
to send your appreciations to the real shitdo.
Here are some more words of wisdom from your spiritual
forefather:
Once my interest in the social question was aroused, I began to study it with all
thoroughness. It was a new and hitherto unknown world which opened before me.
In the years 1909 and 1910, my own situation had changed somewhat in so far as I no longer
had to earn my daily bread as a common laborer. By this time I was working independently
as a small draftsman and painter of watercolors. Hard as this was with regard to
earnings-it was barely enough to live on- it was good for my chosen profession. Now I was
no longer dead tired in the evening when I came home from work, unable to look at a book
without soon dozing off. My present work ran parallel to my future profession. Moreover, I
was master of my own time and could apportion it better than had previously been possible.
I painted to make a living and studied for pleasure.
Thus I was able to supplement my visual instruction in the social problem by theoretical
study. I studied more or less all of the books I was able to obtain regarding this whole
field, and for the rest immersed myself in my own thoughts.
I believe that those who knew me in those days took me for an eccentric.
Amid all this, as was only natural, I served my love of architecture with ardent zeal.
Along with music, it seemed to me the queen of the arts: under such circumstances my
concern with it was not 'work.' but the greatest pleasure. I could read and draw until
late into the night, and never grow tired. Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for
the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years. I
was firmly convinced that I should some day make a name for myself as an architect.
In addition, I had the greatest interest in everything connected with politics, but this
did not seem to me very significant. On the contrary: in my eyes this was the self-evident
duty of every thinking man. Anyone who failed to understand this lost the right to any
criticism or complaint.
In this field, too, I read and studied much.
By 'reading,' to be sure, I mean perhaps something different than the average member of
our so-called 'intelligentsia.'
I know people who 'read' enormously, book for book, letter for letter, yet whom I would
not describe as 'well-read.' True they possess a mass of 'knowledge,' but their brain is
unable to organize and register the material they have taken in. They lack the art of
sifting what is valuable for them in a book from that which is without value, of retaining
the one forever, and, if possible, not even seeing the rest, but in any case not dragging
it around with them as useless ballast. For reading is no end in itself, but a means to an
end. It should primarily help to fill the framework constituted by every man's talents and
abilities; in addition, it should provide the tools and building materials which the
individual needs for his life's work, regardless whether this consists in a primitive
struggle for sustenance or the satisfaction of a high calling; secondly, it should
transmit a general world view. In both cases, however, it is essential that the con tent
of what one reads at any time should not be transmitted to the memory in the sequence of
the book or books, but like the stone of a mosaic should fit into the general world
picture in its proper place, and thus help to form this picture in the mind of the reader.
Otherwise there arises a confused muddle of memorized facts which not only are worthless,
but also make their unto fortunate possessor conceited. For such a reader now believes
himself in all seriousness to be {educated,' to understand something of life, to have
knowledge, while in reality, with every new acquisition of this kind of 'education,' he is
growing more and more removed from the world until, not infrequently, he ends up in a
sanitarium or in parliament.
Never will such a mind succeed in culling from the confusion of his ' knowledge ' anything
that suits the demands of the hour, for his intellectual ballast is not organized along
the lines of life, but in the sequence of the books as he read them and as their content
has piled up in his brain If Fate, in the requirements of his daily life, desired to
remind him to make a correct application of what he had read, it would have to indicate
title and page number, since the poor fool would otherwise never in all his life find the
correct place. But since Fate does not do this, these bright boys in any critical
situation come into the most terrible embarrassment, cast about convulsively for analogous
cases, and with mortal certainty naturally find the wrong formulas.
If this were not true, it would be impossible for us to understand the political behavior
of our learned and highly placed government heroes, unless we decided to assume outright
villainy instead of pathological propensities.
On the other hand, a man who possesses the art of correct reading will, in studying any
book, magazine, or pamphlet, instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in
his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose
or generally worth knowing. Once the knowledge he has achieved in this fashion is
correctly coordinated within the somehow existing picture of this or that subject created
by the imaginations it will function either as a corrective or a complement, thus
enhancing either the correctness or the clarity of the picture. Then, if life suddenly
sets some question before us for examination or answer, the memory, if this method of
reading is observed, will immediately take the existing picture as a norm, and from it
will derive all the individual items regarding these questions, assembled in the course of
decades, submit them to the mind for examination and reconsideration, until the question
is clarified or answered.
Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose.
An orator, for example, who does not thus provide his intelligence with the necessary
foundation will never be in a position cogently to defend his view in the face of
opposition, though it may be a thousand times true or real. In every discussion his memory
will treacherously leave him in the lurch; he will find neither grounds for reinforcing
his own contentions nor any for confuting those of his adversary. If, as in the case of a
speaker, it is only a question of making a fool of himself personally, it may not be so
bad, but not so when Fate predestines such a know-it-all incompetent to be the leader of a
state.
Since my earliest youth I have endeavored to read in the correct way, and in this endeavor
I have been most happily supported by my memory and intelligence. Viewed in this light, my
Vienna period was especially fertile and valuable. The experiences of daily life provided
stimulation for a constantly renewed study of the most varied problems. Thus at last I was
in a position to bolster up reality by theory and test theory by reality, and was
preserved from being stifled by theory or growing banal through reality.
In this period the experience of daily life directed and stimulated me to the most
thorough theoretical study of two questions in addition to the social question.
Who knows when I would have immersed myself in the doctrines and essence of Marxism if
that period had not literally thrust my nose into the problem!
sr
"Jean Smith" <gote...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:gotermite-41767...@news.eternal-september.org...
> In article <2959f5dkj02hjtm52...@4ax.com>, Gary
> <n...@none.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:51:04 -0800 (PST), GLOBALIST
>> <free....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Reducing the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from the current 35
>> >percent would rank the U.S. in the middle of the Organization for
>> >Economic Cooperation and Development, he said. He also proposed
>> >reducing the capital gains rate, even temporarily, to spur
>> >investment.
>>
>> Eric is not too damn bright. It was not high taxes that caused this
>> financial collapse. It was the shady activities of the big
>> banksters.
>
> Like rating liars loans AAA.
Matthew Scott
> How are you going to cut taxes and reduce the deficit?
Spend less?
Ga...@comcast.net
"Matthew Scott" <sco...@interstateawnings.com> wrote in message
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> Josh Rosenbluth wrote:
>
>> How are you going to cut taxes and reduce the deficit?
>
>
>
> Spend less?
damn right, we need to cut that bloated defense budget,
why the hell are we paying to lose 2 wars, imprison,torture,rape, murder and
kill babies, not to mention paying for the deranged lunatics to kill each
other ?
Josh Rosenbluth
By cutting what?
Josh Rosenbluth
El Castor
Cut what? Agricultural subsidies for a start, but that, along with a
lot of other cuts, will never happen, largely because of the nature of
our political system.
For an understanding of what is wrong in DC, look at the unrestrained
spending that promises to bankrupt the State of California. This short
clip of testimony by the Democrat Treasurer of the State of California
nails the problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw4rCntRoxo
At any rate, the reason to cut the corporate tax rate is clear. It's a
well established fact that in an environment of lower taxation
businesses will have additional capital to expand their operation and
in turn hire more employees, thereby generating more tax revenue from
their increased profits and the additional taxes paid by their
employees.
Sadly, you being a liberal, cannot allow yourself to believe that what
I just said is true. )-8
Josh Rosenbluth
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:41:21 -0800 (PST),JoshRosenbluth
>
> >On Nov 8, 2:35 am, Matthew Scott <sco...@interstateawnings.com> wrote:
> >>JoshRosenbluthwrote:
> >> > How are you going to cut taxes and reduce the deficit?
>
> >> Spend less?
>
> >By cutting what?
>
>
> lot of other cuts, will never happen, largely because of the nature of
> our political system.
Agricultural subsidies made up $14B out of $3T spent in 2008. That's
not going to allow you to cut taxes much, if at all.
> For an understanding of what is wrong in DC, look at the unrestrained
> spending that promises to bankrupt the State of California. This short
> clip of testimony by the Democrat Treasurer of the State of California
> nails the problem.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw4rCntRoxo
That's might light on specifics. Just generalities about junk and
efficiences. Where in the federal budget is the junk and
inefficiences that will allow taxes to be cut while reducing the
deficit.
> At any rate, the reason to cut the corporate tax rate is clear. It's a
> well established fact that in an environment of lower taxation
> businesses will have additional capital to expand their operation and
> in turn hire more employees, thereby generating more tax revenue from
> their increased profits and the additional taxes paid by their
> employees.
>
> Sadly, you being a liberal, cannot allow yourself to believe that what
> I just said is true. )-8
I'm open to specific numerical eivdence. Citations, please.
Josh Rosenbluth
Islander
For a person whose career was in banking, Jeff doesn't seem to be very
good with numbers. IIRC, I had a similar interaction with him not long
before he put me in his kill file.
Reagan is the only modern President who cut non-defense discretionary
spending. He cut it by nearly 10% during his first term. He
emasculated programs that had taken years to build. What was the
result? He tripled the deficit!