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An interesting comment from a zero hedge reader

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-1 ... visualized

"There was a chemistry professor in a large college who had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to over throw his country's government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?" The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. "When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. "They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side."The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity." The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America .

The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time. One should always remember two truths:

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email. BUT, God help us all when the gate slams shut!"

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2 ... nding.html

Race to the bottom then they drop corn.

Ascendancy Politics never left the stage.

Anyways W notes over the pond, with the three traditional parties becoming caricatures of themselves, the three traditional protagonists, i.e. the liberals, the christian-democrats and the socialists.
there emerged a number of other groups and economic useful and cheerful tools.

There's the fascists. And yes, they are fascists and Nazis, no matter how well they dress up their act and no matter how suave they make their speeches.
Their ultimate goal is crystal clear and very much akin to that historical precedent that fills the blackest pages in the history books.
Only, they've switched scapegoats. Except for a few hardcore nostalgics, it's no longer easy to blame the Jew. Nope, let's blame the people we invited here to do our most repulsive work and their descendants, the immigrants, more specifically the Muslims. True, there's about one in a thousand of them that may deserve what is prescribed for the whole group but the other 999 appear to be non-existent or at least invisible in the fascist discourse. What's more to say about them than "same old, same old".

There's the populists. This is a funny lot. They emerge all over the place quasi-spontaneously, more often than not with nothing more than a number of television appearances on their resume, gather a significant voter count for a while and then disappear back into oblivion. Nevertheless, they're occasionally important. Important in the sense of how much damage they will have done to society during their 15 minutes of fame. That can be quite a lot actually since they too team up with everybody that is willing to give them a moment in the spotlights, including -and quite often actually- the fascists.

There's the Green. While on an emotional level they have my sympathy, it's rather hard to take them seriously. Although only a psychopath or a complete idiot would agree to the complete annihilation of the environment, which, after all, is our environment, the environment in which we live, the things they propose to prevent said annihilation are -and my sympathy makes me mild- not always rooted in reality equally deep. Politically they are all over the place even if you consider just a single one of them.

There's the regional nationalists. Those are people that seem to think that nationalism is idiotic when it's applied to a section of land 200 km wide but makes perfect sense when it's applied to a section of land 100 km wide. What can I say ? Beats me. They're generally right wing though. After all, the people on the other side of that 100km wide stretch are perfect scapegoats to blame for everything that goes wrong on this side of it.

There's the communists. Those are people that still think Stalin was pretty much alright. If you find a single real one, a genuine one, take him or her to the zoo. It's a critically endangered species.

This doesn't cover every single party in Europe of course, and it's not applicable at all to the UK, but generally speaking, it's close enough for general usage. Overal, there is very little overlap with the American political culture and as such, transposing in either direction makes not much sense.

http://www.visionlaw.com/category/wage-and-hour/ other laws pass on July 1 2014 on federal levels.
http://www.isba.org/cle/2014/02/07/aglaw2014 Complete takeover on all levels.

The enactment of H.R. 2847 came one day after the Senate passed the measure, 68-29, without amending the bill to protect the American worker
from losing job opportunities to illegal aliens.
American Specialty Agriculture Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish an H-2C nonimmigrant visa for an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he or she has no intention of abandoning and who is coming temporarily (10-month maximum per contract period) to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services, including the pressing of apples for cider on a farm.
Requires an employer or employer association to file an H-2C petition with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) which shall include specified employment-related attestations.
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) penalties; (2) working conditions, wages, and transportation reimbursement; (3) admissions and extensions of stay; (4) abandonment of employment and worker replacement; (5) legal assistance; and (6) arbitration and mediation.
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct investigations and random audits of employer work sites.
Requires an employer to guarantee to offer the worker employment for the hourly equivalent of at least 50% of the work hours during the total anticipated period of employment.
Limits the number of annual fiscal year H-2C admissions. Prohibits the admission of spouses and children of H-2C workers.
Extends coverage under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act to H-2C workers.
Makes the provisions of this Act effective two years after its enactment. Terminates authority to petition for H-2A temporary agricultural workers two years after enactment of this Act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahCXiJKdWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHplEJgevqM

Next wave coming here and not going. Washington is always behind the fact you pay only.

There it is.

As a small businessman, I feel the crosshairs on my ass.
Expand? Hilarious. Not even remotely on the map.
Instead, I'm putting up shields, ramparts and a deep moat, against the harvesting of my productivity by the
thieving political enablers of the Free Shit Army

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I work network and telecom for a pretty large national HMO based outta the Southeast. The medical professions may be losing their doctors and nurses, but my company has been hiring tons of them on the administrative side. I think we're going to end up with shit tons of doctors and nurses in America who won't want to be real doctors or nurses in hospitals and clinics anymore. They're bailing out and taking the easy route in the consulting, coding, claims running, and administrative side within the so-called healthcare insurance industry.
My guess is eventually the entire medical treatment side of things is going to totally collapse. There won't be any doctors or nurses who will want to work for nothing under the iron fist of the new O-Fuck-You-We-Don't-Care system. Those left will be worthless hacks and probabaly very dangerous for patients and there will be many deaths and further collapse, etc.
While the insurance "health care" side of things will be bloated with those who bailed out of the hospitals and that's going to turn into a total fucking nightmare as well. And it's already really bad.
That imbalance is going to be like the Titanic going down after one side fills with water. I don't see a solution until the whole thing implodes and then gets worse than that.
Unfortunately, that's what these Marxist scumbags in government want to happen. Just gives them more power, control, and money to continue the corruption with.
The whole country in nearly all sectors of the economy are going to go down this way...that's how it always goes. The whole country will end up looking like Detroit eventually and ripe for a either a major foreign takeover or a massive civil war.
How do you like getting those dots connected! lol

The only way you're getting revenue growth while both workforce participation rate and incomes (for those lucky few who still have jobs) continue to fall, is by underestimating inflation and counting much of the nominal increase as "real".

For that miracle, I present you...... government statisticians (US Commerce Dept).

The enactment of H.R. 2847 came one day after the Senate passed the measure, 68-29, without amending the bill to protect the American worker
from losing job opportunities to illegal aliens.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. Herbert

The State will dilute the base and your on the wrong side of the Castle Wall.

I was impressed The French leaders currently and simply understand and stated what is going on and stated what is needed.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130430-hol ... 3667711388

Our govenor parroted the same theme that they will be allowed to build moguled empires.

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dsho ... arkets.php

It seems to me there are times in the past when the stock market was going up like crazy and the Fed raised interest rates to try to cool it down. Anyone know stats on this?

Soylent Green -- a 1973 movie becoming real life?
In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, -----etc

Today ---- Beijing Citizens, Shrouded In Pollution, Flock To Giant Screens To View Artificial Sunrise
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-1 ... al-sunrise

vincecate wrote:It seems to me there are times in the past when the stock market was going up like crazy and the Fed raised interest rates to try to cool it down. Anyone know stats on this?

Are those trading sardines or eating sardines?