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2016-04-01 Economy

Americans won't be paid for being American any more

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-01 03:11|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Exactly the opposite is the case

Except for the Military Welfare system that costs America hundreds of billion, generation after generation, and grave yards after grave yards. Somewhere, that is not included in this calculation. Why is America expected to carry first world countries? Western Europe since the early 80s matched American in population and combined GDP, but expects American to protect their source of oil and maintain open sea lanes. Their good for 'show' and 'contributions' but you know who bears both the vast bulk of the financial and operational burden.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-01 08:34|| 2016-04-01 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 A bit about the author. Emphasis added at the last sentence:

As "Spengler", Goldman wrote about a wide range of topics, varying from music theory to culture and religion (Goldman himself is an Modern Orthodox Jew), but his main focus was geo-economic and geo-political issues. In his 2011 book How Civilizations Die Goldman revealed his worldview at length, inspired by Franz Rosenzweig and his "The Star of Redemption".[citation needed]
According to Goldman, following in Rosenzweig's footsteps, beliefs about the past and future decide the fate of nations, since the propagation of one's culture is an imitation of immortality, the desire for which is so strong that it shapes history. So a nation's future is heavily influenced by what provides it with a vision of life after death: religion. Goldman thinks that the true strength of a nation is exposed during the encounter with the modern age, with globalization and an open and changing array of perceptions and ideas. The common tendency, especially in Europe, to nationalize religion by adding to it a pseudo-Hebraic belief that the nation is the divinely 'chosen people' condemns peoples to downfall when their nationalism (and the religion it is entwined with) is ruined by political circumstances.[citation needed] When religion and patriotism are thus destroyed, a people loses hope for the future and therefore ceases to bear enough children to prevent demographic collapse.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-01 08:35|| 2016-04-01 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 As a follow-up to #2, "bearing enough children to prevent demographic collapse."

Goldman makes some valid points but fails to mention birth control and modern medicine as the antidote for the inconvenience of children. When all else fails, follow greed and money.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-01 08:43|| 2016-04-01 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody who was dumb enough to back some of those mortgages deserves to lose their money. Besides, when the bubble burst it was the American taxpayer who got ripped off to keep the crooked bankers and politicians afloat. The author is trying to rewrite history.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-04-01 11:51|| 2016-04-01 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 All those Euro investors in the American ~~gambling~~ mortgage market were there because of a ROI that offered rates their socialist governments back home wouldn't/couldn't compete with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-01 12:37|| 2016-04-01 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 P2k, look at the sentence I've emphasized.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-01 13:57|| 2016-04-01 13:57|| Front Page Top

#7 What doesn't get mentioned in this article:

The American Mandarin Class are going to 'help' the Proletariat by unemploying more of them.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-01 14:42|| 2016-04-01 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 What Spengler missed is there are two Americans (based on class, not race) and Trump is talking about one and Spengler about the other.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-04-01 15:14|| 2016-04-01 15:14|| Front Page Top

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