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Megan Stern

American Thinker: The Disappearing Middle Class - 0 views

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  • The government is helping out, "redistributing" money to the bottom. "The Rich" can use their money and influence to get in. The middle class gets no special consideration or privilege. Because they do work hard, they get to work harder -- and the Ruling Class calls this "justice."
    • Megan Stern
      Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
       
      So. True.
  • And this is what the Tea Party is really mad about.
  • And the balance between the lower class and their upper-class leaders is upset by the injection of the middle class and its struggles to carve out its niche.
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  • His Communist Manifesto is nothing more than a rant about the evils of this group and how they have inflicted harm and damage to everyone around them through colonialism and ingenuity.
  • Marx and Engels envisioned a return to the simpler time, where a vast lower class was ruled by its betters. Not surprisingly, they saw themselves as leading the underlings to the new paradise.
  • their opinions are tainted by "greed" (the single biggest sin of the bourgeoisie).
  • The byproduct of this Socialization is the shrinking of the middle class. When you punish people for working hard, those people will stop working so hard.
  • se bailouts are transfers of wealth -- not from the rich to the poor, but from the working middle class to both the upper and lower classes.
  • True: all the
  • Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
     
    Concisely presents the consensual argument most conservatives adopt against Marx's principles in our day.
Brian Earley

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Burke's Writings and Speeches, Volume the Second, by Edm... - 0 views

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shared by Brian Earley on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
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      Brian Earley on 30 Sep 10
       
      Irish born English conservative approves of the American Revolution
  • Brian Earley on 30 Sep 10
     
    The gutenberg project is an amazing source for online books and I just happened to find a compilation of Edmund Burke's works online.
James Wilcox

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, by Sigmu... - 0 views

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shared by James Wilcox on 30 Oct 10 - Cached
  • The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments. Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
  • there always seemed to be a close connection between his patients' dreams and their mental abnormalities
  • constant connection between some part of every dream and some detail of the dreamer's life during the previous waking state
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  • there was in every dream the attempted or successful gratification of some wish
  • many of our dream visions are symbolical
  • sexual desires play an enormous part in our unconscious
  • direct connection between dreams and insanity
  • James Wilcox on 30 Oct 10
     
    Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.
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