The "Wonders" of Capitalism: Monsanto and RoundUP - "Somehow" tRUMP's EPA has Concluded that RoundUP is Safe and Should Remain Legal and Yet... The Courts are Awarding Huge Fines for CANCER...

A Discussion on Linkdin - a Guy was Promoting his Book. Rainbows & Unicorns: A Friend "Educates"​ Me on Socialism... https://www.linkedin.com/in/huntingconartists/

I Replied:
Sweden and Holland are Socialist Countries and They Are GREAT! 

Jim Rossi Said: I've spent a lot of time up in Humboldt and on the HSU campus, mountain biked through Community Forest at least 100 times, golf at Muni and Beau Pre, working. My buddy in the article lives in McKinleyville. Love it behind the Emerald Curtain - except for the delusional, cult-like fascination with socialism. No bueno. Have a great summer in the redwoods for me.

I Repiled: I never noticed any interest in Socialism in Humboldt County... I Went to College for four Years at HSU in Arcata in Computer Science... A Lot of People are Interested in Ecology - EARTH FIRST!, Playing the Drums (Samba Parade & Calypso) and... Growing Marijuana... a Pure Capitalist Business... No Taxes, No Government Regulations and Illegal...  Plenty of Interest in New Age Religion... Yoga, Hinduism, Zen, Wicca... 

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and then we digressed into a lot of words about

the Relative Advantages of Capitalism, 

Communism and Socialism... 

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I Said: To Further Document the Absurdity of Monsanto... I See Television advertisements Promoting the sale of RoundUP at the Same Time That Other TV Ads Advertise Lawyers that will Represent you when you SUE Monsanto for Giving you CANCER... Do They Have This Madness in SWEDEN? Norway? Holland? Israel? 

I Said: An Especially Evil Corporation is  MAXXAM... Capitalism Gives us the Wonders of Junk Bonds and Michael Milken Loaning Charles Hurwitz Millions of Dollars so he could do a Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber... and Then Charles Cut Down all the Really Big Trees, Made a Massive Profit on them... Then "Magically" Declared Bankruptcy, Stole the Pension Fund and Went Back To Texas... Wonderful System You Have Here... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-humboldt-county-timber.html

I Said: I like the Healthcare System in Canada. It Costs Less and Works Better. People LIVE LONGER with SOCIALIST MEDICINE. What is The Great Advantage of Paying for the Profits of the Stockholders of Pharmaceutical Corporations, Hospitals as Doctors... You Know Why We Pay More for Medicine...  Someone has to pay for profits... and that someone is You and Me... 

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Someone Else Said: Many countries get away with what looks like socialism, but is really an advanced societal responsibility. Sweden and Norway are essentially monocultures with a huge, pervasive, monsterous pressure to conform and take responsibility for each other (sameness). That doesn't translate to the US or many other western cultures.

This article, in a graph towards the end, maps Norsk culture as one of the global cultures furthest from the USA. 

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-cultural-distances-between-us?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I Said: I Understand. "Monoculture" is Secret Code for WHITE PEOPLE. The Reason Socialism Works Great in Scandinavia is White People Can Make It Work... But Here in the USA we Have Black, Brown and Yellow People So It Won't Work Here. I Agree... 

No one Really Promotes Socialism in the USA... Except Bernie Sanders and AOC... It's Just a BOGUS Trump Insult... We are Going to Remain Capitalist for the Foreseeable Future... and BIDEN is NOT Socialist... BUT... It's Fun for Trump to Point the Finger and LIE... Danger Danger They Are Socialists... Yu Know... Just Like Red China and The USSR! 

I Do Like Socialist ROADS, FIRE DEPARTMENTS, POLICE DEPARTMENTS, WATER SYSTEMS, SEWER SYSTEMS, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THE MILITARY... all paid for by All of Us Paying Taxes and The Society At Large Buying those things... Remember: Most TrumpNiks GET CONFUSED When FACTS are Presented... They Think That Communism and Socialism is the Same thing... of Course, Most TrumpNiks are Uneducated...  Is Israel Socialist? Kibbutz? another Example of a Successful Cooperative Society... 

I Like the Socialist Programs Called Social Security Retirement, Medicare and Unemployment Insurance... They Are Great! and When The Entire Economy Failed... It was wonderful that the Congress and Trump signed a Trillion Dollar Bailout for Everyone... A Capitalist Society Would Have Let the People Starve... FUN FACT! Ayn Rand Received Social Security Checks... I Guess She SHRUGGED Her Shoulders and said: "What They Hey! FREE MONEY!

Was The Bailout of Wall Street in 2009 a Socialist Act? The Banks Gambled Away All Their Money and The The Federal Government Magically Invented a Trillion Dollars so the banks Could Keep on Gambling... 

I do think #FRANCE1789 is a Good Solution to Our Crazy Capitalist System... What's The Logic behind Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich?  Well... The Super Rich Buy Politicians that Pass Laws That Benefit the Super Rich... If Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Paid the Same Tax Rate as I Do... We Could Have Free College For All... and What's The Logic of our MASSIVE Defense Budget? Since 1945, The US Military has Never Defended The Country. NOT EVEN ONCE! All the Wars During My Lifetime Have Been BOGUS MARKETING so Lockheed, Boeing, Hughes and Dow could Sell Stuff to the Pentagon... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html

#FRANCE1789

and then Jim Rossi Said: Here's looking at you, kid. Greg Vanderlaan and Included this Picture... 

Who is This?

Who is That Guy? I Do Not Recognize the Face... A Resident of Sweden? Holland? Norway? Denmark? Places that are EXCELLENT! I Have a Question: Was the Bailout of Wall Street in 2009 an Act of Free Market Capitalism? Ayn Rand Libertarianism? Or Was that "Magical" Creation of a Trillion Dollars Socialist? Welfare for the Rich? I Really Do NOT Know...  Is ENRON an Example of COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME?  #FRANCE1789 


Gee, I Would Appreciate it if You Put a Little More Effort into this Debate... Just Copying and Pasting a Pre-Fabricated Meme is Lame... Here is a Chart Comparing Socialist Healthcare Systems With For Profit Systems... Medicare For All COSTS LESS, WORKS BETTER. 

Trump-0-Nomics is a FAILURE... That's why we Have a Massive Increase in Homeless People. Prices Higher, Wages Lower... NOTICE REALITY!

FACT CHECK:  BY TRUMP’S 2012 STANDARDS, THE ECONOMY IS IN THE TOILET...

“Greatest economy in American history”? Not so much, according to the president’s own Commerce Department.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/donald-trump-economy-third-quarter

You Can't EAT Lies... Did you ever Notice that we Never see the Slogan "Promises Made, Promises Broken" at Trump Campaign Rallies anymore? 

Trump Has Caused an Economic Disaster... His BONEHEAD Trade War Harms American Farmers and Workers. 

Headline: So much for the Trump economic miracle... 
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/468418-so-much-for-the-trump-economic-miracle

Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent As Tax Cuts Eat Into Government Revenue. Global Economic Collapse Predicted by Oracle at Delphi, SoothSayers, Clairvoyants.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657790901/federal-deficit-jumps-17-percent-as-tax-cuts-eat-into-government-revenue

The federal deficit ballooned to $779 billion in the just-ended fiscal year — a remarkable tide of red ink for a country not mired in recession or war.

The government is expected to borrow more than a trillion dollars in the coming year, in part to make up for tax receipts that have been slashed by GOP tax cuts.

Corporate tax collections fell by 31 percent in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, despite robust corporate profits. That's hardly surprising after lawmakers cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21.

Income taxes withheld from individuals grew by 1 percent. Overall tax receipts were flat. As a share of the economy, tax receipts shrank to 16.5 percent of GDP, from 17.2 percent the previous year.

"The president is very much aware of the realities presented by our national debt," said White House budget director Mick Mulvaney.

Echelon Keyword Data: income tax, debt, national, bankrupt, USA, Gong Show, Quack Quack, Bubbles, Boom, Bust, Stock Market, Meltdown, Global, Economic, Collapse

The Needs of The Many Outweigh The Needs of The Few or The Stockholders. 
The main quest of the corporate world is: "How can we increase profits for stockholders?"

Decisions in boardrooms often sacrifice the health of the majority of people, animals and plants in order to create additional wealth for the owners of corporations. For Example: Offshore oil drilling will increase profits for oil companies but cause oil spills that harm the environment. The owners of oil companies often live in Conneticut or downtown Manhattan NYC and it makes no difference at all to them if the beaches in Los Angeles have black goo on them. The laws about automobile air pollution protect the lungs of people that breathe air but corporate greed freaks often live in air-conditioned offices and homes that have filtered air that removes the pollution... They believe that the solution to global warming is to turn up the air conditioner so that their offices always remain at 72 degrees... If it's 110 degrees in Harlem or Queens it's simply not important to people that make decisions on Wall Street. 

However, Hurricane Sandy disrupted the lives of rich and poor. When the streets flooded, Limo-Man couldn't ride in his Limo. We see that already there are civil engineering plans for building dikes around lower and mid-town Manhattan to prevent rising sea levels from flooding. Good luck with THAT, masters of the universe... New Orleans has dikes too... but sometimes they fail... like during Hurricane Katrina. Maybe a better plan would be to stop burning gasoline in cars and build more solar and wind power plants to charge electric cars... 

How much wealth is enough? Can there be a balance between corporate profit and quality of life for the people? What is the point of getting another Billion Dollars once you already have One Billion? Where is the MOTIVATION?
What IF we could teach corporate greed freaks to behave differently? It's A Question of Balance...

Interesting TV Shows: The Keiser Report and Boom-Bust: History of the Stock Market Crash of 2008... Why it Happened and Will it Happen Again

https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/438517-financial-crash-anniversary-architect/
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the 10-year anniversary of the financial crash and how the architects of the crash, including Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Hank Paulson, are granted an op-ed in the New York Times to plead for less democracy and more unaccountable economic powers to provide unlimited bailouts to their friends in the next financial crisis. 

https://www.rt.com/shows/boom-bust/438514-us-global-economy-crash/ 
American History: The Stock Market crash of 2008 turned the whole US and global economy upside down. Join us as Bart Chilton talks with special guests Kathy Fettke, Mollye Barrows, John Grace, Hilary Fordwich, and Bartlett Naylor as they help us make sense of where it all began 10 years ago. 

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RT is RUSSIAN TELEVISION and they have a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VIEW of the World... 

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Is Stock Market Crash Due to Trump's BONEHEAD Policy? or does Capitalism Just Suck? "Boom Bust Boom" Movie - Economics explained in a Monty Python Style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtnZDNXCKM

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3332308/
Terry Jones guides us through the history and the nature of the economic boom-bust cycle and why people repeatedly ignore it to their sorrow.

http://boombustclick.com/

“Boom Bust Boom” is at its best when illustrating some of history’s worst economic meltdowns. It has informative and fun depictions of the 1637 tulip mania in the Netherlands, the crash of the South Sea Company in early 18th-century Britain, and the 19th-century speculation in (and fantastic crash of) British railroad stock. It also describes how the heights of speculation in the 1920s led to the lows of the Great Depression, and, finally, the hard lessons of the 2008 mortgage crisis. Every time is the same: Euphoria over rising prices leads to speculation, which ends with a crash.

When Camping, If you see someone from Law Enforcement... Call Out "SEVEN UP!" as a warning to other campers that a Blue Meanie is Approaching.

A Handy Warn-A-Brother System for any Public Gathering.

"When Camping, If you see someone from Law Enforcement... Call Out "SEVEN UP!" as a warning to other campers that a Blue Meanie is Approaching. If the Evil Ones are Armed with Weapons, Call Out "SIX UP!" (a reference to the Six Shooter of the Wild West, a Famous Pistol). Remember, The Ringwraiths ride in Green Sometimes.

Be^rnie^4^POT^US
POTUS is tHE pRESIDENT OF THE uNITED sTATES OF aMERICA 

Let's Work Together. 

Who will remove this Sign? Bolt Cutters ought to do the Job.

Math is Fun

Great Books:

"The Monkeywrench Gang" by Edward Abbey.

"The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks.

"Remember, Be Here Now" by Ram Dass.

"The Four Agreements" by don Miguel Ruiz.

"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe.

"1984" by George Orwell.

"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig

All the American History Books by Bob Woodward... "Bush at War" and "All the President's Men" are my favorites.

"Caves of Steel" by Isaac Asimov. The start of a very long series of books That includes Foundation and I, Robot. AND! It's a Murder Mystery and Science Fiction both. 

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