The aggression, the in-grained insecurity, the pre-occupation with anti-jewry, anti-semitism is laughable. So many of us, including this non-jew (as if that is the proper orientation to have) have been persecuted across this planet by all various groups. It is the lovely Jewish people who whine forever in the WWII movies to date. Who controls much of the hollywood content? Yet, even when a Jew points out Israeli war crimes in the most recent round of insanity that particular Jew is absolutely ridiculed in any press controlled by pro-Israeli interest. No open, calm discourse. And a war that was as unjustifed as the Iraq war: Using a few kidnapped soldiers as justifiable cause to create a nice, southern boundry ‘a buffer’ at Lebanon’s expense. The Lebanese people were about to have a record summer season. They took care of that economic growth, now didn’t “israel”? Your Israel is no better, no worse than your enemies. And you have a ton of enemies. Many don’t want America given it’s over weighted alignment to Israel be in the proverbial “gutter” with Israel. And too many American Jews are not Americans first and foremost…but always pro-Israeli. The sooner some American Jews with some communication power, common sense, American priorities come forward with a “What’s good for Israel may be absolutely BAD, EVIL, WRONG for America” the BETTER.

So, how did Clinton create jobs?

Note that all jobs created by the government are based upon taxes, which would have gone elsewhere absent the government. In other words, the government doesn’t create, it simply redirects resources.

This redirection of resources is bad, due to the economic calculation problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

This is why the USSR could not compete with the US, something Reagan understood.

The real reason for job creation and modernization is individual entrepreneurs, businessmen, and investors, but they require a society that protects private property and individual rights.

The protection of property rights is an area where government does help (when it doesn’t hurt, and only up to a point), but in most respects Clinton was negative or neutral with respect to property rights. He confiscated large tracts of Western lands from productive use, and so on (he did sign the Republican welfare reform act and NAFTA, two of the few good things he did).

Mostly, Clinton didn’t do much, because the awful Hillery healthcare effort went down, then he spent the next 6 years signing Republican legislation like welfare reform. He signed lots of awful EOs, and of course persued horrid forign policy, but couldn’t do more damage than that. Thank goodness.

The other side of this is that, for property rights to exist, you need a culture that’s friendly to property rights. If you have that, government will protect those rights, and the entrepreneurs and businessmen will do their thing. And you will have a prosperous society.

YOU THINK YOUR FUCKING CLEVER BUT YOUR NOT

FUCK ALL YOU NEOSHITS

But I suppose the creation of jobs has to take a back seat to the self-perpetuating creation of violence. Carry on, neocons.

That is a perfect summary of what is wrong with the left today. They have traded their rational and scientific understanding of the world for a mystical belief in the abilities of their leaders.

Jobs are no longer contracts offered to exchange work for a share of a profit, but rather magical gold that socialists conjure up, huzzah! out of thin air, but only when they are elected to leadership positions. Goods are no longer created in factories, but from the metaphorical life’s blood sacrificed by our union leaders, who must be obeyed lest we bleed them dry and lose our ability to produce. Peace is not maintained by the enforcement of law using targeted violence, but rather is the natural state of humanity, and any use of violence, no matter how just, causes criminals and/or terrorists to magically arise out of the soil itself to cause even more violence.

The left has abandoned all but the pretense of rational thought, trading it in for the comfort of a magical universe that will love and protect them, no matter the evidence to the contrary.

Only the neocons, classical liberals now regarded as apostates of the Holy Church of Multiculturalism, still seek to understand the world as it truly is, instead of how we wish it to be.

Edgar (my blog is http://edgar1981.blogspot.com/)

Is what they say the truth?

From my viewpoint, the primary concearn is maintaining power and keeping the ‘street’ preoccupied with hate for Israel so they don’t have time to focus on the domestic government. Without Israel, that rage is flowing elsewhere . . .

Further, “modernizing . . . jobs
. . . productive lives . . .” is a fuction of the culture, not something elites or leaders conjur up. The best leaders can do is support rule of law, but if the ‘street’ wants Islamic law that falls out the window.

Is it? It seems to be, basically, a tool of Iran.

Perhaps if Israel never existed Iran would have created some other tool elsewhere, and Hezbollah would have never seen the light of day. Who knows.

But to state that Hezbollah is a result of the Palistinian issue seems wrong to me, as it is an Iranian invention, and its goals are, presumably, pushing Iranian Islamic fundamentalism outside of Iran.