Growing the Economy by Destroying It
The one program that filled the news the most before the health-care debacle was nicknamed Cash for Clunkers. It was touted as a success by the establishment due to the large amount of participation by the public. Cash for Clunkers was a program whereby the government would give a person money towards a new car if they would trade in their old car. The Problem, however, was that Cash for Clunkers did not actually help the economy instead it hurt it by increasing economic disparity and destroying goods needlessly...
...The government pays people to destroy something that has remaining potential so that they will buy new goods and increase the gross domestic product. The idea is not all that new, in fact it dates back to the 19th century. A french politician by the name of M.F. Chamans theorized that if the government were to burn Paris to the ground it would grow the economy by creating new jobs and new demand for goods. It sounds radical but in fact shortly after hurricane Katrina there were news analysts saying the same thing, that our economy would benefit from New Orleans having been destroyed...
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Lol
The excerpts you picked don't do justice to the article and kind of confuse the message
Kind of like, sometimes
it's quicker and more economical to demolish an old, rundown building (or "white elephant") than to try to update and remodel it?
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and, for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always."
~ Mahatma Ghandi
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"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone."
~ Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."
~ Ron Paul
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The 1906 SF earthquake
SF was THE richest city on earth.. 27 national banks filled with gold and silver.. Earthquake caused allot of damage, and the accidental fires caused allot of damage, but what destroyed SF, was the Army coming in, invited unconstitutionally by the mayor, who used black dynomite... for three days, in the name of saving the city, they bombed it to ashes.
Today, most folks don't even think much about Old SF... they forgot the lessons of only 100 years ago.. they fear an earthquake, and do not think, it's not the earthquake, like Katrina. The Hurricane did allot of damage... but it the damage the government did that we remember until we forget.
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
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