Babylonthegreat (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Note to self: Metaphorical exaggerations are often lost on the masses. My point was, once the game is over... it's over. It's kind of like contracting an incurable disease. You can contract it and live a while longer, but you're already dead from the onset. So, to simplify this for you DenOndeMister, once the beer is gone, the party is over, even if the music is still playing. Perhaps this example will have more resonance with you.

UR123GoFly (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What if they ask your family where your father is ? Who had been taken at 02:00 in the morning from his bed ? You are NOT allowed to ask.. You are NOT allowed to leave the country ? Your mother cries every night herself to sleep ? See Soviet Union/Eastern Europe 19560-1980 Your Communist dream..How interesting is to read academic discussion on Youtube.. What scares me is that in 1956 in Hungary revolutionary forces HANGED people like you on the lamp post..There were No questions asked..

CultLeader618 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

hahaha YOU WALLSTREET PIGS YOURE GOIN DOWN!YOU MADE ENOUGH POEPLE HOMELESS AND POOR AND STARVEWallstreet Crash = low home prices low cost living low cost goods and freedom and happier lives for everyone!wallstreet boom = low wages labour slaveryhousing hyperinflation homelessness poverty famine and eventual civil collaps into a darkage of human slavery destruction and starvation while wallstreets rich materialistic snobbish pigs would enslave and massacre commoners and citizens for sport

seinemarkn (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is a good way to transfer a lot of wealth from the many to a few. And, I want to note, getting back to the Roman empire comments at the beginning of this thread, this is what took them down as well. In history, no empire that switched to Fiat currency, ever survived for more than a a few hundred years. We are more than a hundred into it now!

seinemarkn (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Basically, everything is falling apart since our economies are running on fake money. Money that's not tied to "real" assets. Every time the country needs more money, more is printed. This is called inflation.

seinemarkn (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I had mentioned this a few days ago. It's the Fiat money system at the core of the problems. The Fiat system was first started in the US in Abraham Lincoln's days and was finalized when we no longer backed the Dollar with any kind of real asset in the 1960's!

KeyserX (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Well, the primary theme of most, if not all, of Rand's views is fairness. I realize that the rich have more money, but qualitatively speaking, why do they have any less right to their money than the poor do? It stands to reason that they have worked for their money as well and were able to offer something of equal value to their wealth, otherwise people wouldn't have bought it. Why punish people for being good at what they do? Why punish them for producing goods?

vger1970 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

wall street crashing !! gas prices going down yay !!

GretchenDawntreader (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

yeah they passed it, and wall street responded...the Dow closed under 10k for the first time in years.So glad we bailed them out! Thanks Wall Street!

PrettyPoeRoses (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

like i told my buddy, it really don't matter who become the president