Howdy fellow comrades,

There is a blogish site, The Antiplanner , with the proprietor's daily posts on urban issues, & then with readers posting comments. He has the audacity to analyze the government's wisdom in their spending & other actions. He even tries to expose the foolishness, waste & ineffectiveness of gov programs/projects with facts & using something called the concepts of economics. Ever heard of such nonsense? He had the nerve to be on the program hosted by the capitalist pig John Stossel.

There might be interest to read my recent 2 comments (there I am Scott) & the articles from the links provided. The overall topics addressed are not directly related this website, but the following items, in the posts, are:
1. A link for an article from here
2. A description of & recommendation for this site
3. A link to Shakedown Socialism
4. An explanation of an all red Rubik's cube

So, for those who read the 2 posts, were my descriptions accurate?
Any feedback or commentary on the reality of the 1^st Thanksgiving or other items in the content?

Oleg, I hope you get more book sales, increased web traffic & that more people become indoctrinated by your propaganda. I bought your book a year ago & saw your appearance on GBTV. Too bad more sheeple don't watch/listen/read his substance. The 4^th estate (aka Lamestream Media) does its job to suppress knowledge & support our glorious dictator Barry.

– Randall Scott :-)

I'll just repost all the commentary. Could be too much straight-forward honesty, going off the reservation of faux-statism.

Due to the holiday, here are some resources on the real story & principles behind it. Basically, collectivism was tried & failed. Individual initiative w/its incentive & self-interest, along w/private property rights succeeded.
Thanksgiving Hoax
Pilgrims' started w/communal property rights: their Lesson
Thanksgiving: collective sharing failed big
At 1^st Thanksgiving communal living lead to death
A "liberal" explaining the socialist utopia to an alien (sarcastic story illustrating how ridiculous the lefty views are)

The latter article only slightly touches on Thanksgiving, & is from the People's Cube website, which is entertaining & informative. The 2^nd word is partly in reference to the notion of a lefty Rubik's Cube, being red on all sides, so that there is no challenge in rearranging, no accomplishment to be achieved, results are already there & equality. For too long (starting w/Woodrow Wilson), there has been legislation by envy & jealousy, along with disregarding the Constitution. The US republic has been transformed into a mobocracy, with many people voting themselves others' money – theft by gov.

The People's Cube has several analytical, satirical articles added each week & little sarcastic comments about current events. For example: Ohio elections: Obama promotes Somali pirate participation with promise of pre-paid propaganda parrot with each swiped ballot
The website is created by Oleg Atbashian – from the USSR (Ukraine). He certainly knows from experience about the many negatives of big government. He's also written the book called Shakedown Socialism.

Would the early European settlers have done better with zoning & blight rail? Actually, survival would have been impossible if there were many of the current burdensome regulations (relative to much less technology – many regs would not apply). For example, there are now many regs on farming that would have severely curtailed output, including disallowing children to work on the family farm. It's only been 2-3 centuries since 90%+ of people were involved in agriculture, due to capitalism, which evolved from mercantilism.

Additionally, there was not even potential then to collect enough revenue to support a big gov, even if taxes were only 20% of the GDP equivalent, rather than the current gov spending (all levels) of ~$6.4 trillion being about 40% of the ~$16T GDP.
BTW, GDP was not measurable then, for several reasons. Without even touching on monetary units, there was a lot of barter, & much of the production was for families' own consumption.
Know the fable about a gentleman marrying his housekeeper, effectively lowering the GDP?
Underlying principle: Passing through the marketplace.

Limited Government – wanted by the ideologies of those being conservative, libertarian, TEA party (backronym: Taxed Enough Already) or of the Austrian School – would have gov spending at 20-30% of GDP, neither at zero nor as anarchy. Whereas, a counter-argument often given, has several flaws/fallacies: being a binary false choice in misrepresenting the limited gov position & supposing that the only alternative to big gov is there being no gov or that anarchy is the goal.

Trivia on money: There was scant inflation during all of the 1800s. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 & since then, the dollar has inflated about 2,000%. In other words, today's dollar will buy what a nickel would then. Yep, the feds know what's best for us & sure can operate things well; the USPS is fine. Haheehaw! :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Why, even parasites who hate America have something to be thankful for.

Robert Fine wrote:

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am grateful for the kind thought.
However, how can I be happy when I am aware of others with more wealth & other success than me?

Once we reach equality of misery to survive, then we can all be content.
If there was only media censorship to avoid us proletariat from having knowledge that there are some whom make oodles of money...

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am grateful for the kind thought.
However, how can I be happy when I am aware of others with more wealth & other success than me?

Once we reach equality of misery to survive, then we can all be content.
If there was only media censorship to avoid us proletariat from having knowledge that there are some whom make oodles of money...

A true Prog can express unhappiness over the misery of others and be happily satisfied in his empathy while enjoying the finer things in life. Some come by this naturally, with others it takes practice.

Please report to the Barbra Streisand Center for Empathy Expression and Commiseration™

ThePeoplesComrade wrote: A true Prog can express unhappiness over the misery of others and be happily satisfied in his empathy while enjoying the finer things in life. Some come by this naturally, with others it takes practice.

That is wisdom I must record on the re-distributed reel-to-reel recording device to be played during sleep periods for most equally pleasant dreams