So........as a nation, what "lesson" are we most likely going to be forced to repeat, because we just weren't smart enough to learn it the first time around ???
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Badly thought-out "urban renewal" seems to have made a comeback.
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Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry~Thomas Jefferson
With the ever-increasing concentration of this countries wealth into fewer and fewer inherited hands and a corrupt governance run strictly upon the most-moneyed 'insider' favored candidates who sole purpose is merely divisive civil-rights rhetoric while maintaining the ever-grasping reach (Status Quo) of the already deeply entrenched Oligarchical powers, we might now find ourselves right back to 1776 all over again, if another financially displacing global crisis were to unfold.
I don't even think that all their drastically increasing layers of government-agency spying and policing will save them either though the last thing anyone truly wants is anarchy, unfortunately we are completely stuck with this new ruling class (according to the accepted rules and now ingrained beliefs of our ever-preaching capitalistic-media religion) and their increasing global ambitions for the foreseeable future, will they be benevolent dictators?
All consuming greed and benevolence, hmmmmmm.....one wonders.
Wars for one. Especially needless ones.
But there are others. If the lessons we learned from the Great Depression was remembered, and there had been more regulations on the market, the recent Recession would have had far less impact, or wouldn't have happened at all.
It`s far easier to start a war than to end one.
1929 was the last time that wealth was so concentrated in the hands of the elite while average income was less than $2000 year. This was a big cause of the depression as people couldn't afford to buy what they were producing. Today 8 people control the same amount of wealth as the lower 50%. There will be a crash and another depression; with the current debt I don't see how the government can spend its way out of this one and I really fear it's going to lead to hyperinflation.
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History does repeat itself, even when we remember it and try to avoid it. The reason is that we simply aren't very good at recognising the signs in our own time. It's never going to look exactly the same, because the details are going to be different.
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