Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report"
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I adore Jimmy Dore, but like all my adorable progressive friends, he sees a lot of the symptoms and obvious abuses, but doesn't see to the root of the problem, which was putting government in charge of too much.
We do need a central government for the common defense, as long as there are other countries that would otherwise hurt us. But we don't need to police the planet, so gov't's gone too far in that direction. And there's nothing in the constitution about the federal gov't doing charity work. That's the job of us in our communities, and we should take pride in our communities.
Keepin' folks fed ain't the feds' job, except in national emergency, but to be in a state of national emergency - on a war footing since December, '41 - perpetually, for decades without end says that the feds have been totally unable and unwilling to declare victory and leave the petty stuff to the folks at home.
It's debilitating to our states, towns and neighborhoods, imo.
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You are correct, ArtemiaSalina. "The market never lies." But government can lie to itself all day long and impose its will where it can. The bloated monstrosity that sits atop us, now, is unable to respond to the kinds of rapid changes taking place.
There are too many new things popping up that haven't been legislated on, yet. At some point, on some level, at all times, society is well ahead of government in the realm of "What's possible?" Thing about Uber and Couch Surfing and how established businesses tried to use gov't to lock those innovations out, even though they're a more efficient way to allocate resources, and just a way cooler way to interact with the culture you're visiting.
Kids with their noses in their smartphones can spread info nationwide in seconds, one text message or phone call at a time. As long as that infrastructure's up, there's just too much for gov't to process (in my uninformed opinion), and way more advantage in individuals having such coms available, as long as the stuff works.
Ideas. Good ideas. From rocket stoves to backyard vacuum-tube production.
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The alliance that re-created the state of Israel against the will and the wishes of the people living in Palestine is fragmenting, and the will to support Israel is waning in the USA. The Balfour Declaration was carried out by the Allies after cessation of hostilities in WW II. Israel was artificially created and has been a proxy for the USA (and vice versa) ever since. Yes, its neighbors have been much more aggressive towards Israel than conversely, but all concerned need to take a step back and recognize that the decades'-long hostilities are due to a provocation by victorious allies after 1945, creating the state of Israel by drawing lines on a map.
What happened to self-determination? That's something the USA, Israel and other NATO (soon-to-be-former?) need to recognize, and instead of addressing the elephant in the room, they've dealt with each flare-up, piecemeal. I don't like what Hamas is doing. I think their leaders are ruthless and greedy scoundrels, who - as Rubin quoted - care more about taking the lives of Jewish babies than in preserving the lives of their own.
Things are just extremely tangled. They should have held a plebiscite, years ago, BEFORE Balfour, and let the people there decide for themselves how they wished to organize themselves into a nation. Now that Israel's in existence, the gentlest course would seem to be a 2-state solution, with holy temples held jointly, in some way, shape or form. But there I go, trying to tell everybody else what's fair. My only sure response is the same, lame, piecemeal "Hamas started this one" response.
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The greatest thing about Trump was what he did NOT do. As a 1970s Democrat, he believes in letting states rum most of their own stuff within their own means and learn from and compete with one another. He could've gone after South Dakota for not mindlessly issuing mandates. I'm sure a Democrat president would've heaped scorn upon and threatened sanctions against South Dakota.
That's the thing about America. You can't MAKE America. You can only LET America. Politicians want to make things happen, but their job is to stay out of the way and let people, towns, and states make things happen for themselves, within their own means. That was the unique thing about American history. The people were expanding beyond the means of any central authority on the East coast to control. The MOST the government could do was create a false imprimatur of legality to a culture clash that was happening on the ground, far beyond the state's ability to project enough power to impose order.
The Black Hills, part of which lie in South Dakota, were set aside for the Sioux, until illegal prospectors found gold, and then there was just no stopping a huge influx of people to the area. It attracted profiteers, profiteers profited, profiteers bought the government.
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That's why most conservatives and libertarians vote Republican, even though they're not that different from the Democrats. I don't agree with anybody on everything, but I'm closer to Ron Paul than damn near anybody else.
Democrats have been bad news pretty much since FDR, who used every crisis at his disposal to make the people think government was the solution to all problems and the source of their well-being. Now, 70 or 80 years later, we're seeing the real fruits of that abandonment of self-responsible freedom for the apparent blank check from the U.S. Treasury. Now, we're $31 trillion in debt, which is about $90,000 for every man, woman and child and $250,000 for every man and woman who actually PAYS federal taxes. The price of that false security? OBEDIENCE.
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