tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post5910473510449084852..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: And now for a few words from one of our Sponsors...Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-4351518832911786112011-11-25T15:54:27.697-06:002011-11-25T15:54:27.697-06:00John said "Makes me wonder if the collapse of...John said "Makes me wonder if the collapse of our system is inevitable. Birth, death, rebirth. It is the way of world, no?"<br /><br />Common, but I don't think inevitable... we can redirect things, if we choose to... if we don't, <i>then</i> the defaults kick in.<br /><br />It's up to us.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-63850124353373498782011-11-22T11:02:53.582-06:002011-11-22T11:02:53.582-06:00Nice post Van. That John Stewart video is hilario...Nice post Van. That John Stewart video is hilarious. Adams was more readable than I was expecting. Nothing new under the sun. Makes me wonder if the collapse of our system is inevitable. Birth, death, rebirth. It is the way of world, no?John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15607964922479543670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-66680087641626713302011-11-21T13:37:22.432-06:002011-11-21T13:37:22.432-06:00Lance said "My choice is to restrict trade of...Lance said "My choice is to restrict trade of any sort with China."<br /><br />I'm afraid I'm missing the tie in between Hobbes, China and this post... but as with most things Hobbes, it sounds interesting, but has no real meaning, no connection with any reality beyond his own fears.<br /><br />As for trade with China... it's a communist country, it neither recognizes property rights nor any other individual rights (which I suppose <i>is</i> a tie in with OWS) - why would anyone want to risk doing business with China? Which is a question worth asking.<br /><br />It isn’t China that’s our problem - left to fend for itself, it would collapse, rapidly; China has the power it has only because we've chased our businesses from our own shores, to its shores (by those of us in our govt here who also do not recognize property rights or any other individual rights), through massively restrictive and expensive regulation and punitive taxation.<br /><br />What should be alarming, especially for someone on the left such as yourself, is that our businesses see doing business in Communist Red China <i>as a haven</i> from the onerous prospect of doing business in America!<br /><br />If you’d really like to see China collapse, businesses return to our shores, and peoples wealth increase to the point where they can again choose to contribute to those less fortunate, then work to eliminate the regulatory state, and return us to the rule of law and the system of free trade.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-9540164157749116952011-11-21T12:45:52.374-06:002011-11-21T12:45:52.374-06:00"Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in..."Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. (Hobbes, Leviathan)"<br /><br />My choice is to restrict trade of any sort with China.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04973448750714819716noreply@blogger.com