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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 121119" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>I think the title of this thread also fits in with the point of this op-ed from the Professor of Economics at Loyola College. It takes another look as the American Robber Barons of the late 19th and early 20th century but I also in reading drew parallels to our world today in especially how our Fed. gov't operates. </p><p> </p><p>IMO, many fail to see the modern day robber barons because they feel a sense of safety net knowing that some gov't bureaucracy has the duty of overseeing some market segment. Where IMO they fail even greater is to understnad the dynamics of how that bureaucracy came into being and the behind the scenes political moves and by who to bring this about. I hope at the least you find the article to at least give pause for looking at gov't from a different perspective.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.mises.org/story/2317" target="_blank">The Truth About the "Robber Barons" - Mises Institute</a></p><p> </p><p>With history of man being loaded with deception, intrigue and downright dishonesty and then consider the things taking place in our own country less than 100 years after we formed it with what we believed were checks and balances to prevent such abuse, is it to far of a stretch to believe it's gotten vastly worse and even more entrenched? Could it even have gone so far that a small group of men, seeing a business opportunity, worked together to promote the idea of taking over another country under another pretense but in the end to profit? Could it even be so bad that these men took advantage of a horrible and tragic event to manipulate the emotions of a nation to the point of pushing the gov't to do the bidding of this small group?</p><p> </p><p>You may scoff at such notions and be right on point in doing so but the larger history of mankind and even our short history as a nation would suggest the potential for just such a thing is worthy of consideration and quite real. It's amazing that the majority of Americans based on many polls say that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't alone and that there was somone on the grassy knoll. We will go to the highest ends to believe a conspiracy of killing an American President which in some respects could be seen as a quite coup d etat but we won't for a moment consider the possibility that Iraq was a contrived war to begin with. Some think that to suggest this would also include 9/11 in such goings on but that IMO is not the case. 9/11 turned out to be the mechanism they never had to push the American public in the direction they wanted. They used 9/11 not created it to achieve something that they had gone public with as early as 1996' and even penned a letter to President Clinton asking him to do what Bush finally did in 2003'. Coincidence or planned? As with the Robber Barons, what will truth bare out in 100 years from now?</p><p> </p><p>JMHO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 121119, member: 2189"] I think the title of this thread also fits in with the point of this op-ed from the Professor of Economics at Loyola College. It takes another look as the American Robber Barons of the late 19th and early 20th century but I also in reading drew parallels to our world today in especially how our Fed. gov't operates. IMO, many fail to see the modern day robber barons because they feel a sense of safety net knowing that some gov't bureaucracy has the duty of overseeing some market segment. Where IMO they fail even greater is to understnad the dynamics of how that bureaucracy came into being and the behind the scenes political moves and by who to bring this about. I hope at the least you find the article to at least give pause for looking at gov't from a different perspective. [url=http://www.mises.org/story/2317]The Truth About the "Robber Barons" - Mises Institute[/url] With history of man being loaded with deception, intrigue and downright dishonesty and then consider the things taking place in our own country less than 100 years after we formed it with what we believed were checks and balances to prevent such abuse, is it to far of a stretch to believe it's gotten vastly worse and even more entrenched? Could it even have gone so far that a small group of men, seeing a business opportunity, worked together to promote the idea of taking over another country under another pretense but in the end to profit? Could it even be so bad that these men took advantage of a horrible and tragic event to manipulate the emotions of a nation to the point of pushing the gov't to do the bidding of this small group? You may scoff at such notions and be right on point in doing so but the larger history of mankind and even our short history as a nation would suggest the potential for just such a thing is worthy of consideration and quite real. It's amazing that the majority of Americans based on many polls say that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't alone and that there was somone on the grassy knoll. We will go to the highest ends to believe a conspiracy of killing an American President which in some respects could be seen as a quite coup d etat but we won't for a moment consider the possibility that Iraq was a contrived war to begin with. Some think that to suggest this would also include 9/11 in such goings on but that IMO is not the case. 9/11 turned out to be the mechanism they never had to push the American public in the direction they wanted. They used 9/11 not created it to achieve something that they had gone public with as early as 1996' and even penned a letter to President Clinton asking him to do what Bush finally did in 2003'. Coincidence or planned? As with the Robber Barons, what will truth bare out in 100 years from now? JMHO [/QUOTE]
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