Austin
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My interest in this housing situation is only superficial. The housing crisis is just a symptom of the underlying disease.
I have a deep interest in national economic models and tend to see things in terms of national economic models. For example, last night I was watching the History Channel and they had a series on Adolph Hitler and how he came to power. Hitler took a nation in total turmoil, promised to improve things in four years and then created one of the greatest economic recoveries in history and he did it in the four years as he promised to do.
As a student I was questioning myself about how this economic model worked. They played an old tape recording of a conservation of Hitler talking with the president of Finland in which Hitler was talking very sensibility about the situation Germany faced, primarily due to the Soviet Union. Essentially, the German economic model was getting killed by Stalin’s economic model.
The basic problem with all economic models, save one, has one common little quirk: To keep the scam working or the music playing requires some economic blood from outside the system. That dilemma is what underlies all economic models for nation states.
What was Hitler’s dilemma? The same as the Roman Empire, they needed this outsource of economic blood to stay alive economically. If you look at the history, Hitler started in 1933, you see how his model solved this problem of needed wealth. What else happened in 1933 in Germany? Hitler started stealing the wealth he needed by taking it from the Jews. That lasted for about 4 years but then like the Romans he had to resort exploiting other nations for his blood supply. Like the Romans before him, he had to conquer other nations to fill the blood bank but the Roman end came as a result of all the slaves they conquered living amongst them. In other words, Hitler had to keep growing to feed the system. So he resorted to using slave labor and conquest.
What did Hitler tell the President of Finland was causing him a problem? It was the oil in Romania he had to have and the totally unexpected economic and military muscle of Stalin. Hitler attacked Russia to get the oil fields in Romania. Hitler explained that the reason Stalin was so strong was that he was essentially using slave labor to solve his problem. There in lies the dilemma. Stalin’s model was superior because his was a slave state and slave states are more efficient that National Socialists states. The slaves don’t get paid or have entitlements.
I said all of the above to point this out: What is the greatest political issue in the news today in this country? It is immigration and the war in Iraq. What is behind this? It is that our system needs an outside source of economic blood to keep the music playing. We need cheap oil, stability abroad, economic growth as example being the real estate bubble and more cheap labor from immigration. Kind of like the Romans. Otherwise, our welfare state will collapse. What did Hitler in? Answer is a slave state economic model he could not match... What will do the USA in? In my view it will be a combination of the slave state like mentality like the Arab World and the fact that the immigrants coming in will use our democratic model to vote themselves economic entitlements which will only serve to buy us a little more time in the short run but hasten our demise in the longer term.
And in closing; the housing bubble and all of the babbling on this thread has a simple explanation: The housing bubble was an act of desperation to prop up the system and keep the music playing just a little longer. The problem we face is not the housing bubble, the problem is that our economic gas tank, like Hitler explained: “All of these tanks and trucks drink gas like you would not believe, we have got to get the oil but the Russians are not what we expected to encounter.” We didn’t expect the Muslim world to have the might we are up against either. The more things change the more they stay the same. Just ask the Romans.
I have a deep interest in national economic models and tend to see things in terms of national economic models. For example, last night I was watching the History Channel and they had a series on Adolph Hitler and how he came to power. Hitler took a nation in total turmoil, promised to improve things in four years and then created one of the greatest economic recoveries in history and he did it in the four years as he promised to do.
As a student I was questioning myself about how this economic model worked. They played an old tape recording of a conservation of Hitler talking with the president of Finland in which Hitler was talking very sensibility about the situation Germany faced, primarily due to the Soviet Union. Essentially, the German economic model was getting killed by Stalin’s economic model.
The basic problem with all economic models, save one, has one common little quirk: To keep the scam working or the music playing requires some economic blood from outside the system. That dilemma is what underlies all economic models for nation states.
What was Hitler’s dilemma? The same as the Roman Empire, they needed this outsource of economic blood to stay alive economically. If you look at the history, Hitler started in 1933, you see how his model solved this problem of needed wealth. What else happened in 1933 in Germany? Hitler started stealing the wealth he needed by taking it from the Jews. That lasted for about 4 years but then like the Romans he had to resort exploiting other nations for his blood supply. Like the Romans before him, he had to conquer other nations to fill the blood bank but the Roman end came as a result of all the slaves they conquered living amongst them. In other words, Hitler had to keep growing to feed the system. So he resorted to using slave labor and conquest.
What did Hitler tell the President of Finland was causing him a problem? It was the oil in Romania he had to have and the totally unexpected economic and military muscle of Stalin. Hitler attacked Russia to get the oil fields in Romania. Hitler explained that the reason Stalin was so strong was that he was essentially using slave labor to solve his problem. There in lies the dilemma. Stalin’s model was superior because his was a slave state and slave states are more efficient that National Socialists states. The slaves don’t get paid or have entitlements.
I said all of the above to point this out: What is the greatest political issue in the news today in this country? It is immigration and the war in Iraq. What is behind this? It is that our system needs an outside source of economic blood to keep the music playing. We need cheap oil, stability abroad, economic growth as example being the real estate bubble and more cheap labor from immigration. Kind of like the Romans. Otherwise, our welfare state will collapse. What did Hitler in? Answer is a slave state economic model he could not match... What will do the USA in? In my view it will be a combination of the slave state like mentality like the Arab World and the fact that the immigrants coming in will use our democratic model to vote themselves economic entitlements which will only serve to buy us a little more time in the short run but hasten our demise in the longer term.
And in closing; the housing bubble and all of the babbling on this thread has a simple explanation: The housing bubble was an act of desperation to prop up the system and keep the music playing just a little longer. The problem we face is not the housing bubble, the problem is that our economic gas tank, like Hitler explained: “All of these tanks and trucks drink gas like you would not believe, we have got to get the oil but the Russians are not what we expected to encounter.” We didn’t expect the Muslim world to have the might we are up against either. The more things change the more they stay the same. Just ask the Romans.
