tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post9013012973811632800..comments2024-03-28T18:59:21.172-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Killer debt driven by parasitic elites, leads to populist revolutionagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2222590252432985922018-02-13T22:24:58.213-05:002018-02-13T22:24:58.213-05:00“I want to keep prices down, but I also want to ma...“I want to keep prices down, but I also want to make sure that we have a steel industry and an aluminum industry, and we do need that for national defense,” he said.<br /><br />https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-mulls-tariffs-quotas-on-foreign-steel-1518555215<br /><br />Brilliant appeal to neocons, no? They'll be clamoring for it Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-39326399614190157592018-02-13T06:53:50.232-05:002018-02-13T06:53:50.232-05:00Immigration is going to make the backlash even wor...Immigration is going to make the backlash even worse: who *really* does not have anything invested in the imperial adventures of Uncle Sam's military around the globe?<br /><br />Foreigners.<br /><br />No different from the heavy anti-war activism among Ellis Islanders during / after WWI, a lot of whom were deported back to Europe.<br /><br />As the parasitic defense contractors of Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia import more and more foreigners into their states so they can cheaply re-model their kitchens and landscape their estates, they're sowing the seeds of their own destruction.<br /><br />Aside from voting, which immigrants do not take part in, they will be easily mobilized into mob riots when prices soar through the roof because of permanent wartime budgets and debt.<br /><br />Once the Pentagon is fingered as a main culprit, the immigrant hordes won't need to vote against war budgets -- they'll just storm the place, or riot throughout NOVA, or otherwise disturb business as usual.<br /><br />No tinge of patriotism will hold them back, unlike it would for a good chunk of Americans.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-10750031403523358452018-02-13T06:46:37.494-05:002018-02-13T06:46:37.494-05:00If the French Rev is too distant to spook elites, ...If the French Rev is too distant to spook elites, how about the Bolsheviks coming to power after crushing war debt broke the finances of a moribund empire:<br /><br />https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_finance_russian_empire<br /><br />Racking up debt in a series of wars leading up to the most expensive WWI, inflation out the ass, and soaring prices for commoners. And of course the belief at the outset that it'll only last a brief moment, and then it'll be right back to prosperity and stability.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com