Well, yet again the government thinks that it can fix all its problems by giving people the illusion that they have more money. Thanks for the loan I’ll have to pay back in my taxes (or, worse, they will just inflate the currency to pay it out)!
I think I might just mattress (yes, I’m using that as a verb) the money, or spend it on things one might need if we go into a depression, like long shelf-life food or ammunition. Any thoughts on what might be good to purchase? (I also have no debt at all, so that’s not really an option for me like it is for 99% of the nation)
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debt, depression, economy, finance, money, politics, question
As I’ve been reading various books, an idea keeps popping up.
Suddenly radio playlists, MTV, and A&R guys aren’t
the all-powerful gatekeepers anymore. At long last the music industry
is becoming a democracy.
In our governmental systems, we elect representatives to make decisions for us, sending them to Washington to write bills, oppose bills, pass bills, or veto bills. We ideally find candidates who will make similar decisions to those we ourselves would make. We elect them in a process called democracy (unless it’s a presidential election, in which case the popular vote only determines a winner-takes-all vote for the state, allowing the electoral votes to originate from one party or another). In government, a direct legislative rule by the people is as dangerous as a direct legislative rule by any tyrant. In a country where we preach equal treatment of any minority, we cannot have raw majority rule, where fear of the majority silences all those who might oppose it out of fear of rejection, blasphemy, or outright violence.
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