Re: america and the "Double-Dip"

In a message dated 8/2/2002 4:56:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> please be so kind as to force their government on doing something
> good for a change?
>
> thank you very much,
> tim


Yes, it's stupid to say America or I'm American; "I'm a US citizen" is more
proper.

Changing the US government, it seems, has been universally agreed to be
impossible. Bayesian probability allows for unpredictable events however so
I say "yes it is possible," but statistically, it is not possible.

Is the USA an empire, or just a big part of the empire of global capital?

These are not tirades but rather basic questions with mixed answers.

There is a good chance that the US economy will double-dip and we will have a
Great Depression. If equities do not hold their value we will have a
Depression, worldwide.

The US gov't is preparing for a terrible future, one that was caused and set
in motion by a given cluster of years in the 20th century.

They call the first dip "a vast evisceration of wealth"–i.e. stocks turned
to worthless paper. Another "double" dip could cause an old-fashioned
sepia-tone Depression. Who do people vote for in Depression? Hitler, the
eternal Duce, by any name smells as sweet.

Suleiman I was one of the greatest imperialists in human record. He came
close to subjugating Europe. He knew how to pay for "Long War"–janissaries.
Unfortunately funding or fielding armies is a very tricky cashflow operation
and the European princes got better enough fast enough to crush Suleiman into
recession.

I wrote a big paper about it at
www.geocities.com/genius-2000/EnglishTaxes.html

Max Herman
genius2000.net

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"The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw an astonishing
transformation in British government, one which put muscle on the bones of
the British body politic, increasing its endurance, strength, and
reach….The creation of what [Brewer calls] 'the fiscal-military state' was
the most important transformation in English government between the domestic
reforms of the Tudors and the major administrative changes in the first half
of the nineteenth century" (Brewer xvii).

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