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01 Jan 2019, 1:10 pm

The Year the World Leapt Backwards a Century to the 1930s



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06 Jan 2019, 2:25 am

I forget who said it, but I'll quote it anyhow: He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.


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06 Jan 2019, 2:47 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
I forget who said it, but I'll quote it anyhow: He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.


George Santayana



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06 Jan 2019, 2:50 am

We're like the "Roaring 20s".

People making tremendous money.

-Stock markets hit recent record highs.
-Crypto-currency creating hundreds of billions of "wealth" from nothing.
-Real estate at record highs.
-50 year low unemployment.
-Apple and Amazon are recently trillion dollar companies.

We go BOOM BOOM BOOM!


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06 Jan 2019, 3:11 am

LoveNotHate wrote:
We're like the "Roaring 20s".

People making tremendous money.

-Stock markets hit recent record highs.
-Crypto-currency creating hundreds of billions of "wealth" from nothing.
-Real estate at record highs.
-50 year low unemployment.
-Apple and Amazon are recently trillion dollar companies.

We go BOOM BOOM BOOM!



Most Americans never got to partake in that freewheeling wealth. And what did all that irresponsible opulence get us? The Great Depression, in which millions were cast into poverty.


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06 Jan 2019, 3:47 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
Most Americans never got to partake in that freewheeling wealth. And what did all that irresponsible opulence get us? The Great Depression, in which millions were cast into poverty.

Most Americans are getting rich.

All you have to do is own a home.


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06 Jan 2019, 4:14 am

My aunt is a working clsss laborer and she says this is going to be her best year financially in a long time.

The only reason some say it's the great depression and nazi germany and the end of the world et al is.... well you know.



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06 Jan 2019, 4:52 am

Meistersinger wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I forget who said it, but I'll quote it anyhow: He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.


George Santayana

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
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06 Jan 2019, 10:47 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
I forget who said it, but I'll quote it anyhow: He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.


The same was said during the Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan and so on administrations.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun" - Solomon



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06 Jan 2019, 11:01 am

LoveNotHate wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Most Americans never got to partake in that freewheeling wealth. And what did all that irresponsible opulence get us? The Great Depression, in which millions were cast into poverty.

Most Americans are getting rich.

All you have to do is own a home.


Most of us don't own homes.
Where are those Americans getting rich? I don't see them around here.


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06 Jan 2019, 11:03 am

EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I forget who said it, but I'll quote it anyhow: He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.


The same was said during the Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan and so on administrations.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun" - Solomon


But not a single one of them was so disruptive to the country, or seemingly had the interests of another country ahead of America.


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06 Jan 2019, 12:07 pm

I got as far as England and stopped. Can't be bothered to read something by someone who can't be bothered to do

their research.

In the interests of fairness, I went and had another read and it's even worse than I originally thought. I don't know

how brexit will go but we are not in a depression, we are not doomed. We don't know what's going to happen but

we will manage. W have been through much worse. And not wanting to be a part of an EU that is determined to be a

single country and is not properly accountable does not make us fascists. Most immigration to the UK comes from

outside of the EU anyway. And we didn't copy American policies, we don't need to be taught how to be cheap.


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06 Jan 2019, 1:41 pm

Americans willing to effectively apply themselves often do well.
Not naming names, but having looked at some threads I see that the old troll is out and a new one is in...
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06 Jan 2019, 8:41 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I forget who said it, but I'll quote it anyhow: He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.


The same was said during the Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan and so on administrations.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun" - Solomon


But not a single one of them was so disruptive to the country, or seemingly had the interests of another country ahead of America.


Obama was the last worst president. All I have to do is look up "Obama worst president ever" to find several pages of articles on that subject. And before him certainly of course Bush and Bush derangement syndrome. See I think part of forgetting the past and being doomed to repeat it, is to keep getting apoplectic over each rehashed event in history.



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06 Jan 2019, 8:56 pm

EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I forget who said it, but I'll quote it anyhow: He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.


The same was said during the Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan and so on administrations.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun" - Solomon


But not a single one of them was so disruptive to the country, or seemingly had the interests of another country ahead of America.


Obama was the last worst president. All I have to do is look up "Obama worst president ever" to find several pages of articles on that subject. And before him certainly of course Bush and Bush derangement syndrome. See I think part of forgetting the past and being doomed to repeat it, is to keep getting apoplectic over each rehashed event in history.


Being that Obama had brought the economy back from the edge caused the Bush years, and giving healthcare to millions of Americans who had never had it before, I have to ask what you have against Obama.
I might add, the Obama administration had never had so many resignations and criminal indictments and convictions among his people as Trump has had. And it'll only get worse when the Mueller report comes out.


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06 Jan 2019, 9:29 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Most Americans never got to partake in that freewheeling wealth. And what did all that irresponsible opulence get us? The Great Depression, in which millions were cast into poverty.

Most Americans are getting rich.

All you have to do is own a home.

A home is not meant to make you rich, it's meant simply to live in; a new estate bubble, maybe?

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My aunt is a working clsss laborer and she says this is going to be her best year financially in a long time.

The only reason some say it's the great depression and nazi germany and the end of the world et al is.... well you know.

Before WW2 Germany economy was getting better under Hitler.

The problem, if the economy is doing well under Trump (Which is a if!), is that then his horrible ideas outside of economy are also validated for the population; nowadays peoples in developed countries only care about money and getting jobs, after all, and it don't matter if it destroy the rest of the world and their children life.


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