At one point I used to travel from Ostende, Bel. to Berlin and go through the Brandenburg gate into the Zone to trade Teddy-Boy clothes for Zone currency and buy Zeiss optics.
First hand observation is limited and usually clouded by prejudices and filters through which we interpret data. Even so, I knew I was dealing in a bankrupt culture in which the economic and cultural controls marked the society for destruction.
Pointy toed Italian shoes and rock 'n roll tapes were enough to compromise political positions and ethical considerations. When a nation's underground economy gets stronger and is preferred to the "official" economy, the society cannot sustain.
I wince when I see US personal debt as well as the national debt skyrocket and watch the dollar plummet. And I am not greatly re-assured when Tom Broz tells me the Bush administration is "growing the economy."
Publius
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- Historical Revisionism by the Far Left:
- Not touching Bowser with a 10-foot pole on this one, but.....
- re: Historical Revisionism by the Far Left
- Revisionism - it was OK to gas people, even supply WMDs, then it wasn't OK.
- The limitations of black-and-white, either - or, thinking.
- You could benefit from reading a history of the Soviet Union, or Russia.