Comments on: America’s Hegemonic Status Slipping Away

By: Brian W.

Brian W. — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:51:55 +0000

"Economics can be said in four words: The Customer is King. Or hegemon. Nations (and maybe states) are going the way of the buggy whip factory. Good riddance. - Sid Cundiff"

Wonderful, what is a cretin like this doing posting here anyway?
Can't you guys ban him? Is there a need to suffer through his WSJ propaganda?

By: Aldebanlohoperaldi Huffghaffson

Aldebanlohoperaldi Huffghaffson — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:23:20 +0000

take a dump joe... you'll 'think' better... we know you can IMAGINE to beat the band, and NOT feel... but if you *can't* think either, what's left? - the neocons? ... study navrazov a "techno-phobe" who's alienated not- from life per se... but understandably from folks like you? And understandably as well, from himself. Questions... idiot? - of course not... you cannot even form them - l'est I give them to you... at this point. It's why I don't blame you Yet... when I Do - guess what-?- You'll KNOW it. _______________________________________________

By: Joe Legris

Joe Legris — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:49:16 +0000

profundus excretum y'all

By: Aldebanlohoperaldi Huffghaffson

Aldebanlohoperaldi Huffghaffson — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:43:53 +0000

Sid's still baby Moses in his mind's eye floating down deNile or deNial to eternal fame and prosperity. He believes as long as we don't all yet realize it's myth so what's the harm? No, seriously in state-capitalism there's no such thing as 'free' trade domestically OR globally... that's the point... idiot/s fortunately the real Moses i.e. Nicholas G.P. even at his ripe young age has already figured it out. sid's still floating... floating... with his cell phone and a direct line to E.T. in his waterproof bassinet of lore... he glances childlike Up at the sky and sees Alan Greenspan's face reassuring him ....................... and buys his new book. hahahha sorry it's not ad hominen... it's humor ... it's humor ... wait there's sid's cell phone going off now... it's E.T.

By: Clyde Wilson

Clyde Wilson — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:10:17 +0000

Mr. Van O. I agree with you 100 per cent that the present labor arbitrage is not free trade and is an abomination on the American people. However, I humbly submit that you persist in getting the history wrong. The Republican era of Protection from the 1860s to the 1920s was not a benefit to American prosperity but a drag on an economy that prospered anyway because of its smart, hard-working people and natural resources. During most of that period the same Republicans who dictated tariffs also encouraged mass immigration in order to keep down the wages of labour---otherwise, AMERICAN workers would not be in the fix they are in today. And the protective era saw three great depressions, 1876, 1897, and 1929 which brought about immense unemployment and poverty, and kept a large part of the agricultural population impoverished as well.

By: Sid Cundiff

Sid Cundiff — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:12:54 +0000

.Once the house of cards falls down, we will have no choice but to put our shoulders to the wheel, work hard, and put things to rights [sic]. Indeed! Someone, just barely, got my hint. The house of cards in fact isn't (just) bad leaders. It's the entire Faux Patria called America and the entire faux nationality called "Americans", the work of the real founding in 1861 by its founding father, Dishonest Abe. The tenor of argument from some posters here is that everything is just peachy with Gringo "nation", and if we could just get rid of the Hamiltonians, everything would be mighty fine. Put differently, it seems like folks here just love how this Faux Country -- this Behemoth, Leviathan, and Great Whore of Babylon central state and its assorted functionaries, serfs, and gullible goose-steppers and flag-wavers -- was and is constituted , and just don't like the bad things it's doing. But it's doing bad things because the way it's constituted. Thus as constitutionalists, the Hamiltonians (I refuse to call them "Neocons") and the Paleoconservatives don't seem very different. Land of Lincoln indeed! My other hint at the end of my libertarian argument: The Paleolibertarians, the Neo-Confederates, and the last Jeffersonian, Clyde Wilson, are doing better work than the Paleoconservatives, a movement that died with Sam Francis anyway, he having refused to join the League of the South. Real Conservatives (the Burkean-Kirkans)-- unlike racialist-nationalists, Hamiltonian-nationalists, and Cultural Marxists -- might be able do even better work, were Real Conservatism to exist this side of the Atlantic. In the meantime, until we get something better, to borrow a phrase from my students, Tom DiLorenzo rocks.

By: Brian Wheeler

Brian Wheeler — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:52:20 +0000

It is completely irrevelant if asian engineers and programmers are highly talented. The fundamental issue is the racial survival of Native Born White Christian Americans within the borders of America.

Either American becomes largely labor self-sufficient-like she was in a previous era-or Native Born White Christian Americans will face complete economic and racial dispossesion within the borders of America.

The racial and economic survival of Native Born White Americans requires completely shutting down post-1965 non-white LEGAL IMMIGRATION.

By: Nicholas G.P. MOSES

Nicholas G.P. MOSES — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:32:55 +0000

"Trade deficits are also a 19th C. nationalist concept, meaningless in a world market." Aha, so as soon as trade becomes "free" in my commune, the fact that I spend more money than I make makes no difference to myself or to my family! Mr. Cundiff is really reaching now. I'm still waiting for "Real Conservatism"'s answer to the libertarians. If none can be produced soon, I may well have to start calling myself a "nationalist" just to feel like I'm getting something--even the wrong thing--done. Between the nationalists and the unholy SDS-neoliberal materialist hippie alliance, I definitely prefer nationalists.

By: Aldebanlohoperaldi Huffghaffson

Aldebanlohoperaldi Huffghaffson — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:29:35 +0000

"If the dollar loses its reserve currency status, the United States would magically have to move from an $800 billion trade deficit to a trade surplus so that it could earn enough Euros to pay for its imports of oil and manufactured goods." -PCR

If IMPEACHMENT IS PATRIOTIC as one bumper sticker reads (and it is) so is decoupling from the monstrous state of Israel and its demonic lobby in the U.S. AIPAC. Since what Bush does isn't even good for "oil" one wonders what they have on the Bushes. Does George H.W. Bush dance in the ballet (besides jump out of planes), and mama Bush wear combat boots? ... Soo georgie W. had to go along with the neocons... if so - ok we've said it - now W. that's over, wake-up. http://www.peacepalestine.blogspot.com wake up - we're all the palestinians now. No? [still in denial?] I know it's not just a river in Egypt. Instead though as we all swirl down the tubes a bush daughter is going to be married at the white house. Awhh. sweet.
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By: Steve Berg

Steve Berg — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:13:32 +0000

I have had the fortune to have worked with a rich tapestry of diversity in my years in high tech electronics. Consequently I have experience with numerous foreign engineers and managers. A few of the Indians and Chinese were truly superb. Then there were most of the rest. When working in an alleged engineering educational institution, my fellow benighted natives and I often wondered what many of the subcontinental contingent were going to do when they got a job and no longer had anyone to cheat from. To put it mildly, academic misconduct was epidemic. Cultural aspects of engineering are most interesting. Most of the Asians I knew did not like to get their hands dirty with actually building things. A notable exception is a good friend of mine who is a Brahmin and who is a far better tuner and tweaker than I am. He also managed to learn how to cook extremely well when covertly taught by his parents servants. What a glorious exception! One of my Chinese colleagues was ostracized by his fellows for actually enjoying designing and building equipment. Another glorious exception. One of my old bosses was a Greek immigrant with a Ph.D. from IIT in Chicago. Pete is a mathematical marvel and also an excellent technician. I learned an immense amount about antennas from him. But, he once lost our company a contract with a Swiss firm because their senior management caught him eating lunch with their technicians, and also shinnying out on a cannon barrel to adjust his invention himself. A Herr Ing Doktor does not do such things! We used to kid Pete that such a title implied he was a guy who healed sick fish. He once told me that American trained engineers tended to be better than those from Europe because they knew practice along with theory. but that European technicians were better than Americans because they had to get the European designs actually working. Also contra Mr. Cundiff, I have considerable experience in substitute teaching at the secondary school level and am currently an academic at an institution of higher learning. Are my students stupid? Not most of them. Are they ignorant? Most definitely, but that is what I am supposed to help them overcome. My biggest concern is that they do not understand that success comes more with hard work than with luck. Many seem to view the educational process as being akin to that for producing foie gras. I also work to overcome this. I use essay exams and multiple term papers. So, despite our being ruled by fools and idiots, I do not despair over the state of our country. Once the house of cards falls down, we will have no choice but to put our shoulders to the wheel, work hard, and put things to rights.