Comments on: About those Cockapoos … http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2010/06/11/about-those-cockapoos/ Musings about personal freedom and finding it within ourselves. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TGGP http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2010/06/11/about-those-cockapoos/comment-page-1/#comment-1646 TGGP Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:26:36 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/?p=1601#comment-1646 I argued with <a href="http://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/my-critique-of-block/" rel="nofollow">Walter Block</a> about this idea a little while back. I argued with Walter Block about this idea a little while back.

]]> By: crow531 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2010/06/11/about-those-cockapoos/comment-page-1/#comment-1545 crow531 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:06:27 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/?p=1601#comment-1545 1st I'm glad to see your active again Claire. Your cockapoo strategy is not new during the70's & 80's a similar strategy was advocated by a number of black communist groups. Collect welfare get on any government programs to draw money that they could the theory was the weight of all the programs would bankrupt the government and destroy capitalism. In some ways it has worked. the plan somewhat died as communism died. It still has some merits to drag down a give away government and possible destroy this corrupted economic system masquerading as capitalism. 1st I’m glad to see your active again Claire. Your cockapoo strategy is not new during the70′s & 80′s a similar strategy was advocated by a number of black communist groups. Collect welfare get on any government programs to draw money that they could the theory was the weight of all the programs would bankrupt the government and destroy capitalism. In some ways it has worked. the plan somewhat died as communism died. It still has some merits to drag down a give away government and possible destroy this corrupted economic system masquerading as capitalism.

]]> By: Pat http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2010/06/11/about-those-cockapoos/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 Pat Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:31:49 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/?p=1601#comment-1519 “On the other hand, waiting another ten or fifteen years as the security state constantly increases its power would result in exponentially more chaos and suffering when the failing state lashes out. When viewed from this angle, the moral question is even murkier. As in, is it worse to mooch from the looters and give the producers a chance to say no (hopefully) before it’s too late? Or is it worse to wait until events force everyone past the proverbial awkward stage?” In the long run (or short run, the way things are going) the end result is the same. As in Atlas Shrugged, the worse things got for the illustrious leaders, the more desperate ideas they thought up. Of course they only hastened their own downfall--the more pressure they applied, the faster the country fell apart. They never really understood what was going on, never believed THEIR policies would cause such catastrophe. It was always the other guy’s fault. Just as it is today. There are times I feel I am reading Atlas Shrugged again. While the particulars are different, the cause-and-effect is the same. And from a personal POV, the difference is that I’m not so timid today about the results as I was many years ago. While it WILL affect me and mine adversely, I’m still inclined to say, “bring it on, the sooner the better”--so I can finally see liberty in the making. “On the other hand, waiting another ten or fifteen years as the security state constantly increases its power would result in exponentially more chaos and suffering when the failing state lashes out.
When viewed from this angle, the moral question is even murkier. As in, is it worse to mooch from the looters and give the producers a chance to say no (hopefully) before it’s too late? Or is it worse to wait until events force everyone past the proverbial awkward stage?”

In the long run (or short run, the way things are going) the end result is the same.

As in Atlas Shrugged, the worse things got for the illustrious leaders, the more desperate ideas they thought up. Of course they only hastened their own downfall–the more pressure they applied, the faster the country fell apart. They never really understood what was going on, never believed THEIR policies would cause such catastrophe. It was always the other guy’s fault.

Just as it is today.

There are times I feel I am reading Atlas Shrugged again. While the particulars are different, the cause-and-effect is the same. And from a personal POV, the difference is that I’m not so timid today about the results as I was many years ago. While it WILL affect me and mine adversely, I’m still inclined to say, “bring it on, the sooner the better”–so I can finally see liberty in the making.

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