Surplus of pessimism may cost Spain’s ruling Socialists at polls

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – November 19 –
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I read in this article that the socialist government in Spain is expected to fall this Sunday. This does not mean that President Obama’s government will fall in November of 2012, but it sure is a good omen. Socialism and hence Marxism is a bad idea. This is just one more example of the failure of Marxism. The Bolsheviks, Lenin, Stalin, and the Soviet Union are classic examples of Marxist failure, but there are current examples on display. Spain is just one of them.

Mr. Zapatero’s Socialist party (PSOE), which has been in power for eight years, has borne the brunt of public blame for Spain’s increasingly perilous economic situation, which has tainted the party’s leadership candidate, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba.

Meanwhile, Mr. Rajoy has been coasting toward an expected landslide victory without saying much about how he plans to reverse Spain’s economic course.

The situation is bleak for the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy. Spain’s growth this year is projected at less than 1 percent, and the unemployment rate hovers near 23 percent, meaning 5 million people are out of work.
Spain’s economy has suffered in the global credit crunch like other countries, but it bears problems that have pushed the country into more trouble: The housing and construction bubble, which had accounted for 18 percent of GDP, burst in 2008, and the savings bank sector has collapsed as well.
What’s more, the savings bank sector - run by private banks and politicians - heavily financed the real estate sector and made risky investments. Spanish authorities are investigating several of the failed savings banks on corruption charges.

So, were Barney Frank and the Democrats wise to cause risky mortgages to be made? Should banking be government controlled, or is government impotent, when it comes to common sense and management principles?
We are in a terrible economic situation, and Marxism has only made the economy worse, not better.
First, we saw what happened in the Soviet Union, now we see socialist economies falling like dominoes:

A PP victory on Sunday will mark the fifth time this year that Europe’s financial crisis has prompted the ousting of a government:
• In February, the Irish evicted the governing Fianna Fail party, the first time the party has not dominated the parliament since 1927.
• This summer, Portugal voted out its socialist party amid severe austerity measures.
• Last week, the Greek and Italian governments collapsed under pressure from the EU and the financial markets.

Do You Want to Know?

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – November 18 –
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Good afternoon chouchou. Since we aren’t posting on Newsvine, I’ll post these seeded articles on my blog, which will also be posted on Facebook and Twitter. God Be With You to Guide and Protect You

From: chouchou

Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:47 AM

To: Wolf Wolfman

Subject: RE: [goluckydonald]

Hi wolf,

I apologize for a delayed response. I am on my way to Indonesia and then Singapore. Maybe I should drop by Bali and send our greetings to our dear Leader aka First Pacific President? And by the way, Obama is fencing (words) after his visit to Australia with the communist Chinese. The communist gets irritated just about anything in their double standard world.

Over the weekend, I could set aside more time and I would visit your blog. That said, there are at least 4 articles that are super and should not go unnoticed. I am just going to drop it off with you in this email, and I will chime in later. Do whatever you want with it….but I highly recommend these four.

• From our beloved Victor Davis Hanson, I absolutely was applauding him word after word. The Imaginarium of Barack Obama
  
• WSJ: Henniger, Obama Abandons (Private) Labor
  
• Washington Post and Investor Business Daily: Charles Krauthammer, Obama Policies Put Politics Before Nation (unavailable) 
  
• Telegraph: Nile Gardiner, (unavailable) The decline and fall of Occupy Wall Street: the American Left has run out of steam and liberalism is in crisis

See you later.

chou chou

The Newsvine Boycott

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – November 15 –
A boycott of Newsvine has been announced on Reality Check, a secret group, on Facebook. You must be a member to participate in Reality Check on Facebook.
I won’t be posting any articles on Newsvine for the next seven days, commenting there, or anything. It will be just like I died as far as Newsvine is concerned.
I had an article on Newsvine with over 400 comments. pwtenny made some remarks that I didn’t approve of, so I deleted the article today. I did the same thing to him one other time. He backed off, but he was coming on strong again today, singing the praises of OWS. I think he got the message the last time, and he got another one today. He’s an avid Marxism supporter,  as long as he supports OWS, in my way of thinking.
I will discourage people who support Marxism.
Really this boycott of Newsvine is about people who don’t like Marxists or Marxism.
I read today that the Obama administration is going to spend $1000 million on promoting Obamacare. They want a bunch of stuff for Obamacare. I have a new slogan: It’s spending stupid!
President Obama will never quit outrageous spending, or trying to rush into something. He wants the Obamacare stuff quickly, just like “Pass it Now!”. Obamacare may be declared unconstitutional, Why do we need to spend anything on it  before a decision is made?
I sure hope Boehner and company are on top of this one!

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman, philosopher and orator (42 B.C)

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God Bless America

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman, philosopher and orator (42 B.C)

Government is Not A Person | Corporations are Treated As a Person

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – November 14 –

Generally speaking; which is managed better, businesses, or government? Which has the better accounting practices and procedures; businesses or government?

How many businesses can “give away money” to almost any crony that comes along, and survive? Fannie and Freddie did it. President Obama got in on the largess of Fannie and Freddie. Franklin Raines and company cooked the books. Jamie Gorelik collected millions from Fannie and Freddie. It turns out that Newt Gingrich was on the board of directors of Fannie or Freddie, and got his fingers in the pie. It doesn’t matter, which one, because the point is: Newt Gingrich got his fingers in the pie.

If we apply these government principles to say General Motors, will it work? If we apply them to McDonald’s, will they be successful? I report. You decide.

The problem is: Government members are not held accountable. Very few government members go to jail like Jack Abramoff did. Will Newt Gingrich go to jail for being on a government board? No way. How many government people will go to jail for guaranteeing a risky $500,000,000 loan? Was money funneled to President Obama’s campaign from taxpayer money in the Solyndra loan guarantee and in the stimulus?

Another problem is: We have people in Massachusetts putting people like Barney Frank in government. The nation as a whole are helpless against the wishes of a small group of people, who live in Massachusetts. There should be a way for the nation as a whole to reject people like Barney. Put him on trial for crimes and misdemeanors. Risky mortgages, bad accounting principles, and giving away taxpayer money irresponsibly, should be a crime, and people like Barney should be subject to prosecution.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it….Martin Luther King

Don’t worry, Barney said she did a great job over at Fannie Mae….

There is Going to Be a Referendum

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – November 12 –

Greece was going to have a referendum on December 4, 2011, but it has been cancelled. Then they had a confidence vote, and the present government won. So much for Greece. I’ll be keeping an eye on them.

We are going to have a quasi referendum in the United States in November 2012. At stake is whether we want the network of Soros, Occupy Wall Street, former ACORN affiliates, unions, and parasites, to manage the United States.

Soros is a parasite. He lives off the decline in the value of the dollar, and other things.

Occupy Wall Streeters are parasites, who would live off everyone else and do very little to provide for themselves. Unions are parasites, who add nothing to the economy. They just take out of the pockets of others. In the case of private sector unions, Boeing is an example. The company produces airplanes; the union lives off the company’s revenue. In the public sector; the union parasites live off tax dollars. The Occupy Wall Streeters want the 1% to provide for them. Now, the defunct ACORN affiliates are joining the OWSers.

The teacher’s unions are particularly egregious. They are not only parasites, they breed parasites through instruction in schools. Another annoying feature the teacher’s unions have is: They practice chanting and parroting slogans. If their chanting helps them in any way, I don’t see the results. Maybe no results is good!

These parasites have one thing in common: They are all Marxists.

Here’s some information about Karl Marx:

Charlie Courtois
#8.1 Hey Wolf,
Karl Marx was run out of Germany, Belgium, France, and went to England to hide. He wrote endlessly about his theories, but in the end he was a considerable failure. He lived on the fringes of poverty for some 35-40 years of his life, and I post just a few bits of his failures below:
Marx's excitement about the possibility of world revolution began to subside in 1849. The army had managed to help the Emperor of Austria return to power and attempts at uprisings in Dresden, Baden and the Rhur were quickly put down. On 9th May, 1849, Marx received news he was to be expelled from the country. The last edition of the New Rhenish Gazette appeared on 18th May and was printed in red. Marx wrote that although he was being forced to leave, his ideas would continue to be spread until the "emancipation of the working class".
Marx now went to France where he believed a socialist revolution was likely to take place at any time. However, within a month of arriving, the French police ordered him out of the capital. Only one country remained who would take him, and on 15th September he sailed for England. Soon after settling in London Jenny Marx gave birth to her fourth child. The Prussian authorities applied pressure on the British government to expel Marx but the Prime Minister, John Russell, held liberal views on freedom of expression and refused.
Marx had very few champions, and was left howling like a voice in the wilderness, as his years in this life came to an unremarkable end. Das Kapital I, and II, never proved to be true, and they remained theory's unproven and untested supported by few who were the power brokers of his time.
Will your vote, in the November 2012 quasi referendum, assist the Marxist parasites?

Cows and Hibiscus

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – November 11 –

There’s a farmer’s market about three miles from our house. I caught a picture of the cows one day as we were passing and stopped in. The cows are able to access the corn field and eat the corn directly from the cornstalks. I was born and raised on a farm, but that is a first for me. I’ve shoveled many a load of corn into the corn crib in my time.

The final series of pictures are of a hibiscus we have in our house. The blooms come out daily, and shrivel up within 24 hours. These pictures were taken on consecutive days. I think part of the reason it’s blooming is; we brought it in out of the cold, and it thinks it’s spring.