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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics
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To: SOROS who wrote (96558)7/20/2002 9:41:39 PM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (1) of 99280
 
Clinton made it "okay" to lie, cheat, and steal. He absolved the conscience of the nation, and now everyone will pay for it economically and socially. Moral decline always leads nations to ruin.

The only President who I never saw caught in a lie in my lifetime was Carter. Clinton did not make cheating okay. He was a cheater before he ran and it was publicized, so it was okay before he got there. Steal?

Greenspan was directly handling monetary policy. The market would have performed the same if Snoop Dogg was Prez. And blaming Clinton or any Prez as the cause is just silly, it seems to me. He was spawned by a culture and media and represented it, not created it. You give him to much criticism as a legitimizer; one could make the same argument that those with the zeal and gazillions to get him at any cost were the legitimizers.

And insofar as the moral decline ending the empire argument goes, I always found difficulty determining the one mortal authority whose morals were the exactly right ones. And found that it was a common event in wealthy societies for self-gratification to lead to benign neglect, not immorality per se. Lots of successful countries exist for centuries on lies and other transgressions of the moral code.

Finally, if our empire crumbles, mebbe it's just time for another country to rise to prominence. Perhaps a Middle Eastern or African or Latin American one where the people were born into repression and poverty 235 years ago. Like in musical chairs, maybe it's their turn.

-Kevin Hayden
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