It's Okay To Be An Ass: The Democrats of AoM

Paul_of_TX commented on Herb Munson's group The Great Debate

"If you are a terrorists or a member of a Mexican drug cartel this current administration will give money and weapons. American soldiers get the shaft, tax payers get to keep less of their own money and citizens have to keep fighting for their right…"

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Sean replied to Chad's discussion AoM Playlist

"Aw, you beat me. I always say O Fortuna whenever this subject comes up. If that song does not make you feel like grabbing a battle axe and horned helmet, running out into the streets and flipping cars whilst screaming "Valhalla,…"

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Joey D replied to Rick Stevens's discussion Working Outside Shirtless in the group The Shirtless Man

"great pics josh. manly sweat is awesome when you're working. I like the pic vanquish posted as well."

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Carl Monster replied to Uncle Sam's discussion 20 years old and enlisting tomorrow. Tips and thoughts?

"Eating..ugh. I remember sitting down to eat with at the Naval Academy when they would host us for races. Unlike a normal bustling college dining hall, everyone filed in at once, did all this premeal stuff like pledge of allegiance and whatever…"

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Nick H replied to Nathan DeParis's discussion Study and Exercise

"I would suggest neither. Just make a workout part of your routine like eating. Especially true if you are in a high demanding courseload like engineering. I've done both a pharmacy and medical degree and my mistakes in the former helped me not…"

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Ted A. Hunt replied to Uncle Sam's discussion 20 years old and enlisting tomorrow. Tips and thoughts?

"With a username like UncleSam, it seems clear this young man had his mind made up already, and has every right to have done so. He's certainly thought about it a long time. I'm very glad he got good specific advice on the side affirming…"

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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 27, 2012 at 7:04pm: Market Values ‘Land of Promise,’ by Michael Lind

Whatever their political party, American leaders have generally subscribed to one of two competing economic philosophies. One is a small-government Jeffersonian perspective that abhors bigness and holds that prosperity flows from competition among independent businessmen, farmers and other producers. The other is a Hamiltonian agenda that believes a large, powerful country needs large, powerful organizations. The most important of those organizations is the federal government, which serves as a crucial partner to private enterprise, building roads and schools, guaranteeing loans and financing scientific research in ways that individual businesses would not.

Today, of course, Republicans are the Jeffersonians and Democrats are the Hamiltonians. But it hasn’t always been so. The Jeffersonian line includes Andrew Jackson, the leaders of the Confederacy, William Jennings Bryan, Louis Brandeis, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. The Hamiltonian line includes George Washington, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, both Roosevelts and Dwight Eisenhower.

Michael Lind’s “Land of Promise” uses this divide to offer an ambitious economic history of the United States. The book is rich with details, more than a few of them surprising, and its subject is central to what is arguably the single most important question facing the country today: How can our economy grow more quickly, more sustainably and more equitably than it has been growing, both to maintain the United States’ position as the world’s pre-eminent power and to improve the lives of its citizens?

Lind, a founder of the New America Foundation in Washington and the author of several political histories, acknowledges from the beginning that his thesis will make some readers uncomfortable. “In the spirit of philosophical bipartisanship, it would be pleasant to conclude that each of these traditions of political economy has made its own valuable contribution to the success of the American economy and that the vector created by these opposing forces has been more beneficial than the complete victory of either would have been,” he writes.

“But that would not be true,” he continues. “What is good about the American economy is largely the result of the Hamiltonian developmental tradition, and what is bad about it is largely the result of the Jeffersonian producerist school.” [continue]

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 16, 2012 at 2:57pm

Comment by John M. Dolph on March 15, 2012 at 1:07pm: They seem to be confused to me too. Well, we knew that, but there doesn't seem to be a there there any more. When you strip away the crazies and addled the GOP is tiny and can't steer a course.