you're a fascist! no ..you're a fascist!

klaatu

klaatu

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"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

Vice President Wallace answers questions that were published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan:
 
klaatu said:
"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

Vice President Wallace answers questions that were published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan:
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Its a very true and accurate statement. Take a look around what's going on in both parties. The lessons of history are not lost on them. They are just lost to the American public.
 
Don't get me started on 'fascism'. Everyone bandies the word around as if it were a common insult, rather than a specific political ideology....
 
Beefy said:
While you're digging up old threads, here's a piece from 1977, comment away:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_energy.html
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The first principle is that we can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices.
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Totalitarianism.
The second principle is that healthy economic growth must continue. Only by saving energy can we maintain our standard of living and keep our people at work. An effective conservation program will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
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How does conservation create jobs? The enforcement arm of the program? see principle #1.
The third principle is that we must protect the environment. Our energy problems have the same cause as our environmental problems -- wasteful use of resources. Conservation helps us solve both at once.
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Ok. Use less. we got it. Anyting else?
The fourth principle is that we must reduce our vulnerability to potentially devastating embargoes. We can protect ourselves from uncertain supplies by reducing our demand for oil, making the most of our abundant resources such as coal, and developing a strategic petroleum reserve.
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a decent idea.
The fifth principle is that we must be fair. Our solutions must ask equal sacrifices from every region, every class of people, every interest group. Industry will have to do its part to conserve, just as the consumers will. The energy producers deserve fair treatment, but we will not let the oil companies profiteer.
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Utterly terrifying in it social engineering and regulatory ambitions.
The sixth principle, and the cornerstone of our policy, is to reduce the demand through conservation. Our emphasis on conservation is a clear difference between this plan and others which merely encouraged crash production efforts. Conservation is the quickest, cheapest, most practical source of energy. Conservation is the only way we can buy a barrel of oil for a few dollars. It costs about $13 to waste it.
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So conservation then?
The seventh principle is that prices should generally reflect the true replacement costs of energy. We are only cheating ourselves if we make energy artificially cheap and use more than we can really afford.
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And the world government will collect the fees...
The eighth principle is that government policies must be predictable and certain. Both consumers and producers need policies they can count on so they can plan ahead. This is one reason I am working with the Congress to create a new Department of Energy, to replace more than 50 different agencies that now have some control over energy.
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predictablity as a principle. IS Al Gore a part of this?
The ninth principle is that we must conserve the fuels that are scarcest and make the most of those that are more plentiful. We can't continue to use oil and gas for 75 percent of our consumption when they make up seven percent of our domestic reserves. We need to shift to plentiful coal while taking care to protect the environment, and to apply stricter safety standards to nuclear energy.
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duh.
The tenth principle is that we must start now to develop the new, unconventional sources of energy we will rely on in the next century.
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Shut up, dummy. How much gas are we wasting on the Cult Of The Lawn?
 
In many places if you do not keep your lawn reasonably nice they can wind up condemning your property. lawz......
 
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