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I am speaking of a class of people who are unable to competefor a variety of reasons.
Unable or unwilling? Do you not differentiate between the two?Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he can eat for a lifetime. If the government is going to give assistance, I would prefer it be for education (whether vocational or academic), before just settling in on entitlements and other welfare aid.
You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You have to show the weak where to find strength. If you string people out on government assistance, you become the enabler that prevents them from ever emerging out of their poverty. The spirit, just like muscles, atrophies when not exercised. Feeding the body does not feed the spirit; feed the spirit and it will power the body to do momentous things.
Wilson was an Idealist who should have known his 14 Points would be ignored at the first opportunity. They only apply if everyone feels safe and that will probably never happen. You simply cannot make everybody happy at the same time.
Oh but didn't you hear? Obama just made the world safe by getting a bunch of nations to promise to secure their nuclear weapons in four years and we're gonna start reducing our stockpiles too. Golly, I sure do feel safer already.
It reads that we're not even scratching the surface here (and with his other sites too). Which we shall do our best to change. We'll have Phid on a dedicated server in oh say 10 years or sooner. 🙂
A good counter-factual to consider is how well Germany would have fared for colonies if they had unified after the 30 years-war and not in 1871. I would guess that they would have garnered more colonies but there probably would have been more Great Power struggles in Europe as well.
I doubt the Germans would have been able to build a navy big enough to rival Britain though, which is what it would have required to amass oversea colonies. Germany was destined to be a Continental power.
The Bokenkotter book I'm reading mentioned him as one of the leading scholars in this area. I had heard of him before. I probably will try to get this work eventually.
I would register, but I have to work when this will be going on. Will this be recorded and replayed?
.......if time permits I cover, in greater detail, the Constitution (Article by Article) and the 3 branches of the government (each, individually, and their conjuctions).
Only if requested; I've hogged enough bandwidth for awhile ::)
Oh go ahead. We're all sure Phid can buy more. 🙂
I recommend this book for an in depth analysis to what modern imperialism was. I studied under this man (he's deceased now), and thought a great deal of him as a person, and as a prodigious intellectual. I have a copy of this book but I didn't pay $50.00 for it. 😮
