[OT] Why shops will be replaced by weight rooms.

On 05/14/2012 08:14 AM, Ron Ginger wrote:

> And with our mad rush to cut taxes to the minimum there is not even
> enough money to run the schools we have now. Where do you think they
> will get the money, or the trained teachers, to run shops.
>
> Our town had a reasonable shop, but a few years ago they closed it and
> sold off the machinery. The kids preferred to have a weight training
> room instead of the shop. That ought to help them get a job!
>
> ron ginger

If you look back in history, many great empires fell when the
administrators gave the people entertainment and just enough to live
on. After the welfare state was in place, the people were disarmed (to
prevent riots or revolutions) and they lost their freedoms until the
state had full control and to remain in power had to promise and give
the masses more bread and circuses.

We are seeing this today. The people don't care about jobs, they will
just get welfare. They want entertainment, and politicians will give it
to them to get reelected.

Dave 8{)

--
/"There never was a new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather
when he has found them disarmed he has always armed them, because, by
arming them, those arms became yours, those men who were distrusted
become faithful, and those who were faithful are kept so, and your
subjects become your adherents."/
Machiavelli, /The Prince/


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