Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor 1 7 Manipulations Into War

BBC documentary that tells a different story about Pearl Harbor.

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• Sacrifice
• at
• Pearl
• Harbor
• Manipulations
• Into
• War
• FDR

[riethc]

@Daniel44125 The Declaration of Independence is essential, and I don't think the fact that the writer was hypocritical in life diminishes the truth of what he articulated in the document itself.

[riethc]

@Daniel44125 The best way of describing the American System is historical. Lincoln with his "greenbacks" won the Civil War and at the same time created the intercontinental railroad. That's very American System in the fact that it based the money on physical economic growth. John Q Adams created canals which connected the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, which was done under the Second National Bank.

[Daniel44125]

@riethc I am a huge Jefferson fan. I know he was a slave owner but I have read many of his letters on the matter. He was anti-slavery. I am not sure why he kept his slaves but I do know he freed them at death. He also educated them. I know he also had children with his dead wife's slave and half sister. I can only speculate that he didn't think they would be able to have a good life if freed. I wonder if he treated them as slaves or family. Much is lost to history.

[riethc]

@Daniel44125 Hamilton vs. Jefferson thing is a great polemic. I think that Jefferson was an important Founding Father, with great rhetorical skills, but he was also a Jacobite and hypocritical. Reading the preamble of the Declaration of Independence and then knowing that Jefferson owned slaves makes one wonder.

[Daniel44125]

@riethc Yeah, I know but I see little difference between the schools. I find the American System just British Mercantilism for Americans. I am not a fan of central banks private or public.

[riethc]

@riethc The American System isn't the system we currently live under. We've been under Keynesian economics recently, i.e. Helicopter Ben Bernake. The Fed is run by private banks and physical economy is based on consumerism and what's the best way to debt farm.

[Daniel44125]

@riethc There is a book called Hamilton's Curse you may be interested in

[Daniel44125]

@riethc I have not seen it. I will check it out.

I personally don't care for the American system. I believe the legacy of Henry Clay and Hamilton have a lot to do with the problems we face today. I feel they at least partly caused issues that led to the Civil war. I prefer the Austrian school.

[riethc]

@Daniel44125 Central planning in the Communist sense is screwy. Have you ever seen Adam Curtis' Pandora's Box? It goes into Russian Central Planning in detail. It's very different from infrastructure development and scientific projects, which is what American System economics is focused on.

[Daniel44125]

I reject central planning