A Lesson in Malthusian Economics

Well thank God Canada's largest employer is...
Duoh!

If Canada wasn't lucky enough to be graced with the third largest diamond production and the top five for every other natural resource and commodity known to man shooting out of the ground, we'd be Cuba with mitts.

California may be the best example of this fruit fly tank experiment, as California is going so goes the nation?

Here is my take on this 'not enough to go around ala fruit fly scenario."

When people are "unwilling" or unable to produce enough to take feed themselves, they simply resort to cannibalism IE eat the rich.

When there are no more rich left to eat, then they eat each other.

This is playing out in our economy where to unmotivated are dining on the motivate with Barry Hussein Obama as Head Waiter.

At least fruit flies allow themselves the dignity of quietly starving to death without gnawing on each other as the end approaches.

And the end is approaching.

I can hear the gnawing.

in this example the prey would be taxpayers and the government would be the predator. the cycle would be about 50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equation

Sorry for the hihack Cap'n...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090218/national/nb_ethnic_choice

richfischer - I think you're right. We tend to be a bit smug and sanctimonious - but we're lucky to have the resources here in Canada, and a large populus to the south that wants them.

We'll see how decreasing demand affects us. . . .

I don't know where else to post this.
So if this isn't appropriate please move to where it might be.

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Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.

Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."

Barack Obama is a narcissist.

Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.

"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".

One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.

If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.

The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.

Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.

A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.

A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self serving and selfish.

Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.

Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple. The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.

The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites.

The white supremacists will take advantage of

the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960's.

Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.

It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

The whole Malthusian thesis is pretty suspect. As income rises, fertility tends to go down, not up. In Europe, most countries are not above replacement level (except for Muslims, who treat their women like breeding cattle). Japan is shrinking. If Canada didn't accept so many immigrants, we would be shrinking as well.

Mark Steyn wrote about this in "America Alone", infuriating Muslims. A very entertaining read.

Alberta had the largest number of babies born in its history in 2008, more than 50,000.

Its the economy, stupid.

...suburbanite princess entitlement mentality...

Spot on!

From post above by gl1800:

"The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism."
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"Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted "End racism now!"

"New Yorkers to Boycott NY Post Over "Racist" Cartoon

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to boycott the New York Post on Thursday, branding the newspaper as racist for publishing a cartoon that appeared to compare President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.

Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted "End racism now!" outside the parent company's skyscraper in midtown Manhattan and called for the jailing of Rupert Murdoch, whose international media conglomerate News Corp owns the Post.

The newspaper has defended the cartoon as a parody of Washington politics, but Sharpton said it exploited a potent image in the history of racism toward blacks."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189604/posts
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OTOH: No problemo:
http://vn.kominet.ru:8101/Pic/bush-chimp.jpg

SOrry, Malthusian Catastrophe is TWO words!!!

glasnost.....hope you hit Kate's tip jar after that much bandwidth!
And by the by....the black man will ALWAYS scream racist,no matter who is in.It's(racism) to much of an industry to go quietly.If you believe otherwise,go sit in the corner,like a good doggie!

Fits here to.

As I have said here before, this son of a bitch is, in my opinion, the beginning of the end of our way of life. Start looking for alternatives, for your assets and your lively hood. The body can take blow after blow but when the head falls everything else follows. Alarmist? Well, not really, but I am covering my bases.

The base I am covering the most is inflation. Remember, the Government is spending, spending, spending, and printing money, ding ding, what comes next.

Posted by: Western Canadian at February 19, 2009 10:06 PM

Concerning the Cap'n's article, I posted this:
Just a note here from Calgary.
If you want to observe the ultimate decay of a population reliant on socialism and the nanny state, look no further than the Native Reserve system here in Canada. Thumbed under by Tribal Chiefs who control all the Federal largesse, Natives live in utter despair, children sniffing gasoline, (since model glue was prohibitted), alcoholism, rapes, incest, the absolute epitome of a people with no purpose in life. All the while the Leftards wring their hands, throw more money at them and can not comprehend the destruction they wrought. And so they and their culture atrophy. But the Social-Leftoids are right. If we bury them in enough "care", they tend to self-destruct.
This lady Obamateur gave the house to, I'll wager within 3 years there is nothing left of it.

The Malthusian catastrophe waiting for the entire planet is the inevitable decline in production of liquid or gas hydrocarbons. It is the exploitation of this geological endowment that has made industrial society possible and allowed the population of the planet to reach nearly 7 billion. As liquid and gas hydrocarbons become scarcer and more costly to produce, the overextension of humanity will become apparent, unless another cheap energy source can be realized before mass starvation occurs. No need for Mo Strong to destroy industrial society with his carbon scam if the energy itself is winding down.

We are not that much different from the fruit fly after all; our industrial food dish was laid down many millions of years ago, and now it’s starting to run out.

This is a unique situation in the US....
So much unlike pre-revolution France, Russia, Cuba
but even they had little in common than an oppressive, incompetant government........Which I posit was the catalist....
the second American Revolution is nigh....
The parasites lack the motivation or smarts to win.

abcd I think you are right. Pelosi crafted the stimulus and she is from Cal. I saw a vid this morning of a Republican stating if there is a turnaround at the next election they will cut the 780 billion yet to be spent in the package. I think 2 years will be enough for people to want to return to balance.

malthus. the earth is a piece of dirt that does have limits. sooner or later too many people will actually be too many people. you can only feed so many people from a farm. think of the earth as a farm and you might start thinking there will someday be too many of us.