| Comrade Tovya said: Hmm, well I work from home mostly (which is why I have so much time to spend in the forums). I buy distressed assets from faltering companies, as in, truck loads of goods that get written off, or loads claimed against insurance. Then I either export the material, or sale it domestically. |
We have a chain of stores called Mardens in my area, all it sells is that kind of stuff. I used to love going in there and finding all kinds of weird stuff for cheap.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
