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The Buzzword is Austerity

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A quick look at the headlines over the past
weekend shows that this country's fiscal crisis is being brought into greater
focus.  States are proposing cutbacks, and governors are telling
constituents that we cannot kick the can down the road any longer.  It all
makes sense, and it is rhetoric that we have all heard before, and in politics,
words speak louder than actions.

 

The Buzzword is Austerity

 

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Wed, 02/23/2011 - 09:05 | 988011 CH1
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Do you guys even know any real Mexican immigrants? These are people who:

1. Take risks to get ahead.
2. Take care of their families.
3. Work. Hard.
4. Want to buy houses, open businesses, go to church and send their kids to good schools.

Does that sound a bit like ZH denizens???

Why you guys are driven to scapegoat them is beyond me.

And don't start on the fraction that behaves badly - there's a fraction of everything that behaves badly.

Flame away.

Tue, 02/22/2011 - 21:48 | 987110 ebworthen
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Exactly.

The time for austerity has passed.

They can hang before I sacrifice anymore.

You can't allow the banks and government and irresponsible citizens to run rampant for 10-20 years then tell the responsible who paid the mortgage and bills and insurance premiums for 20-30 years to "sacrifice" and get bent over again and pay more taxes and premiums and fees and delay retirement and take out more capital gains; all for the sake of the banksters, the illegals, the slackers, and the play dough politicians.  This formerly civil responsible citizen is DONE.

Fuck you assholes (Washington, Wall Street), you can all hang.

Thank You.

 

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 01:02 | 987651 AssFire
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Well said, the time has passed. I am ready to watch it burn. Let the tax revolt begin. Fuckin parasites unchecked for 20 years now.

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 08:18 | 987981 cossack55
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More like 90 years...1913.  Or even to 1905 and the Wobblies.

Tue, 02/22/2011 - 22:03 | 987183 Hey Assholes
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+1040

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 07:12 | 987949 MolotovCockhead
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Hey Asshole....you got a nice name. ;)

Tue, 02/22/2011 - 21:00 | 987024 CPL
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You are discussing something you wrote yourself. 

If you want to find something to talk about go check out http://ricefarmer.blogspot.com. No dialogue, just over looked newsarticles.  You might note some of them come right back to ZH.

 

Welcome to ZH, Guy, hope to read something with steel toe boot behind it soon.

Tue, 02/22/2011 - 22:09 | 987192 thetechnicaltake
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CPL

 

I have been writing for ZH since the beginning...however, mostly technical and quantitative analysis.

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 01:06 | 987661 Bob
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Hey, your point is both commonsensical and true to social reality.  Thanks for bringing it up.  Yes, that ship has definitely sailed. 

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 02:18 | 987765 CPL
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That ship sailed three years ago and the fact it just starting to be noticed is beyond my understanding.  Here's a website for both of you as a project.

 

http://www.gardeners.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Gardeners-Site/default/Page-KGPPreplanned

Do this and I'll treat you seriously, with your photos and your experience in growing food until Sept 2011, until that point you are both in the suburbanite slob category.  If you can do one thing in your own life kids is save yourself and yours.

Seriously though the knucklehead is writing back to his own written article.  Only other slob I know that's in the same line of lazy and half fucknut crazy is Leo.  He's the whackass pure heart hunting after why the Canuck government hasn't paid him back for Nortel shares and solar energy he pissed away.

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 03:12 | 987815 Assetman
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Okay... let me get this straight:

We were at a point where we were looking for "shared sacrifice", or austerity, if you will.

We were sold on this hope and change, but instead got a lot of cans being kicked down the road.

So, now that this is proving to be a colossal failure, we would still rather kick the can down the road than to accept austerity under new leadership????

I think a larger contingent of the population would like to see bankers prosecuted for frauds imposed on the taxpayers than seeing more can kicking.

Perhaps I've been hallucinating again.

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 09:27 | 988035 spanish inquisition
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If you were speaking of the can metaphorically, I think you are right on.

The first can is our own asses, the second can is some elses ass, third is the collective we ass.

All this coming from the Assetman? That just ties it all together..

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 08:16 | 987978 cossack55
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Begin with prosecution.  When convicted:

death by hanging

total asset forfeiture including wife, children, parents

allow corpse to rot in the sun and be abused by necrophiliacs

This is a partial list.

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