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Visualizing The American Taxpayer Relief Act
While our previous visualization of the incredible impact of the ATRA seemed to clarify to many people exactly what 'compromises' had been made, the following infographic perfectly relates the stunning difference such a 'fair and balanced' act will make to both revenues and spending... just remember $1 billion (of $100 bills) would weigh 10 tons.
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Perhaps we should revalue the dollar. Kind of like a reverse stock split. Let's say100:1 so that a penny buys what a dollar does today. Then do something radical like implement fiscal responsibility.
Sort of like a Gold Standard???
Dolloar to gold and silver unmanipulated??
FreeGold?
A gold standard bothers me because I feel that it too (the supply of gold) can be manipulated causing spikes and crashes in the economy. However, I may be wrong - just saying.
Yeah, you are right. The classic gold standard is almost the same fraud the CBs engage in today. Gold and silver allowed to compete as money in a free market is something else entirely.
There have been good ideas for the control of currency outside of our current system, however, those who purport them seem to be short lived if you know what I mean.
Fuck the current currencies.
I know what you mean.
Do you know what I mean?
Is Planet X Sedna, Comet ISON or other?
I've got a feeling we will find out this year.
Humanity used to believe planets were Gods.
Now they believe Fiat Currencies are the Gods.
I think we're about to go back to the Old School,
12,000 year Orbitz BITCHEZ!
Mother, should I trust the government?
Money get back I'm all right Jack Keep your hands off my stack Money, it's a hit Don't give me that Do goody good bullshit
NO!
Right, is that when Marduk comes back from Nibiru and the Plaedians show up with Quetzecoatl ?
OK, none of these shills are associated with me
We're aware Jon.
History disagrees with you mightily.
The only crashes under the gold standard came about as a result of government overspending--usually on war.
While I agree with your sentiment, and forgive me for being so anal, but history can prove nothing. There is no "THE" history of anything. ALL historical surveys, monographs and literature are subjective. The science of economics doesn't need history, only reason.
Heraclitus figured that out a long time ago.
Uhh, Economics is the study of past action in anticipation of future action. If you are going to quote someone at least acknowledge that a 2000+ year dead guy may not have been at the pinnacle of rational thought. Mises and Rothbard both went over this in extensive detail.
Maybe you should read Theory and History again, or even the first two chapters of Human Action. Apparently, you didn't get it the first time around.
Mises insisted that economics, not econometrics, is an a priori science, not an empirical science.
I'm sure he would have ridiculed your definition of economics in a way that only Mises could.
But who cares about epistemology, right?
The philosphy lesson about truth being in the eye of the beholder is dandy. The rest is bullshit.
You are correct in many ways. Hericlitus said no man can step in the same river twice, for It is not the same river and he is not the same man.
Likewise, we, as time passes, are ever changing. As such, even economic policy at the personal level is different now for each of us, than it perhaps was even one year ago. Even if outer circumstance has changed little. As I see it, though inflation or deflation is upon us, even if we counter that demon exactly the same as our predecessors, the outcome may not be the same because WE are different.
Thus, the past does not matter. What does indeed matter is the present and the character of the man. In that respect the character of the man decides his fate, not history.
As Hericlitus says, "A man's character is his fate."
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No man can step into the same river twice? Really?
Given your nickname, the fact you cite famous Greek historian Hairyclitoris is unintentionally hilarious to me.
Clits don't grow hair, silly!
"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions."
Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan- Interesting to read....
http://constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.htm
Or the government buying silver to back the dollar which causes a gold run, which happened in the 1800s.
"History disagrees with you mightily."
You obviously failed history, or you learned using the books from the "minsistry of re-education" (aka 1984)
"The only crashes under the gold standard came about as a result of government overspending"
Some events that happened while the US was under the gold standard
Panic and Long Depression of 1873 (Down 33%)
Panic of 1907 (Down 30%)
Panic of 1910 (Down 15%)
Creation of the Federal Reserve.
the 1925 Housing Bubble and the 1929 stock market crash (Down 35%)
The little something about a Great Depression from 1932 to 1939.
Dollar devalution in 1933 under FDR (Private ownership of Gold made illegal by FDR)
Crashes happened not just because of war but over-extended credit, technology changes (aka death of the Buggy whip), natural diasters (Earthquakes, droughts, disease), and many other causes.
As it stands, the US can never return to a gold standard. It owns too little gold and owns too much debt. Its also very dependant on Foriegn imports to run its economy. Before America can return to a gold standard, the US gov't must cease to exists. If the US did return to a gold standard, every foriegn gov't would convert thier FRNS for physical gold in the first hour of trading. Recall when the IMF sold. it was sold to China and India before the ink was even dry. FWIW: IMF only source of its gold originated from the US. The IMF really didn't even own that gold, it was lend to the IMF to give it creditablity. the IMF gold sale was technically illegal.
Why would you think politicians and banks would manipulate the economy?....
Plus, gold isn't backed by anything.
dollar to tungsten
"Relief", my ass. What those cocksuckers do to the language is obscene.
Their contempt for the people they serve is monumental.
They all read 1984. Unfortunately, instead of taking it as a warning, they decided to use it as a playbook.
'Wall Street' was financial porn and 'Eyes Wide Shut' became an upper-middle class Play Book.
As for the graphic; I bet you're glad the Fed owns all that worthless shit.
What we need to do is get the ticks (Wall Street, London) off our backs.
We do this by raising interest rates.
However, nobody has the courage.
So we're all slaves to a corrupt banking cartel.
http://www.angrysinner.blogspot.kr/2013/01/yesterday-dragon-lady-served-beef-and.html
That is effectively what we are doing with QE and what is happening with the PIGS in Europe.
Face it: the ugly truth is that the only resolution to the world's overarching debt is default by one means or another. Either creditors will get nothing (formal default); they'll get only part of what they expect (partial default); or they'll get devalation of the currency of the principal amount (effective default). That goes not only for bondholder, but for retirees and other recipients of entitlements.
There is not the political will to pay down the debt, reduce the entitlements, or raise the taxes to pay the bills all coming due. That leaves either default or unprecedented levels of growth and productivity to pay the obligations (and we all know the latter ain't happenin').
The only thing keeing the ECB from printing even more of its way to an effective default of the Euro is the German history of hyper-inflation in the Weimar Republic. And as the children of that generation die off (they're in their 70's and 80's now), so too will the fear of hyper-inflation. Germany, too, will concede to the demands of the deadbeat nations.
"Face it: the ugly truth is that the only resolution to the world's overarching debt is default by one means or another."
This is, unfortunately (or, depending on one's views, fortunately), is not the inner-most layer to the onion.
TPTB don't want to peel this debt layer because there's yet one more underneath. And That layer concerns the entire notion of growth, of limited/depleting PHYSICAL resources. TPTB live off of growth, which is why the System is so ingrained with the growth meme. If there was a clearcut means for going forward, such that TPTB would continue to preside, we'd have been there. As it is now, however, they can only keep tossing the balls up in the air while the natural force of gravity continues to pick them off one at a time until it is clear that the entire gig is up. Another ball is dropping:
Germany’s Downward Trendhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/opinion/global/germanys-downward-trend...
Minc misses the all-to-critical point that Germany is a heavy importer of natural resources (energy being key). I also don't believe that any of these folks are understanding how severe "economies of scale in reverse" will/can be. BUT... the BIG POINT here is that the grow-or-die meme is starting to tear apart.
[Now] Where are the ZH folks who were stating that Germany's economy was strong and that it would be fine if it dumped the Euro and or left the EU?
Actually, Germany's growth would probably be even less if it were to leave the Euro and return to the GDM. It wouldn't be catastrophic (look at the GBP), but it would hurt the German export market.
Hiding inside the rubric of the Euro is the German economy's version of currency manipulation to the downside and Germany is probably second behind China (or maybe third behind Japan, these days). That's why its always funny to hear their finance minister, Schauble, bemoan currency manipulation by other economies. (Pot, meet kettle; Kettle, meet pot.)
Germany's demography is horrible (and iceland and several others) only IF growth is the future.
Under a state of contraction, they are in great shape. But, the end trend goes toward Children of Men, where you have to lock out refugees/immigrants who come to siphon off a share of the pie.
A resurgence of nationalism should be expected going forward.
That's what Bernanke and the Fed's plan is.
But they would like to do it quietly without triggering the animal spirits.
Benanke and the Fed only want the animal spirits working for consumption and buying equities, not for dumping the US dollar.
Looks like a DEFCON chart.
Not sure I understand it, how do they represent a deficit, with nega-dollars?
I like the concept of the graphic, but I think if they used Manhattan's skyline as a reference that might be more appropriate
Will Hell do, it's closer?
Ran by fear, dictated by greed.
Look at all those dollar bills stacked up. Gives the nice impression that any of us has any of them
Great visualization!
The Senate bill is fraud against taxpayers and favors crony corporatist interest.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/pork-salad-harry-mill...
Looks like Legos.
Yeah, but you can sell Legos on line for actual money...
Gold for Legos you say?
"I hope you step on a lego"
Reference
Douglas French says it well here. If only the American people could learn.
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-new-years-first-heist/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7xF17O-Ck
Just what do you think you are doing, Dave?
03 January 2013
Thursday Night At Jesse's: 1938 War of the Worlds
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
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Infested with bankster scum I say.
This article, written in 2005, could easily have been written today.
http://rense.com/general63/newam.htm
Brilliant read. Thank you. I especially liked, "This is when you need to remember that when a nation's economy collapses, the wealth of the nation doesn't disappear, it only changes hands." YES!!! Fucking brilliantly succinct. The assets go nowhere, of course, because assets are real and tangible - the real WEALTH of the nation - the 'economy' is literally nothing but paper changing hands, but interestingly, that paper also determines who gets the REAL assets in the end. It doesn't seem right. No Sir, it doesn't seem right at all.
Of course wealth does disappear when an economy collapses so this is completely wrong. The wealth of an economy is defined by both its assets and its productive capacity. And economic collapse and malinvestment destroy useful productivity.
Absolutely true, but in my opinion that would be a short-term problem. Humans, when pressed hard enough, are extremely resourceful. It is also my humble opinion that we don't need some fucking bankster to tell us how to go about our business, so.. just maybe.. we'd be better off. The trick of course is to hold onto your assets during a collapse, and during a collapse the old adage of "if you don't hold it, you don't own it" becomes your reality. Just sayin'..
"If course wealth does disappear when an economy collapses so this is completely wrong. The wealth of an economy is defined by both its assets and its productive capacity."
To suppliment your statement:
In the case of America, the Wealth is an illusion, created by a borrowing binge and propped up by foolish creditors permitting the illusion to grow into a monster. Much of the Wealth in modern times is temporary. All of it requires cheap and abundant energy to be sustained. Take away the gasoline and diesel fuel and the Wealth vanishes, since the infrastructure cannot operate without it. Since Oil is a finite energy source its only a matter of time before all wealth as we know it vanishes.
The assets go nowhere, of course, because assets are real and tangible
But the value of the asset is only what you can trade it for. If it is food, shelter, gold, or protection its’ asset value changes as its’ market value changes and that will depend on the urgency of that trade.
Sure assets are real but not necessarily tangible in its fullest meaning. Food may be of value one day but rotten at the end of the week and therefore of little value.
An interesting survey would be to find out how many people are spending more time on the firing range.
You can just provide a highlight and a link, rather than copying an entire article and then linking it anyways.
a double reading is recommended.
So says the blind man. Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck.
check this link.
How It All Happened…
http://bcfreedom.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/how-it-all-happened/
Good job. Got just about everything correct in 7 years. Manipulated Interest rates looked like only hiccup.
"The average American in the year 2005 lives a fragile existence, in a struggle for survival that can be ended by missing a few paychecks."
Well, how comfy we've become. Consider that the majority of humans on the planet are in this very state. And then consider that this is the way it's been throughout human history (except for a fraction of the world's population over the course of the last 150 years or so [which correspond to the consumption of cheap energy]).
"The government of the United States is intentionally destroying the economy of the United States, because the politicians and the international bankers they work for have decided that the American way of life, and catering to the demands of the American constitution, is simply too expensive."
The fucking "economy of the United States" has been a Ponzi from the start! That's where the "intentional" comes in. This ain't something new: AND, it goes back WAY before anyone even thought of any "United States of America." No, what people are seeing is the same fucking cart, only the cart, continuously being loaded with "growth," can no longer carry the weight and its wheels are starting to shudder, causing the cart to have to be slowed down.
If by "expensive" we mean that the cost in natural resources is too high, then yes. But, again, this has nothing to do with any governing body, OR, "system," it has to do with the physical world. Remove ALL governments and crank up resource consumption and the cart would STILL collapse.
Sorry, but this is just another diversion away from our physical reality.
The elites have never liked the middle class or upward mobility. Poor people are much easier to manage. When people get a little extra money they get that silly notion of freedom.
no.
The economy is imploding because oil peaked. Economic GROWTH requires a GROWTH in all of its inputs; at a fundamental level, energy is the alpha input of all inputs.
Aggregate energy supply is in contraction. Consequently, aggregate economies are in contraction. It's a simple matter of how many muffins can you bake with a certain input of flour. Decrease, the input, decrease the output.
A system built on a necessary assumption of growth will go kaput when growth stops, nevermind contraction.
I like your graphics but I visualize it in megatons.
The unmarked semi trailers of $100 bills add credence to the graphic.
What's in your wallet? The answer is contained in the question the bag boy at Piggly Wiggly ask before he bags your inflated groceries.
The problem with visuals like the ones above is those fuckers in CONgress look at them and say to each other, "See, I told you we're just playing with Monopoly money!"
Oddjob,
you reminded me of the first Arab Oil Embargo and gas rationing in the 1970s. The US government response was to issue rationing tickets, 4:3 size-coupons with Geo. Washington and a big numeral 1 on the face side.
How did these rationing certificates appear so swiftly and universally? They were preprinted and stored, in tractor-trailers parked on Army bases scattered all over the American countryside, just waiting for an emergency to be declared.
Nerds everywhere should assume the same plans are in place for currency replacement. The government is not made up of of completely unprepared goofs. The preparations they have made may mean you are trashed in a currency revaluation (if you think that hasn't already happened), but that doesn't mean "they" are unprepared.
Are you prepared? if they are prepared to trim your currency's standing by 90 - 99 %? Anything less than a 100:1 would be a waste of everyone's effort, so expect nothing less. At 100:1, gold would be priced at $16+ per ounce, not too far from the "historical norm". A "cash" revaluation of 90% would take a gallon of gasoline from $3.49 to $.35. Ditto for your savings account, 401K, bank account and Wall Street balances, on account. Are you ready to lose 90+% of your valued wealth?
Expect the unexpected and be prepared, with silver and gold which will hold their value while all other forms of wealth are "repriced" to government's advantage. What else can you do, really? Get ready now.
You lost me there buddy. $16/oz? Huh? And exactly why would or how could they revalue gold? They can't just revalue gold to any price they want, in par with any other currency. Demand will set the value of gold, not the government.
If Gold ever went back to that amount I'd back a semi-truck and hope I could load it fast enough before it jumps to 50K per ounce.
The gasoline rationing tickets were an emergency currency which was used to supplement the Federal Reserve Notes, not supplant them.
A new currency for the US, maybe called Federal Treasury Notes or US Treasury Deposit Notes or whatever name sounds credible will replace today's Federal Reserve Notes- the dolalr. Those NEW currency bills will be revalued against gold. All currencies are valued against gold, whether you want to call it the gold standard or the price of gold.
One new dollar will equal a 100 old dollars (or maybe 1000 by the time this rolls around) and there is your price of gold at $16 per ounce. With this standard, you will be back to working for 10 cents an hour. Currency revaluations have happened countless times throughout history, always leaving the old currency worthless, like Confederate States dollars or US Continental dollars which were repurposed as liners inside the soles of boots and shoes. The history of America wrecking its currency is long and well documented. The expression "sound as a dollar" isn't heard anymore, is it?
A new currency won't be popped on the US citizens until the Government has as many sheep corraled in its pen as is possible. The only way the infinite debts of the fiat nations can be paid is through worthless currencies which will then be replaced with "new" currencies. Read more history of currency, etc and you'll see this is all old hat stuff, been going on for all of human history.
Read an intro to the topic here and good luck to you.
http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed38.html
I always avoid painting with numbers (though I do use the $3/day figure a lot- one of the few things that I'll use a number to denote some sort of value). What matters is AFFORDABILITY. And all one needs to know is that PHYSICAL things, or things comprised of physical inputs, will become LESS affordable.
Keeping this in mind I see that there can be no "advantage" given to government. The same AFFORDABILITY measure applies to it as well.
Two key takeaways:
1) Physical things (we'll be less about the virtual) WILL become increasingly less AFFORDABLE;
2) EVERYONE will be looking at working HARDER/MORE (good news is that a lot of the talking-head types will be forced to actually work in order to feed themselves).
BONUS:
3) The rules of the game (means of measurement) will become increasingly irrelevant because the game will no longer be the same (IMHO NO ONE CAN DICTATE WHAT IT WILL BE [sure, some will try, but it won't work]; but, I figure that basing future trends on an historical -FULL historical- basis is likely to provide the most probable projection- think Food, Shelter and Water.]).
I'm just glad they fixed the fiscal cliff..............
It's gone, man!
They dug it out! Yeah, that "keep digging when you're in a hole" thing really does work! </sarc>
OK, I had to take some liberties. Sometimes I'm a little slow, but, this is sure a great example of the power of propaganda. Rather than "cliff" it should have been about being in a hole, which is really what we're in, not flying high on the ledge of a cliff, which implies we need only back away from the edge (rather than all the hard work to crawl out of a hole).
Worst Since The Early 1980s: 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will Be A Year Of Economic Difficulty
http://investmentwatchblog.com/worst-since-the-early-1980s-65-percent-of-americans-believe-that-2013-will-be-a-year-of-economic-difficulty/
I deleted this comment because I'm an idiot. Thank you tooriskytoinvest. Carry on.
I hunkered down since 2003 and have been in recession ever since. Dumb Sheeples fell for the scheme.
Wait until all those overseas US dollars come back to the US when countries dump US dollars all at the same time. The Federal Reserve will get all the inflation they want and more.
The US Federal Reserve can drown in excess dollars they created.
I'm always thinking in farmer-ways- anyone know whether USDs compost well?
No, but they heat up well and expand in the microwave.
Does Ben know about this?
excellent point: there were, after all, more dollars circulating outside the US than inside, prior to the GFC.
the Fed has created a lot of digits that have gone precisely nowhere since the GFC, but it is still a case of exchange rates being determined as much by which central bank prints the fastest (supply) against who wants to avoid the last musical chair (demand).
gotta love the amount of global money printing as it stands now. global GDP = 70 trillion, global intervention = ?
this is where the poor SOB will be when the music stops...how productive is it when central banks own the output of the economy and its debt? after all, default rates imply that the fed owns the assets of the defaulter.
the Fed better pray that the default rate does not increase from the very low level of a few percent of all investment grade and zero for governments (courtesy of its own intervention) to a real and more normal 4%.
I think that the Fed is positioned no more than a booster rocket. At some point it'll be burned up and discarded. And, really, it's a perfect poster for modern consumerism.
I don't think that any of this is going to ever really circulate. Instead, it's all stuff to paper over bank losses, which enable them to continue to launder fiat to one another and to keep business doors functioning.
Doesn't mean, however, that we won't see currency collapse. After all, when everything else is meaningless (irrelevant for future use), the very symbol that has supported it will also become meaningless. I do not believe that hyperinflation is necessary to kill the currency: if it does occur I figure that'll it happen so fast (like algo trading) that it'll be over before it even started- all will be left wondering WTF just happened; this will save us a lot of energy from undergoing prolonged recalculations on the value of the currency itself [a bit tongue-in-cheek]).
And still the neurolinguistic programmers employed by the authorities carry on...as long as they can cash their paychecks.
I believe WE would all be truly amazed at the corruptness of our politicians. Backroom payoffs, hidden bank accounts, "brown envelopes" stuffed with cash, whores, cars, homes, drugs, and the usual assortment of indidious bribes, blackmail, kickbacks and graft that goes hand-in-hand in DC in particular, and across the government in general. Probably starting around the Nixon era, (this cancer has always been part of the body politic historically), cronyism between big corp. & big gov. was warm and fuzzy. Further down the road, the Bush/Clintonite/Bush era gave us Nafta on the premise it would expand our "free trade" and export enviroment. What it did was open the gates for Big Corp. to ship our work and jobs overseas. More profit, less/no taxes, bigger bonuses, higher stock value. When that wasn't enough, Big Corp. entices the already drunken greed of our politicians to look the other way when immigrants flood in. Illegal, legal, and otherwise. They'll work for less than the American sheeple because they are working for MORE than they've ever made before. Big Corp. gets a good deal both ways, they get cheap labor overseas, and then get cheap labor here in the Homeland, a win/win situation for Big Corp. and their bought off whore legislators. I don't know how it will end, but it won't be pretty either way. I think before it's all over, blood will be spilled, and right vs wrong, good vs evil, the outcome will be either an enslaved world, or a reset to some semblance of RIGHT. just sayin......................
Not meaning to nitpick, but NAFTA didn't ship jobs overseas, across adjacent borders perhaps, but not "overseas."
Anyway, NAFTA did wonders to push up cheap labor in the form of ex-farmers (displaced by BIG AG) from Mexico.
Also keep in mind that MANY exported jobs were lost to ROBOTS: even if factories came back to the US they'd have far less humans in them then before they left the shores (even if wages were dirt low).
NAFTA, GATT, SNAFU, FUBAR, IMF, TARP, PIIGS, IBRD, OMT, SOMA - one abbreviation is as good as another
Made In USA
by robots made in China
Cheap Robots to Replace American Jobs - Unfortunately, They Will Be Made in China.
ByLance Winslow
Many Americans believe that China is the reason we've lost so many jobs. Whereas, it is true that they have been engaged in currency manipulation, and often unfair trade practices, they aren't doing anything any differently than many of our other trading partners. Perhaps, the reason we notice it more is because China is so large, it has 1 billion people, and it now produces nearly 40% of what the world consumes. Still, if you think that the United States will gain if China loses, you might not be thinking this through correctly.
Read More at:http:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Cheap-Robots-to-Replace-American-Jobs---Unfortunately,-They-Will-Be-Made-in-China&id=7100641
I'd run across an article from the business of automation that essentially stated this. I keep pointing it out whenever I hear people clamoring to "bring our jobs back." I figure this is all a part of a propaganda campaign to provide a safe, subsidized retreat for returning companies; trade wars will cause unstable situations for non-native companies, and rather than risk being taken over and or looted, such companies will seek to flee back to their homeland (being welcomed back as "heroes" [seen this movie way too many times- I'm getting old!]).
is it better to know what is going on and not have the money or resources to really protect yourself or be blissfully ignorant like the other 97% of America?
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Personally I can enjoy relatively the good times we have now much more if I've assessed the situation and done my best to prepare. After we hit the eyewall there will be some very hard times for today's blissfully ignorant regardless of their resources. No matter how much you have, you can always do something to get ready with some clear foresight/advance planning.
"No matter how much you have, you can always do something to get ready with some clear foresight/advance planning."
Yes. It's really about being able to adjust. I've found that having a lot of stuff can also be an anchor (resulting in the Big Ship Syndrome).
Most importantly it's one's frame of mind. And at the basic level this maps to having an survival instinct, a desire to live.
Give up "hope" and just get to DOING.
I've found this to be quite enlightening as pertains to one's mental positioning- from Derrick Jensen's Beyond Hope article (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/170/)
George Carlin - advertising and bull shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtK_YsVInw8
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" i call this piece advertising. ..
it's our way of saying thank you. " g.c.
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it is always good for a blindman to here the
reports from a seer. thank you for your posts
and the time you put into it! seriously,
no bullshit.
Ultimately it's about one's peace of mind. Either way people are best served giving up the notion of "hope."
Problem, however, is that in order to "test" the two states one cannot go back to "unknowing." Some just might not be able to handle the RED PILL.
I'd picked up the saying "you can kill me but you cannot eat me" as an aid to managing difficult situations. Of course, this might not be so applicable in the future (as food becomes scarce; or in cases of run-ins with Jeffery Dahmer of Hannibal Lechter types).
If anyone's around, check out finviz.com's Future's listing! Either Ben's magic is really working, or the site's got some stuff really messed up.
Cut and paste of the contents as of this moment...
Futures Last Change Change % Crude Oil 91.89 -1.03 -1.11% Natural Gas 3.2200 +0.0200 +0.63% Gold 1639.20 -35.60 -2.13% Dow 13316.00 +13312.00 +332,800.00% S&P 500 1454.00 +1454.00 +Infinity% Nasdaq 100 2728.75 +2725.25 +77,864.29%Situation normal, all messed up!
aka SNAFU - situation normal all fucked up
Soon to be remembered as the Taxpayer Theft Act. TTA Da! The only relief is silver bullion, precious metals and maybe bitcoin?
http://silverliberationarmy.com
I just realized the game "Monopoly" is life. There realy is a "get out of jail free card" and a "pass GO, get $200 dollars".
That means that there must be "bank has made an error in your favor, collect $75 dollars".
I feel so much better.
Some key differences: the get out of jail card isn't free, passing Go takes more work than just rolling the dice and bank "errors" are never in YOUR favor!