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Shut Happens
It's 12:01am, do you know where your government is?
- *WHITE HOUSE BUDGET OFFICE DIRECTS AGENCIES TO BEGIN SHUTDOWN
- *U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN FOR FIRST TIME IN 17 YEARS
S&P Futures are 1677, 10Y yield 2.65%, WTI $101.96, Gold $1329.00 - let's see where we open tomorrow...
Full Statement from The White House:
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Sylvia M. Burwell, Director
SUBJECT: Update on Status of Operations
This memorandum follows the September 17,2013, Memorandum M-13-22, and provides an update on the potential lapse of appropriations.
Appropriations provided under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6) expire at 11:59 pm tonight. Unfortunately, we do not have a clear indication that Congress will act in time for the President to sign a Continuing Resolution before the end of the day tomorrow, October 1, 2013.
Therefore, agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations. We urge Congress to act quickly to pass a Continuing Resolution to provide a short-term bridge that ensures sufficient time to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year, and to restore the operation of critical public services and programs that will be impacted by a lapse in appropriations.
Agencies should continue to closely monitor developments, and OMB will provide further guidance as appropriate. We greatly appreciate your cooperation and the work you and your agencies do on behalf of the American people.
Now it's getting serious...
They actually did it. A group of Republicans in the House just forced a government shutdown over Obamacare instead of passing a real budget.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 1, 2013
Due to a lapse in government funding, this account will not be active until further notice.
— U.S. Capitol (@uscapitol) October 1, 2013
Here is a handy list from Russia Today of the possible effects American citizens and the rest of the world could face now that the US Government has shutdown. The last government shutdown lasted 21 days, from December 1996 to January 1997, and cost the administration of US President Bill Clinton cost an estimated $2 billion, according to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
1 Countdown to US default looms
A halt of US government operations would drag the world’s biggest economy closer to bankruptcy, something unprecedented in US history. If no budget deal is done, the US would bump up against their “debt ceiling” and run out of money by October 17. By then, the US government would have less than $30 billion cash on hand, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has calculated.
2 Hundreds of thousands of federal employees on furlough
A one-time layoff of 800,000 people working for the US government would erode the earlier projected economic growth of 2.5 percent for the fourth quarter of 2013 by about 0.32 percentage points, according to a forecast by Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody's Analytics. That projection assumes a two-week shutdown. If it drags into a whole month, the loss of GDP would rise to 1.4 percentage points.
3 Troops’ paychecks stopped
About 1.4 million military active-duty personnel would keep on working, but with their paychecks delayed. Approval for troops’ paychecks is dependent on Obama’s proposed 2014 federal budget being passed by Congress.
4 Women and children’s nutrition program threatened
Pregnant women and new moms who are poor and facing “nutrition risk” won’t be able to buy healthy food, as a looming shutdown would put bracers on the $6 billion Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC).
5 $85 billion in cuts to federal programs
When a shutdown was last threatened in March 2013, it would have resulted in $85 billion in automatic cuts in spending on federal programs – many aimed at alleviating social hardship. The cuts, known as sequestration, would affect grants to local organizations and funds that keep those programs running.
6 Housing loans halted
US federal programs that provide for about 30 percent of all new loans in the housing market – a backbone of the country’s economy – will be shut down. Government funding of new businesses will also be halted, as well as workplace health and safety inspections.
7 Trade talks scuppered?
US plans to have a Pacific trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership, signed with the US’s Asian partners could stall, as Obama may decide not to travel to this weekend’s Bali, Indonesia meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations. While he could still go if no deal is done by then, it could be a gift for his Republican opponents if Obama was seen to be jetting off to a tropical paradise at a time when federal employees were sent home without pay.
8 Visa delays likely
Thousands of Americans may not be able to get passports for foreign travel, and tourists travelling to the US will likely face delays in visa processing. During the last government shutdown in 1996-97, some 20,000-30,000 applications remained unprocessed daily.
9 Space program on hold
Space agency NASA will be hit the most, as the agency will need to furlough about 97 percent of its employees, though it will continue to keep workers at Mission Control in Houston and elsewhere to support the International Space Station, where the two NASA astronauts currently on board, Michael Hopkins and Karen Nyberg, may not know whether they have jobs to come back to.
10 National parks, museums and zoos would close to the public
State-funded museums, art galleries and zoos across the country would keep their doors closed Tuesday, leaving thousands of employees furloughed and visitors unable to see attractions. US national parks, from Yosemite to the Shenandoahs, as well as Washington’s National Mall, Lincoln Memorial and Constitution Gardens, would also be closed.
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DC - that's right, gold comes from Super novas. Silver is the Creator's tears. That's why there's so much of it relative to gold. He loves us and cries over what we've chosen to do with the free will and intelligence He gave us, a unique gift, given to us alone. But the silver supply dwindles every time tyranny shuts down or a banker gets whipped by one of His children. I'm long free will and silver.
damn that felt good
Great!
Now, what other gov'ts can we shut down?
What - you never played dominoes?
No, but it sounds like fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPfI9oxZuEo
don't think for a second these goons are gonna let us enjoy a shut down for very long, the american people might start to wonder why dc is needed at all, can't have that
and just wait for them to tell us all tomorrow how much more expensive a government shut down will be, gotta love circular arguments
Full-metal - gaping maw - etc., etc.
Room 101 is still ready for Ya'll, don't worry your will and spirit shall still be broken.
Viva Room 101
Shutdown party at my house!
"Shut it down! Shut it down forever!"
good riddance ... hopefully it will remain shut ... useless bunch of fuckers ...
Jesus, if anyone knows how to use twitter search keyword "shutdown" and its horrifying to see all the sheep talk about this. Truely disgusting that most didn't even know it was coming, or what this even means.
Side note, government was smart enough to know you can't cut the military's paychecks because then whos side do you think they will be on?
This is pretty cool! I've never lived in a third world banana republic before! er...
Well, technically you have been. The marketing telling you that you aren't has been exceptionally good.
What ever you do stay away from Wall Mart, or you might get eaten by the "Free Shit Zombies"...
+ 1 !!
AREA 51 JUST SHUTDOWN>>>>>>>MAYBE NOT IT MAY TAKE A FEW DAYS
PARTY SONG IS BELOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06DpcFXc4U
#5. Really? That's one month's worth of Fed currency devaluation....
Is Obama's caddy furloughed ?
Which one, the one with the driver?
Lol it's getting late. Time for bed, got some welding to do tomorrow (training). At first I thought you implied that Obama's caddy had a limo driver.
Is that like a mixed entendre?
Are fireworks reported anywhere?
Are fireworks allowed in D.C.?
I know they're not allowed at the back gate of the Whitehouse.
BAM!....Now chain the damn gate and don't let 'em back in!
Don't be gone long, we may forget all the great things you do for us, like, well...and, like....uh...
Lemme get back to that later.
(Sadly the post was actually aimed at much of the "leadership" who will continue to be paid, and continue doing this "fine yet obviously agonizing" job they have done for many years, make no mistake)
Well that's all folks.. guess I'm turning the lights off for safety immediately and not answering the door.
Our leaders have let us down.
I'm instructing the cat to stay away from the windows and not to draw any attention from terrorist sleeper cells that might have been just waiting for this moment to srike when our guard is down; or parachuting mexicans finally finding the courage to storm the border like we did at Normandy..
I think the street lights just flickered...good thing I still have that case of Y2K freeze dried haggis and a whole crate of G I beans with weenies left- also a case of pretty good screwtop so I can weather this one out- the cat on the other hand is on her own.
I mean how long can the end of the world take??
Q. I mean how long can the end of the world take??
A. The rest of your miserable life.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
And now, more financial Doom!
A rise in Japan's sales tax to 8 percent from 5 percent next April will go ahead as planned!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101075147
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikata_ga_nai
I'd shit an egg roll if the EBTs were shutdown. I gotta hard on right now about that happening. See people begging....shaking as the booze and coke wear off....Sorry friend, I do not have any change cuz the porterhouse I just ate took all of my money. Go search a fuckin trash can for half eaten sandwiches.
Right the fuck on! EBT shutdown...making my nipple stiff and tingling my loins just thinking about it.
LMAO! I read that 3 times and it got funnier each time.
Here, let me burp and blow it at you so you can smell my dinner, chump.
Of course, Obama will be taking full credit in the months to come for any reduction in the deficit that happens as a result of reduced spending due to the government shutting down. And the MSM will give him full credit for same.
He drops his drawers and they get busy
Now if the Chinese would just do some debt dumping. Come on you know ya wanna.
Yea, I got this truckload of bananas for Mistas Reid, Obama and Boehner. Where you want them?
And where is the truckload of manure?
On the greens.
Don't need any. Already have 536 full bags of it.
I see what you did there.
LOL, IR and chindit.
I left out Biden because he seems a couple droppings short of a full load. The other manure is ISO 9004 certified.
Well that and fossilization has set in.
Furloughed in space. Now that would suck.
"Hurt America"?
Hurt WHO?
What is "America"?
How can the absence of government "hurt"?
What would Mugabe do ?
Steal gold?
I remember when I used to live in Rhodesia-like conditions. A happy childhood I had. Thanks debt-ridden boomers.
I remember when I lived in Morocco -like conditions near the ocean. Oh wait - that was Morocco. Why yes, it was near Casablanca, and no, Rick had already gone back to America. Saw the Grand Prix there - mid-50's, before Formula one I think.
So, the national debt resets to zero? Sounds like progress to me.
There is one biggie. No NICS checks means no gun sales from FFL dealers in most states.
How conveeeeenient!
Here in Florida we buy our guns @ the flea mkt.
Cash-n-carry
A couple of lousy billion$?? bah, that hardly pays for Mooch's Gas-X. What if Reid and Pelosi had a kid... the Anti-Christ mebbe? Yes, he would have to Botox his Boehner first...
Reality sinking in. USDX just 7 bips from a 7 big figure handle.
Now we just need a fetus to come out of some dude's stomach and tell Quaid to "Start the reactor!".
"Give these people air!"
Glad to hear NASA needs to furlogh 97%. Never a straight answer since 1958...fuck you cocksuckers.
Just stepped out to take a few reflective puffs off the old corncob. Other than dogs barking at the coyote trotting down the street, it's pretty quiet. Stars are still in place, people are watching 'The Voice' or 'Dancing with the Stars'. No shots going off, airplanes still move overhead...and Drug Dealer two doors down remains open.
tsk tsk tsk...all that hype over the effects of a Government Shutdown
AND THE SEQUESTER WAS ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE A BAD THING. :)
TURNED OUT TO BE THE ONLY EFFECTIVE WAY TO DEAL WITH THE DEFICIT PROBLEM. DEBT ISSUANCE PROJECTED DOWN 30% NEXT YEAR, BITCHEZZZZZZZ.
watch obama claim a deficit reduction because of his rule.
Good. I hate national parks. Should have concreted over Yellowstone and Yosemite years ago. Damn tree huggers and their 'pristine wildernesses'.
Shut more of the government down! It's become a bloated pig. More of a shutdown is bullish!
The end of the world Hysteria from the liberals about the shutdown fizzled. What a joke.
Both parties made a huge amount of money today. They are taking donations via internet sites. They've been running email campaigns for at least a week and today was huge. That's all this is about.
Your government is down? Have you tried unplugging and rebooting it?
It may be what comes out of the wall that's the problem ... bad AC in DC
"shutdown ... cost the administration of US President Bill Clinton cost an estimated $2 billion" .... that's just a couple of vacations for BHO
How can not spending taxpayers money cause a "cost of $2b".
Faulty logic at best. Bad economics at worst. :)
"Cost" are always quoted by .gov as reductions in revenue, so who got pissed and didn't pay their taxes?
80 break on the DXY telling. Cue massive outflows. Stocks are bid not a priced in trade, more so on US assets being dumped sans stocks - when you have the NY Fed offering repo/money prints unlimited. They got Wall Street covered. Crony trade on.
Things have to suck pretty bad when cable becomes a safehaven currency.
Thats 'cause the UK has so much gold in their vaults.....
Excellent. A rare no traffic day(week?) in DC.
I wonder if the debt ceiling won't be raised.
The communists (like the Boy King Obama) always proceed from the premise that what is theirs, is theirs. What is yours is negotiable. This gubbamint 'shut down' is an example of the communists complete unwillingness to negotiate or compromise. For them, all politics is a one way street. Don't compromise, don't negotiate, blame the other guy. It's a standard commie tactic, and you'd think by now the Republitards would have found a countertactic.
Slow learners, that mob.
Shut it all down,
Shut it all down,
So far feels like Y2K all over again.
Good analogy.
Much ado about a bunch of shit.
At least Y2K put a bunch of COBOL programmers to work for a while.
and set the stage for all those NSA backdoors
Why Don't these fucking imbeciles just go ahead and pass another 20-30 Trillion Dollar spending bill that will make Uncle Ben and Aunt Janet cream their fucking jeans and get on with the debt orgy already. They don't have to explain anything. There is no balanced budget ammendment, there really is no semblance of law...... People really don't fucking give a shit anymore. Bernanke could say he's going to print a fucking trillion/day and it would not register with most people. Just get on with it so we can see how the rest of the fucking world will respond.....
They probably will spend, spend, spend. *Sigh*
The rest of the world? Who knows? Fringe Blogger Bearing sez: Gold, fishez!
Can't do it. The Republicans still need to pretend they're against it all to fool enough Teabaggers into voting for them still.
Paul, Cruz, etc.
Now name a single demonrat worth pissing on if they're burning. Or quote a single thing any demonrat has said in the last ten years to actually promote liberty. Waiting.
I can't believe I need to clarify this. Maybe the usage of "Teabaggers" threw you off.
The Republicans don't care about cutting down this shit. They just need to pretend that they want to because half of the people who vote for them demand it. I totally agree that Paul and Cruz are not part of this problem, but just about the rest of them are.
Again...don't understand why this needs to be clarified...
If only it were real and forever.
I'm just thinkin', how much more money are they are going to print when the GovMint comes back online.
Good thing they don't have to actually print it, or it will kill one rain forrest, it's just a few taps on a keyboard.
I can think of 100 ways the shutdown could save America.
Shut it down and don't reopen it. Ever!
I bid five quatloos for the Statue of Liberty.
Bibi sleeps in the Lincoln Bedroom.
what about police departments ?
what about schools ?
what about food stamps ?
Bring back Asterix, Obelix and Getafix....
who needs a FIATfix and is JP Morgan Cacofonix?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVxzNffplw
Enjoy....
And all of a sudden... the worlds a better place
Markets (whatever that means) don't give a shit.
but they won't shut up, will they?
We await Russia's (RT) final decision on what we will cut.
But it is not a REAL shutdown, now is it? The absolute worst of the government will continue on because they see that as their essential business while the services to people are seen as something that they have to do to cover for the absulutely evil, corrupt and psychopathic things they want to do.
The government is not shut down until the corruption and destruction stops. Hopefully it will last that long.
How does one go about defunding a secret government? Enquiring minds want to know.
The Shadow Knows
It just occurred to me that maybe the shutdown is a designed cover to let key people get out of Washington ahead of a planned false-flag event.
Thank You Lord.
We now humbly beseech You: Make it permanent!
Any semblance of a real government was about 150 years ago. The government has been shut down for 150 years already. We have no idea what Congress and all of these administrations have been doing since then. Obviously nothing to do with the betterment of the American people or our country. What do we care.
Does Russia Today have Harry Reid or Obama writing for them now?
Seriously, are those 10 points supposed to be harmful to the US? And how does shutting down the government and reducing its expenditure increase the chance of a default?
Just the sort of garbage that flows endlessly from the WH and the rest of the Dems.
There are trillions of dollars in existing debts and interest payments that need to be covered. Those don't disappear just because there is a government shutdown. Creditors expect them to be paid. If they are not paid, that is a default.
Let's just default and get it over with. Why all the theatrics? Everyone knows we're broke already, just like every other overstreched empire in history. The alternative is to keep on inflating the currency, and that really sux!
There is a certain amount of debt and interest payments that will come due. The standard process now is that the Treasury issues new debt, which Ben buys with made up Bernanke bucks, which the Treausry uses to pay any maturing obligations and interest and spend on everything else the government indulges in.
The only bit of the government that needs to be open for this is the Fed and the section of the Treasury that issues debt and pays interest. Don't even need the IRS.
Since the "shutdown" appears to be confined to national parks, WH tours and other such frippery, it is reasonable to expect the Fed will keep buying and the Treasury will keep turning the debt around. After all, if most of the WH, Congress, the military, the bulk of government departments etc are still operating, it would have to be a deliberate, destructive act by the administration to stop issuing debt to Ben and paying interest to Ben and other holders of US debt.
So in case this has all been too complicated for you, any decision to default will be wholly discretionary by the Obama administration and is not consequent on the current rejection of a CR by Harry Reid and Obama.
Even a failure to lift the debt ceiling in the near future will not inherently cause a default. The government still brings in swags of money and has a choice about where it spends it. If it decides to spend it on consumption rather than paying interest on the debt, that is again a conscious choice by Obama to default rather than cut spending.
This is Olympic-class stupidity.
Congratulations, you got the government you deserve, fuckwads.
Oooooh, I bet th'"terrarists' .are TERRIFIED at this display of omnipotence.
Oh, and BECAUSE OBAMA.
Isn't that what you people THINK is happening?
do they give awards for sabotaging your own government?
This is Olympic-class stupidity.
Congratulations, you got the government you deserve, fuckwads.
Oooooh, I bet th'"terrarists' .are TERRIFIED at this display of omnipotence.
Oh, and BECAUSE OBAMA.
Isn't that what you people THINK is happening?
do they give awards for sabotaging your own government?
Obama is only doing his job (as a bankster stooge).
too good to be true.
Lame-ass bullshit. This is what playacting gets you.
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Lame-ass bullshit. This is what playacting gets you.
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Lame-ass bullshit. This is what playacting gets you.
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Lame-ass bullshit. This is what playacting gets you.
Lame-ass bullshit. This is what playacting gets you.
No Barry... you and your crony asswipes in the Senate did it.
NSA switches to battery backup as lights go out. US Navy grounds all flights. USMC on K rations. Congressmen calling sponsors for loans as pay checks bounce. Goldman Sachs offers bridging loan to White House to pay for State Banquets.
Meanwhile Al-Qaeda returns to Iraq from Syria......
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/syrian-jihadists-wreak-havo...
Time to revive The Selective Service Act
K-rations? Nope, FEMA, DHS, TSA, amongst others have been stockpiling freeze-dried goods (and other prepper supplies for the past two years). They'll have plenty to eat, not to mention those billion rounds of people shredding bullets. Now, reading over US Govt. documentation, that makes them possible domestic terrorists, just like those shady people with Ron Paul bumper stickers.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."........... Armstrong , 1969
It's a hell of a start. It could be made into a monster if we all pull together as a team.
so a shut out of the US admin and we can start counting how the US economy (the real one) goes belly up by the day; while the fiat pump inflates the other one; the oligarchy economy of FIRE of WS.
Liar, liar pants on FIRE...don't cry for Warren B, every time there is a fire in Uncle Sam's economy he makes a billion!
i know we'll create the bull shit affordable care act and then when we're supposed to be brinbing honey and sunshine to the table, we'll shut this shit down because we've got nothing to give them, brilliant.
Republicans should turn Obama's words around. "A group of Democrats just forced a government shutdown over Obamacare instead of passing a real budget." Boehner needs to keep the House in session every day, send up a new CR without Obamacare every day, and keep the focus on Obamacare. Once the people see that Obamacare is NOT a free entitlement the Republicans could win this.
So, all "non-essential" government employees are sent home? Do that word "non-essential" mean what I think it do?
Yeap Dead Beats in the GOVT. So in essence these people can be laid off, 2 weeks pay and call it quits. No more leeching of Taxpayers.
Nope! Just like last time, they'll end up getting back pay. Obama and Reid just gave them an extended paid vacation. I wish such bad things would happen to me.
It'd be nice if they didn't receive their back pay, you know.....for not working. It's a good gig if you can get it I guess.
Jumping Jehosiphat! Hey everyone, the party is at my place! Let the festivities begin! Now, if only the Fed would close it's doors. (I wonder if the Treasury/Mint had to shut down thier printing operation as well?)
Anyway, at least the Repubs have shown some cojones this time around. Let's pray they stick to their guns like men for a change. Really, if Obama and Reid want to act like spoiled children and shut down the government then they'll pay the price come election time. Think of all those poor free-loaders on the dole, like GE, Boeing, Lockeed Martin, General Dynamic and 1000's of NSA contractors. WE should all pass the hat for donations just so they don't starve to death. I mean, corporations are people too. The Supreme Court has ruled/told us that. Are the SC judges going to go hungry as well? I mean, Elena Kagan could afford to lose a few pounds, but some of the other judges look pretty skinny to me.
I'm seriously in anticipation of hearing what Andrew Napolitano has to say about this one.
Does this mean no Golfing and vacations for the King and Queen in AMERIKA? Just askin
i feel safer now than at anytime in the last twenty years. i hope they keep the lights off. lol
as words have no meaning with the gov, shutdown does not mean shutdown
Pretend shutdown. No parks. Boo hoo. Yogi and Boo Boo don't get a paycheck. So sad.
Don't worry about Yogi. He'll just have to find a State park to look for pic-i-nic baskets, right Boo-Boo?
Roosevelt and his 4 terms got people believeing in and loving big intrusive govt. and all it can do for them. Now, hopefully, we are at a turning point or evolution in American society when people will once again start believeing in themselves and their god-given talents for their futures and when the states begin to take back the power that is rightfully theirs from the central planners who have thoroughly fucked up this once great country. The idea that someone in Washington can better plan education, healthcare, retirement, for someone who lives in Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Texas than they can themselves is completely opposed to the ideas on which this country was founded. People from other countries came here for freedom and opportunity and now we have neither.
I wouldn't count on it, this generation is pathetic and illegals are taking over which feed off the gov, doesn't look good.
Now that's historical reasoning standing on its head! Denying fact and causality bigtime!
1° The historical fight in civilization is between Oligarchy/Aristocracy and "some semblance of democracy". That has been the evolution of western society since Alexander-Aristotle, when both sides had a clear agenda based on historical experience and fact lines; aka sequel to War of Peleponnese and the abuse of "hegemony" by the Oligarchs, because of Hubris (excessive greed and arrogance) in that original template of western civilization.
We have not invented anything basically different on human understanding nor on its darker side; just technology and science which is a TOOL not a AIM of society/civilization: the latter being EUDAIMONIA, as Aristotle cleared defined it and Jefferson encapsulated it : the pursuit of happiness for man, based on mutual respect and a level playing field. Nothing under the sun has changed about the HUMAN mind set since then...nothing. We stay the same animal balancing personal greed and collective need. Thats what civilization it and those Greeks defined it perfectly.
2° The "abuse of aristocratic capitalistic hegemony" came bigtime to industrial USA after civil war; and the period where WS went apeshit vertical in the demise of Europe; the rise of FED-$; the Fordian myth of economies of scale and birth of consumerism; Mother nature's gift to Rockafella and USA's great continental space. That 1929 collapse which then ensued as a result of frenetic material wealth seeking was the first industrial age global "greed is good" disaster based "aint us big captalists purty-the sky's the limit" type logic that got free wheeling USA (and the world) into the great depression rut. WRONG MINDSET OF HUBRIS.
3° FDR's strong statist medecine came as the world needed a solution URGENTLY. It was cause and effect logic bigtime as Europe went fascist. It was used to try and kick start the biggest industrial economy of the world away from hegemonial greed based on middle class "demand side" Keynesian model.
After WW2 it became the global industrial model and Pax Americana was born. It went hegemonial 'cos mother nature makes humans into ass holes when then start thinking they shit "hey presto golden Nuggets" in their 5* toilets as plutocratic oligarchs. We are back in Pompei.
4° After the frustration of the 60s and 70s the US aristocrats were back in the saddle under Reagan and Maggie who said "this time we'll get it right" and "trickle down" will keep those suckers happy.
ANd, we know what happened then...right? right? Cos we are slap bang there ONCE AGAIN.
5° So how in blazes can you say its ALL FDR's fault when he actually got it partially right by initiating Glass Steagall, creating some government infrastructure investment and taxing the rich to spread that wealth around so that everybody had some equal chance, as that economic elevator moved up and down.
Those years were the USA's greatest years and it got that generation to be truly remarkable. "Exceptionalism" has died in the USA since his true son got shot by those other guys in Dallas; you know those who are "vaguely related" by the Oil pipeline to the guy who said "read my lips" and we will make taxes flat and your belly lines fat on junk food and junk money, and junk oil and junk agri and junk freedom; galore and moar and encore!...
Thank you very much. Now please put history back on its feet!
And this Oligarchical Aristocracy is racing like bats out of hell to make ALL the wealth go to the 1% and ALL of the poverty go to the 99%. Based on slave labour arbitrage and Caymanista wealth accumulation.
Even Caesar was not that NUTS! Not to mention that other criminal denial of Ecological disaster of magnitude unknown to "save our uncomparable way of life". Sounds like the party goers in Pompei haven't heard the rumblings of Vesuvius.
Eudaimonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If a President with millions of fake twitter followers tweets some bullshit and nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Is a bear catholic? does the pope sheet in the woods?
Kinks - Give the People what they want 1982 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v...
My what?
I often speculate about Obama's birthplace being Kenya. I also claim that Obama runs the USA like an African country called Zimbabwe and that the US dollar will be treated like the currency of Zimbawe due to the president's disregard of the financial system. Barack el-Hussein Obama is allowing the financial system to be run by enemies of the state who are out to destroy the middle class. These financial lords & politicians running our economy should be hung. ERECT THE GALLOWS!!!
The government shutdown is no surprise when we consider that a Kenyan is running "da house" like if it were Zimbabwe. How stupid are the people to vote this chocolate coloured man for a 2nd term? Hopefully this is all a "nightmare" and soon i will wake up. THANK GOD FOR THE SHUT DOWN!!!!!
Art is hung. People are always hanged.
No critical thinking or support of the arguments offered.
Grade: D-.
Ha ha ha ... it's much easier to switch all the blame to the poor, remote Kenyans than the Corpotocracy or the Khazars Banksters... and to play the Blue team vs. Read team card here, at ZeroHedge, is very very dumb indeed. It's a real waste to be here :-) MSM may help!
Yes! it is shut down. Now burn it down.
"6 Housing loans halted
US federal programs that provide for about 30 percent of all new loans in the housing market – a backbone of the country’s economy – will be shut down. Government funding of new businesses will also be halted, as well as workplace health and safety inspections."
good news!