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Debt Ceiling Humor: "I Therefore Intend To Oppose The Effort To Increase America's Debt Limit"

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Just because it never, ever gets old...

 

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Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:31 | 4031491 swabeyjw
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We all get to grow up. It is just crazy that we support centralization that permits egomaniacs to swing the world by the tail while they grow.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:31 | 4031493 fooshorter
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<---- Fuck you Barry 

<---- Fuck you Boehner 

 

Enjoy your broken two party system.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:38 | 4031536 Spastica Rex
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False dichotomy.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:44 | 4031556 MsCreant
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<----Fuck you both high and hard, up the ass, out your mouth, and straight to hell.

<----We know you are both trying hard and doing you very best guys. Good luck and best wishes.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:46 | 4031570 Spastica Rex
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There's one I can vote honestly on.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:32 | 4031495 pop goes the weasel
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Love this shit

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:32 | 4031501 Cacete de Ouro
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Barry Obama, relaxed with the truth, will soon overtake Barry Manilow in the nose stakes....

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:34 | 4031509 johny2
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it is about 751000 usd debt per family, and everything is going according to the plan

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:38 | 4031525 Yen Cross
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  Obama: "I never wrote that, it was my evil doppelganger."

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:39 | 4031531 Spastica Rex
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According to Obama, at the time, he was just a senator and "playin' around."

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/debtlimit.asp

So quit "messin'" with him.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:44 | 4031572 johny2
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so, after he became president he realised selling ( other peoples ) children and grandchildren into the slavery is good after all.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:46 | 4031582 Spastica Rex
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Precisely.

Being the President is a tough job; it's not for everyone.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:11 | 4031871 Translational Lift
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At first blush I would say he's doing it to force all whites into slavery...........but then how does he plan to keep blacks out when the shitstorm hits??

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:23 | 4031893 WillyGroper
Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:38 | 4031535 prains
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At this point "failure" is all relative.......LOFL

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:42 | 4031547 CheapBastard
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Just lie enough to get China to keep buying our CRAP...and we'll buy theirs.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:41 | 4031551 Frank N. Beans
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That is worthy of a fine print in an art gallery.

Beautiful.

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:45 | 4031564 4 wheel drift
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in the matter referring the debt ceiling, i am against increasing it, including the refusal to support any and all initiatives that propose the decrease of same.....  likewise, it is not viable to leave it where it sits.  i support all of the opposite to these arguments.

the narcis-arrogant-tyran-fascist muslim at the WH

-roflmao......

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:46 | 4031587 youngman
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If the Press was equal to both parties they would be tearing Obama a new one for these statements...but of course they are in Obamas camp..so we hear nothing except for a few blogs on this...that is the problem....its not a fair game out there...just think how the Vote might have changed if the press was telling the people the truth....it would be different...way different...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:48 | 4031589 TNTARG
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It seems the way he "does not" things...

 

Here on Guantanamo:

http://gtmoclock.com/

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:47 | 4031592 bagehot99
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That signature is actually the one he used for the Obamacare act, and it's therefore penned in several parts. Hence the weird O.

I don't believe individual Senators and Congressmen sign the Congressional Record.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:48 | 4031599 Inthemix96
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Fuck me.

More proof, as if it was fucking needed that this fucking imbecile is a bonafide cunt.

Christ, these fuckers is just taking the piss at this point.

Dee, 'mock', ra, cee.  Aint life grand???

Cunts.

;-)

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:28 | 4032141 krispkritter
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As it applies to the US;  'Dey-mock-us-See?'

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:57 | 4031601 JuliaS
Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:49 | 4031602 monad
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America deserves better. So I resign effective immediately (upon receiving asylum in Moscow).

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:57 | 4031627 jtz5
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What has been his response to this question from the media...or did no one have the balls to ask him a tough question?  I am familiar with this quote from 2006, but I've never seen his response to the obvious hypocrisy.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:20 | 4031723 docj
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We should doggedly pester His Lordship and everyone in his administration regarding this obvious hyprocisy and in the meanwhile broadcast it far and wide... said precisely nobody in the US media, ever.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:52 | 4032014 lakecity55
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The teleprompter will deny such a statement was ever made.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:10 | 4032066 Cacete de Ouro
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The US mainstream media don't have the balls for anything, let alone simple journalistic questions...they are just servile puppets...shame on them... Burn in hell ...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:56 | 4031630 vulcanraven
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LET ME SEE YOUR "O" FACE

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:01 | 4031654 Winston Smith 2009
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Wrong end.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:10 | 4031695 vulcanraven
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See: Goatse

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:45 | 4031778 Winston Smith 2009
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Yech...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:58 | 4031635 Richard Head
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I think what he really said in 2006 was "Present."

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:59 | 4031638 Elliptico
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I did no have debt with that Congress, Miss Lewinsky.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 15:59 | 4031649 zebra
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my head told me to oppose it but my hands tell me to sign the increase.

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:01 | 4031650 zebra
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my head told me to oppose it but my hands tell me to sign the increase.

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:01 | 4031651 CheapBastard
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Barry and Boner will both be on the Jerry Springer show to splain their pozitions.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:32 | 4032162 krispkritter
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I assumed that would be on the WGAY affiliate of Cox News...maybe they can get married?  Barry (the) Boehner?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:01 | 4031652 crzyhun
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Yah    Oh that deb ceiling thingy....

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:01 | 4031653 zebra
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new expression in elementary school:

"Be honest, don't be an Obama."

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:03 | 4031660 dizzyfingers
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Exceptionally contrived signature.

Context: My ox isn't being gored.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:05 | 4031671 phoolish
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I'm also opposed to retroactive immunity for wiretapping.

 

B.O.

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:08 | 4031684 JR
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The turnover of wealth transfer in America reminds one of the seizure of farms and businesses of white farmers and settlers who were dispossessed in South Africa under Mandela’s Communist regime and Marxist ideology.

Still, the House Republican pressure on Obama for refusing to negotiate Obamacare must be having an effect on public opinion because both Obama and Jay Carney, his White House press kid, have repeatedly insisted that Obama is a negotiator and negotiates, negotiates, negotiates… ad nauseam.  It’s just, they say, that at the moment Obama doesn’t want to negotiate under these threats of a shutdown government and a looming default… Uh-huh.

The White House's internal polls must be showing Obama’s in trouble on his refusal to negotiate.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:07 | 4031691 BadDog
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In the words of the immortal Ross Barnett upon hearing news of escaped inmates on work assignment "If you can't trust a trustee, who can you trust."

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:09 | 4031692 kchrisc
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Politicians (pols) do not have or maintain beliefs, they sell and maintain positions on behalf of their handlers.

Or put another way, a prostitute doesn't make-love to her "johns," she fucks them for a pimp approved price.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:08 | 4031693 Inthemix96
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Anyone think the 'Choomster' can spell his name without the 'Prompster'?

Answers on a postcard to 118 fucking idiot street.

The idiot needs a red nose and big shoes, and of course a life size 'Chewbacca' friend for conveinience and believability.  The corrupt, fucking puppet clown what he is.

Bitchez.  (Caution, been on the sauce, so watch out NSA, GCHQ, I have plausible deniability on my side you cunts).

Crack on.....             ;-)

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:09 | 4031696 Stroke
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WTF...WTF...WTF...

Please don't vote for any of these bastards.....Red or Blue

The system is beyond corrupt.... It reminds me of old time comedy

 

Without the laughs...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:10 | 4031699 SmittyinLA
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I applied for disability today, I'm taking these Socialist voters to the cleaners for every dime they have, and my disability isn't "pretend" either, I qualify 9-ways to Sunday, It's time to turn the tables on the free shit army, and join them.

Nothing kills a ponzi scheme faster then everybody joining.  

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:12 | 4031706 SmittyinLA
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I'm gonna demand free housing and a maid too (I want a free state-owned foreclosure house NOW too)  

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:45 | 4032209 Yes We Can. But...
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Be sure to also score a free oPhone, oCare, and food stamps.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:12 | 4031703 straightershooter
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Leadership  Hypocrite means that " the buck" stops here.

Fixed!

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:14 | 4031708 yogibear
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How come nobody in the media has challenged him on his past statement?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:17 | 4031716 GrinandBearit
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Because media and our government is all controlled by the same people.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:18 | 4031718 involuntarilybirthed
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Spay and neuter all politicians and their offspring.   Feral, all of them. 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:23 | 4032697 Reckonball
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And make sure the top of their ear is clipped...for future referance..

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:16 | 4031719 Inthemix96
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Humour time bitchez.

This bloke I know was involved in a serious car crash.  After a few weeks in intensive care he woke up screaming for the doctor.  the doctor came running as the bloke said, 'Doctor HELP, I cant feel my LEGS!!!!!!!!'.

'That right said', the doc, 'I fucking amputated them'.

Smile you degenerate lot, we aint Greece yet.....

:-)

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:19 | 4032104 Clowns on Acid
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IntehMix - "The doctor came running as the bloke said, 'Doctor HELP, I cant feel my LEGS!!!!!!!!'.

Actually the doctor said " That's 'cause we've chopped your arms off "!.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:29 | 4031730 Kirk2NCC1701
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"Das weisse Haus stinkt mit seine Luegen und Kacke.  Das Land is verdorben und im Eimer.  Raus aus dem Haus, Drecksack!"

Lt. Uhura tells me this means: "The White House smells of roses and truth.  The country is strong and safe.  Stay put, do s'moar!"

K out.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:24 | 4031734 greggh99
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I posted this quote (unattributed) as a comment to the Buffett debt ceiling story on HuffPost. So far 1 out of 5 replies to my comment knew it was Obama's words and vote.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Gregg_Jones/buffett-debt-ceiling-bomb_n_4056861_290648160.html

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:24 | 4031735 greggh99
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I posted this quote (unattributed) as a comment to the Buffett debt ceiling story on HuffPost. So far 1 out of 5 replies to my comment knew it was Obama's words and vote.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Gregg_Jones/buffett-debt-ceiling-bomb_n_4056861_290648160.html

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:23 | 4031736 epwpixieq-1
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From the type of the signature one can detect that this person is DEFINETLY NOT a revolutionary or with HIS OWN VISION.

http://www.futurepointindia.com/articles/miscellaneous/your-nature-is-re...

I forgot, why he was chosen for?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:25 | 4031741 Iam Yue2
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A sceptic may wonder, just what it is that the boys at the NSA have on him.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:14 | 4032079 Cacete de Ouro
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It's not necessarily the NSA that have something on Barry. It's the group that got him drugged and got him to have sex with something illegal, and video taped it...that's the crux...and the blackmail ...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:27 | 4031743 knicks3005
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Obama must have the easiest signature to forge in the history of mankind. 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:36 | 4031757 Inthemix96
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This story right here just brought a tear to my eye.

It reminds me of the first time me and the wife got a touch naked like, and prepared for the action.

When I pulled the old man out she was laughing like fuck.

Through the tears she said, 'Who the fuck you going to satisfy with that?'.

Quick as fucking lark, I said, 'Me'.

Know your place bitchez......

Smile on fuckers, and fuck the cunts who would see you down.    :-)

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:41 | 4031764 rwe2late
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Another variation on the theme

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions"

(sincere or not).

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:42 | 4031770 autofixer
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I didn't sign that.  It was robo-pen!

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:50 | 4031799 robertocarlos
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The more bank holidays the better. Who doesn't like a paid day off work?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:49 | 4031806 crakinshot
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Chinese Whispers?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:50 | 4031807 Max Cynical
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...so its safe to say he's "evolved" on this issue?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:01 | 4031846 sosoome
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No. Only the lies have been changed to protect the guilty.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:51 | 4031814 blindman
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the becoming and the being, two different things.
or the being that is becoming is not the being
it does become.
or ...
but on another level, he was always a politician
and natural performer at heart, if i may be so
presumptuous.
and maybe the exact characteristics that make
a political candidate appealing and successful
are those that make them unfit to hold the office?
we never learn, they lie for the fiat fed money
and that is nothing that sets them apart from the
class of people that control the structural distribution
system to a larger and larger extent.
or...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:55 | 4031820 goldenbuddha454
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This is all one big hoax as both sides know they'll come to an agreement, but in the meantime, grab as much campaign cash as possible because this makes for good theater.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 16:55 | 4031823 orangegeek
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There was no hopey changey in 2006.

 

But now we have hopey changey so there is no need for a debt ceiling, right Barry?

 

Anyone call you an asshole lately Barry? 

 

Allow me.  Barry, you're a fucking asshole!!!!

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:00 | 4031840 sosoome
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The second most troubling thing here is the number of people who believed OBogus in 2006, and voted for him because he was a fiscally responsible constitutional professor.

The most troubling thing is those same people would still vote for him today.       

 

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:04 | 4031852 Elliptico
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Yet another cheap forgery discovered.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:46 | 4031994 lakecity55
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Consistency!

Everything about the guy is a cheap forgery.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:06 | 4031861 Future Jim
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This document looks fake. Sure, it accurately describes what happened, but it seems way too neat and tidy. All packaged up into a sound bite. For example, when has Obama ever been so concise? Also, didn't he really say this verbally and not in writing?

I therefore searched and found the full text on page three of this congressional record.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:14 | 4031879 shovelhead
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Close enough for Govt. work.

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:21 | 4031888 Evil Bugeyes
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Good work! Now see if you can find his original birth certificate.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:03 | 4032049 Future Jim
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Come on now ... He's as American as Nancy Pelosi ... and besides ... He already said he was born in Kenya.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:10 | 4031872 iamtheeggman wh...
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He certainly is more "flexible" since being elected and re-elected.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:23 | 4031895 Mad Muppet
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"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon.  The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game."

-- Vlad Putin

 

My nomination for the single best thing ever said by a politician.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:37 | 4031951 forwardho
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Is that an actual sourced quote?

If so, agree on all time favorite.

If not, thanks for the laugh, good comedy always contains truth.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:41 | 4031970 greggh99
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There is no evidence to support that Putin ever said this.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:43 | 4031981 lakecity55
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Maybe, but he could have said it.

Man it would be great to see Vlad snap the neck of the narcissistic, smarmy girlie man. Great Pay-per-View!

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:58 | 4032035 Hedge Fund of One
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Not an original from Putin. It's from the UrbanDictionary definition of "pigeon chess", a concept that's been around for awhile:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pigeon%20chess&defid=4293694

I agree with it's application to 0bama, though.

 

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:52 | 4032899 Little Boomer
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But I want to belive it was Vlad!

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:33 | 4031930 djsmps
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He has "evolved".

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:50 | 4032011 OneTinSoldier66
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So, that is to say, that only now, he is one of the lizard people?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:37 | 4031953 are we there yet
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Congress is united on giving a standing ovation of approval for the capital police that shot Maraha the unarmed scared mother with a child escaping from the police.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_flkAhBNk

Congressmen are such tools

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:42 | 4031971 lakecity55
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Remember the quote from the Kyle Bass (I think it was Kyle) interview:

"We are going to kill the dollar."

This is the setup, IMHO. This is the opportunity Bath House has been waiting for!

There is going to be a default. The debt ceiling will not be raised.

This was the Prime Directive given to the Bath House Sheik in 2008.

Stock up on what you need this week. If I am wrong, you will have extra stuff before you have to go to the store again.

Hoist the Flag of Back Bart, Mates! ZH Strikes back against The Empire!

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:51 | 4032628 Legolas
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+1 for your optimism !

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:43 | 4031979 reTARD
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Is this the same way we should treat the "social contract" which we didn't even sign?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:44 | 4031987 Debt Slave
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We thought Bush was bad (and he was) but at least he wasn't shoving low-life care down our throats.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:48 | 4031993 forwardho
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Looking at the actions taken since becoming president, one might come to the conclusion that his goal has been the utter destruction of America. Pushing us into default would be one more step of many which brings about our total disalution. If it's all by chance then he is by far the worst President our country has had the misfortune to elect.

"I know not the mind of another Man"

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:05 | 4032054 New_Meat
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Perchance or nay ... You Sir are Correct. - Ned {and of course, we mean the entirety of the ruling party, not just the individual}

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 17:57 | 4032031 blindman
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all the news seems to be a distraction
from the salient story of the day, you know the one,
the bankers have been caught red handed
committing financial and securities fraud
since 1913 and it is the basis of our money
system and american way of life.
though caught they have been showered with
profits as the elite and educated conclude
there is no other way to manifest gains other
than fraud, skimming and mass hysteria and
stupidity.
17 trillion, minimum and counting, all fraud!
and usury and criminally and fraudulently
induced debt and money for purpose of
enslaving and stealing labor, property and resources
from the uneducated bumpkins and lumpkins
with no sense or brains.
that story must be told, even into the next
paradigm or it will be the basis for it too.
.
"When people are 'stung' in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness."
.
"What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men's labor should contribute to your gains?"
.
"The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress."
.
1922, henry ford
.
Gary Null - The Natural Living Show
Monday October 7 12:00pm
gary null-gerald celente interview
http://archive.wbai.org/#ankor5

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:21 | 4032118 no more banksters
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"If one take a look at the data, can see that the share of the US government debt held by the "Federal" Reserve reached record levels in 2011, reaching 11.2% of GDP, the highest since 1940 onwards, and possibly the historically higher. In 2012, this rate was also high at 10.6% of GDP. Only once this figure reached such levels, in 1946, i.e. shortly after the end of WWII, when it reached 10.7% of GDP. [Table 7.1, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/historicals]"

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/10/new-deal-vs-obamacare-one-rea...

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:26 | 4032130 Clowns on Acid
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Mugabe's signature is also a favorite in Zimbabwean fashion circles....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/robert-mugabe-fashion-brand-hou...

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:32 | 4032152 Mototard at Large
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Banks, Terrorism and other Existential Threats: The Real Invisible Hand

A request for assistance from ZH readers (known for being enthusiastic commenters) :

We have prepared a series of three papers and a podcast on the dangers of the use of fiat/digital currency combined with the near total dependency of most of our economies on the international payments and settlements system.  This leaves us vulnerable to a systemic collapse, an insider threat and/or a foreign attack (read China, Iran, Hezbollah).  In short, banks and anyone who deals with a bank is on the frontline of a new form of warfare.

These research papers and the podcast mark the first time that anyone has been drawn attention to the line between fiat vulnerability and the payments and settlement system. We will be writing a fourth paper on potential solutions and options for moving ahead. Any comments or ideas are welcome here or at cohost@brokenmirrors.ca

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

** *The Broken Mirrors website is not set up to be a for-profit website or business (yet).   However, we do intend to make the transition to making money sometime in early 2014 as we develop the work on the site and an associated online training program. In other words, no direct financial gain from this posting.

 

Banks, Terrorism and other Existential Threats: The Real Invisible Hand

We can begin the discussion with a simple proposition: what bankers are allowing to happen (consciously or not) at Central Banks and Financial Institutions is far more fearsome than what terrorists have planned in the past. A failure of their jointly operated payments and settlements system would do more systemic damage to the advanced economies than any terrorist attack has done to date. The payments and settlements system is virtually invisible to the public, intelligence and security agencies and most politicians. Yet this ‘invisible’ system has implicated itself into the everyday lives of the populations of almost all of the developed economies.

The other invisible factor lurking in the background is the fiat currency system used by almost all developed nations. Those bank notes in your pocket or wallet are called ‘fiat currency’ as there is little to nothing that supports them other than pure faith – which is by definition invisible.  When individuals lose faith in their government or their financial system, the currency can become nearly worthless in a rapid manner: history is littered with failed fiat currencies.

The intelligence community as a whole has not seriously examined the potential for the application of the use of force (cyber or otherwise) within this economic domain. Nor is it clear that most Western governments have any ability to respond to such an attack (or internal failure) should such an event occur. As Jason Healey, the former White House Director of Cyber Infrastructure Protection noted in a recent address, if the United States is engaged in a cyberwar, Americans would be far better served by contacting Microsoft or AT&T rather than the Department of Homeland Security.

For more on this see:

Banks, Terrorism and other Existential Threats: The Real Invisible Hand http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=230  (intro, list of papers and links)

The Invisible War in Your Wallet – The Sixth Domain of Warfare is You http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=203  (the invisible links between banks, terrorism and existential threats, the international payments and settlements system, the existential threat resident in the current limitations of the (il)legitimacy of the fiat currency system, impact of a failure on the economy and you)

Welcome To The Front – Social and Economic Warfare is all about You http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=252 (future scenario involving the People’s Republic of China, China’s capabilities and intentions, how a potential conflict scenario could develop, previous payments and settlements attacks and failures, conclusions about the state of system security)

The Transformation of the Sixth Domain: Economic Warfare and You in the Information Age.   http://warontherocks.com/2013/10/podcast-the-war-in-your-wallet-the-real-invisible-hand/  or at   http://www.brokenmirrors.ca/?p=261     Podcast (economic warfare, scenarios, fiat currency history, fiat currency current situation, pushing back against the system, community resilience)

FUTURE PAPER: We intend to write one more paper on the payments and settlements system which would identify the path ahead.  Reader comments and ideas will be included and we want your views!  This paper will address issues around the functioning of ATMs in the event of a payments and settlements crisis and whether or not individual FIs would be able/willing to provide cash to only their own customers.  Would this cause a run on the banks?  If there is a breakdown in the payments and settlements system, what would happen to note exchange and provision systems and how would cash get to the FIs?  What would be the effect on securities exchanges, cheques clearing, retail debits, direct deposits, derivatives and foreign currency exchanges? How would they be settled without the payments and settlement system?

Please leave comments here or send directly, in confidence, to cohost@brokenmirrors.ca

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:34 | 4032175 Teddy Tenpole
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dude: save your breath... it's called, "Vacate Wall Street".  Use bitcoin and STFU

 

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:52 | 4032246 sbenard
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AWOL Obama, the Dictator of Debt

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 18:53 | 4032251 surf0766
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The amber alert system is turned off? 

What a aisgusting individual to use children for his marxist agenda.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:07 | 4032304 q99x2
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Its time for the United States of America's military to move in and arrest the traitors in Washington D.C.

Maybe Larry Lessig has a solution at the State level. I think I heard the State's rights according to the Constitution could be used to move against the D.C. traitors.

Impeach Obama.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:07 | 4032307 beegle
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WTF , Barak O'hara !??

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:09 | 4032310 Randoom Thought
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Yes, there is never any reason to give any respect or credence to the clown prince of evil clowniness, Barack Obomber. There is no lie that is too difficult for him to read from the teleprompter. The douche haz skillz.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:11 | 4032318 I Write Code
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Obama is a clear and "present" danger to himself and others.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:36 | 4032578 ejhickey
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test

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:35 | 4032580 ejhickey
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i am going to steal your post and drop it into a discussion on Huffington Post. 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:22 | 4032351 Constitutional ...
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Whoa! I don't need to be an expert on signature analysis to see that the President's signature displays mental illness of the sort known to his own handlers. It is the signature of a self-involved childlike state of mind. Not a responsible adult.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 23:13 | 4032938 franzpick
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And you choose to omit mentioning his outrageous, psychotic, narcissistic use of 20 (TWENTY) pens to sign his 11 to 20 character name?

Or is each of the 20 (estimated street value) $5000 pens meant as payback to a loyal made-member of his and Rahm's Cook County Chicago political street muscle?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:21 | 4032353 Jugdish
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If online porn goes down there are gonna be some fuckin problems.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:21 | 4032359 oncefired
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Fuck the Chimp!

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:39 | 4032410 cherry picker
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How about a million man march in DC, demanding congress, NSA,CIA and other nefarious organizations, the White House be shut down, current occupents fired or charged with crimes?

It could have happened 100 years ago.  No balls today.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:52 | 4032624 Constitutional ...
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I admire the Truckers for the Constitution who are going to descend on DC this week, and the bikers who did the same recently. 

Never go down without a fight, even if you are scorned and dismissed by the whores of mainstream media, their owners, and CONgress, the Trilateral Commission,  which scmoozes the majority into hell.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:16 | 4032821 franzpick
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Tractors under the Arch de Triumph, blocking the Champs-Elysees with decades old political protest.  Quickly, bring this tradition to D.C. and put all heavy equipment available in barry, bennie and harry's face.  

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:42 | 4032417 Peter Pan
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I think that those who are attacking the president are being mighty unfair.

Obama does not want to raise the debt ceiling, he simply wants to remove it.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 19:44 | 4032435 notquantumdum
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And, of course, if everyone else hasn't already said it 20 times, wasn't that a debt limit increase debate (back when Obama opposed it) regarding a level of debt which was almost 50% less than now when he demands the increase!  Give me a break. 

The only thing absolutely unprecedented, as far as I can recall, is the thought that the minority party controlling the House of Reps in the US shouldn't obtain any compromises during a CR or debt-limit-increase bill.  What am I forgetting?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:02 | 4032486 Constitutional ...
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It is a luxury to choose the timing and manner of one's death. That is better than falling without a fight for principles.

On a long enough timeline...

'As a man thinketh, so shall he be.'

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:00 | 4032488 monad
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Thats odd. This is exactly how the great depression started.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:08 | 4032496 Constitutional ...
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Say what? With international financiers bearing no allegiance to any land triggering the Depression because their bets went wrong? Then their insiders bought up a lot for pennies on the dollar, just like Rothschild did to Britain after his private couriers brought news of Wellingtons defeat first, and he acted on it, while others thought Britain had lost.

http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/20/karlgaard-rich-information_comm05_cz_rk...

The international financiers have insatiable greed, and those in any government who admire them become debt slaves. The EUSSR is the most obvious example.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:26 | 4032558 Heroic Couplet
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I think the teabaggers, who represent about 13% of the US pupulation, should pick one piece of legislation they don't like and crash the entire US economy over it. Get it out of their system. Oh, wait.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:41 | 4032581 Constitutional ...
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Didn't you get the memo? The U.S. economy crashed in 2008, and the world's. Bank bail outs via tax money rewarded the culprits. Oh, you are such a cute little debt slave. Big Brother loves you, darling.

Come to big daddy. Let him wrap you up in promises and paper...then set light to you. Your self-immolation.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:38 | 4032589 dexter_morgan
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Congratulations to you for standing up and supporting this administration. At least you have the the courage to stand up for and support the corruption, the crimes, the invasions of privacy, the feeding of money to the Wall Streeters, the endless wars, the shredding of the constitution and intrusions of government in to every facet of Americans lives. You should be proud. 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:41 | 4032596 Constitutional ...
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He's probably very young or very paid per word. A good little debt slave.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:45 | 4032611 Everybodys All ...
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Crash the economy. What economy? Do you mean the fake one the Fed is printing for Zero.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:53 | 4032630 Marge N Call
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"I think the teabaggers, who represent about 13% of the US pupulation, should pick one piece of legislation they don't like and crash the entire US economy over it. Get it out of their system. Oh, wait."

Fuck. I don't even know where to start with that utterly clueless comment. "Crash the entire US economy?"? You mean the FED stock bubble with over 10% unemployment Economy, the rest being part-time if they are lucky? The Food Stamp Economy? The Bankster 1% Economy?

Tea Baggers? You mean those advocating fiscal responsibility and smaller government?

What the fuck are you doing on this site? Are you lost? Here's a clue: www.cnn.com.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:36 | 4032852 Jugdish
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No Marge let me provide a clue for this lost piece of shit. - www.assistedsuicide.org

Thanks.

Tue, 10/08/2013 - 07:45 | 4033263 Marge N Call
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LOL, I stand corrected.

Tue, 10/08/2013 - 03:48 | 4033180 Geruda
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Another stupid who is not having knowledges about teabaggers.   

 

 


Referring to the president’s earlier decision to provide small arms and anti-chemical weapons gear to a number of vetted Syrian rebels, Bachmann said:

This happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history.

Scary as that sounds, however, Bachmann urged listeners not to panic. “Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand,” Bachmann said. “When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah.”

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:05 | 4032667 Vooter
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LOL...you can't crash a healthy economy. What does that tell you?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:44 | 4032878 wisehiney
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It is good to see that you agree that those who built it have the right to crash it. It has always been about 13% that made the world a better place for the rest. We appreciate your recognition. Your iambic pentameter is a little off though with the name. It is a lyrical...TEA Partay. You are welcome.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 20:36 | 4032583 UncleFurker
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Classic symptoms of an overexposure to hopium.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:11 | 4032676 coastalwn
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anybody hear the latest from lindsey williams?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:38 | 4032734 silverstud
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The irony is that the very moment the US fell from being a world power to a deadbeat nation will be able to be analysed to the micro-second. That's a first in empire failures.

I just worry about how those pissed off terrorists in the Middle East are going to react after that moment - while analysts present their timelines and theories.

 

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:46 | 4032747 Constitutional ...
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Those 'pissed off terrorists in the Middle East' including Zionists will continue their age old hatreds and killing. Americans have more chance of dying in a car accident than being killed by a 'terrorist'.

The only no fly zone we need is a ban on travel between our land and any land that threatens us, and that includes Israel, the 'friendly' country guilty of most espionage and selling American technology, according to U.S. government sources. Fact.

F orf AIPAC. I prefer the organization 'Jews for Peace', and American organization, not a foreign zionist delusion.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:53 | 4032773 silverstud
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Interesting handle...

When did the Zionist control of the US political system equate to something constitutional?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:18 | 4032823 Trampy
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The irony is that the very moment the US fell from being a world power to a deadbeat nation will be able to be analysed to the micro-second. That's a first in empire failures. I just worry about how those pissed off terrorists in the Middle East are going to react after that moment - while analysts present their timelines and theories.

Why speak in future and present tense of something that's already happened?  And it's "analyzed" here all the time.

Collapse of an empire is a process, not an event.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:44 | 4032748 silverstud
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Lindsey Williams ... elite will collapse FIAT in the next few months...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sdnXqN1_-I

stacking silver ... regardless

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:47 | 4032755 Constitutional ...
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A rat is most vicious when cornered. The controlled demolition of the USA we have seen so far will accelerate into an explosion as the foreign money masters are undone by their derivatives, equal to more than global gdp.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:53 | 4032768 dctim
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Harry Reid on raising the debt ceiling in 2006:

“If my Republican friends believe that increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about it. They should explain why they think more debt is good for the economy.

How can the Republican majority in this Congress explain to their constituents that trillions of dollars in new debt is good for our economy? How can they explain that they think it’s fair to force our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes. That’s what it will have to be. Why is it right to increase our nation’s dependence on foreign creditors?

They should explain this. Maybe they can convince the public they’re right. I doubt it. Because most Americans know that increasing debt is the last thing we should be doing. After all, I repeat, the Baby Boomers are about to retire. Under the circumstances, any credible economist would tell you we should be reducing debt, not increasing it.Democrats won’t be making argument to support this legalization, which will weaken our country.”

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:44 | 4032879 dexter_morgan
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LOL - yeah, but who remembers that.......especially since he is a democrat - media never remembers stupid shit they say

How'd you know he was lying? Yep, his lips were moving

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 21:54 | 4032775 resurger
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 iLie.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:01 | 4032792 franzpick
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barry, and bernancchio:

YOU CAN (S)PRINT BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE.

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:22 | 4032829 NIETSNEREM
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You mean it wasn't all Bush's fault?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 22:32 | 4032845 the grateful un...
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it is so we thought we would keep doing it, make him look bad

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