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Free beer tomorrow.
- sign on the wall of the pub
What happens next? I feel like I should have read the card more closely. Is it too late to get off this flight?
Print, hand-wring, repeat.
Oh.. that is a keeper, HH. :-D
calm as hindu cows
"calm as hindu cows" walking through Bed Stuy or Southside Chicago a couple of weeks after the EBT cards are shut down.
If you are white, working middle class, and middle aged, your rights consist only of paying for everything everyone else wants.
The wealthy want MOAR wealth and power, so pay.
The poor want free food, education, health care, cars, phones, living quarters, children, etc, so pay.
The cops want to fully fund their retirement systems, so pay.
The health care system wants you sick, so the system sells you food that makes you sick, medicines that make you kill, and innumerable ways you can poison your own home and environment, so pay.
The government wants spy centers, endless wars, a military big enough to destroy the planet multiple times over, vote buying (see above), drones to watch your every move, and your inability to resist them on any level, so pay.
What's that you say? You think 40% of your income is too much for government to take? You don't like what your being made to pay for? You don't appreciate what you have? Then we'll have to put you in a cage.
Tea Baggers are a significant part of American citizens who pay into this crony system. As the takers piss on us, the takers will get what they deserve when we stop working.
If you are white, working middle class, and middle aged, your rights consist only of paying for everything everyone else wants.
Apparently the IRS didn't get that memo. Non-white middle class folks get butt fucked by the IRS too.
If you are on a Deamliner, an extra exit door is provided by part of the airplane body falling off in flight.
That "water landing" graphic would go great alongside Tyler Durden's "calm as hindu cows" quote from the movie.
Problem, Reaction, Solution - The Hegelian Dialectic
It will be the same until people stop looking towards mordor on the Potomac to save them. Get your community squared away, and let them waste away.
Mordor on the Potomac
I really like that.
Maybe Banzai will make it into a picture. I'd set it as my desktop background. :-)
Edited to add: Found one: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tydK-gEW1Ds/TbOsaHOIVGI/AAAAAAAANr0/6E6vJrn8Ap4/s1600/mordor-obama.jpg
Another one.
Could be done better, but really a great (and instructive) mental image.
ROFL! That is awesome!
That's a keeper there.
This is fun.
I reckon you could have "Orthanc on Wallstreet," too. Or vice versa.
My nerd is showing.
Edit: OMG, this is a goldmine. Rustic Tea Party Hobbits
Orthanc overlayed on the buildings of wall street would be impressive. Who would be Saruman? Dimon probably?
Edited to add: Presenting Janet Yellen: http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-...
I agree, this should be made into it's own zerohedge post.
Image of:
Obama as Gollum
Excellent.
Fuckin A dude! What are you smoking! I want some!
+1
That is the solution. Starve yourself to kill the tapeworm. People need to give up on their governments and help themselves and their neighbours.
Great plan BUT impossible. You can't get away from these low life parasitic son of bitches! They just figure out ways to keep coming and taking more. They own the system, you are in the system, therefore, they own you!
Only one way out. We all know what it is. No one wants to talk about it or follow through. At some point they will push us until we have no choice. They will wait until there are not enough of us left to make much of a difference.
Natural progression of things. Deterioration and winding down. Pretty sure Newton wrote something on that.
We cannot continue to work on their ground......in their ring.......that they control. Completely losing situation. Can't fight a great white shark in the water. We are NEVER, EVER, EVER going to win in Washington EVER again! Waste of time.
We don't have to win in Washington. That battle was lost in 1913. We have to win in our own homes.
We need to teach our children to abhor debt. Teach them financial sense. How to balance a checkbook. Make them earn their money. Make them make hard choices with that money. Teach them to think for themselves. Teach them to hunt, grow things, and fight. Teach them how to win, and let them know winning is a good thing. Teach them how to lose, and how to recover. Teach them what community means. Teach them about family.
Show them the pictures of people screaming when the EBT cards went dark this weekend. Show them the graphs of how it is easier to sit on your ass than work in this country. Show them your tax return or paystub that shows how much of your income goes to this faulty government. Ask them what they think and make them explain their answers.
And maybe, just maybe, my great-grandkids will actually have a decent life on this rock.
Remember, the Red Shield planned this 200+ years ago. It will take just as long to turn it around.
About five (?) years ago, a movie came out aimed primarily at the Christian demographic titled 'Nazareth', and, indeed, most of it will appeal only to those who are Christians.
There is, however, a scene in that movie that is instructive, interesting, and relevant to the instant discussion where the Roman tax collectors dropped by.
Things haven't changed in 2,000 years, and if you think TPTB are going to leave the peaceful Hobbits living quietly in The Shire (such as you and your children) alone, you should rent Nazareth.
Indeed, if I had limited resources to collect taxes, I would send them to The Shire first, before sending them to Detroit.
That's about the best post I've seen here! In fact I've just been out helping my neighbors zero out their 270s and 50 cal muzzle loaders and 308s and one dude with a 54 cal round ball & cap hex barrel of beast! That time of year for helping your buddies bag enough venison for those wicked cold days ahead!
Fiscal can kicked for 3 months = Tapering can kicked for 3+ months.
So how are the British gilts doing without moar QE from Carney ?
Have not heard a peep about that lately..
Looking at Treasury debt distribution of $12 T public outstanding debt (see TD link http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/charts/principal/principal_debt.htm) they have a lot further to go w/ QE than I anticipated:
Bills - $1.5 T
Notes - $7.8 T
Bonds - $1.4 T
TIPS - $1 T
Fed only owns $2.2 T of the $10+ T Notes/Bonds/TIPS public outstanding...this coupled with net ouflows in 2013 (-$40 Billion Jan-July) of foreigners from Treasury debt (according to TIC data... http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt2d.txt) after huge inflows from '08-'12 ($500-$750 Billion anually...http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/shlhistdat.html)...seems logical Fed's QE coupled w/ lower Treasury issuance is soaking up Treasury's and foreigners need not continue increasing...but did note that higher yields on the 10yr did correspond w/ the downturn in foreign Treasury ownership starting in March...if this trend continues, Janet woud seem obliged to increase QE to avoid the interest rate armageddon 3+% 10yr could wreak on 'Merica.
Somehow I don't think that it's prosperity just around the corner. I think it's the opposite of prosperity.
It all depends on which "class" of our feudal system you reside in.
if the panel said "poverty" instead of prosperity, what would it change?
That cartoon shows up the head up ass situation that the average guy is facing; he is stymied!
Doesn't matter what the panel says; its all BS, at HIS expense.
No shit? I didn't have that figured out. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
moar debt
more gong show
always was the plan
this is all just an act
electric chair on dreamliner battery feed or guillotine on blunt razor from the guys who sell "male perfection"...
Should be long and painful either way.
Amidst this madness you ALWAYS conjure up gales of laughter!
Thanks, I needed that.
The next steps?
Reelect all the same guys, like has been happening for (oh, about) 60+ years now.
The Red Team dumbasses vote Red Team, the Blue Team dumbasses vote Blue Team. The dumbasses fight with each other about which version of Big-Gov is best: intrusive kick-ass daddy crony-capitalism or intrusive smothering-mommy crony-socialism?
Red Team Blue Team fight fight fight.
Forager cultural descendants versus townsfolk cultural descendants.
The Hatfields and the McCoys for 10,000 years.
It is imperative that we understand, first of all, that “Everything the state is capable of doing it does through compulsion and the application of force.” Even apologists for the state cannot deny this fact.
Neither can its apologists deny (at least convincingly) that “every State has been and is a class State, and every theory of the State has been and is a class theory,”i acknowledgement of which can be found as far back as Plato, who, having addressed the settlement of formerly nomadic tribes in The Statesman, depicts – with obvious approval – their conquest and subjugation in The Republic:
[1] Ibid., Mises; see Liberalism in the Classical Tradition, Chapter 1, “The Foundations of Liberal Policy,” Section 13, “The State and Antisocial Conduct,” here: http://www.mises.org/liberal/ch1sec13.asp
[2] See Wikipedia, “Monopoly on violence,” here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_the_legitimate_use_of_physical_force
[3] Franz Oppenheimer, The State, Copley Publishing, 1914, p. 4; online version here: http://www.franz-oppenheimer.de/state0.htm
[4] Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1962, 1966, p. 49.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-nature-and-origin-state
The State IS about violence.
"War is the Health of the State." -Randolph Bourne
And, while "libetarians" don't like to hear it, "property rights" are enforced by the State, and as such, the State is given the ability to kill in order to enforce such rights.
Yes, the state is about violence: specifically, initiated violence, otherwise known as aggression, the fight against which is the heart and soul of libertarianism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
What you obiously don't understand is that "War is the Health of the State" because property is all it wants, beginning with the conquest of land and the subjugation of its inhabitants, perpetuated by the theft of taxation, and ending in the conjuring of pseudo-property — aka paper money — to make up the difference between what can be extracted and what, because of its insatiable appetite, the state demands.
It's all about the "political means" trumping the "economic means," in other words, and the ultimate futility of attempting to do so, at least as the survival of our species is concerned. And until and unless you understand this, you have no idea what you're talking about.
So get a grip . . .
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fti...
. . . and immerse yourself . . .
http://mises.org/etexts/ourenemy.pdf
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mises+human+action+p...
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=rothbard+man+economy...
Dictatorship
No thanks. We already have one.
And the coup was performed during the pervious administration: the POTUS was given the ability to designate just about anything as being a "national security" threat, thereby bypassing Congress.
Anyone thinking that a GOP replacement is going to improve things hasn't been paying attention. Things are progressively getting worse because the exponential function is taking fimer hold.
The U.S. just got its EBT card recharged.
Time to head to WalMart and the liquor store.
Uncle Ben rocks!
Got pulled over by the law on my way home from work this afternoon, for using a mobile behind the wheel.
I politely but firmly told the officer, 'We can all do silly things while drunk'. Fuckers nicked me???
Smile sometimes folks, it aint all bad......
:-)
Hang in there bro
Same as it ever was mars, as you well know, there are far more damn good folk out there than not, you be one of them.
Keep on keeping on my friend, we aint done by a long shot.
Mix out..... :-)
Debt, schmebt...$17T or $34T...does anyone at this late stage of the game think this is fixable. First step would be for Congress to require that the Fed government pass a balanced budget EVERY year within 5 years....then we could start to talk about debt ceilings...no balanced budget, nothing left to do but watch this kubuki theater that even the stock market doesn't fear anymore.
If I'm not mistaken, there are laws on the books saying the federal gov't must balance the budget.
1978, in the Carter Prez era: PL95-435 is one of them.
And apparantly Congress and the Prez have special power that enable them to ingnore the laws of the land.
Chalk one up for "It's hopless"!
If it's not fixable, which I KNOW is the case, then why try to present any fixes?
It's a growth-based system facing zero/negative growth for many, MANY, years, until there's a huge die-off. Because TPTB survive off the growth generated by others, and because TPTB control military forces, there is but one conclusion: TPTB WILL create a big fucking war.
One of the first steps should be to tear down the Statue of Liberty and ship it to the Smithsonian.......
And then we'll have to pay to keep it in storage, ugh!
Sell it! Or, perhaps, we ceremoniously give it to some country that actually demonstrates the ideals that the statue portrays?
But, hey, you got to admit, that thing has more capacity than any other light pole, and, well, it could really add emphasis, no?
Contracts are only as good as the parties to them as far enforcement and abiding by them. Social contracts like guns are not the problem or solution, they are only vehicles and inert without people. That is bottom, start with the fucking people and within if you want change everything radiates out from there.
Amen!