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'Insolvent' US Government Spends $375k To Study Senior-Citizen Dating Habits

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Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

Talk about a difference between fantasy and reality.

It was just a few weeks ago that the International Monetary Fund predicted that Saudi Arabia would likely be bankrupt within the next five years.

Saudi Arabia’s financial position is deteriorating rapidly, and the government is burning through cash like a coked-up rock star.

Just a few months ago, the Saudi king visited the United States. When he touched down in his private jet he had a massive convoy of dozens of luxury vehicles waiting to whisk him away to the Four Seasons, where he had rented out the entire hotel for his stay, bankruptcy be damned.

The Saudis followed this up with plans now to build the world’s tallest skyscraper, which would stand a full kilometer in height.

Seriously, what are these people thinking?

What kind of idiot goes out of his way to blow through cash when he’s rapidly going broke?

Why, the United States of America of course.

Senator Lankford of Oklahoma recently released a scathing report of what he called “Federal Fumbles” and absolutely ridiculous wastes of money.

The report would be hilarious if it weren’t true… and funded with your own tax dollars, including:

  • $374,087 to study senior citizen dating habits;
  • $545,000 to teach members of Congress how to answer questions;
  • $4 million PER rebel to train fighters in Syria.

Of course one of my favorites, which isn’t even in the report, is the federal government’s policy on peanuts and many other agricultural products.

US Federal law requires the government to pay American peanut farmers when the price of peanuts goes below a certain level.

With the peanut market in a serious slump this year, this means that the industry is likely to require some $2 billion in bailout funds.

The sad part about this is that the government is required to buy the crop at a price that dramatically exceeds the market price of peanuts.

In other words, taxpayers are guaranteed to lose money on this deal because the government is happy to overpay.

It reminds me of all the classic stories we heard after the fall of the Soviet Union about government incompetence.

My favorite was about the Soviet boot factory that only made left boots, but no right boots.

It’s hard to find much of a difference these days.

Are these governments so different and special that they can go on spending indefinitely and without consequence?

Like spending $43 million of taxpayer funds to build a gas station in Afghanistan that no one around could use?

Or building a multi-billion dollar skyscraper right after being informed that you’re going bankrupt?

The IMF has singled out Saudi Arabia and hung a giant countdown timer over the nation’s economy.

Given that the IMF is a lapdog of the US government, you’ll never see them do the same in the West. But the circumstances are just as obvious.

US federal debt now stands at nearly $19 trillion, after an astonishing $674 billion debt increase just last month. And there’s yet another shutdown looming just days away.

It’s pretty clear where this is going.

And no, nothing dramatic is going to happen today or tomorrow.

But now is definitely the best time to start building a Plan B.

The most severe consequences could take years to play out, but it’s hard to imagine that you’ll be worse off for taking sensible steps to ensure you’re not a victim of such colossal government stupidity.

 

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Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:11 | 6871254 SILVERGEDDON
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Money well spent compared to historic stupidity, government style.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:15 | 6871274 KnuckleDragger-X
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Mere chump change compared to a lot of crap in the federal budget. Not to worry though, Yellen's got it covered......

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:21 | 6871298 SILVERGEDDON
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Yep, seniors gotta get laid, too. Keeps them happy, and well exercised.

And, congress critters are so fucking retarded that anything done to make them coherent when answering questions is a blessing to tortured ears in Murrica.

And, it is tough to train good terrorists these days with so many false flag events going on.

We got a serious terror drain sitchyation going on here.

It takes big money to develop goatherds and camel jockeys into media terror whores.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:26 | 6871332 coinhead
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Go to hell you "senior netizens" and buh Bitcoin!!

https://localbitcoins.com

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:54 | 6871500 knukles
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Gubbamint spends money like old people kiss .... Just terrible!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:12 | 6871615 pods
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"For this study, participants were given 3 Viagra, a CD of the Best of Frank Sinatra, and a 12 oz bottle of Astroglide."

Yummy.

pods

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:54 | 6871499 SILVERGEDDON
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Coinhead, you got it all wrong.

Real Coinhead Captagon Cheeto diaper body armor response should be.............

" Goat teh eeevill debble whurshup hole in bads fyre playce u auld ang zyner wrinkle peepuls, an buh teh Shitcoin !! "

Fucking kids these days, you gotta teach them everything.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:05 | 6871575 KnuckleDragger-X
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That's beautiful......

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:31 | 6871361 JRobby
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Going out for some big bags of peanuts......

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:26 | 6871337 GhostOfDiogenes
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Yup.
Farmers who are in the free shit army are exempt from ridicule by the right wingers on ZH.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:39 | 6871781 Noplebian
Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:13 | 6871261 Itchy and Scratchy
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I'd say mostly the Palm Sisters!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:20 | 6871294 boattrash
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I would say the study is redundant. Being the Govt is already fucking seniors, they should already know the answer.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:14 | 6871265 kerfuffled
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Better that than another phony war. THe amount of money is also negligible.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:18 | 6871282 Itchy and Scratchy
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Until ya' gotta pay it back!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:14 | 6871268 eatthebanksters
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Flowers , beer, viagra and a bag...that's all you need to get laid an enjoy it as a senior cititzen...I speak from experience!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:25 | 6871328 GhostOfDiogenes
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Yup. The boomers would be having an orgy ok the titanic if they had been there.

Disgusting.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-and-sex-in-the-digital-age/201...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:07 | 6871579 11b40
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Disgusting?

So, you think sex is dirty?  Or is it just sex between seniors?  Are you one of these infantile creatures who just can't imagine Mom & Dad going down on each other?  How do you think you got here?

Grow up.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:14 | 6871627 GhostOfDiogenes
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I think sex between seniors disgusts me.

No one is buying senior citizen porn.

And these people carry diseases.

Thats why when I'm tappin that SS ass, I wrap it up.

These dry bitches need a tub of lube as well, but I factor it into my expenses at the end of the night.

Not everyone can be a SS gigolo.
But these bitches need some of the young D in their lives.

Cause viagra aint cuttin' it.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:14 | 6873119 11b40
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Well you disgust me, and most of the others here, thankfully.

Truth be known, you probably rarely get laid.  Gigilo in your wet dreams.  What a joke you are.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:16 | 6871276 economessed
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Who cares what this stuff costs and where it goes when you can print all the money you want?  BTW, I expect Mr. Yellen will print up whatever the Treasury needs to cover my tax bill from now on.  I have more important things to spend money on, like the skyrocketing cost of your health care system, food, and heat.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:19 | 6871287 FrankieGoesToHo...
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$545,000 to teach members of Congress how to answer questions

 

Heck, I'd pay 10X this amount if it could get at least one politician to answer a question truthfully.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:34 | 6871377 GhostOfDiogenes
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Why?

What a waste if money.

Our politicians will never tell the truth.

Are you stupid?

Or just a retard.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:38 | 6871396 FrankieGoesToHo...
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Well then I don't have to spend 10X then do I?  Can't follow a logical argument due to being stupid or being a retard?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:40 | 6871412 GhostOfDiogenes
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You have 10x times to spend?

Or are you saying the tax payers should pay for your more stupid idea?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:15 | 6871635 boattrash
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Frankie, smells like you stepped in something. Ya may need to go wash that GhostOfDogshit off your shoe...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:21 | 6871296 Thisisbullishright
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Is this a surprise to anyone?!

I'm sure BILLIONS are blown every single day on total bullshit!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:22 | 6871303 TheBeatles
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All 1oz Silver coins are €12 @ EurGold

https://www.eurgold.eu/silver/silver-coins/

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:30 | 6871357 A is A
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I hope the only person upvoting this guy is himself. Is it not obvious at this point he is spamming this shit out the comment section? Where are the moderators to boot this guy off???

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:08 | 6871590 11b40
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They are over in the corner masturbating with the guy who keeps posting links to his favorite porn site.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:22 | 6871305 Duc888
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Can you ever really be "insolvent" if you never ever have to pay back any of your debt?

 

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:22 | 6871308 besnook
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funny story. we visited my wife's grandma at the senior citizen florida mobile home park complete with an executive golf course, years ago. grandma was in the line dancing network so the weekly routine was to go to where the line dancing was. the usual venues were fund raising dinners hosted by the local charity clubs like the elks and whatnot. the music was live. it was a great time watching a virtual blast from the past and talking to all the people.

the show ended at 10pm. at 930, the single women, the youngest one being 70 and the oldest well into her 80s, started positioning themselves around the single men. some of the guys hads a half dozen horny old, sagging, wrinkly women begging him to take them home. it happened every night. there's hope in the end as long as you make it into the red zone. lol

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:31 | 6871360 economessed
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And another funny story comes up when you talk to health care professionals who work with people in these retirement communities.  Biggest chuckle among the RN's?   Venerial disease -- it's rampant. 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:37 | 6871391 besnook
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well, they are not quite virgins but if i am still alive and happen to be single i might try to preempt any allah ideas and try for 72 of them for the love of god and the path he provided.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:51 | 6871492 dhengineer
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I am a cook at a big nursing and assisted living facility in upstate New York.  I am 60, and you wouldn't believe the looks I get from the 75-ish women in the assisted living place.  One of them "threatened" me with a spanking (not sure she was kidding), and another one wanted me to join her for a drink at their "happy hour".  And the two known gay guys always smile at me and strike up conversations... Creepy, but I always can escape to the relative safety of the kitchen behind locked doors...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:23 | 6871318 Glass Seagull
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And all they found out was that Pelosi prefers men "not yet in diapers."

 

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:24 | 6871323 Bill of Rights
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Question 1: Do you swallow?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:26 | 6871333 herkomilchen
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Hey, to create a government that would take away $2B of every person's earnings to give to peanut farmers and study senior dating habits was exactly why colonists fought and died in the revolutionary war.  I'm sure they are looking down from the heavens now with a warm feeling.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:38 | 6871397 GhostOfDiogenes
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I bet they are proud of what they sacrificed for this mob of free shit army psychopaths.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:26 | 6871334 CHoward
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Government bureaucrats don't give a fuck about anything but themselves - ignorant bastards, every damn one of them.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:29 | 6871346 Hans-Zandvliet
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"$545,000 to teach members of Congress how to answer questions;"

I think they should spend ten times as much on this, if they would only add one word at the end: "honestly".

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:32 | 6871366 Bear
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I wonder if that ever came up in the 'training'

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:38 | 6872218 wanderer9641
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Being honest does not require training - lying and making others believe in you does - 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:38 | 6871348 Insurrexion
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Give me a fucking break, Simon.

Try to imagine a useless, retarded fool with supernatural money creation powers...okay...are you with me?

Now try to imagine old people who fuck while worried about Viagra, Hairpieces, fake boobs, false teeth, skin cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, heart disease, bad eye-sight, varicose veins, dry pussy syndrome, their new found religion and Medicare?

Its just fucking, on both accounts.

Speaking of fucking, go fuck an Alpaca on your Chilean ranch and come back and tell us how it was. That might get us past the usual "So Fucking What" response to your intellectually vacant dribble.

Simply stating, "Fuck the U.S. Federal Government." would have been better.

Love, kisses, cursing and beatings,

Madame Insurrexion

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:43 | 6871432 GhostOfDiogenes
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You are a batshit stupid insane cunt.

If it were up to me, I would sell you to arabs and naggers to rape you to death.

Because #GoatLivesMatter.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:35 | 6871378 hannah
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the government didnt 'spend' any money 'studying' anything. the wife or child of a politician channels funds to the school. this is just a defacto stealing of tax payer money. this is just paying for relatives paychecks. no one studies anything...that is why we dont have any real science today.....

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:35 | 6871381 Bear
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Senior Date Rape .... by FED a better study

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:42 | 6871426 madcows
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375K!  Is that all?

Shit.  what is that, like a few toilet seats and a hammer supplied by a government contractor?

Come back with something real, like a few trillion on a bank bailout.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:44 | 6871428 Kprime
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$545,000 to teach members of Congress how to answer questions.

Sooo, all those Harvard Graduated Attorneys don't know how to answer questions?  If you are not worth more than $545,000 don't try to answer my question.  Your answer will not be government approved and you will be appropriately taxed, then prosecuted for attempting to answer questions without the appropriate government issued permits and licenses.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:44 | 6871442 CHoward
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There is a seniors retirement community in Florida some place.  My brother and his wife were looking to buy there until they found out that this community had one of the highest STD rates in the entire U.S. 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:22 | 6871641 Hongcha
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That is disgusting.  I will not hit anything anywhere near my age.  It isn't natural.  You get to a certain age, you put it away.  I'm speaking especially to women.

This idea of 'active senior sex', like the concept of monogamy for men, is an Judeo-Xtian, feminist invention.  That's what they sell Amerikans Viagra for, to get it up for the 60 y/o grey mare.  You need it for an attractive 25 y/o, otoh, it's time for you to hang it up.  Really not that complicated.

The West is hopeless, going down.  Those asians still retaining common sense are shaking their heads in bewilderment.

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:23 | 6871676 GhostOfDiogenes
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You mean the villages?

http://www.thevillages.com

My golfing buddy has parents who live there. He said the place was scandalous.

All night parties, sex in the streets, nudity and fornication....modern sodom and gommorah. Drugs everywhere.

But shit man. They have like 18 golf courses. 18. And its closed to non members.

I was thinking about hitting up the widows bars. My buddy tells me I would be a pussy slayer...

A dream come true.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:34 | 6871752 Clesthenes
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You mean there are actually men out there who seek jabbering chimpanzees so they can buy them $60,000 cars... fine clothes... vacations...?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:53 | 6871914 GhostOfDiogenes
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Nope. Its a retirement community and the women outnumber the men.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:49 | 6872268 Hongcha
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Diogenes, I have read a number of such reports.  This is the crowning glory of the last generation of Amerikans destined to retire with any sort of comfort ... to waste your last years indulging, on your granchildren's nickel.  Their names will be borne with a curse on the lips of future generations inheriting the mess.  Complete spiritual atrophy, traceless.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:44 | 6871443 MasterControl
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"What kind of idiot goes out of his way to blow through cash when he’s rapidly going broke? Why, the United States of America of course."

Naahh.  Just progressives who want to destroy the republic. 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:47 | 6871453 Kprime
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If your half million dollar hard on lasts longer than 4 hours call the office of the nearest available government dickwad.  You will be measured and taxed accordingly.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:48 | 6871465 NoWayJose
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It's OK - they are only wasting fiat - not gold.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 13:49 | 6871470 atthelake
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Most, here at ZH, know the purpose is to destroy America, Americans and the dollar. Why are you surprised?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:26 | 6871704 Clesthenes
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“$375k to study Senior-Citizen Dating Habits”

Of course, the plundering never stops.

I recently did a study of the three major retirement systems in the US: that is, a) Social Security (for privately-employed); b) state and c) federal pensions. Using an Excel spreadsheet, I gave each category identical earnings histories, and then computed the monthly retirement “benefit” (actually, the return of invested money; at least in the case of the privately-employed).

Result?

The Social Security sucker got $1500 / month.

State bureaucrat, $6300 / month.

Federal, $4,200 -$5,200 / month.

Again, each had identical earnings histories.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:35 | 6871760 InnVestuhrr
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This web site has a continuous flow of entertaining pseudo-factual ideologically-motivated postings, and this one is a good example.

Insolvency is the inability to pay debts, either in terms of making debt payments when due and/or assets to cover liabilities in terms of balance sheet.

USA regime has zero problems making debt payments as they come due, and USA regime legally owns ALL of the incomes AND assets within its jurisdiction, so even in terms of balance sheet the USA regime has enough assets to pay its large and growing liabilities (by simply taking more of what all of you own).

The inevitable consequence of the USA regime's expanding debt is the impoverishment of the motivated, high-achieving most productive individuals under its control, NOT the insolvency of the USA regime, ie NO crashes of the USD, NO defaults on US Treasuries, etc. The USA regime will prosper, but the USA residents will be impoverished.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:39 | 6871788 Noplebian
Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:49 | 6871890 FreeNewEnergy
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Hey, I turn 62 tomorrow and I can offer the government much more than they'll get for their money studying senior citizen's dating habits.

It's pretty simple, for guys, anyhow. Once you get to around 55, chicks your age aren't exactly shagging material and younger gals in their 20s, 30s, even 40s, generally think you're too old. So, there aren't many dating choices unliess you're into the blue pill and can't keep it in your pants.

Most single guys my age won't admit it, but getting pussy is relatively easy, though most of what's available isn't very good, so you have the internet and hopefully, a good stash of porn, or, even a "collection" of Playboy (that's my gig, buy and sell them all the time). That's all I'm saying. Clue to government douchebags: It's just like dating when you're younger, except that you're older. Use your imagination.

And the peanut subsidies are criminal. I love peanuts, and they should be cheaper, you fuckers.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:52 | 6871913 FreeNewEnergy
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Just want to mention, government studies, which are undertaken all the time on any variety of subjects by governments from local ones all the way to federal, should be outlawed.

We pay these people to know what the fuck they're doing, then they go out and hire other people, with our money, to figure out things they don't know about.

There are few solutions to the problems government presents us today. Most of them involve cheating on reported income, not paying at all, or guns.

Personally, I'm for all three. Bring it, assholes.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 14:56 | 6871933 orangegeek
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old people fucking  -  like threading a needle while wearing boxing gloves

 

big fat fucking gummamint doing mentally retarded shit

 

what else is new

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:00 | 6871956 Zero-Hegemon
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Senior dating habits? Courtesy of your friendly pharmaceutical lobby, my guess, to know who to micro-target their viagra ads to.

Somebody is making hay on this.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:05 | 6871998 10mm
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One word, GILF. And their are some out there that still old their own.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:37 | 6872524 Caleb Abell
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GILFs are hot, but hard as it may be to believe, there is something even better: Girls with a glass eye.  Once you have been winked off, you'll never settle for granny again.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:24 | 6872119 cougar_w
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The US government spends about $10B per month pretending to fight ISIS.

Pretending.

J U S T   P R E T E N D I N G

And I'm supposed to flip my wig about $375k? Spent once? Why the fuck?

This is some nickle+dime bullshit story is what it is. Get another hobby. Nobody should care about this shit when corporatists can order carpet bombing of blank hillsides in Syria pretending to fight radical Islam after which and as a direct result I end up having to deal with angry Muslims killing by the scores and hundreds my neighbors in my fucking local fucking down-fucking-town you uselsss bunch of inbred stupid penny pinching fucks.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:25 | 6872140 lordkoos
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Really, this warrants a ZH headline?  It's peanuts.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:00 | 6872992 Radical Marijuana
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AFTER the MAD Money As Debt systems have been established, so that governments ENFORCE FRAUDS by privately controlled banks, personal success is achieved by taking as much advantage as possible from those systems which make that public "money" supply out of nothing as debts. That degree of personal successfulness then goes through vicious spiral feedback loops of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING MOAR FRAUDS!

Everything that the government does is "paid" for with "money" made out of nothing as debts. Everyone who proportionately benefits from participating inside of that runaway MADNESS then is even MOAR able to fund the political processes, in order that the government will become even MOAR corrupt & crazy. In that context, the article above was another typically superficial analysis, perceiving that the government of the USA appears to be manifesting

 "such colossal government stupidity."

Those who persist in presuming to apply Hanlon's Razor to political problems think that because the banksters' political puppets, and enough of the masses of muppets that vote for them, ARE behaving like incompetent political idiots, therefore, there IS "such colossal government stupidity." 

On the contrary, what actually exists is the degree to which the public government of the USA is controlled by a Deep State Shadow Government, which has become dominated by the most psychotic psychopaths, because everything was based upon the (mostly covert) history of the death control systems, with the human murder systems as the most extreme forms of those, as the central core of the ways that the principles and methods of organized crime were applied through the political processes, in order to make and maintain the MAD Money As Debt systems, whereby the public "money" supplies are based upon governments ENFORCING FRAUDS by privately controlled banks, which AGAIN AND AGAIN, enable the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING to spin through and through everything that the government does, so that the excessive successfulness of controlling civilization through applying the methods of organized crime has resulted in civilization becoming runaway criminal insanities.

Everything that everybody does, including governments, operates through fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems. Those who benefit the most for those systems are then most able to continue to dominate the funding of the political processes, in ways which make it be politically impossible to get out of those vicious spirals, which are automatically getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate. Not only is the social polarization increasing, driven by governments ENFORCING FRAUDS, which are symbolic robberies, but also, more importantly, that "money" made out of nothing as debts has been "paying" to strip-mine the planet's natural resources.

Talk about a difference between fantasy and reality.

Not only DOES civilization operate according to the principles and methods of organized crime, but it must NECESSARILY do so! Meanwhile, by and large, the typical content on Zero Hedge tends to underestimate the degree to which THAT is so, and even more understates the degree to which any realistic resolutions to the real problems would have to admit and address the degree to which THAT is so ...

Civilization controlled by ENFORCING FRAUDS develops in ways which, as much as possible, deliberately ignore the principle of the conservation of energy, and deliberately misunderstand the concept of entropy in the most absurdly backward ways!

Hence, increasing "difference between fantasy and reality."

I appreciate why most people like to continue to operate within their frame of reference of superficial analysis of political problems, followed by proposing superficial sets of solutions to those problems. To do deeper analysis demonstrates that not only are governments the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by best organized gangs of criminals, but also that they must be. To proceed from that to deeper sets of possibly adequate, realistic resolutions to the real problems results in recognizing that the primary obstacle in the way is HOW TO OPERATE THE HUMAN MURDER SYSTEMS AFTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ???

MONEY AS MEASUREMENT,

BACKED UP WITH MURDER,

BECAME ELECTRONIC FRAUDS,

BACKED UP BY ATOMIC BOMBS.

Realistic resolutions to those real problems
would require admitting and addressing that
THOSE ARE THE EXISTING REAL PROBLEMS.

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 07:25 | 6874736 kappal_toba_dhu...
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No  wonder USA is one big fuck hole.

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