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Guest Post: An Example Of Why This Country Is Headed In The Wrong Direction
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
An Example Of Why This Country Is Headed In The Wrong Direction
This past Friday, Barack Obama was at a Minneapolis-area Honeywell plant touting his economic recovery credentials to cheering disciples. One of the excited faithful was a young boy, fifth-grader Tyler Sullivan, who took the day off from school to hear the President speak.
The President was full of the usual bombast about how Congress needs to work with him to ‘build a strong economy’, and how he wants to get $3,000 to everyone in the American middle class so that people can go out and buy ‘thingamajigs’.
Naturally, the crowd cheered. It was the typical sort of gross misunderstanding of economic prosperity that you see from politicians… and most people at this point.
People these days think it’s a great idea when the government sprinkles money around the middle class, and love the idea of politicians ‘coming together’ to build a better economy.
In reality, when people hear talk about politicians ‘building an economy’ they should run away like a scalded dog.
Throughout history, a lot of other politicians have also tried building an economy– it’s called central planning, and it just doesn’t work.
From Diocletian’s failed ‘Edict on Prices’ in 301 AD in which the Roman emperor tried to fix wages and prices, to Stalin’s Soviet Union, to Mao’s China, to Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, the verdict is obvious: economic growth is better left to the private sector, not government.
The other important mischaracterization was this idea of the economy getting better from people spending money, in this case, the government sending everyone $3,000 to buy stuff.
Most people seem to think this is a good idea, even the ones who consider themselves to be educated about economics (having been brainwashed with deeply flawed Keynesian fluff).
The truth is that a nation is like an individual… and individuals do not become wealthy by going into debt and consuming. They become wealthy by saving and producing.
Yet there was the country’s exalted leader energizing the crowd with talk of sending them free money to spend. And as I mentioned, one of them was fifth-grader Tyler Sullivan.
The President’s even shook Tyler’s hand, commenting that he would offer to write an excuse note to pardon the boy from skipping school: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/04/154271715/fifth-grader-skips-school-to-see-president-obama
On the exact opposite end of this spectrum is the case of 17-year old Diane Tran, a Houston area high school student who has had to take on two jobs in order to support herself and her siblings after her deadbeat parents divorced and skipped town.
Tran reportedly misses a few days of school per month so that she could hold down her jobs, yet somehow still found time to complete her schoolwork and make the honor roll.
She was arrested by local officials for truancy and hauled in front of the ‘Honorable’ Lanny Moriarty who threw the girl in jail so that he could show everyone that he’s ‘tough on truancy.’: http://www.khou.com/home/Honor-Student-Jailed-for-Absences-153847275.html
Tran has aspirations to become a physician someday, and she is despondent now that her new arrest record may tarnish her chances of being accepted to medical school.
For the sake of brevity, I’ll skip commenting on how worthless the government-managed education system has become, and simply point out the obvious dichotomy:
- Boy skips school to cheer the President as he extols debt and consumption: OK
- Girl skips school to work, save, and support her family: NOT OK
These examples are the most obvious signs yet that, like the tax and regulatory frameworks, those who mindlessly support the political process of debt and consumption are rewarded, while those who produce and save are punished.
Such is life now in the Land of the Free. Have you hit your breaking point yet?
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Possibly the best post on ZH ever.
Obama excuses a boy from school - feel good news story.
Obama excuses millions of Americans from work during the past 3.5 years - unnoticed.
Obama so loves the poor that he creates millions more.
+1...Dumbledore's Army... :)
It should be easier to get rid of shithead judges; or at least sue them for idiotic rulings. I know it's just fantasy. I sued a lawyer 15 years ago and had to go to another county to get a lawyer to sue the dirtbag. I was awarded $13K and never saw a penny. Legal system is fucked up. Some sort of throwback to medieval europe- lords and peasants.
If lawyers and politicians served the Constitution, then the girl who works hard for her family and education would not be forlorn. She is abandoned by the pretty pets of politics, and it is silly for anyone to foist that guilt trip on communities who would assist her, but such communities are reviled by the politicos and their writers.
Is this humor? Context was 3K saved by way of REFI of home mortgage. Frankly I thought seeing our POTUS selling the refi's was nauseating enough without any additional embellishment. What a useless POS Bo turned out to be.
Turns out OBAMA prevented TARP from being used for write downs as originally intended according to Barney Frank.
Just follow the trail of skittles. The administration trap door will be exposed. And yes, I saw this skit performed live back in the day.
Penn & Teller Trap Door: See How It's Done
You know things are wack when you buy an American flag and its made in China - jus' sayin'
Describe "breaking point" and I will let you know..
I hope they do this. Trickle down does not work.
Trickle up bitchez!
trickle up poverty.
:roll:
Ready to secede yet?
Correct me if I'm wrong but if the poor peoples don't get no $3000 then that's racist.
Let’s see if he brings Peggy Joseph or Joe the Plumber out of his toy chest of voter deceit… LOL
Obama TV Ad in Berlin(Parody)
new england you somehow failed to come out of your great woods family background long enough to realize I was only suggesting we could support a girl with the backbone to go out and work to support her family like mine and probably yours has. My great woods experience began in Alberta Canada which probably has greater woods then your beloved new england. WE became US citizens and I am second generation and working allows me to give whenever and to whomever I wish. My dad ditto the one room school house although they walked to school and didn't need a horse and buggy ride. Temps well below zero most winters. Have a nice evening.
deerhunter.
Good. Then you and yours need not beg for others to assist you or your personal chosen ones in politics. Your patronising way undermines your cause, canadian.
Quebecois, perhaps?
Choomamajigs Bitchez!
Positively a well written article. Emailed this editorial to family, friends and non-friends alike. I just had to add President Nixon's 1973 gasoline price control (Executive Order) which ended in long lines at the pump as yet another example of politicians helping the people.
It appears that both political parties suffer flaws in their misguided efforts to do good. I continue to argue for term limits AND a constitutional ammendment for a balanced budget and the Fair Tax. Without all three, I believe, the politicians will continue helping we-the-people till it hurts more than it currently does.
I fear a constitutional amendment to create a balanced budget will only lead to not only a balanced budget but more importantly - mandatory tax increases.
This type of spending and pandering cannot be controlled by laws. It is controlled by morality - not a morality of laws controlling dictating that morality - but rather one of ALL the people that understand that we are not helping people by providing generations of their families with subsistance living. We can only make conditions right for a free and flowing market.
One control would be to eliminate lobbying and another would be political contributions by corporations. I understand the argument of the corporation has business interests but the inherent flaw is that a corporation is not guided by anything but the idea of making a profit (I guess in the world of theory). If the individuals in a corporation wish to get together to contribute their individual money to the candidate of their choice, so be it and their freedoms are not abridged.
People here need to get back to the work of the good - be honest, be forthright. In this day and age, these concepts are foreign and unknown. Until ALL people move for good greater than themselves - we will have what we have. This means we need to move to an idea that our senators and house reps aren't there to get us money. They are there to represent us on issues that affect the three things the government is supposed to ensure, our freedom, our security from enemies and infrastructure.
I salute all the dropouts and truants of America. And all those parents who make the wise choice to homeschool their kids or take them as far away from the public schools as possible.
Public schools are corrupt and rotten, let them die.
Did you know that, when I was in middle school, we were forced to attend pep rallies? Forced to attend! They would sacrifice a day of classroom learning and herd us like sheep into the gym, so that the fragile self esteem of the cheerleaders and football players could be maintained.
I have not, to this day, forgotten that, and I never will. Fuck the public schools.
I hate sports and always have but I loved pep rallies. You know why.
Public schools were uncovered for what they were in the great Ang Lee movie - a movie now considered to be a mistake by Ang Lee -- Ride With The Devil, about the KS/MO border wars - a must watch for everyone...the great Zach Grenier (of Fight Club fame) plays Mr. Evans and he has a discussion with Jack Bull Chiles - Skeet Ulrich of Jericho fame - another must see - as for its uncovering of government/corporate control..and what they would do or should I say have done?
Mr. Evans: You ever been to Lawrence KS young man?
Jack Bull Chiles: [scoffs] No, I reckon not Mr. Evans. I don't believe I'd be too welcome in Lawrence.
Mr. Evans: I didn't think so. Before this war began, my business took me there often. As I saw those northerners build that town, I witnessed the seeds of our destruction being sown.
Jack Bull Chiles: The foundin' of that town was truly the beginnin' of the Yankee invasion.
Mr. Evans: I'm not speakin' of numbers, nor even abolitionist trouble makin'. It was the schoolhouse. Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse. And they let in every tailor's son... and every farmer's daughter in that country.
Jack Bull Chiles: Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. Or a gun either.
Mr. Evans: No, it won't Mr. Chiles. But my point is merely that they rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse because they fancied that everyone should think and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do with no regard to station, custom, propriety. And that is why they will win. Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them. And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another how they live. We just worry about ourselves.
Jack Bull Chiles: Are you sayin', sir, that we fight for nothin'?
Mr. Evans: Far from it, Mr. Chiles. You fight for everything that we ever had, as did my son. It's just that... we don't have it anymore.
Red Herring blog posting: they've been doing central planning --- w/Wall Street in charge --- for many, many decades in this country.
When oh when will you finally catch a clue, dude?
Foreign tax credits for the oil companies, owned by the banksters, granted by the National Security Council, many, many years ago.
Only back then they cited the commies, instead of the Islamo-fascist-terrorists......
The biggest problem? The part of the population who LOVES OR DENY ALL THE CRAP THE GOVERNMENT IS PULLING... from the TSA, to the wars, to the voting fraud, to the false-flags, to the propaganda, to EVERYTHING.
These people are the problem... they need to be either sent 6 feet under, deported, educated or ignored or a mix of all that.
We can't let these people run the country like they have been in the last decade + or else we'll end up like the Soviet Union but with technological oppression... if it's not already too late.
Take a quick look at this, and listen to the justification these two teenage girls give for stealing money from a girl scout..
This is the generation that we have developed... This is our future...
"Is it wrong to say these girls don’t deserve a trial?"
"Way I see it, only human beings get put on trail — they don’t qualify." http://thechive.com/2012/06/01/is-it-wrong-to-say-these-girls-dont-deserve-a-trial-video/samsara,
I take it from your comment that some thieves justified stealing from a girl scout who was brought up to be helpful, and kind, whereas the thieves were raised to think that they are 'victims' of society, and cowardly apparatchiks in well paid bureaucracy and politics do nothing to offend the bleaters, moaners and daytime TV crowd.
There is one problem in the U.S.A. today: bureaucracy and cowardice.
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I think everyone on ZH should take their 3k fake money and use it to buy silver on the same day. Use their paper shit to help kill the beast.
$3K? As pointed out in earlier commentary, only a few years ago Bush provided $600. Is this a trend? Maybe Sheila Blair will be right...eventually.
Or, President Obama should skip the slow increase of chump change approach and take Sheila Blair's advice to give everyone $10MM now.
Then, it'll come down to who gets it and spends it first.
Would make for an interesting reality show: "The Race to Worthlessness."
Such a show could compress the currency collapse into 13 weeks.
what do you expect when bankers steal billions (mfg, aig, etc) and no-one is punished. our country is effed by our wonderful leaders.
Instead of 3000 $,may i get 2 gold american eagles,please?At least,i will support american factory,not jewish cartel...
Meh. Take the money and spend it on gold or silver. By the way, most Jewish people are not in the globalist central bank cartel and politico inner circle.
Just saying...
We know just the jewish criminals but when you reference Organized crime we don't want sheeple to think of them as criminal italians. There are criminals in every Nationality, mexican drug lords,russian mob, White and Black POTUS.
"The other important mischaracterization was this idea of the economy getting better from people spending money, in this case, the government sending everyone $3,000 to buy stuff."
Fine by me! This ship is going down no matter how much we scream and they've been handing out tons of caviar to the banks for four years all charged on the national credit card. Let us have a small spending spree from that card before we sink. There aren't any lifeboats reserved for the 99%.
Winston,
The clock strikes 13. Meet you under the old oak tree :-(
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Do yourself and everyone else a favour: shoot yourself, comrade.
Hi to comrade Wen. Red or dead, hey?
OT; Because of his popularity on this site:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/eduard-khil-mr-trolo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rE93R3bkCw
The judge deserves more scrutiny. We see similar nonsensical decisions being handed out in Canada, by judges who appear to lack basic sense. It's as though something has impaired their facility for grasping the big picture in any situation. What brain-dead fool locks that girl up instead of seeing that she needs help and doing something to help her? Maybe he suffers from some kind of mental illness, the way a sociopath lacks empathy. I for one would like to see this matter investigated in cases like this one. Seriously, one sense something pathological.
You could say the same for the zombies behind Obama in that video. Is there no-one among them who can discern the most basic logic of deficit spending, or do they suffer from some kind of collective psychosis? I really believe there is something to this, like the lack of rationality among believers in Agenda 21. Nobody in their right mind allows themselves to be so exploited.
Rgds
I worked for 2 painful years as a network technician for a judicial district in upstate NY. The only benefit was they gave 4 wks vacation right off the top ,plus flex time. My boss, who 10 yrs ago made 85k never worked a full month EVER the whole two fuckin years. During that stint i realized why we pay so much in Taxes and also to never trust our judicial system. I never worked with the most liars, back stabbers and generally lazy fucks as the people who work for nys courts.
That includes Judges on fucking down. Whatever it took to get what they wanted they got. One thing that opened my eyes was that the surrogate judge retired and they had an election and another pompous ass robe dresser got the job. He went from a city judge to surrogate judge (more $$$).
Now Judges chambers are quite nice a huge office and a private bath and depending on your so-called judges job the size of the office and furnishings differ in size and cost.
Back to our new surrogate Judge. he leaves one chamber to move to a bigger penthouse and discovers he just can not live with the previous judges furnishings. Well needless to say from carpet on up everything got replaced. So now I'm thinking WTF if every Fucking Judge wants to he can refurbish his chambers on the taxpayer!
We have socialism and its MAIN beneficaires are government, corporations and banks. Then the poor anybody telling you different has never worked for government.
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Thank you for the above post as it is a most excellent depiction of tyranny-majig.
Two years ago I got stopped by a police officer for turning right on red. It took me more than 15 seconds to produce my registration so he cited me for failure to produce registration. I have a 35 year perfect driving record, so I went to court to see what would play out. I got 14 hours of community service and a year of traffic probation. I have never been arrested and I have hired literally hundreds of people and created countless jobs and spent thousands on lawyers over the year. This time I "handled" it myself.
It gets worse. After spending 14 hours at the humane society cleaning up, my supervisor (who was a hardened criminal) told his boss that I didn't do any work and that he (the criminal supervisor) had been the one that actually did the work that I did. I actually worked quite hard. Since it was a Saturday and there was no one there to dispute the criminal supervisor, I nearly got dragged back into court. However, since the real supervisor was off on Saturdays, they said my temporary (criminal) supervisor's word wouldn't be sufficient to get my community service efforts canceled.
In the process of all this, I had to have a FBI background check before I could work at the dog pound. I had to be assigned a case worker/social worker to oversee my community service. I figure the entire thing, including court involvement cost the state about $3,000, not to mention the lost donations that I used to make (but no longer make) to the local humane society.
Not being someone who spends much time around the courthouse, I had no idea how much the thing had deteriorated into a tyrannical mess. I'll never forget when the police officer said "You ought to be thankful I am only giving you a ticket for failure to show registration. That's not a moving violation whereas your right-hand turn was a moving violation." When I told him I had the registration now and I wasn't thankful, he said, "Sign the ticket, or I will take you to jail."
Not to profile the situation (but I will) it was 10:00 a.m. on a weekday. I was driving a new BMW. Wearing a coat and tie and I was downtown in my hometown of 10,000 people that hasn't had but one crime in the past three years and did I say I have a perfect driving record. I'm not saying that the profile should matter. I'm just saying what the profile was. How dumb was I to show up at court and represent myself? Dumb enough to end up at the dog pound picking up trash, but smart enough to learn that the gig is up. Alexis deTocqueville was right. The entire thing has devolved into some sort of business racket based entirely on government.
What good came out of it? It bugged me so much that I started blogging on a whim. 100,000+ readers per month later, I think I hit a nerve with some other folks.
Dave
tradewithdave.com
Hi Dave,
Very sorry to hear that they put you through the ringer. Disillusionment comes to us all, as the great Terrence Mckenna said...your shit storm is a coming...
Why that asshole pig couldn't take 5 seconds to look up your record and give you a f'n break is beyond me. Guy probably gets flogged by his 400 pound pig for a wife if he doesnt chew with his mouth closed. Hit em where it hurts, with your wallet.
I stopped calling the NYS police Police as all they ever do is hand out tickets. Revenue Enhancement Officers of the highest caliber. We pay these patrol PIGS 80k+ a year to fleece the population. The best part is the fine even if you happened to land a judge that still actually judges and he dismisses your extortion payment. YOU still have to pay a fucking service fee ! I think it is around $75 to $125 (i try to live like a good fascist and not get caught) WTF you jump through all their hoops and are finally cleared of charges but pay us anyway cause we have to keep this revenue stream going one way or another.
It took me more than 15 seconds to produce my registration so he cited me for failure to produce registration.
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After living for so long in a US citizen country, you only learned at that moment that no immediate compliance with an order from a US citizen police officer is associated with resisting due US citizen police work?
Djeee, consider yourself lucky he did not shoot you because he could have understood your latency as yours searching for a gun.
Everybody take the $3K and buy one of these:
http://www.barrett.net/
G'day - NSA....
People are pretty amazing. The above fund for Diane Tran is already closed -- because it had already reached it's goal of $100,000. Took about 48 hours. And all that little poor little kid got was a note from Obama which will always be worthless.
You can still go to the above site just to send Diane Tran a message of encouragement, or donate to the larger fund that backed her, and helps others like her. Charges have been dropped against Diane Tran. The evil Judge Moriarty is being burned at the stake for leading a coven.
"...And so shines a good deed." -- Willy Wonka
Regarding the Statist Redistributionists: They are delusional Cargo Culters that think if they just redistribute the money, they will magically redistribute middle class status upon the remaining 10-12% and all will be well. But that's just not how it works.
Being Middle Class is a lifestyle. It means nurturing parents, getting up and going to school, graduating HS, maybe college, getting up and going to work, and getting married and repeating the cycle to the next generation. And all along the way engaging in society and participating in the little rituals of life that mark the milestones.
Statists seem to think if they just hand a crack head $25,000 a year he'll go out and buy a Volvo and settle down. We wish. Throughout history, even in the most prosperous Western societies, you never see poverty below about 10% because there is always about that amount that choose to disengage from civil society and live alternative lifestyles.
You know, the statist redistributionists have built the US of A, nothing less than the mecca of US citizenism.
Which has been wealth redistribution programs one after another.
Redistributing land etc...
US citizen politicians stay the course. The US citizens who suddenly see a change will have hard days to explain why such a perception of change.
Just kidding, no issue at all. Those US citizens are simply slipping toward the wrong side of US citizenism and want US citizenism to stop.
STFU
I take it all back, ban 'em both
Never been a MORE STATIST bullshit posting on this or any other site.
You statist punk, take your civil society and your rituals that let you sleep at night and stick 'em.
You have no right to tell anyone what their "civil society" must be.
clown show , your robe is slipping.
Private sector is getting hammered. USA Today even wrote about it stating that "public employees make median salary of $132,000 versus private employees who were paid a meager $52,000 per annum."
And these figures are over 6 months old.
Dismal.
soon $3000 wil buy you an oz of gold
3000...About f'n time. Quantitative easing caused prices to rise, never got a penny in unemployment...I want mine. Write the f'n check already, increase the money supply instead of this chicken shit trickle down effect, and let's see what happens. Or maybe we should ease the swap lines with the Euro banks?
Perhaps, with all that's going on over the next 2 weeks: the fomc, the euro meetings, the bernanke this thursday, etc, by the end of the month, Obawmy's 3k will only buy a single ounce of gold.
Things are so bad right now the G7 can not wait till later in the month for the scheduled meeting.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120605_07.html
G7 conference call on global economy
Group of Seven nations will hold an urgent conference call on Tuesday to discuss the European credit crisis.
A spokesperson for Canada's Finance Ministry told NHK that discussions will be held among the finance ministers and central bank governors of Japan, the United States, Canada and four European countries.
Officials will discuss Spain's financial problems and concerns over the possibility of Greece exiting the eurozone. They will also talk about recent indicators showing an economic slowdown in the US.
The purpose is to confirm that developed countries will make concerted efforts toward stabilizing the markets ahead of the scheduled G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, later this month.
Representatives from emerging economies, such as China and India, will join the summit at the Mexican resort on the Baja Peninsula.
Jun. 4, 2012 - Updated 23:07 UTC (08:07 JST)
Boy, being in Mexico and all with such a tenous situation, I hope some of them don't lose their heads.
When the courts give police the ultimate authority, that’s a police state.
And that's exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court created in America when it okayed unwarranted strip searches (stripped naked for body cavity searches) of people suspected of minor offenses, such as running a stop sign or exercising an unleashed dog.
According to former Congressman Jim Traficant in his May column Touch Talk :
“The plaintiff in the original strip search complaint heard by the top court was Albert Florence from Bordentown, NJ. Albert was a passenger in a car being driven by his wife in March 2005 when a New Jersey state trooper pulled them over in Burlington County. The trooper found an ‘unpaid’ traffic fine on the computer. Albert had paid the fine two years ago and produced a document proving it. The trooper would not accept Albert’s paperwork.
“Albert was taken to Burlington County Jail, where jailers strip-searched him. If that’s not intrusive enough, he was then transferred to the Essex County Jail, where guards once again made him strip, squat, cough and move his privates. Albert was incarcerated for six more days before jail officers found a clerical error, confirming the document he presented to the trooper who stopped the Florences.
“If this is not enough to void your Bill of Rights, check out some of the statements offered by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Florence case: ‘The court should not second guess prison officers.’ Does that make any sense? Isn’t that why we have courts? This second-guessing is exactly what is needed when our constitutional rights and freedom are threatened.
“It’s evident that Justice Kennedy is paranoid as he also said, “People detained for minor offenses can turn out to be the most devious and dangerous of criminals.’ Kennedy didn’t stop there. He said the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was arrested on a traffic violation, and one of the Sept. 11 ‘terrorists’ was ticketed for speeding just two days before hijacking Flight 93, according to Kennedy.
“Does Kennedy actually believe that a cavity search would have prevented the Oklahoma City bombing or the Flight 93 episode?
“Now—because of the U.S. Supreme Court—you can be repeatedly strip-searched if you are violating a leash law or driving a car with a noisy muffler….
“In essence, the Supreme Court has left our rights to the jailers…”
IMO, the Courts are making changes in the mores and history of Western Civilization on the basis of terrorism to justify the Israeli viewpoint on how to handle terrorists and operate a police state. Kennedy actually used an undeclared war (on terrorism) as a reason to change three centuries of jurisprudence and throw away American’s basic right to avoid punishment before being convicted in a court of law.
This country was based on individual rights not Israeli philosophy which in itself is identical to terrorism whereby the state can kill indiscriminately or humiliate and force a prisoner to take off his clothes and dance.
This country was based on individual rights not Israeli philosophy which in itself is identical to terrorism whereby the state can kill indiscriminately or humiliate and force a prisoner to take off his clothes and dance.
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Nope, the US has been based on US citizenism from the start. Nothing has changed.
Keep playing the fabled past card. It makes money.
Judge Dredd...
What a one sided lame argument. This is the simplistic thinking that has caused this country to lose some of its lustre. The removal of regulations, that kept speculation in check, is what trigerred this financial crisis. Its very simplistic to say that government is bad OR capitalism is bad. Rules and Regulations control the "instincts" of many. If you dont want rules, regulations and government, please move to afghanistan, pakistan, the congo, nigeria etc. You can avoid paying taxes over there and live in the utopia of small government. All the big achievements this country is known for have been generated via forward thinking government projects: Airplanes (dominated by the US), Satellites, TCP/IP, Operating-Systems, Roads/Highways, Nuclear power plants, Computers (starting from ENIAC), Pharmaceuticals (basically an NIH, NCI funded basic research project), Semiconductors (Funded by DARPA and DoD for robust devices).
The guys who bash unions dont understand that all the developed countries including Germany, UK, Korea and Japan wihich manufacture cars have unions.
He connects the stupidity of a local judge in texas (of all places) to what is happening at the federal govt level.
LOL! You mean like the government regulating 32 OZ soda's and lemonade stands!
Or regulating TBTF banks via bailouts!
Rollover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPYLJoq_40Y
I own a small company that makes tangable items "like thingamagijs" here in NY USA and I hate the Govt of the past 20 / 30 years. I'm ready for the call to arms. I really am...
The truth is that a nation is like an individual… and individuals do not become wealthy by going into debt and consuming. They become wealthy by saving and producing.
Actually this is completely untrue, in fact it's pure ideological hogwash, and you'd have to look long and hard to find an economist (or a truth telling senior executive of any corporation, particularly one living off the government teat) to agree with this.
Maybe if you stopped listening to hacks like Cramer and Krugman you would see the truth...
Obammy, please send me my stimulus bribe as soon as possible, gold is looking like a buy right in here.
"....Land of the Free..."
amerika, or as romney would have it - amercia - is the land of the nazis
Prezdent Gespacho! " sheeeit, I know shits fucked up right now, but not-sure is gonna fix dis ecomoney"
I have always said there would be another round of "Stimulus checks" to hit 'mercun mailboxes before the election. And don't worry about the asian girl not getting into medical school. She's a straight flush, in poker parlance, being both female and a minority. If she claims to be a lesbian, she'd be a royal flush, thanks to Affirmative Action.
Her ace in the hole? 1/32 Cherokee...maybe, i think...
Well, apparently it's vote buying season again. Too bad we are buying our votes with our own tax dollars.
When Barack Obama announced the US (2010) national budget for this year, we experienced unprecedented feelings. Never before had an imperialistic power moved them to pity. This is unthought-of. This year’s deficit is estimated to be $1.6 trillion and its foreign debt has gotten completely out of hand. It hits numbers that only mathematicians and astrophysicists knew existed few decades ago. There is no space for these numbers in the electronic boards so it is driven to add new elements on them.
It all started with the big crisis of 1929. The American economy reached a deadlock because of its social "pathogenesis"; a deadlock that led it to economic crisis in a different - faster- pace than the rest of the industrial forces of that time. Important decisions had to be made - mostly social - and the Whites didn't like that, especially the Whites' rulers, the Anglo-Saxons.
www.eamb-ydrohoos.blogspot.com/2010/02/ten-plagues-of-pharaoh.html
Authored by Panagiotis Traianou
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia?
People these days think it’s a great idea when the government sprinkles money around the middle class, and love the idea of politicians ‘coming together’ to build a better economy
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Nope. But US citizens confirm it is a great idea when the government sprinkles land around the middle class and love the idea of US citizen politicians coming together to build a better economy.
STFU
While your sentiments are great and I did give an up arrow, we don't want to shut this guy up, ban him (or her) because it will only drive this shit underground. Clearly this is a 30-something in his mom's basement toking on the kush and reading Mao and Marx.
We want idiots like this spewing their lunacy so that we can show that indeed there are people like this around the country, the world, and more importantly, in the White House.
Wait, Barack, is that you?
Sprinkles land? I think someone sprinkled something on your corn flakes this morning. As usual, you post nonsense. Don't you have some dishes to wash? Or, hey! Why don't you go grab a pooper scooper and go out and tidy up the roadside? Heck, my dogs know enough to go dump ass in the woods and not out in the open.
The truth is that a nation is like an individual… and individuals do not become wealthy by going into debt and consuming. They become wealthy by saving and producing.
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Great. Wonderful.
One does not become wealthy by going into debt and consuming. They become wealthy by saving and producing.
No kidding?
Saving what? Money? But money is debt.
Producing? But production is consumption. You need to consume to produce anything.
Lets recap this brilliant thought by US citizen author: One does not become wealthy by going into debt and consuming. They become wealthy by going into debt and consuming.
Genius.
You are posting to a thread full of idiots who think having a "monster" under their bed is going to upset the state and bring forth a civil society filled with middle class clowns who will roar as the "others" are eliminated.
They are not worth the trouble anymore.
Can ANYONE tell me when the last Presidential Press conference was?? Has it been outlawed?
Obama is a disgrace! He can't face tough questions -- ever. He flounders when he's not in front of a teleprompter.
PLEASE POINT THIS OUT TO ANYONE WITH A BULLY PULPIT!!!!
For those recent university grads up to their neck in debt, the $3000 will probably go directly to that banky thingamajigy to pay down their non-discharagable student loans. Same goes for underwater homeowners in foreclosure.
Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equal to $42,054 per household — nearly four times the official number reported under unique rules set by Congress.
A U.S. household's median income is $49,445, the Census reports.
The big difference between the official deficit and standard accounting: Congress exempts itself from including the cost of promised retirement benefits. Yet companies, states and local governments must include retirement commitments in financial statements, as required by federal law and private boards that set accounting rules.
The deficit was $5 trillion last year under those rules. The official number was $1.3 trillion. Liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and other retirement programs rose by $3.7 trillion in 2011, according to government actuaries, but the amount was not registered on the government's books.
The federal government calculates the deficit in a way that makes the number smaller than if standard accounting rules were followed (in trillions).
Sources: USA TODAY research; Congressional Budget Office
Deficits are a major issue in this year's presidential campaign, but USA TODAY has calculated federal finances under accounting rules since 2004 and found no correlation between fluctuations in the deficit and which party ran Congress or the White House.
Key findings:
•Social Security had the biggest financial slide. The government would need $22.2 trillion today, set aside and earning interest, to cover benefits promised to current workers and retirees beyond what taxes will cover. That's $9.5 trillion more than was needed in 2004.
•Deficits from 2004 to 2011 would be six times the official total of $5.6 trillion reported.
•Federal debt and retiree commitments equal $561,254 per household. By contrast, an average household owes a combined $116,057 for mortgages, car loans and other debts.
"By law, the federal government can't tell the truth," says accountant Sheila Weinberg of the Chicago-based Institute for Truth in Accounting.
Jim Horney, a former Senate budget staff expert now at the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says retirement programs should not count as part of the deficit because, unlike a business, Congress can change what it owes by cutting benefits or lifting taxes.
"It's not easy, but it can be done. Retirement programs are not legal obligations," he says.
Disney's latest attraction - "The City of the Future - Detroit, Michigan"
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882089_1850979,00.html
File under: pwned
This is LOL. Mitt takes it up the ass more from corporate entities than Obama...and thery are balls deep in Obama.
Mitt will basically welcome MORE Chinese shit into our country and partner up with pals like Richard Fisher at the Fed who will say we aren't importing enough plastic crap from the Communist State to boost our economy.
Remember, both parties in their neo-libcon quest want to usher in a era of serfdom; they view humans as political and vaulable capital, and nothing more.
Nice article Simon. It's a pleasure to read something by you that isn't blatant shilling for one of your "projects". Keep up the good work.
No matter where I am
I am just gonna kick in the door and say
"There's some folks here who could use 3000 dollars a year"
This guy sounds like a used vacuum salesman working for the Illuminati