Posted on 01/09/2012 11:49:39 PM PST by Sun
From the OP:
“with respect to that bill, that I’m familiar enough with it that I can say that I have an opinion one way or the other on it.
It’s clear he’s saying that he doesn’t know enough about that bill to put his support behind it, therefore he doesn’t support the bill. OK? It’s not that hard to understand.”
I give Santorum credit for his honesty, plus he is astute enough to know anything he says will be nitpicked, so he is wise to study it first.
He doesn't have to do that now. He should get over it!
So who’s the small government ‘alternative’?
OMG! There is so much I want to say to you and everyone else who thinks this is just conservative bashing, but it isn’t. We must elect the person who will stop what is happening to our nation or we will never get it back!
Here’s a clue:
“Ulsterman: Do you support the Federal Reserve?
Wall Street Insider: No.
Ulsterman: Can you expand on that answer?
Wall Street: That would take it beyond a yes or no response then.
Ulsterman: Just give me a quick summary of why you don’t support the Fed.
Wall Street: That is long bit of history…I will simply say the current Federal Reserve leadership is the single most dangerous contributor to the current economic climate in this country. I would qualify that by also stating not everyone in the Fed agrees with the current leadership position. There is quite a fight going on in-house there.
Ulsterman: Does Ben Bernanke need to be removed from his position at the Fed?
Wall Street: Yes – absolutely.
Ulsterman: Does Timothy Geithner need to be removed from his position at Treasury?
Wall Street: No.
Ulsterman: Why not?
Wall Street: My answer was no. That’s it.
Ulsterman: Do you consider Ben Bernanke more dangerous to the American economy than President Obama?
Wall Street: Yes – the president…the president likely has no clue what Chairman Bernanke is doing…has done, to the financial health of this country. Mr. Bernanke has been a boon to the volatility feeders. We are at the abyss here you know. So many of us know it, but nobody – very few…want to openly communicate that fact. The situation of this country is frightening. I cannot begin to…my words won’t do justice to just how dangerous this situation has become.
Ulsterman: What Bernanke is doing – is it intentional?
Wall Street: I believe so…(pause) yes.
Ulsterman: Care to elaborate?
Wall Street: (Sighs) No…not now. I’m not ready for that.
Ulsterman: What is the abyss? The economy – the economy is at the abyss? The debt?
Wall Street: These cannot be yes or no answers. And I’m getting tired here. I apologize for that, but this needs to come to a conclusion.
Ulsterman: Explain what the abyss is. Briefly. Please.
Wall Street: (Long pause)…Money has an inherent value. The borrowing of money is to have an inherent cost. That relationship is to be a symbiotic one. If you take away one, it can kill the other. —Don’t interrupt me here – if you don’t understand I can’t…I won’t be the one to explain it for you. Not at this time.
Ulsterman: Go ahead – I apologize. Please go ahead…
Wall Street: What the Federal Reserve is doing is killing off that relationship – that critical symbiotic component of a free-market economy. We are on this day a more centralized economy than at any other point in our history. Fiscal contagion can spread from nation to nation with a single click. Trillions upon trillions in value has been wiped out of the market by the printing of money with lessening value. When you wonder why Wall Street has succeeded under President Obama while Main Street continues to struggle is simply because Main Street still exists in some semblance of a free market economy. That relationship between the value of money and the cost of borrowing that value still exists. Wall Street has been allowed to exist outside of that reality. The Fed has made it so, and the result…we are nearing just the beginnings of that result – will be outright economic disaster. 2008? Nothing. 1929? Yes – that is where we are going here. And with that kind of economic chaos – what is soon to follow? Read you history. War. Famine. A total shock to the system, except this time, we have a proliferation of nuclear weapons, countries such as Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, they will be directly involved in this chaos. And of course there is China…the time I could spend on China…
Among the most frustrating things following the collapse of the Soviet Union was the repeated phrase that the Cold War had ended. Not so. China remained. China, who by then was a far greater economic threat to the United States than the Soviet Union – they were conveniently forgotten as part of that Cold War. Our intellectual laziness in that regard has now come home to roost. And we are cutting ourselves. Death by a thousand cuts. Every deficit dollar we print, we come closer to that abyss. We are at 40 or 50 trillion in total debt in this country – and in an economy that is no longer growing anywhere near a pace that can even pretend to accommodate such a debt. The folly of the New Deal and the Great Society and that entire mindset is choking the future of the nation. Literally choking the life out of us. Me, you, our kids, our grandkids…nothing will be left for them but pieces of what used to be, and a world ready and willing to feed off those scraps.
And these labor unions – the shift from private to governmental unionization…the inherent legacy costs of that scenario is simply unsustainable. The free market cannot withstand the attack. It is collapsing all about us now and too many are simply not paying attention. The only hope for our recovery – the only hope, is our ability to grow our way out of this. That growth, along with massive cuts in government spending, is the only way. Nations such as Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain …they have come to this understanding, but have only been able to do so with the assistance of other nations who in turn are printing their own deficit dollars in order to do so. That situation cannot be sustained can it? And certainly not without growth. Do you know the number of payroll jobs in 1999 was approximately 130 million? That is the same number as in 2011. Zero growth. This economic stagnation is leading to economic decapitation and it is coming sooner not later. It is happening NOW. If this nation does not elect leaders with the political will to do battle with the entitlement status quo, to do battle with the monster that is the Federal Reserve, we are finished. Done. President Obama does not have the political will to do so. Far from it. Nor does he have the understanding of just how dire the situation is. Far from it. More of the same will only lead to the mutual destruction of both political parties and the nation.”
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“...IF THIS NATION DOES NOT ELECT LEADEERS WITH THE POLITICAL WILL TO DO BATTLE WITH THE ENTITLEMENT STATUS QUO, TO DO BATTLE WITH THE MONSTER THAT IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE, WE ARE FINISHED. DONE...”
Newt Gringrich understands this as does Ron Paul - none of the others do. Do you?
Have you read the Ulsterman Report’s interview with the Wall Street Insider?
Combined with what I’ve read on barnhardt.biz and Zerohedge, we’re on the brink of economic collapse.
That's why the prognosticators find it so easy to predict more economic collapse.
Let me predict this ~ read carefully ~ as we continue to Mechanize, Automate, Improve Processes and Methods, Computerize and Roboticize manufacturing, agriculture, mining and services we will continue to see Deflation and even more Unemployment.
The future is coming down hard.
At some point our economic structure may well separate from monetary accounting. We may begin fighting wars with remote control aerial and surface drones.
High speed rail is doomed. Hybrid cars are doomed. In the future we will travel mostly in semi-automated accident resistant automobiles at the most fuel efficient speed.
A great plague will destroy almost everyone who does not already have natural resistance. Earthquakes will happen in diverse places and you can see them instantly on the internet whenever you wish. The price of grain will rise and fall simultaneously. Intergalactic space aliens may or may not visit us.
Hope you caught all of that.
I will remind you of all you’ve said here, Mooie, when the collapse into the abyss happens.
I may not even be remotely like what you and I imagine. I’ll give you a hint:
Back in the 90s I read a book called, The Pentagon’s New Map. It was written by a policy wonk working at the Pentagon, a man who was a progressive and hired by Dubya Bush. The whole precept of this book was how to ready the military for the forthcoming world Globalism.
If this last sentence doesn’t scare the piss out of you, nothing will. We are being attacked from within and, by and large, cannot recognize it.
“he needs to drop that Senatorial habit of sneering..”
I don’t see that AT ALL!
In fact, when I heard him take a lot of calls on a talk show from New Hampshire voters, he was so nice, and DOWN-TO-EARTH to all of them.
“Do you?”
Of course, but Mark Levin understands better than I do, and he likes Santorum best.
LOL! I don’t listen to either Mark Levin or Rush Limbaugh anymore.
Yeah, Santorum seems like such a good guy.
There is a book, Sell Out by David Schippers, that details how the Senate Republicans sold out the House Republicans during the impeachment trial of President W. J. Clinton.
Page 9 to 12 describes the House Republicans meeting with the two Senators who told them, basically, to piss up a rope! Those two were Senator Trent Lot, Mississippi, and
Senator Richard Santorum, Pennsylvania.
Tricky Ricky has a long way to go before I will consider voting for him in the future, no matter what Mark Levin thinks.
All the websites and media outlets should just butt-out and let the candidates fight it out.
Whenever a Senator or an ex-Senator tells you things may need regulating, that's a standard ideological position that he's taking as an elitist.
We know that virtually NOTHING ever needs regulating.
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