Posted on 12/15/2010 6:32:00 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
...Either everything I've ever learned about math and economics is wrong, or we're on the verge of going down. The only possible way to come through safely -- and even so, the odds are against us -- will be to frighten ourselves so badly that we'll be willing to do things that in normal times we simply could not imagine doing....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of central intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He is the author of How to Analyze Information and The Cure for Poverty.”
In the case of Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize may be a detriment to clear thinking.
The way that Washington is acting is completely out of control, neglecting the will of the American people en masse.
I think the time has passed for passive resistance now because Washington is not paying attention and is now engaged in actively working against the wishes of the American people.
I think the time is coming and coming very very soon for an armed populace to march on Washington in order to take the country back from the communist dictators now in charge of our government and the US Congress.
The Rats game is to frighten people with stories of a bogey man(global warming, sexism, racism..etc) and then tell us that we are hallucinating when we point out that there is a strange man at the door and he is holding a chainsaw.
Great article - good post, thanks. I believe the greatest generation (our parents) would have the foresight and courage to do what needs to be done, but today? Better prepare and grab a parachute - get it on while you still can...
Economic triage: place all government expenditures in one of three categories:
Category 1 — frivolous, obsolete, or illegitimate programs. Examples are the National Endowment for the Arts/Humanities, National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting System, the Dept of Energy, the Dept of Education, etc.. Defund and eliminate.
Category 2 — useful but bloated, inefficient, or corrupt programs. Examples are the Post Office, AMTRACK, the Dept of Agriculture, the Dept of Commerce, the Dept of Health and Human Services, parts of the Depts of Defense and State. Reduce funding by 50 percent over the next 5 years with an eye toward privatizing those that survive and eliminating the rest.
Category 3 — vital services. Examples are our military, our federal Dept of Transportation, our international intelligence communities, our federal judiciary (including the penal system and immigration enforcement). Cut their budgets by 10 percent immediately and base future budgets on performance.
Once all that is done, if there is still a need to raise taxes, put the issue to a referendum with a cap of 10 percent and no “progressive” graduation.
Repeat at the state, county, and municipal levels.
frighten ourselves so badly that we’ll be willing to do things that in normal times we simply could not imagine doing
Or, as somebody else once put it, Never let a good Crisis go to Waste...
IronJack, that is so beautifully simple, you just know that they’ll never do it. It’d work. Our stock would rise in a Wall Street millisecond. Good luck finding a legislator who’s radical enough to suggest it.
I like it.
It's already too late.
There's no (peaceful) way back from here.
Throw everything off the plane and it's still going to crash.
When is the only question.
I would put Amtrack in category 1 as well.
Bump for future reference
Then we need to FIND the legislators that will. No more compromises, no more accommodations, no more painting the burning building. Hard decisions, hard sacrifices, and a nation committed to first rectifying, then learning from, the lessons of the past. If we can save this republic, we must enact laws that forbid the economic redistribution that brought us to this pass. If Wall Street needs “financial reform,” how much more do the profligate, unconscionable prodigals in Congress?!
The roots of the Tree of Liberty are very, very dry.
Then we need to FIND the legislators that will. No more compromises, no more accommodations, no more painting the burning building. Hard decisions, hard sacrifices, and a nation committed to first rectifying, then learning from, the lessons of the past. If we can save this republic, we must enact laws that forbid the economic redistribution that brought us to this pass. If Wall Street needs “financial reform,” how much more do the profligate, unconscionable prodigals in Congress?!
"Never" is the answer.
“and then tell us that we are hallucinating when we point out that there is a strange man at the door and he is holding a chainsaw.”
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That sounds like Marcel himself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOgLc15x9fw
“Either everything I’ve ever learned about math and economics is wrong, or we’re on the verge of going down.”
That’s what keeps going through my head, am I delusional? Or are we about to get creamed?
I think they can only kick the can for about another year.
Inspiration, desperation.
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