I will say this about the above. Though we've had a recent scare or two, they've kept it going longer than I thought possible. But they now control everything!
1 posted on
07/27/2019 11:20:53 AM PDT by
amorphous
To: amorphous
I wish there would be a better description of what this catastrophe will look like. I understand that borrowing money will cost higher and higher rates, so that the share of the federal budget that allows it to function becomes less and less. But what will that look like? No more federal welfare programs? Reduced Social Security payments? Aircraft carriers docked for years? And what will be the response to this contraction?
To: amorphous
Lots of people are going to notice a $25 trillion meltdown, which will happen after the Democrats take total control, which I believe can not be prevented.
The banks can pay low interest rates and I can continue withdrawing money out.
I four years my bank money will mainly be spent and I will wait as long as possible to take Social Security.
To: amorphous
The cited reference to Virgil's Aeneid has always made a deep impression on me.
So easily one slithers down to Hell.
By night or day, no matter. One gets in.
But grappling one's way up again to light,
that is the task, the toil.
A few succeed, by Jove's grace,
or a hero's soaring will.
To: amorphous
Pursuing delusion, of course, is abundantly easier for a time.
One can deny reality but there is no denying the results
of denying reality...as the demorats are finding out.
6 posted on
07/27/2019 11:36:45 AM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: amorphous
American life will resemble that of 1970’s Britain, but without coal miner strikes.
To: amorphous
The allure of offering "free stuff" to stupid people gets them reelected, and that's all they are about. The long run to them is their term of office. Warren Buffet proposed one solution: Any sitting member of Congress who supports a budget that increases the deficit by more than 3% cannot run for reelection. Until there's a punishment for spending too much, there will be no change. To date, they say the cause of the deficit is that taxes are too low. They never even stop to consider that lower spending also provides a means of lowering the deficit. Truthfully, a Constitutional Amendment is probably the only thing that will stop them from more stupid spending. Free cell phones for deadbeats...really?
13 posted on
07/27/2019 11:56:23 AM PDT by
econjack
To: amorphous
Keystone Keynesians
Bad times demand more spending.
Good times are an opportunity to spend more.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
These days they aren’t priming the pump, they’re engaging in economic masturbation to such an extent that that one character from Dr.Sax would be embarrassed.
15 posted on
07/27/2019 11:58:37 AM PDT by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: amorphous
18 posted on
07/27/2019 1:41:57 PM PDT by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: amorphous; Tilted Irish Kilt
Prepper ping.
Pay off all debt and make sure you have everything you need.
20 posted on
07/27/2019 3:35:45 PM PDT by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: amorphous
The thoughts of Adm. James Bond Stockdale, reflecting on his 7+ years checked-in at the Hanoi Hilton seem appropriate in this situation:
You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties. AND at the same time
You must confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
24 posted on
07/27/2019 5:29:23 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: amorphous
For example, at the turn of the new millennium, the national debt was $5.7 trillion. By 2010 it had more than doubled to $13.5 trillion. By 2020, itll be over $24 trillion. People have been complaining how deficits will ruin the country since the Carter administration. Deficits don't matter. The deficit hawks have been wrong for 40 years.
27 posted on
07/27/2019 11:02:20 PM PDT by
stig
To: amorphous
31 posted on
07/28/2019 1:26:47 PM PDT by
Pollard
(If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
To: amorphous
But 401Ks, IRAs, and everyone’s stock portfolio is perfectly secure, right?
35 posted on
07/28/2019 3:01:38 PM PDT by
SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
To: amorphous
"Though we've had a recent scare or two, they've kept it going longer than I thought possible. But they now control everything!"
Well, not quite everything, but they are continuing to make excellent progress in that direction. Our descent into debt slavery is being very well managed and at this late stage they are not going to allow an economic catastrophe to put their plan at risk. I'm putting my money on the notion that things will just keep on as always until almost no one is left that remembers, or cares, what life in a free and prosperous country was like.
45 posted on
07/28/2019 6:05:04 PM PDT by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
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