Posted on 12/26/2020 1:15:52 PM PST by grundle
“This is a garbage site.”
No kidding. I clicked on the website, then the source.
The source is the Washington Examiner, August 02, 2012 12:00 AM .
It’s over 8 years old.
grundle, why are you posting antique crap like this? You should be ashamed of yourself getting people here to click on total rot like this.
I will challenge you with a thought: so-called progressivism is in this country entirely dependent on the existence and unquestioned need for the Petro Dollar.
Why?
Well, like the old joke about a cargo plane overloaded with a cargo of canaries trying to stay aloft by keeping half the canaries flying in the cabin at all times the only way the federal reserve can keep people buying their treasury bonds is if they actually have to ... to buy oil with.
And that means the only way the “most competent at being incompetent” (my own term) government that has ever been can continue to piss off money like an army of Caligula clones could go through party guests wives is because people need those Dollars too.
Aside: the other day I observed on another forum that on a very real level the Whisky Rebellion foreshadowed later monetary controversies because it represented the government squashing the ability of the people to have a form of currency actually held by people that not only had value apart from the central government and banks claiming it did but also existed without them making them exist ... this long before bimetallism was a thing in this country.
Now, back to the Petro Dollar.
All these liberals in the West buying their electric cars and agitating for their wind farms in someone else’s back yard ... what are they doing? Well aside from economically pissing in the wind when it comes to alternative energy sources and befouling the landscape with the scars and pits needed to produce high capacity batteries they are pouring money into research to replace oil. But if even the demand for oil were to go down (say if there were some pandemic thing being jazzed up to spread fear) the need for our Dollars diminishes and once we reach a tipping point “poof” no more progressivism (or much of anything, for that matter) in America.
If you think that would be just dandy for Europe to have us tank because in the extreme no body needed oil all of a sudden thanks to some as yet unknown innovation consider that our military expenditures not only protect them but keep their local economies going ...
... you may be old enough to recall a German high mucky muck saying the peace dividend couldn’t include us shutting down bases in Germany because that would nuke the local economies ... yes, that was said....
... also I’m getting old...
... so, yes, they would be totally screwed too ... and then there’s them not being able to buy food from us or sell us crap because the world’s economy is in the toilet.
Darn, that’s scary. Like the old joke where sand became scarce in Soviet ruled Sahara bu5 only for reals.
If “progressives” had even a lick of sense they would be strengthening world dependence on oil, because their ChiCom masters aren’t gonna write them blank checks like they have been. But like blind guides for the blind they’re all walking straight towards the ditch, and it’s more of a cliff. Not just because they support things that will technologically potentially render Petro Dollars meaningless but because by being such colossal spendthrift idiots they are making the rise of some other Petro currency pretty much a certainty probably well before such an innovation is gonna happen.
Chick’fil’A
... if only to piss off the Left.
Damn editing errors.
Main one writing blank checks for themselves ,.. that like they have been.
Never heard of it.
Is it something like Amtrak?
When did they add a ‘c’ to Amtrak?
May make perfect sense. While are they contracted with? Follow the money.
The petro dollar will mean absolutely nothing.
Here is what they are up to. They intend to do away with cash and go completely to a cashless society.
We will be issued a number and will NOT be able to buy or sell of work without one.
We are nearly there. And dont think the constitution or the courts will defend us. They have no respect for the constitution and the SCOTUS proved what they though of it when they failed on the TX case against PA.
That leaves three ways..and one way may lead to another.
Nullification.
Secession.
Civil War.
How do you tip topless dancers in a cashless society? Buy drugs? Prostitutes?
Digitally, with Titcoins, of course.
Further Proof that government has no business in businesses of any kind.
It should all be done by the Private Sector.
I call BS on this one.
First, sodas sell for $2.75 per 12 oz. can. See the link below, which is Amtrak’s cafe car menu on the northeast regional trains near me:
Second, Amtrak has an outstanding CEO, Richard Anderson, who was formerly the CEO of both Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines. Richard has modernized a number of Amtrak’s business practices. I doubt very much that he would tolerate purchasing practices such as those described in the OP.
Amtrak has issues to be sure, mostly caused by the politicians who meddle in it.
I guess you found my comment interesting enough
to comment about so I suppose you got your expectations met.
What is up with you?
Making enchiladas. What's up with you?
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