We're Doomed, DOOMED!

The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ^ | 2/27/04 | Self

[Neets]

Licking their chops?

Frothing at the bit?

[William McKinley]

And now, sucking on acorns.

Who knew?

[William McKinley]

ROFLMAO!!!

[Neets]

Is that the Blind Pig who Found an Acorn???


HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Neets]

Looks like we found her Leader.

[William McKinley]

The blind, leading the blind.

If you look closely, you can see John Effin Kerry off to the left of the optically challenged porcine Senator.

[Neets]

If you look closely,

Yuck. Thanks, but no thanks, I just ate breakfast...the porcine is enough.

[William McKinley]

I cannot tell an (implicit) lie.

I did not find that picture.

Some very talented lady who happens to be you did.

My contribution was adding the "height=" and "width=" attributes to the IMG tag. (See source on how to do it)

And the geeks shall inherit the earth...

[Neets]

I love you geeks.
I really, really do.

[LibKill]

OMG! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!

Wait a minute, oh, I guess none of us were ever going to live forever. Never mind.....

[.cnI redruM]

Shouldn't that sign read Meathead!

[SunkenCiv]

The cartoon is foolish. In addition, Alan Greenspan has been a great Fed chief, probably the best ever. He basically blackmailed Congress into reducing its deficit by refusing to lower rates.

He's kept rates unnaturally low to counteract the effect of inflated oil prices, but that has led to a slowing in the growth of available capital, and contributed to the economic slowdown. The slowdown itself was engineered by OPEC, however.

It's not all bad though. Slowing the growth of capital has all but eliminated those huge, produce-nothing buyouts. It's also juiced the skids for companies who simulated growth through buyouts and consolidation -- companies with familiar names like Enron.

Social Security has always been nothing but a ponzi scheme in which the current "investors" contribute (in this case, at the point of a gun) the money needed to pay off those who formerly contributed at the point of a gun. It was created at a time when there was no retirement benefit for most people, even unionized labor.

There's often talk about delaying the age at which people can collect Social Security. THAT'S ALREADY ON THE BOOKS. Anyone born after 1937 has already been affected, unless they're retiring early due to disability.

[OESY]

Greenspan's war against the "wealth effect," including his (and Clinton appointee Larry Meyer's) 50 basis point interest rate hike in May 2000, two months after the NASDAQ crashed, led to the vaporization of $4 trillion in market capitalization and the loss of millions of jobs now blamed on Bush. In other words, Greenspan had a major role in bursting the Clinton bubble and helping to create the Social Security gloom & doom about which he now disingenuously sputters.