Posted on 11/11/2008 6:17:52 AM PST by grumpa
Is there a link?
Great read, very informative.
But can that benefit him?, and what can we do?
With all due respect there is no depression at least not yet...
Minimum wage is already slated to go up to $7.65(?) next summer.
The end of lefist ideas, along with the end of laissez-faire capitalism, might just leave us in a position to recover.
How does a middle-class family prepare for a depression?
I was going to point that out. Of course, all manner of denial will cease when Bush leaves office. Up will be down, doncha know.
Obama will increase fuel costs by raising taxes or his windfall profit tax.
This will further hurt the lower and middle classes with across the board price increases on all goods and serves.
The govt is printing TONS of new money so now inflation will rear its ugly head.
I had to take a class in economics in highschool. I’m confused why they don’t still require that. But by God, you better dress out for PE! Can’t have any fat people, but churn out the dumbies!
>>Americans are so completely ignorant about economics, I am not hopeful.
Not ignorant - just short attention span. Tell me, which takes longer: Explanation of supply and demand OR I promise free (whatever)?
For eight years, Libs had a single recurring theme: “Bush lied.” They drummed that into everybody’s head until people actually believe that. Conservatives have to shorten their message - not change it.
In a way, his failure will boost the Republican party. It is deja vu 1976 all over again. I hope he doesn’t ruin the country so badly that no good Republican like Palin or Jindal would like to run.
There used to be a thrift/survivalist thread around here that talked about stocking up on provisions and things like that - anybody seen it lately?
Here’s a recent thread on frugality:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128937/posts
The one I had in mind is from years ago - dunno if it still exists.
As long as there is one stupid person in the world, leftist ideas will never die.
“How does a middle-class family prepare for a depression?”
Get out of debt, even if this means working two jobs for a time.
I don’t buy into that theory at all, either. Can anyone name one instance where leftist ideals have “ended?”
But, I thought Obama was going to pay for my gas and mortgage? /s
Buy rice. Buy beans. Lots of both.
I was talking to a lib last night (a relative) - so frustrating.
Defending every socialist policy in the works yet
VEHEMENTLY DENYING
that it even IS socialism.
Then, she had the audacity to say that wealth redistribution was “Christian” - denying that there was any force or coersion involved in government redistribution.
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