netmilsmom
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Posted on 12/25/2008 12:21:48 PM PST by gscc
You remember the Bible story in Genesis 41 about the fat cows and the lean cows, representing years of plenty and years of famine? And how Joseph wisely proposed to Pharaoh that he store up the extra during the time of plenty to get the nation through the time of famine? Liberals sure don’t. Too bad they don’t bother with the Bible; it’s wisdom would have helped out a lot right about now.
The media would never dream of telling you this, but 3/4ths of the Bush presidency - in spite of being handed an economy already stumbling into recession, the 9/11 attack and the resulting hit to the economy, the two wars that followed, Hurricane Katrina, and myriad other phenomenon - saw strong economic growth. Amazingly, nearly 60% of Obama voters didn’t even know that Democrats have been in control of both the House and the Senate during the last two years as the wheels finally came off the economy.
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A handful of guys can use computer systems to do the sort of research you used to need thousands of researchers for.
Simulation and automated data analysis are valuable tools but not a panacea, especially in fields that involve materials science and engineering. Believe me, device fabrication can be very tricky. I make a comfortable living determining why such devices don't perform as expected. Such analysis requires extensive training and expensive tools. I do a lot of image analysis and instrument automation and can tell you I would not have a job without trained chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and electronic engineers involved in other phases of the project. From one involved in the work, I can tell you that your description seems to be an over-simplification.
netmilsmom
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Even then, couldn’t paper money can be printed in higher denominations to keep pace with the inflating digital dollars?
USBEP can speed up the presses by adding a few dozen zeros to the right of each bill printed. Like Zimbabwe. I've got a $750,000 and a $500,000 bill right here, got them for $7 US. Probably only worth toilet paper now.
Who are starving and dying of cholera.
Really ..??
He’s only funding Move-On and about 5-6 other extreme left-wing groups. I don’t call that “small fish”.
He’s just high profile and a little strange for a wall street guy.
Money = power. It looks to me like they're taking plenty of "power" with them on the way out the door. (At least the kind of power that counts).
Large words, my friend. They will take your shirt, and the only one to die will be you if you refuse to give it to them. Or, you will be a news story, but you will die in the end.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I would, but I'm not sure if God wants me to spam him with prayers. I'll limit my prayers to people I really care about, just to be sure.
Mark
You said — “Those preachers seem to have never left the US or their backyards. Christians are 30% of the world’s population and Muslims are only about 15% — there are lots of other religions out there like hindus (1 billion odd), Buddhists (800 million), Jews (20+ million), Jains (20 million odd), Bahai’s, Druze, Ahmaddiyyas, Zoroastrians, Mormons, etc.”
Well, keep in mind, that the 12 apostles traveled even less than those preachers that you or I are referring to. And..., Jesus Himself traveled less than those preachers have (according to how everyone travels these days).
In spite of that, we have the inspired, inerrant and infallible Word of God, which is the rule of faith and practice and on all things that the Bible speaks to — for what we (and/or preachers) should do or say.
We actually don’t have to travel anywhere to know that Jesus is the “way, truth and the life” and that no one comes to the Father except by way (and through) Jesus Himself. We are told that there is *no other name* under Heaven by which man can be saved. That means *all other religions* in the world — even if you have never heard of them, never spoken to an adherent and don’t have the *least idea* of what they are about. They are *all false* — as spoken directly from the Word of God. That’s all those preachers have to know.
Now, in regards to the numbers of Christians in the world, it’s always been obvious from what God says in the Bible, that He always has a “remnant” of the people who follow and obey Him (and who have accepted the salvation of Jesus, the Messiah of Israel). God has never said that following Christ was ever going to be a majority way. In fact, Jesus questioned whether He will find faith when He returns.
Given the fact that the Bible indicates that almost 4 billion people will be killed during that time of judgement that God brings on the world (given to us by the numbers that are killed during the different judgements and according to our present-day world population), called “Jacob’s trouble”, it’s already apparent that Christians are in the minority and always will.
That’s why the Bible refers to them as the “salt of the earth” in that a little salt has a big result. The Bible has always been in accord with the idea that Christians would never be a majority of the world and Jesus has said to us that the way to salvation is the “narrow way” and that few travel along that pathway — while the “path to destruction” (and eternal damnation and torment) is the wide path and *many* travel that pathway.
How is what Joseph recommended different from Keynesian economics?
A lot of other people are going to lose their jobs and young people are going to have far few opportunities. All Obama is proposing is snake oil. A trillion dollars worth of economic laetrile, which will leave the patient sicker and the poorer.
I meant to say that those “preachers” don’t know what they’re talking about if they insinuate that all non-Christians are waiting for some anti-Christ. The Muslims wait for the Mahdi, but the Hindus, Buddhists etc don’t.
You said — “I meant to say that those “preachers” don’t know what they’re talking about if they insinuate that all non-Christians are waiting for some anti-Christ. The Muslims wait for the Mahdi, but the Hindus, Buddhists etc don’t.”
Okay, I see what you mean. And I believe that those preachers are right, even when you state it the way you do.
That’s because it appears that the coming of the Antichrist is going to be preceded by the preparation of the world to accept the Antichrist. Now, you’re right, that the Muslims (for example) do have their Mahdi that they are waiting for. However, it appears to me that this Mahdi has those very qualities of the AntiChrist.
What I see that the Bible says is that there will be a “mongrel religion” of the world, of that day — in which all religions will be viewed as “okay” and that it’s one person’s choice to go this way (to find the pathway to God) and another person will go another way to find his pathway to God.
And all these various religions will come together under a big umbrella and “mongrel” religion, in which they can all keep their particular distinctives as long as they all cooperate together for peace and understanding and don’t try to proselytize each other. It’s already coming about right now.
Bush says that the god of Islam is the same as the God of Christianity. The Catholics revere Mary as do the Muslims. The holy sites of Mary are also frequented by Muslims (like Fatima). The Pope greets the Dahli Lama, along with Muslim clerics and Buddhists.
That mongrelization of the various world religions is already happening.
This is the preparation (of all those others) for the coming Antichrist, who will gather them all together under the False Prophet.
And then, on the other hand, there will be true Christianity, and the people who are saved by the Grace of God, through faith in Jesus, the Messiah of Israel — who will be prepared for the coming of the Lord.
The way to destruction, as the Lord says is the wide path, that all other “religions” are on. They will be “gathered together” under the umbrella of a world religion and the false prophet of the Antichrist. That is already happening now.
The way to Jesus, through the salvation provided by His sacrifice on the cross is the narrow way — not many are on that pathway, but that is the pathway to life, as the Bible explains to us.
Very High Denomination (VHD) currency can, unlike Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany, actually be a very valuable tool in a credit crunch.
The overall problem is that our economy is divided into a real economy and a leverage economy. The leverage economy is collapsing, so the effort must be made to protect the real economy.
The way to do this is to divide the currency. The real currency would be paper, backed by “full faith and credit”. The controlled collapse currency of the leverage industry would be restricted to virtual, or electronic money.
*Some* VHD bills, from $100k to as high as $10M would be issued to real economy corporations, in exchange for the 1:1 equivalent amount of their virtual money, before hyperinflation sets in. These bills could only be transferred with the permission of the Treasury Department, from authorized company to authorized company. The more of these bills the company had, the safer it would be.
This would accomplish two things. First of all, these companies couldn’t go bankrupt, because nobody could force them to surrender these bills, even if the balance of their virtual money was zero and they owed a debt. Debt could only be paid from net income, not operating capital.
Second, these bills could be used as 100%(+) collateral on loans from authorized lenders, for authorized purposes, that is, keeping the company in production.
Even if a leveraged company bought a real company, which they always want to do, to drain it of its resources, it could not take, nor use, VHD money for anything but operating the real company. This means that it is to the advantage of the real company to have a LOT of its liquidity tied up in these VHD bills.
Leverage companies would be screaming at the government to be given VHD currency, but they could not, because until they are gone, the real economy can’t recover.
The “iron rule” of currency would apply, which is “bad money pushes out good money”. Everyone would want to spend their virtual money, and save their cash money.
Individuals, on the other hand, could not own or use these bills, both intentionally or practically, and it would be terribly hard for the government to introduce them to cover its butt while hyperinflating the currency with debt monetization. Virtual money would hyperinflate, but real money would do the opposite.
This is because paper money is already terribly deflated, even at low denomination only 1/20th of our daily retail needs. If the FED wanted to hugely inflate the currency so that something that today costs $1, would then cost $100, it would literally have to print as many $100 bills as we currently have $1 bills, which would take years. Otherwise, nobody would have any $100 bills, and paper money would hyper-deflate!
(There was deflation in the Great Depression, in which the saying was, “You could buy a pound of hamburger for a nickel, but nobody had any nickels.”)
A currency split will be loopy to watch, another spectacular event like the collapse of the T-bill market, and no doubt, several other events.
Something to look forward to will be the introduction of local currencies, which is both legal and very helpful to keep the local economy going.
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It would be a good thing to familiarize yourself with the concept, because it is a very fast way to redistribute what is in excess to where it is needed locally, in a sensible way. It is intentionally “less good” money, if not bad money, so it allows people to keep their deflated US dollars, which would then be “spectacular”, not just good money, yet still have the currency lubrication to keep the machine going.
Keeping the majority of your 401K in the mkt that close to retirement was a risk you choose to make. If the mkt tanked on you do you think I should be bailing you out?
Friends the same age who followed the "conservative mix" or "go cash" option are still working ~ and their 401(k) accounts are still not up to their insurable max.
Is it possible that they were not saving enough when they were younger because they were living up to their income? I don't mean to be harsh, but freedom requires responsibility. If we want the govt to step in and fix everything the end will be a lose of freedom.
Right now we see the rise of fascism. If it's not stopped socialism is going to take over.
That's pretty much what I was trying to say. The liberals have been chiefly responsible for this mess, but they will bring everyone else down with them. Sound firms will suffer along with crazy overextended ones, and prudent people will suffer along with feckless spenders, because as more and more people get laid off and businesses are closed, the whole economy is melting down.
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