Zero Is Less Than Zero

To The Point News ^ | March 27, 2009 | Dr. Jack Wheeler

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[Former Fetus]

[Don Corleone]

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[ChocChipCookie]

Every day I vacillate between taking steps to “prepare” and relaxing because on the surface, at least in my life, not much seems very different. Sometimes it’s very surreal.

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[Kackikat]

Other than 30 days of non perishable food, just how does one prepare for insanity?

[YellowRoseofTx]

Every day I vacillate between taking steps to “prepare” and relaxing because on the surface, at least in my life, not much seems very different. Sometimes it’s very surreal.

That explains it very well, surreal. Exactly how every day is for me. I keep feeling like I'm having a very bad dream and wondering why I can't wake up and end it.

I keep going back and forth between wondering if there is any point in fighting this because there is no use if it's God's plan.....and in the next minute my instincts tell me to keep fighting.

[GBA]

With all of the people casting these various warnings, along with the matching "very good crisis" pres..ent obama has been enjoying, I can't help but wonder if he'll finish his first term.

People are undoubtedly concerned, many have been hurt financially and some of those people are quite powerful. If truly the worst is yet to come, and who hasn't been shocked by some of obama's proposals, I find it hard to believe that he'll be able to get 'er done.

We are blessed to be in this country and it seems unfathomable to me that he'd be allowed, if I can phrase it that way, to destroy America.

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[liberty75]

Very inspiring - thanks for such an eloquent post.

[gunnyg]

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[rockinqsranch]

Maalox, lots of Maalox.

[Fantasywriter]

I keep thinking the day will come when everybody, MSM and far lefties included, will wake up and realize that Obama is a bungling amateur unfit to run the local landfill, much less the country. Only Soros will be unsurprised, because he wanted an incompetent piker to be elected in the first place, so long as said piker was further left than Marx. But Soros will be unhappy that everybody else figured it out; it won’t be as much fun when everybody else is in on the joke.

But that day isn’t going to happen, is it?

[cookcounty]

"If you think this is hyperbolic then you haven't come to grips with the consequences of hyper-inflation."

I'm definitely deeply concerned about hyper-inflation. I don't think it will really hit for 2-4 years, but it could be extremely nasty. And yes I am still working off debts (way too slowly!).

[To Hell With Poverty]

I agree with you both. Add to that the feeling of being cheated...as we all do. My husband and I did the Dave Ramsey thing, have been living within our means and with what we thought were very strong, sensible plans for the future, everything was set, we knew just where we were going and how we'd get there, just had a second child, and now...this...the future that was a happy secure dream for our family is now just a dark cloud and sense of unease. I keep telling myself "Thy will be done" and try to keep everything else out of my thoughts. Yet here I am on FR again, gleaning the news for a bit of hope, a light at the end of the tunnel that isn't an oncoming train...

Buy canned goods, pray, plant a garden, pray, get emergency equip., pray...

[adm5]

Since Zero’s election, the Fed has quadrupled the money supply. Trillions of dollars created out of nothing - zero -are about to flood the world.

Playing Debil's Advocate for a minute. How does this additional trillions of money supply get into the hands of the populace?

Giving Goldman Sachs, GM or AIG billions upon billions doesn't feed into the economy - the banks are hoarding - the soon-to-be BK companies like GM, are bleeding it, and that too will stop. AIG is just paying off its casino bets (CDS) to the biggest financial players - ie Goldman Sachs (what a shocker) - whereas they continue to hoard it.

I don't see a lot of M&A activity going on from these "investment bankers". Where is the money?

Locally, are banks loaning money right now? My bank isn't, and I've been with them for over 15 years, and have an outstanding business relationship. My bank loan officer told me, "I'm calling all of my customers and telling them to pull their horns in so we'll all get through this.

That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence there does it?

So with 600,000 (give or take a hundred thou) losing their jobs each month - how will these folks get the money to spend irrationally, driving prices up on all asset classes?

If teleprOmpter doesn't start giving away large sums of money (no, $600 or $1200 won't cut it); I'm talking more like $20,000 or $100,000 directly to each man, woman and child, how will this family and the rest of the citizens begin to re-inflate the bubble?

[Former MSM Viewer]

Gotta love the life & times of DR Wheeler