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You lost me there. What are you talking about?
And what did I ever do to you to deserve being called "stupid"?
This is not DU.
There was a time on FR where it was possible to disagree with someone without resorting to ad-hominem attacks like 1st graders or DUmmies.
Come on gents...
Do you remember Saddam’s massive underground complex. He had HUGE stores of ammo and guns.
It is absolutely stupid to ‘liquidate’ stocks and bonds, or businesses or real estate in order to buy ‘ammo’.
To hold off a few vandals you do not need a lot of ammo. But to hold off the Federal Military and local Police you will never have enough ammo.
I call ‘stupid’ when I see it. It’s the IDEA, not you, to which the label applies, btw. No Freeper is stupid, but some ideas that we tend to hold unexamined are.
Unless you have your own firing range, in deed or in effect (which some Freepers do) the huge stockpiles of ammo will end up being something those who bury you will have to dispose of.
If you believe that Obama’s hard left turn and acceleration into socialism is bad for economic progress, then you should be out of the stock market. Now, if that is wrong, please tell me how.
I want to believe that American democracy is self-correcting and that the American economic system is strong enough to withstand even Obama. However, I am not willing to risk my wife’s financial security (as a man, I will die before we run out of retirement funds) on my hope that Obama’s socialism will quickly pass. 0.5% is a pitiful return that has its own problems when inflation is much higher, but 0.5% beats the hell out of -25%.