Posted on 06/18/2010 2:39:45 AM PDT by Scanian
Liberals if given everything they want, will devolve us back to the Stone Age.
Liberals having been given the power, plan to devolve us back to the Stone Age.
The BMA Investors prediction (uncannily accurate history of market predictions) of a general market crash (soon) will go a long way toward creating a jobless, impoverished country.
I still say Hussein will end up hiding in a hut in Kenya with a price on his head...
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”
leads to
“ends justify the means”
leads to
“anythign is ok so long as its for the good of the people”
which leads to
“if you have no crisis, create one.”
LLS
I have a better solution: cut off water, food and energy to DC. Let’s see if senators can grow turnips on their desks. Hey, Michelle! Hope you canned lots of green beans and burgers.
There is a big NYSE listed company headquartered a half hour drive from my home. Old timers who have retired from there tell tales of when the workers were paid in company scrip that was good only at the company owned store a half mile or so away. I have been told of people loading all they owned on a two horse wagon and leaving town at two in the morning because they owed the company more than they could ever hope to pay and they couldn’t be seen trying to leave in daylight.
They would go and find a farm where they could sharecrop rather than try to stay employed at the factory. Obama wants to put us back to that level or even worse.
By hamstringing domestic drilling, we are in a position of weakness again. We will be dependant on oil from the middle east, venezuela and Brazil. ozero bowed to the saudis, yukked it up with chavez and is actively involved in funding Brazil’s oil industry with our tax dollars. $7 gas? who knows. Could be $20 gas. It will all depend on how much our suppliers want to gouge us. Whatever the case, everything will get more expensive. Groceries will be a big one because of the price of diesel. I hope enough Americans figure out that we have been sold out by the guy who plays president on tv. Hurry up November.
It’s a depression alright, when the Best Buy and Olive Garden shut down you will realize it is a COLLAPSE. An old gent who was born during the thirties recently told me that this is not a depression because we don’t have soup kitchens yet! I reminded him that during the thirties we didn’t have millions of people swiping food “stamp” cards. We also didn’t have millions drawing unemployment compensation, we didn’t have millions supported by other government programs. All the “soup kitchen” equivalents totally dwarf what was going on in the thirties, the current situation is actually worse than the thirties and rapidly growing worse yet. The difference is that now some people are gullible enough to believe there is a recovery in progress.
The tide is turning among the voters but after seeing the shabby display put on by Boehner, Cantor, Pence, etc. I have to wonder if they’ll think there is anyone worth voting for.
There goes any sort of economy we have left. A gallon of milk will be what? Six dollars a gallon. Bread will be four dollars a loaf? I know you aren’t suppose to wish your life away but BRING ON NOVEMBER. I also think the GOP better start growing some (sorry if that is crass) and start coming out and blasting O. Start acting like leaders. Start doing some press conferences and defend your beliefs. Have they all been neutered or what?!! Infuriating.
It would be interesting to know where the money that pays the tab comes from.
Retirement pay?
Investments?
Unemployment checks?
Money available because they stopped paying on thier mortgage?
A restaurant full of people tells you nothing other than the restaurant is popular.
By the way, I know several on unemployment who are living it up more than when they worked.
What happens when it ends?
How long before your tax burden, which pays for their checks, becomes so high that you can’t go to the restaurant but end up with your nose pressed to the window watching them live it up?
That may sound silly, but the frugal who work will end up being the stay at homes when the tax rate equals a certain point.
“Peak Oil”......There are huge oil finds almost daily. Peak oil is a myth.
There is no rebuttal to your post.
You are living in a dream world not reachable by reason and logic.
Well, I must concede you have an interesting point. What would the country look like if the Government withdrew its entitlement support? It would probably rival the Thirties. It will get very ugly when the entitlement tap finally runs dry and (again) when there are no more rich left to eat. What will make is worse is all the “clients” our Government has been rushing to import.
That will really put the finish on the economy. And is this BEFORE the 50 cent tax the dems in congress want?
My own opinion is that it would be worse than the thirties.
Reason being that those who lived in the very large cities and were second generation city dwellers were the soup kitchen people.
But the US was still primarily an agricultural economy and many had kin that lived on the farm and so they went to live with their farmer families.
Farmers had no money either, but they had food.
We went to my aunt’s. She told me once that she had for one full year only $175 in cash.
But she had ham, sausage, eggs, milk, butter, the best cakes and pies you ever ate....
Canned vegetables, .....
We stayed two years.
I was just a kid, but I remember it very well.
Wood fires, wood cook stove in the kitchen, farmed with mules, hauled on a wagon made by my uncle. Only the wheels and the hardware was bought.
My point:
What percentage of the US population today has a family member living on a real food producing farm?
The lines in the soup kitchens would be much worse than the 1930’s if there were no cash assistance.
As you said, we still have soup kitchens. They just take a different form in the form of food stamps, welfare checks, unemployment checks, etc.
Without them, it would be much worse than the thirties.
We are in a depression now. We just do not recognize it because of the government’s smoke and mirrors.
What? Dude, get off the pharmaceuticals already!
Not drilling is a Political decision / condition. There is plenty of oil for consumption.
IF electrical passenger rail were viable and competitive, it would exisit. Perhaps you espouse subsidies?
“Peak Oil”......There are huge oil finds almost daily.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Blah, blah, blah...
And when Oil gets more and more expensive, they'll probably still be able to find some in some remote location that's too expensive to get to right now. Maybe even deeper in the ocean, or underneath the South Pole, or maybe even drill for oil on an asteroid out in outer space.
I'm not swallowing that Oil Lobby crap anymore.
BP screwed the pooch... I'm not wasting any more of my time shilling for their lost cause. We can still mine coal, build some nuclear power plants, and electrically powered passenger rail systems.
The Oil Lobby never did anything but screw me over anyway... I ain't gonna tote their water bucket for them.
It’s interesting reading your post. I live in an area where neighbors regularly get together to make shopping excursions to New Hampshire to save the 6% sales tax on big ticket items.
This is exactly what my liberal friends want to see happen...
The Oil Lobby never did anything but screw me over anyway... I ain't gonna tote their water bucket for them.
So your irrational behavior regarding oil and trains is due to a personal vendetta and not facts or logic?
If this guy isn’t voted out of office, he should be thrown out by popular revolt.
Nothing less than the future of this nation is at stake!
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