This weak dollar garbage started under W with Greenspan, Bernanke’s continued it into oblivion. It’s insanity. Japan’s had a generation of QE and a stalled economy. At some point, an adult is going to have to say, we need to derail this train or go off the cliff. It’ll be painful short term but the best course in the long run.
GHAFFE? That's quite a gaffe.
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Yes I'm being vain, and yes I'll take credit for harping on this, but more importantly you've got to get behind him if you're not.
What I said was that you're not going to get a better man than Mitt now or in a long time, so please get behind him and have a little faith that he's more like you than you know. He MAY even be MORE like you than ... YOU.
A snippet:
The ‘Ron Paul people’ always harp on ‘auditing the Fed’ and claim that no one will go after the Fed but Ron Paul. Mitt Romney will according to his words caught on this tape in a candid moment.
“While everybody is else paying attention to the 47% there is your answer. Your answer is he knows what’s going on with the Federal Reserve, and he is warning us what’s happening in the Federal Reserve.”
Let me ask this: Where is Ron Paul now? Can Ron Paul get ANYTHING done about the Fed? Mitt knows what Ron is talking about, probably more than Ron.
Mitt's abortion stance is the same kind of thing. He despises it, but he despises it so much that he's not going to fizzle out his chance of having a powerful say about the future of (no) abortion by, as the saying goes, "spilling his candy in the lobby."
Thanks for posting this ... very important for people to know this stuff, partially for their own sanity. He's not going to waste political capital screaming in the streets like some ineffectual OWS idiot pooping on a police car about an ideal that is, at least at this moment, not possible in the physical universe because people aren't ready to hear it. You can't teach kindergarteners calculus. And unfortunately, at least for now, the American electorate is too mentally and spiritually underdeveloped to understand monetary policy, what a gold standard means, and what abortion really means.
First, there is a major collective hypnosis that has to be undone - from which people need to wake up, then that hypnosis needs to be replaced with the truth - about money, how value is stored, about killing unborn infants, most fundamentally, what freedom is and whence it comes.
If you're not already, please get behind him at least with your vote. It's really not a case of just "oh well he sucks but he sucks less than the others and certainly sucks less than Obama." No, here on Earth, he is far better than Ron Paul or certainly Newt or Palin. Ron is an idealist and in being one, reminds of what we're ultimately fighting for, even if he's a little kooky. The other two - they are right, but America has already spit them out. They'd be great in an America where half the electorate weren't idiots - where maybe only 40% were idiots. But it's an overwhelmingly stupid citizenry right now.
Final analogy: If you want to give a kid a vitamin, you've got to get a vitamin that will go down his throat to do any good - and to make him strong enough for the next vitamin. I love Sarah, but too many people viscerally can't stand her. Are they stupid? Yes. Jealous women? Yes. Sheeplike men? Yes. Doesn't matter. The kid won't swallow the vitamin.
Rant over, but this is important. And yeah - Mitt did need something to get him fighting (the 'secret' tapes) ... I'm not saying the guy is a star politician ("That is why it must be YOU Maximus,") and he has a reverse-anger-management problem. Feel free to piss him off to get him going, but do vote for him, and let him teach a little about the real world to Ryan and the younger crew ... because the real world is where people vote, right now the real world is incredibly ignorant, deceived, stupid even - and they don't even know that they have locked themselves in their own misery - that they can be - strong, free and happy again. But people do not vote in Ron or Sarah's correct vision. They vote in our fallen universe.
Arrrgghhhh, and so pirate's day comes to an end, and hopefully Mitt has learned that while he faces a truly wussified, mentally and spiritually crippled country, there are those who can still hear the truth, who pray for the truth.
Our fat friend, the Buddha, didn't want to teach at all after he attained enlightenment - he thought it to deep a truth for his silly human compatriots to grasp. But God whispered in his ear "there are a few with little dust on their eyes." So see clearly, but practically - we inhabit a fallen world. Our little Mittens understands his vision is good medicine, but viewed as poison for now, so few will swallow it.
And yes, vainly, I've been hammering this all along outside this board for months and predicting a 5% popular vote drubbing of Obama. Looking more like 6 to 8 % now. Back to bed ...
Some useless information: back in ancient times, the Etruscans ruled Rome and their religion relied on priests called Augurs who read the entrails of animals, observed the birds in the sky, things like that as a means to determine omens. When the Romans tossed out the Etruscans and began their own republic they ultimately embraced a variation of the Greek religion based on a pantheon of Gods like Zeus/Jupiter, Ares/Mars, etc. But they kept the Augurs to read the omens. They carried a lot of sway, for example an army might decide not to attack because the auguries were not favorable.
One other bit of useless information. When Roman politicians took office, an augur read the signs and if they were okay he would begin his term. He was thus inaugurated. And that word is still with us.