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Is America Headed Into An Intentional Recession?
Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2012 | Austin Hill

Posted on 12/09/2012 7:21:28 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
The answer is YES, and I'm doing my best to help it get there via not purchasing a single new thing aside from food, clothing and occasionally repair parts to help it get back into recession.

My way of getting even with the Obama-bots. I hope they all suffer.

21 posted on 12/09/2012 7:52:18 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Kaslin

It’s called the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

http://www.thenation.com/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty#

The linked 1966 article in Nation generally argues that increasing welfare rolls will collapse our economic system so that a more equitable economic order can be established.

However, the bottom line tells a different story, “If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors”.

Although Obama attended Columbia University after Professors Cloward and Piven retired, no doubt he is well aware to their strategy.


22 posted on 12/09/2012 7:52:23 AM PST by izzy (Sidehill)
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To: Candor7; HangnJudge
The signal that Obama intends to destroy America is in his insistance to have a unilateral unconstitutional control over the debt ceiling.Obama wants absolute appropriation power and complete authority over the power of the purse, a power relegated to Congress by the Constitution

That part of your post reminded me of this article at Canada Free Press:

Obama: Give me Dictatorial Powers or I’ll Take your Country out

23 posted on 12/09/2012 7:52:48 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: HangnJudge

We already owe more per capita than Greece owes, and they are just a hint of what lies in store.


24 posted on 12/09/2012 7:53:13 AM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: M Kehoe
In other words,
we (the private sector) never got out of the 2007-08 recession


25 posted on 12/09/2012 7:56:11 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge
Thanks. Graphs tell the story much better than words or numbers by themselves.

Imho, we're screwed.

5.56mm

26 posted on 12/09/2012 8:02:57 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: HangnJudge

I almost threw up when I saw your post. I will never understand why the GOP didn’t buy a half hour commercial on prime time and let Paul Ryan give a Power Point presentation. I am a trial lawyer. When I was a kid, we used to use a few boards with a few photos blown up. Now, I use Power Point during my opening. How else would I get the Jury to understand what I have been working on for three years in 20 minutes?


27 posted on 12/09/2012 8:06:27 AM PST by MattinNJ (Col. West in 2016!!!!!!!!)
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To: HangnJudge

I almost threw up when I saw your post. I will never understand why the GOP didn’t buy a half hour commercial on prime time and let Paul Ryan give a Power Point presentation. I am a trial lawyer. When I was a kid, we used to use a few boards with a few photos blown up. Now, I use Power Point during my opening. How else would I get the Jury to understand what I have been working on for three years in 20 minutes?


28 posted on 12/09/2012 8:06:27 AM PST by MattinNJ (Col. West in 2016!!!!!!!!)
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To: HangnJudge

I almost threw up when I saw your post. I will never understand why the GOP didn’t buy a half hour commercial on prime time and let Paul Ryan give a Power Point presentation. I am a trial lawyer. When I was a kid, we used to use a few boards with a few photos blown up. Now, I use Power Point during my opening. How else would I get the Jury to understand what I have been working on for three years in 20 minutes?


29 posted on 12/09/2012 8:06:27 AM PST by MattinNJ (Col. West in 2016!!!!!!!!)
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To: M Kehoe
Imho, we're screwed.

Sort of like watching a steamroller coming toward you
Fascinating and Deadly

30 posted on 12/09/2012 8:08:10 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: MattinNJ
I almost threw up when I saw your post.

Fear does not help
Understanding helps

31 posted on 12/09/2012 8:11:06 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Most who voted for Obama in 2012 don’t care, as long as they get theirs.

They also have no idea of the end game which will show them that thier "poverty" today will seem like a period of great wealth once their pet politicians finish the job.

32 posted on 12/09/2012 8:13:12 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: HangnJudge

Whoa, -12% GDP? I don’t know how that could be possible and be able to survive.

I wonder what it was that acoounts for the 8% rise from 2010 - 2012...more funny money or accounting tricks?


33 posted on 12/09/2012 8:14:27 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Obama is not stupid and inept; he is deliberate, and he is successful

He is stupid and inept (watch him and listen to him); at the same time, he is deliberate and he is successful (thanks to the media propagandizing for him and propping him up).

34 posted on 12/09/2012 8:17:31 AM PST by Salvey
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To: HangnJudge

Who is John Galt?


35 posted on 12/09/2012 8:21:05 AM PST by bicyclerepair ( >-> Zombies eat brains. >-> 50% of FL is safe.)
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To: bicyclerepair
Who is John Galt?

His (Hers?) is one path
Sequester resources
Reboot economic system and productivity
Where? How? Who? are open questions

36 posted on 12/09/2012 8:36:31 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Las Vegas Ron

GDP = C + G + I + NX

C = all private consumption, or consumer spending, in a nation’s economy
G = sum of government spending
I = sum of all the country’s businesses spending on capital
NX = Exports - Imports

Since G Is total Governmental spending,
it does NOT include deficit accrual,
which is removed from total worth
The Government borrowed money like a drunken sailor
to prop up the GDP numbers

Similarly, Private Citizens borrowed indiscriminately
to prop up their lifestyles (a trend that is changing)


37 posted on 12/09/2012 8:53:47 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: DeaconRed

My tagline for about 9 months in advance of the election in 2008:

Obama: Carter’s only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.

I hate being right.


38 posted on 12/09/2012 8:54:56 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kaslin

Doesn’t the word “recession” imply an eventual return to normality? Uh....it’s not a recession folks. This is more like liquidation.


39 posted on 12/09/2012 9:07:42 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Kaslin

No. We are in the midst of one.


40 posted on 12/09/2012 9:08:01 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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