Posted on 05/23/2002 3:33:59 PM PDT by billsux
The Australian prostitutes would probably understand exactly what you are talking about.
And Dubya ain't nearly done opening our wallet. WE WILL PAY EVENTUALLY...
Look for double-digit interest rates, huge recession, and a major real estate slide the minute after Dubya gets re-elected in '04.
I'll drink to that,shipmate.
Every year since the Republicans first took control of the House in 1995, spending roadblocks have been further removed. Domestic spending actually fell by an impressive 3% in real terms in the 104th Congress (1995-96) when Republicans seized control of the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. The next Congress raised spending by 4%, the next by 11%, and this one is on pace to raise the budget by 15%.
I've covered federal budget issues for nearly two decades. If the Farm Bill wasn't the most fiscally rancid legislation I have seen, it's certainly in the top three. Yet two out of three Republicans voted for it, and, worse yet, Mr. Bush not only signed it, he crowed that it would secure the "independence of the American farmer." Independence from what exactly? The free market?
John Boehner, the savvy Republican from Ohio who was a major part of the Republican Contract with America revolution in 1994, recently lamented that "we Republicans seem to have forgotten who we are and why we're here." He's right. Republicans are suffering from a politically lethal identity crisis. If the budget bulge that we're now witnessing were happening under a Democratic presidency, Republicans would be howling in indignant outrage. If the tidal wave of spending isn't soon reversed, the Republican Party may soon discover that it is both redundant and replaceable.
Vote Democrat, liberal Democrat. Start the revolution sooner rather than later.
Oh, I think it will come in our lifetimes.
Buy some insurance. In the form of guns, ammunition, and gold. ;)
By the time the bill comes due in the form of inflation, your friendly politician will be retired on a 100% COLA pension with every benny under the sun and your kids will be stuck with the bill. I'm not making this up, I've already seen it happen. When Johnson was pumping money into Vietnam, did any of those politicians in '65-'70 come to my parents and say "Please dig into your pockets and pay the tax collector so we can conduct this war!" No, they just printed the money. Then, as if by magic, 10 years after the fact when it's time for me to buy a new car, inflation is 15% and when it's all over a car that used to cost $3000 is now inducing "sticker-shock" at $6500.
How many times is this going to happen before Americans wake up?
The golden rule of finance is "He who has the gold makes the rules." When the people had the gold (and silver - in their pockets and backing up their currency) the people made the rules. When the banking establishment and their willing stooge politicians have the gold (most of which is sitting in vaults below Chase in lower Manhattan) THEY make the rules. When politicians no longer have to ask the people for the money they spend, the people have lost control of their government.
Americans should just get used to being screwed because the politicians and their bankster friends are enjoying it. Until the American people force them to ask the people for the money to run government by requiring a specie based currency, they're going to continue enjoying "servicing" you.
By the time the bill comes due in the form of inflation, your friendly politician will be retired on a 100% COLA pension with every benny under the sun and your kids will be stuck with the bill. I'm not making this up, I've already seen it happen. When Johnson was pumping money into Vietnam, did any of those politicians in '65-'70 come to my parents and say "Please dig into your pockets and pay the tax collector so we can conduct this war!" No, they just printed the money. Then, as if by magic, 10 years after the fact when it's time for me to buy a new car, inflation is 15% and when it's all over a car that used to cost $3000 is now inducing "sticker-shock" at $6500.
How many times is this going to happen before Americans wake up?
The golden rule of finance is "He who has the gold makes the rules." When the people had the gold (and silver - in their pockets and backing up their currency) the people made the rules. When the banking establishment and their willing stooge politicians have the gold (most of which is sitting in vaults below Chase in lower Manhattan) THEY make the rules. When politicians no longer have to ask the people for the money they spend, the people have lost control of their government.
Americans should just get used to being screwed because the politicians and their bankster friends are enjoying it. Until the American people force them to ask the people for the money to run government by requiring a specie based currency, they're going to continue enjoying "servicing" you.
I hope you're wrong. But you're probably right.
They're too busy reading all the government's jolly economic statistics which show that there is no such thing as inflation and we live in an era of continuous positive economic growth.
Remember when everyone used to post about the Plunge Protection Team? Ah, those were the days!
I keep asking when Republicans plan to begin reducing government but nobody seems to be able to give me an answer.
Senator Phil Graham from Texas said that Social Security will be phased out in 65 years under the Republican plan. Isn't that great news!
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