What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Byron In Exile]

Money4Nuttin'?

And your chicks for free...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

September 2009... "Hope and Change!"

Nothing has changed.

Except maybe the "Hope" part.

Now it's a sort of joke-word.

Best economy ever; why the Middle Class is doing WAY better then it ever did under that evil neo-con BUSH!

Even McDonald's is now offering management trainee jobs instead of burger-flipping jobs!

And, best yet, we're all paying our "fair share" of energy costs!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And your chicks for free...

Will I owe the government all the eggs after I pay for the privilege of raising them?



Our earthquake was 4.0 last night. How big was yours?

 

[fair_warning]

AJ will never agree on a finish line. Right now he's got bets out on three double dip recessions, hyperinflation, deflation, and stagflation. Why should the coward have to put dates on his predictions when they can be all open-ended and therefore never "wrong"?

The only correction I would make to your statement is to remove the word 'coward'. I don't believe he's a coward, rather someone who made their mind up years ago and refuses to process any further information on certain topics...rather like my elderly father....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I traveled farther than any of the "thinkers" here from dedicated Socialist to Libertarian.



I'm not the one who never considered the other side of the coin...

 

[fair_warning]

I traveled farther than any of the "thinkers" here from dedicated Socialist to Libertarian.



I'm not the one who never considered the other side of the coin...

I am unconvinced as to the actual distance you travelled. Assuming you live in America, your experience with Socialism could only be theoretical.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I am unconvinced as to the actual distance you travelled. Assuming you live in America, your experience with Socialism could only be theoretical.

What does that actually mean?

Since FDR, we've had plenty of Socialism and we keep voting for more...

That's why I've been saying, as has President Obama, that there are going to be no more "Glory Days."

It's a matter of International as well as National "Social Justice."

“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
Barack Hussein Obama
Strasbourg, France

The US economy for a long period of time was the engine of world economic growth. We were sucking in imports from all across the world financed by huge amounts of consumer debt. Because of the financial crisis, but also because that debt was fundamentally unsustainable, the United States is not going to be able to serve in that same capacity to that same extent.
Barack Hussein Obama

 

[fair_warning]

What does that actually mean?

Since FDR, we've had plenty of Socialism and we keep voting for more...

That's why I've been saying, as has President Obama, that there are going to be no more "Glory Days."

It's a matter of International as well as National "Social Justice."

“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
Barack Hussein Obama
Strasbourg, France

The US economy for a long period of time was the engine of world economic growth. We were sucking in imports from all across the world financed by huge amounts of consumer debt. Because of the financial crisis, but also because that debt was fundamentally unsustainable, the United States is not going to be able to serve in that same capacity to that same extent.
Barack Hussein Obama

Thats the second time you have asked me to explain a fairly simple statement.
I seriously question your ability to examine/evaluate Socialism when all you can draw upon is your experience of living in the USA.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Will I owe the government all the eggs after I pay for the privilege of raising them?

Our earthquake was 4.0 last night. How big was yours?

Look, you're going to win at Earthquakes.

You're on a crack in the plate. Not a big deal.

We're fucking on the edge between two plates.

San Francisco was wiped out in 1906.

An adjustment like that happens about every hundred years. (Btw, "adjustment" is a euphemism for everything being destroyed.)

If I still lived in Los Angeles, I would now be making plans to leave the area.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Look, you're going to win at Earthquakes.

You're on a crack in the plate. Not a big deal.

We're fucking on the edge between two plates.

San Francisco was wiped out in 1906.

An adjustment like that happens about every hundred years. (Btw, "adjustment" is a euphemism for everything being destroyed.)

If I still lived in Los Angeles, I would now be making plans to leave the area.

I get the hell out before divine retribution reduced it to a plain of salt...

 

[Byron In Exile]

I am unconvinced as to the actual distance you travelled. Assuming you live in America, your experience with Socialism could only be theoretical.

Most of America's experience with socialism has involved fighting Russians and Germans.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I get the hell out before divine retribution reduced it to a plain of salt...

I own land that I hope will one day be beachfront property.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Most of America's experience with socialism has involved fighting Russians and Germans.

I'm wondering how the hell an AUstralian would know shit from shinola...



They keep insisting they are anything BUT a Socialism, so this must be a pot -> kettle thing.

 

[fair_warning]

Most of America's experience with socialism has involved fighting Russians and Germans.

See, that doesn't really cut the mustard.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I own land that I hope will one day be beachfront property.

Me too!


It's called Glow Ball Warning and I'm on a ridge in what used to be a giant ocean...

 

[Byron In Exile]

See, that doesn't really cut the mustard.

What does that even mean?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What does that even mean?

It must be koan day...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Everything the Left does must be purely theoretical because they deny all label and definition...

I/Obama am/is not:

A Marxist
A Socialist
A Fascist
A Progressive
A Leftist
.
.
.

rosco went so far yesterday as to call him a virtual Republican...

 

[fair_warning]

What does that even mean?[/QUOTE

nothing.
ignore it/me.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Leadership from Behind!

Change You Can Believe In!

Ron Suskind's book Confidence Men portrays Barack Obama as being confounded by his duties as president. Some of the scenes depicted by Suskind would be comical if they were not so tragic for America.

For example, when Obama's experts assembled to discuss the scope and intricacies of the stimulus bill, Barack Obama was out of his depth. He was "surprisingly aloof in the conversation" and seemed "disconnected and less in control." His contributions were rare and consisted of blurting out such gems of wisdom as "There needs to be more inspiration here!" and "What about more smart grids" and -- one more that Newt Gingrich would appreciate -- "we need more moon shot" (pages 154-5).

Suskind writes:

Members of the team were perplexed...for the first time in the transition, people started to wonder just how prepared the man at the helm was.

He repeated a similar sorry performance when he had a conference call with Speaker Pelosi and her staff to discuss the details of the planned stimulus bill. He shouted into the speakerphone that "this stimulus needs more inspiration! Pelosi and her staff visibly rolled their eyes."

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/how_obama_makes_decisions.html#ixzz1n1MKRpge

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Their actions are clueless and heretofore unknown to the human race so they cannot be classified in the conventional manner.

Pragmatic Centrism!

 

[Byron In Exile]

What does that even mean?

nothing.
ignore it/me.

Oh, it's a bit late for that, I'm afraid...

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/0510/mil/National_Lampoon_-_Land_A_Million.mp3

That red knob on your right... is the throttle!!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

As Republicans gnaw at each other’s throats, playing a desperate game of “I’m more conservative than you,” something yet more depressing and deeply ironic is occurring: Capitalism is saving Obama.

In the spirit of “no bad deed goes unrewarded,” the very system our president cut his teeth on despising — the unbridled free market — is on its way to securing him a second term. (Well, it may not be as “unbridled” as it once was, but it is unbridled enough to work some magic.)

Yes, I am well aware that the unemployment numbers are fudged; that whatever recovery exists is flimsy at best and most probably not even there. In fact, we may be poised on the brink of a depression even greater than the Thirties.

But the reverse may also be true. Capitalism — that sturdiest of systems — may be righting itself to some degree. A recovery may be under way despite the wrongheaded policies of an administration seemingly determined to undermine it.

Investors apparently think so. The stock market had a remarkable January and, if this trend continues, it could start to spill cash, positively influencing the economy at large, even the depressed housing market at the heart of the global meltdown.

More likely not. More likely this is just one of those temporary roller-coaster swings that occurred during the Thirties. Nevertheless, elections are about perception and capitalism, of all things, appears to be giving the euro-socialist Obama a reprieve. The media is already trumpeting his success and, of course, they will continue to do so into the Fall.

Roger L. Simon
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/02/21/lucky-barack/?singlepage=true

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Guess who Obama and TIMMAH! don't want to have paying "their fair share?"

Within the next few weeks — possibly by the end of February — the Obama administration is expected to unveil a "broad framework" on corporate tax reform and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said this week he "wants to bring down the rate to an average of our major competitors."

...

Geithner took a beating this week over how much detail the administration would provide in its much-anticipated plan — the Treasury secretary said it ends "dozens" of special tax preferences and would be enough to start discussions.

Now they're not targeted "stimulus," they're "loopholes..."

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mon...blicans-tiptoe-towards-corporate-tax-overhaul