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

[fuckwaffle]

Debt Up $5T Since Senate Last Passed a Budget
By Matt Cover
October 29, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – The national debt has risen by $5 trillion in the three-and-a-half years since the Senate last passed a budget on April 29, 2009. On that date, the debt was $11.2 trillion. As of October 29, 2012 it stood at $16.2 trillion.

 

[islandman]

Debt Up $5T Since Senate Last Passed a Budget
By Matt Cover
October 29, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – The national debt has risen by $5 trillion in the three-and-a-half years since the Senate last passed a budget on April 29, 2009. On that date, the debt was $11.2 trillion. As of October 29, 2012 it stood at $16.2 trillion.

That's crazy.

Tell me, does the House know that the Senate alone controls the nation's purse-strings?

 

[garbage can]

Perhaps try reading their statements without the filter of wingnut news sources.

From your best moonbat source...........

Please show me where the judges ruled the case as specifically targeting minority voters.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Link please.

where the courts said the intended outcome was specifically aimed at minority voter suppression.

Anybody else would ask, I'd provide one.

You? You have a long history of not owning up to your misstatements, so no link for you.

Actions have consequences, my friend.

Derp.

 

[garbage can]

From your best moonbat source...........

Please show me where the judges ruled the case as specifically targeting minority voters.

I'm going to watch the last half hour of O'reilly while awaiting responses from RDS and Daily.

 

[garbage can]

Anybody else would ask, I'd provide one.

You? You have a long history of not owning up to your misstatements, so no link for you.

Actions have consequences, my friend.

Derp.

*laughing*......... you failed miserably, my friend.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

No thanks, frozen corn is superior. Let me know when he finally get's an original idea, that goes for you too, genius.

How about I "get's" you a new dictionary for X'mas? That's not only an original idea for your ass, it's also a practical one.

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[richard_daily]

*laughing*......... you failed miserably, my friend.

Your mother failed... to abort you.

How about I "get's" you a new dictionary for X'mas? That's not only an original idea for your ass, it's also a practical one.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m96ca49bL91qgwxsu.gif

Glad you're ok!

 

[RobDownSouth]

*laughing*......... you failed miserably, my friend.

That's right, you're a winner. A WINNER, DAMMIT!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Glad you're ok!

Danke. My palatial penthouse apartment is all good. Nice to be back and intact.

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[Disgustipated]

No thanks, you couldn't afford any better examples than I already have. maybe you should visit the library and read Gibbon or Mencken and you too will have a superior grasp of English prose.

The m in your second sentence is wrong, dumbass.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

No thanks, you couldn't afford any better examples than I already have. maybe you should visit the library and read Gibbon or Mencken and you too will have a superior grasp of English prose.

I've read more than enough beyond those two name drops to know not to make preschool-level mistakes in spelling like that. Think maybe you should go get a grasp on something more your speed. And I ain't talkin' about the steering wheel in your remaining Matchbox car.

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Sound familiar?

On retaking the throne, Vlad was stunned to find Wallachia in a state of utter social and economic decay. Where once a brisk trade in "salt, cattle … honey, wine … wax" and many other goods had prospered, the economy was now utterly destroyed.[1]

In fact, throughout the century prior to Vlad III's return, the Wallachian economy had been systematically destroyed by liberal use of a well-known policy strategy: currency manipulation. Previous rulers of Wallachia had repeatedly implemented monetary "reform,"

each [of which] led to the introduction of a more debased … lighter weight type of ducat … [in order to] increase of the amount of the coinage needed by … expanding political payments.[2]

The previous Wallachian leaders' motives were timeworn as well: "Wallachia was confronted, almost permanently, with excessive military expenses … as well as an active international policy."

Thus, there were "serious threats … [to] the monetary stability in Wallachia during the entire 14th–15th century."[3]

Consistent expansion of the money supply had created insecurity within the realm, and Vlad immediately took action to create security, making his ruling objectives clear:

My sacred mission is to bring order.… There must be security for all in my land.… When a prince is powerful at home, he will be able to do as he wills. If I am feared by the right people, [we] will be strong.[4]

Over the next six years, he implemented policies according to three rough tenets: class warfare/redistribution, protectionism, and welfare statism. Accounts of Vlad III's murderous efforts in these pursuits rival, in their sanguineous ingenuity, the most nightmarish accounts of both La Terreur of revolutionary France and the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. In Roumania Past and Present, historian James Samuelson notes, regarding the legends surrounding Vlad Tepes III, "if one-tenth of what has been related to him [is] true … [he is] one of the most atrocious and cruel tyrants who ever disgraced even those dark ages."[5]

However, Vlad III was more than just a sadist; his victims were chosen according to their usefulness with respect to fulfilling his vision for a revitalized Wallachia. Indeed, several historians agree that "it is beyond any doubt that [among other] reasons, Vlad the Impaler was … guided by economic ones."[6]

Class Warfare

A bulwark of the social and economic landscape of Wallachia — and most of Eastern Europe, at this time — was the boyar class: a social rank of landowners, merchants, and military elites one level below the ruling nobility. Vlad III blamed the merchants and elites for the economic troubles of the time. Consequently, a centerpiece of his plan to right the economic ship of Wallachia focused on persecuting the boyars and seizing their property: leveraging the masses' schadenfreud to harness the considerable power of envy and, in turn, greater breadth to the reach of his throne.

The implicit message behind Vlad III's policy was an enduring one, as states go: that the wealthy and productive live off and at the expense of the multitude. In fact, governments are the true vampires, clandestinely siphoning the productive output of all citizens while pitting them against each other through propaganda and prevarication.

In Easter 1456, Vlad III invited a number of prominent boyars to his castle, some of whom he suspected of taking being part in the conspiracy to murder his father. Suddenly, without warning, the

able-bodied were chained together and forced to march for sixty miles through the rugged countryside to the ruins of Poienari in the Argest valley. Many of them died enroute.… The prisoners were forced to form a human chain under the whip to convey building materials up the mountainside. The restoration work lasted for two months and very few of the captives survived the ordeal.[7]

Throughout the remainder of his reign, Vlad III decimated the landowning and merchant population and at the same time seized their wealth and property. Throughout his reign, in fact, he devoted extensive time and effort to "systematically eradicate the old boyar class of Wallachia."[8] In August of 1459, one account reports that he "had thirty thousand merchants and boyars" killed.[9]

Vlad III had something in common with other murderous class avengers throughout history: he was from the very economic stratum that he persecuted. He began his life among the boyars, and like them was traveled, literate, and cultured. Indeed, even while persecuting them, he unwittingly revealed shared social mores. One of his aristocratic pet peeves was against boyar men who, in his opinion, didn't dress fancily enough; their wives were executed.

http://mises.org/daily/6244/The-Economics-of-Dracula

 

[IrezumiKiss]

You'll have to ride a submarine to work son. Out here where freedom remains and the accomplished dwell, we drive where we need to go.

BTW, you ain't talkin' anything but envious shit.

Last thing I'm envious about anything right now is having a car. Out here where actual freedom thrives and the accomplished hold up more than half the country, we walk where we need to go on top of driving and/or mass transit. That's some real "I built it myself" freedom.

 

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[IrezumiKiss]

Bullshit you're whole town is financed by about 40,000 people, the rest are freeloaders.

Nah, it's more like the whole country is financed by about 40,000 people (if they're not bankrupting it from lack of regulations) and the rest do the actual leg and arm work to keep it moving.

 

[richard_daily]

Last thing I'm envious about anything right now is having a car. Out here where actual freedom thrives and the accomplished hold up more than half the country, we walk where we need to go on top of driving and/or mass transit. That's some real "I built it myself" freedom.

well, to be fair, if he drives to the grocery store down the block, he only has to see black people while waiting in line, and only then if he opens his eyes.

 

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[IrezumiKiss]

New York City is largely financed by the public mugging of about 40,000 wealthy people, many of whom are leaving your town. Soon you will have to work for a living.

Nobody who matters leaves here for weak, dumbshit reasons as you'd love to believe. The rich that own your ass even from the other side of the country are still here and they ain't going nowhere. And the non-wealthy people who actually make this city work and run on a daily basis ain't going anywhere, either. I'm afraid my living here and being in the center of verity for well over twenty years trumps your internet-only experiences and game show knowledge.

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[richard_daily]

Nobody who matters leaves here for weak, dumbshit reasons as you'd love to believe. The rich that own your ass even from the other side of the country are still here and they ain't going nowhere. And the non-wealthy people who actually make this city work and run on a daily basis ain't going anywhere, either. I'm afraid my living here and being in the center of verity for well over twenty years trumps your internet-only experiences and game show knowledge.

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So where are all the people from "Kalifornia" moving to?

 

[phrodeau]

Yeah sure dunce:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tax_refugees_staging_escape_from_qb4pItQ71UXIc0i6cd3UpK

and the loss in New Jersey is 70 billion:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/study_the_rich_are_leaving_new_jersey_a5E4Ti0z6CxWelbf6nGwOL

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/04/st...n-personal-finance-rich-avoid-new-jersey.html

You want to keep emigrants from leaving, and you want to keep immigrants from arriving. Should we build more fences?

 

[koalabear]

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