The patterns of Megapolitics suggest that this sort of excess spending and meddling in the affairs of others will grease the skids for the decline of of the US empire.
Slaughter of the innocents in Gaza? I seem to recall that these people chose Hamas to govern them and danced in the streets last October. I doubt that many of them are dancing in the rubble that is now Gaza...
That said I have no more use for the people who are paying them back in kind; or for the neo-Nazis in Ukraine or the Russian government they are squabbling with...
What I most heartily resent is my tax dollars, extorted from me by my government, being wasted buying arms for Israel, the Ukraine and Taiwan...
Everyone is dumb…but me. My wife said, to paraphrase an old Marykoll saying, “Everyone is now cursing the darkness but where are the candles being lighted.”
It all seems to be darkness. What creates Light?
We have, like a degenerate alcoholic, hit bottom. We need, as AA, a higher power.
"And in Asia, America will cut itself off from friendly trade with the most innovative and productive economy on the planet." I will grant you China being the most productive economy on the planet, but they are not innovative. All their production is designed somewhere else. Peter Zeihan said China stole plans from Germany and others to build complex technical objects and they can't do it. Should we consider a Communist country to be more truthful than a republic?
In "Thick Face, Black Heart" https://a.co/d/1ewMBh6, there is a quote: "If you don't need to trust them; then you can trust them." Perhaps trusting China to tell the truth about their economy is as good as an idea as trusting the United States government. Why do you need a Doom Index for the US and not one for China?
I agree with you that we have to cut spending. Israel and Taiwan might be a better investment than the Ukraine. Both countries provide a lot of new technologies that we use. The Ukraine is probably not going to win against Russia and the money used will devastate the country, not to mention the death toll. I do believe that the US government spends too much within our country. We can start be getting rid of the department of education and the department of energy (both are worthless and education can be assumed by the states). Every department in the US government can be cut by 10% and we wouldn’t even notice it. I’m sure 50% of the budget is ‘pork’ and can it be cut.
The added foreign aid bill is the same as for many years; those in politics will receive a large amount back, some under the table some in several ways other. Our taxpayer dollars make the round trip to further the corruption in political games at all levels; City, County, State, and Federal, and now with the left (demos) in control of ALL, Courts, Justice, Media, etc., they are getting what "they" want, why should they stop.????????? In the long term the U.S.A. is gone as we (84) knew it.
My grandkids selling A glass of lemonade at the driveway stall for 10 cents a cup, are going to have to do something now the lemons and sugar have gone up by 10% in 12 months & going up by more next quarter.
Joe says ‘Hey don’t worry, the water is free’
Don says ‘MAGA, Donate half the 10 cents to me, and next year I promise I’ll make sure you can get 25 cents a cup.”
IN ACCORD WYTH MY PROMISE AT EBD 0F MY COMMENT HERE YESTERDAY, I WROTE A VERY LONG ADDENDUM TODAY. UNFOTUNATELY, IT VANIS HED JUST AS I WAS CONCLDING IT.
WE MUST ELECT A TRUE STATESMAN/WOMAN, DEDICATED TO SERVING COUNTRY AND FELLO9W MA BY REVERDUNG DEFICIT SPENDING.
2. STOP WW3 IN ITS TRASKS. DO NOT FALL PREY TO THE PHONY FLAG WAVTBG PRO[PABDA SPEWED BY THE ,MINIONS OF THE RICH POWER FLITE. WAR IS HELL. AMEATGTINDER. IT IS JOT THE FLESH OF THEIB PROGEJY YHAY WYLL BE THE MEATBFOR THE FLESH UGRINDER/ IT IS FLESH OF YOUT CHULDREN ANF GRANDCBILD REN THAT FROUJ AND INCINERATED. AND REMAIKS RETURFED IJ COFFIJS DRAPED WITH THE FLAG, CLORIFYING OUR WAR HEROES THUS ABSURD CHARADE ALL THE WHILMASKING THEIR CYBICA,EVOLENCF, AND ALL THE WHILE STUFFING THEIR POCJETS WITH FIVIDEBSDSFROM FIREPOWER MABUFACTURERS SUCH RAYTHEUN, GEBERAL DYBAMICS, BOTTHRUP GRUMMONF, ST AL. DONOT V;OODYNYUOIR HANDS BY ACCEOPTIMF PROFITS FROM WASE MONFERS. THERE TOO MSNY WASYS TO MSAJE MONEY WITH CIMPAVIES THAT PUOFUC PROFUBTS THAY YIELD KIFE AND HEASMTJ AND JOY. BONT CAPITKIZE BOMPAVIES RHST PRODUCE FIREPOWER
I AM ALMOST BLIND, SO PLEASE FORGIVE CAPS. THIS IS ACONTINUATION OF MY COMMENT FROM YESTERDAY, AS PROMISED. FIRST, P;EASE BREALIXE THAT YHATTHIS IS NOT, NOT ,BOT, DEFINITELY ABOUT POLITICS AND/OR POLITICIANS.
MOST OF US REAJIZED LONGAGO THAIS A RIGGED GAME---ANDTHAT IS A EUPHRBISM. MORE ACCURATE ADJECTIVES PERHAPS ARE: CORRUPT, CDOOKED,POWEWR ABD MONEY,, ZVARICE, FREEDM ABD SMETIMES SEX MOTIVATED CON GABES. WE MST TURB BACKS. WE MUST TURN OFF THE THE MAIBSTREAM MEDIA WHICH WOULD BLATHER ON ENDLESSLY ABOUT BIDEN AND TRUMP. IS THERE THAT SERYOUSLY BELIEVES THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER? COME ON. RIDICULOUS!
TREUMP AND BIDEN --- EACH HAS HAD HIS FOUR YEARS TO REVERSE OUR PERIJOUS COURSE, AJF THE RESUKT IS CLEAR TO ALL EYES TO SEE ABD EARS TO HEAR. TURN OFF CO.P0LRTELY THE MSM. O AND X, AND OWNED, OPERATED , CONTROLLED, AND SCFIPTED BY THE RICH POWER ELITE(RPE).
TURN YOUR BACK ON THEM. AS THE GREAT TEACHER MIFHT SAY, "GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN". MSM IS AT WASTING YOUR TME AND SCRAMBLING YOUR BRAIN---WORSE-POLLUTING IT WITH FALSEHOODS, TRIVIA. PROPACA. ETC. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU ALLOW TO EBTER./ CHOOSE TO PUT IKTO IT.
NOW, [ DO REALIZE IAM PREACHING TO THE CHOIR. PLEASE FOFGIVE ME. AND, PLEASE FORGIVE MY PEANTRY. IT'S IN MY DNA.
SO, IG IS MY VIEW, THAT IT IS OUR DUTY TO AWOKEN" THE WOJE. ABD TO AWAKE ALLL TO THE TRUTH---ESPECIALLY THOSE BORN CJRCA 1971(CLOSING OF GOLD WINDOW) TO 2998(RE FINANCIAL CRISIS---THE DEMOGRAOH WHICH WILL COBTROL THE OUTCOME OF THE 2024 ELECTION.
WE OLDTIMERS, WE WHO UN OTH TOUTH POUBDEDOR CHESRS WTH PRIDE THAT THROUGHED HAD BEEN THROUGH SOME ACCIFEBT OF BIRTH SERE PRIVILTGED TO BAVE TO HAVE BEEN THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. WE WHO HAVE RECEIVED SO MUCH FROM OUR BELOVED COUBTRY OWE A FUTY ---PERHPS A SACRED DUTY AWAJEN THOSE UN THE VOTING DEMOGRAPHIC
That would be the beginning of cuts. We don’t want to panic the population of government employees. Milei is doing it in Argentina and inflation has already began to drop. The U.S. just does not have any more money; much is borrowed.
Seems the skids have been greased, oiled, siliconed and there is a rocket ready to be lit to push it in the desired direction i.e. to the decline. Politicians can't seem to read the writing on the wall until its too late to act or more costly to act. That's pretty easy to do when you are using other people's money to make yourself rich. Their overspending has to collapse into disaster before they can apply economic logic. They are still thinking Keynesian stimulation is a sure thing.
I proposed this hypothetical before but I'll ask again here just for fun... What if we stop taxing US citizens federally altogether. Instead of any federal income tax, we eliminate it altogether (which would be a huge cost savings and administrative relief), cut the government/war budget of course as clearly needed, and then just simply print whatever money is needed to fund the necessary expenditures above remaining tariff and miscellaneous federal income. Just go strictly with inflation via fiat reserve currency printing and no taxation of US citizens. Inflation becomes the de-facto tax, instead of just a weasely part of it. It becomes the simplest tax regime system on Earth, and all the foreigners holding dollars effectively pay half of it for us, for a while at least. Why not give that a try? Start with Krugman's trillion dollar platinum coin, and just keep on minting them up... Why keep doing this printing and deficit spending in half-measures and fretting and arguing about whether it's all too much? Just go all in and print up the whole damned budget... Eliminate the Fed, Treasury does it's own printing, so no debt, no interest either... beat the banksters at their own game... Everyone will love no more IRS, no more taxes (federally), and no more hot potato pretending the "debt" is ever going to be repaid in sound money... Just good and honest straight up inflation-tax on the dollar holding universe. Brilliant? Or absurdly ridiculous? Or simply "the future"...?
The stupidity of thought is comical. The economics of financial input/output are worthless. The standards of the job market are useless and idiotic. Come here and labor yourself for a certain number of hours in a given day and we will compensate you with this much….. hahaha, what a mindless foolish routine to follow. Like a broken peasant, a half witted beggar has more sense in his head than the opening bell. Lest no one tell you otherwise.
"Whichever point of view you choose, what is indisputable is that in the US as in Argentina ‘no hay dinero’ (there is no money). So, the $95 billion will have to be borrowed. US debt will increase... and the Primary Trend towards lower real asset prices, higher interest rates, higher levels of inflation, and spreading poverty will be enhanced. "
The indisputable fact is the US has no money!! The results will be as described above. My question is, how do I hold accountable the bipartisan morons that have done this to me? How can I get restitution from these criminals here in the United States? There is no way I or any sane person would vote for this kind of self-immolation, which again begs the question of how I get recompense. How would you???
There is no success in Greece's effort to descent from the debt mountain. According to a recent article from the Financial Times, it is the second poorest country in the EU. No changes have been made towards a real free market, and the state still remains the main beneficiary of any real productive output. Greece is supported by external loans, using its assets as collateral just to keep the real wealth-sucking operation going.
Slaughter of the innocents in Gaza? I seem to recall that these people chose Hamas to govern them and danced in the streets last October. I doubt that many of them are dancing in the rubble that is now Gaza...
That said I have no more use for the people who are paying them back in kind; or for the neo-Nazis in Ukraine or the Russian government they are squabbling with...
What I most heartily resent is my tax dollars, extorted from me by my government, being wasted buying arms for Israel, the Ukraine and Taiwan...
Speaking of dumb and subliminally funny, the key witnesses name in the porn star - Trump trial is Pecker.. is anyone else getting the humor in that?
Everyone is dumb…but me. My wife said, to paraphrase an old Marykoll saying, “Everyone is now cursing the darkness but where are the candles being lighted.”
It all seems to be darkness. What creates Light?
We have, like a degenerate alcoholic, hit bottom. We need, as AA, a higher power.
We are too dumb to help ourselves.
"And in Asia, America will cut itself off from friendly trade with the most innovative and productive economy on the planet." I will grant you China being the most productive economy on the planet, but they are not innovative. All their production is designed somewhere else. Peter Zeihan said China stole plans from Germany and others to build complex technical objects and they can't do it. Should we consider a Communist country to be more truthful than a republic?
In "Thick Face, Black Heart" https://a.co/d/1ewMBh6, there is a quote: "If you don't need to trust them; then you can trust them." Perhaps trusting China to tell the truth about their economy is as good as an idea as trusting the United States government. Why do you need a Doom Index for the US and not one for China?
“Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. And empires gotta decline.”
Yep, slowly with a wimper at first, then suddenly and dramatically at the end… like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff.
Bill:
I agree with you that we have to cut spending. Israel and Taiwan might be a better investment than the Ukraine. Both countries provide a lot of new technologies that we use. The Ukraine is probably not going to win against Russia and the money used will devastate the country, not to mention the death toll. I do believe that the US government spends too much within our country. We can start be getting rid of the department of education and the department of energy (both are worthless and education can be assumed by the states). Every department in the US government can be cut by 10% and we wouldn’t even notice it. I’m sure 50% of the budget is ‘pork’ and can it be cut.
AP
The added foreign aid bill is the same as for many years; those in politics will receive a large amount back, some under the table some in several ways other. Our taxpayer dollars make the round trip to further the corruption in political games at all levels; City, County, State, and Federal, and now with the left (demos) in control of ALL, Courts, Justice, Media, etc., they are getting what "they" want, why should they stop.????????? In the long term the U.S.A. is gone as we (84) knew it.
RALPH W.
My grandkids selling A glass of lemonade at the driveway stall for 10 cents a cup, are going to have to do something now the lemons and sugar have gone up by 10% in 12 months & going up by more next quarter.
Joe says ‘Hey don’t worry, the water is free’
Don says ‘MAGA, Donate half the 10 cents to me, and next year I promise I’ll make sure you can get 25 cents a cup.”
Pop says it’s all humbug & and it’s dead easy,
I gunna put up my sign on the stall..
“Please help and buy 2 cups!
Contribute to Nation building.
Proceeds for a good cause, the MIC…”
Should be a blast, somewhere down the road.
PLEASE FORGIVE CAPS - ALMOST BLIND
IN ACCORD WYTH MY PROMISE AT EBD 0F MY COMMENT HERE YESTERDAY, I WROTE A VERY LONG ADDENDUM TODAY. UNFOTUNATELY, IT VANIS HED JUST AS I WAS CONCLDING IT.
WE MUST ELECT A TRUE STATESMAN/WOMAN, DEDICATED TO SERVING COUNTRY AND FELLO9W MA BY REVERDUNG DEFICIT SPENDING.
2. STOP WW3 IN ITS TRASKS. DO NOT FALL PREY TO THE PHONY FLAG WAVTBG PRO[PABDA SPEWED BY THE ,MINIONS OF THE RICH POWER FLITE. WAR IS HELL. AMEATGTINDER. IT IS JOT THE FLESH OF THEIB PROGEJY YHAY WYLL BE THE MEATBFOR THE FLESH UGRINDER/ IT IS FLESH OF YOUT CHULDREN ANF GRANDCBILD REN THAT FROUJ AND INCINERATED. AND REMAIKS RETURFED IJ COFFIJS DRAPED WITH THE FLAG, CLORIFYING OUR WAR HEROES THUS ABSURD CHARADE ALL THE WHILMASKING THEIR CYBICA,EVOLENCF, AND ALL THE WHILE STUFFING THEIR POCJETS WITH FIVIDEBSDSFROM FIREPOWER MABUFACTURERS SUCH RAYTHEUN, GEBERAL DYBAMICS, BOTTHRUP GRUMMONF, ST AL. DONOT V;OODYNYUOIR HANDS BY ACCEOPTIMF PROFITS FROM WASE MONFERS. THERE TOO MSNY WASYS TO MSAJE MONEY WITH CIMPAVIES THAT PUOFUC PROFUBTS THAY YIELD KIFE AND HEASMTJ AND JOY. BONT CAPITKIZE BOMPAVIES RHST PRODUCE FIREPOWER
I AM ALMOST BLIND, SO PLEASE FORGIVE CAPS. THIS IS ACONTINUATION OF MY COMMENT FROM YESTERDAY, AS PROMISED. FIRST, P;EASE BREALIXE THAT YHATTHIS IS NOT, NOT ,BOT, DEFINITELY ABOUT POLITICS AND/OR POLITICIANS.
MOST OF US REAJIZED LONGAGO THAIS A RIGGED GAME---ANDTHAT IS A EUPHRBISM. MORE ACCURATE ADJECTIVES PERHAPS ARE: CORRUPT, CDOOKED,POWEWR ABD MONEY,, ZVARICE, FREEDM ABD SMETIMES SEX MOTIVATED CON GABES. WE MST TURB BACKS. WE MUST TURN OFF THE THE MAIBSTREAM MEDIA WHICH WOULD BLATHER ON ENDLESSLY ABOUT BIDEN AND TRUMP. IS THERE THAT SERYOUSLY BELIEVES THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER? COME ON. RIDICULOUS!
TREUMP AND BIDEN --- EACH HAS HAD HIS FOUR YEARS TO REVERSE OUR PERIJOUS COURSE, AJF THE RESUKT IS CLEAR TO ALL EYES TO SEE ABD EARS TO HEAR. TURN OFF CO.P0LRTELY THE MSM. O AND X, AND OWNED, OPERATED , CONTROLLED, AND SCFIPTED BY THE RICH POWER ELITE(RPE).
TURN YOUR BACK ON THEM. AS THE GREAT TEACHER MIFHT SAY, "GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN". MSM IS AT WASTING YOUR TME AND SCRAMBLING YOUR BRAIN---WORSE-POLLUTING IT WITH FALSEHOODS, TRIVIA. PROPACA. ETC. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU ALLOW TO EBTER./ CHOOSE TO PUT IKTO IT.
NOW, [ DO REALIZE IAM PREACHING TO THE CHOIR. PLEASE FOFGIVE ME. AND, PLEASE FORGIVE MY PEANTRY. IT'S IN MY DNA.
SO, IG IS MY VIEW, THAT IT IS OUR DUTY TO AWOKEN" THE WOJE. ABD TO AWAKE ALLL TO THE TRUTH---ESPECIALLY THOSE BORN CJRCA 1971(CLOSING OF GOLD WINDOW) TO 2998(RE FINANCIAL CRISIS---THE DEMOGRAOH WHICH WILL COBTROL THE OUTCOME OF THE 2024 ELECTION.
WE OLDTIMERS, WE WHO UN OTH TOUTH POUBDEDOR CHESRS WTH PRIDE THAT THROUGHED HAD BEEN THROUGH SOME ACCIFEBT OF BIRTH SERE PRIVILTGED TO BAVE TO HAVE BEEN THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. WE WHO HAVE RECEIVED SO MUCH FROM OUR BELOVED COUBTRY OWE A FUTY ---PERHPS A SACRED DUTY AWAJEN THOSE UN THE VOTING DEMOGRAPHIC
Wes
That would be the beginning of cuts. We don’t want to panic the population of government employees. Milei is doing it in Argentina and inflation has already began to drop. The U.S. just does not have any more money; much is borrowed.
AP
Seems the skids have been greased, oiled, siliconed and there is a rocket ready to be lit to push it in the desired direction i.e. to the decline. Politicians can't seem to read the writing on the wall until its too late to act or more costly to act. That's pretty easy to do when you are using other people's money to make yourself rich. Their overspending has to collapse into disaster before they can apply economic logic. They are still thinking Keynesian stimulation is a sure thing.
I proposed this hypothetical before but I'll ask again here just for fun... What if we stop taxing US citizens federally altogether. Instead of any federal income tax, we eliminate it altogether (which would be a huge cost savings and administrative relief), cut the government/war budget of course as clearly needed, and then just simply print whatever money is needed to fund the necessary expenditures above remaining tariff and miscellaneous federal income. Just go strictly with inflation via fiat reserve currency printing and no taxation of US citizens. Inflation becomes the de-facto tax, instead of just a weasely part of it. It becomes the simplest tax regime system on Earth, and all the foreigners holding dollars effectively pay half of it for us, for a while at least. Why not give that a try? Start with Krugman's trillion dollar platinum coin, and just keep on minting them up... Why keep doing this printing and deficit spending in half-measures and fretting and arguing about whether it's all too much? Just go all in and print up the whole damned budget... Eliminate the Fed, Treasury does it's own printing, so no debt, no interest either... beat the banksters at their own game... Everyone will love no more IRS, no more taxes (federally), and no more hot potato pretending the "debt" is ever going to be repaid in sound money... Just good and honest straight up inflation-tax on the dollar holding universe. Brilliant? Or absurdly ridiculous? Or simply "the future"...?
The stupidity of thought is comical. The economics of financial input/output are worthless. The standards of the job market are useless and idiotic. Come here and labor yourself for a certain number of hours in a given day and we will compensate you with this much….. hahaha, what a mindless foolish routine to follow. Like a broken peasant, a half witted beggar has more sense in his head than the opening bell. Lest no one tell you otherwise.
"Whichever point of view you choose, what is indisputable is that in the US as in Argentina ‘no hay dinero’ (there is no money). So, the $95 billion will have to be borrowed. US debt will increase... and the Primary Trend towards lower real asset prices, higher interest rates, higher levels of inflation, and spreading poverty will be enhanced. "
The indisputable fact is the US has no money!! The results will be as described above. My question is, how do I hold accountable the bipartisan morons that have done this to me? How can I get restitution from these criminals here in the United States? There is no way I or any sane person would vote for this kind of self-immolation, which again begs the question of how I get recompense. How would you???
There is no success in Greece's effort to descent from the debt mountain. According to a recent article from the Financial Times, it is the second poorest country in the EU. No changes have been made towards a real free market, and the state still remains the main beneficiary of any real productive output. Greece is supported by external loans, using its assets as collateral just to keep the real wealth-sucking operation going.