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...
Are you saying that the slaughter of 13,000 children born in Gaza after Hamas was chosen to govern them justifies Israel's reducing Gaza into a pile of rubble upon which they dance?
I will agree with you that the US supply of arms to the IDF with money extorted from you by your government are grounds for hearty resentment.
Apologies for my lack of comprehension. You appear to query the innocence of those being slaughtered through your contention that they only have themselves to blame for electing Hamas 20 years ago The point I wished to make was that these kids were not born when Hamas was elected. Their euphemistic collateral damage or as Bill calls it; slaughter, can therefore not be ascribed to self infliction as it would appear is your belief Their dancing in October I do not believe deserves their killing and the reduction of their homes to rubble
What people deserve has little to do with what they get...
War is one of man's oldest institutions. I would not be surprised if it predates prostitution...
Children, like truth, are one of its earliest and most certain victims...
If a Palestinian is stupid enough to conceive a child in the shadow of a government that has responded to even the rumor of war with disproportionate, merciless ferocity since the days of Ben Gurion, then the social Darwinian in me would posit that the human race, as dubious as its future may be, is better off if that Palestinian's genetic issue not achieve fruition...
Untermenschen (subhumans) is what Hitler called the jews and gypsies. They needed to be removed not to pollute this fair earth and he would do his duty to see that it be done.
Who should be the arbiter in deciding which genetic material should be removed or not? It would appear that you and Bibi Netanyahu share a similar view in this regard.
Darwin's "natural selection " has until now taken care of that without any help from Bibi or Dolfi Hitler.
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.
I am not with you there. The problem is not the proles but the elites. Power creates wealth and wealth creates people who think they are "the Chosen" to tell everyone else how to live. This will turn - we are deep into a Fourth Turning - there will be a day of consequences. Just hope your consequences are positive.
The consequences for two countries, Russia and Germany, in the 20th century, were not good. We seem to be in a similar pattern. The elites ruin, evil triumphs and the people suffer.
"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?
Byron, I can't agree more. I don't trust the numbers coming from China and the U.S. Also, when Bill praises Chinese productivity and innovation, and then harshly criticizes Israel, which is a quite productive and innovative country, for slaughtering thousands of folks in Gaza, he forgets that China has imprisoned tens of thousands of their own citizens in concentration camps for a long time, where these citizens have been tortured and murdered. So I find it odd that ever since he has been harshly criticizing Israel, he is suddenly praising China. It would be more consistent for him to praise both countries for their productivity and innovation while harshly criticizing both for what he believes are the crimes against humanity they have committed.
I don't think Bill is remotely antisemitic. He is too famous for anything like this to be hidden. It would have come out by now. I'm sure he has many good friends who are Jewish. I kind of think he might hold a grudge against PM Netanyahu. I have thought the same when it comes to former president Trump. Us regular folk will never know what really goes on in the upper echelons of society among the super-rich, influential, or powerful.
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 only thing I noticed was in Yellowstone they blocked the pulloffs with logs before they left. Trying to make it difficult for any tourist to enjoy a view. Hmmm.
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
MY APOLOGIES TO ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN OFFENDED BY MY RENARKS ABOUT THE MILITARY.
MY APOLOGIES TO ALL FOR THE NUMEROUS---A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT--- ERRORS. IT WAS POSTED WUTHOUT MY KNOWLEDFGE OR CONSEBT BEFORE I COILD EDIT I T. I HAVE THE HIGHEST RESPECT F9R ALL WHO NOW OR IN THE PAST HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN THE MILITAEY. MY CRITICISM IS FOR THE RICH POWER ELITE WHO ARE THE ENGTNEERS OF WAR VIA POLITICS AND PROPAGANDA . AGAIN, THROI[GH ECHELONS OF THEUR MINIONS IN THE MRDIA, POLITICIANS, AND WORLD LEADERS. IN MY VIEW, THE RICHEST MEN IN THE WORLD, THE RPE, ARE FOMENTING WAR FOR MANY ULTERIOR MOTIVES , AND ARE,
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.
Mackinac, they are not thinking at all. Just money, money, money. The don't even read these bills. They have been bought and paid for. It isn't changin' until it blows. Don't whine, don't complaint - just prepare! That way when the sh*t hits the fan you'll have a chance.
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???
Holy Smoke (tongue in cheek), “The indisputable fact is the US has no money!!”
C%@#, I gotta check my accounts quick, those nutty .gov’ies already started with the CBDC thingy.
As Will Foster said earlier today, “… slowly with a wimper at first, then suddenly and dramatically at the end… like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff.”
Rich, I read an interesting op-ed written in the 1990s by one of these fellows who usually thinks outside the box (like Bill and his colleagues); e.g., Michael Barone, Pat Buchanan, Cal Thomas, Steve Forbes, etc. (I wish I had kept it..) This person indicated that when first-world countries become extremely highly-populated, as the U.S. was already in the 1990s, it becomes increasingly difficult to exact positive change until the economy collapses. It's difficult for any one group or person to energize enough citizens to rise up and do something before the collapse. (And now, thirty years later, with tens of millions more U.S. citizens, it's even more difficult.) The writer also pointed out that it can even be difficult to exact positive change in a much smaller country until things collapse. I guess we are seeing this in Argentina.
Seriously, Rich. There is no restitution. There will be no consequences. The Government has become more than criminal - they are corrupt to the point there is no consequences. If you are waiting for recompensation - my suggestions - more margaritas, because you ain't goin' to get any recompensation. The ol' saying - It is a Club and you ain't in it. Suck it up, Buttercup!
Of course not. The point of my rant is to lament the fact that other than moving on, we proles have to sit back and get used and abused until it's over. Not a good way to live. And it just irks me that I can do nothing ( legal ) at my age to stop it. And what makes me even more irritated is that 50 years ago, if I had taken another path, maybe I could have done something. And that's why I need the margaritas :-)
Good to know. Unfortunately, throughout history the proles have had to suffer through. What irks this ol' man is the media/elites say politics and politicians shouldn't after to worry about their personal safety. My view - BS!. They routinely send 100,000s to die in foreign lands for nothing except to line their pockets. If politicians had to be in the front line - there would be a lot less wars. And, if you ever noticed, rarely ever do politicians kids go off to war. Oh, no - they are in the National Guard and assigned to hot spots like Niagara Falls. You do not see them in combat. That is only for us lowly proles since their view is we are expendable. In the old days, they might fall on their sword......today is a luxurious island in the Caribbean.
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...
They didn't have much of a choice, the other party on the ballot was known to be corrupt. Hmmm, that sounds familiar.
Are you saying that the slaughter of 13,000 children born in Gaza after Hamas was chosen to govern them justifies Israel's reducing Gaza into a pile of rubble upon which they dance?
I will agree with you that the US supply of arms to the IDF with money extorted from you by your government are grounds for hearty resentment.
should be grounds for divorce
You obviously have difficulty reading the English language with comprehension. You have my sympathies...
Apologies for my lack of comprehension. You appear to query the innocence of those being slaughtered through your contention that they only have themselves to blame for electing Hamas 20 years ago The point I wished to make was that these kids were not born when Hamas was elected. Their euphemistic collateral damage or as Bill calls it; slaughter, can therefore not be ascribed to self infliction as it would appear is your belief Their dancing in October I do not believe deserves their killing and the reduction of their homes to rubble
What people deserve has little to do with what they get...
War is one of man's oldest institutions. I would not be surprised if it predates prostitution...
Children, like truth, are one of its earliest and most certain victims...
If a Palestinian is stupid enough to conceive a child in the shadow of a government that has responded to even the rumor of war with disproportionate, merciless ferocity since the days of Ben Gurion, then the social Darwinian in me would posit that the human race, as dubious as its future may be, is better off if that Palestinian's genetic issue not achieve fruition...
Eugenics appears to be alive and well.
Untermenschen (subhumans) is what Hitler called the jews and gypsies. They needed to be removed not to pollute this fair earth and he would do his duty to see that it be done.
Who should be the arbiter in deciding which genetic material should be removed or not? It would appear that you and Bibi Netanyahu share a similar view in this regard.
Darwin's "natural selection " has until now taken care of that without any help from Bibi or Dolfi Hitler.
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?
MS: I'm sure he has had many jokes to endure during his life time. Sad!
You can’t make any of this stuff up
That is funny
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.
I am not with you there. The problem is not the proles but the elites. Power creates wealth and wealth creates people who think they are "the Chosen" to tell everyone else how to live. This will turn - we are deep into a Fourth Turning - there will be a day of consequences. Just hope your consequences are positive.
The consequences for two countries, Russia and Germany, in the 20th century, were not good. We seem to be in a similar pattern. The elites ruin, evil triumphs and the people suffer.
"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?
Byron, I can't agree more. I don't trust the numbers coming from China and the U.S. Also, when Bill praises Chinese productivity and innovation, and then harshly criticizes Israel, which is a quite productive and innovative country, for slaughtering thousands of folks in Gaza, he forgets that China has imprisoned tens of thousands of their own citizens in concentration camps for a long time, where these citizens have been tortured and murdered. So I find it odd that ever since he has been harshly criticizing Israel, he is suddenly praising China. It would be more consistent for him to praise both countries for their productivity and innovation while harshly criticizing both for what he believes are the crimes against humanity they have committed.
I don't think Bill is remotely antisemitic. He is too famous for anything like this to be hidden. It would have come out by now. I'm sure he has many good friends who are Jewish. I kind of think he might hold a grudge against PM Netanyahu. I have thought the same when it comes to former president Trump. Us regular folk will never know what really goes on in the upper echelons of society among the super-rich, influential, or powerful.
Because they're doomed. So are we, but it will take a little longer.
“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.
“…like Wiley Coyote…” 💯
Oh, that is totally worth the price of admission here.
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
When most of the government workers were furloughed, I didn't notice anything different.
The only thing I noticed was in Yellowstone they blocked the pulloffs with logs before they left. Trying to make it difficult for any tourist to enjoy a view. Hmmm.
I guess I don't get out much. But I did read that the veterans that tried to visit some memorial couldn't get in.
Only 10% for each department? And only 50% is pork? Hmm….
😂😂😂😂
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.
Water isn’t free either unless you’ve got a rain barrel.
Yes and have had 700 gal. free rainwater tank for 25 years.
Ideal for adding to Talisker at night !
Hmmm, another whisky to try. Thanks 😎
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
MY APOLOGIES TO ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN OFFENDED BY MY RENARKS ABOUT THE MILITARY.
MY APOLOGIES TO ALL FOR THE NUMEROUS---A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT--- ERRORS. IT WAS POSTED WUTHOUT MY KNOWLEDFGE OR CONSEBT BEFORE I COILD EDIT I T. I HAVE THE HIGHEST RESPECT F9R ALL WHO NOW OR IN THE PAST HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN THE MILITAEY. MY CRITICISM IS FOR THE RICH POWER ELITE WHO ARE THE ENGTNEERS OF WAR VIA POLITICS AND PROPAGANDA . AGAIN, THROI[GH ECHELONS OF THEUR MINIONS IN THE MRDIA, POLITICIANS, AND WORLD LEADERS. IN MY VIEW, THE RICHEST MEN IN THE WORLD, THE RPE, ARE FOMENTING WAR FOR MANY ULTERIOR MOTIVES , AND ARE,
THROPUGH THEIR ECHELONS OF NNIONS...
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.
Mackinac, they are not thinking at all. Just money, money, money. The don't even read these bills. They have been bought and paid for. It isn't changin' until it blows. Don't whine, don't complaint - just prepare! That way when the sh*t hits the fan you'll have a chance.
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???
Holy Smoke (tongue in cheek), “The indisputable fact is the US has no money!!”
C%@#, I gotta check my accounts quick, those nutty .gov’ies already started with the CBDC thingy.
As Will Foster said earlier today, “… slowly with a wimper at first, then suddenly and dramatically at the end… like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff.”
Rich, I read an interesting op-ed written in the 1990s by one of these fellows who usually thinks outside the box (like Bill and his colleagues); e.g., Michael Barone, Pat Buchanan, Cal Thomas, Steve Forbes, etc. (I wish I had kept it..) This person indicated that when first-world countries become extremely highly-populated, as the U.S. was already in the 1990s, it becomes increasingly difficult to exact positive change until the economy collapses. It's difficult for any one group or person to energize enough citizens to rise up and do something before the collapse. (And now, thirty years later, with tens of millions more U.S. citizens, it's even more difficult.) The writer also pointed out that it can even be difficult to exact positive change in a much smaller country until things collapse. I guess we are seeing this in Argentina.
Seriously, Rich. There is no restitution. There will be no consequences. The Government has become more than criminal - they are corrupt to the point there is no consequences. If you are waiting for recompensation - my suggestions - more margaritas, because you ain't goin' to get any recompensation. The ol' saying - It is a Club and you ain't in it. Suck it up, Buttercup!
Of course not. The point of my rant is to lament the fact that other than moving on, we proles have to sit back and get used and abused until it's over. Not a good way to live. And it just irks me that I can do nothing ( legal ) at my age to stop it. And what makes me even more irritated is that 50 years ago, if I had taken another path, maybe I could have done something. And that's why I need the margaritas :-)
Good to know. Unfortunately, throughout history the proles have had to suffer through. What irks this ol' man is the media/elites say politics and politicians shouldn't after to worry about their personal safety. My view - BS!. They routinely send 100,000s to die in foreign lands for nothing except to line their pockets. If politicians had to be in the front line - there would be a lot less wars. And, if you ever noticed, rarely ever do politicians kids go off to war. Oh, no - they are in the National Guard and assigned to hot spots like Niagara Falls. You do not see them in combat. That is only for us lowly proles since their view is we are expendable. In the old days, they might fall on their sword......today is a luxurious island in the Caribbean.
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.