I am still a free subscriber because I don't invest in either commodities or stocks, I'm all in real estate. That said once again I have to voice my suspicions. An honest accounting of a nations GDP would have to include only those activities that actually produce a return. It's an idea not a law. If that were true then our actual GDP is nowhere near what is advertised. The debt I'm concerned about is the 30 trillion national debt. Whose got it, 9 to the fed, 5 to 6 to foreign sovereign holders, God knows how much is held by the social security admin., leaving a few bucks held by private suckers for treasuries. Point being, no one is buying treasuries hence the feds balance sheet. SOOOO, now what? Well you could pay it down at 300 billion a year over 100 years no interest, ..... provided, ...... you balance the budget. So, where do you find 300 billion, and the obvious answer is the DOD. If you think the DOD is part of the GDP you'd be mistaken, the DOD has dropped 47 bombs a day for the last twenty years and the sound they make is the sound of the toilet flushing your tax dollars down the sewer. The DOD hasn't won an engagement in 75 years and an argument could be made for much longer than that. We are being conned and it has to stop!
The hypocrisy around the so called trucker protest is so thick you can cut it with a chainsaw.
So, these brave men and women are fighting for “our freedoms”. But the last time I checked the trucking industry is heavily regulated. They have no qualms that the government requires them to have a valid driver license, that they must stop frequently at inspection stations, etc. Doesn’t these regulations also infringe on their so-called freedoms? What about the requirements that their children be vaccinated? Have these individuals and their children been vaccinated for smallpox, polio, measles, etc? They and their children have been vaccinated so they could attend school but taking a vaccine that will prevent them from becoming seriously ill and requiring hospital care is too much to ask from them.
Meanwhile, Ottawa has been taken hostage. Businesses have been forced to closed, people who live in the area have been intimidated and are being subjected to 24 hours a day horn blaring, etc. What about the rights and freedoms of the citizens of Ottawa? Do the rights and freedoms of the many become hostage to the noisy few? Meanwhile the police allow food and fuel to be brought in so these individuals can continue to make headlines and have their 5 minutes of fame on the evening news.
Meanwhile our healthcare system is at the breaking point with most people in the hospital and occupying the ICU’s with Covid are the unvaccinated. So their freedom gives them the right to deny surgery to the many since the ICU bed that would be given to someone who would have had heart or cancer, or other type of surgery is occupied by an anti-vaxer.
And what about their manifesto that the current government be overthrown, the Prime Minister and his cabinet put on trial for treason? Tucker Carlson seems to think it is a good idea which for most rational individuals if Tucker Carlson thinks its good then its most be a bad one. In democracy we have elections and if the majority of Canadians think the current government should be removed from office, then it will happen.
Poll numbers have about 28% of Canadian supporting the so called Freedom Convoy. Hats off the 72% of Canadians who support the current vaccine mandates to keep the community at large healthy over the few who thinks their rights and freedom take priority above all else.
Technically challenged, I couldn’t find thread yesterday and find it confusing to follow when thread jumps, guess comments are added at anytime. I’m a paid up subscriber. Why couldn’t I find thread on website yesterday during actual time? Only find couple of replies to Bill’s recent post. Guess you need to have a set of directions for tech challenged.
Maple Leaf revolution??? These truckers and associated debris have taken delight in the Ottawa demonstration to dancing on the tomb of the unknown soldier, defaced the statue of Terry Fox, pee'd on the two war memorials, forcibly taken food from a charity that was feeding the homeless and much more.
Don't dignify all this by calling it a revolution Mr. Bonner.
Well BLM did far worse, and that was dignified. I hope you call a spade a spade, or is it only when it doesn't fit your narrative? Long live free speech.
Bill often cites leaving the gold standard set us on this debt path, that coincidentally enriched the already wealthy with all the props over the years. Seems the elite are content to watch the pain, not be part of it. Nice work if you can get it seemingly, but that’s a pipe dream. Where would we really be if gold was still it?
“A safe distance”... I recall Bill producing a thoughtful video years ago, one describing the natural and local effects of a credit collapse. Beyond the hand wringing about diminished portfolio returns, the video asked us to imagine desperate neighbors which is quite another thing indeed. I’m wondering, is Bill cleaning his scattergun just in case? What kind of “safe distance” are we imagining now?
It is so easy to see a reader of the mainstream press by the lies they believe. Those people up in Ottawa are decent, hardworking citizens who have had enough of the bullying by people who elected them. The Canadian CBC should be ashamed of themselves. They are paid by those same citizens through Government largess and are as untrustworthy as the government themselves. And it isn't just in Canada. Trudeau and Biden both shut down a
profitable and clean oil industry as soon as they got in office and now import dirty oil from Saudi Arabia.
I am a 75 year old Canadian and if I could be there in Ottawa I would be doing what most of those truckers and others are doing. Which is protesting and feeding homeless. cleaning streets. guarding statues so that the plants can't desecrate them again. I have never been so proud to be a Canadian as now. Many Americans are in that group and God bless them all.
I am still a free subscriber because I don't invest in either commodities or stocks, I'm all in real estate. That said once again I have to voice my suspicions. An honest accounting of a nations GDP would have to include only those activities that actually produce a return. It's an idea not a law. If that were true then our actual GDP is nowhere near what is advertised. The debt I'm concerned about is the 30 trillion national debt. Whose got it, 9 to the fed, 5 to 6 to foreign sovereign holders, God knows how much is held by the social security admin., leaving a few bucks held by private suckers for treasuries. Point being, no one is buying treasuries hence the feds balance sheet. SOOOO, now what? Well you could pay it down at 300 billion a year over 100 years no interest, ..... provided, ...... you balance the budget. So, where do you find 300 billion, and the obvious answer is the DOD. If you think the DOD is part of the GDP you'd be mistaken, the DOD has dropped 47 bombs a day for the last twenty years and the sound they make is the sound of the toilet flushing your tax dollars down the sewer. The DOD hasn't won an engagement in 75 years and an argument could be made for much longer than that. We are being conned and it has to stop!
The hypocrisy around the so called trucker protest is so thick you can cut it with a chainsaw.
So, these brave men and women are fighting for “our freedoms”. But the last time I checked the trucking industry is heavily regulated. They have no qualms that the government requires them to have a valid driver license, that they must stop frequently at inspection stations, etc. Doesn’t these regulations also infringe on their so-called freedoms? What about the requirements that their children be vaccinated? Have these individuals and their children been vaccinated for smallpox, polio, measles, etc? They and their children have been vaccinated so they could attend school but taking a vaccine that will prevent them from becoming seriously ill and requiring hospital care is too much to ask from them.
Meanwhile, Ottawa has been taken hostage. Businesses have been forced to closed, people who live in the area have been intimidated and are being subjected to 24 hours a day horn blaring, etc. What about the rights and freedoms of the citizens of Ottawa? Do the rights and freedoms of the many become hostage to the noisy few? Meanwhile the police allow food and fuel to be brought in so these individuals can continue to make headlines and have their 5 minutes of fame on the evening news.
Meanwhile our healthcare system is at the breaking point with most people in the hospital and occupying the ICU’s with Covid are the unvaccinated. So their freedom gives them the right to deny surgery to the many since the ICU bed that would be given to someone who would have had heart or cancer, or other type of surgery is occupied by an anti-vaxer.
And what about their manifesto that the current government be overthrown, the Prime Minister and his cabinet put on trial for treason? Tucker Carlson seems to think it is a good idea which for most rational individuals if Tucker Carlson thinks its good then its most be a bad one. In democracy we have elections and if the majority of Canadians think the current government should be removed from office, then it will happen.
Poll numbers have about 28% of Canadian supporting the so called Freedom Convoy. Hats off the 72% of Canadians who support the current vaccine mandates to keep the community at large healthy over the few who thinks their rights and freedom take priority above all else.
I think you should try and debate Tucker Carlson. He would eat your lunch! And with facts!,
Enjoy your kool-aid
The government is now so corrupt, parasitic and tyrannical it’s time to sing the Dandy Don Meredith song.
Technically challenged, I couldn’t find thread yesterday and find it confusing to follow when thread jumps, guess comments are added at anytime. I’m a paid up subscriber. Why couldn’t I find thread on website yesterday during actual time? Only find couple of replies to Bill’s recent post. Guess you need to have a set of directions for tech challenged.
Maple Leaf revolution??? These truckers and associated debris have taken delight in the Ottawa demonstration to dancing on the tomb of the unknown soldier, defaced the statue of Terry Fox, pee'd on the two war memorials, forcibly taken food from a charity that was feeding the homeless and much more.
Don't dignify all this by calling it a revolution Mr. Bonner.
Well BLM did far worse, and that was dignified. I hope you call a spade a spade, or is it only when it doesn't fit your narrative? Long live free speech.
Desecrating the war dead? Does that suite your narrative Saffa1? Free speech? Sure, NP.
Mr Lyndon keyboard warrior, why do I sense someone is triggered? some pills are BITTER to swallow. my sympathy goes out to you.
I think your 'sympathy' belongs somewhere else. bye bye
There’s always bad actors. No reason to dismiss it.
Bill often cites leaving the gold standard set us on this debt path, that coincidentally enriched the already wealthy with all the props over the years. Seems the elite are content to watch the pain, not be part of it. Nice work if you can get it seemingly, but that’s a pipe dream. Where would we really be if gold was still it?
Thank you.
“A safe distance”... I recall Bill producing a thoughtful video years ago, one describing the natural and local effects of a credit collapse. Beyond the hand wringing about diminished portfolio returns, the video asked us to imagine desperate neighbors which is quite another thing indeed. I’m wondering, is Bill cleaning his scattergun just in case? What kind of “safe distance” are we imagining now?
It is so easy to see a reader of the mainstream press by the lies they believe. Those people up in Ottawa are decent, hardworking citizens who have had enough of the bullying by people who elected them. The Canadian CBC should be ashamed of themselves. They are paid by those same citizens through Government largess and are as untrustworthy as the government themselves. And it isn't just in Canada. Trudeau and Biden both shut down a
profitable and clean oil industry as soon as they got in office and now import dirty oil from Saudi Arabia.
I am a 75 year old Canadian and if I could be there in Ottawa I would be doing what most of those truckers and others are doing. Which is protesting and feeding homeless. cleaning streets. guarding statues so that the plants can't desecrate them again. I have never been so proud to be a Canadian as now. Many Americans are in that group and God bless them all.