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As an optimist (not), I prefer to think of the shelves as half full.

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‘To get poor is glorious,’ say our leaders. The Chinese leaders once said, 'To get rich is glorious.

Being poor sucks. It is stressful. Being rich has some drawbacks, too, of course. But I still prefer to have enough of what I need and some of what I want. (No need to be a glutton.)

Work hard, save your money only to watch it evaporate due to inflation caused by the rascals at the Fed and too much spending by the government.

The whole damned house of cards seems ready to fall. The poor will feel it most. Followed by the middle classes (if there still are any by then). The rich will lose big time in the markets. But they will be OK. The elite very rich will prosper and buy more properties and send the kids to good schools and they will have great medical care. They will might just move to one of their many off shore homes.

When things become really bad for Americans, will they rise up and demand change? Some will.

But most will adjust to the hardship as best they can...until they can't any longer.

Pensioners and the weak and disenfranchised and the poor will need to up their game if they hope to keep from eating out of dumpsters or at the back of restaurants. The very poorest will take what they need from where ever they can. Mobs storming D.C.? I doubt that will happen.

We the dispossessed will need to work together in groups like AARP to demand change. Old geezers unite! Burning down buildings and fighting the police are not going to make the change needed.. It will just create an excuse to step on the poor's necks with new curfews and laws.

Band together. That is the power that shakes the jerks in D.C. All the lobbyists and other parasites are no match for millions upon millions of voters screaming for change. Sitting back and hoping for change is not a plan and is not effective.

And if all our voices have no effect, then it is time for more direct action.

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Can somebody please hand Elizabeth a napkin so she can wipe the dripping mustard from her mustard mouth?

The crash is a few months away (3-6). Starts in Europe and domino’s to the USA. All of the global money funneled into the US markets bye bye.

HSBC Holdings plc bank is wobbling and leaning like Pisa. Tiiimber! Sets off a chain reaction like the likes we have never seen before. Then comes the dark cold winter we’ve all been talking about for years. 😃😂

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The govt here in the U.K. are handing out cash in response to the energy crisis, first step to UBI.

It’s by design.

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Two million government workers is like continually, over 20 years, saying there are 12 million illegals. Most government workers are contract workers, hard to say how many millions there are; if you include them all, state and federal, could be close to 40% of the work force. Then there are those on transfer payments. We all suck at the trough and even if we earn money legitimately it comes from the spenders that get it at the trough.

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God save America

How very true considering the Mass shootings in Buffalo & Texas and the dozens prior

An eighteen year old can go into a gun shop and buy TWO assault rifles - for self defence no doubt - without any checks… but all your ardent Trump / Cruz / GOP supporters thoughts and prayers are with the victims families.. how very sweet and touching…

Gun control: over my dead body

PG V as you’ve always trumped your Trump support- for a certified liar/ fraudster / womaniser - what’s your stand on a Serious Gun Control in your so beloved country

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The thing is the poor are used to pain and suffering. It will be the upper class who will have to get used to making beans and rice.

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This is completely unbelievable at what is happening! Dang!!

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Sure could use a little good news today!

Don Harrell

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The elite always, speak commie, lingo. (lingual)---Ralph Wood

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“ Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, says that one(the state) cannot help everyone”.

HE IS CORRECT!

The people who PAY THE BILLS are responsible. That’s why they can pay the bills. Their own and for others if they choose to do so.

But, and this is a big but.

They demand that the people who run guvmint for them be fiscally responsible as well.

It’s okay to say. For anyone, including politicians, to say that’s a great idea. How do pay for it? And, we don’t have enough to afford the idea. So, we can’t do it right now! Maybe next year!

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Dear Bill we don't need any more sweaters, the landfills are overflowing with clothing.

As for savings, the average person is carryng a years worth of fat round their waist.

They don't, then need to eat, everyone has their own portable savings account

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May 27, 2022·edited May 27, 2022

Elites fancy a return to the Feudal system.

Rich or poor it's nice to have money.

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Did I step on some peoples big toes ... wonderful

perhaps after the next MASSACRE of INNOCENT little CHILDREN you might for once reflect on the whole and complete idiocy that any 18 year old schmuck can legally buy one ( or over time two ) Semi Automatic weapon : WHAT FOR ?????

Every time it happens your president of the day is literally crying and is pleading for common sense, apparently they all are also suffering from " arrogant ignorance"

But hey you've got a bright guy like Ted Cruz who's suggesting - seriously mind you - narrow the entrances to all elementary schools - makes you wonder what brilliant solution he has for the next supermarket massacres ....... no doubt your thoughts and prayers will be with the victims families

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Bill stop kwetching you got more than enough to see you and in good style and those you are writing to if they've been listening should also be fine .. so who's gonna suffer ? yep everybody that hasn't been listening to you .. so just enjoy the ride to the bottom as you always said nothing goes up forever .. so the entire last 75 years of human activity needs to be reversed .. so enjoy the ride down as much as you ave the ride up! and open another bottle of that great Argo Malbec and let the slaughter begin where it's most needed eh ..

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I've been reading Bill for nearly a decade now, and agreeing with almost everything he says. I have to admit that Bill is the first masochist I've ever admired, as he kept preaching the same message for the entire time even though the world kept ignoring it, and running, full speed, down into the abyss. I wish I had his stamina. My own reaction to the multitude of stupid people and their stupidities, is to retire to a tiny private island off the coast of British Columbia, where I can be the highest fruit on the tree when the fruit-pickers come. I'm sure the world can go to hell without any assistance from me.

Al R.

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