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Riots around the world will happen in the US. That's a good one. -Reel
Yes, and didn't some Russian "scholar" just predict the imminent end of the United States? I forgot to check my calendar; apparently this is the Year of the Predictions. Everyone and their mother-in-law is weighing in with their prognostications. I should stop what I'm doing right now and get to work on some of my own. And I will, just as soon as I find that darn tinfoil hat.
The Fed today announced that it was dumping 300 billion dollars into treasuries. That is a person with a credit card bill paying the minium balance with another credit card. Printing money out of thin air to buy treasuries that the US gov could not get a froeign buyer to purchase. We are funding our own debt now - it's a matter of time before inflation goes crazy. Wages will stay the same but basics ( food, medicine) will start climibing at an ungodly rate. Yeah this will start a roit this summer. Savings will be worth zip.
With all the gangs in LA and the number of people there are the reason that it was thought to be the first to riot. If food supplies are cut off due to major economic failure or credit crisis and the food chain breaks down then LA is prime.
All that exists in the Bay Area as well. Our problems may not be as well known as L.A.'s but that doesn't mean they don't exist. And IMO they're more severe right now. We may have a somewhat better image but so did L.A. before April 1992. We're just one quake away from a Katrina type situation. imo - if riots do happen, the San Andreas giving us another "shakeup" will be the trigger.
Mayor Verg is a moron. He complains of outsourcing and then defends outrageous life long benefits. Well duh.. and protectionism doesn't work which is what his solution is. He won't call it that but instead calls it "fair trade". I understand the outrage towards wall street but again he doesn't really seem to understand they do produce... they just produce people 401ks. If he want's to focus on the dastardly deeds it's not all that hard to find people that were actually in charge. But if he needs to skirt who's really at fault, RANT!
It's like saying we shouldn't have to be competitive because we deserve more. Those people are left on the ash heap of many destroyed businesses.
Funny I think he's spot on. If I've got to contribute a billion $$$ to a 401k plan to expect a $5 yield because you entitled yourself to insane salary, you call that adding justifiable value or 'producing'? Your left rants are annoying. Put up or shut up.
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My enemy is not my fellow citizens. My enemy is lies.
Every time I find a conservative who is an enemy of lies, I find my America.
Every time I find a liberal who is an enemy of lies, I find my America.
I do not care what their religion is, what generation, what color state or skin. This for me is the only 'for me or against me' affinity argument worthy of enlistment.
Let my America stand on truth. ~Harborlady
Sometimes I think people WANT these types of things to happen.
No, the government seems to be afraid of massive unrest coming. The troops being brought from overseas for "domestic security," for instance, wanting to cut off the supply of firearms...
Sometimes I think people WANT these types of things to happen.
Practically everything in history has been caused by or solved with fear. Fear of being poor, fear of dying, fear of losing a family member or spouse, fear of getting nuclear bombed, fear of being over taken, fear of getting mugged, fear of anarchy, fear of rebellions, fear of drugs, fear of running out of oil, fear of losing your memory....etc. The whole medical industry runs on that same fear.... as do many others.
No, the government seems to be afraid of massive unrest coming. The troops being brought from overseas for "domestic security," for instance, wanting to cut off the supply of firearms...
This thing with NK could be the shot heard round the world....
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