Bernanke!
I just wanted to see you grin.![]()
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Baby, it was another good day in the junior markets. WHAT THE HELL, IT WAS A GREAT WEEK..
Bernanke!
I just wanted to see you grin.![]()
I wanna play, too.
Here's my recipe for getting us out of this hole. [1]
Before we "accelerate the economy," we need to accelerate the trough of the business cycle. We need to clean out excess production that society doesn't want. And we need to do it in every... single... sector.
Here's how to do it (and here's where the madness begins): [2]
Let the guvment implode. Let it go. All of it. That includes the prez and his henchmen. It includes the fed. It includes defense and armed forces. It includes every single entity that feeds like parasites off taxes, legal tender bullshit, deficit spending, regs, and laws.
"Oh my gosh! What about police? What about teachers? What about roads? What about my grandmother's social security check and medicare? Who's gonna protect us from the taleeban?!"
"WHAT ABOUT..."
Stop. Take a breath. We're chucking it all.
Now that all the bullshit is gone from the picture, what do we have?
Well, we have property and a method of voluntary exchange. We also have millions of people who need and want stuff, and they're willing to exchange something the provider deems valuable.
Need a haircut? Come up with something the stylist wants.
Need food? Your local grocer, farmer, or neighbor is gonna want something for it.
Need a house? Start building, or find someone who's willing to exchange theirs for something you have that they want.
Same with every good and service.
How can a market economy make this possible? Well, here's where I cop out: I ain't gonna spend the time explaining. Not even on a Friday. The fact is, if you have read any of guerilla's posts, you'll already have the answer, even if you have forgotten it. If you've read them, and you're unconvinced, I can live with that. Anonymous forums aren't the best place to convince people of anything they're not already convinced about.
Every salesperson has to pick the hot prospects, and ignore the tire-kickers. Same here.
That's my recipe for getting the U.S. out of the hole. How do we get there? Well, two ways:
1. Bloody revolution. It's a dirty business, and nobody want to do it, including myself.
2. Education. Learning. Planting seeds in people's heads (irl), and watering them (the seeds, not the heads). It starts with getting people to understand that every time they vote, they're complicit in the problem. Just as complicit as the German citizens were as Jews were being killed. [3]
The problem ain't partisan. That's for sure. The problem is guvment. And people vote for guvment.
Stop voting.
[1] It ain't gonna happen. No one has the stomach to see it through.
[2] C'mon now. You know it ain't gonna happen.
[3] Nod to Godwin.
While, I agree that the new plan is going to fuck us harder, I can't believe you'd actually believe the biggest douchebag out there. He thinks he's the fucking messiah and he should be punched in the head repeatedly until he stops spreading his nonsense. With all that being said, for once, I agree with you about this plan. My question is for you hellblazer. What SHOULD the government do about the economy? No bashing Obama or Liberals, just simply what you think would accelerate the economy.
Just to start, repeal all of Obama's laws, allow the banks to go bankrupt, sell off the car companies, make the Bush tax cuts permanent, slash government spending by at LEAST 50%, and yes that includes reforming Social Security and Medicare. Get rid of the Fed or make Denninger Fed chairman, make Peter Schiff Treasury Secretary, and cut even more spending to bare necessities. TONS and TONS of prosecutions for the multi-trillion-dollar fraud perpetrated by the banks, Bernanke, Geithner, and Obama. Fill those jails up.
No more trade with China or any other Communist nations. No trade with countries manipulating their currency or employing slave labor.
Eventually work back to the gold standard.
I dunno, those are a few ideas. Basically follow a pure Austrian economics approach and this country would be fine. I don't pretend to be an expert on that subject, but I know enough to know that it's the best possible way of structuring an economy. What they're doing right now is the exact opposite.
Do you understand the concept of running out of money? Ergo, no "selling shit to the hoi polloi" anymore?
I gotta say, Beck was on this from day one. Nothing this weasel does slips by him.
YouTube - November 4, 2010
Wow. It will be so cool to see what happens after America is destroyed this century... Interesting to see how it is reconstructed and how many separations there will be
YouTube - Exclusive: The Story of Spending
This sucks but nothing will be done.
Hellblazer - you are right... sort of... cut the oversized government and unsustainable benefits - yes of course. Public sector should not be making 50% more than private sector but we can never and should never go back to the gold standard. It hinders growth and expansion. It sounds good when talked about but from an economics perspective it does not work.
In AM terms - you cannot scale quickly while on the gold standard.
By the way. The country is fine and can re-invent itself through elections. This was as designed when formed.
Consider these two things also,
1. You need inflation. When in a lot of debt you want to pay it back in inflated currency.
2. We could drill the oil in the flyover states and turn the world economy on it's head. We could drill enough oil to pay back all the debts and then some. The country owes a few trillion? OK so we do not have it in liquid assets or gold - but we do have it in oil - and as long as we have that we could snap our fingers and turn the economics around on any creditor nation.