There is zero chance of avoiding a total meltdown no matter who is elected. I am planning escape and survival.
Suffering is coming. But we are still trying to avoid or delay it. Bad mistake.
But Americans seem to be unwilling to make sacrifices. Take Social Security, for instance. It doesn't work. The mathematical model makes no sense, and the failure is quite inevitable. But I see freepers every day saying "I paid in to it, now I want what's mine." Well, guess what? The government screwed you. Screwed me too.
Social Security and a whole bunch of other entitlements are just a scam, and at some point we really are going to wake up and say, "Oh, we don't honor that expectation any more. Sorry." And I say the sooner, the better.
Liberals also can’t seem to admit that they have no problem with rich liberals or letting rich liberals keep their money.
But mention that ‘someone’ is rich, and the liberals go berzerk screaming that ‘the rich’ need ‘to pay’.
(New York.. Mr Weiner insisting that money I earn shouldn’t go to my family when I croak... but any money he earns? Guaranteed the duck lipped creep would be perfectly okay with it going to whatever spawn he designates or crowns his heir.)
Getting back on track, total monetary collapse is coming, and the Dems are okay with it.
Great article, thanks.
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I had a discussion with a liberal Methodist minister during the Holidays and, when I tried to explain to him the financial crisis we are in, all he could do was sputter, in very general terms, about greed and charity.
I then realized that there is only one way that liberals will see the light of day...their personal sh!t must hit the fan.
The four questions are:
1)What is total spending of the federal budget?
2)What is the federal deficit?
3)What is the national debt?
4)What was the most recent interest payment on the national debt?
If the Liberal is discussing passing a particular bill, I’d add two more questions:
5) Have you read this bill?
6) Have you contributed your OWN money to fight the problem you claim the bill addresses?
Whenever lefties often use the worn out phrase of ‘Don’t you want to help people??”, I reply YES and then ask them four questions of my own:
1) What does helping people have to do with government??
2) Are people being assisted RIGHT NOW without government??
3) Do we STILL have poor people even with government aid??
4) Isn’t MORE cost efficient to give our cash VOLUNTARILY to charities that have less overhead(Bureaucracy) and is immediately used to assist the poor??
The most common answer from these questions: Private charities are not Fair.
I think “every liberal” in the title should be changed to “Every number crunching economist liberal”. As a solid D student in college economics, I am probably not alone in saying my eyes glazed over when I got past the first paragraph in this article. Some people love this stuff, but I just can’t comprehend the intricacies of “fluctuating interest rates”.
•1) What is total spending of the federal budget? -We need to spend more money on education.
•2) What is the federal deficit? -It's Bush's fault
•3) What is the national debt? -It's the total sum of all Republican military spending.
•4) What was the most recent interest payment on the national debt? -Why cant we spend that money here at home to help the poor?
The commenter pretty much summed up the intellectual capacity of a liberal. Even if you could lead the liberal to providing the correct answers to those questions, you could not make him/her understand the implications. True understanding and rational thought are as beyond liberal comprehension as quantum physics is beyond someone with Downs syndrome. (Not to insult anyone with Downs!)
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This is really beautiful and all, but it won’t matter. Liberals simply do not care. If they did, they wouldn’t be liberals. As long as it is someone else’s money, they won’t ‘feel’ a thing.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.” - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
The liberals I argue with will say that this is the reason we need 90% tax rates.
They are all useless because arguing with a liberal is like arguing with a 2 year old.
They're just going to throw a tantrum.
After that, it's drool time.
BTTT!