Posted on 03/03/2011 4:56:36 AM PST by Daisyjane69
Here's something he said earlier:
The topic (in advance of today's phony unemployment numbers) was how to get companies to hire workers. Lots of back & forth. But here is the kicker: Zell mentions that while Obamacare was about to come up for the final, miserable vote he went to Capitol Hill to "lobby" a couple of lawmakers. Reminding them that this kind of bill with so much uncertainty built into it, was guaranteed to put a chill on employment.
Here is the exchange he relayed to the host.
Zell to lawmaker: This bill gives only 6 years of services, based on 10 years of revenue. What happens in Year 11 ????
Lawmaker: I'm 80 years old.
Folks, if that is the mindset on the Hill, we're DOOMED
Thanks, both of you. I misunderstood the report they are waiting for and I appreciate you for correcting me.
Now he’s talking about how the world hated Bush and how they wanna kill themselves to come to the U.S.
LOL
Just checking. I thought the Anti-Federalist Papers were some left-wing hack job, but I’ve since grown curious. I am going to pick up a copy and read it. Seems we need to consider removing the Fed from the equation and go back to independent, sovereign states with very loose unity.
worse occurence: ‘loss of dollar as world reserve currency...a 25% immediate drop in the standard of living for Americans’
PBoC announcement is far more serious than the amount of airtime allotted to it by the mainstream media, is the just released article in Spiegel “China Attacked the Dollar” (google translated):
The Chinese central bank surprised with a spectacular announcement: The would-be superpower wants to handle their entire future foreign trade in yuan, not in dollars. Beijing shakes America’s claim to represent the key currency - with serious consequences for the U.S..
The announcement was inconspicuous , but it has the potential, to permanently change the balance of power on the world currency market: China strengthens the international role of the yuan
On the night obama won, how did you feel in your gut deep down?
I thought I was the only one that heard it !!!!
LOL :)
We definitely need to get the whole thing and post it here. If someone else finds it before my lousy searching skills kick into gear, please ping me.
I stumbled on it by accident and I’m sure I missed a good chunk of it.
Are you asking me, or Mr. Zell?
We really do have structural problems in this country, and they go all the way back. I do love the Constitution, but it carried seeds of our destruction.
Senators’ term of 6 years is too long. It needs to be shortened to four, or less.
Short of ridding ourselves of the seventeenth amendment.
I absolutely agree! The amendment gave the people two more representatives, instead of Senators representing the States. for whatever reasons, they had to make the change, the time of reelection should have been changed as well, to the same as representatives.
Who was the lawmaker?
they may edit it down on the reply video. I run closed caption while I listen because of I process text better than audio so the CC was just ‘Bull.’ but I know what I heard.
senate pay controls are nice PR, but congressional members make the vast bulk of their income off the books, just like every representative body in the world. It is the nature of the beast. It always has been - the point of getting into government is to enrich yourself. What it ‘should’ be is kind of like arguing how communism ‘should’ work - it ignores human nature.
The idea is to get people who will represent your interests at the same time while making sure their nest is feathered. Looking for any other outcome is hopeless optimism, unless you believe candidate speeches.
Ha ha ha 60 pages of TP is what he said. I loved it.
I assume you weren’t talking to your TV to Mr. Zell and were asking me. heh
Well, I was on the phone with my sweetie on election night. He now teaches in Obama’s old stomping grounds in Chicago and is a reformed lib, because I straightened his ass out. He was able to find a job at a Catholic school, earning 1/2 of his former salary.
On that night I told him the following:
We’re about to enter the darkest hours this nation has had in my lifetime. We are going to have a stupid, lazy, but idealogical president foisted upon us.
Start stocking up on food, get your expenses down, and buy some gold and silver. Because this character has NO history of wise money management.
That’s exactly what I told him.
Then I did something I rarely do. I made sure I got drunk.
I’m beginning to appreciate your way of thinking, and I will definitely get on board with it. Being a product of public schools, we were taught that the Constitution was a benevolent document, but as I’ve grown into an independent thinker, I’m beginning to understand the insidious nature of what our Federal government has become.
He wasn't right on every last detail. But he was spot-on regarding the Judiciary, and Implied Powers, and the general tendencies of the national government. It's really incredible how much he deduced just from reading the drafted Constitution.
If you want to have your mind blown, I highly recommend:
And most especially, his brilliant writings on the federal judiciary:
I’d love to know, wouldn’t you?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=3000008420&play=1
I had a sick, dark, empty, and feeling of doom that has not in any way subsided.
That's a good point. The radio talkers always credit our "brilliant Framers" for giving us a bill of rights. Really? Then why were they amendments? Because the draft that came out of convention did not have a bill of rights. The framers didn't want a bill of rights.
And it's not as if it was some sort of new fangled idea. Most if not all of the state constitutions contained a bill of rights. It was an intentional omission.
The political argument broke down like this:
Big government federalists: Wanted a strong, consolidated, centralized gubmint, supported the unamended Constitution.
Small gubmint antifederalists: Wanted a limited, central government, opposed the constitution.
Moderates: Wanted the promise of a bill of rights added in exchange for a yes vote.
So they promised a bill of rights to get their new government passed.
I’m sure it will be great news.... only 416,000 people filed instead of 420,000.
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