Posted on 11/25/2012 12:05:54 PM PST by mojito
To call Greece First World may be a stretch, but Greece has defaulted once already, and it is only a matter of time until Greece defaults again. Welcome to default-o-rama, the next chapter in the First World's struggle for fiscal sustainability.
Japan is piling up debt in the manner of a nation beyond hope. France, Belgium, Spain and Italy are defaults waiting to happen unless Europe can somehow generate the kind of growth that has eluded it for decades.
America's fiscal cliff is an artificial crisis. We have no trouble borrowing in the short term. But at some point the market will demand evidence that long-term balance is being restored. President Obama said in his first post-election press conference that he doesn't want any proposals that "sock it to the middle class." He knows better. A long-term socking is exactly what's coming to the middle class, which must pay for the benefits it consumes.
A few years ago, when the economy was humming, a common estimate held that federal taxes would have to rise 50% immediately to fully fund entitlement programs. Today, a 50% tax increase would be needed just to meet the government's current spending, never mind its future obligations.
One way or another, then, entitlements will be cut. Don't call it default. The correct term is entitlement reform.
You saw this day coming and saved for your own retirement. Don't call it default when Washington inevitably confiscates some of your savings, say, by raising taxes on dividends and capital gains. Taxpayers accept the risk of future tax hikes that may make the decision to save seem foolish in retrospect.
According to economists...state and local taxes would have to increase by $1,385 per household immediately to make good the pension promises to state and local workers....
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Those investors who took a gamble on insane socialist debt, need to eat it...hard and completely. They only tricked themselves and the buck of liberal insanity should stop with them.
The financers of global socialism should not be able to pass their losses onto everyone else. They are the ones who make socialist enslavement and oppression possible, so they deserve it’s outcome - poverty. Anyone who buys into the ponzi scheme of socialism needs badly to experience the truth of it. It’s the only way to stop global socialism.
Why do we buy into the “nobility” bs that we have to pay the debt failure of socialists? No, we don’t. Investors into supidity, pay. It’s dishonorable to bail them out.
Have you noticed that the media doesn’t even dare to utter the word “default”?
Or when the word is mentioned, it is preceded by the word “disastrous” or “cataclysmic.”
The reason why default is never mentioned as a possibility by the Socialist media, is because default will destroy U.S. gubmint credit, making it impossible for gubmint to borrow. (Maybe) It would force balanced budgets for a generation?
Socialists prefer inflation, which is disguised taxation, or even austerity. But a Keynesian’s worst nightmare is a government unable to borrow money.
Watch the latest Ann Barnhardt 8 part YouTube. “A house of cards is an iron cage compared to our economy.”
They won’t mention default or depression.
Not as long as their guy is in charge.
Wonder how they will describe our version of Weimar when it happens.
Prep and keep on prepping.
when the money stops, the moochers/looters will go ape excrement.
Re: “We got robbed”
Only if you agree to pay the bills run up by the generations of Americans before you.
Take Mr. Jenkins “advice.”
Default.
Elect Congress people who absolutely refuse to pay any debts or any unfunded entitlements.
When Ubanga said "Everybody must make sacrifices," his "everybody" certainly didn't include his party's base of moochers.
Elect Congress people who refuse to increase the "debt ceiling" one more freaking dime. Because, after all...
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a Sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. ...Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here'. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and Grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
- SENATOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, MARCH 2006
What do you do with the Morons who reelected the same Thieves for Decades?
I don’t have a comprehensive solution but here are some thoughts:
Get the federal government out of education
Close down the federal support of Medicaid
Close down the federal unemployment support of unemployment
Allow greater harvesting of oil and natural gas
Do not bail out any more companies
Reform social security now and don’t have automatic raises, only increase payments when there is money to do so
Destroy the liberal media and make it illegal for anyone to advocate that the federal government to enact a program that is not an enumerated power
End farm subsidies for large farmers, slowly end farm subsidies for smaller farmers
Close a lot of overseas military bases, especially those in Europe
These are just some thoughts. I am sure you have suggestions as well.
I have an out of the box CPA friend that is a self taught Biblical Scholar with a Founding Fathers perspective on politics has been saying this since 2004 if my memory is correct, he sees it as the only solution...
Ok, how does Soro's engineer it, and how does he make a bootle on it, and enjoy the Collapse of the U.S......
Really it is already being done. They are forgiving Bankruptcies & Foreclousures, bailing out companies, transfering those companies to the Unions, forgiving many Foreign debts and still giving them more.
If you claim poverty and refuse to work. Here, here's your FREE voucher, free food, freeeeeee stuff, your forgiven.
We are a very forgiving country for everyone except the taxpayer, we should have known better/sarc.
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