Posted on 11/27/2012 9:35:36 PM PST by neverdem
This emotional blackmail has been the strategy behind everything 0bama and the Dems have done. America is being driven to total ruination because no one in DC will stand up to it.
I would hang on to the land if you can plant or hunt it. Get rid of the paper. Watch Ann Barnhardt’s latest 8 part vid on YouTube. Actually, hunting will probably go fast cuz of poachers. Of course poachers make good dog food...
They will sever themselves permanently from much of the base of the party. While their votes may ensure that tax rates or revenues rise, they will have no assurance that the promised spending cuts will ever be made. Even Reagan fell victim to this bait-and-switch.
Then, if the tax hikes slow the economy, Republican collaborators will share the blame. Not only will they have gone back on their word, they will have damaged the recovery. What would be their argument for re-election?
If you believe higher tax rates or tax revenues would be like poisoning an already weak economy, why would you collaborate in administering that poison? Why not just say no?
If Republicans want to save this party and fight another day, it's time to once again, say "NO."
Thanks. And then cut taxes too. The economy needs it badly
Usually stories of a stock market melt down are written by people selling silver or gold, and I always try to take that into consideration. I actually searched out articles that aggressively attacked Ann. Lots of people call her a lunatic and compare her to a bum holding up a sign pronouncing the end is near.
But I noticed those articles don't present any actual reasons why she is wrong. I even wrote to Gary North about his article on Ann and instead of giving me a single small example of why he thinks Ann is incorrect, he told me to get lost and ended his email with "I don't care what you think."
At this point I really have no faith in the market at all. Everything Ann says could very well happen. I'm just not ready to let go of that last shred of "reasonable" thinking that says cashing out is drastic and fanatical. That little voice that says, "Just try and protect accounts as best as you can and wait for the whole thing to blow over". And just in case... buy that hand pump for the well.
I am no financial advisor, but do some research on munis. They are probably not the place to be either. We are going to go deflationary first—cash is king. Munis will fail along with the rest of them.
Then unplug the Phone in the Office of the Speaker of the House.
I went with the municipal bonds simply because they had the least amount of risks of the options I had in front of me. The chart showed a slow steady turtle-like line plodding on over the last 90 years, almost staying in range of inflation but not quite. When you talk about cash, are you saying cash in hand or cash holdings? Thinking about that 10% penalty + personal tax rate is a loss makes me so darn angry! I sometimes wish I had just skipped investing. I could have bought a killer pontoon boat, some sweet fishing gear, maybe new kitchen counter tops...
No one can refute a single thing she says. Notice the Brown Shirt Media isn’t the least interested in any part of it. Think of it. Two and a half HOURS of vid watched by thousands and the “journalists” ignore it. Even “conservative” so called journalists. Even Krauthammer, who I used to think had a pair. It’s like these folks aren’t stupid. They have to KNOW. They sure as hell don’t go near it with a story. Not even by accident. It is frightening, really. They do their best to fill their time with manufactured outrage over crap like Benghazi or what the hell ever but imminent global financial collapse isn’t even on the menu. Nowhere. Friggin’ spooky.
The founding fathers would have had lead flying by now.
But according to them we are all a bunch of conspiracy nuts clinging to our guns and religion... so what do we know? Heh!
Our country is flat broke and everything ZERO plans does nothing to correct the problem.
The only good thing is maybe we can start over and get the congress our founding Fathers designed for US. Citizens going to Washington to serve kinda like Jury Duty. Not the cushy jobs & perks they have now.
“Pass a Bill in the House that makes the Bush Tax Cuts permanent then send it to the Senate”
That’s the right thing to do. And re-pass the Ryan budget and say ‘this meets the criteria to avoid automatic tax hikes and spending cuts’, and go home. Reid and 0bama would need to present their full plan (not just the $90B ‘rich’ tax hike).
In reality, this won’t happen, and no agreement will happen. Possibly 0bama and Boehner have already agreed to something and their lackeys are working out the details. Then watch for a bait-and-switch, and Republicans will get the blame for the resulting mess.
bump
Social security is bankrupt, so lets underfund it. Brilliant!!!
I agree with Pat on this but the SS cut never should have happened and it should be allowed to expire.
Easier to just vote "present", say that if it was good enough for the President while he was a Senator, it's good enough for them, and let tax hikes and sequestration occur under the law the President signed a year and a hald ago...
If anything guarantees failure, it is Obama AND Boehner.
Let it all collapse.Let the world see what eighty years of the welfare state produces. There’s nothing of value left anyway, let it die
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