Posted on 01/16/2003 4:10:07 PM PST by Cicero
And He works is really mysterious ways, sometimes!!!
What hit men in the article was this quote
But bonds is a slam-dunk. The official rate of inflation is at 2.5%, and there are some people, mostly those whose custodians only allow them access to crayons and blunted scissors, who even believe that lowball figure. Not me, personally, you understand, but others do
Now the liar in chief had the method of caculating inflation changed so that the cost of living raises to workers and retirees would not be as "high"
Removed (if I remember correctly) were all those things we REALLY use daily, monthly..like gas , electric , phone and groceries..they were replace with the REAL things that cause inflation..cell phones , computers, TV's..etc)
It was an obvious coverup of REAL inflation and no move has been made by the republicans to change it..
Now to your issue. The drop in the home grown commodity market is just one more shift of the american dollar out and making us more dependent on and competing with the world market..
This my friend is the New World Order..
It appears you miss the point- the only reason nobody is calling the USA on the carpet for our insolvency, is because the international unit of trade is the US dollar.
When the discussion starts to revolve around whether the US $ will stay as the medium of exchange, or whether it should be the ruble or the euro or anything else.... That will signal that "the end is near," at least with regard to the facade of continuing economic prosperity for the USA...
Like the USSR did, we are working with a house of cards- as that house becomes taller, it becomes inevitable that the base will collapse...
As we approach that time of economic collapse, the political leaders will keep declaring that all is fine, that we just need a few changes in one program or another and all will be well.... A political version of rearranging deck-chairs on the Titanic...
The signal that the ship is finally going down, will be when the discussion about whether the dollar should stay as the international unit of exchange... That will signal the end.
It's only a matter of time...
How will we come up with the rent money?
They've got nowhere else to go - that's not to say that we're not sinking (I don't know), but the "unit of exchange" concept is a broken seismograph and the US sinking into the ocean is more like Gondwanaland sinking than the Titanic.
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Geez, how do you not understand the significance of this??? (((rolling eyes)))
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