primitives eat Republicans for breakfast

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1351522

Oh my.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 03:21 PM
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If it wasn't all so dangeous, so unhealthy, so kleptomaniacal, it woud all be a laff riot.

Yesterday, Bernanke threw up his hands and said "Nuttin'. I got nuttin'." He admitted he didn't why he's got nuttin', but nuttin's what he's got.

Meanwhile, over in Petroville, we get together with the other first line countries and agree to collectively release 60 million barrels of oil. Half of that is from us. Another loan, really, since you KNOW they won't let that 4% of our strategic reserves be unreplaced. But even as they do this, they admit they have no idea what this will do to the price of gas.

Time after time, the people who are steering The Great Ship have no ****ing clue what course they're on. But by gawd, they're moving forward. Playing at looking like they actually know shit.

Which they don't.

Well, actually, they DO know shit. They just ain't sayin', is all.

See, here's the deal. All the money is being held in fewer and fewer hands. Even the poorer of the rich are getting poorer, even as the richest of the rich get richer.

You and me? Hahahahaha. We lost YEARS ago.

What we have now are a very few really, really rich people who control very few really, really big corporations. In fact, they're SO big, they're bigger than the Too Big To Fails.

Let's call them the Too Big To Regulate. Or maybe better, the So Big They Scare The Shit Out Political Leaders.

The Fed Chair has no clue what's happening? That's because the Fed is now irrelevant. It only matters in the US. This shit is now global.

The Mayor of Petroville has no clue what effect his paltry 60 million barrels will have on the world price of oil? That's because he has NO CONTROL over the world price of oil. Only those who will get richer by controlling it know where they want the price of oil to be.

They long ago were done stealing our paltry piggy banks in the stock markets or houses or 401Ks. That's small potatoes.

They're stealing whole countries' economies now.

Meet the So Big They Scare The Shit Out Political Leaders.

That's who knows the answers.

And they ain't tellin'.





edit to change "who" to "whole" in the fourth to last sentence.

madinmaryland  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 03:49 PM
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1. What do you want Bernanke to do?

He has lowered interest rates as low as they can. He printed $600billion of money.

The only thing we have not tried is a true stimulus. Government spending to spur the economy.

Yes, the country is being controlled by a smaller and smaller group of people everyday.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 04:01 PM
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3. I didn't ask him to do anything, now did I?

He's smarter than me. And by his own admission, he's got nothing.

Here's what we ought to do:

Stand on a chair.
Lean forward
Bend down
Put our heads between our legs
Kiss our asses goodbye.

Cuz **we** got nuttin'

madinmaryland  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 09:01 PM
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7. Stinky. I am watching my cat do exactly what you just suggested. Fortunately I am not that flexible, and if I did try it, I would end up living at the chiropractors office.

librechik  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 03:52 PM
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2. He's got nothing but a broad pallette of tested and successful Keynesian strategies which he can't use because about 20 Republicans would faint dead away at the smell of socialism.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 04:02 PM
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4. Ah yes. "Fear of Repubicans"

Its what's fer breakfast.

What we need is a tough leader.

We don't have one.

Missy Vixen  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jun-23-11 06:07 PM
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6. I wish I could recommend your post

The only thing that keeps me getting out of bed in the morning is the fact it's just us. We don't have kids. We can probably feed and house ourselves, the cats and the pup.

I don't know what people trying to raise kids are doing in this economy. What's more, I can't even imagine the fear those parents must feel when they consider what the F is on its way.

Here's a scary thought: Support and fundraising goes through the roof for D's that find their spine. It's been shown repeatedly in the past. One would think finding that spinal column would be paramount. Evidently, it's better to play the "fear of Republicans" game.

Hydra  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 05:32 PM
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5. My understanding is that these bloated sharks laid all the cards on the table

And said "See? This is what we're going to do. Any questions?"

*crickets*

"Ok, then. Glad to know you're all as oblivious or cowardly as we thought you were. Enjoy your graves."

StarburstClock (463 posts)      Fri Jun-24-11 03:08 AM
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8. Very similar to the 1930s when it took FDR to tell banking interests to F off

We need a leader to do just that. The banks just think they're too big to fail, they could all take a hike and the U.S. would actually be a lot better off within days. It's the only choice that remains when dealing with worldwide criminals, you tell them how it's going to be or they ruin you.

Scottybeamer70  (616 posts)      Fri Jun-24-11 03:53 AM
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10. Strange how they can print money out of thin air, and charge us interest to use it. But they won't let us print money out of thin air to pay them back.

Funny how that works, no?

[USA4ME]

librechik

He's got nothing but a broad pallette of tested and successful Keynesian strategies which he can't use because about 20 Republicans would faint dead away at the smell of socialism.

Stinky The Clown
 
Ah yes. "Fear of Repubicans"

Its what's fer breakfast.

What we need is a tough leader.

Close, but no cookie.

Listen up, primitives, I'm going to explain something to you.

The problem with Keynesian economics is that it hasn't been successful nor does it have a track record of having done so.  As a result, I don't personally believe in it, nor do I trust an economy that will lean on it, so I choose to not participate in the manner in which I have typically done in the past.  I'm just one person doing that, but there are many, many millions of fellow citizens who are acting in the same manner as am I.  Of those who are doing the same as me, what matters is who we are.  If we were millions of people with barely two nickels to rub together, it would be of no effect.  But that's not who we are.  We're the middle, upper middle, lower wealthy, and wealthy, and so our non-partcipation causes ripples throughout the economy.  Suddenly, corps find they can't chance investing capital to hire and produce because the very one's they need to buy aren't playing along.  That's just one tiny example.

A tough leader wouldn't matter.  Whoever is in office must be able to convince the people that what they're doing will work.  Dear Leader never will.  As long as we have him in office, you might as well get used to what you're seeing now.  Clinton figured out in 1994 that he better get with the program, and he had some minor success, although the primary driver of the economy was the widespread use of the PC.  Dear Leader does what the R's in the House tell him to do, it'll relieve some pressure, but this Obamacare law has pretty much buried any hope that he can be trusted to make prudent decisions.

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[Wineslob]

The only thing we have not tried is a true stimulus. Government spending to spur the economy.

Yes we have. IT DOES NOT WORK.

[FiddyBeowulf]

madinmaryland  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-23-11 03:49 PM
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1. What do you want Bernanke to do?

He has lowered interest rates as low as they can. He printed $600billion of money.

The only thing we have not tried is a true stimulus. Government spending to spur the economy.

Yes, the country is being controlled by a smaller and smaller group of people everyday.

Really, really, are you that DUmb that you can post that without a  "". What do you think has been going on for the past 2 years?

[Bodadh]

I am scared to ask, but just what do they consider to be a "real stimulus" to be? I have to ask because these fake ones they wanted are killing me.

[jukin]

The only thing that has not been tried is what has always worked in the past.

[Freeper]

Stinky has pretty much admitted the 0bama administration is clueless when it comes to economics, yet he and his fellow morons at DU will gladly vote for 4 more years of this.

In 2008 we were promised that hope and change was coming. We were promised jobs for everyone, sea levels to be lowered, all wars will be ended, and the whole world will love us all because of 0bama and his great leadership and high IQ. What we got was, one failed policy after another, all while 0bama dislocates his shoulder patting himself on the back over all the improvements he has made. I've never even come close to thinking that this country wouldn't survive anyone in office until now. 4 more years of this crap could ruin us as a nation.

[delilahmused]

Just once I'd like to have one of them explain to me how confiscating money from people that could be spent buying goods and services, laundering it through the federal government, then putting that money back into the economy by passing it out to "pet" special interest groups makes things all better.

Cindie

[BlueStateSaint]

Just once I'd like to have one of them explain to me how confiscating money from people that could be spent buying goods and services, laundering it through the federal government, then putting that money back into the economy by passing it out to "pet" special interest groups makes things all better.

Cindie

It makes them feel better.  And that's all that matters to the primitives.