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Yeah I know, I can be real prick at times, but in all honest I just want to be left the fuck alone.
But what does that mean for me. 1 - I don't want to be obligated for anyone's bad decisions -i.e. kids 2 - I don't want to be obligated to the state so they can supplementing my tax dollars for those bad decisions. I could go on and on and on, I'm just not interested in typing a mile long post. Bottom line, I'm fucking sick and tired of my tax dollars being used in ways that are not in my interests and these little boy fuckers and carpet munchers are looking for more money that again will be used in ways that are NOT BE IN MY INTERESTS. Leave me the fuck alone. |
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Yeah I know, I can be real prick at times, but in all honest I just want to be left the fuck alone. There are millions of folk who feel the same exact way, believe it. |
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The liberal socialist mindset just pisses me off too. It irks me that there are self-righteous bastards out there (and many of them) who think they have the right to reach into my pocket with the power of government and deadly force, to take what I work for so that they can give to those who would not work or who make foolish choices. That is not charity and it is not noble to steal from one to "give" to another.
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Yeah I know, I can be real prick at times, but in all honest I just want to be left the fuck alone. |
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General, you may not do anything with the information contained in this but might give a little relief.
http://www.1215.org/lawnotes/soverei...n-handbook.pdf |
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There is an enormous irony here.
Like fish in the ocean, we all wish to be left the fuck alone, yet we voluntarily pay for this gigantic social and business network that includes the entire world. It's not called the Net for nothing. In the beginning it chums our sense of independence and individuality, but nevertheless the Net is drawn in toward the vessel. |
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After Sept. 11, America’s intelligence, surveillance and counter-terrorism agencies basically got a blank check to fund their efforts. The CIA got a billion dollars right away. So did the National Security Agency (NSA). “What we found in the years immediately after Sept. 11 was that the existing agencies grew enormously,” observes Dana Priest, a reporter for The Washington Post. “They doubled in size, many of them, and new organizations were created as well, big ones.”
In 2002, for example, there were 34 new federal organizations created to work at the top-secret level. In 2003, government created 39 more; in 2004, 30 more; in 2005, another 35; and more each year since. “Every year [since 9/11],” Priest goes on, “more than two dozen, sometimes three dozen, entirely new federal organizations dedicated to counterterrorism [were] being created.” Do we really need all these agencies? Will any of us really notice or care if we lose a few government acronyms along the way? By funding this proliferation of intrusive government agencies — all in the name of national security — we taxpayers are paying to be groped by strangers, metaphorically speaking. Maybe we could do with a little less groping. And certainly, we could do with a lot less “protecting” and “rescuing.” Less is more, as the saying goes. Thus, the one solution to the euro crisis — and also to the economic malaise here at home — is the one solution that no one seems to be considering: Benign neglect. Doing nothing at all may be the very best thing to do, as Jim Grant suggests in a recent issue of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. “Constructive inaction” is the term Grant uses to describe the government’s response — or rather, non-response — to the economic contraction of 1920. “90 years ago,” Grant explains, “in the teeth of a slump much deeper than our Great Recession, the government did what today would be unimaginable.” It did nothing. “The US government — the Wilson administration through March 1921, the Harding administration thereafter — met the emergency mainly by getting out of its way,” Grant relates. “To most of the policymakers of the day, it was, indeed no ‘emergency,’ but essays of the business cycle, unpleasant but inevitable.” Importantly, the government of 1920-21 did not stand aside because it had no idea what to do; it stood aside because it had some idea what not to do. The administrations of Wilson and Harding stood aside because they trusted market forces to resolve the crisis more effectively that the government could. “Market forces didn’t fail in 1920-21,” says Grant. “They were virtually the only forces in play… The Federal Reserve in 1919 was celebrating its fifth birthday, while the welfare state of finance — too big to fail, TARP, TALF, etc. — was not only unborn but also unimagined.” Anticipating the deep recession of 1920-21, the Ben Bernanke of his day, Benjamin Strong, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, had this to say in 1919: [“There will be] a considerable degree of unemployment, but not for very long, and… after a year or two of discomfort, embarrassment, some losses, some disorders caused by unemployment, we will emerge with an almost invincible banking position, prices more nearly at competitive levels with other nations, and be able to exercise a wide and important influence in restoring the world to a normal and livable condition.” Therefore, in anticipation of both an imminent deep recession and also at a rapid, vibrant recovery that would restore the world to a normal and livable condition, Strong proposed neither bailout plans nor “stimulus measures” to alter the economy’s natural course. He simply watched. And as he watched, he saw his predictions fulfilled. The economy did contract, fiercely so. But shortly thereafter, the economy launched a powerful recovery. The whole thing lasted less than two years. “The point cannot be overstated that the slump did end,” Grant points out, “and that the post-1921 labor market mounted a powerful recovery and that the incumbent Republicans remained in power until Herbert Hoover decided to meet the Great Depression, not through inaction but through an aggressive intervention.” But constructive inaction is not even a topic of discussion among the G-20. Today’s discussion is all about destructive action. In the name of “stabilizing the system,” the G-20 wishes to amass hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into a kind of economic funeral pyre. “The supposed lessons of the Great Depression, as interpreted by the former Princeton economics professor who now directs the nation’s destiny at the helm of the Federal Reserve Board, constitute the guiding light for today’s policymakers,” Grant explains. “Intervene early and often… print money, run up the federal debt, slash interest rates, extend jobless benefits and soften the sting of foreclosure…” Accordingly, the leaders of the EU and IMF are planning to “save the system” by sending money to governments that overspent foolishly and banks that invested foolishly. Why bother saving that system? The system that deserves saving is not the one that rewards incompetence and reckless risk-taking. The system that deserves saving is the one that rewards prudence. That’s the very same system that permits bankrupt investments to go bankrupt…that separates fools from their money. The system that deserves saving is not the one that tries to slap green paint on every piece of dead wood and call it “healthy.” The system worth saving is the one that respects the power of market forces — that allows the dead wood to rot and decompose right where it sits, so that it may fertilize the next generation of productive enterprise. “The bailout funds [in Europe] — no matter how large they grow — will merely slow the march toward inevitability,” we observed several weeks ago. “The destination is certain; the timetable is variable.” Greece will default…eventually. Why not let it happen? And if the euro fails, the euro fails. Why not let that happen too? The leading policymakers of the European Union would like to halt the crisis in its tracks. Not gonna happen. These guys and gals should probably stop practicing their speeches into a mirror. They are forgetting that the images before them are flip-flopped. Left is actually right. Right is actually left. Rescue plans are actually failure plans. Failure is actually the first part of any enduring rescue. http://dailyreckoning.com/why-constr...-feds-lexicon/ |
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I dig how ya feel General but for me it's about damage long ago done and more currently perpetrated by TPTB.
The crime of destroying our monetary system. The crime of subverting or ignoring our Constitution and the BOR. The crime of enacting laws antithetical and abhorrent to freedom and what they do in the present and the future. Laws that make us all enemies of the state for believing in the tenets America was founded on. Of course I could go on and on but what's the use? They've sucked any ambition I have for success and have left me with only a desire to live to see an end to their tyranny. |
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Honestly, if I could just make a post on gsus without you pulling on my nutz that would a fucking great start. he is here to antagonize you in a subtle way, some times more blatant, he reads like Juristic Person, I am not the first person to mention this, others did, way back, I just elaborated, Ben Shockly last summer had him pegged as Juristic Person. Ben was his number one enemy, you are next in line, I am somewhere behind you, him and Book knocked heads before you, so he is going down a list of old enemies. Don't get banned, that is what he wants. You have said a lot and done a lot already, keep it cool , I am telling you this as a friend. The little ankle biting muts sooner or later are going to piss you off. In real life something else would happen after you are told to fuck off and don't stop getting into peoples faces and space constantly. ![]() |
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joe, i used to wonder why people here gave you such a hard time...now i'm starting to get it.
you say you just want an open dialogue/exchange of ideas, etc., but the manner in which you approach this exchange borders on antagonistic. you seem to be tip-toeing along the razor's edge, pushing just to the point that you can still say "what? i'm just playin', or expressing my opinion" or whatever, but the facts are the facts. you obviously realize you are getting under people's skin, and you then play innocent when they try to tell you to ease up. no body wants to have someone in their face all the time, (surely you know this), and yet you perpetrate the same types of behavior. you wouldn't last long in my circle. |
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I could be way off on 'gsus theory and history', but wasn't Ben poster Philobeddoe back in the day? That guy was the most negative miserable poster that I can remember. Nothing but insults to folks. ...and yes, you are spot-on in your assessment of him. He was in fact a miserable little man. |
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