Oh and abortions; government funded abortions will be so easy to get.
Your mom and dad aren't abortionists, otherwise you'd be nowhere.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Normalcy Bias
If you hear the term normalcy bias in the next year or two, remember what you read here. Normalcy bias is the mindset that since a disaster never has occurred that it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias downplay a serious event and have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on ambiguities to infer a less serious situation. In other words, folks blow off warnings of something bad is about to happen, and say "that won't happen here, or it's not that bad". Thousands of people refused to evacuate in New Orleans ahead of Katrina. We now see the fate of that choice in hindsight.
Ok, you're saying "why this now, tonight?"
A financial disaster is heading our way. Countries that historically use the US dollar for guaranteeing debt, and monetary exchange, are dropping the dollar from their currency reserves. Example: country A holds printed US currency in their mattress at home when we borrow their money to produce our goods here in the US. The US dollar is so weak in value that countries like country A are sending back their mattress held US currency and asking for their money back. The US dollar being weak, isn't equaling the trade value back to country A whose currency is worth more than a US dollar bill.
That's what's known as US foreign debt. The US foreign debt is more than our country can afford to pay in interest alone, notwithstanding our dollar not being worth enough to buy even a pack of gum.
That only means that inflation will hit here like nothing ever seen. How do you like $6/gallon gas, $5/loaf bread, and on.
Why you ask will those kinds of prices happen? Because your dear Uncle in Washington will print more and more dollars to stimulate the economy. We print more because our neighbors in Europe and Asia don't want our worthless money.
When more dollars are put in peoples' pockets, there's more to spend, when there's more to spend, more and more products, goods, and services are purchased. And of course you pay taxes on purchases, so the more dollars in the stream with which to buy stuff, more tax revenue makes it up to Washington.
When more and more is purchased, the entrepreneurs, shop owners, gas station owners, grocery stores, clothing stores, will see the increase in purchases/demand and begin to raise prices; call it greed or opportunistic profit seeking.
This will drive down supply levels, less bread on the shelves, less gasoline in the ground tanks at the pump, less toilet paper on the shelves; all of this means the guy in the boss' chair will raise his prices because there is more of you out there with more of that printed money. That's what inflation is. High demand, less supply, big profits for the boss (at the store and in Washington).
It's not the store owner/gas station guy/bread bakers' collective fault. It's our dear Uncle Sam's fault, he just prints more and more money, and that gives more and more people the opportunity to beat a path to the store shelf/gas pump etc.. etc…
One big thing these days: cell phones. Why do you think the prices of cell phones haven't come down that much? There's more money in the stream with which to buy a new cell phone. Even on ebay, a used 10 year old piece of hardware/cell phone, will bid up to nearly $100 because people have the money to spend. More money has been printed, it's out there. The technology of a 10 year old cell phone isn't worth the plastic holding it together, but, a pack of dudes with enough money will bid-war that phone up to what you can go to the retail corner cell phone store and buy a 2010 model. A new cell phone without a contract: $400 at the store. Why? Cause people have the money, it has been printed and ready to spend. Market pressure will send that $400 phone up to $500 'cause there's more printed money in the stream. Folks will pay it because the money was printed. Where did they get that new printed money? From their new boss at their new job, 'cause their boss can borrow that new printed money to open a new business and hire folks to pay a wage to sell that high priced/inflated thing that he sells. You never saw so many shoe stores, dress shops, baby stores, burger joints, restaurants, car lots, gadget stores and on and on.
The wheels on the bus go round and round; and folks on the bus are poppin' bubbles, chompin' burger meals, suckin' down them sodas and shakes, and textin' and talkin' on them cell phones! Ah life is good as so many of you post in fb so much!!
The bus is headed for the cliff, but, that's ok, life is good, good times, kid's got toys in his burger meal, text messages firing a million a minute, everybody is strapped in their bus seat rockin' along! We're havin' too good a time to notice the road runs right off the cliff!….. oh yeah, who's drivin' anyway?
But you knew all of this from college finance and economics classes didn't you? Remember those classes you took that told you all of this?
More people have college degrees in the last 30 years than the last generation as a whole. BS and Master's degrees are commonplace. Yet with that many people who took finance and econ classes, you would think that these educated ones, that's you and me, would know this was coming over the horizon.
So, when these debtor countries demand their currency back from US (us) and send our dollars back home to us, we're left with a bunch of one dollar bills that won't even buy a pack of gum; it'll take probably $3 for a pack of gum and the prices of the rest of our goods will increase as explained above.
So then what happens? The US government will "call in" a whole bunch of one dollar bills from the banks, like billions. Why? Because the government has created so many bureaucratic services run by/for/and of the government. Like a spider that mutates in growing hundreds of arms and legs.
Uncle Sam can't write IOU's to it's employees in all of those bureaucracies, so Uncle Sam comes and gets your money from yours/my savings and checking accounts. There will literally be less money in your local bank holding your paycheck funds, and then you can't buy as much stuff as you did last month.
Then what you say? Well with less money for us to spend on stuff, the store shelves will stay full, the gas in ground tanks will stay full, cell phones will stay on the shelves; nobody will be buying anything because Uncle Sam just raided our bank accounts. How you say? It's the government's money anyway, says so right there on the front of the $1/$5/$10/$20 and so on. Federal Reserve Note; not Horn's reserve note, Smith's reserve note, Gonzalez' reserve note, Williams'/Jones/ and on and on. Uncle Sam has bills to pay too, since it's his anyway, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Then what you say? We skip a recession and go straight to a depression. Depression: depressed state of value on goods and services to the point of nobody making any profits. (my connotation)
Then what you say? Those stores up there, they're gonna close. Nobody's buying anything cause their money was taken away by Uncle Sam, so the store owners' can't feed their families. We can't get bread and milk for cereal and toast. We can't buy those new shoes for the kids. Cell phone broken? Store's closed. Pull in to your favorite gas pump: "OUT OF SERVICE".
Folks will get mad then, there's a whole lot more folks to get mad today than in 1930; and a whole lot more folks own big guns too nowadays. What then? Folks will take matters into their own hands; Bubba and Cletus gonna head to the "closed" gas station to get some bread and milk, gonna be carrying their big guns. This little scene will repeat all over the country.
What then you say? Guess who will be coming for you?? Right, dear old Uncle Sam!! The government will have us right where they want us. The government in office today that is. President Obama will declare martial law. Your neighbor National Guardsman will go to work riding around in military trucks arresting your other neighbors for, "toting their big guns to the closed gas station for bread and milk."
Don't think so, why? You studied all of this in high school and college where other countries had this happen with a dictator in the big chair.
It's coming here to a soon closed gas station near you.
You see, President Obama is a Marxist socialist, aka Democrat. I didn't make it up, he studied these subjects in school. Said so in his book. Oh and by the way, the birth certificate records guy in Kenya told someone who told someone, that Barack H. Obama was born in a Kenyan hospital and this records guy certified Obama's birth certificate at work one day after Barack was born.
Back to US (us). Totalitarian control is what the current government wants for US. He is hoping you've been distracted enough by China, North Korea, India, Britain, France, Germany, and now Egypt so that you don't hear the economics reports coming out of conservative think tanks, that have exposed the real economic situation of the US.
Sorry to ruin your 2011 start up, but, I didn't do it. If we see the elections of 2012 without much of the pictures explained above, I will be very surprised.
Better think long about keeping your payday in your mattress instead of down the street, by the end of this year or so. But hey, what do I know, I'm just a college grad. You probably have enough normalcy bias to convince yourself it's all gonna be okay anyway!!
I'm just sayin'………………….
21 Economic Models Explained
SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.
A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide. A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them.
A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.
COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.
A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide. A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them.
A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.
$50 lesson
via chain email:
I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. S he said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there. I asked her, 'If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?'
She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'
Her parents beamed with pride.
'Wow... what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the
$50 to use toward food and a new house.'
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'
I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'
Her parents still aren't speaking to me.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
tea party people are sick of this
The tea party doesn't want to pit anybody against anybody. If the truth be known, tea party people, the vast, vast majority of them -- are sick of this. The past is the past, and nobody can deny it, but it's not warranted anymore. The Klan was all Democrats. Most people in this country want a unified country built on the concepts of American exceptionalism. I want this country to be known for its exceptionalism. This whole thing is sad. The people who are profiting from this division are doing it financially and they're trying to electorally, while doing it under the false premise that they're trying to help the country and unite it. They're doing nothing of the sort. They're dividing it. George Bush did not want a divided country. I don't want a divided country.
Everybody in this country ought to be proud and love the fact that they're Americans, and I want everybody in this country to have opportunity. I love people. I want them to have the best opportunity they can find. I want everybody to realize the great opportunity that being an American is. So many millions of people born in this country are told and raised and educated that they have no chance and should just hang out, draw a government check and exist on the fringe. That's practically near criminal. There are people doing that kind of teaching and educating. I think it's time it all stopped.
You would think that after 9/11, when our country has been pulling itself up by its bootstraps, that the new leadership in Washington would do everything they could to foster and cheer on all of us as we continue our life paths after 9/11. But NO! Let's throw the proverbial penny on the ground by stirring up racial division and wait for the dogfight.
By the way, dog fighting is illegal, yet grown men and women are allowed legally to get into a ring to beat the brains out of their opponent while others gamble on the winner. Dogs bear numbers in a litter. Humans have one baby at a time, except for multiples, the majority of births are single. Dogs replace themselves every time the wind blows. Some couples can't get pregnant and never reproduce. Why is there a law banning dog fighting and not banning human fighting for sport? Don't get me wrong, I don't like the specter of seeing dogs fight, but, I had rather not either see men and women suffer permanent life-long brain damage for the sake of a paycheck and to make some folks rich on the sport. Are we throwing our devotion to banning dogs from fighting for sport, yet, allowing people to fight and suffer long term ill-effects for monetary gain? Isn't that worshiping the creature and not worshiping the Creator and His beings created in His image??
Back to racial division-
The United States did not invent slavery. The United States invented freedom from 4 July 1776 through the Civil War, all of the 20th century and continues to liberate dictator controlled places in the world even today. Somebody name a country on earth that ever fought a civil war to make men equal. What other country on the face of the earth has so many laws against discrimination? You can't find one.
Our country is exceptional, look around at who is tearing down our exceptionalism and throw them out!
Everybody in this country ought to be proud and love the fact that they're Americans, and I want everybody in this country to have opportunity. I love people. I want them to have the best opportunity they can find. I want everybody to realize the great opportunity that being an American is. So many millions of people born in this country are told and raised and educated that they have no chance and should just hang out, draw a government check and exist on the fringe. That's practically near criminal. There are people doing that kind of teaching and educating. I think it's time it all stopped.
You would think that after 9/11, when our country has been pulling itself up by its bootstraps, that the new leadership in Washington would do everything they could to foster and cheer on all of us as we continue our life paths after 9/11. But NO! Let's throw the proverbial penny on the ground by stirring up racial division and wait for the dogfight.
By the way, dog fighting is illegal, yet grown men and women are allowed legally to get into a ring to beat the brains out of their opponent while others gamble on the winner. Dogs bear numbers in a litter. Humans have one baby at a time, except for multiples, the majority of births are single. Dogs replace themselves every time the wind blows. Some couples can't get pregnant and never reproduce. Why is there a law banning dog fighting and not banning human fighting for sport? Don't get me wrong, I don't like the specter of seeing dogs fight, but, I had rather not either see men and women suffer permanent life-long brain damage for the sake of a paycheck and to make some folks rich on the sport. Are we throwing our devotion to banning dogs from fighting for sport, yet, allowing people to fight and suffer long term ill-effects for monetary gain? Isn't that worshiping the creature and not worshiping the Creator and His beings created in His image??
Back to racial division-
The United States did not invent slavery. The United States invented freedom from 4 July 1776 through the Civil War, all of the 20th century and continues to liberate dictator controlled places in the world even today. Somebody name a country on earth that ever fought a civil war to make men equal. What other country on the face of the earth has so many laws against discrimination? You can't find one.
Our country is exceptional, look around at who is tearing down our exceptionalism and throw them out!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
But he wants us to be the victims now......
Obama's shoes were first covered in dung from stepping in it with Obamacare, and I guess now tar balls from the gulf coast. But the tar spreads thickly on both accounts. Barry's leftists have made bogus claims about tea partiers as being mainstream conservative racists, bigots, homophobes and violent. Conservatives are largely a peaceable group as evidenced at Dan's bake sale and Hannity's freedom concert tour.
Leftists cannot debate ideas, because they have no original ones. So when tea partiers protest with what is true on their signs and slogans, the left just spews out hate speech and anarchy. Obama's buddies stand ready to shut up and muzzle the conservative voices in our country.
Obama's soldiers prattle to the cameras fabrications about violence at tea parties, intimidate by summonsing corporate execs and Obama himself saying that he doesn't want those who created this mess to do a lot of talking. Then when all of the above fails, the leftists run to the cameras again to paint us conservatives as racists just a moment away from violent acts at tea parties.
For the left to infer that conservatives are racists means that under their standard, Obama is racist in that he reversed welfare reform. That very welfare reform had reduced black poverty and black illegitimacy rates. You want more, his liberal education policies have slammed the cage door shut on minorities in failing inner- city schools. It just keeps on going.
Billy Joel sings a song titled "We Didn't Start the Fire", well we conservatives didn't either. Take Chris Matthews on PMSNBC when he asked on air, 'are the tea partiers mad because health-care reform was pushed through by an African-American president and a woman speaker of the House?' Now that is like pouring jet fuel on the backyard bar-b-que pit.
When Obama takes total control of petroleum offshore drilling after BP-ina, thus seizing another portion of our national economy, the public will surely become more outraged and his leftists will smather the ink and video demonizing ordinary Americans, who by now can be considered the real victims of government policy.
Leftists cannot debate ideas, because they have no original ones. So when tea partiers protest with what is true on their signs and slogans, the left just spews out hate speech and anarchy. Obama's buddies stand ready to shut up and muzzle the conservative voices in our country.
Obama's soldiers prattle to the cameras fabrications about violence at tea parties, intimidate by summonsing corporate execs and Obama himself saying that he doesn't want those who created this mess to do a lot of talking. Then when all of the above fails, the leftists run to the cameras again to paint us conservatives as racists just a moment away from violent acts at tea parties.
For the left to infer that conservatives are racists means that under their standard, Obama is racist in that he reversed welfare reform. That very welfare reform had reduced black poverty and black illegitimacy rates. You want more, his liberal education policies have slammed the cage door shut on minorities in failing inner- city schools. It just keeps on going.
Billy Joel sings a song titled "We Didn't Start the Fire", well we conservatives didn't either. Take Chris Matthews on PMSNBC when he asked on air, 'are the tea partiers mad because health-care reform was pushed through by an African-American president and a woman speaker of the House?' Now that is like pouring jet fuel on the backyard bar-b-que pit.
When Obama takes total control of petroleum offshore drilling after BP-ina, thus seizing another portion of our national economy, the public will surely become more outraged and his leftists will smather the ink and video demonizing ordinary Americans, who by now can be considered the real victims of government policy.
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