tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post884217343276737701..comments2024-02-26T17:13:18.702-06:00Comments on DemoCurmudgeon: Free Market Medicare starting at age 75? You'd have to be crazy...Democurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-80166832540053235402014-08-20T11:24:25.838-05:002014-08-20T11:24:25.838-05:00If you want to find the solutions, stop looking &q...If you want to find the solutions, stop looking "out there." The same people who caused this mess are not going to be the ones who fix it. If you want to change the world, change yourself.<br /><br />You have to find individual solutions to collective problems. Unfortunately, very few understand the full scope of the problem still.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7VkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-60574044818634816982014-08-20T10:19:53.296-05:002014-08-20T10:19:53.296-05:00Well it does appear as if Americans and the rest o...Well it does appear as if Americans and the rest of humanity are going through the anger stage of awakening.<br /><br />You guys are in for a super rude slap in the face.<br /><br />I tried to get through to you a bunch of times so that you might take charge of your own lives and prepare for the collapse of the western financial system but it really is hopeless.<br /><br />Good luck. You couldn't be more wrong about well... everything. Hopefully your emotional outbreaks will put food on the table.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-20129046662834643192014-08-20T00:27:01.306-05:002014-08-20T00:27:01.306-05:00Stop the cliches, please.
I said both parties sp...Stop the cliches, please. <br /><br />I said both parties spent SS surpluses, but the GOP wants to change the rules and not pay what they borrowed. Dems will pay it back somehow. But that won't be easy or popular. Republicans aren't capable of making such decisions, ever. <br /><br />The guy in the video wants to say "see ya later" to everybody else, running from solutions, which was my point. <br /><br />Yea, poor people strong arming the banks to give them loans. Get serious and think for yourself just once. Having been in real estate and helping people get loans in the early and mid 2000's, Banks were tough on the buyers. Bad loan programs were offered that were dangerous to buyers. But people were taken advantage of, banks didn't even do paperwork, and package their intentionally risky loans with good ones. <br /><br />Fuck you idiot question.Democurmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-9596190101785226362014-08-19T10:05:14.273-05:002014-08-19T10:05:14.273-05:00Wow you really REALLY don't get it. No wonder...Wow you really REALLY don't get it. No wonder this country is in such dire straits.<br /><br />You still think it's the conservative or the republicans.<br /><br />Democrats have always been the big spenders, but in reality it is ALL of them. <br /><br />The guy in the video is anything but lazy as he is clearly taking charge of his future. I'm not sure why you believe that he can raise taxes or why it is his debt, but they could raise taxes to 100% of income and it wouldn't solve this crisis if you do the math.<br /><br />And actually I have lots of individual solutions to collectivist problems. I don't make assumptions like you.<br /><br />And finally, conservative ideals did not give us the great recession. The Federal Reserve, which is a private bank, encouraged a housing bubble to form by offering cheap money to everyone regardless of whether they could afford it or not. The bubble popped and they've been doing everything wrong again ever since. Only when this one pops, they can't lower interest rates anymore. Well they can.<br /><br />You still didn't answer my question. What is the difference between money and legal tender?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-33490951169844505772014-08-19T07:07:28.847-05:002014-08-19T07:07:28.847-05:00Well said, they really do have nothing that wouldn...Well said, they really do have nothing that wouldn't screw 90-95% of us....and them. And it'd make us even more if a Third World country than we are today.<br /><br /> Social Security is TOTALLY FUNDED FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS. Medicare for the next decade. And if the 1%ers paid the same tax rate we did, there's no shortfall in any of our lifetimes for anybody. PERIOD.Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-73612668696405275872014-08-19T00:05:19.017-05:002014-08-19T00:05:19.017-05:00Watched the second video, still part of the hopele...Watched the second video, still part of the hopeless and lazy doom and gloomers who won't raise taxes to pay their debt, and choose to do nothing because it's too late. Yikes. Gee, I better get more self reliant, because god knows conservatives haven't been, they're just waiting for the bottom to fall out so they can say I told you so. <br /><br />You don't have a solution, just a lot of whining and finger wagging. That's why conservatives can't govern, and won't make the tough decisions. Kick the can down the road is what our current congress and senate minority is doing just to make Obama look bad. Grow up guys, solve problems and stop the "Chicken Little" act. <br /><br />"Walk the check" is restaurant lingo for walking the check. Liberal? You got a real problem with your imagined villains. I worked in restaurants, factory's, radio, real estate...you need to get around. <br /><br />Conservative ideals gave us the Great Recession, wiping out retirements for millions. Thank you. Now go buy some gold like the hucksters demand.Democurmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-68714987619466990752014-08-18T21:09:03.985-05:002014-08-18T21:09:03.985-05:00Here's another. Try to stay open minded. He ...Here's another. Try to stay open minded. He gets to the meat of it about halfway through.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F18KRk0-0vU&feature=youtube_gdata_player<br /><br />If you can't see the problem after this, you probably won't find any solutions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-81762992786817333662014-08-18T21:06:36.236-05:002014-08-18T21:06:36.236-05:00Walk the check?
Is that some leftist lingo?
Let ...Walk the check?<br /><br />Is that some leftist lingo?<br /><br />Let me ask you something. Do you know the difference between legal tender and money? Obviously not. But you might want to find out.<br /><br />Oh taxes are going up. Way up. Expect bail ins of accounts like they did in Cypress and negative interest rates like in Portugal too. The REAL rate of inflation is about 10% right now. Not the fed's 2% inflation target bs number.<br /><br />You can keep believing that this can be solved if you want, but reality is that the damage is already done and the debt issues should have been dealt with years ago.<br /><br />Forget the problems. You cant solve a problem using the same consciousness that created it as Einstein said. Focus on the solutions. Do what you can to prepare and protect those around you.<br /><br />Or vote and see how that works out for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-89791178445726418692014-08-18T20:55:42.719-05:002014-08-18T20:55:42.719-05:00I read the article from you link, and it was just ...I read the article from you link, and it was just another doom and gloom prediction of social program insolvency that never pans out. <br /><br />Having said that, despite both parties borrowing money from out safety net program, Republicans want to walk the check. To pay back the borrowed money, they'd have to break their pledge to never raise taxes. The GOP in not bothered by refusing to pay back what they borrowed. Paul Ryan is the guy with that plan. <br /><br />Your answer here suggests you would back any plan that would disappoint a boatload of people. Walk the check? Sure.<br /><br />Democurmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.com