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RE: AP: Paul supporters poised to hurt McCain in West
georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:Lord Stanley Wrote:Yes, a magic fairy recession with, shock, 1.9% growth last quarter. Buying power is less, but a full economic collapse? Not ONE indicator points in that direction – that is nothing but hyperbole on this matter……
Inflationary growth due Bernanke printing green as fast as he can does not equate to a healthy economy. You have to start looking at real numbers.
Look at the dollar index.
Look at the foreign currency exchange rates.
Look at unemployment.
Look at people pushed to part-time, which is now the highest it has ever been since the stat has been recorded.
Look at commodity market pricing (gold, oil, platinum, wheat, etc)
Look at the Fannie, and Freddie, and Indy, and Bear Stearns.
Look out the damn window at the gas station.
You don't want to get me started on this one. This economy is not healthy, and if you think it is, please bah like a sheep for me, or go ask the Germans familiar with Post-WWII inflation.
Quote:Or maybe the law of supply and demand comes into place here, but heck, I am no U Chicago economist.
One barrel of oil in 1999 purchased with gold cost the same as it would today purchased with gold.
Quote:As of June 30, 2008, there are about 1,427,546 people are on active duty in the military with an additional 1,458,400 people in the seven reserve components. Troop counts in Iraq and Afghanistan number 225,000. Sounds like plenty of manpower to me – and considering that no one except the lunatic fringe of the Democratic party are calling for a draft, you and others who trot this out are guilty of hyperbole. End of a superpower? Economically, the US GDP is 3 times its closest competitor, we have stockpiles of the best scientists, educators, military minds, corporate leaders, and yes, many in the government are at the top of the game. How does this all fall to the wayside so quickly? Suddenly we are Malaysia if your candidate isn’t on the ballot?
If there are troops everywhere, you want to explain why tours have been lengthened time and time again? I have family out in that sandbox who have been extended and had leave time shortened. Seems to me reality doesn't jive with your claim.
Quote:Once again, for the umpteenth time asking those who trot out this tripe, I ask for examples. I want ******* examples of jack booted brown shirts hauling old ladies off to re-education kkkamps, I want examples of how your website is being monitored by the government, I want to see pictures of book burnings, I want to see large scale camps with immigrants, I want to see the Berlin Walls equivalent along the Mexican boarder, show me the infringement of habeas corpus on the guy down the block with the Obama 08 sticker, show me soldiers forced into my living room, show my how the local mosque was searched and burned down by the FBI. YOU claimed it, now I want to see all this imaginary crap that so many of your ilk want to see.
http://www.eff.org/nsa
Unless you think Congress granted Retroactive Immunity to the Telcos because they loved them so vury vury much. Wake the f*** up would ya please?
How about the strip club owner in Las Vegas who, without warrant, was wiretapped for several months on suspicion of police bribery. Sounds like a real need to use "powers we need only to stop terrorists".
How about the owners and operators of archive.org, who got sued with new "terrorism" provisions that gagged them from talking to the media, or anybody about why they were being served papers demanding they turn over traffic log files. Why do we even know about this case if it was gagged? Archive.org joined with the ACLU and EFF and sued the United States FBI and won. Part of the provision of the settlement was to lift the gag order.
LOOK AROUND WOULD YA??
Quote:Except your day isn’t like this, is it? You wake up, drive where you want to drive, say what you want to say, do what you want to do with little or no involvement from your neighbors, your friends, the police, the local county commission, and certainly not the federales……
You want so badly to see this imaginary infringement on your rights so that you can pretend you are some sort of hero, poking back at The Man. That is what most of this capital L libertarian screed posting is on this and other websites – a small cry for attention in a political world that is passing you by without a second glance.
The "doesn't effect me so why should I care" attitude is extremely dangerous and part of the reason the country is being flushed to begin with.
Belittle all you want -- your post was massively horrendously ignorant. Everything in this reply was straight off the top of my head. I could made posts pages and pages long on why your economic and civil liberty views are flat out effing WRONG.
+1....The indoctrinated masses just cant see government for what it really is......."people using force against their neighbors to achieve their agendas" I think we agree that there is very little we can do at this point to restrain this parasite call government. 
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