What is happening to the USA??? Give us your input.

[DiscoBiscuit]

I get it. Back in the day kinda thing.

I like country western pretty good. All the 50s & 60s artists and their later years. I'm not real big on contemporary country.

 

[dagnabit]

i thought the "joint" line was saying a "joint" used to mean a dive bar or "juke joint" and now it either means weed or any place when used in that vernacular.

 

[Useful Idiot]

I get it. Back in the day kinda thing.

I like country western pretty good. All the 50s & 60s artists and their later years. I'm not real big on contemporary country.

New country kinda..well ...sucks. If you have not heard this song,I suggest you hear it. I think even younger folks would enjoy it if they could open their minds a bit and listen to the message..

 

[Useful Idiot]

i thought the "joint" line was saying a "joint" used to mean a dive bar or "juke joint" and now it either means weed or any place when used in that vernacular.

Naa, back in the day the joint was jail,doin time and such.

 

[dagnabit]

ohhh
that too..

wow thinking of it "joint" may be the mainland version of aloha..

so many uses for one word up in this joint....

 

[Hammerhead]

 

[SpasticGramps]

I wouldn't suggest the debate over central banking and fractional reserve is a distraction if we didn't have so many larger problems with previously failed banking tactics and their new exotic siblings.

These failed banking tactics are what I'm talking about. Central banks are banks yes? The odor of corruption permeates from a central source.

Speaking of exotic siblings. How about the EFSF to save the Euro? Kind of like our TARP mixed in with a little QE lite except it's unfunded. These will prove to be failed banking tactics that eclipse earlier issues IMO.

Europe is bankrupt. We are bankrupt. Mr. Market is knows it.

Even as Governments Act, Time Runs Short for Euro

By: Nicholas Kulish and Steven Erlanger
The New York Times

The window of opportunity to save the euro is rapidly closing, as the sovereign debt crisis erodes the solvency of Europe’s banks and drives up borrowing rates for even once rock-solid countries like France.

On Saturday, the crisis swept away another leader, when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned after 17 years of dominance in Italian politics to the jeers and cheers of crowds in Rome.Both there and in Greece, jumbled parliaments came together with urgency to install more technocratic governments that are committed to delivering the difficult reforms and austerity measures demanded by the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.

Despite those drastic and tangible steps, though, there is a host of problems that could quickly overwhelm Europe’s progress.
Looming over all the discussions of reform and financing mechanisms is the slowdown in the Continent’s already anemic growth rate, to 0.5 percent in 2012, and even the threat of a double-dip recession, the European Commission said in a forecast for the euro zone last week.

That calls into doubt the adequacy of the euro zone’s latest attempt to placate the markets, the lagging effort to bolster the $605 billion European Financial Stability Facility to $1.4 trillion or to find other funding. The task will become that much harder in a recessionary environment, especially as France’s credibility with investors begins to decline.

“I think we’re in very dangerous territory, and the euro zone has to act soon,” said Simon Tilford, chief economist for the Center for European Reform in London. “There isn’t really a muddle-through option right now. And those who argue that it’s possible for the south and Italy to default or deflate into competitiveness are fanciful and flying in the face of evidence.”

The damage that can result, he said, is potentially severe “to their economies, debt burdens, social and political stability, democratic accountability, and their belief in their European allies and in the European Union itself.”

 

[Classy@Home]

The place has been sold - and the new owners aren't tenant friendly type people...

IMVHO as a Canuck - love you guys, hate the "profit at all costs" mentality of the 1%.

Last time your management got this bad, y'all rose up, shed the shackles, and kicked some serious ass.

Might be time again - and this time kill all the lawyers too...

 

[GP73LPC]

and this time kill all the lawyers too...

Absolutely !!!!

 

[SpasticGramps]

Speaking of the odor of corruption permeating from a central source. Anyone see the CBS 60 Minutes report on Congressional Insider Trading? Video in the link.

Congressional Insider Trading Gone Wild

Back in May we penned, "Why A Hedge Fund Comprised Of Junior Congressional Democrats Should Outperform The Market By 9%" in which the simple conclusion was that insider trading is not only rampant in Congress, but completely unregulated, as it is perfectly legal for Congressional staffers to trade at their leisure on inside information: an exemption which the beta chasing 2 and 20 crowd on Wall Street would sell their first through fifth born to be granted, now that their glaring inability to generate alpha is laid out for all to see. Tonight we were happy to see that 60 Minutes has finally brought this gross and criminal injustice to the general public, and we expect that Congress will promptly legislate itself into actually complying with laws meant for the mere mortals out there. That said, we fully commiserate with the pathological excrement that makes up House of Representative these days: it is indeed a sad day when a Congressional member has to rely on honest work to make their millions as opposed to perfectly legal trading on inside information predicated upon laws that these very congress men and women legislate. Something tells us all the world's banana republics are just staring at the US with sheer and utter amazement as layer after layer of the unprecedented depravity of American society is exposed for all to see.

From 60 Minutes - the part where Nancy Pelosi's face melts is 9:20 in. And speaking of Nancy Pelosi it may be time to revisit: " Moody's Leaked Again: Told Nancy Pelosi Will "Probably Not" Downgrade US Weeks Ago; Did Her Multi-Millionaire Investor Husband Know Too?" and "SEC To Investigate Trades Based On S&P Downgrade Inside Information"... We wonder just how deep the SEC investigation has penetrated for it to have generated not even a peep 3 months later.

The apple is rotted to the core.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

We needs more lawmakers like Baird.

 

[187020]

Pizza was better when made by Italians

Pizza was better when made by Italians

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

that looks tasty

 

[F. Dupp]

Little do you know that its genetically modified pizza.

In a nation of sheep, some get slaughtered, some get fleeced.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

And when nobody's looking you take a bite, right?

I ate some pizza once. Then I got a haircut. But I ate so much pizza, we lost a pickup basketball game by 10 points.

Fleeced and slaughtered. The pizza must have been genetically altered.

 

[rootfingers]

While you are distracting him by biting his za I'll snatch his 3 bucks and drink from his red stripe. Booooom, made some sheep pie today! feels so good to be an American!

 

[zenoonez]

While you are distracting him by biting his za I'll snatch his 3 bucks and drink from his red stripe. Booooom, made some sheep pie today! feels so good to be an American!

We could just hit him in the head with a machete and steal his pizza, 3 bucks, and red stripe. Then it would feel so good to be like the rest of the world!

 

[dagnabit]

i count @ least $5

 

[jonnybgod]

united states is ruled by the federal reserve.. (yeah the ones that killed kennedy and stuff)... and theres nothing people can do about it... president is an utter puppet of the establishment. but dont worry about your economy, the goverment will find another country to plunder. ( lol hope is not us).. either way we'll just throw a few planes at ya jijiji

The federal reserve has killed EVERY President that tried to put an end to them. Ron Paul is next in line but the people know what is going on now and if they assassinate RP there will be a hell to pay and the bankers know it's coming. They fear him and are pushing their media to try and silence RP or make him look like a crazy old man. If Ron Paul is not our next President we will surely end up in a revolution of biblical proportion.

 

[jonnybgod]

Oh God. Is this thread for real?

Do we really need to go over all of this.

Ignoring the government is how they got so damn big in the first place. The time is now to take the constitution and shove it down there freaking throats at every turn and shut them off, nullify the federal government.
The federal government steals power for control and they control all of us now. The only way out is RON PAUL in 2012! End the Fed and the oppression will stop.