It Is Obscene

[1990C4S]

A Cadillac? I'd be happy with Dragon Ass Jeans.

[flipper35]

My brother in law just bought a new to him Caddy. A 1938 or so. All original and in good shape. Needs a good buffing though.

[URY914]

Originally Posted by smadsen

Remember how everyone laughed when H. Ross Perot, running for President, explained that "gigantic sucking sound?" Thirty years later he's dead, and the great American middle class has vaporized. Sold our collective souls for the $8.00 polo shirt. And now 100,000 migrants per month are coming after the dream that left the building 30 years ago. Your $1400 will buy you about 24 hours of happiness, but the 30 trillion dollar bill will come due.

Just like any other animal, humans migrate to where the opportunity for food and safety is. Some were lucky enough to be born here and others want what we have. Americans proved long ago that low prices mean more than their own jobs.

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by URY914

Just like any other animal, humans migrate to where the opportunity for food and safety is. Some were lucky enough to be born here and others want what we have. Americans proved long ago that low prices mean more than their own jobs.

This has been around for a while but sometimes a reminder is in order.

[tabs]

When you dont know your history your narratives become skewed, with the tendency to find an easy target to blame. For instance the real reason Equities languished from 1968 to the mid 1980's is that the economy was moribund. By the 80s and Reagan,the credit..the sugar juicing of the economy began and money flowed into Equities. At first the detrimental effects were hardly noticed but as the debts grew larger we is now in the terminal stage of having a GLOBAL SOVEREIGN DEBT BUBBLE. You can tell by how weird things have become socially, economically and politically. It is all connected, one does not exist without the others.
The one thing that you can bet on is that those big shots who run things are confused. The do not understand what is happening. THE BIG SHOTS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO PRESERVE THE SYSTEM THAT THEY ARE RUNNING by applying the same old Conventional Wisdom axioms that seemingly worked before . They do not understand that without a broad based Middle Class consumer there isnt enough Demand to sustain the Global Economy of Scale. If they understood that premise they would understand the Global economy will collapse. That by printing and borrowing they are only delaying the ineviatable.

Btw..Like Humpty Dumpty the prosperous American consumer can not be put together again. The great wealth that Americans accrued during and after WW2 was an aberration of history. Very simply the circumstances that caused that great prosperity no longer exist. Americans now face Global economic competition where their high standard of living was going to decline. No body robbed or conspired against Americans they just continued to live it up like they was rich swells. Putting it all on the charge card. Ya see even the Big Shots are Americans who have the same basic perceptional American mindset that the USA is a rich nation. This fact is what all the Dummy commentators dont fkin get. Those Big Shots are not super smart omniscient Supermen.

Jewel said it great in her song "Who Will.Save Your Soul" "The people on TV tell you they are better than you.and you agree.

[tabs]

Since 2008 what happens whenever the FED or Treasury juices the economy? The same thing that happens to a kid when they suck down those 32 oz Big Gulp sodas..they run wild on a sugar high. But after the sugar high burns off what happens to the economy..it returns to being sluggish. Time for another hit of juice to keep the economy from falling off a cliff. Like a junkie has to keep on taking bigger and bigger hits to get the same high, the law of diminishing returns apply.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Back to Tabs thread.
With all the money pumped into the hands of Americans....how can people not feel positive?
The stock market reflects that.

The Cadillac advert is like a distillery selling booze to a guy with terminal cirrhosis.

[stevej37]

I don't know what the far future holds...but the near future looks real good to me.
Hence...I don't worry one bit about it.

I think all of us on this forum will be long gone before the shtf.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Often, as I drive around my neighborhood, I notice a very nice car being driven by an equally beautiful woman. I generally remark: "Looks expensive...".

I'm not referring to the car.

On Wednesday it was 76 degrees and clear skies and just perfect weather.

I ran a short errand and pulled up next to a solid 10, beautiful blonde, maybe late 20s, early 30s, driving a 992 Cabriolet in a really pretty blue. It was a package deal trophy for some lucky guy.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I don't know what the far future holds...but the near future looks real good to me.
Hence...I don't worry one bit about it.

I think all of us on this forum will be long gone before the shtf.

I hope you're right, but I disagree. A fence and troops guarding the capitol bear testimony to why I disagree.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

I hope you're right, but I disagree. A fence and troops guarding the capitol bear testimony to why I disagree.

As stated that is a Barometer of just how close the edge is...

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

I hope you're right, but I disagree. A fence and troops guarding the capitol bear testimony to why I disagree.

Such a small group of radicals..blown up by the media. They certainly did their job.
To equate that to the whole country is not right.

[gordner]

But it is scary, and that is the whole point.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by gordner

But it is scary, and that is the whole point.

And that is how they succeeded. (if you are meaning the protesters)

[gordner]

I think the scaring is coming from the government, the protesters are just the tool. Governance through fear.

[rusnak]

Well the current administration is still not sure how to pay for all of their bailout money, which as Tabs stated, will last about a day and a half....

[tabs]

DC is the new GREEN ZONE.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by rusnak

Well the current administration is still not sure how to pay for all of their bailout money, which as Tabs stated, will last about a day and a half....

This was the Yellen 1.9T stimulus Bill...The FED had been after the Administration to do more and go BIG!..The FED can only do so much, they needed some direct stimulus which they can come in behind and print.

[Skillet83]

You think the 1.9T bill was large, get ready for what is getting ready for what is slammed down our gullet next. Think 3-4 Trillion. The full on progressive agenda is on before 22. If you owe money to a bank, you are forked. I would get lean as chit, hold hard assets. The people in charge want to kill any form of what you thought the US was. If you are a white christian conservative, you are the enemy. The world to me has gone crazy. I want to be left the fork alone. Do what you want, do want I want, but leave me the fork alone. But no, I need to be punished, exiled. We will continue down this road, more socialist chit, more degradation of what was once a great country. The only thing that will bring an uprising is when people get hungry. The Kardashians won.

[stomachmonkey]

I saw that commercial.

Ordered 4 on Amazon, one for every family member.

Couldn't get same day even with Prime because I ordered at 11:00 pm but they were in the driveway by 8:00 AM the next morning.