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Originally Posted by mreid
I saved a million confederate dollars! Got them through an inheritance. My great grandfather kept 10,000 $100 bills in his mattress. Thought I was rich, didn’t need to save anything else.
Then I found out they were worthless. Well, a collector told me he could probably get me 25 cents on the dollar selling them one at a time. Given they are uncertified, we’d be lucky to sell them all in the next ten years.
Just because our savings COULD become devalued, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t save. |
I have also preached that you have to play the game as if the music will go on forever. You have to save...and the ones that have should be applauded for being so responsibly prudent. That said you have to be chastened to realize that no time in American history has the game been played so insidiously reckless. A course that has a collision in the future. What I remind is that you BOYZ sound very complacent and SURE that things will continue as they are. You know nothing different. What I do not hear is that element of uncertainty in the future.
The way that this game is being played by YOUR LEADERSHIP is to fk the responsibly prudent in the azz. You hard work and diligence is being robbed...by the printing of more money and deficit and debt...all of which undermines the stability of the system itself. As the CSA government and it's currency is no more...so is the USD heading in that direction. The CONVERSE is that if the leadership did not act in the manner that they are you would already have been wiped clean. By borrowing money and printing it they keep the music playing for another day. Better the devil you know than the one you don't. That was the stark choice to be made in 2008.
The system is morphing as we go along...the deeper you go into debt the more the pressure builds on society and the more aberrational it becomes. It slowly becomes the new norm. In this case especially after 2012 it has become evermore irrational. That swirl of madness again. Trump is certainly a divergence from what we would call the SOP of the establishment leadership. In that he is a reflection of the swirl of madness and the poster boy of the new norm.
The question becomes, is Trump a one off anomaly or is he the poster boy of things to come? I think the mold has been broken and you can not put it back together again. The advent of Trump is part of the progression, arc or trajectory of history. One thing leads to another. You are going from bad to worse and not vice versa...who would have thought that an out and out Left wing socialist like BO could ever become President? From the perspective of socialists BO might appear to be rather conventionally middle of the road, but his ideology certainly was not. BO never ever said what he thought publicly, he always edited.