Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 08:26     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hope it was worth losing your democracy to not have to note what gender your child was PP!


Keep up this pace of hyperbolic craziness! Don’t stop reading 4-froth rage or race baiting articles, and please try to add at least one “uneducated” in all your name calling posts. Don’t ever change. Meanwhile Trump’s approval rating continues to climb. I’m looking forward to Pres Vance in four years!


Why can’t you guys at least find a sane conservative? Just one??? I could live with the policies I don’t agree with. It’s insanity and irrationality and shameless grift that’s hard to take.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 16:38     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:Right now the national debt is $100k per person with an interest rate of 4-5%. That’s about $5k per person per year in the U.S. Banks and savers are benefiting. But the system is screwed. We need drastic cuts and raises to taxes to balance this out. The Fed cuts are just a drop in the bucket.


Well the GOP’s answer is to add $4 trillion of debt and pass new tax cuts. Looks like that wasn’t a good choice to improve our fiscal situation.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 11:19     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:Right now the national debt is $100k per person with an interest rate of 4-5%. That’s about $5k per person per year in the U.S. Banks and savers are benefiting. But the system is screwed. We need drastic cuts and raises to taxes to balance this out. The Fed cuts are just a drop in the bucket.


Well instead we are going to cut taxes and go further into debt.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 10:53     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:Right now the national debt is $100k per person with an interest rate of 4-5%. That’s about $5k per person per year in the U.S. Banks and savers are benefiting. But the system is screwed. We need drastic cuts and raises to taxes to balance this out. The Fed cuts are just a drop in the bucket.
A cautious measured approach to devaluing the dollar could have reduced the debt and grown gdp without causing high inflation and interest rates. Unfortunately, people don't know what they've got until it's gone. Our future is larger deficits, higher interest payments, and lower standard of living. But we may get to Mars.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 10:49     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here’s the famous excerpt from the letter a mother wrote to FDR during the sulfanilamide disaster:

"The first time I ever had occasion to call in a doctor for [Joan] and she was given Elixir of Sulfanilamide. All that is left to us is the caring for her little grave. Even the memory of her is mixed with sorrow for we can see her little body tossing to and fro and hear that little voice screaming with pain and it seems as though it would drive me insane. ... It is my plea that you will take steps to prevent such sales of drugs that will take little lives and leave such suffering behind and such a bleak outlook on the future as I have tonight."

Do we really have to repeat this history all over again? Imagine being a parent and giving your small child medicine only to have to listen to them scream in agony for hours while they slowly die because their medicine was contaminated, and there’s nothing you can do about it. People never learn. They want us to return to the year of 1876 level of regs. This is where we are. Scared yet? Then you’re not paying attention.


Oh gosh. This is terrible. Nobody else thinks that this could happen. They still think that companies will 'do the right thing' and that consumers (of food, medicine, health care, clean air and water) will just...I don't know, do yelp reviews and not spend money and go elsewhere if products aren't good? Can't if we're dead though.


People are stupid enough to think Musk is cleaning up the government out of the goodness of his heart (Savior complex) that sure, why wouldn't they think companies will keep on doing the "right" thing. Except "Big Pharma" which they hav been trained to hate
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 10:42     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:Right now the national debt is $100k per person with an interest rate of 4-5%. That’s about $5k per person per year in the U.S. Banks and savers are benefiting. But the system is screwed. We need drastic cuts and raises to taxes to balance this out. The Fed cuts are just a drop in the bucket.


Most economists disagree with you.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 09:17     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:Right now the national debt is $100k per person with an interest rate of 4-5%. That’s about $5k per person per year in the U.S. Banks and savers are benefiting. But the system is screwed. We need drastic cuts and raises to taxes to balance this out. The Fed cuts are just a drop in the bucket.


You’re right. We aren’t getting anywhere unless we cut off the people who aren’t working. Fed pensions, SS, Medicare, Medicaid for nursing homes, the works. If it isn’t directly benefiting a current or future worker, it has got to go. Too much of today’s income is being spent on yesterday’s promises.

I get it, it’s hard to have relied on a promise. But we simply can’t afford it anymore. Retirees can do lots of jobs. They can watch their grandbabies, or substitute in schools, or even pick up a new career like a social secretary for a billionaire. Lots of white collar workers can work into their 70s and beyond. Their churches can fill in the gaps if they need food. We simply can’t pay for people to sit around playing tennis and riding cruises anymore.

- this isn’t how I think, but it is how the Heritage Foundation thinks. Maybe ya’ll Trumpers should have read before you gave them the keys to the kingdom.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 09:05     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Right now the national debt is $100k per person with an interest rate of 4-5%. That’s about $5k per person per year in the U.S. Banks and savers are benefiting. But the system is screwed. We need drastic cuts and raises to taxes to balance this out. The Fed cuts are just a drop in the bucket.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 07:08     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:Here’s the famous excerpt from the letter a mother wrote to FDR during the sulfanilamide disaster:

"The first time I ever had occasion to call in a doctor for [Joan] and she was given Elixir of Sulfanilamide. All that is left to us is the caring for her little grave. Even the memory of her is mixed with sorrow for we can see her little body tossing to and fro and hear that little voice screaming with pain and it seems as though it would drive me insane. ... It is my plea that you will take steps to prevent such sales of drugs that will take little lives and leave such suffering behind and such a bleak outlook on the future as I have tonight."

Do we really have to repeat this history all over again? Imagine being a parent and giving your small child medicine only to have to listen to them scream in agony for hours while they slowly die because their medicine was contaminated, and there’s nothing you can do about it. People never learn. They want us to return to the year of 1876 level of regs. This is where we are. Scared yet? Then you’re not paying attention.


Oh gosh. This is terrible. Nobody else thinks that this could happen. They still think that companies will 'do the right thing' and that consumers (of food, medicine, health care, clean air and water) will just...I don't know, do yelp reviews and not spend money and go elsewhere if products aren't good? Can't if we're dead though.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2025 23:59     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love how fox news and oligarchs have turned us peasants against each other. Instead of building each other up we are busy squabbling while Elon just gets richer. Sad!

I remember reading in some book about the robber barons that Jay Gold said that “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Crazy that we never changed I guess.


Exactly this. Elon grows richer by the minute and sqwauks out another infant. He is like the Welfare King with all his government contracts.


Elon is the ultimate Welfare King. He has become rich from our tax payments.



Isn’t spaceX a government contractor?
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2025 20:19     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Here’s the famous excerpt from the letter a mother wrote to FDR during the sulfanilamide disaster:

"The first time I ever had occasion to call in a doctor for [Joan] and she was given Elixir of Sulfanilamide. All that is left to us is the caring for her little grave. Even the memory of her is mixed with sorrow for we can see her little body tossing to and fro and hear that little voice screaming with pain and it seems as though it would drive me insane. ... It is my plea that you will take steps to prevent such sales of drugs that will take little lives and leave such suffering behind and such a bleak outlook on the future as I have tonight."

Do we really have to repeat this history all over again? Imagine being a parent and giving your small child medicine only to have to listen to them scream in agony for hours while they slowly die because their medicine was contaminated, and there’s nothing you can do about it. People never learn. They want us to return to the year of 1876 level of regs. This is where we are. Scared yet? Then you’re not paying attention.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2025 18:25     Subject: Re:How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:I hope YOUR economy collapses. You all couldn’t just be content with your bureaucratic, do-nothing, $140,000 a year jobs—which the rest of us had to pay for.

No, you had to use the bureaucratic state to push left-wing ideology on the country in ways that were unquestionably illegal. Remember when you guys got military members fired for not taking the vaccine? (“No one elected Elon!” Interesting, now what about Fauci?)

So I don’t really care that you’re going to have to sell your Arlington home and go back to whatever LCOL town you’re originally from and try to start a new career at age 51. Sorry, not sorry.


I'm sorry about whatever made you so gullible to believe these lies, and for whatever happened to you to make you so angry that you want to tear down your own house. Godspeed, and wake up and smell the coffee, although then you'd be WOKE!
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2025 16:10     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love how fox news and oligarchs have turned us peasants against each other. Instead of building each other up we are busy squabbling while Elon just gets richer. Sad!

I remember reading in some book about the robber barons that Jay Gold said that “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Crazy that we never changed I guess.


Exactly this. Elon grows richer by the minute and sqwauks out another infant. He is like the Welfare King with all his government contracts.


Elon is the ultimate Welfare King. He has become rich from our tax payments.



How can they not see that he is a foreign interloper who is a bigger grifter than the orange man?


You’ve heard of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” People would rather ignore the evidence of their own eyes than admit they’ve been so badly fooled. They’re the emperor, who even after being revealed as being naked, walks proudly down the street.
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2025 14:24     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love how fox news and oligarchs have turned us peasants against each other. Instead of building each other up we are busy squabbling while Elon just gets richer. Sad!

I remember reading in some book about the robber barons that Jay Gold said that “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Crazy that we never changed I guess.


Exactly this. Elon grows richer by the minute and sqwauks out another infant. He is like the Welfare King with all his government contracts.


Elon is the ultimate Welfare King. He has become rich from our tax payments.



How can they not see that he is a foreign interloper who is a bigger grifter than the orange man?
Anonymous
Post 02/16/2025 13:57     Subject: How long till the economy collapses?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We've stopped vaccinating people in other countries like airplanes and boats don't exist.

We've stopped funding cancer research.

We are deporting our agricultural workers.

We are ignoring environmental catastrophe and getting rid of NOAA and FEMA.

We are alienating our allies.

All of these things have consequences. Life has been hard for all of humanity until the last 100 years and we have chosen to go back in time.


So tell me where you would cut $2 Trillion from? How do you suggest we get to a good budget situation? I don’t think you realize that we can’t continue on this trajectory.


First, I would follow the law.



Thank you.

For example, I don't have a problem with getting rid of the penny. I do however have a major problem with doing so via a toilet seat tweet by the President.

The penny is minted in a small county in Tennessee. They are begging Trump to reconsider because the loss would financially cripple the county. The county voted overwhelmingly for Trump. https://www.newsweek.com/end-pennies-may-cost-jobs-trump-supporting-county-2029309


Don't care about them, they wanted to overthrow our system of government.

What's really funny though is that this move will cost us money. A nickel costs 14 cents to produce.