The sh@t is about to hit the fan! This year will go down in history as the year the U.S. tumbled!

To say nothing of the crazy prices at R'n'R events.

I love the "random" ad generators. for this thread they had a rand paul advertisement.

What random ads?

you cannot be serious. dow 12k, consumer confidence up, corporate profits up, oil price rises affect every country.

mine is for campmor

Man, it's gettin crazy out there. No jobs, higher prices all across the board.

The same amount of groceries in 2006 now cost 17 times that amount. It's getting impossible to survive.

We're approaching 42% inflation, 46% REAL unemployment and the debt grows by 9 trillion EVERY SINGLE DAY.

It's over folks.

judgement day wrote:

I'm not trying to scare or create controversy people, but the facts speak for themselves...and these uprisings in the mideast may be the trigger. The U.S. is in unconquerable debt, gas prices are soaring, and stocks are falling. There is too much debt to ever be paid off, but the government will insist on printing more money, which will only drive the value of the U.S dollar down--to the point where countries will no longer accept it as payment, thus the dollar will lose its place as world reserve currency. This will cause everything to crash down. Get ready folks.

All of this is pure speculation and I don't think any of the above will materialize or will have any lasting effects. The U.S. has turned the corner and economically things look more optimistic each month that passes. I don't buy into the doomsday scenarios at all - most are unrealistic and not analytically supported. All of our problems can be corrected with careful planning and discipline. I, for one, am looking forward to prosperity over the next decade. Care to refute me - go ahead, take a shot.

Not to mention the rampant use of hallucinogenic drugs.

Where did the phrase "sh*t hitting the fan" originate?

It obviously is a disturbing image, but most of these chiches make actual literal sense. I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where actual sh*t was hitting a fan.

Deep thoughts...

EconomicOptimist wrote:

All of our problems can be corrected with careful planning and discipline.

True, but where are we going to find that from our crooked career politicians in either party?

possibilities wrote:

Where did the phrase "sh*t hitting the fan" originate?

It obviously is a disturbing image, but most of these chiches make actual literal sense. I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where actual sh*t was hitting a fan.

Deep thoughts...

judgement day wrote:

I'm not trying to scare or create controversy people, but the facts speak for themselves...and these uprisings in the mideast may be the trigger. The U.S. is in unconquerable debt, gas prices are soaring, and stocks are falling. There is too much debt to ever be paid off, but the government will insist on printing more money, which will only drive the value of the U.S dollar down--to the point where countries will no longer accept it as payment, thus the dollar will lose its place as world reserve currency. This will cause everything to crash down. Get ready folks.

read a history of wall street - this is nothing. Back before there was a federal reserve, banks were manipulating the money supply, europeans were propping up the country by buying our bonds, (and now and then pulling the rug out from under us), the gold standard was literally killing farmers, the middle of the country loathed the East Coast even more than now, and we had receessions every five years.

Now? 2% inflation, low interest rates, little hunger, crime at all time lows, a responsible government, the entire planet is scrambling to buy our bonds, tyrants falling all over the mid east - sounds pretty good to me.

Mine appears to be for Jack Van Impe

wccelder wrote:

mine is for campmor

I have never read a more assanine post until yours. Congratulations, and way to miss the context of the why and how.

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never? really? Don't read much do you?

Anyway, feel free to counter my facts with your facts.

Otherwise, do get out and read more - there is plenty more asinine than putting this economy's problems into historical context.

judgement day wrote:

I'm not trying to scare or create controversy people, but the facts speak for themselves...and these uprisings in the mideast may be the trigger. The U.S. is in unconquerable debt, gas prices are soaring, and stocks are falling. There is too much debt to ever be paid off, but the government will insist on printing more money, which will only drive the value of the U.S dollar down--to the point where countries will no longer accept it as payment, thus the dollar will lose its place as world reserve currency. This will cause everything to crash down. Get ready folks.

I honestly dont care. the idea of a country and a nationality is all a construct of society. As long as I can live my life as I want to and still have the opportunity to get ahead based on my own hard work I am fine with the entity called the US no longer being the number 1 power. (it is currently debatable whether I can live my life as I want to given the size and reach of the US Federal Government)

Dude, just grab a pbr and embrace crossfit, already.

possibilities wrote:

Where did the phrase "sh*t hitting the fan" originate?

It obviously is a disturbing image, but most of these chiches make actual literal sense. I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where actual sh*t was hitting a fan.

Deep thoughts...

In a dairy barn. Think cows and industrial round fan.

A major doucher wrote:

Dude, just grab a pbr and embrace crossfit, already.

...and join a union.

agip wrote:

I have never read a more assanine post until yours. Congratulations, and way to miss the context of the why and how.

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never? really? Don't read much do you?

Anyway, feel free to counter my facts with your facts.

Otherwise, do get out and read more - there is plenty more asinine than putting this economy's problems into historical context.

Oh, I'm sure you know better than that. If they read enough to know the name William Jennings Bryan and what he was about, they would have to read something not found within the pages of Fox Talking Points, their whole world view might become open to question. They might have to admit that the Federal Reserve was brought into being in response to a series of severe financial panics, particularly the Panic of 1907, when the stock market fell 50% in one year and many state and local banks went bankrupt. They might even have to admit the horrible living conditions for many people in the late 1800's that occurred when policies such as those advanced by people posting in threads like this were actually in vogue.

Reality sucks. (that's why they watch Fox)