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Dec 6, 2008 7:15 PM CST Government Sets Us Up For The Next Bust
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
If an athlete injures himself and suffers great pain, we'd recognize the shortsightedness of giving him painkillers to keep him going. The pain might be masked, but at the risk of greater injury later.

That's a good analogy for the inflationary policies now pursued by Washington. These policies may temporarily "stimulate the economy," but they also disguise and aggravate the underlying problems. We will all pay a serious price.

Policy makers have thrown caution to the wind. Twelve-digit dollar figures are tossed about casually. The other day, after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson changed course -- yet again -- and announced that the Federal Reserve would commit $800 billion more in "new loans and debt purchases," The New York Times reported, "Fed and Treasury officials made it clear that the sky was the limit."

The total federal commitment to date is over $7 trillion.

The Fed had given up trying to make it easier for banks to lend to each. Now, the Times reports, it "is directly subsidizing lower mortgage rates ... doing so by printing unprecedented amounts of money, which would eventually create inflationary pressures if it were to continue unabated."

No kidding.

When we hear that the U.S. Treasury is doing this or the Federal Reserve is doing that, we should remember that these agencies are run by mere mortals, and as such, they cannot know how to "fix" something as complex as an economy. But they certainly are capable of wrecking one.
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Dec 6, 2008 9:23 PM CST Government Sets Us Up For The Next Bust
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
Have you ever read "Humanist Manifesto l or Humanist Manifesto ll ?

Do you know of their plan?
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Dec 8, 2008 5:48 PM CST Government Sets Us Up For The Next Bust
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
Does anyone care? crying
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Dec 8, 2008 5:50 PM CST Government Sets Us Up For The Next Bust
Chris1966
Chris1966Chris1966Atlantic City, New Jersey USA5 Threads 65 Posts
HealthyLiving: Does anyone care?


I do but I don't come to dating forums to talk about politics. I come to relax. You make good points but I don't want to make my brain work right now.

I just want to find hot looking women to play with. grin
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Dec 8, 2008 5:56 PM CST Government Sets Us Up For The Next Bust
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
Chris1966: I do but I don't come to dating forums to talk about politics. I come to relax. You make good points but I don't want to make my brain work right now.

I just want to find hot looking women to play with.



Whatever blows your skirt up!laugh


I would not consider dating someone who did not have similar political views and discernment to see through the lies we are told by our government. I feel this is a way to meet others with likeminds and perhaps a heart like my own. Not into being a boys playtoy.
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Dec 21, 2008 8:23 PM CST Government Sets Us Up For The Next Bust
sanfranchicky
sanfranchickysanfranchickySan Francisco, California USA2 Threads 21 Posts
Good save, Sulphur! Just thank your lucky stars that you do not need to lower your standards to tolerate that crap.

Let's just give our most solemn condolences to the poor lost soul would who thinks she does.
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Dec 21, 2008 8:24 PM CST Government Sets Us Up For The Next Bust
sanfranchicky
sanfranchickysanfranchickySan Francisco, California USA2 Threads 21 Posts
Good save, Sulphur! Just thank your lucky stars that you do not need to lower your standards to tolerate that crap.

Let's just give our most solemn condolences to the poor lost soul who thinks she does.
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