pelicanbrief114 posts 1/16/08

[sandi66]

By: pelicanbrief114
16 Jan 2008, 10:27 AM EST
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Present Day Records


$ 60 Trillion TOTAL (Unfunded liabilities/Future Promises) DEBT>>>RECORD

Current Account Deficits>>>>>>RECORD

$ 60 + Billion Trade Deficits>>>>>>RECORD

DEBT to GDP 354% (1929 Great Depression 253%)>>>>>RECORD

Foreign Central Banks SUBSIDIZING US to tune of $ 2.7 Billion every M-F to finance deficits>>>>>>>UNPRECEDENTED!!!! Never witnessed in HISTORY.

ZERO/NEGATIVE (0) Savings Rate>>>>>>UNPRECEDENTED!!

Every Man/Woman/Child indebted to US Federal Govt $ 175K>>>>>RECORD

Every US Household indebted to US Federal Govt $ 475K>>>>RECORD

$ 600 Trillion Global Derivatives>>>>>>>>UNPRECEDENTED!!

US Foreclosures>>>>>>>>RECORD

Housing Inventories>>>>>>>>>RECORD

US Banks/Financial Institutions I N S O L V E N T!! (BK)

The US is effectively BK.

This certainly does not depict a favorable/healthy economic climate, no? Something surely is amiss.

The "Perfect Storm" appears to have made land fall.

Disgacefull!!

Finally a word from Mr. David Walker; US Comptroller General (Nations Accountant):

"I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan but our own fiscal irresponsibility."


Protect and Govern Thyself!!

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Enjoy the day!!

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[sandi66]

By: pelicanbrief114
16 Jan 2008, 09:52 AM EST
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Guess Who

uttered these words?


" Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Thus, government deficit spending under a gold standard is severely limited. The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. They have created paper reserves in the form of government bonds which-through a complex series of steps-the banks accept in place of tangible assets and treat as if they were an actual deposit, i.e., as the equivalent of what was formerly a deposit of gold. The holder of a government bond or of a bank deposit created by paper reserves believes that he has a valid claim on a real asset. But the fact is that there are now more claims outstanding than real assets. The law of supply and demand is not to be conned (Sound Familiar? ie Counterfeit securities/NSS). As the supply of money (of claims) increases relative to the supply of tangible assets in the economy, prices must eventually rise. Thus the earnings saved by the productive members of the society lose value in terms of goods. When the economy's books are finally balanced, one finds that this loss in value represents the goods purchased by the government for welfare or other purposes with the money proceeds of the government bonds financed by bank credit expansion.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal , as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves".


Mr Magoo-1966 otherwise now known as "The Master of Disaster"

That was Then, Reality is Now!!


Protect and Govern Thyself!!

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[sandi66]

By: pelicanbrief114
16 Jan 2008, 08:39 AM EST
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This Suns it up in

a nutshell:


"The Federal Reserve is totally out of it. They're destroying the currency and driving up inflation, which will result in higher interest rates and a worse economy. We now know the Fed doesn't understand markets or economics, but is just trying to bail out its friends on Wall Street at the expense of 300 million Americans; nay, of the whole world."


It's HIGH time to ABOLISH this criminal cartel!!


Protect and Govern thyself!!

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Got CMKX? :-)

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