I'm to the point that I hope the whole damn thing blows up!

Screw it. I hope I wake up tomorrow and the Markets and the Dollar are tanking and sinking like a stone in the ocean.

I hope the billionaires and millionaires are losing $100,000 a minute. I hope all the selfish pricks who have stacked the deck to ensure they are the only ones to see their share of wealth and wages rise over the past 30 years have their "effing" bubble pop just like the rest of us "pogues".

I hope they are looking for private security to protect their assets as fed-up people start enforcing the kind of "shared sacrifice" our politicians are too scared to address.

These "Ayn Randian" ass-whipes need to realize that there are worse things that can happen to them than paying 2-3% more in taxes on their already obscene share of the wealth of this country.

Let the whole damn thing burn.

we lose more. The middle class 401 ks will be hit hardest, the job loss will be staggering. That is why we can't let the whole thing burn.

The rich get more and more and more of everything the middle working class earns. The harder the middle working class works, the less they get, and the more goes to the rich. The rich just love your attitude because they know it's what keeps them in gravy.

At some point is has to stop simply because it cannot continue. I understand that you don't want to be on the short end when the bubble bursts, but it has to happen. It has to. If not now, when? When would it be convenient for you?


Tansy Gold, singin' burn, baby, burn

we are going to lose either way... if we default, the rich suffer some with us

they will suffer much worse.

back in the junk-bond S&L scandal days. Prior to that was the last time there was real market value in the stock market. We're facing a stiff market correction of significant magnitude whether we like it or not.

over the past 30 years.

it can't be stopped, what can you do?

Sounds good to me! :toast:

Let Go & Swim With It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIOe_zLrpwo

:toast: back atcha :)

the "buy low, sell high" mentality. It's the regular 401(k) people who get creamed.

Because we know it will be the rich that suffer from that. :crazy:

to the nice parts of town for the bloodshed.

Usually it's up in the hills or the east side of town...why the east, you ask? Because when the rich drive to and fro from work, they don't like the sun in their eyes.

So that's where you revolt....the rich part of town.

is the east side, meaning the "good" is the west side. If you live on the west side, when you drive to work in town, the sun is in your eyes (same on the way home). Down here in our metroplex, east and west is very convoluted (well, except for the fact that Dallas is east of Fort Worth, and Dallas sucks :) )

suburbs of Cleveland as the 'nice' place...like Pepper Pike. I lived in Lakewood for my senior year of high school...man, that was a tough crowd.

the other side is always the bad place :)

a huge East vs. West battle....ask anyone who lives there about it and they'll give you the whole story. Very strange...I lived on the North side of Cincinnati so I was not involved in that fight.

I'll give you a hint... It is not bravery.

and conscientious changed behavior will have the same results

Because I like your name.



TG

before air conditioning and television kept people pinned to their couches from June to September.

We'll have the revolution during that perfect interlude between the first cool days of September and the start of
the 2011 prime time lineup.

in 1915 or 1916. Where do tv and air conditioning go when you can't pay energy and entertainment bills or when you really can't afford more than canned goods? We're headed to that place. I already know middle class families who are there. You appear to be either very sheltered or wealthy or both.

I see plenty of people griping, but no willingness for action. Things could change, but they will have to get a lot worse still before the average American has had enough.

She was a wonderful 235 year experiment. Now she's just another fascist corporate war machine. Hitler and Mussolini are yucking it up in hell.

World War II Veterans are not happy, AND the ones that died are probably rolling over in their graves.

went to visit last week and he is angry

a financial meltdown. Do not hope for the collapse of our system. The consequences are enormous and most likely devastating to us all.

that will make us complete Serfing, USA. It will be an excuse to change the currency system.

The Koch brothers will make a killing on the default.

Their corporate masters don't want the meltdown this would cause.

I'm sure of Obama finally took all our stuff off the table and said the only bill he would sign would be a clean one raising the debt ceiling the way it's been raised under every other president, the panicked phone calls to the Republicans would fry the switchboards.

Even Norquist would cave completely instead of partially.

Then raise progressive taxes.

but yes, the Congress that sits in 2013 is going to need to do something.

Until then, it's not enough to play 3 dimensional chess. You have to play a certain amount of poker, too.

On capital gains above a certain level, for example?

on the stock market. Yes, it's a tenth of a cent per trade.

Not only would it raise a tremendous amount of revenue, it would take the profit out of HFT, computer generated predatory trading. By doing that, it would re level the playing field just a hair.

I cannot take another hit, no matter who causes it.
I don't have the 401K with a big company matching anything.

I pay for private health insurance without any big company or ANY company helping me out, even the one I work for.

And there are hundreds of thousands just like me.

I will be cut to the bone if the *whole damn thing* blows up.
Destroying life savings and carefully planned portfolios is NOT an option.

that is their design, their plan.

We don't always get to pick between a good alternative and a bad one. Sometimes we only get bad options and we have to choose the one that's the least bad.

It will crash. It will. Eventually. Sooner or later, maybe sooner, maybe later. Intead of being invested in it, be prepared for the crash.

I have no sympathy for those who want their tiny bit of "security" protected at the expense of so many others who have none.



TG

huh?

It's been all down hill since then.

Supply side nonsense, tax cuts for the rich, vigilante Banks, illegal foreclosures... corrupt Congress, NAFTA, offshoring, the WOT, Gestapo TSA and the War on Drugs...

Unless the majority of Americans figure it out.... we are done.

Just like what happened in 2008.

bacause this time, I doubt we bail them out.

This country has been fucked since Supply Side economics took hold, and our economic and political philosophy has been run by a college drop-out with a syndocated radio show.

It doesn't get much worse than the job I did in 1979, getting paid less per hour today...32 YEARS LATER!

I wonder if the people who "say just let the whole thing blow up" have any investments in gold.

you'll see when the only time that the working class and poor ever took to the streets was when they had nothing left to lose.

called. The masses get down to just eating bread, still no riots. Then, when there isn't enough bread left, THEN they riot, because then they are dead anyway.

You're far from alone on this.

go through the roof. You do realize that the bolshevik revolution didn't turn out so well don't you? That's pretty much what you're calling for in your post.

came the New Deal.

Would you rather we allow the Repukes to dismantle the New Deal without a wimper? Because that's what they are trying to do. They've been trying to kill the New Deal since they unanimously voted against it 70 years ago!

If the Repukes truly push this economy off of the cliff, they will suffer the consequences at the voting booth. You won't be able to find two Republicans to "rub together in a public men's room", if they bring about financial ruin.

If they break it, they own it. And if they break it...they should have no part in fixing it, and if they do...if they are rewarded politically for what they have done...THEN AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT IS LOST FOREVER.

That's the problem with your dumbass post. Marge and Ray, and the other ass-hat Tea-baggers that elected this bunch of batshit crazy politicians, think that they are going to continue getting their Medicare, Social Security, Student Loans, VA and Government Pensions. The ass-hat Tea-baggers think that the ONLY ONE'S THAT ARE GOING TO SUFFER ARE THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS WHO SUCK AT THE TEAT IN THEIR "CUSHY" $42k A YEAR JOBS.

I'm sorry to say it, but the "working people" who voted for these bastards...DESERVE TO BE THROWN UNDER THE BUS!

Maybe they will understand how "fucked in the head" Limbaugh and Hannity are when the bus tires are crushing their "Medicare provided Scooters" from The Scooter Store....prefereably with them strapped to the seat!

n/t

prosperous sister and BIL are my safety net. They have money because of hard teamwork and a sensible approach to money from their professional careers in the medical field, plus good fortune. They have earned avery penny of their retirement assets. I don't want them to lose that.

and suffer the worst.

:shrug: