Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:57:00
Game over, man. Game over.
Jesus. Christ. On. A. Pogo Stick.
The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages.
The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent almost $3 trillion over the past two years and pledged up to $5.7 trillion more. The Senate is to vote this week on an economic-stimulus measure of at least $780 billion. It would need to be reconciled with an $819 billion plan the House approved last month.
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The pledges, amounting to almost two-thirds of the value of everything produced in the U.S. last year, are intended to rescue the financial system after the credit markets seized up about 18 months ago.
I’m sorry can you repeat that bit about the two-thirds?
The pledges, amounting to almost two-thirds of the value of everything produced in the U.S. last year,
I’m sorry. Sorry. One more time. Does that say two thirds of everything we made all together in the entire nation in the last twelve months?
The pledges, amounting to almost two-thirds of the value of everything produced in the U.S. last year,
Holy crapsticks, Batman. Is there one person out there reading this that can come up with a simple, honest justification for the government spending two-thirds of the entire god-damned production - of EVERYTHING - of the entire nation? How...how is this even remotely a thing that we are doing? On what planet does this make any sense to anyone who has ever balanced a checkbook? How can you get out of three trillion in debt by borrowing twice again that amount? If you were earning, sure some of that would be offset but if you are already flat-broke, it just means now you are NINE TRILLION MOTHER-FLIPPING DOLLARS IN DEBT ASFKJLKHASfjajsdajlkjhfa
Sweet mother of Christ. I think they’ve finally broken me. I don’t even know that I care anymore. Apparently we’re determined to become wholly owned by the government in every waking moment of our lives. We’re begging the government to decide everything we do all the time. We are clamoring to be subjects. People fought a revolution for so much less than this, and it shames me to think that they wasted their time and their lives. After all, we’ve just turned around and we elected a ruling class and became their servants. Big deal...so power is (mostly) not inherited. And no one is called “king.” Practically speaking, we’ve gone the long way around to re-creating the same circumstances. Yay for American ingenuity!
I don’t see a way out of this anymore. Let’s say that Republicans somehow find their god-damned consciences, give the social con nonsense a rest and start governing like fiscal conservatives and people who love freedom...and somehow, by an ever-loving miracle, they take Congress back in two years.
SO WHAT?!?!? This will already be over four years underway (counting the first bailouts). We’re so beyond screwed we’re virginal again. A Republican Congress will not stop these programs, nor will they terminate the bailouts. And let’s take it further. If, by an even more improbable miracle, a Republican who can string two sentences together, and is a fiscal conservative, and vows to protect liberty and freedom in ALL aspects of governance , and who swears to defend the actual Constitution, not the one they made up in their head...if such a Republican exists and somehow wins the Presidency in 2012...then what? Six years into this nightmare. The recession will deepen and widen and hover just on the border on a depression...but the government will keep throwing money down the hole to stave it off for as long as possible until…
What?
Total economic collapse, that’s what.
I suggest weapons training and a very large, almost comical stockpile of ammunition. Your basic pump 12 gauge is cheap, easy to use, easily repaired and ammo is plentiful. Plus it makes the cool “shick schickt” sound.
Posted by JimK at 02:57 AM on February 11, 2009
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 02/11 at 11:53 AM -
Like I was saying to the moron in the previous post, if the problem has been the out of control spending of the government for the past couple years like Obama claims, how is the solution to double that spending?
Hey, I’m a fatass because I eat too much and I think the solution to losing weight is to double how much I eat. That’ll surely work.