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Topic: Fed Bailout marks beginning of end of Pax Americana |
Byron100
Replies: 18
Views: 458
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:59 pm Subject: Re: Fed Bailout marks beginning of end of Pax Americana |
I think all of us are going to have to come to grips with the fact that America is doomed as a country. Totally and utterly doomed, as in no more USA kind of thing.
Perhaps this is some nefariou ... |
Topic: Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt |
Byron100
Replies: 33
Views: 1077
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:50 pm Subject: Re: Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt |
You gotta pick one or the other, though...
No, I do not support dictatorship. Sorry. I just don't.
I don't either, but that's what we're going to get in the USA in the coming years. That ... |
Topic: Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt |
Byron100
Replies: 33
Views: 1077
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:58 am Subject: Re: Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt |
Maybe we should just ban consumer credit and be done with it?
+1
To me, allowing the "unwashed masses" (like the woman in that vid) to have virtually unlimited access to credit is like allowin ... |
Topic: Confessions of a Grocery stocker . |
Byron100
Replies: 86
Views: 4839
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:02 am Subject: Re: Confessions of a Grocery stocker . |
A question from a dumb European:
are they shrinking boxes but leaving the price as it is????
This is illegal here. You must write the price per kilo by law. So people can do ... |
Topic: Housing & Economic Collapse - In Progress - #2 |
Byron100
Replies: 1422
Views: 78771
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:24 am Subject: Re: Housing & Economic Collapse - In Progress - #2 |
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It is going to get worse, much worse. Notice how the stock market has barely moved up in response to this bailout. Today, even, it went down. This bailout is the beginning of the end. ... |
Topic: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
Byron100
Replies: 65
Views: 2136
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:02 am Subject: Re: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
Wow...after reading that last post, I can certainly see why you have so little faith in government to solve the problem of the day.
So, what happens if the water really does run out...ev ... |
Topic: Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt |
Byron100
Replies: 33
Views: 1077
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:56 am Subject: Re: Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt |
Maybe we should just ban consumer credit and be done with it?
+1
To me, allowing the "unwashed masses" (like the woman in that vid) to have virtually unlimited access to credit is like allowin ... |
Topic: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
Byron100
Replies: 65
Views: 2136
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:05 am Subject: Re: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
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Unfortunately, the problem with societal collapse - either financially or environmentally or both - is that the good get washed away with the bad. The individual lives in society. It is ... |
Topic: Hynix closing facility in Eugene, Oregon... |
Byron100
Replies: 13
Views: 687
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:41 am Subject: Re: Hynix closing facility in Eugene, Oregon... |
| Another scum bag Benedict Arnold company. Don’t worry, anybody who speaks English as their first language will be unable to understand the people in Bangladesh they are hiring to take their place. T ... |
Topic: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
Byron100
Replies: 65
Views: 2136
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:26 am Subject: Re: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
| Don't go around preaching die-off for tomorrow. People get around, and they find solutions. Read the posts in the thread: more expensive food = more incentives to produce food = more food produced. Ju ... |
Topic: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
Byron100
Replies: 65
Views: 2136
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:10 am Subject: Re: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
Once the baby came and it was time to do some parenting I realized how hard it is to get some of that stuff done. Parenting done right is a full time job all by itself.
I've gone from having a full ... |
Topic: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
Byron100
Replies: 65
Views: 2136
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:54 am Subject: Re: US food groups plan hefty price rises |
| When I hear stories like this, I can only hope that the Age of the Corporation is drawing that much closer to its inevitable end. I would love nothing more than to see a huge, debilitating increase i ... |
Topic: You got a Friend in Pennsylvania |
Byron100
Replies: 10
Views: 283
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:49 am Subject: Re: You got a Friend in Pennsylvania |
Hey there, first post hello from pennsylvania...
Im just a fiddle player / luthier who spends too much time in the stock market... Great to be here, the discussions seem very well informed...
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Topic: Asperger's Syndrome |
Byron100
Replies: 20
Views: 704
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:05 pm Subject: Re: Asperger's Syndrome |
| They just never learned to lie compulsively and put on an act. From my experience that's the only way to get along with people. At a party and can't think of anything to say? Just make up an interesti ... |
Topic: Slavery by another name |
Byron100
Replies: 20
Views: 649
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Forum: Book/Media Reviews Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:28 pm Subject: Re: Slavery by another name |
| I really, really, REALLY hope humans become extinct before we go back to the age of slavery, as there is just no point in being human if most individuals have to live sh*t lives. And I mean this, wit ... |
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