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Financial Guru Jim Rogers: ‘When I Look Ahead, I Don’t See Good Things’ & Neither Candidate Will Change That

Oct. 16, 2012 11:13am

Quantum Fund co-founder, author, and regular lecturer of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Jim Rogers’ vision of the U.S.’ financial future is neither rosy nor does he think Gov. Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama can do anything about it.

“If you’re Mr. Romney’s friends, you’re going to do well after 2012. If you’re Mr. Obama’s friends, you’re going to do well. But you and I? The people watching this show? No!” the free market advocate said during a Tuesday interview on CNBC.

“Debt’s going higher, taxes are going higher. This is not going to be fun unless you’re Mr. Obama’s friends or Mr. Romney’s friends,” he added.

CNBC journalist Maria Bartiromo (yes, that Maria Bartiromo) pushed Rogers for further details.

“When I look ahead, I don’t see good things out there. All I see is money sloshing around and it’s coming here, coming to the New York Stock Exchange,” Rogers said.

“Are you expecting a sizable decline? I mean, you’re short some U.S. stocks, so how significant might a decline be in your view?” she asked.

“I would expect that we would see serious problems by 2014,” he responded, “you should be worried. I’m worried. You should be worried, too.”

“What am I worried about?”

“You should be worried that all of this money printing is going to come to an end. All this government spending,” he added.

Well, if nothing else, at least Rogers has company. Indeed, after his comments this morning, we think it’s fair to say he just qualified for membership in the Patrick Byrne “I Don’t Have a Good Feeling About this Election” club.

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  • TruthPolice60
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:13pm

    Nonsense. Mr. Bow Tie sees no difference in the financial future of the U.S. regardless of which candidate is elected? Well, Mr. Bow Tie… Which candidate will end the war on business? Which candidate will remove the economic and regulatory shakles that will allow the U.S. economy to begin to grow its way out of trouble? Which candidate is committed to cutting the size of government and letting the free market solve our problems in areas such as health care? No difference?

    Is there some pain ahead? Certainly. But there’s been a ton of pain already. The electorate understands that smoke and mirrors economics has got to come to an end at some time. The sooner it happens, the lesser the long term pain. Romney has already said he’s willing to be a one term President because he is going to make the tough calls to fix this country’s problems no matter the political ramifications.

    So, if we’re to believe Mr. Bow Tie that it doesn’t matter who we elect and what they do, we should continue to kick the can down the road until…. ? ? ? Romney is a serious man for serious times. It’s time we put some growns ups back in the White House.

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    • louise
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 4:28pm

      There is not going to be “lesser pain”. There is no avoiding what is coming. People can pretend like they always have but what is going to happen…..is going to happen. The only thing I can give as advice at this point in history is to set you house in order. By that I mean to repent and ask Jesus Christ to save you. NO man can turn what is about to happen around. The best, loving thing I say say to anyone here reading my little post is that you must place your trust in GOD, not man.

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    • manandwolf
      Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:47pm

      mitt is just going to kick the can down the road…..wait and see politicians always disappoint.

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  • kinggrain
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:34pm

    This 5 minute video will explain everything. No other comments needed.

    http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0

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    • girlnurse
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:30pm

      Thanks! Thats was very informative…I will pass it along…

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    • bjorn-free
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:43pm

      That is only 1/2 the answer….. the author speaks of 40 years of experience and yet avoids the other side of the ledger called assets!

      it is called Comprehensive Annual Financial Report….aka…CAFR …follow this link and learn ….
      http://cafr1.com/
      Every city county and state is sitting on millions to billions in wall street cash for their pensions and retirement and fun and the law state it has to be made public but does not have to be publicized so 99% of the public are ignorant as I was about all the cash they have.

      So next time your city wants to borrow money for a new fire truck ask them about CAFR and those funds and watch what happens you will NOT like it!!!

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  • budahbabe
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:21pm

    Perot just endorsed Romney! We can’t afford four more years of Obama!

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  • michael from Ga.
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:15pm

    America started walking crooked in 1913; that is when the “Monopoly Men” and the I.R.S. was given control of the economic steering wheel. Also the Constitutional Republic begin treading water for a while, before giving in to the above Two. No man can save America – our faith is misplaced if we believe that. We did not get here over night. We should be careful of any man that can turn it around overnight. And the dollar? Its on life support around the world.

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  • budahbabe
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:09pm

    Obama has given our sovereignty away and don’t kid yourselves has lost more tax payer monies on bankrupt companies than any other President in the history of this country. He has sent more money to foreign countries than helping the people in the U.S. . O is inept period. He has no business sense and his policies and new taxes are killing the middle class. Go shill somewhere else CBrown.

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  • Moozmom
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 2:06pm

    End times. Money crashes, world starvation, islam gets stronger and stronger. Africa and Europe islamists come to our shores and the killing begins. We win in the end as does Israel. Read your Bible. Google George Washington.

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  • jimnjoy
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:58pm

    It’s hard not to agree with him when you consider the facts. In the meantime, we are called to do the best we can with our personal lives and to do all we can to elect people who will govern with Godly principles. Who knows how long the Lord will tarry? If it’s for a significant amount of time what kind-of world will we leave to our children and grand-children and beyond? God has allowed the United States of America to be blessed and to be a blessing to the rest of the world. I’m afraid that if we continue on the same course he will remove our blessings. Keeping that in mind, Romney, while not perfect, is definitely the better alternative.

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  • stopthis
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:32pm

    We the People need to walk out on the White House now
    Call your state officials and say “We the People support Congress to walk out of the Corrupt White House.
    Why vote for corruption.
    We all know too much now. The gig is up.
    I feel like I am living a lie voting for the same kind of president. They don’t call the shots people.
    The Muslim twist on things is just Obama getting greedy with his power and taking advantage of the situation.
    He has put wars on steroids. The war machine has to go along for the ride.

    Insanity

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  • pdumar
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:16pm

    The cold hard fact is we need to severely cut entitlement spending and military spending. The world is a very dangerous place but our $16 trillion deficit dictates that we can no longer afford combating militants in third world countries. We need to be prudent about when we engage militarily. Just like the left needs to realize that benevolent altruism to those in need has its financial limits, the right needs to realize that benevolent security to those in need has its financial limits too. We can no longer afford our extravagant “security welfare”. Arguing that this security provides us with the financial stability that we enjoy today is no more circular in reasoning than the belief that progressive economic policies help stimulate the free market.

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  • Cymry
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:38pm

    Jim Rogers as Cole Sear (the kid in “The Sixth Sense”)

    “I see dead economies.”

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  • fdraiden
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:37pm

    Just think of the mess Obummers going to inherit if he wins! YIKES!

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  • ResistSocialism
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:13pm

    Rogers probably voted for Obama. I can see why Rogers would have such a negative outlook.

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    • IndyNWguy
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:27pm

      Oh, I’m sure Rogers voted for Obama! Didn’t you know that Rogers has come out as a die hard communist! That’s why he moved to China! Jim Rogers just loves him some communism! That’s how he made his money don’t you know?

      Yeah, it was the centrally planned economy of China that made him rich! Yeah, yeah, and it was being taxed to the extreme that kept him wealthy! Oh! And because he’s an investor, he loves all of the regulation that goes along with a presidency like Obama’s, that keeps entreprenuers from starting new businesses!

      Yep. I’m sure he voted for Obama in 08′. Sinister Jim Rogers!

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:42pm

      The economic facts are the facts. He doesn’t have a negative outlook. He has a brain. Ask yourself why it never matters who is in office. Ask yourself why we are in perpetual debt. Then, ask yourself who benefits from the result.

      Why do you think that the banks received direct payment from our tax bailout of the housing crisis? If the money was going to be spent, why wasn’t it used to pay off the loans of the people holding the mortgages?

      The answer is perpetual debt. Had the loans been paid, the banks would have lost interest payments. As it is now, the banks got paid directly… and… the people continue pay the interest on their loans; whether refinanced or not. Win-win for the banking family.

      The central banks require a population to be in perpetual debt. It’s a Ponzi scheme. It needs constant cash inflow. It wants the nation to continually borrow. It wants the population to continually borrow, and not just mortgages (Just look at the increase in college/university costs… borrowing.).

      Devalue the dollar, destroy the economy, then move to a united currency and a World Bank/IMF. The Shylocks are doing it. They are carrying out the policies set forth by the Rothschilds. You’re the dupes.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Maybe it’s just because he can do math. Y’all should try it sometime.

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    • ResistSocialism
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:25pm

      White Guilt

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  • RodT82721
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:08pm

    Our financial problems are not our only problems, in this supposed land of the free.

    We have been attacked from within from all quarters for over 50 years now.
    Our education system was coopted by progressives to allow a more socialist voter base.
    Our government, at all levels were taken over by the union – Democrat alliance, that under cover have bankrupt communities, states and now the Federal treasury, with their mandates of unsustained promise of payments that could never be sustained, but bought so many votes to keep the corrupt in office, across this nation.

    This can not be fixed in a single POTUS 4 year term. If anyone attempted to do what was really needed to end the deficit spending, they would be run out of Washington on a rail.

    The left require freebies to keep their voters on the farm, but like in Greece, if that largess was pulled, that would be required to get back to a balanced budge, the uproar and protesting would do here just what it is doing in the EU, as their freebies are pulled for lack of funds.

    The best we can hope for is someone like Romney with the real experience to know how to set the wheels in motion, to return to fiscal sanity, without the riots in the streets from the moochers.

    It has taken 50 years of unconstitutional spending to get here, we can only hope it wont take 50 years to return to a balanced budget.

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    • IndyNWguy
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:19pm

      No. It has been over 100 years of ignoring the Constitution.
      No. Romney cannot set the wheels in motion because he doesn’t see the issue. Romney is no more your Savior than Obama was for the left in 2008.
      Being a smart business guy has absolutely nothing to do with being qualified to be POTUS. Nothing. A genuine understanding of Constitutional government does. Romney has 0 track record on this. In fact, Romney is about as anti-Constitutional as it gets (comparable to Obama).

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  • Dougral Supports Israel
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:04pm

    I believe Rogers is right. I’m not sure anyone can really solve this dilemma we are in. We need to reduce the yearly deficit by at least $1 trillion. It is not possible to tax anywhere near that amount. It would harm the economy and possibly expand the deficit because of increased demand for entitlements.

    If we try to cut spending who’s ox will be gored? Seniors will not give up their Social Security and Medicare and in a lot of cases they don’t have the funds to make up for a sizable reduction in benefits. If we cut the plethora of entitlements for the poor, Democrats will incite riots in the streets and make conservatives out to be heartless animals.

    We need to maintain a potent military force because of the obligations we have accrued in the world and the increasing danger of war in places like the Middle East. We could cut some out of the other departments but it wouldn’t come close to what we need.

    The only thing that can save us would be a sea change in what Americans demand from government. People would have to become willing to mostly take care of their own lives and charitably help out those who are in true need. It would mean leaner living , leaner and shorter retirements and taking a whole lot more personal responsibility. I fear that most Americans would not willingly take this path and so we will continue down this path of national ruin.

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    • IndyNWguy
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:15pm

      Very true.

      Very well put.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:20pm

      The let them whine and let them riot. Then, we can thin the herd.

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    • jamestoms
      Posted on October 17, 2012 at 7:40am

      Agreed, but don’t think the lemmings will change their direction, the cliff is in sight. The Fox controls the hen house…prepare!!!

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  • TOPOFTHEGAME
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:02pm

    Jim Rogers is right,,,,Have you heard Romney talk about restoring the Rule of Law for the
    1% as well as the 99%…Have you heard Romney say I will fire all of the 145,000 new Federal Employees ””The ONE ”’has hired…+ the TSA brown shirts… Have you heard him say he will fire The Head of the Federal Reserve System… Have you heard him say he will take the Govenment back to 2008 budget stats….Have you heard Romney say he will cancel ALL of Obama’s EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS including the one hiding his passport records,college grades,medical records and on and on… NO

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:38pm

      I have also heard Romney say that he is adamant about preserving the progressive tax code though:

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      Romney Vows to Maintain ‘Progressive’ Tax Code
      By Patrick Burke
      April 23, 2012

      “Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has repeatedly vowed during his presidential campaign that if he is elected president he will maintain the “progressivity” of the tax code, so that as a person’s income goes up he or she will be required to give an increasing percentage of it to the government in taxes.”
      http://cnsnews.com/news/article/romney-vows-maintain-progressive-tax-code

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  • Dano.50
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:55am

    Get off the government teat.

    Sink or swim.

    Get off your a** and get to work.

    All these are things Romney’s going to have to find polite ways to say, and he’s going to be vilified for it cause there won’t be instant results.

    Every overnight success I’ve ever heard of took years to get there.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:52am

    Jim Rogers tried to warn us, but people don’t listen:

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    “Ron Paul is the only one who has a clue about what’s going on.”
    -Jim Rogers
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZKZzAGikKU

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  • IndyNWguy
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:41am

    Huh? Obama is no good. Romney is no good. It almost makes you wonder if America isn’t missing something BIG here. Like, I don’t know, a third party candidate?

    I know, I know… He’s not a viable option. Just because he’s on the ballot in enough states to win the electoral vote, and just because both Obama and Romney fear a debate with him, and just because you trust the liberal media you say you don’t trust, voting for Gary Johnson is just voting for Obama, right?

    I know, I know… It’s not like Gary Johnson alone could fix things! And that is probably why on your ballot, when you go to vote for your House Rep, or your Senator, you’ll NEVER see a Libertarian or a Constitution Party candidate. It’s all a big scam create by the founding fathers. They wanted this outcome for the US. They knew that people were incapable of self governance – hence the sacrifices they made.

    I know, I know… the smart thing to do here is stay the course and vote Romney. Afterall, Jim Rogers isn’t exactly knowledgable on financial matters. Ron Paul sure wasn’t. And lets face it, our foreign policy shouldn’t change just because it hasn’t worked. That would be risky and scary. Yikes!

    All the warning signs have been posted. Some of us see them. We’ll be voting for Gary Johnson. The rest of you need to keep putting faith in the media (including Glenn). They’ve (the media) never been wrong before. Why would this time be any different.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:57am

      Voting for Gary Johnson is more like voting for Perot. Hopefully you recall who won those two elections when he merely drained off 10% of the vote. The media rallied behind Clinton shouting about the landslide that he got with only 42% of the vote. So, a vote for Gary Johnson does benefit 0bama. Oh yeah, this morning Perot spoke up saying that he now backs Romney.
      If you guys really want a third party, that in my opinion is getting on the road to make us resemble Italy, you need to elect a whole lot into the Congress, like the Republican party did before getting Lincoln into the presidency.

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    • IndyNWguy
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:12pm

      LOL. Perot lost because of dummies. Republicans and Democrats back then (just like today) perpetuated the lie that a third party candidate couldn’t win.

      It really is America’s self fulfilling prophecy. Every American inherently knows that the two party system is irreversably corrupted, but hey, it’s all we’ve got because… well we don’t know why really… but it just is that way. We don’t want to see our great nation destroyed, but we’ll be darned if we’re not going to make sure it is!

      It kinda reminds me of the joke about the guy being stuck on his roof in the flood. A boat comes along to save him, but he refuses to get on board. He says God will save him. Then another boat comes by after the water is up to his waist. He refuses to get on. You gotta keep the faith, you know? When the water is up to his neck, he refuses the resuce chopper’s aid. He’s gonna keep on doing the same thing. He’s gonna stay the course… After he drowns and goes to heaven he asks God, “I put my faith in you! Why didn’t you save me”? God replies, “I tried three times and you ignored me”.

      Perot
      Paul
      Johnson

      Jim Rogers is predicting 2014 is when it hits the fan…

      Yep… I think we’d better keep the faith and stay the course. God will save us. The only reason we’re in this predicament is because God hasn’t tried to save us yet!

      I believe Dark Helmet from the movie Spaceballs got it right. “Evil will always prevail over good because good is dumb”. (Something

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    • fdraiden
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:34pm

      Keep your bong handy just in case!

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:47pm

      RJJinGadsden
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:57am

      If you guys really want a third party, that in my opinion is getting on the road to make us resemble Italy, you need to elect a whole lot into the Congress, like the Republican party did before getting Lincoln into the presidency.
      =========================

      Lincoln won the 1860 election as a 3rd party candidate with only 39 percent of the vote:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:38am

    i’ll take my chances with Romney. Romney has America’s best interest at hart. obama has his own interest at hart. Romney will get Americans back to work with his policies. obama will get higher unemployment. only “obama suckers” will vote for obama.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:35am

    Fine Jim, I guess we’ll all flee to Singapore with you. Can I crash on your couch?

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  • Meyvn1
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:30am

    It’s because regardless of who is president they will receive their orders from the “REAL” powers that be.

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    • WatchingThePuppetShow
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:40am

      You are sadly are SO correct.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:51am

      So true: “‘When I Look Ahead, I Don’t See Good Things’ & Neither Candidate Will Change That”

      This is because the real enemy to America is an old foe. It is banking. It is central banking. It is a nation borrowing from private central banking. It is a world network of central banking that distributes our wealth globally in order to increase their profits, that is, feeding the lions that will eventually eat us and our children.

      And, the enemy is not Muslim, but it is overwhelmingly Jewish. Take their word, not mine. Read, “The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement,” by Steven L. Please. Muslims are the latest distractions.

      Like all enemies, they tell you what they are going to do. The Jewish Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863. “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws”

      The Jewish Soros has done the same. They are following the Jewish teachings of Hess, Marx, Alinsky and Piven. Just ask David Axelrod, Cass Sunstein, Don Berwick, Andy Stern, Peter Orszag, Jacob Lew, Jeff Zients, Ron Bloom, or Ben Bernanke.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:08pm

      NAVIN, There you go again. Listen to this song and in your mind replace “Wabbit” with Jew. Then you will understand how THE_JERK’s mind continually malfunctions.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxiv3CBMS4M

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:22pm

      RJJinGadsden, clearly you never debate the facts, a tactic of the progressive left. The Rothschilds and Soros were/are real. They make their goals known. The other names are also real, and they all hold/held positions of influence.

      The accusation of antisemitism is just like its sister, racism. Both are used as a veil to stifle debate and avoid criticism. It also offers the shadow from which to operate. They use people like you.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:28pm

      Actually Gadsen
      The Jerk had facts and stats in his presentation and you had nothing but “anti-semitism” to try to shut him up. The Jerk is way more convincing than you are with your typical prog crap.

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  • EtchASketch
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:25am

    Truth. Both these guys are corporate guys, bought and paid for. They differ a bit on social issues, but fundamentally, it’s a continuation, just as it has been since previous administrations.

    These are not the parties deserving of our votes.

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:34am

      It doesn’t matter who wins at this point, even a third party candidate if he or she could win would still inherit the financial mess fr stimulus and QE Armageddon.

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  • WatchingThePuppetShow
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:25am

    For the world to think that all this infusion of paper into the system will have no consequent is simply blind ignorance. The ship is going down and it’s gonna hit hard especially when all those entitlement programs stop talk about letting the animals out of the zoo.

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  • rooferhdw
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:22am

    This guy is on crack if Romney opens the energy industries in this country to make the USA energy independent! Come on!! Still – Romney will need to keep his word! Second, small business will begin to re-bloom when their is a pro business president in the White House!

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    • IndyNWguy
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:47am

      Yeah, Jim Rogers is an idiot! It’s not like he’s ever made a buck! He is just a big fat dummy!

      Of course there’s that whole pesky reality to deal with too…

      Your pipe dream of energy independence comes crashing down when the dollar crashes. I know this is well beyond your grasp, but pick up a Peter Schiff book called Crash Proof. If you read it you’ll understand that when the east finally decides it doesn’t need us (which is already the case) we’re toast.

      Energy independence… lol… Republican talking points spewed forth from that oh so trustworthy media…

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    • justangry
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:49am

      Nah it’s crashing according to the folks that I believe on the subject. I mean energy independence is fine and all, but it can’t be achieved any time soon and would certainly be offset by any wars the Mittster would get us into. The problem isn’t the price of the oil, it’s the devaluing of the dollar that’s the issue. The petro dollar is going to crash too then we’ll be just another broke socialist western country like Europe.

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    • resme
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 5:32pm

      “This guy is on crack if Romney opens the energy industries in this country to make the USA energy independent”

      Ya, Sure. lmao

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:19am

    I have to differ with him on this matter:

    While Romney may not be able to directly fix the mess, he can establish the conditions – lower taxes, and getting our government off the backs of investors and small business, among other things.

    The ones who will restore the nation and make her take off like a rocket once again to soar among the stars is – WE THE PEOPLE.

    WE are the ones who will, given the chance, to save the nation.

    May God guide us and protect us and grant us of His grace and wisdom; for we have been given a second chance, we must use it wisely and not waste it.

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    • WatchingThePuppetShow
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:26am

      Snowleopard I respect you however in your point you are delusional.

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    • EtchASketch
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:35am

      I agree with Leopard that it’s up to us and us alone. That’s why I don’t blame Obama for not “creating” jobs. Most people that I know who are successful right now created their own damn jobs.

      It’s not up to the government to save us, it’s up to ourselves.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:50am

      ETCHASKETCH, For once I find myself almost in agreement with you. Yeah, its business people who build their companies, but it takes the government to get out of the way, and stop interfering with the ability to create and maintain a company. The 0bama administration has heaped more absurd regulations on top of already absurd regulations that are business killers. Don’t even claim that I am saying we should have no regulations. Just sensible ones.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:52am

      @SNOW…

      You are correct .. Obama has done EVERYTHING he could to work against America .. People will see with Romney a new attitude … and real hope .. and with that Americans can make America better. It will involve time and pain … but it CAN be done. Pray and VOTE America

      R & R 2012

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    • cbrown
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:56am

      @Snowleopard

      Really surprised how dumb folks are. Have you started a business or run one. Today the biggest problem is customer demand. There is major structural change going on because of Globalization. Middle class jobs are being outsourced and Romney will encourage more for this. The middle class is running out of money and they will screwed further with higher medical cost and college cost when Romney is elected.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:09pm

      @CB and Watching – yes I have been a business owner three times; founded my own church and established a local church foodbank.

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    • cbrown
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:47pm

      @RJJinGadsden

      The number of regulation under Obama is less than what we had under Bush’s first term. Most of these regulations under Obama do not impact Small business. When they do the cost is negligible. Even during the Republication convention they showcased a few and none talked about how regulation impacted but more generic partisan stuff.

      Tell regulations under Obama impacts small business is misleading and disingenuous.

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    • cbrown
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:57pm

      @Snowleopard

      Good to know that you started a few business. Please tell me how extending the Bust taxes (addl 4 %) to millionaires can help spur growth. Which business makes hiring/firing decision based on a 4% change in taxes? How long can middle class sustain growth without a good paycheck?

      How will Romney address the structural changes happening b/c of Globalization. Today a company in Houston gave end of year notices to all IT employees and outsourced the work to India. Look at how Germany (incl BMW) is tackling their issues (more Public -Private partnership).

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    • stopthis
      Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:08pm

      Snow,
      Can you help start ‘We the People’ says end the charade. Everyone needs to say in unison to their elected state officials………Walk out of the rooms , offices of corruption.

      It’s bold but what else is left to accompolish the way it is run now.
      Walk out on the charade.
      Slowly a consensus will follow.
      It is FINALLY happening thanks to Glen Beck.
      My eyes literally opened up March 2009 when I listened to Glenn speak about the corruption in the past, present and the dangerous future that continues.

      Peace in Truths

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