‘Apocalyptic Pain’: Sen. Coburn Warns of ‘Bleak’ Greece-Like Future for U.S.
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“Apocalyptic pain” from an out-of-control debt could cause 18 percent unemployment and a massive contraction in the economy that would destroy the middle class, a leading Republican deficit hawk said in an interview that aired Sunday.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who recently issued a report on government waste, warned that the U.S. only has about three or four years to get its fiscal house in order or it could find itself facing austerity measures seen in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and earlier in Japan.
Coburn went on to say:
“I think you’ll see a 15 to 18 percent unemployment rate. I think you will see an 8 to 9 percent decline in GDP. I think you‘ll see the middle class just destroyed if we don’t do this. And the people that it will harm the most will be the poorest of the poor, because we’ll print money to try to debase our currency and get out of it and what you will see is hyperinflation.”
Here’s the complete interview:
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Comments (212)
JD Carp
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:14pmCut all elected official salaries by 50%, cut retired elected officials pensions by 50%, cut federal employee pensions by 30%, cut all these “museums of American bottle caps” completely. Privatize the Post Office, all trash collection, get rid of the NEA, the Department of education, the EPA and throw the UN out of America. That’s where I would start and believe mme we would save a BUNDLE!
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:30pm…don’t forget to kill the illegal Fed and get rid of the IMF too!
Report Post »neverending
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:06pmDepartment of education and all the RTTP funds to start with.
Report Post »taebaggranny
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:34pmYou forgot to defund the ACLU !!! They do not speak for me nor America..
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:08pmThree or four years is very optimistic. I am thinking two years tops with a possibility of some event causing a collapse of the dollar anytime. I also don’t think we should look at Greece to measure what might happen here. It probably will be much worse. They’re not even armed in greece. They throw rocks, we’ll be using guns.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:52pmThat was my thought also – we ARE OUT of time.
Report Post »Bullwinkle
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:16pmYou are absolutely correct. Time for people to stop worrying about being positive and start seeing the obvious. Greece is child’s play to what will happen here, very soon. Can you imagine what the people who‘ve ALWAYS been handed everything will do when it’s all gone?
Report Post »doncarr61
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:02pmTom Coburn? Are you fear mongering. Shame on you. Sounds like over Xmas you have been watching DVR’d episodes of Glenn Beck.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:04pmHere is part of the problem, people like this idiot DonCarr61, LOL, what a dumb ass you are.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:49pmDon…when you are begging for food, remember this day. You are a fool if you think we can sustain tis lunacy. Stick your head in the sand and suffocate on it.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:31pmDON,
LONG before anybody had ever heard the name Glenn Beck, my parents told me what was coming in this country. That was more than 50 years ago, and I didn’t pay much attention to what they said, figured they were just a bit eccentric. But guess what, EVERY SINGLE THING they told me has now come to pass, just the way they said it would. Now they’re both gone and I listen to Glenn continuing to try and tell people the very same things they told me. Coincidence?? Not a chance.
But please continue to nestle your head in the nice warm sand as it runs out of the hour glass, eventually it will all be gone, and you and so many others will be able to “See” reality, I would say in “Living Color” but actually folks like you won’t make the cut, so I’ll say in “Dying Color”.
Report Post »Bullwinkle
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:11pmFearmongering would mean that what he‘s saying isn’t true or is simply being used to advance some plan of his. It’s called common sense. Look at the FACTS. If you ran you household finances the way the government runs the federal finances you would be in prison. Just because there are a lot of extra zeroes doesn’t somehow magically make it all work. We are bankrupt as a nation, we are morally corrupt and are led by evil doers and fools. Wake up!
Report Post »Border Ruffian
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:07pm@Gotemmauser, You sound like my Grandpa, God rest his soul. I agree with everything you said, except the thing about the Jews. It’s a public disservice to have capital punishment behind closed doors. CP ought to be show in public. Hell sell tickets or pay per view and let the proceeds go to the family of the victims. There is a solution to every problem in this country if we can just find the balls to make the tuff decsions that need to be made!
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:00pmIT is already too late, and we don’t have 3-4 years to fix anything, we are being taken down on purpose to pave the way for the NWO, so if you’re not prepared now, bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:57pmStockpile food and ammunition.
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:17pmAbsolutely!
Report Post »DonoRomantico
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:52pmDownsize everybody. And prepare to live a simpler life. Not a big deal when you slow down and think about what you really need in your life. The big problem here in the USA is that being a developed country, it will be easy to be tracked down and controled because the infrastructure is already here. Time to move to a nice little banana republic where at least it’s affordable to pay off the commies.
Report Post »inferno
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:51pmI’m surprised it has taken so long for anyone in any authority to be concerned about the middle classes destruction.This has been Obama’s plan from the outset. That’s why he paid lip service as to his concerns about increasing unemployment. For those who have commented about his lack of focus on that issue, they should have understod his motovitation long ago. The“revolution” we have heard about from those around him, cannot occur as long as there is a strong robust middle class. He and his minions know that full well. His every act is performed to further weaken the economy, to bring about the demise of the middle class. No truly socialist / Marxist state eve had a middle class.
Report Post »We are on the verge of that type of society.
Bullwinkle
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:02pmSpot on. He wasn’t really that hard to figure out when he was campaigning. Plenty of people had looked into his background (what was available). He is a man who hates this nation. Never forget that. He will do whatever it takes to bring us down. That’s why he goes on “apology tours,” pushes for further bailouts and other spending, appoints others who hate America, etc.
The scariest part is that he HAS succeeded. It’s all over but the shouting (and screaming). Stop worrying about being positive about the outcome and look at the facts. It’s not going to be turned around by people simply pointing out the obvious.
Report Post »Better_Red_than_Dead
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:48pmWe have to reduce the debt or their will be painful austerity measures?
Is Senator Coburn aware of what the phrase “reducing the debt” means?
Report Post »TEXAG87
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:58pmReducing the debt means we must end welfare,foodstamps, section 8 housing, medicaid, ect.Churches and charities can take care of those truely in need if they will give up using tithes to build bigger Churches. The people who choose not to work can just “wither on the vine”.
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:13pmAnd end things like “the endowment for the arts” …and other things. If it is not a necessity then it does not get funded. Instead, the money they would have spent on crap will go to paying off the debt.
To tell you the truth, I’m a single man and 52 years old…I‘m hoping to forestall the collapse just long enough to die in peace and what comfort I’ve earned for my weary bones. After I’m gone it can go to hell in hand basket for all I care. I’m not usually so bleak, but all the politicians are liars out for themselves…and people like GB, RL and SH won’t run for office. They’ll tell you what is wrong and how to fix it…but they won’t stand up and run for office to enact the changes they say we need. It is so sad.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:26amHey Red
Report Post »You have to stop those self rectal colon exams.
Here is a little fact to help you get your head out
If every American gave ALL his money to the Federal government we still could not pay our yearly operating expenses. DUH!
Creestof
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:34pmThey need to be like “we” are…I don’t know about any of you, but I have:
1) Dropped from 2 times a week trash pick-up to once
2) Cancelled my cable TV service
3) Got rid of my Lan line phone and went with a 400 minute a month cell phone
4) I actually clip coupons now and eat a lot of soup and chicken.
5) I buy “like new” pre-owned clothes off of Ebay when the price makes sense.
Maybe if we gave them a nice raise, but they lose 1% of that raise for every spending bill they vote on…maybe then they’d get it through their idiotic brains.
Report Post »WeveAlreadyWon
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:32pmMaybe if we would stop worrying about GAY rights in the Military and actually do something to SAVE our damn country we might Survive! This administration is doing everything possible to destroy us and keep us on the road to Greece.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:21pmThe message is the same — Who cares what the progressives want and how much demonizing they will try to portray.. Let the young ones see what America is about and just do it.
There is only one best way to teach history — AS IT HAPPENS! You want to teach the Young about Reagan? Show him to them…. You have the microphone — Have some fun and only give the progressives their due— Laugh at them as Reagan did…
Explain how an economy works and why communism and Progressivism are flawed throughout all of history. Do not respond to saboreurs, but rather repeat the same American Dream over and over. Explain what will happen with the right policies, enact them, Preach them and soon you will be showing them — We have the historical evidence to know how to resurrect an economy from the ruins of progressive Jihad…..
Report Post »RememberWhoWeAre
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:19pmRADIOGURU_ bachman&Palin 2012
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:40pmOh hell no – they will only make matters worse – the conservative needs to nominate a team that has a chance of winning – and it is not that one – that is just a joke!!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »RememberWhoWeAre
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:13pm18% unemloyment try 80% or higher with hyperinflation who is going to be left in business?we will see riots and civil unrest like no other time in history.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 8:52amIt is scary, but true. The crash is inevitable. All we are doing is printing money. As the dollars become more common than trash on the streets, we will feel the pain of Hyper-inflation. The best kept secret is what our national debt really is and what our unfunded liabilities amount to. I have been hearing numbers as high as 100-200 trillion. This amount cannot ever be paid off. It will be just a matter of time until the gig is up. Currency devaluation will happen overnight as was in the Soviet Union just before the collapse. The freight train cannot be stopped.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:22amWe have ALREADY crashed ya’ll! We are running on the fumes of FRAUD now, the house of cards will come tumbling down very soon, sooner than everyone here and in congress thinks!
Report Post »Levinite1989
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:10pmThis guy is a complete dumbass. This is the same guy that bashed Fox News and said that Nancy Pelosi is a nice lady back in April. He needs to be primaried the next time he runs.
Report Post »Levinite1989
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:29pmHere’s a link to hear his idiotic comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFo0DC_udOQ&feature=related
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:38pmYou are absolutely correct – this guy is crazy and it is about time for him to go – we need people who will fix things not just keep warning that back times are coming – then do something!!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Bullwinkle
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:52pmSo you think things are just fine now? No matter what his past failings he is now speaking the truth. In fact, it just takes a little common sense and a willingness to believe the truth to find out that it’s AT LEAST as bad as he says. I think it’s far worse. Ad hominem arguments don’t change the truth.
Report Post »Levinite1989
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:37pmI didn‘t say I didn’t believe him. I don’t need this phony conservative to tell me anything. He is just stating the obvious and what conservatives have been saying for a long time now. I said simply that he is a dumbass and he has no credibility with me. He is really a useless idiot and really should have a D after his name for Dumbass. I have no respect for anyone that stands up for Nancy Pelosi and that goes for any REPUBIC and yes it is REPUBIC!
Report Post »chasbronson
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:09pmMarshall law will be imposed. People will have to decide whether to bow ,or fight.There will be no middle ground when it happens.Choose your local officials now wisely.It will matter then.
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:17pmLocal officials are key, ESPECIALLY sheriffs. A sheriff’s duty is to protect the citizens from ANY threat and to uphold the Constitution. Google Sheriff Richard Mack. Talk to your sheriffs people.
Report Post »RememberWhoWeAre
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:09pmif we do not turn the government looting of America around all i can say is keep your powder dry! I do not feel we have 3-4 years left
Report Post »Country
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:06pmMaybe this senator will push for term limits for the sake of our country before he leaves in 1016. And maybe the term limit law will be retroactive. That ought to cut the budget in half right there when we remove all the old farts that have been in office for decades.
Report Post »Country
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:35pmOops, I meant 2016.
Report Post »PubliusMM
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:49pm@Country:
Report Post »Problem with Term Limits is that they’ve already been deemed unConstitutional, I believe. It will take a Constitutional Amendment to enable them for the Congress, I’d guess. That’s not likely to happen any time soon.
oldchevyguy
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:33pmJust seems that long!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:05pmThen I pray that congress gets their fair share, as they are the root cause of all of what is coming for the rest of us.
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:36pmTo our oppressors aka Politicians and Governments
Now as you urinate on the small remaining flame of the torch of freedom, lit by forefathers, “we the people” do hold you accountable, for you had many other nobler choices, you chose to enslave the people.
“We the people” will come for you, just as others have come for their destroyers in the past, and you will pay for your deception, corruption, treachery, abuse, thievery and incompetence.
I do not stand alone; you forget, I am “We the people”
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:04pmHA HA HA! Beck has been saying this for over six months, almost a year! Glad some of us haven’t been waiting around for the GOP to figure it out!
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:26pmi live in the woods way out in the country i am buying extra ammo, and constantly looking for ways to store food since i believe the elect, will be cut off we can cook on the wood stove,pull the well pump and lower a well bucket attached to a long rope for our drinking water, i have chickens for fresh eggs, raising a dairy heifer for milk, butter and cheese, a hod to butcher, and i am not even close to being where i know we may have to be if all hell breaks loose and i am not worried about tolliet paper ,old folks got by just fine before that was invented, granted corn cobs would be rough but there are other ways of cleaning ones self but my worry is being robbed or shot for what little we do have
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:11amYou got that right!
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 1:08amRANGER,
Geese work really well for early detection and alarm for intruders. The Romans used them for perimeter security to good effect. They will set up a racket 24/7s when ANY intruder moves into their area.
In Rhodesia, the unwanted were dissuaded rather effectively by the use of “Scare Crows” placed along the natural lines of drift. When the OPFORS encountered the bodies of their Comrades, gutted, and hung up in a tree, appropriately decorated, it was very effective in changing their minds about coming in any further.
Also the use of improvised Man Traps can be both a very effective and completely silent method of dealing with unwanted guests. You can still get plenty of books detailing these, as they have not yet been made illegal to print, like those that invovle explosive devices etc.
Report Post »chasbronson
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:03pmThere will be riots in the streets after the 2012 elections.The amount of people who are decieved into believing in the socialist agenda is alarming.
Report Post »radioguru
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:00pmOur government is corrupt. Only a few “not on the take”. Bachmann for President !!!
Report Post »byehlik
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:00pmI think more like a year till the bottom falls out without drastic spending reforms. Be Prepaired!
Report Post »MSNBCFTL
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:15pmThey need to cut spending, but when they cut spending the recipient class is going to go berserk.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:08pmYessir, Behind door #1, we have the Cut the Dole and All the Drones will go berserk and Demand that to which they are ENTITLED Modus Operandi.
And, Behind door #2, we find the Print More Fiat Money, Raise Taxes to the sky, and Collapse what is left of the Economy Plan. The PRODUCERS will go Berserk, stop producing, and begin hanging Politicians.
NOTHING FOCUSES THE MIND QUITE LIKE THE NARROWING OF OPTIONS!!
And there are ALWAYS OPTIONS, just sometimes none of them are very good OPTIONS!!
Report Post »taebaggranny
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:19pmI read a lot about cutting entitlements but mostly I think you all are talking about social security..and medicare. How about WELFARE? Do you know that when I worked for that dept in Calif that 85% of my case load was Mexican and 75% of those were illegals? This was in So Cal. They have at least 1 baby a year and some of them have 2 in 11 months. Always with absent fathers.. Now how absent do you think they were? Yes we need to cut spending!!! how about some cut that will hurt the ones that keep raising taxes and wasting money on pork..How about Government salaries? Senators staff sizes? Reps staff sizes? How about expense accounts for the gov workers, congress senators? How about Ms Obama’s redundant staff? Obama’s czars? Congress’ pay? By the way I pay a premium for my Medicare coverage just like I did when I worked…
Report Post »Bullwinkle
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:45pmMauser, you are so right. It has come down to two painful options. I think they’ll go for the hyper inflation choice. Puts things off for a while longer. People need to face the facts. The Republicans aren’t going to come in on a white horse and save the day. They’ll be part of the problem not part of the solution.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:27pmGRANNY,
EVERYTHING you’ve listed, and more would have to go the way of the Do Do Bird. But the odds are NONE of it will get cut even a little. None of the Politicrats running this Plantation are going to stand up and tell the unvarnished truth about it, much less actually “do” anything about it.
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid should be Phased Out. The Government has no business being in the Retirement nor the Medical business.
The Obama Care bill should be repealed.
If they really wanted to lower health care costs, just REMOVE the Third Party Payers from the equation. When I grew up there was no Health Insurance, the Patient Paid the Doctor and the Hospital out of their pocket, and the Charities took care of the the truly needy. You could actually afford to go to the doctor in those days, of course they weren’t all Millionaires by 30, but they did very well. The Insurance Business is nothing more nor less than a License to Steal.
Lay OFF 50% of ALL Government Workers period and then cut all Government Salaries by about the same percentage. We’d still be getting the shaft for our money, but at least we’d get some KY on it.
Outlaw Government Labor Unions Period, and then REGULATE the ones in the Private Sector the same way they do “We the Sheeple”.
Say Good-Bye to the Federal Reserve and the Money Jews that manipulate it. Base our Currency on something “FINITE and TANGIBLE” Issued by the Congress. Then “HANG” very publicly, any and all of the crooks like Bernie Madoff etal, when they are caught.
Add one more amendment to the Constitution; So long as you are able, IF you EAT, you WORK.
Repeal the ENTIRE U.S. CODE, and start over with the Constitution, as written.
Bring ALL our troops home, let the rest of the Barbarians kill each other at will, and rebuild our Industrial Base by building the weapons to sell them to kill each other with.
STOP all Foreign Aid payments, and shove the U.N. Building into the Atlantic Ocean.
Build enough Nukes or whatever to allow a Walking Barrage over the rest of the planet, Test fire them on Mecca and Medina then tell the Mooslim Pigs that everytime their “Religion of Peace” runs off the road and does a Terrorist Attack, we’ll Nuke another Mosque at Praytime.
Round up ALL the Mooslim Pigs and deport them Permanently to where ever will take them, or not, who cares. Likewise ALL the Illegals need to go home and stay there until they are INVITED back, or not, as the case may be.
Pass ONE new Federal Law: Make aiding, abetting, advocating,enacting or enforcing ANY COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST/PROGRESSIVE individual or group or law, a Felony punishable by “Hanging” again very publicly.
NOT nearly a complete list, but the above “Might” get us at least started, back on the road to recovering the Republic. But it ain’t gonna happen!!!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 5:56pmIf our economy collapses there will be civil war . Hope our leaders pull their collective heads out of their asses before it’s too late.(at least the republicans ,most democrats are too far gone)
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:11pmI don’t think it will be a civil war in the way most people think of one. The whole system will collapse and it will be more like an occupation and an “insurgency” kind of thing. Secession is the only chance for peace.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:17pmAn informed and armed citizenry. A well trained and loyal to the constitution armed forces. Two things necessary to prevent an overthrow of the USA. what has soetoro concentrated his efforts to undermine?
If there is a civil war, it will be short and the communists (liberals) will be summarily put down. If it isn’t short, then foreign intervention will lead to nuclear war and the end of civilization as we know it.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:21pmThe key is to be prepared on the front end. If you can survive the initial 6 months you will be way ahead of the game. Most people will fail to prepare…which will result in chaos. Being prepared is KEY. Gold in exchange for water, food, gas, propane, ammo (turning lead into gold…imagine that)…we will see it. You never know how valuable something as insignificant as toilet paper is until you can’t get it. Or salt…or bread…or a bottle of water. Think outside the box.
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:29pmWe need our Governors to reclaim the National Guard from Washington, we need the Oath Keepers who will be TRUE to the Constitution in the military and law enforcement, we need SHERIFFS to protect their citizens from ALL threats. We need every citizen to be armed. That’s the only way we can crush these BASTARDS.
Report Post »Mirimichi
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:44pmIf there is a civil war/insurrection, people are talking about buying and stockpiling food, money(gold), ammo, gas, etc. But, what are you going to do when your electricity and natural gas stops flowing. Then where do we go from there?
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:36pmWe ARE going back to the dark age! It will be chaos, no food, clean water, electricity, that sort of thing, armed gangs roaming the streets and if you’re not prepared mentally, physically and emotionally for that, you will die! Maybe you’ll be the lucky ones, who knows?
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:56pm@MIRIMICHI,
IF you survive to that point, you will either have learned to live without electricity, fuel and piped in water. OR you will die along with 2/3 of the population of this country that won’t make the cut. That makes for a faily steep learning curve, you’ll have about three weeks or so to absorb the new knowlege and perfect your skills.
I lived that way in my youth in Wyoming, on a ranch right on the timberline. NO electricity, no Propane or Butane, no running water, no phone, radio or TV. The next ranch was 30 miles away, by horseback or on foot. It was no easy gig, but it can be done today, just like it was back then.
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 5:44pmThree or four years? That’s pretty optimistic.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:28pmThree of 4 months at best in my opinion…It could all crash any day and everyone is asleep, even the people here on the Blaze!
Buy Food, water, silver, gold and ammo…Get your Ark teady. It is going to get real rough especially in the East where the Union thugs are. You had better be locked and loaded, when hyperinflation hits.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:39pmI would say if Obama were to get reelected .. it would be the day after.
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:50pmThe vote to raise the debt limit in February (?) might be the beginning. Whether we vote to raise it or not. At least one side, if not both, is gonna be pissed enough to do something.
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:07pmDusty, get yourself some help.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:27pm@DUSTY,
+1000 on the list!!! Except for the ARK. Tracked Armor is the way we decided to go.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:33amIt’s not a stretch to think it could start in only a few months. I pray it doesn’t but we are in debt up to our eyeballs, we don’t make anything anymore, we are spending like crazy, printing monopoly money and I don’t see any killer disruptive technology on the horizon that can float us for a while like the Internet did. I’m with Dusty on the provisioning.
Report Post »starznbarz
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:47amassuming a congress and administration that is willing to cut welfare/social programs- that MUST be done, the result is riots and thievery. It will be concentrated in the major cities and in the close by outlying area`s, that will be a problem for people that are not involved but must go there to get supplies – those folks will be no more than bait. If you prepare, you will ride it out for the short term until local national guard units contain the violence at best. The problem is the gov`t will respond in the way it always does – martial law/ curfews. Now you do not have riots in the streets, yet you still have no way to re-supply without putting yourself at risk. We out in the country will be fine,we can feed ourselves, defend our communities and wait it out – the average nine to fiver has problems – they don`t believe this can happen, so when it does the only thing they know to do is panic and demand the government help- and the cycle starts again – only now with constitutional protections “suspended” due to the emergency. sound like fun? will you be a help to your community or a drain on it? To fix the spending/entitlement bomb we hear ticking, these harsh remedies MUST be applied. Got your backup communications with family set up? Can you feed and water and MEDICATE yourself and a few others? sounds crazy huh? Take a serious look back over the last two years- still sound crazy? Willing to bet your family on it? http://www.starznbarz.com
Report Post »clipper
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 10:51amBroker0101 = POS
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 5:42pmIs it me, or does it seem like the only thing anybody is doing is WARNING us about how things are gonna be? Stop warning us and start DOING something about it!!!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 5:45pmStill, its nice to see at least a few people in government stating the truth, instead of just trying to blow more smoke up our butts about how everything is gonna be fine and theres no need to worry.
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 5:47pmIf we get our House (and Senate) in order and take back control of America, the world will cheer us and follow our lead. Throwing the criminals out of government and dismantling the systemic corruption will save the day.
Its time to LAUGH the criminals and idiots into submission and make sure the new congress follows through on their promises to “We The People” This new “Not So Grimm Fairy Tale”, a South Park like animated short feature by artist Marc Rubin, will make you smile and laugh.It is totally “politically incorrect” satire.
Who says conservatives have no sense of humor? Who says art is dead?
http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »Zytek_Fan
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 5:49pmProblem is there’s a number of people who would like to see this happen.
*cough* Soros *cough*
Report Post »epeel2
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:03pmIf the majority of our leaders don‘t believe the warnings or DON’T CARE,! they’re not going to do anything about it.
Report Post »Buck Bagaw
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:06pmWe’d better get our asses in gear pronto then, for the actual number of people not working at a job is way above the “official” rate by seven or eight percent.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:11pmThese silly people still think they have 3-4 years. What kind of funny cigarretts are they smoking? Barry and crew are trying to get this going in months, not years. Everything they have done since before he took office has been aimed at the dollars destruction. Clueless is what they are.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:12pmSummary…Bottom up…inside out…top down.
Don’t waste your breathe asking when “they” are going to fix things. They have no intention of correcting the situation. It is all by design.
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:21pmFrom the money industry to the insurance industry to the health care industry to the food industry to the bottled water industry…people are too greedy/corrupt/chasing after the almighty buck to be trusted to run a corporation, therefore, control has to be put into the hands of those that will provide for us homer simpson types
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:21pmRecognition of the problem is the beginning; and now indeed we need to constantly push those of the House and Senate to start making the cuts and reductions needed in all areas. What can be dumped needs to go, what can be streamlined – do so promptly. It is better to endure a smaller amount of pain in the here and now, than lose the entire country to the Progressives nightmare they have been allowed to make for so long of a time.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:25pmSpending cuts.. The politicians do not have the stomach for it. Never happen.
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:33pmHe is asking us to hold our representatives feet to the fire to help him, though it may sound like a warning. Coburn, and Ron Paul are the ONLY two in the entire House who tried to hold the line on spending through the last three administrations. There are some newer representives like Michelle Bachman and Jason Chaffitz and maybe a handful of others who are there now, but they are still pretty new. Who knows whether they will hang tough or cave to the good ol’ boys. Coburn and Paul have even been ostrisized to some degree by the Republican establishment for their steadfast stand against Big Government. These two men are patriots with a capital P. Coburn and Paul are the real deal. We all need to try as hard as we can to get our reps to get on board. It’s especially critical in the House since they are the only ones that can initiate and pass bills that require spending. As long as Reid is running the Senate I don’t have much optimism for that side.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:33pm@Cobra Blue
We shall see.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:34pmYes – I am tired of the warnings – lets start doing something!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:35pmAnyone who wants to have a major idea of what will likely happen read the book, if you can find a copy of it called “Bankrupt 1995” the author was many years ahead of his time.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:38pmIsn’t this the PLAN … isn’t this what Obama (behind the “curtain” SPOOKY DUDE — SOROS) and the progressives want?
Time to stand up step up and stop this …. if we still can ! It will take men and women of courage .. I pray we have enough.
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:39pmFrom top to bottom they are idiots. Next to the freeway near my house, there is a “road” with one lane in each direction. Mostly dirt and crappy asphalt roads near it that you can turn off on to. Yet some idiot just decided to pay for and install a traffic signal!!!! I mean, this is in a place that would be similar to the scene in Blazing Saddles where they build a toll booth in the middle of the desert to hold up the bad guys.
Absolute stupidity! Probably one of those projects where they had to spend the last of their annual budget (rather than save it)…just to spend it.
And NOOOOOOOOOOO, we don’t have to sacrifice…we need to stop shelling out money for idiocy!
Report Post »Paleo Archer
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:51pmI agree..This Administration thinks unemployment benefits stimulate the economy….fact is we’re losing our work ethic. What’s down is up for this crowd.
Report Post »Better_Red_than_Dead
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:53pmDoes Senator Coburn have any research or information to back up his wild claims, or is he simply making up numbers as he goes?
heavyduty
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:55pmSome of them are trying to do something about it. But unfortunately some still think that they are owed something because they worked for a living all those years. When the real problem lies within us. We are going to have to find our way out of this by sacrificing a lot of what we don’t think we can live without. No one owes us anything, but we look forward to drawing Social Security, getting Medicaid to pay some of the bills. If we didn’t have these things to look forward to. I would imagine that we would saving a lot more for our old age.
Report Post »We have been suckered into thinking that when we turn 65 that the government will take care of us. When all they want to do is control us. Then there is the matter of the career politicians that think after a few years that we can’t live without them being in office.
This is where we need to stand firm and tell the politicians that they are expendable just like the rest of us. We need to force them to take the same healthcare as the rest of us. They don’t get a free pass anymore just because they are a Senator, or Governor, or President.
hickoryrat
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:56pmPEOPLE pull your heads out of the sand or where ever and take a good look around you.
Report Post »You will never change this country by the ballot box.
You have too many voting for politicians who will continue to give them something for nothing.
tower7femacamp
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:58pm!st we have to take out the criminal elements controlling our country.
Report Post »Audit the federal reserve and Investigate all congressmen for being on the take
reopen the 911 investigations and execute anyone involved in a cover up
http://www.infowars.com/ae911truther-new-jersey-wearechanger-michael-donly-on-russia-today/
NoneSoBlind
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:06pmActually it will be US, the people, who do something about it. Governments steal thru regulation and taxation the ability of individuals to start businesses. When it takes a person familiar with HR, state and federal taxes, safety regulations to do ANYTHING aboveboard only the wealthy few can do anything.
Report Post »So if you have an idea for an adaptor for a ladder, for instance, the chances of anyone familiar with brazing, material purchase, fixture making, etc and all the government crap, the chances of success really start to suck.
We need the government OUT OF THE WAY. Let individuals and families make stuff, offer it on an unregulated or lightly regulated market. If there are problems, that is what lawyers are for.
WE are the solution. We need to educate our children and ourselves to create, adapt and modify. To make and do. Not to sit and wait for some solution.
OK, I’m climbing down from the soapbox.
SND97
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:32pmDitto
Report Post »Mister President
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:56pmThe only thing we can do is talk about what’s going to happen because the things that NEED to be done to save the nation are not easy. You see, no matter what now, grandma will not be getting her social security check in a few years, so it’s easier to let the train keep barreling down the tracks at full speed toward that canyon than to actually bother applying the brakes and cutting entitlements and military spending overseas to try and save some of the cars and minimize the long-term pain.
Short-term is going to hurt like hell, no matter what. We can decide to accept the pain now or delay it another year or two, at best. We can decide to do what’s easiest for us here and now and keep borrowing and printing and denying, or we can decide to do what‘s best for future Americans who aren’t even born yet like our grandparents did for us when faced with a world that was at war. It seems, though, we’ve already made that decision.
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:06pmBlazers,
Report Post »You all seem to think that the right wing rhetoric means something. The only thing that makes them any different from the left is that corporate America pays them more to gain control.
Please take 3 minutes to watch one of the greatest comedians of our time. There is nothing funny about what he is saying. All true!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:21pmWARNING, is about all they actually CAN DO. In order to cut spending, SOMEBODY that gets a Government Check has to STOP getting them. In order to cut enough to right the ship, LOTS and LOTS of recipients would have to have the Govewrnment Teat ripped out of their mouths. Just exactly where are we going to find this MAJORITY in any Government Legislature, from a city council to the hill? The ONLY two ways out of this are, CUT,CUT,CUT every Government Parasite sucking on the Sow, OR, RAISE,RAISE,RAISE all taxes accross the board to keep the milk being transferred as long as it lasts. EITHER ONE would engender a revolt beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. ALL the POLITICRATS know this, and they are not about to do anything decisive. They are ALL too busy raking in ALL they can, before the country (economy) goes down the tubes. And, when it does, they will all start pointing fingers at “Who Dunnit” and take NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER for their part in it.
Soros/Obungo and their Communists know they are going to get what they want, one way or another. The ONLY thing still in question is, just “what” will rise out of the ashes when it is over. They “Think” they know, they “Hope” they know. But right in the pit of their collective asses, they ALL KNOW damn well, that they could be WRONG. We shall see.
I am NOT a Tea Party Member, they are way too Squishy for me, but I applaud their efforts to TRY and do something. It just won’t be nearly enough to change anything.
Report Post »Goldlady
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 8:34pmThere will never be another one like Dr. Coburn. He has the lowest bs level of anyone on the Hill. We will be sad to see him go in 6 years. Thank God we have him for at least that much longer. Then, I think he may go back to his pracitce in OK.
Report Post »Rights of Man
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:34pmThat’s because they have plans on taking NO responsibility and letting the “unwashed American masses” pay for the failures of their collectivist agenda (Yes, Republicans are in on it too.).
When it does hit all of you had better be ready to fight for your liberty. Because it is obvious that they are planning to take it away from you.
They have been setting the stage for it for a very long time.
Heaven forbid that they should attempt to confiscate guns. The body count will be horrendous. I know many, many American men who are prepared to fire on those who would attempt to deny this basic Constitutional right, and render them unable to defend their families.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:40pmYou have been given very explicit instructions what to do. Hoard Gold, Hoard Food, Put it All in a Liberty Safe and Pray. Yup, that oughta do it.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:59pmWhenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: “Account Overdrawn.”
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:04amWe don’t have three or four years. Time has run out. We are out of time. The financial collapse of the United States is inevitable. Obama Junta’s sad legacy; runaway inflation, five dollars a gallon gas, and twenty-five percent unemployment.
Report Post »Pocono Countryboy
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:39amIf they don‘t get serious and start actually fixing the problems I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of Vince Flynn’s scenarios come to pass.
Report Post »JKN
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 8:48amThis Senator is not running for re-election so can now afford to speak the truth…
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:34am@TRANQUIL, yep we got that red, white and blue dick stuck right up the chuffer and so many people are asleep, it is unreal, gotta be a dream, but what Carlin said is bascially true! We are screwed.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:37ambroker101, you are a communist clap trap, you are part of the problem in America! I wish you’d go back to media matters(less) and spout your progressive ego-worshipping schill there, you are not welcome here!
Report Post »Promotefreedom
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 10:29amSen. Coburn warned “that the U.S. only has about three or four years to get its fiscal house in order or it could find itself facing austerity measures seen in Greece.”
Either he is honestly wrong about “3 or 4 years” or he has been bought, in order to lull us into the notion that we don’t have to do anything about this for years, when in reality we are falling off the cliff next year.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:22amDon is correct to a point – I think it is a lot closer than 4-5 years.
Report Post »It will be a world economic meltdown – with a complete infrastructure collapse.
The military has been preparing for two years – now Big sis will be patting us down at shopping malls.
Invest in precious metals (brass & lead) – oil is going to sky rocket followed closely by food!
Sorry – it‘s inevitable and all the tea party work can’t stop it!
Polwatcher
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:37pmAs sure as night and day this country is going broke. The only question is when.
Report Post »MandyS
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 3:09pmI mean no disrespect, because I completely understand your point, but over the past several weeks I have transitioned from waiting for someone else to save the day to a place where I am doing all I can personally do to help myself, my family, and my neighbor. We need to quit sitting around waiting for someone to come save the day. Superman’s not coming. American Citizens, you and I, WE are the ones that have to do something. Nobody else can do it for us. We need to vote, vote smart, take part in the process, write, call, and tell others what is going on. If we don’t WE ARE GOING TO LOSE. Whoever said that there is no “I” in TEAM must have been a progressive. Maybe they don’t want us to wIn. Which DOES have an “I”. We need to begin thinking about this more along the lines of what “I” can do and not what are “they” going to do about it. I personally want to win this battle.
Report Post »Deanna in Missouri
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 6:27pmDon’t care enough for your country to stay and fight it out? Did you vote for Obama?
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 7:44pmwhy not just leave now you traitor? get the F out…
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:38pmKmikes. You wont have to take any tp with you to china just use that cash. And try to stay out of trouble over there they have a different kind justice system over there. Swift and violent.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:07pmI was born an American ,I was born an Okie and i will die as an American and hopefully still in Oklahoma,where the wind comes sweeping down the plains
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