User Profile: ronbo51

Member Since: June 02, 2011

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  • Taking control of your own money is just one step on a long path. With banks using your deposits as an asset they then lever that 30:1, 100:1, and with derivatives and CDO and MBS, 1000:1 and beyond. This gives them enormous power to overwhelm the system, which they run for their benefit. By pulling dollars out you make them smaller, or weaker, or both. Paying cash, not going into debt, living within your means takes away their power over you, at least on the banker side of things. Getting rid of your stupid 401K’s will weaken them further. We are now back to 1999 levels in the stock market, but that doesn’t account for inflation which is raging with the Bernanke put of 85B a month. The stock market will crash again shortly, everyone knows it. The smart money is long gone into harder assets. Yet another shearing. Sell your stuff, by a little place, invest in SYSTEMS that will allow you to live (food,water,energy,animals). Learn to make things, useful things. Buy a little silver. Keep some cash handy. Exercise. Eat well. Live strong. Don’t be a muppet.

  • And Glenn, I expect a lot from you now that you have been personally targeted by the IRS. Not just another book, or speech, or tears. I luvyalongtime, and its a heavy burden you bare trying to carry us along, but what will you do now? I have done what I can: unplugged from the banks, grow my own food, convert my labor into hard money, teach my kids, and my neighbors, consume less than I produce, quietly withdraw from the evil machine as much as I am able, but along with common folk like me we need connected and powerful men and women to do more than talk. We are beyond outrage. They don’t even try and hide their contempt for us anymore. They are actually proud to hate us and work against us, convinced of their superiority in both thought and deed. Do something big Glenn. Be brave and fearless.We’ve got your back.

  • So, now what?? Hold some hearings? Fire up the outraged gasbag senators? Beg Holder to do his job? Convince enough citizens to send money to just the right guys to “do something” ? Excuse me if I have zero faith in anything important to come of this, other than Bernanke firehosing 85 billion a month at all problems, and republicans fundraising on the promise to get to the bottom of it.

  • LBJ went to this area in 1964 and pretty much wept at the poverty and ignorance. In all the governments wisdom and compassion trillions were spent to improve life in far flung Appallachia. Other than the Robert Byrd courthouse, bridge and library I don’t see much bang for my lifetimes tax buck.

  • Brandi’s kinda hot though

  • I know this is not the focus of the article, but this woman has been kicking around academia all her life. Outside of seducing Petraeus and kicking out a couple kids while married to some hot shot surgeon, what has society gained by all this schooling. Higher education is a wasteland of mental masturbation, benefiting almost no one, while massive resources get directed into the black hole of research and rent seeking. It’s wrong and needs to end.

  • Safe deposit boxes were opened with Federal Officials looking on after the FDR gold grab. What people don’t understand is once you give it to the bank, it belongs to them. That’s why Corzine walks the streets, a free man. And in the end your bank account and money market may be FDIC covered, but when the money is gone before it can be insured they will throw their hands in the air and say, ” Of course your account is insured, but you have no money in your account”. Got it??

  • No problem guys. Once we are all living in mud huts and yurts, heated with water buffalo dung, and the only business activity is,” I’ll trade you a chicken for some eggs and milk”, we will EASILY meet O’s emission targets.

  • And yet, it is so much worse than this. Unemployment is so much worse than official numbers. Inflation is so much worse. Gas and food prices are rocketing upward. There are 15 million abandoned homes. Banks control large blocks of houses they are keeping off the market to keep prices from falling faster. The Financial Crisis continues worse than before, as the Too Big to Fail Banks are bigger and more close to failure. Stories about bank failures are becoming more common among the “Dancing With the Kardashians” news outlets. Just last Friday Reuters had a story about how the Regulators (government) told the banks to submit plans for dealing with bank failures. I thought we fixed all this? In the mean time the entire world, including Brazil and China slip into recession, and in the case of Europe, tumbles past recession into full blown hell. There are no adults present anywhere on the planet in leadership roles vying for good. The world collapses into self interest and selfishness as people hang on with their teeth and fingernails to hold on to what they have. The mood out here is UGLY.

  • Like all elites, Bill is far removed from events on the ground. If his son were to be caught growing one(1) pot plant in his room, depending on the state, he would face felony cultivation, intent to distribute, and possession. He would also face mandatory minimums and do HARD time. The house where it happened could face Asset Forfeiture, as well as any personal items of value.Sound fair Bill???
    Also, I know of several “folks” personally, who were hurt, were prescribed opiates, became addicted, and were caught trying to support their addiction and did HARD time. One was a respected schoolteacher. None of them deserved what they got. What do you think of that Bill? You ever get hurt? Go to the Doc and get some pills?