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| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #101966 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
8/3/2011 12:38:20 PM "But frankly I don't have much faith in the majority of Americans. They are either ignorant or too wed to their entitlements." They are Wal-Martians!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxNgdFeWqM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1rTSazpCJs |
| heypa 283 posts msg #101967 - Ignore heypa |
8/3/2011 12:39:53 PM If there is one fundamental truth it is the following quote. " NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC" Don't recall who said it but nonetheless I believe it to be truly fundamental. A close second would be. " NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR OPPOSITION" IMHO Two to live by after a long lifetime of observation. |
| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #101975 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
8/3/2011 3:15:28 PM "Never take your eyes off of your opponent" - Bruce Lee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQORnYPqU3A |
| maxreturn 745 posts msg #102007 - Ignore maxreturn |
8/4/2011 7:08:33 PM "They are Wal-Martians!! " Gadzooks TRO. That was truly frightening. ROFLMAO! |
| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #102022 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
8/5/2011 2:10:28 PM "The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.1 billion in its third quarter and warned again it would default on payments to the federal government if Congress did not step in." |
| johnpaulca 12,036 posts msg #102023 - Ignore johnpaulca |
8/5/2011 2:27:22 PM Hefty pension plans are sucking the life out of USPS. |
| johnpaulca 12,036 posts msg #102030 - Ignore johnpaulca |
8/5/2011 4:26:16 PM Salary of the US President ...................$400,000 Salary of retired US Presidents .............$180,000 Salary of House/Senate .................... ...$174,000 Salary of Speaker of the House ............$223,500 Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders ...... $193,400 Avg Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN IRAQ $38,000 I think we know where the cuts should be made ! |
| four 5,087 posts msg #102052 - Ignore four modified |
8/7/2011 2:22:16 AM http://blogs.marketwatch.com/fundmastery/2011/08/06/bill-gross-no-dent-in-the-deficit/ http://uk.reuters.com/video/2011/07/19/david-cay-johnston-paying-taxes-to-your?videoId=217231660 |
| novacane32000 331 posts msg #102067 - Ignore novacane32000 |
8/8/2011 8:12:48 AM Salary of the US President ...................$400,000 Salary of retired US Presidents .............$180,000 Salary of House/Senate .................... ...$174,000 Salary of Speaker of the House ............$223,500 Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders ...... $193,400 Avg Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN IRAQ $38,000 I think we know where the cuts should be made ! I do not find these salaries at all outrageous. The CEO of my company makes 4.5 million/yr and has cashed in 20 to 30 million in stock every yr for the past 4 yrs. No one complains because stock value climbs about 15% annually. In my area,if we dont pay a Director at least $175,000 to start,they are out the door in a few months. Point is -you are worth more if you are one of the few who can do the job. Not saying these politicians are doing what is right by they do have the ability. |
| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #102508 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
8/30/2011 1:33:09 AM http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2008/07/21/why-the-founders-rejected-a-central-bank/ http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977031677 Thomas Jefferson speaking on the first attempt to establish a central bank in America: "The system of banking is a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction. I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity is but swindling futurity on a large scale." "The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations." "If the people ever allow the banks to issue their currency, the banks and corporations which will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." "Paper is poverty... It is not money, but the ghost of money." "There is an artificial aristocracy, founded on birth and privelege, without virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendency." "The bank of the United States is one of the most deadly hostilities existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in a time of war? It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or it might withdraw its aid. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?" James Madison speaking on the first attempt to establish a central bank in America: "History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible, to maintain their control over governments, by controlling money and its issuance." "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late revolution. The free men of America did not wait until usurped power has strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle." Andrew Jackson speaking on the second attempt to establish a central bank in America: "If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations." "I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic, inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a monied aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country." President Jackson told the bankers "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal god, I will rout you out!" Abraham Lincoln speaking on the third attempt to establish a central bank in America: "The money powers prey on the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. As a most undesirable consequence of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." "The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity." "Government, possessing the power to create and issue credit and currency as money, and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as the means of financing governmental work and public enterprise." "The privelege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity." "No duty is more imperative on the government than the duty it owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, and of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency, and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges." President Woodrow Wilson, after having broken campaign promises and betrayed his country by signing into law the Federal Reserve Act: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation therefore, and all our activities, are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world. No longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." Congressman Louis T. McFadden (Congressional Record, June 15, 1934): "Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power. But the truth is, the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the government of the United States. It controls everything here; and it controls our foreign relations. It makes or breaks governments at will. No man, and no body of men, is more entrenched in power than the arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Banks. These evil-doers have robbed the country of more than enough money to pay the national debt. What the National Government has permitted the Federal Reserve Board to steal from the people should now be returned to the people. The people have a valid claim against the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. If that claim is enforced, Americans will not need to stand in bread lines. Homes will be saved. Families will be kept. What is needed here is a return to the Constitution of the United States. The old struggle that was fought out here in Jackson's day must be fought over again. The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed; and the Federal Reserve Banks -- having violated their charters -- should be liquidated immediately. Faithless government officers who have violated their oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial. Unless this is done by us, I predict the American people -- outraged, robbed, pillaged, insulted, and betrayed as they are in their own land -- will rise in their wrath and send a President here who WILL sweep the money changers from the temple." |
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