To: Eva who wrote (581 ) 2/4/2003 11:10:09 PM From: Jim Willie CB Read Replies (6) | Respond to of 1210 my biggest surprise this week was reading that Noland of Prudent Bear expects an Argentine outcome in the USA not a Japanese outcome ouch if so, then all roads will lead to gold the extent of American delusions is just so vast when bankruptcies spread like a virus, we will have much less borrowing and garage sales on every street all summer long, in every city and town across this great big nation in 10 years, you just wont be COOL unless you declared bankruptcy my sister used to handle a lot of gay men bankruptcies she said they were partly hilarious, partly sad she did maybe a hundred of them the guys almost all managed to grab an entire wardrobe, lend it to their sweety buddies, and evade the declarations on balance sheets this new element will pervade our culture in a few years plenty of strange cultural elements America: land of the bankrupt cool people (who happen to weight over 250 lbs, one and all) words fall short in how little respect I have for American culture shop til you drop cant afford it? put it on credit spend spend spend, worry about bills tomorrow can I supersize that for you? fries for lunch, fries for snack, fries for dinner burgers: a basic food group cant walk down the aisle at work without bumping into a 300-lb woman oh, I digress America the beautiful, amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesty debts to the gills, fat slobs everywhere I turn ignorance beyond belief on all matters historical or financial or economic dont know where Germany is on a map never heard of VietNam couldnt tell you the leaders of any European country, not one Putin is the capital of Germany dont know that France and Germany were on opposite sides of WW2 forget reading and books Mom, can I buy that new video game? World Wide Wrestling are you kidding me? this country often makes me want to puke let me make my million$ back in gold & silver stocks then I might use my Irish dual passport and get the fuch of this wasteland to be Dublin has many fine young women to be entertained, and to keep me busy oh yeah, I will keep them busy in the USA, a guy like me who enjoys the company of a woman 15-20 yrs younger is labeled as a dirty old man in Europe that is commonplace silver is breaking out somebody better tell goomba Steve Saville / jim