Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GST who wrote (10648)	8/22/2008 3:17:02 PM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71456

We used to have a system of moral values too. Now, what Christian principles we do have is watered down so that we go to church to be entertained instead of worship. Biblical values are`what is missing and our culture has become so diverse that we are no longer Americans. We have turned into greedy, self serving slobs who have forgotten the Golden Rule. The ones we elect who we trusted to set an example are training us to be a nation of pigs. Trey

To: GST who wrote (10648)	8/23/2008 9:13:41 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 71456

excellent rant

To: GST who wrote (10648)	8/23/2008 7:26:53 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

When i was a child(i am 67) there were those amongst our peers we did actually call spoiled brats, it is not an old wives tale. We would say he or she is a Spoiled Brat.And also call the person so to their face, call them out for what they were. What they all did have in common was when they whined their parents gave them what ever they wanted. So, in terms of most specifically what i call the Bourgeois, i say when amongst them i feel surrounded by SPOILED BRATS. i look at this nation, i sense its flaccid soul, and i shout, call it out for what it is: this Nation is SPOILED BRAT! How much of the world must see us as i do:as Spoiled Brat and as DANGEROUS BRAT. Max

To: GST who wrote (10648)	8/24/2008 10:59:27 AM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

<<<Nobody forced us What percent of the population do you think has either done many or most of what you suggested (the spending part of the rant), OR wish they could, OR even feel angry that they haven't participated ? You are conceptually correct about the consumer behaviour issues, but I suggest it is extremely difficult for the average person to grasp all of this AND act on it in the face of family and societal pressure...

To: GST who wrote (10648)	8/24/2008 11:13:03 AM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 71456

Nice article in 'The Economist' this week' in the print edition only. No surprise that since 1960 both state and federal spending out of control has increased at a much higher rate than GDP. Only a couple of years in the late 1970's as well as the Clinton/Gingrich combo in the last half of the 1990's went in the other direction.. The big hit, ultimately what you pay somehow someway, is government spending not the short term tax bill. Voodoo economics taken to extremes from the early days of the Laffer Curve and Reagan supply side economics..yeah deficits don't matter according to Cheney..this era of so called 'fiscal conservatism' was anything but that unfortunately. Deflationists will never get it either...lol