Jan
29
2012
What the Government Is Buying With All Those $Trillions
They say Comrade Obama has $1 billion dollars to smear his 2012 opponent. But that is pocket change compared to the $trillions our collectivist rulers spend every year to buy our votes, as Bill Whittle explains:
Anything as rotten as our entitlement state has got to cave in, and it soon will. The reason our moonbat overlords aren’t doing anything to prevent the impending collapse is that it will be the ultimate crisis not to let go to waste.
On a tip from Shawn.
Which of the repub hopefuls actually wants to do something about this?
Ron Paul. All the rest will continue down the path of failure.
The establishment has already decided we won’t be allowed to have Paul, so among the hopefuls, none wants to do anything about this.
The only chance of stopping this politically lies with the states. We need a consitutional convention.
Barring that, the only person who can help your family is you. Stock up. An ill wind is blowing our way. Politicians won’t be there to help us when the government fails and the currency collapses. We’ll need food, supplies, gold, and guns.
Romney talks the talk now but we’ll have to see if he walks the walk.
If, as I suspect, Romney’s win also results in a larger margin of Republicans in the House and a majority in the Senate, it will be much easier for him to govern from the right.
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If he doesn’t walk the walk then it is game over. Can we afford to take that chance?
Is Boehner “governing from the right” now?
Who stops Boehner’s spending? The even more liberal Mitt Romney?
This form of Socialism has been creeping steadily into the financial sector of this country for over 80 years now. First with Social Security, then Medicare and Medicaid. Couple that with the ever-burgeoning food stamp crowd and you have a perfect storm that this current administration is taking full advantage of by, as you have pointed out, not letting a crisis go to waste. It is likely that there are enough already at the government teat to ensure four more years of a steady march toward full blown Socialism.
After all: We are all too big to fail!
May God help us!
We will have a chance to see.
Heck, even the Democrats are laughably trying to run on a debt reduction platform. It will be the defining issue for the new government in 2013.
You and I are not likely to be assuaged completely by their efforts. It does seem insurmountable. But Paul can’t even demonstrate a record where he’s achieved any actual success in getting legislation passed, so I simply don’t think he’s the answer. What good would it be to have a President that cannot lead Congress to implement his agenda?
I’m choosing to be cautiously optimistic but I won’t be surprised to be disappointed. lol
Paul only needs to be stubborn enough to veto fiscally moonbatty budgets. His record shows him to be sufficiently stubborn.
Stubborness can’t beat an override which is what would ultimately happen and then you have an impotent President.
I’m all for slashing the budget and cabinet posts. All of it. But you have to build a political consensus to get it done. I frankly don’t’ know if the political will exists to get it done. Not right at the moment.
But Ron Paul can’t get it done alone and so far he has proven himself to be an ineffective congressman frankly. I just don’t see how making him President changes that.
Barring that, the only person who can help your family is you. Stock up. An ill wind is blowing our way. Politicians won’t be there to help us when the government fails and the currency collapses. We’ll need food, supplies, gold, and guns.
I wonder if even gold will have any value. Things will be traded and I can’t think of anything gold will do for me. Guns, ammo, at least 1year supply of dry goods, water, and a fully stocked first-aid bag. These are the ‘must haves’. A good supply of non-GMO seeds could probably be added to that.
I believe the ratio is not in our favor so the sooner you stock up the better. Just grab 1 or 2 extra items every time you hit the market. Buy books at used book stores and I don’t mean the Steven King kind.
If 2/3 of both houses agree and are willing to spend us into oblivion, then the nation is already sunk, and not even Reagan in the White House can change that.
I’m not sure how you expect a RINO to fare any better. A RINO will willingly agree to the bipartisan fiscal moonbattery, whereas having a fiscal conservative in the White House at least forces the Congresscommies to go on the record as being against a sane budget already on the table.
If trade reemerges or was never interrupted at local levels, then there will need to be a medium of exchange for that trade. Gold is the most historically consistent medium of exchange.
If you’re talking about a world in which we have no trade, then humanity will have been set back more than 10,000 years, and you won’t survive. Not even the worst of hyperinflation and peak oil can set us back that far. If gold loses value as hard money, then we’re in nuclear winter, living after a repeat of the K-T impactor, witnessing the actual rapture, or facing some other totally unsurvivable scenario. Any scenario so extreme as to strip gold of its value is not expected to be survivable, no matter what the most extreme of preppers might do.
I guess it really boils down to how bad you think it’s going to get. Gold is worth only what people will pay/trade for it. It may also depend on where you will reside. In my community I would trade for only what I can use and gold is not on that list. I also would advise if you do invest in gold make sure it is tangible.
Bill Whittle is one of the most important sources of sober, sane, and timely information and analysis on the internet. Excellent.
If it gets so bad and stays so bad that gold isn’t useful, I’d be curious how you plan to survive TEOTWAWKI.
Gold holds its value because people expect they can trade it elsewhere in the future. If the demand for gold dies out, then people are expecting never returning to anything near normal.
I understand its limitations on short time scales, such as a post-Katrina event, but if some trade does not resume afterward then there is really no hope that anything else will get you through.
The cessation of the function of gold won’t happen without the cessation of humanity functioning as a social species, which itself won’t happen in anything short of armageddon.
Trade and the division of labor dates back before recorded history. Any event which makes us fall that far won’t be survivable on anything but a short term.
I’m storing non-hybrid seeds up my pooper. Just in case.
If it gets so bad and stays so bad that gold isn’t useful, I’d be curious how you plan to survive TEOTWAWKI.
I expect the end to come quicker than most. I don’t think the collapse of the economy will be just a setback that we will bounce back from. I feel this will be the start of something very dark to come. Most of the population will not survive and I doubt even I’ll be around. But if chance allows me I will be ready to survive it. How? Well that would take up way too much room on here. I definitely don’t claim to know all that is coming but I do rely on my instincts as I always have. I pray I am wrong but needless to say I am getting ready. Just in case.
Oh, I’m ready too, and have been prepping now for a while. What’s coming is bad indeed, but after the shock is over, free market capitalism will try and reemerge. The worst communist regimes, the most controlled illegal substances, and the most restrictive prisons have still proven themselves subject to the laws of capitalist supply and demand, and the power of the markets. Anything strong enough to put the capitalist spirit down for good is probably not survivable.
Even in scenarios of government collapse, a farmer might sell surplus food for gold he doesn’t need at the moment, because he expects to see trade and society once again.
The only reason gold won’t be in demand is if everybody expects to live a short, lonely, and miserable Mad Max existence. If that is how far we fall then nothing will save us. Might as well keep some gold and silver around for situations which fall somewhere between BAU and TEOTWAWKI.
Hyperinflation and peak oil could hit at the same time and society will still reemerge, albeit missing billions of people.
The gold and silver are for when you get to the other side.
They’re only useful if there is no other side – i.e., the gates of Hell are open, a GRB blows up 30 light years out, an extinction level impactor hits, etc. At that point, there is little one can do anyway. It’d be pointless to ask what caliber is best for putting down Satan’s minions (10mm Auto, obviously) or shielding the family farm from armageddon from the skies.
That should read “they’re only not useful”
Amen AC
im done with these dip sh*ts…..bring on the revolution.