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Universal health care is not guarenteed in our Constitution. The general welfare is.

A family of 4 headed by a 45 year old making $66,000 per year will be forced to pay 10% of its income for health insurance under this new hooplah going through the senate. That is $550 a month. That is ridiculous, and that is Obama for you.

If this passes into law America's middle class will be wiped clean. There will be poor, and rich. The end.

Also people's perception of 'welfare' has changed over the last 100 years. Some quick synonyms for welfare : handout, advantage, euphoria, happiness, thriving. Should our government be responsible for these things? No thank you.

What ever happened to working hard to succeed in life. Our current administration is pushing my ideals farther and farther to the old fashioned conservative side more and more everyday. I do not want to live in a socialism country, or any other 'ism' for that matter.

<--- Doesn't know who Hannity is...

Guess i should turn on the boob toob once in a while. Nah. Probably not. I'll stick to reading the news

Politics aside, that clip was funny.

Bringin it back from the dead !

Got a new conceal carry piece. It's a Taurus Mill Pro 9mm. Has thumb safety which i realy like, and second strike trigger which is huge. Brand new gun, 2 clips, hard case walked out for $350. So far it doesn't have a single round through it but a friend has the exact same gun and i loved it and the size so i picked one up to replace the .40 S&W for everyday carry.

Tek i was looking at a Mossberg pistol grip 12g almost just liek that the other day but i didn't wanna pay that much for it lol. That is an awesome gun you have though, looks sweet.

Pentagon officials have told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee a gallon of fuel costs the military about $400 by the time it arrives in the remote locations in Afghanistan where U.S. troops operate

In some places, Geiss said, analysts have estimated the fully burdened cost of fuel might even be as high as $1,000 per gallon.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63407-400gallon-gas-another-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-

Ridiculous.

I think it's just another ridiculous idea Obama has, to put us even farther in the whole. 13 billion, to write $250 checks to seniors?!?!?! I don't even know where to start.

The 13 BILLION will be paid from general revenue. Revenue from who?! The Fed? Umm.. Hello. The FED doesn't make anything, they are putting us farther in debt everyday..

/smacks Obama with a rubber chicken.

Something else that urKs me is that unemployement is still on the rise, foreclosures still highest ever, people are working for less, Colorado is loweing minimum wage, and i keep hearing the goods and services are cheap right now.

Goods and services are not cheap right now. Last year i stocked up on can goods and i remember very clear they were in all the grocery stores 3 for $1.00. Now it's almost a dollar a can. I put 2 tires on my girlfriends Civic. 100 bux, for both. I did the other 2 a few weeks ago for her inspection, 120 bux, each. Case of Yoohoo's was 3.50 now they are 5.25. Things are not cheaper and are not getting any cheaper. Lots of people are working less, for less an hour, with a devauling dollar. Main street is poor, Wall Street's topping 10,000 again. Im waiting for the bubble to bust, again. /rant

Im painting away at work today and him winning the Nobel Peace popped in my head.

I ask my parent, yes we work together:

"what do you thing of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize?"

reply:

"hahahaha"

so i said, "say no more. guess were on the same page with that one."

total U.S. land area is 2,271,343,000 acres. from what i can find, federal government owns, manages, or controls about one third of it. Most of it being in the western half of the country.

Thank goodness my family (me, my parents, my grandparents) all have no mortgages anymore.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

-Thomas Jefferson

Let me just say im not a big conspiracy theory believer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group

I find some of the information presented to be pretty thought provoking. I'm not saying i believe it all, or believe none of it. I find it very interseting though.

haha

skip church

party

skip church

took a day off

partied some more

I have mixed feeling on this one. A Nobel prize should be awarded for the actions, not the words of a person. It is entirely premature to give the man a Nobel Prize.

but..

IF it prompts Mr. Pres to do great things, like he talks, then maybe a few years from now it will have been worth it. I'm not saying we should start paying people for jobs that they haven't done yet, in hopes they do their job correctly. But if they puts him and keeps him on a good path then we can look back in a few years and say everything worked out ok.

but what if he screws up... he has a long way to go. So im not sure how i feel on this one. It has potential to do a good thing, will he take the opportunity though.

I gotcha And you are right. Me saying that buying gold today to hedge against inflation at $1000/oz is a bit off base because we are not tied to gold and it is indeed a commodity. The price is going up because of speculation buying because as you said, it is historically 'safer' then the dollar at the moment. The same can be said of oil. The root of the problem is our weakening dollar. It's not that gold is worth more, but the dollar worth less. It takes more dollar to buy that same thing.

So i 'think' we agree on pretty much everything, you just had to straighten out a few things i had twisted, haha. Today's economics are so complex...

Yes, South Africa. And you are right, i am wrong on Russia, but the point is the same.

"You suggest that if the production of gold goes up, inflation occurs: doesn't the government randomly injecting x billion dollars into the market have exactly the same effect? The only difference being, at least there's a tangible value when you have something like the gold standard."

Yes, but the government can adjust interest rates to help fight this. I, myself, don't know the answer to our current situation. We need to stimulate the economy, but each way we have to stimulate the economy hurts the economy. it is a paradox. Atleast the solutions i can come up with.

"The issue with not having money tied to something of value, is that money itself ends up with no intrinsic value. You should be able to exchange your money for something of equal value that is a finite and limited resource, if money is just arbitrarily produced to "stimulate" the economy out of a recession or for any other reason, it creates false wealth and we find ourselves in exactly the situation we're in. "

I agree. Currency should be tied to something of value. My issue is that gold only has value because of history saying it does. You could substitute gold for sea shells or rocks, none of these things are of any use when you are hungry though. Im not saying to tie currency to chicken noodle soup, because i dont know what to do either. The way it is now though, atleast it is in our hands. Not that our gov't is always right or even has our best interest in mind, but everyone can accept that a dollar is a dollar, even if it is just paper.

Honestly i would probably raise taxes, especially on the upper income brackets and large corporations. Along with cutting out tons of gov't spending. That is not going to happen. Spending has been out of sink for so long that there is no easy answer or someone would have it figured out by now. People do need to be more prudent in spending, and i think a lot are realizing it, just a little late.

If someone bought gold in 1980 at $850/oz and in 2005 it was $400 and oz, have they hedged against inflation? Have they hedged against it today? Is buying gold today a good way to hedge inflation at over $1000/oz?

A return to the gold standard is a horrible idea. It has failed time and time again.

with a gold standard the amount of money would be determined by the supply of gold, and printing more money could no longer be used to stabilize the economy in times of a recession. Great depression?

If productoin of gold went up, inflation would occur. Supply goes down, deflation.

And who mines the most gold? Africa and Russia. I don't want those two countries to have such an influence on our country.

There is a reason not a single country on this globe uses the gold standard.

Gold is just like any other money, fiat or not. its value is dependent on the idea that at some future time you will be able exchange it for goods and services. If people dont want gold, its value decreases. It has no guarantee of value, you can't eat or drink it.

Not only that, but if the world were to go back to a gold standard, standard of living would decrease greatly imo because there is simply not enough to go around. The only way to get more would be war. American's are debtors, we in most cases spend more then we should, and some more then they even make. Countries like China that are production oriented nations would end up with all the gold, then what?

Paper that is worth something just because the Federal Reserve says so and our citizens accept that is better then gold. It is atleast in our control.

that is my fiat .02

I'm past political parties at this point, anyone that is still talking DEM v REP, left v right is out of the loop. I'm mostly talking to myself at this point but it helps me figure out how to deal with the future.

a world wide recession does not allow any countries to increase prices, even oil prices have dropped due to less demand from people not driving to work and people not buying goods. countries will come out of this recession, with China being the first. as other countries emerge prices will rise, on everything across the board. The problem is what is the U.S. to do? How are we trying to get out of the this recession? cash for clunkers? dumb. Print currency and sell debts? no. You cannot export American dollars by purchasing foreign goods to get America out of a recession

That is not difficult to understand, but apparently it is for our government. All it does is further weaken the dollar, and make things more expensive. a double whammy if you will, super inflation, one day at a time.

I'm not a doom and gloom person. This country will survive. We are pioneers and we will forge ahead creating new technologies and innovations that other countries will be willing to pay a premium for. The USA doesn't have to make cheap plastic toys for pennies an hour to survive.

EDIT: Anyone know anything about James Burke? He will make your head spin. If you have a minute look him up.

I'm not pleased one bit by the condition our country is in. I would say personally, im worried for my future. I am not in a position to do anything about anything, so i'm just along for the ride, making the best of everyday. Things are what they are sometimes.

and i wake up and see this::

http://finance.yahoo.com/techticker/article/349687/Dollar-Living-on-Its-Reputation-and-Borrowed-Time

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html

Ahh...I see, that makes more sense now, lol.

I know right, i was confused for a minute there.... Doctors buying their way into heaven... doh !

Seriously though, gov't healthcare, no thanks. Our government screws up everything and is so far in debt it's ridiculous.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip, set up their tent,and fall asleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes his faithful friend."Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see." Watson replies,"I see millions of stars." What does that tell you?" Watson ponders fora minute. "Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millionsof galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, ittells me that Saturn is in Leo. Timewise, it appears to beapproximately a quarter past three. Theologically, it's evident theLord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant.Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Whatdoes it tell you?" Holmes is silent for a moment, then speaks. "Watson,you idiot, someone has stolen our tent."

I lol'ed

of course it would survive..

 

Right now there are a few on top getting extremely wealthy while the rest of us slave for them.. If we started spending like we should. The only people that would be effected are those bringing in tons of money. They would only bring in a ton rather than 10 tons. They would then fire millions of employees to keep pocketing what they were previously pocketing. It's modern day slavery.

 

so I've been thinking the past few weeks about something... Corporation, land and bank owners are the Lords. CEO's and other upscale jobs that can bring in couple of cool million a year are the slave masters or other people who would work directly for lords. (These guys are buddy buddy with the lords). While the rest of us peons who work 9-5 to make the wheels go around are the slaves. They give us a little compensation and we just turn around and give it right back to them because they also own the land and the banks. They sucker people into a mortgage. (Take me for example who has given them $43,000 over the past few years and they haven't applied one penny of that to principal) We have a little freedom to do what we like with the few shillings we have left over, but they are benefiting much more than we are from the deal. In theory the people should be running the country, but those with wealth have gamed it to their advantage. It's a brilliant scheme they have come up with... AKA modern day Capitalism

You could be that CEO, or doctor if you had choosen that path. We all make choices in life, for whatever reasons, and we have to live with them.

Short answer is no, not in this country it is not. There are a lot of reason for this. Wal-Mart, our gov't, ppl's greed and debt's. and a million other things that will outpace us. Our country is lazy and we don't produce anything.

Oil is traded in US dollars, yet Russia is the largest producer of oil, Saudia Arabia second.

2001

U.S. Consumed 19.7 million Bbl/day

China consumed 4.5 million bbl day

2004

U.S. Consumed 20.7 million Bbl/day

China consumed 6.4 million bbl day

2007

U.S. consumed 20.6 million bbl/day

China consumed 7.5 million bbl/day

Our countries consumption has stayed fairly steady, China is growing rapidly, And has what, 5 Billion barrels of crude in reserve. Everything is made in China now.

2001 $20 to 27 per barrel

2004 $30 to 42 per barrel

2007 $55 to 92 per barrel

The same barrel costs more, why? It's a limited resource. Where's the extra money coming from? China.

Now.

What happens if the US dollar is no longer the accepted currency for trade? Our dollar is getting weaker already, but it is stronger then it would be if oil were traded with gold, or euros or a different currency. If oil is not traded in dollars then the dollars becomes less likely to remain the world currency making it even less valuable, a lot less. Let's not even factor in supply and demand yet.

Gold $/oz

1985 - $330

1995 - $380

2000 - $288

2005 - $420

2009 - $1030

what this means is that for decades the dollar has been stable in terms of gold. Gold has always been stable in terms of oil. But the last few years we have seen gold rise. This means that the dollar is weaker. If we can buy less gold with a dollar, that means we can buy less everything. The dollar will be the new penny.

We will have to start producing Something, in order to make money.

but.... when the vast majority of our gross domestic product is in the service industry, not manufacturing, the pain felt by the masses due to rising costs will greatly outpace the pleasure of manufacturing for a VERY long time. AND in order for us to compete manufacturing cost wise, it wil have to get very painful for many years.Hard long hours for cheap labor. Also the fall of the dollar will accelerate with time, probably outpacing any rise from increased american exports which won't happen overnight and can't be done easily, im sorry.

Our country can't be like this forever, it is obvious. Atleast to me. We can't "convert to a manufacturing economy fairly easily any time we want to ". That is crazy to think when this is service country and most citizens don't know what a hard days work is.

I work 6 days a week and am living the dream. When i say work, i mean physical labor everyday 10 hours a day. I slave for my money, and it's much less money then most of you i would wager. BUT, i didn't fall for the consumerism spend spend spend so i got ahead. If i can't pay cash, i don't need it. If more ppl were like this maybe, MAYBE capitalism could be sustained, but i doubt it because resourse are limited and will run out one day.

I just got this a few days ago and got a chance to get to the range today. It's an SKS 7.62 x 39, and reallly fun to shoot. I put about 100 rounds through it today, my arm feels great

Siiiick pictures, im jealous !

Yea pretty much, things slow down when it gets cold.

http://www.villagesatstaunton.com/

lol this is old but i run a painting company and plow snow in the winter. The truck looks diff now, it has company vinyl's on the doors... Like the last job i did i painted 13 condo's in a place that used to be a prison but is being transformed into a gated community. For me that is about a 2 month project.

You better have a good time and take lots of pics !