Comments on: UPDATED: 'Brace For Impact!' (Breaking: BHO EXPERT AGREES)

By: Gringo Malo

Gringo Malo — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:16:37 +0000

Derbyshire wrote, "It is obvious that our governments, at all levels, are spending far too much; yet there is little evidence of anyone being willing to do anything about it." Why would he expect anyone be willing to do anything about it? Any serious spending cut must sharply decrease entitlement spending. Any decrease in entitlement spending would cause our mendicant electorate to kick the politicians who enacted it out of office. Given our mendicant electorate, no one willing to risk his political career for the good of the country could be elected in the first place. So government will keep spending like a drunken sailor until our money loses all value. I haven't read Vox Day's book, but the coming collapse will be much worse than the Great Depression.

By: Mike Marks

Mike Marks — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:03:34 +0000

As a “depressed optimist” I believe there has to be a pony in here sonmewhere! Still digging, no pony yet…

By: MorningStar

MorningStar — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:56:10 +0000

I’m not into the blame game over the economy. Both political parties got us into this mess. Of course, ultimately, we got ourselves into this mess & need to get ourselves out without career-corrupt politicians.

Our economy needs a war(s) to keep going or so D.C. thinks. I want the troops home & on the border. It keeps military families together & dollars in the U.S. I don’t think the politicians are listening to any of us.

I might suggest everyone just read that underground book out where a small town of Americans do stand up to our current federal tyranny & ends up starting the 2nd American Revolution. Hey, all the same reasons are there (foreign wars, debts, etc.). It’s so good cause it could be our hometown. I liked it.
http://www.booksbyoliver.com

By: DENNIS

DENNIS — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:54:33 +0000

CORRECTION TO ABOVE NOTE: I must have been less than awake…sorry. Story was an ABC one – see AMERICAN COMPANY TAKES SOLAR TECHNOLOGY TO CHINA. Link is:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/solar-white-house-invite-china-deal/story?id=11043149&page=2
Also, see http://videosearch.comcast.net and search for “AMERICAN COMPANY TAKES…” video. Please note what Commerce people said vs what China DID. We’ve got the brainpower here, but are strangled by government’s limited thinking.

By: michel cloutier

michel cloutier — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:31:22 +0000

Their country’s ability to borrow is what has kept the American consumer’s purchasing power steady in the last decade. That will shortly stop, but I’m sure the global corporate elite is not worried. The ‘secret’ of globalization is not that it’s about exporting US jobs, it about outsourcing the US consumer. Who cares if the American middle-class is vanishing, if a rising (for example) Chinese one can take its place.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:40:07 +0000

Getting into the swing of metaphor for the moment:

The overhead blast has already occurred; we await the shockwaves after which we’ll watch the rubble bounce for a while. The karmic lesson will have been lost on the population who will walk about like zombies, half blaming Bush, the other half Obama. Some few, those who’ve looked in the mirror and recognized the problem, will be the remnant. Good luck to them.

By: DENNIS

DENNIS — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:48:05 +0000

Okay, as if more realities as needed, it must be my masochistic side, but Fox News this AM discussed a story of some entrepreneurs who had developed a new solar panel technology that was more efficient, less environmentally damaging, and a lower cost. They met with Governors,Representatives, and Senators, but were ignored. So, CHINA CONTACTED THEM, FLEW THEM THERE, AND A DEAL WAS CUT. So, there goes more production and jobs. Yah, if it takes a village to raise a child then it takes a country to raise a bunch of bureaucratic idiots AND WE HAVE SUCCEEDED AT THAT!

[Hyperlink, please.]

By: Vrye Denker

Vrye Denker — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:01:54 +0000

I’d like to add to Derbyshire’s analogy: while you have your head between your knees, kiss your b-tt good bye.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:54:57 +0000

One more prediction: the right wing will blame this debacle on “gay marriage” or “Space Alien Obama” but in truth, the underlying CANCER has been growing since limited government was completely abandoned in the 1930’s. It just took this long for the Socialist Insecurity Welfare-Warfare disease to show obvious symptoms and METASTICIZE into the lethal terminal phase.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:42:52 +0000

What FORM shall the tsunami take??? Choose:

(1) The Lehman-Brothers “disappearance” – $ 20 Trillion turns out to be just a computer over-counting and you wake up find that your bank accounts, etc. are really all zero or close-to-nothing type collapse. Did someone say BUBBLE?

(2) The Weimar-Zimbabwe “hyperinflation” – all your money is there but it now costs $ 532,000 for a cup of coffee.

(3) The Argentina-style “prolonged collapse” – a steady emphatic drift into 3rd World status as the entire country starts resembling Detroit: http://www.forgottendetroit.com/

(4) Something even more ghoulish and dreadful other than the first three!