Video came out. It was a 73 guy who is reported to not be able to see very well. He was kind of minding his own business when this shrieking bitch starts following him and appears to touch him. He's the old guy who trips here holding his wife's hand.
looks like a crowd of good, salt of the earth people, except the aggressive, probably mentally ill protestor trying to elicit a reaction.
So, you want a financial apocalypse now so that you don't have to sit around and wait for it? Sooner or later, you are going to die. Is that a good reason to kill yourself today? barfo
So you're against assisted suicide laws? Those people are going to die sooner or later. For the same reason you probably want assisted suicide legal, you want to financial crisis to come sooner - so it's less severe and better recovery possible.
Yes. They should have let the banks fail back in 07. Now we have scumbags like Wells Fargo creating fake accounts for customers that they didn't know about on an institutional basis. The government, banks and big business will continue fucking you. Eventually their greed will catch up to you and they'll just pass the blame and the losses to the American people. All that the FED has done has printed trillions of dollars out of thin air. They have also made the economy dependent on 0% interest rates. When they raise them and the markets start to tank, they are just going to lower them again (possibly negative interest rates) and print more money and the bubble gets bigger and bigger until the day where it becomes so bad that everything gets fucked. America is done. Stick a fucking fork in it.
There's no question the banks should have been left to fail. True capitalism calls that sort of thing, creative destruction. From the ashes arise stronger and more appropriately defined companies/banks. The Fed lowering interest rates to near zero encourages borrowing. Only left leaning economists believe being in debt up to your eyeballs is a good thing. I deposit $1000 in the bank. The bank then loans $9,000 to people using my $1000. The person who borrows the $9000 simply gets $9000 added to his account. He writes checks, which are IOUs from the bank. Based upon the $9000 IOU from the borrower, the bank loans another $81,000. The banks gamble on the fact that 90% of the money deposited remains deposited. The cash flow, payments, and interest paid by the borrowers covers a moderate number of defaults and is HUGELY profitable for the banks. They are collecting interest on $90,000 ($9,000 + $81,000) and haven't spent a dime of their own money. If people stop borrowing, the whole thing collapses under its own weight. If people withdraw their money en masse, the banks are in deep shit. THe government is complicit in all this. They allow it, but require the banks to maintain a reserve with the Fed. It's a vicious cycle, resulting in inflation and ever higher public and private debt. As the bubble deflates, companies borrow less, have less to pay employees, and employees have less to spend. As people have too little to spend to afford their mortgage payments, the bubble bursts. According to the Fed, there's only $1.46T in actual money in circulation. GDP is about $18T. That's even more than the 9x I just wrote about. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm DEBT BASED ECONOMY: http://www.workableeconomics.com/the-debt-based-economy/
I find it easy to argue against a clown. That's about as relevant as your comment. A person who wants to die now rather than endure terrible sickness and intolerable pain isn't going to recover, period.
Right, so why did you say: How is 'less severe and better recovery possible' a reason to want legal assisted suicide? barfo
Minimize the damage in both cases. The dying person has his death "less severe" of symptoms, dignity, and suffering.
I think what Denny is actually saying is that we should murder all the banks. It will minimize the damage and we can begin the healing process.
Basically. We should have let them die. The nation's recovery would have started much sooner, and would have been much stronger.
Have you been to other countries? [I know you have, the question is rhetorical]. Have you not noticed that other countries have problems too? Often much bigger problems. Maybe it's the human race that's 'done'. So maybe we should just nuke ourselves into oblivion. Or maybe we should just work to try to make things better, instead of thinking that blowing something up improves the something that is blown up. barfo
Sure we can make things better. It'll just involve years of pain, which the country and government deserves for the years of cheating. The US Government is basically spraying air freshener on dog shit. Sure, it smells nicer, but its still a pile of dog shit. By not admitting any of the problems of this system, everyone will suffer more in the long term. This current economic system is what, 100 years old? Its not that long of a time, it could be the wrong path to take. Blowing the whole thing up won't be the end of humanity. It'll just be the end of the current system. A new one will arise, but the old one has to (and will) fail.
Doing something requires getting up from the couch and turning off the tv. Fuck that, said every american ever.
Yes, maybe we are on the wrong path. But how can you say that if you burn it down without a plan, something better will arise? Tell me your plan for a new society, and maybe I'll get on board with burning this one down. Otherwise, you are just an anarchist. barfo
