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bpuharic August 3rd 10 02:56 AM

deficits don't matter
 
turns out they're irrelevant. they have no effect on growth. tax cuts
grow revenue

who said this?

a guy named dick cheney.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...4021_mz007.htm

so the right wingers who now scream that obama, and only obama, have
spent the US into the ground...

kinda forgot that the rich white guys cheney and bush said defcits
don't matter

Colonel Kurtz August 8th 10 04:17 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 2-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

turns out they're irrelevant. they have no effect on growth. tax cuts
grow revenue

who said this?

a guy named dick cheney.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...4021_mz007.htm

so the right wingers who now scream that obama, and only obama, have
spent the US into the ground...

kinda forgot that the rich white guys cheney and bush said defcits
don't matter


Tax relief doesn't matter either, you assholes would just take the few extra
dollars and send it to Japan, Korea or red China.

WAIT! No one said "the U.S. economy" I stand corrected.

bpuharic August 8th 10 05:05 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:17:30 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 2-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

turns out they're irrelevant. they have no effect on growth. tax cuts
grow revenue

who said this?

a guy named dick cheney.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...4021_mz007.htm

so the right wingers who now scream that obama, and only obama, have
spent the US into the ground...

kinda forgot that the rich white guys cheney and bush said defcits
don't matter


Tax relief doesn't matter either, you assholes would just take the few extra
dollars and send it to Japan, Korea or red China.

WAIT! No one said "the U.S. economy" I stand corrected.


sorry. the GOP already sent our jobs overseas...that way they can
afford the $6000 umbrella stands...


Colonel Kurtz August 9th 10 04:07 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 8-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

Tax relief doesn't matter either, you assholes would just take the few
extra
dollars and send it to Japan, Korea or red China.

WAIT! No one said "the U.S. economy" I stand corrected.


sorry. the GOP already sent our jobs overseas...that way they can
afford the $6000 umbrella stands...


You send your ****ant wages for automobiles and 90% of consumer products
outside the U.S. and it's the GOP's (or DNC's) fault? What freebie (that
NEVER exists) are you waiting in line for now?

bpuharic August 9th 10 10:32 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:07:21 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 8-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

Tax relief doesn't matter either, you assholes would just take the few
extra
dollars and send it to Japan, Korea or red China.

WAIT! No one said "the U.S. economy" I stand corrected.


sorry. the GOP already sent our jobs overseas...that way they can
afford the $6000 umbrella stands...


You send your ****ant wages for automobiles and 90% of consumer products
outside the U.S. and it's the GOP's (or DNC's) fault? What freebie (that
NEVER exists) are you waiting in line for now?


gee. there USED to be a tax credit for deducting expenses for
relocating your business overseas.

too painful for you to remember?


Canuck57[_9_] August 11th 10 01:41 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On 8/9/2010 2:32 PM, bpuharic wrote:
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:07:21 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 8-Aug-2010, wrote:

Tax relief doesn't matter either, you assholes would just take the few
extra
dollars and send it to Japan, Korea or red China.

WAIT! No one said "the U.S. economy" I stand corrected.

sorry. the GOP already sent our jobs overseas...that way they can
afford the $6000 umbrella stands...


You send your ****ant wages for automobiles and 90% of consumer products
outside the U.S. and it's the GOP's (or DNC's) fault? What freebie (that
NEVER exists) are you waiting in line for now?


gee. there USED to be a tax credit for deducting expenses for
relocating your business overseas.

too painful for you to remember?


The more money DC creates in debt ponzi, the fewer jobs there are. Big
ruse really, enslave America via taxation.

--
Is government working for you, or are you working for the government?

bpuharic August 11th 10 02:33 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:41:38 -0700, Canuck57
wrote:

On 8/9/2010 2:32 PM, bpuharic wrote:
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:07:21 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 8-Aug-2010, wrote:

Tax relief doesn't matter either, you assholes would just take the few
extra
dollars and send it to Japan, Korea or red China.

WAIT! No one said "the U.S. economy" I stand corrected.

sorry. the GOP already sent our jobs overseas...that way they can
afford the $6000 umbrella stands...

You send your ****ant wages for automobiles and 90% of consumer products
outside the U.S. and it's the GOP's (or DNC's) fault? What freebie (that
NEVER exists) are you waiting in line for now?


gee. there USED to be a tax credit for deducting expenses for
relocating your business overseas.

too painful for you to remember?


The more money DC creates in debt ponzi, the fewer jobs there are. Big
ruse really, enslave America via taxation.


we aren't PAYING taxes. that's the problem


Colonel Kurtz August 12th 10 02:47 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 9-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

You send your ****ant wages for automobiles and 90% of consumer products
outside the U.S. and it's the GOP's (or DNC's) fault? What freebie (that
NEVER exists) are you waiting in line for now?


gee. there USED to be a tax credit for deducting expenses for
relocating your business overseas.

too painful for you to remember?


That's your excuse for buying foreign autos and red Chinese junk?

There are tremendous benefits for not producing in the U.S., all which were
imposed by the D.C. scum you elect.

Colonel Kurtz August 12th 10 02:49 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 10-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

too painful for you to remember?


The more money DC creates in debt ponzi, the fewer jobs there are. Big
ruse really, enslave America via taxation.


we aren't PAYING taxes. that's the problem


Where's the three trillion dollars the U.S. extracts from the productive
minority coming from? What is borrowed is in excess of what is confiscated.

bpuharic August 13th 10 05:27 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:49:02 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 10-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

too painful for you to remember?

The more money DC creates in debt ponzi, the fewer jobs there are. Big
ruse really, enslave America via taxation.


we aren't PAYING taxes. that's the problem


Where's the three trillion dollars the U.S. extracts from the productive
minority coming from? What is borrowed is in excess of what is confiscated.


the productive sector in this country is the middle class. the rich
are just parasites.

bpuharic August 13th 10 05:28 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:47:26 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 9-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

You send your ****ant wages for automobiles and 90% of consumer products
outside the U.S. and it's the GOP's (or DNC's) fault? What freebie (that
NEVER exists) are you waiting in line for now?


gee. there USED to be a tax credit for deducting expenses for
relocating your business overseas.

too painful for you to remember?


That's your excuse for buying foreign autos and red Chinese junk?


uh no. the rich forgot that, when they raped the middle class, the MC
had an alternative: buy chinese


There are tremendous benefits for not producing in the U.S., all which were
imposed by the D.C. scum you elect.


yes bush and cheney were scum


Colonel Kurtz August 13th 10 03:28 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 13-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

Where's the three trillion dollars the U.S. extracts from the productive
minority coming from? What is borrowed is in excess of what is
confiscated.


the productive sector in this country is the middle class. the rich
are just parasites.


The "middle class" is HISTORY in the U.S. "The rich" (a term usually used by
the envious and failed) are the investors that build an enterprise and give
losers jobs. Those investing are out of the U.S., or preparing to do so.

Colonel Kurtz August 13th 10 03:34 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 13-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

That's your excuse for buying foreign autos and red Chinese junk?


uh no. the rich forgot that, when they raped the middle class, the MC
had an alternative: buy chinese


The shoddy red Chinese crap is all that's available because the scum you
elected granted unrestricted access to U.S. markets - "Americans," being too
stupid to think their way out of a wet paper bag buy the overpriced crap,
then wonder why there are no jobs. Domestic producers folded up and now
you're begging Buckwheat for a $300 check. Starve, no one cares, and I
don't produce in the U.S. anymore either. The condition will never be
reversed.




There are tremendous benefits for not producing in the U.S., all which
were
imposed by the D.C. scum you elect.


yes bush and cheney were scum


Cheney is the only competent elected (indirectly) person in office in 50
years. Too bad for you he doesn't think welfare for the unwashed is the wave
of the future. You lose.

bpuharic August 13th 10 04:57 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:28:31 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 13-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

Where's the three trillion dollars the U.S. extracts from the productive
minority coming from? What is borrowed is in excess of what is
confiscated.


the productive sector in this country is the middle class. the rich
are just parasites.


The "middle class" is HISTORY in the U.S. "The rich" (a term usually used by
the envious and failed) are the investors that build an enterprise and give
losers jobs. Those investing are out of the U.S., or preparing to do so.


and how much did these investors build in the US in the last 3 years
after destroying 11 trillion dollars in equity and throwing millions
out of work?

care to tell us how wonderful they are?

more right wing bull****


Colonel Kurtz August 13th 10 06:57 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 13-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

The "middle class" is HISTORY in the U.S. "The rich" (a term usually used
by
the envious and failed) are the investors that build an enterprise and
give
losers jobs. Those investing are out of the U.S., or preparing to do so.


and how much did these investors build in the US in the last 3 years
after destroying 11 trillion dollars in equity and throwing millions
out of work?

care to tell us how wonderful they are?

more right wing bull****


Thinking impaired????

YOU are referring to "Wall Street" money laundering scams. Productive
industry builds something, like the autos, tools, capital machinery, machine
tools and raw materials that used to be produced and employ millions in the
U.S. Wall Street (house-of-cards) investment scams evaporated the moneys
you "thought" was there. Your habit of sending your **** ant wages overseas
depleted actual assets and investment, in concert with the scum you elected
to allow dumping in the U.S. Try to think outside of the moronic TV shows to
stare at.

Colonel Kurtz August 13th 10 06:59 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 13-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

elected granted unrestricted access to U.S. markets


ROFLMAO!! free trade is the mantra of the far right reaganites, milton
friedman, etc.


How can someone even as feeble as you "think" free trade is one way trade.
Try to explain your "thinking." If you wnat to keep squealing like a stuck
pig, stop sending your money overseas.

bpuharic August 14th 10 12:48 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:57:24 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 13-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

The "middle class" is HISTORY in the U.S. "The rich" (a term usually used
by
the envious and failed) are the investors that build an enterprise and
give
losers jobs. Those investing are out of the U.S., or preparing to do so.


and how much did these investors build in the US in the last 3 years
after destroying 11 trillion dollars in equity and throwing millions
out of work?

care to tell us how wonderful they are?

more right wing bull****


Thinking impaired????

YOU are referring to "Wall Street" money laundering scams. Productive
industry builds something, like the autos, tools, capital machinery


this is like saying communism is wondeful, except that it's never been
tried.

the fact is, the wealthy, protected by the right, has had their way
for the last 30 years. they ran the financial sector from 20% to 40%
of GDP in the last 10 years.

and what happened? did all this 'investment' make america more
competitive?

nope. the middle class got nothing. the income spread between the
mddle class and the rich SKYROCKETED as the weatlhy transferred more
and more money from the middle class to themselves

and how's that work out? economy doing OK? unemployment down?

.. Your habit of sending your **** ant wages overseas
depleted actual assets and investment, in concert with the scum you elected
to allow dumping in the U.S. Try to think outside of the moronic TV shows to
stare at.


i sent my money overseas because the only option left to me was
walmart. otherwise i'd STILL be sending my money overseas but the
wealthy would take an even BIGGER cut.

you're a hopeless moron


bpuharic August 14th 10 12:48 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:04 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 13-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

elected granted unrestricted access to U.S. markets


ROFLMAO!! free trade is the mantra of the far right reaganites, milton
friedman, etc.


How can someone even as feeble as you "think" free trade is one way trade.
Try to explain your "thinking." If you wnat to keep squealing like a stuck
pig, stop sending your money overseas.


then give me a pay raise instead of sucking the dicks of the rich


Colonel Kurtz August 15th 10 05:29 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 14-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

YOU are referring to "Wall Street" money laundering scams. Productive
industry builds something, like the autos, tools, capital machinery


this is like saying communism is wondeful, except that it's never been
tried.


It hasn't, and is impossible to implement. It is utopian, however. Human
nature makes it impossible.


the fact is, the wealthy, protected by the right, has had their way
for the last 30 years. they ran the financial sector from 20% to 40%
of GDP in the last 10 years.

and what happened? did all this 'investment' make america more
competitive?


Investment wasn't in the U.S., ignorantly aided and abbeted by the U.S.
voter and consumer. (people like you)


nope. the middle class got nothing. the income spread between the
mddle class and the rich SKYROCKETED as the weatlhy transferred more
and more money from the middle class to themselves


Transferred? By doing something extra-productive? No, by continuing to
produce while "Americans" sent their diminishing wages overseas. There is no
fixed amount of money anywhere - it is dynamic, but you have to believe it
is a fixed quantity for your moronic "theory" to work.


and how's that work out? economy doing OK? unemployment down?


Wages will not increase until North American wages can compete with the 3rd
world ********s you send your diminishing wages to - they will bottom out
within 4 to 5 years. Eventually, productive output in the United States will
regenerate, allowing once again companies (those evil entities) to employ
the fat happy and stupid.


. Your habit of sending your **** ant wages overseas
depleted actual assets and investment, in concert with the scum you
elected
to allow dumping in the U.S. Try to think outside of the moronic TV shows
to
stare at.


i sent my money overseas because the only option left to me was
walmart. otherwise i'd STILL be sending my money overseas but the
wealthy would take an even BIGGER cut.


So you admit you're part of the problem............I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU
THAT.

The fat happy and stupid could revrse the trend in 90-120 days, but being
fat happy and stupid prevents them (you) from doing so. You created the
mess by your voting and purchasing habits - are you so inept that you have
no option but to blame someone you don't know, never met, and can't
identify???

you're a hopeless moron


Colonel Kurtz August 15th 10 05:33 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 14-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

ROFLMAO!! free trade is the mantra of the far right reaganites, milton
friedman, etc.


How can someone even as feeble as you "think" free trade is one way
trade.
Try to explain your "thinking." If you wnat to keep squealing like a
stuck
pig, stop sending your money overseas.


then give me a pay raise instead of sucking the dicks of the rich


You shouldn't be paid whatever you get right now, the fact that you have
income is temporary. The U.S. will literally collapse, you will be a farmer,
and in a couple hundred years the better times MIGHT happen all over again,
once your lifestyle has reached equilibrium with India and red Chinese
peasants. No one stole **** from you; your opportunities were lost due to
the scum you elect allowing ONE WAY trade, and you supporting the trend with
your spending habits. Why do you pay U.S. retail prices for shoddy 3rd world
merchandise? Because you're stupid.

bpuharic August 15th 10 08:54 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:29:42 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 14-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:


the fact is, the wealthy, protected by the right, has had their way
for the last 30 years. they ran the financial sector from 20% to 40%
of GDP in the last 10 years.

and what happened? did all this 'investment' make america more
competitive?


Investment wasn't in the U.S., ignorantly aided and abbeted by the U.S.
voter and consumer. (people like you)


really? if you can prove i voted for reagan, i'll give you my 401K.



nope. the middle class got nothing. the income spread between the
mddle class and the rich SKYROCKETED as the weatlhy transferred more
and more money from the middle class to themselves


Transferred? By doing something extra-productive? No, by continuing to
produce while "Americans" sent their diminishing wages overseas. There is no
fixed amount of money anywhere - it is dynamic, but you have to believe it
is a fixed quantity for your moronic "theory" to work.


what did wall street ever produce?

nothing except debt and fairy tales that people like you believe.

and no, there isn't a fixed amount of money. monetary policy can
increase or decrease it at will.

and, yes, productivity in america increased by 28% from 1997 to 2007.
the middle class got none of that.

oh. you dont know any of these facts. you just let rush fill your head
with right wing crap.



and how's that work out? economy doing OK? unemployment down?


Wages will not increase until North American wages can compete with the 3rd
world ********s you send your diminishing wages to -


and we can do that by increasing productivity OR by inventing products
with differentiable IP. we used to be good at that until wall street
starting sucking up moe resources to pay themselves billion dollar
bonuses

they will bottom out
within 4 to 5 years. Eventually, productive output in the United States will
regenerate, allowing once again companies (those evil entities) to employ
the fat happy and stupid.


really? got proof of this fairy tale?

the rich will continue to get rich. the middle class will
disappear...this has been going on for 30 years. bush just increased
the pace


i sent my money overseas because the only option left to me was
walmart. otherwise i'd STILL be sending my money overseas but the
wealthy would take an even BIGGER cut.


So you admit you're part of the problem............I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU
THAT.


fine. you give me a pay increase and i'll stop. unless and until the
right realizes the middle class is not the enemy, our economy will
continue to tank


The fat happy and stupid could revrse the trend in 90-120 days, but being
fat happy and stupid prevents them (you) from doing so. You created the
mess by your voting and purchasing habits - are you so inept that you have
no option but to blame someone you don't know, never met, and can't
identify???


ROFLMAO!! tell you what. when you find the hidden stack of CDO's that
i have, you let me know, OK

it was wall street with their buying and selling of non productive
financial instruments...

NOT THE MIDDLE CLASS

that destroyed this economy

but you? you're a right wing idiot who thinks the middle class has an
obligation to support the rich

bpuharic August 15th 10 08:57 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:33:57 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 14-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

ROFLMAO!! free trade is the mantra of the far right reaganites, milton
friedman, etc.

How can someone even as feeble as you "think" free trade is one way
trade.
Try to explain your "thinking." If you wnat to keep squealing like a
stuck
pig, stop sending your money overseas.


then give me a pay raise instead of sucking the dicks of the rich


You shouldn't be paid whatever you get right now, the fact that you have
income is temporary. The U.S. will literally collapse, you will be a farmer,


i've been saying this all along. the rich are continuing to socialize
the risk and privatize the rewards...and you help them

and in a couple hundred years the better times MIGHT happen all over again,
once your lifestyle has reached equilibrium with India and red Chinese


courtesy of the right wing which refused to implement treaties that
guaranteed basic standards of living for all workers

funny how highly unionized countries like australia and germany are
doing fine.


peasants. No one stole **** from you; your opportunities were lost due to
the scum you elect allowing ONE WAY trade,


since george bush and ronald reagan pushed free trade, your brain has
liquified if you think i voted for them

you? you're right wing. you believe the fairy tales rush and reagan
told you about how free trade would starve the US worker to support
the rich

and you support that

and you supporting the trend with
your spending habits. Why do you pay U.S. retail prices for shoddy 3rd world
merchandise? Because you're stupid.


fine. you get me a pay raise and i'll stop.


Colonel Kurtz August 16th 10 01:40 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 15-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

Investment wasn't in the U.S., ignorantly aided and abbeted by the U.S.
voter and consumer. (people like you)


really? if you can prove i voted for reagan, i'll give you my 401K.


Your 401k is a paper wager, and worthless.




nope. the middle class got nothing. the income spread between the
mddle class and the rich SKYROCKETED as the weatlhy transferred more
and more money from the middle class to themselves


Transferred? By doing something extra-productive? No, by continuing to
produce while "Americans" sent their diminishing wages overseas. There is
no
fixed amount of money anywhere - it is dynamic, but you have to believe
it
is a fixed quantity for your moronic "theory" to work.


what did wall street ever produce?

nothing except debt and fairy tales that people like you believe.


You are confused - THAT'S WHAT I AM SAYING - THE HOUSE OF CARDS YOU DEPEND
ON IS A SCAM.

and no, there isn't a fixed amount of money. monetary policy can
increase or decrease it at will.


Productive output increases wealth - not wagers like 401K, which when based
upon productive entities, were good investments - they are now (with your
concurrence) based on wagers of "what it will be worth some day" with no
sound foundation.


and, yes, productivity in america increased by 28% from 1997 to 2007.
the middle class got none of that.


NO one "gets" anything - productivity increased because of imported
materials and equipment (lowering costs - same output with less cost =
greater productivity). Automotion (a good thing) was the other half of
productivity. Your labors are no longer needed.

oh. you dont know any of these facts. you just let rush fill your head
with right wing crap.



and how's that work out? economy doing OK? unemployment down?


Wages will not increase until North American wages can compete with the
3rd
world ********s you send your diminishing wages to -


and we can do that by increasing productivity OR by inventing products
with differentiable IP. we used to be good at that until wall street
starting sucking up moe resources to pay themselves billion dollar
bonuses


Like "green jobs?" Check the solar panel output from red China - nothing's
going to generate engineering, design, raw material output or production in
the United States, reinforced by your propensity to buy foreign (while
bitching about "the economy!")


they will bottom out
within 4 to 5 years. Eventually, productive output in the United States
will
regenerate, allowing once again companies (those evil entities) to employ
the fat happy and stupid.


really? got proof of this fairy tale?


Logic - nothing else would stimulate employment of the fat happy and stupid.


the rich will continue to get rich. the middle class will
disappear...this has been going on for 30 years. bush just increased
the pace


i sent my money overseas because the only option left to me was
walmart. otherwise i'd STILL be sending my money overseas but the
wealthy would take an even BIGGER cut.


So you admit you're part of the problem............I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU
THAT.


fine. you give me a pay increase and i'll stop. unless and until the
right realizes the middle class is not the enemy, our economy will
continue to tank


You won't have a job for a pay increase - you're not needed as long as the
scum you elect open the U.S. to unrestricted importation of overpriced
shoddy junk (that you are satisfied with)



The fat happy and stupid could revrse the trend in 90-120 days, but being
fat happy and stupid prevents them (you) from doing so. You created the
mess by your voting and purchasing habits - are you so inept that you
have
no option but to blame someone you don't know, never met, and can't
identify???


ROFLMAO!! tell you what. when you find the hidden stack of CDO's that
i have, you let me know, OK


gee whizzers


it was wall street with their buying and selling of non productive
financial instruments...

NOT THE MIDDLE CLASS

that destroyed this economy

but you? you're a right wing idiot who thinks the middle class has an
obligation to support the rich


You are distressed with economic penis envy. If someone else achieves an
income, they're taking it from you. That's stupid, but that's the TV
generation. Create your own job - that's your only choice, "the rich"
producers don't need you any more.

Colonel Kurtz August 16th 10 01:43 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 15-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

and in a couple hundred years the better times MIGHT happen all over
again,
once your lifestyle has reached equilibrium with India and red Chinese


courtesy of the right wing which refused to implement treaties that
guaranteed basic standards of living for all workers


That worked for Marx, right? Guarantee you living standard. That's around
the corner - get ready from you cement block apartment.


funny how highly unionized countries like australia and germany are
doing fine.


Australia is doing fine because they produce - spend a few months in Western
Europe - you'll like the American ghetto even better than you do now.

bpuharic August 16th 10 10:33 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:40:59 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 15-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

Investment wasn't in the U.S., ignorantly aided and abbeted by the U.S.
voter and consumer. (people like you)


really? if you can prove i voted for reagan, i'll give you my 401K.


Your 401k is a paper wager, and worthless.


and the only retirement plan the rich let the middle class have.

guess you forgot that


what did wall street ever produce?

nothing except debt and fairy tales that people like you believe.


You are confused - THAT'S WHAT I AM SAYING - THE HOUSE OF CARDS YOU DEPEND
ON IS A SCAM.


me? defend wall street?

uh...let me know when your drugs wear off


and no, there isn't a fixed amount of money. monetary policy can
increase or decrease it at will.


Productive output increases wealth - not wagers like 401K, which when based
upon productive entities, were good investments - they are now (with your
concurrence) based on wagers of "what it will be worth some day" with no
sound foundation.


and THAT is correct. finally you said something that's right

and in the last 10 years, productivity went up 28%. the middle class
got NONE of this. not a dime



and, yes, productivity in america increased by 28% from 1997 to 2007.
the middle class got none of that.


NO one "gets" anything - productivity increased because of imported
materials and equipment (lowering costs - same output with less cost =
greater productivity). Automotion (a good thing) was the other half of
productivity. Your labors are no longer needed.


IOW you think people don't get wages. interesting view of the economy
you have

and if labor is no longer needed...

why was there full employment for the 10 years before bush's
depression?

oh. your head just exploded...



and we can do that by increasing productivity OR by inventing products
with differentiable IP. we used to be good at that until wall street
starting sucking up moe resources to pay themselves billion dollar
bonuses


Like "green jobs?" Check the solar panel output from red China - nothing's
going to generate engineering, design, raw material output or production in
the United States, reinforced by your propensity to buy foreign (while
bitching about "the economy!")


so your recipe is:

1. no wage increases for the middle class

2. buy only expensive domestic products so RICH AMERICANS get the
money instead of rich CHINESE.

interesting.



they will bottom out
within 4 to 5 years. Eventually, productive output in the United States
will
regenerate, allowing once again companies (those evil entities) to employ
the fat happy and stupid.


really? got proof of this fairy tale?


Logic - nothing else would stimulate employment of the fat happy and stupid.


uh wrong. when we had full employment with no wage increases, the only
way the middle class could maintain the economy was to spend money we
didnt have.

now we're tapped out. the rich sucked all the money possible out of
the middle class.


fine. you give me a pay increase and i'll stop. unless and until the
right realizes the middle class is not the enemy, our economy will
continue to tank


You won't have a job for a pay increase - you're not needed as long as the
scum you elect open the U.S. to unrestricted importation of overpriced
shoddy junk (that you are satisfied with)


sorry. i never voted GOP in my life.



it was wall street with their buying and selling of non productive
financial instruments...

NOT THE MIDDLE CLASS

that destroyed this economy

but you? you're a right wing idiot who thinks the middle class has an
obligation to support the rich


You are distressed with economic penis envy. If someone else achieves an
income, they're taking it from you.


really? guess you're kinda stupid and dont know that the middle class
hasnt had a raise in 37 years

but the wealthy have had their incomes go up by 500%

not in other countries. only in america.

you? you're willing to be a dung beetle. you eat the **** the rich
feed you.

bpuharic August 16th 10 10:35 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:43:15 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 15-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

and in a couple hundred years the better times MIGHT happen all over
again,
once your lifestyle has reached equilibrium with India and red Chinese


courtesy of the right wing which refused to implement treaties that
guaranteed basic standards of living for all workers


That worked for Marx, right? Guarantee you living standard. That's around
the corner - get ready from you cement block apartment.


so your recipe is to make sure that ALL working people are poor and
only the wealthy stay wealthy.



funny how highly unionized countries like australia and germany are
doing fine.


Australia is doing fine because they produce - spend a few months in Western
Europe - you'll like the American ghetto even better than you do now.


ah. they produce. the rich have sucked the marrow out of the american
economy but to you that's fine because we have n o unions.


Colonel Kurtz August 17th 10 11:27 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 16-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

That worked for Marx, right? Guarantee you living standard. That's around
the corner - get ready from you cement block apartment.


so your recipe is to make sure that ALL working people are poor and
only the wealthy stay wealthy.


All working people (whatever the hell those are) ARE poor, and getting
poorer. The largest company and highest average wage payer used to be
General Motors. Now the largest company is Walmart, selling you overpriced
junk at high prices. Nitwit clerks don't (and shouldn't) make more than
minimum wage. Congress, and you made it all possible. Not "the rich"
(whoever they are.) By the wealthy, are you referring to designers,
engineers, toolmakers, owners of stamping companies, molding companies,
forging companies, casting companies and those nasty *******s that employed
you? If so, rest assured, they are out of business due to unabated foreign
crap you joyously drag to your foreclosed home in your foreign auto.





funny how highly unionized countries like australia and germany are
doing fine.


Australia is doing fine because they produce - spend a few months in
Western
Europe - you'll like the American ghetto even better than you do now.


ah. they produce. the rich have sucked the marrow out of the american
economy but to you that's fine because we have n o unions.


Unions have 2 functions - to protect the incompetent, and to enrich their
hierarchy. In fact, I used to be the president of a union, albeit only for
the purpose of screwing over the Teamsters.

Colonel Kurtz August 18th 10 01:17 AM

deficits don't matter
 

On 16-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

NO one "gets" anything - productivity increased because of imported
materials and equipment (lowering costs - same output with less cost =
greater productivity). Automotion (a good thing) was the other half of
productivity. Your labors are no longer needed.


IOW you think people don't get wages. interesting view of the economy
you have


You don't "get" your pay, you earn your pay, or hopefully earned it (unless
your'e incompetent and protected by the mob) Once you're paid, veryone's
even, no one owes you anything. What you "get" from that point forward
depends on your viability as a useful laborer wage-earner.


and if labor is no longer needed...

why was there full employment for the 10 years before bush's
depression?


No depression, no recession -

1) a flood of money that bloated the financial marketplace as a result of
IRAs and 401k's etc., such accounts only becoming available to the average
schlub in the early 80's, That money supply made the cost of investment (and
borrowing) low so investments were made. and 2) the personal computer
industry, which employed millions and spawned complementary
industries/services. That's all that gave jobs to the otherwise
unemployable.

During the same period (1992 or 1993 and beyond) began the greatest escape
of productive output ever seen, and will never be seen again (too little to
leave). Automobiles, steel, machinery, tools and dies, refined alloys,
electronics, televisions, consumer goods - all off to Mexico and China due
to trade agreements promoted and put into place by Bush 1, Clinton and Bush
2.

When the paper investment market burst (I predicted it for 10 years; the
real estate orgy was obvious to anyone), the PC market reached maturity and
finally left the U.S. in combination with the simultaneous escape of firms
having to leave the U.S., unemployment skyrocketed. (fear by the consumer
kills retail - but so what? It's al foreign anyway - who gain's - Walmart
jerkimo's?) Where will future employment come from? Prisons, minimum wage
retail sales and scams like the financial markets, insurance and
medical/legal fraud. Prisons and retail will employ many but not
reestablish a middle class; the remainder is too small of a group. The
current condition is the new "service economy" you've heard discussed but
not described, hundreds of millions of poor people and a hundred thousand
high income people. There is no recession, "it" won't "get better." (Unless
you get to another country where opportunities exist, to simulate the former
U.S.)

bpuharic August 18th 10 01:57 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:17:33 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 16-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

NO one "gets" anything - productivity increased because of imported
materials and equipment (lowering costs - same output with less cost =
greater productivity). Automotion (a good thing) was the other half of
productivity. Your labors are no longer needed.


IOW you think people don't get wages. interesting view of the economy
you have


You don't "get" your pay, you earn your pay, or hopefully earned it (unless
your'e incompetent and protected by the mob) Once you're paid, veryone's
even, no one owes you anything. What you "get" from that point forward
depends on your viability as a useful laborer wage-earner.


uh, who made up this rule? you're surprised that the middle class has
no money with your view of wages?

and, no, it doesn't depend on ability. middle class wages have not
grown in 37 years.


how is that accounted for in your 'utlity' view given that OTHER
countries havent seen a run up in the GINI coefficient like the US
has?

oh. you don't know what the GINI coefficient is...


and if labor is no longer needed...

why was there full employment for the 10 years before bush's
depression?


No depression, no recession -

1) a flood of money that bloated the financial marketplace as a result of
IRAs and 401k's etc., such accounts only becoming available to the average
schlub in the early 80's, That money supply made the cost of investment (and
borrowing) low so investments were made. and 2) the personal computer
industry, which employed millions and spawned complementary
industries/services. That's all that gave jobs to the otherwise
unemployable.


nope. the money from 401k's is deferred spending FROM the middle
class. money that wall street coveted and thought, like you, the
middle class didnt deserve.

again, if labor is no longer needed, why did this happen only in the
last 3 years?

and jobs to the otherwise unemployable? what the hell does THAT mean?

During the same period (1992 or 1993 and beyond) began the greatest escape
of productive output ever seen, and will never be seen again (too little to
leave). Automobiles, steel, machinery, tools and dies, refined alloys,
electronics, televisions, consumer goods - all off to Mexico and China due
to trade agreements promoted and put into place by Bush 1, Clinton and Bush
2.

When the paper investment market burst (I predicted it for 10 years; the
real estate orgy was obvious to anyone), the PC market reached maturity and
finally left the U.S. in combination with the simultaneous escape of firms
having to leave the U.S., unemployment skyrocketed. (fear by the consumer
kills retail - but so what? It's al foreign anyway - who gain's - Walmart
jerkimo's?) Where will future employment come from? Prisons, minimum wage
retail sales and scams like the financial markets, insurance and
medical/legal fraud. Prisons and retail will employ many but not
reestablish a middle class; the remainder is too small of a group. The
current condition is the new "service economy" you've heard discussed but
not described, hundreds of millions of poor people and a hundred thousand
high income people. There is no recession, "it" won't "get better." (Unless
you get to another country where opportunities exist, to simulate the former
U.S.)


uh no. there IS a recession caused by the artificial creation of
financial instruments, primarily CDO's

CDO's went from ONE trillion in 1997 to SIXTY TWO TRILLION in 2007.

why? because wall street got greedy.

home ownership stayed constant at about 64% of the population. what
changed was wall street created a bubble in housing prices, in LIEU OF
wage increases. rather than PAYING people good wages, investors
impoverished the middle class and ran up the price of our houses so we
could use them as piggy banks.

we then borrowed against these to cover expenses since our WAGES WERE
DECREASING vs inflation

the CDO market collapsed when people couldnt afford to borrow and
spend

if the elites had PAID DECENT WAGES NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED

but wall street greed destroyed america

and the right wing continues to tell us how the unregulated free
market creates wealth

WHERE IS IT?


bpuharic August 18th 10 02:01 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:27:47 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 16-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

That worked for Marx, right? Guarantee you living standard. That's around
the corner - get ready from you cement block apartment.


so your recipe is to make sure that ALL working people are poor and
only the wealthy stay wealthy.


All working people (whatever the hell those are) ARE poor, and getting
poorer.


courtesy of wall street

The largest company and highest average wage payer used to be
General Motors. Now the largest company is Walmart, selling you overpriced
junk at high prices. Nitwit clerks don't (and shouldn't) make more than
minimum wage. Congress, and you made it all possible. Not "the rich"
(whoever they are.


really?

uh...then why were there SIXTY TWO TRILLION DOLLARS in CDO's in 2007?
do you KNOW WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT??

so, yes, the RICH got greedy. you have some bull**** idea that cant
explain ANYTHING.

tell me how wal mart created this meltdown, OK? otherwise you're just
another rush pimp.

By the wealthy, are you referring to designers,
engineers, toolmakers, owners of stamping companies, molding companies,


i'm an engineer. i'm not wealthy

forging companies, casting companies and those nasty *******s that employed
you? If so, rest assured, they are out of business due to unabated foreign
crap you joyously drag to your foreclosed home in your foreign auto.


gee. the financial sector of our economy went from 20% of GDP in 1997
to 40% in 2007

and to the right wing...there's nothing wrong with that....

proof of that is the shape our economy is in today.






funny how highly unionized countries like australia and germany are
doing fine.

Australia is doing fine because they produce - spend a few months in
Western
Europe - you'll like the American ghetto even better than you do now.


ah. they produce. the rich have sucked the marrow out of the american
economy but to you that's fine because we have n o unions.


Unions have 2 functions - to protect the incompetent, and to enrich their
hierarchy. In fact, I used to be the president of a union, albeit only for
the purpose of screwing over the Teamsters.


tell it to the germans and australians. their economies are doing fine
with their large unions

ours isnt



Colonel Kurtz August 19th 10 07:13 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 17-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

so, yes, the RICH got greedy. you have some bull**** idea that cant
explain ANYTHING.


So the mental condition of "greed" enables "the greedy" to take from you?
The only entity ENTITLED to take from you, and they take more than anyone,
is governments of every level. What is sent overseas YOU do voluntarily.


tell me how wal mart created this meltdown, OK? otherwise you're just
another rush pimp.


Never said Walmart caused it, Walmartn (and brethern) is a result of
governmet policy and the consumer's sloth and idiocy.


By the wealthy, are you referring to designers,
engineers, toolmakers, owners of stamping companies, molding companies,


i'm an engineer. i'm not wealthy


No, you are middle class. Asian producers don't need you.


forging companies, casting companies and those nasty *******s that
employed
you? If so, rest assured, they are out of business due to unabated
foreign
crap you joyously drag to your foreclosed home in your foreign auto.


gee. the financial sector of our economy went from 20% of GDP in 1997
to 40% in 2007


That makes sense, when output is reduced and financial house-of-cards
flourish, the percentages have to change.


and to the right wing...there's nothing wrong with that....

proof of that is the shape our economy is in today.






funny how highly unionized countries like australia and germany are
doing fine.


I told you before, live in Germany for 3 months and you'll suddenly prefer
the lifestyle of "American" ghettos. Australia is exactly where the U.S.
was 30-35 years ago, but without the cultural polution and dumbing-down of
the population.



Australia is doing fine because they produce - spend a few months in
Western
Europe - you'll like the American ghetto even better than you do now.

ah. they produce. the rich have sucked the marrow out of the american
economy but to you that's fine because we have n o unions.


Unions have 2 functions - to protect the incompetent, and to enrich their
hierarchy. In fact, I used to be the president of a union, albeit only
for
the purpose of screwing over the Teamsters.


tell it to the germans and australians. their economies are doing fine
with their large unions

ours isnt


Don't let reality get in the way of your misinformation - it will upset you.

Colonel Kurtz August 19th 10 07:47 PM

deficits don't matter
 

On 17-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

You don't "get" your pay, you earn your pay, or hopefully earned it
(unless
your'e incompetent and protected by the mob) Once you're paid, veryone's
even, no one owes you anything. What you "get" from that point forward
depends on your viability as a useful laborer wage-earner.


uh, who made up this rule? you're surprised that the middle class has
no money with your view of wages?


Supply and demand is the rule - in the current U.S., there is a huge supply
of labor, but little demand.


and, no, it doesn't depend on ability. middle class wages have not
grown in 37 years.


how is that accounted for in your 'utility' view given that OTHER
countries haven't seen a run up in the GINI coefficient like the US
has?

oh. you don't know what the GINI coefficient is...


I know what it is, don't care, and it's accurate. Millions of people doing
nothing and a few being productive skew the scale to "inequality" which is a
perfectly natural occurrence.




and if labor is no longer needed...

why was there full employment for the 10 years before bush's
depression?


No depression, no recession -

1) a flood of money that bloated the financial marketplace as a result of
IRAs and 401k's etc., such accounts only becoming available to the
average
schlub in the early 80's, That money supply made the cost of investment
(and
borrowing) low so investments were made. and 2) the personal computer
industry, which employed millions and spawned complementary
industries/services. That's all that gave jobs to the otherwise
unemployable.


nope. the money from 401k's is deferred spending FROM the middle
class. money that wall street coveted and thought, like you, the
middle class didn't deserve.


401k's were a means for the feds to pander to the masses wanting independent
investment. If you put it in a risky position, once again, it's your
behavior. 401k's were never mandatory. The investments in companies went to
hell because of the faulty house of cards. All investments are wagers.
Intangible investments are pure wagers based on "gee I hope."



again, if labor is no longer needed, why did this happen only in the
last 3 years?


I explained that 10 messages ago - the markets dried up for (then) new
products, and producers had to move overseas to compete with unabated
foreign onslaught.

Let's pretend for a moment you are productive and have a little company
making furniture in your home town, Weasel **** Creek, Arkansas. One day
you notice large chains are selling a thousand times as much furniture as
you are, albeit shoddy, all imported from East Butt**** China (which cost
the reseller pennies). Their customers are dragging the junk home (in
Toyota's etc) at prices 85% of your prices. You have no business. What do
you do? 1) Close the business and ****can your employees, or if you have
the wherewithal, 2) move overseas, and/or import also. Now all the employees
that are left are retail sales stooges. POOF went the middle class
(managers, designers, skilled trades, etc). Just for ****s and giggles,
expand that occurrence across nearly every industry, and ask, "where did the
jobs (middle class) go?? I'd suspect you could even figure this out. The
government implemented the trade policies making it possible, and the
purchasing public went along with the demise. Worse yet, the purchasing
public will do NOTHING to reverse the trend. That's why a reversal is not
possible.



and jobs to the otherwise unemployable? what the hell does THAT mean?


Unskilled labor requires no skills.


During the same period (1992 or 1993 and beyond) began the greatest
escape
of productive output ever seen, and will never be seen again (too little
to
leave). Automobiles, steel, machinery, tools and dies, refined alloys,
electronics, televisions, consumer goods - all off to Mexico and China
due
to trade agreements promoted and put into place by Bush 1, Clinton and
Bush
2.

When the paper investment market burst (I predicted it for 10 years; the
real estate orgy was obvious to anyone), the PC market reached maturity
and
finally left the U.S. in combination with the simultaneous escape of
firms
having to leave the U.S., unemployment skyrocketed. (fear by the consumer
kills retail - but so what? It's al foreign anyway - who gain's - Walmart
jerkimo's?) Where will future employment come from? Prisons, minimum
wage
retail sales and scams like the financial markets, insurance and
medical/legal fraud. Prisons and retail will employ many but not
reestablish a middle class; the remainder is too small of a group. The
current condition is the new "service economy" you've heard discussed but
not described, hundreds of millions of poor people and a hundred thousand
high income people. There is no recession, "it" won't "get better."
(Unless
you get to another country where opportunities exist, to simulate the
former
U.S.)


uh no. there IS a recession caused by the artificial creation of
financial instruments, primarily CDO's


OK, the U.S. government bails you out (with your own money) then, where do
the jobs come from? They will NOT be coming to the United States.


CDO's went from ONE trillion in 1997 to SIXTY TWO TRILLION in 2007.

why? because wall street got greedy.


They held a gun to your head? Nope - you undermined the output the paper
was based upon.


home ownership stayed constant at about 64% of the population. what
changed was wall street created a bubble in housing prices,


Congress created a BOGUS bubble of real estate prices by encouraging banks
to loan money to people that couldn't afford the loan (bad loans, short term
loans). People failed to make the payments, the market value (hyperinflated)
diminished and tons of useless paper was held by the financial institutions.


in LIEU OF
wage increases. rather than PAYING people good wages, investors
impoverished the middle class and ran up the price of our houses so we
could use them as piggy banks.


Investors don't pay many people wages, productive companies making tangible
products do. You elected "people" that undermined that condition,. then
purchased the same overpriced crap that undermined your opportunities.
"Wall Street" is actually a small group of people (getting schmoozed by the
scumbags you elect)


we then borrowed against these to cover expenses since our WAGES WERE
DECREASING vs inflation

the CDO market collapsed when people couldn't afford to borrow and
spend


Investors do NOT borrow and spend without demand. Every day you hear
assholes in the media talking about firms unwilling to spend. NO company is
going to invest or hire unless there is demand for the products. If money
were available "free" (invalid concept) there would be no borrowing - there
has to be demand, and demand is minimal. Few companies (,maybe 1%) produce
at 100% capacity. When demand rises, they increase output with the assets
(equipment, labor) they already have. When demand rises above their capacity
to produce, THEN investment is made, and lastly, labor hired if necessary.
Labor is the LAST thing any company increases.


if the elites had PAID DECENT WAGES NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED


Decent wages are part of demand. If no one needs you, why pay you at all?
Or should the former U.S. adopt some Marx principles?


but wall street greed destroyed America


You destroyed "America" (no such country, but you're influenced by
television), and you not willing to correct your own damn behavior.

and the right wing continues to tell us how the unregulated free
market creates wealth

WHERE IS IT?


It isn't unregulated; investment and output is punished in the former United
States. There is no recession, because there is nothing to "turn around."

I should write a book - "Elementary Economics for Dummies," but then you
have to learn to read.

Learn basic Inglés, I'm getting tired of spell checking your convoluted
"logic."

bpuharic August 20th 10 05:19 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:47:02 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 17-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

You don't "get" your pay, you earn your pay, or hopefully earned it
(unless
your'e incompetent and protected by the mob) Once you're paid, veryone's
even, no one owes you anything. What you "get" from that point forward
depends on your viability as a useful laborer wage-earner.


uh, who made up this rule? you're surprised that the middle class has
no money with your view of wages?


Supply and demand is the rule - in the current U.S., there is a huge supply
of labor, but little demand.


and yet when we had FULL employment

wages STILL didn't go up.

oh. rush didnt tell you tha



and, no, it doesn't depend on ability. middle class wages have not
grown in 37 years.


how is that accounted for in your 'utility' view given that OTHER
countries haven't seen a run up in the GINI coefficient like the US
has?

oh. you don't know what the GINI coefficient is...


I know what it is, don't care, and it's accurate. Millions of people doing
nothing and a few being productive skew the scale to "inequality" which is a
perfectly natural occurrence.


millions of people...oh. IOW it's the fault of the middle class. has
nothing to do with wall street

well, that's pretty much the typical right wing response. the rich
can't be at fault. so it MUST be the middle class.


nope. the money from 401k's is deferred spending FROM the middle
class. money that wall street coveted and thought, like you, the
middle class didn't deserve.


401k's were a means for the feds to pander to the masses wanting independent
investment.


gee. i was around when they invented 401K. no one was screaming for
this at all. it was a way to have the middle class take on more of the
burden of providing for themselves since the right destroyed pensions
after crushing labor unions

If you put it in a risky position, once again, it's your
behavior. 401k's were never mandatory. The investments in companies went to
hell because of the faulty house of cards. All investments are wagers.
Intangible investments are pure wagers based on "gee I hope."

of course they're wagers. that's why the right likes them. eventually
the rich game the system to steal the money



again, if labor is no longer needed, why did this happen only in the
last 3 years?


I explained that 10 messages ago - the markets dried up for (then) new
products, and producers had to move overseas to compete with unabated
foreign onslaught.


so tell me how the middle class caused the markets to dry up?

oh. they didn't. they had nothing to do with this

you DO realize you're spouting bull****, right?

in the last 10 years, productiivity increased 28%

and the middle class didnt get a raise. not a dime. the rich took the
money for themselves

THEN wonders why the middle class isn't spending


Let's pretend for a moment you are productive and have a little company
making furniture in your home town, Weasel **** Creek, Arkansas. One day
you notice large chains are selling a thousand times as much furniture as
you are, albeit shoddy, all imported from East Butt**** China (which cost
the reseller pennies). Their customers are dragging the junk home (in
Toyota's etc) at prices 85% of your prices. You have no business. What do
you do? 1) Close the business and ****can your employees, or if you have
the wherewithal, 2) move overseas, and/or import also. Now all the employees
that are left are retail sales stooges. POOF went the middle class
(managers, designers, skilled trades, etc). Just for ****s and giggles,
expand that occurrence across nearly every industry, and ask, "where did the
jobs (middle class) go?? I'd suspect you could even figure this out. The
government implemented the trade policies making it possible, a


CDO's went from ONE trillion in 1997 to SIXTY TWO TRILLION in 2007.

why? because wall street got greedy.


They held a gun to your head? Nope - you undermined the output the paper
was based upon.


ROFLMAO!! i'm middle class. i have to deal with the cards the rich
hand me.

YES they held a gun to my head. it was called 'my job'. what is the
middle class supposed to do? they voted right wing and got screwed.
they voted for YOUR way of doing things and got destroyed

so you want it both ways. you think the middle class SHOULD vote to
screw itself. when it DOES they you say they're wrong for doing this

you keep biting your own ass



home ownership stayed constant at about 64% of the population. what
changed was wall street created a bubble in housing prices,


Congress created a BOGUS bubble of real estate prices by encouraging banks
to loan money to people that couldn't afford the loan (bad loans, short term
loans). People failed to make the payments, the market value (hyperinflated)
diminished and tons of useless paper was held by the financial institutions.


actually they didn't. as i pointed out, home ownership didn't change
in the last 30 years. about 64% of people own homes...that's been
constant over the last 3 decades

so something ELSE changed. and that was wall street inventing CDO"s.

WALL STREET destroyed this economy NOT the mddle class, in spite of
your bull****.

TONS OF USELESS PAPER??

uh...YEAH. wall street engaged in a HUGE circle jerk and made
themselves rich and US poor



in LIEU OF
wage increases. rather than PAYING people good wages, investors
impoverished the middle class and ran up the price of our houses so we
could use them as piggy banks.


Investors don't pay many people wages, productive companies making tangible
products do


and productivity increased 28% in the last 10 years

full employment

why no increase in wages?

.. You elected "people" that undermined that condition,. then
purchased the same overpriced crap that undermined your opportunities.
"Wall Street" is actually a small group of people (getting schmoozed by the
scumbags you elect)


uh...you keep blaming ME for voting for reagan and bush. sorry, sport.
never happened

YOU voted for them. not me. NOW you want to blame the middle class for
getting screwed for voting right wing??

yep. i agree on that. voting right wing is a way to get ****ed.


we then borrowed against these to cover expenses since our WAGES WERE
DECREASING vs inflation

the CDO market collapsed when people couldn't afford to borrow and
spend


Investors do NOT borrow and spend without demand.


WRONG!! this is where you ****ed up!!

they INVENT **** to sell to themselves, knowing the govt will bail
them out when they get in trouble. so they trade these CDO's to
themselves...and then when the economy tanks because the middle class
got ****ed, the CDO's come due

you are SUCH a ****ing child the way you believe in the market.

Every day you hear
assholes in the media talking about firms unwilling to spend. NO company is
going to invest or hire unless there is demand for the products. If money
were available "free" (invalid concept) there would be no borrowing - there
has to be demand, and demand is minimal. Few companies (,maybe 1%) produce
at 100% capacity. When demand rises, they increase output with the assets
(equipment, labor) they already have. When demand rises above their capacity
to produce, THEN investment is made, and lastly, labor hired if necessary.
Labor is the LAST thing any company increases.


DEMAND...ah...DEMAND....

where does demand come from?

the middle class

the middle class HAS NO MONEY....why?

BECAUSE RIGHT WINGERS ENSURED THE MIDDLE CLASS HAS NO MONEY



if the elites had PAID DECENT WAGES NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED


Decent wages are part of demand. If no one needs you, why pay you at all?
Or should the former U.S. adopt some Marx principles?


WRONG. WRONG.

bull****. elites in the US decided NOT to increase wages. the GINI
coefficient tells us this. YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE FOR YOUR BULL****.



but wall street greed destroyed America


You destroyed "America" (no such country, but you're influenced by
television), and you not willing to correct your own damn behavior.


YOU and your right wing buddies destroyed the MIDDLE CLASS and thereby
destroyed the US. it's YOUR fairy tales about supply and demand that
killed the middle class

YOU voted for right wing poltiicians. YOU voted for wall street. YOU
voted for the rich

and they KILLED us.


and the right wing continues to tell us how the unregulated free
market creates wealth

WHERE IS IT?


It isn't unregulated; investment and output is punished in the former United
States. There is no recession, because there is nothing to "turn around."


bull****. this is meaningless mythology invented by the right to
ensure the middle class continues to pay for the rich


I should write a book - "Elementary Economics for Dummies," but then you
have to learn to read.


HAHAhHAAHA you write a book on economics!!!

that's rich! ever think of going into comedy?


Learn basic Inglés, I'm getting tired of spell checking your convoluted
"logic."


basics?

you who dont even know the middle class hasnt had a raise in 37
years...telling us it's the fault of the middle class

HAHAHAHAH!!

bpuharic August 20th 10 05:23 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:13:49 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 17-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

so, yes, the RICH got greedy. you have some bull**** idea that cant
explain ANYTHING.


So the mental condition of "greed" enables "the greedy" to take from you?


yep me and 100M middle class folks

The only entity ENTITLED to take from you, and they take more than anyone,
is governments of every level. What is sent overseas YOU do voluntarily.


bull****. when i work for a living and my wages dont increase...that's
not the govt...it's the corporation i work for

me and 100M other hard working americans

you really DO love your bull****, dont you?



tell me how wal mart created this meltdown, OK? otherwise you're just
another rush pimp.


Never said Walmart caused it, Walmartn (and brethern) is a result of
governmet policy and the consumer's sloth and idiocy.


more bull****



By the wealthy, are you referring to designers,
engineers, toolmakers, owners of stamping companies, molding companies,


i'm an engineer. i'm not wealthy


No, you are middle class. Asian producers don't need you.


no ****. because the rich have infinite liquidity. they dont need
anyone

including the USA. and the right loves this idea



forging companies, casting companies and those nasty *******s that
employed
you? If so, rest assured, they are out of business due to unabated
foreign
crap you joyously drag to your foreclosed home in your foreign auto.


gee. the financial sector of our economy went from 20% of GDP in 1997
to 40% in 2007


That makes sense, when output is reduced and financial house-of-cards
flourish, the percentages have to change.


yep. and the right...YOU...tells us this is the work of god.




funny how highly unionized countries like australia and germany are
doing fine.


I told you before, live in Germany for 3 months and you'll suddenly prefer
the lifestyle of "American" ghettos. Australia is exactly where the U.S.
was 30-35 years ago, but without the cultural polution and dumbing-down of
the population.


i've spent months in germany. it's a wealthy country. its rich arent
stealing everythying that's not nailed down like they are here.

tell it to the germans and australians. their economies are doing fine
with their large unions

ours isnt


Don't let reality get in the way of your misinformation - it will upset you.


it must be nice to have rush do your thinking for you

bpuharic August 20th 10 11:14 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:06:49 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:46 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Supply and demand is the rule - in the current U.S., there is a huge supply
of labor, but little demand.


and yet when we had FULL employment

wages STILL didn't go up.

oh. rush didnt tell you tha


They certainly went up here. Day laborers were making $14 an hour.,
trades were making $60,000-$70,000 a year, buying new trucks and
bigger boats.

I guess Andrew Sullivan didn't tell you that.


would you like me to post the data again? your little fairy tales
aren't evidence. sorry


bpuharic August 21st 10 03:25 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:49:35 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:14:42 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:06:49 -0400,
wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:46 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Supply and demand is the rule - in the current U.S., there is a huge supply
of labor, but little demand.

and yet when we had FULL employment

wages STILL didn't go up.

oh. rush didnt tell you tha

They certainly went up here. Day laborers were making $14 an hour.,
trades were making $60,000-$70,000 a year, buying new trucks and
bigger boats.

I guess Andrew Sullivan didn't tell you that.


would you like me to post the data again? your little fairy tales
aren't evidence. sorry


You keep posting a chart that says the average person makes x and the
average person made x 37 years ago but that doesn't talk about where
the rich people came from or acknowledge that people moved up through
that range.


what it shows is that the rich are getting richer by taking money from
the middle class

and social mobility is very low in the US compared to other countries

want me to give you the evidence on that too? i have it.


BAR[_2_] August 21st 10 02:22 PM

deficits don't matter
 
In article ,
says...

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:14:42 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:06:49 -0400,
wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:46 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Supply and demand is the rule - in the current U.S., there is a huge supply
of labor, but little demand.

and yet when we had FULL employment

wages STILL didn't go up.

oh. rush didnt tell you tha

They certainly went up here. Day laborers were making $14 an hour.,
trades were making $60,000-$70,000 a year, buying new trucks and
bigger boats.

I guess Andrew Sullivan didn't tell you that.


would you like me to post the data again? your little fairy tales
aren't evidence. sorry


You keep posting a chart that says the average person makes x and the
average person made x 37 years ago but that doesn't talk about where
the rich people came from or acknowledge that people moved up through
that range.


The sheep will always be led to the slaughter.

bpuharic August 28th 10 03:09 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:59:36 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 20-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

You keep posting a chart that says the average person makes x and the
average person made x 37 years ago but that doesn't talk about where
the rich people came from or acknowledge that people moved up through
that range.


what it shows is that the rich are getting richer by taking money from
the middle class

and social mobility is very low in the US compared to other countries

want me to give you the evidence on that too? i have it.


You're reinforcing your idiocy; the evidence is in your last 6 posts.

Nobody takes anything from anyone except the government - they eliminated
your opportunities, so you reward the scum by re-electing them. "The rich"
(your manifestation of penis envy) remained, your class went away. YOU are
the thief of your own productive livelihood.



let me give you EVIDENCE, OK? ever hear of that? data that shows
you're wrong?

http://www.americanprogress.org/issu.../b1579981.html

the govt of the rich, by the rich and for the rich has destroyed the
middle class...and the right wing, with their mythology bull**** has
aided and abetted this

it was reagan, and the bush's, with their free market fundies who did
this...

bpuharic August 28th 10 03:11 AM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:03:54 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 20-Aug-2010, bpuharic wrote:

The only entity ENTITLED to take from you, and they take more than
anyone,
is governments of every level. What is sent overseas YOU do voluntarily.


bull****. when i work for a living and my wages dont increase...that's
not the govt...it's the corporation i work for


If you had any value in the marketplace, you would be compensated.


right wing bull****.

prove it.

The more
your slleged skills are needed, the more you would be compensated.


right wing bull****. prove it

You are
not longer needed because of those you elect and your mindless purchasing
habits. It's "the service economy" ... remember? We don't need to produce
any more. Your usefulness has crashed.


me and 100M members of the middle class. remember us?


The red Chinese are doing VERY WELL. They do what the U.S. did 30 years
ago.


courtesy of america's right wing who preached 'if you were needed
you'd be compensated'

well, apparently to the right wing, america's middle class isnt needed

bpuharic August 28th 10 02:21 PM

deficits don't matter
 
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:03:38 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 27-Aug-2010, Secular Humanist wrote:

He is unable to grasp what is right in front of his face, that the
foreign
product invasion (aided and abbetted by the consumers) and at the
invitation
of the U.S. government, forced middle class employment and demand for
that
employment out the window. Explaining it over and over is like teaching
a
pig to dance.



D'oh. What killed us was the unrestricted ability to move capital to
exploit the cheapest labor available, and a business community
emotionally and financially able to create an environment in which
workers are returned to near-serfdom.


"a business community" has plenty of use for you until you are no longer
affordable


or until they decide they want 10 cents more for themselves and can
get it by starving the middle class




This is what I have explained for the past 25 years. Search for "chairman of
Intel" and read links to recent news - he just gave the same speech. It's
about time, but too late for "Americans."


he gave a speech filled with right wing fairy tales and bull****. i
read his speech.


There is no recession, what has occurred is an adjustment, over 25-30 years,
to a non producing nation.


yeah, courtesy of the rich. they discovered that, if they destroyed
the middle class the'd make a fortune in the short term

and that's what they did



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