Comments on: Has The United States Become A Nation With No Economic Spine?

By: latitude38

latitude38 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:53:10 +0000

couldn’t agree more! mae has put in to word’s what iv’e been feeling for a long time!

By: Mae

Mae — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:25:37 +0000

Progressive-ism (thank you President Wilson) derailed this country. Those who have been perpetuating this ideology are the ones who destroyed us. I have never seen such anger as I do now regarding the current President and Congress, which tells me that people are finally educating themselves and becoming engaged in politics.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:44:53 +0000

I hate to be the one to inform you, no matter how good you think you are, you have participated in this system like it or not! A system rooted in the Federal Reserve run by an evil conglomerate of banking families who fund extremely evil ventures throughout the world, including wars to profit by. Like it or not, your money was printed out based on nothing from thin air and you’ve been living an illusion. You’ve profited from this system and used it’s infrastructure created by these evil criminals robbing the world, and now you’re getting raped along with the rest of us. You believed in a lie, an illusion and now, like the rest of us, you will pay the price for it.

By: Mae

Mae — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:47:10 +0000

@sharonsj
I for one was loudly protesting the enormous pork spending by Congress under the Bush Adm along with Bush’s failure to use his veto power. I believe it was 2007 when the democratically controlled Congress had an approval rating of 14% and was spending $20 billion a year on pork –
As for lying us into war – if you believe that then you would have to believe numerous international agencies along with Congress who was privy to the same information Bush had, were lying (then you’re into conspiracy territory) and that the violations (22 I believe)of UN Resolutions were meaningless. There was every reason to get rid of Hussein and none to keep him, I for one am glad he’s gone.
As for Phil Gramm, I did mention his name along with others who were complicit in the repeal of Glass-Steagull but it was Clinton who did nothing to stop it(veto). The record shows he was a strong supporter of it.
I lump all of these people under the category of Progressives – Republican and Democrat alike, who have brought this country of ours to the brink. Obama has already spent twice the amount Bush did on 2 wars!
I agree with you regarding wishing more people would read more history and not simply repeat political talking points from either side.
I am impressed with the political speed the Tea Party is picking up, it’s the last chance we have to sound the alarm.
My county taxes have just been raised 15% and our school district wants to raise the school tax 11%, the cost of food is increasing, utilities going up…people have got to wake up! We’ve got to get the word out to replace our Congressional members with people who have not only common sense but character, morals, values. We need to get back to basics and fast! Right now a fiscally conservative candidate/person strikes me as the only type who can get us there.

By: sharonsj

sharonsj — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:58:22 +0000

What are hard-working Americans doing? Screaming very loudly, but the politicians aren’t listening. They haven’t listened for decades.

But I don’t want fiscal conservatives, I want a human being who understands that people are more important than corporations. Where were you folks when Bush was spending like a drunken sailor and lying us into war? And it was a Republican, Phil Gramm, who put in the repeal of Glass-Steagal.

I wish more people would actually read history and not repeat Republican talking points. But don’t think I’m crazy about Democrats either. I generally despise all of Congress except for a handful of people who actually put country first.

By: Chris Robertson

Chris Robertson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:03:57 +0000

Well I feel the same way as Mae does. I can see what is the possible outcome; a deflationary depression, an inflationary depression, dollar devaluation, confiscation of our money, confiscation of gold, a “freeze” on our savings accounts, etc…

Well so what is our solution? Well my wife is a Filipino American. She was born here. But she has very close ties to her ancestral homeland. So we are going to move in April 2010. We are going to move to a remote town/village. We already bought some land under her father’s name who lives there now and had a beautiful 3000 square foot Spanish villa built two years ago. Plus we bought lots and lots of land where we can grow our own organic food and raise chickens.

Even though as a whole the Philippines is a poor society, they are moving forward. If you have about $150,000 or more, you can live like a king with all of the Western accommodations. If you are living in the U.S.A. then move. Our country won’t be the same in the next coming years. I will wait for this storm to pass. Then I can either choose to stay in the Philippines or come back to America.

Remember, whatever you do, prepare yourself. “Prepare for the worst and hope for the best”.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:56:10 +0000

I think americans and USA are in the same situation as USSR in 90s or close to this. Inflation, $ devaluation, lost savings and pensions, no healthcare and gready and hepocritical politicians …

By: frenchreader

frenchreader — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:12:06 +0000

Mae is a wise man. I’m reading this blog from Europe every day since a couple of weeks and I’m glad to see that common sense hasn’t completely disappeared. That’s a light of hope in this global mess. The point is that one doesn’t need to be a genius to run a country. If you are a genius but you lack common sense, that’s hopeless.

Unfortunately the vast majority of people who run the US as well as our countries here in Europe seem to have forgotten everything about common sense. And also they forgot to listen the “middle class” – all those working guys like you and me – too rich to be helped, not rich enough to hide their money in some tax heaven and just stupid enough to keep paying the bill for both.

Well, I hope my English was good enough for you to understand me and just keep writing.

By: Lunatic Fringe

Lunatic Fringe — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:50:55 +0000

I loved Mae’s piece.

I have been screaming this from the roof tops for two years. I don’t care that all of that wanting and reckless spending lands people in the poor house. When you make a mistake, you are supposed to pay the penalty.

However, the people that didn’t make those mistakes are paying the price for those who did. I am beyond pissed.

I want the same tax forgiveness our Gov gave Citibank. Billions. They think nothing of stealing our money-demanding it and threatening us.

Free country my ass. We got nothing on the old USSR. Just turn over all of your money and nobody will get hurt…and a nincompoop marxist who talks leadership but has no game.

By: Mae

Mae — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:03:07 +0000

@ CUCU – we Americans are devoted to free market capitalism because it works. We are not devoted to cronyism, greed and deceit, all aspects of human behavior which brought us to this breaking point. It was the repeal of Glass-Steagall championed by Bill Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Paul Rubin, Sandy Weill just to name a few that started the subprime mortgage meltdown.
I’m not understanding your parallel with 1942 Germany, would you explain please?
Thanks