Originally Posted by Apparition
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Originally Posted by Apparition
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My entire argument is based upon communism. Turns out you have been acting as an agent for the federal reserve all your life and from a private property perspective you own nothing (fulfilling the requirements of the first plank of the communist manifesto).Originally Posted by Sparky
My observation is not politically correct because most people just think communism morphed into environmental whack-ism and forget that a forest starts with a single tree.
Make me one with everything.
-- Zen Master to the hot dog vendor
WTSHTF the grocery store clerk will not be reading the date on your "silver" dime because they'll be too busy trying to count the zeros on your bank note.Originally Posted by Book
The Avatar looking into the gun barrel is Dr. John Dee (1527-1608), the original 007.
If I've been an agent for the Federal Reserve all my life, but I have been comfortable, well-fed, lived, laughed, loved, learned, taught, sang, and danced, how has a dollar crash impacted my life? It's not really a crash until it has some impact on those essentials. Call it what you will.Originally Posted by palani
These are the skills you are going to pass along to your children to assure their survival?Originally Posted by Sparky
Make me one with everything.
-- Zen Master to the hot dog vendor
The majority of people having taken that position is essentially why we are where we are.Originally Posted by Sparky
You mean because they're happy? You can experience all of those things without being materialistic or in debt.Originally Posted by Joe King
Look, this is a discussion about a USD crash. It's not about survival or preparation or sheep. I was simply making a counterpoint to the suggestion that the USD crashed 80 years ago. It didn't. Because if it did, it really wasn't so bad after all, and we should welcome another 80 years of crashing. Crash implies a severe and disruptive market dislocation. I've never had a retailer hesitate to accept my FRNs in exchange for goods. The day that they do, we can start to consider it a crash.
For some reason, this thread makes me think of the genre of comedy called "redneck jokes". Except here I would like to substitute "redneck" with "FEDneck", as in:
If you plan to wait until your FRN is not accepted by a cashier before you worry about a dollar crash.... you might be a FEDneck....... here's your sign....
I am not here to convince you, I am here to convince myself
The point I was getting at is that people have been comfortable enough to take the position that they hadn't needed to worry about what they're gov is actually doing in their names.Originally Posted by Sparky
That's all.
I totally agree with you on that part. And there will be a price to pay. I just think it will be more in the form of a prolonged dollar erosion rather than an actual collapse.Originally Posted by Joe King