My brain is going to explode...

I just read an article on Yahoo news, via AFP that claims in regards to the stimulus package vote:

"Obama may need Republican support for political cover if the stimulus plan, now widely popular with the US public, fails to achieve its sought-for effects."

Number one: "now widely popular"????? I can't think of more than a handful who want this stimulus package!

Number two: they didn't even have the guts to list the name of the moron that wrote this crap!!!!

The End of America - this is how.

I want you to read this if you don't read anything else. It explains what I've been saying but in a much clearer manner. And it is NOT from any political website, newspaper, etc. This is from an investment site. Totally non-partisan and it is scary.

How to Protect Yourself from the End of America
By Porter Stansberry

The current economic problems have their roots in one major thing: the vast expansion of debt in the United States over the last three decades.

Americans have borrowed far more money than they can ever hope to repay. Much of this debt is tied to residential real estate, but there are also record amounts of credit-card, commercial real estate, and public (state and federal) debt.

Starting in 2006, when mortgage debts began to sour, asset prices began to fall – even though employment and wages remained strong. The only time that's ever happened before was in the early stages of the Great Depression. This marked the beginning of the great "unwinding" as the excess debt began to unravel. The result has been a sustained decline in the underlying asset prices upon which layer after layer of debt had been securitized.

Declining asset prices and the large amount of mortgage debt already outstanding make it virtually impossible for the private sector to create any additional credit.

And because Americans (in aggregate) have not saved a penny in almost a generation, there's no way to keep the economy going. Americans have become credit junkies. Without more credit, America's economy falls apart. But according to the Federal Reserve, outstanding U.S. consumer credit fell in November by $7.9 billion – the largest monthly decline ever. That's a 3.7% annualized decline in consumer credit. That's never happened before – not since 1943, when the records begin. Credit-card balances declined by $2.8 billion, and auto loans declined by $5.2 billion.

The declines in credit made a huge impact on consumer demand. Car sales fell by record amounts in December (32%), and retail sales fell across the board at Christmas. It was the worst holiday retail results in more than four decades. These declines to credit set the stage for what would normally be a long-lasting recession and a massive decline in asset prices. Imagine how far car prices would fall if it became impossible to get a car loan. Imagine how far home prices would fall if it became impossible to get a mortgage.

But the U.S. government has one weapon no other country has – the world's reserve currency. The government clearly plans to make up for the shortfall in consumer demand by increased spending. The U.S. budget deficit for 2009 is now projected to be $1.1 trillion – more than 8% of GDP. Only during World War I and World War II did the government ever have bigger annual deficits. None of these figures include any of the new stimulus packages Barack Obama has promised, which means the actual deficit next year might grow to $2 trillion – around 15% of GDP.

Given our total debt already exceeds $10 trillion, it seems improbable this level of deficit spending can continue without sparking a run on the dollar via foreign governments selling U.S. Treasury bonds. No one believes our creditors will ever sell the dollar. But they're wrong. Our creditors will not allow us to print money forever.

South Korea is one of the largest holders of U.S. Treasury bonds. On January 19, the head of investments for South Korea's government pension service, Kim Heeseok, told Bloomberg, "It's time to sell U.S. Treasuries" because the ongoing stimulus is going to cause inflation. We are squandering and destroying the greatest advantage of our country – control over the world's reserve currency.

In 2009, we will see government spending approach 30% of GDP. Our government is now bigger, as a percentage of our economy, than the socialist states of Europe, excluding their health care expenditures. And these figures don't reflect the Federal Reserve's actions. The Fed has tripled the size of its balance sheet, creating enormous amounts of new money by lending to hundreds of ailing banks and buying up more than $1 trillion worth of questionable asset-backed securities. This month, the Fed pledged to buy yet another $500 billion of Fannie- and Freddie-guaranteed mortgage securities, helping to force mortgage interest rates down.

This is how America ends – with the lie that we all can live at the expense of our neighbor and borrow endlessly. Rather than simply face a downturn in the economy, we plan to borrow trillions of dollars our children and grandchildren will be forced to repay. Rather than let all those people and institutions that took on too much debt (like GM) be liquidated and restructured, we plan to risk a hyperinflation. Rather than insist homeowners who can't afford their mortgages lose their homes, we would jeopardize the credit rating of the country.

It is all madness. None of the government's bailout plans will solve any of the problems. The government can only shift the burden of the failures. Instead of bondholders and shareholders being wiped out, taxpayers are put on the hook. These actions will temporarily resuscitate the economy – but cause a permanent decline in the value of the dollar.

Fortunately for us, we have several ways to protect ourselves from what will happen. First, make sure to own physical gold and silver. A dollar run will send precious metals much higher. Second, own the highest-quality stocks in the world. And third, sell any long-dated U.S. government bonds you own. As the dollar loses its value and inflation returns to the economy, much of the value of these government IOUs will be wiped out.

I'm not happy to be the one to tell you all this. I hope I'm dead wrong. But it's paramount you take at least some measure of the precautionary steps I've just described. Bigger government is coming... and in the long run, it's going to make things worse.

Good investing,

Porter Stansberry

Arrogance so soon?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01232009/news/politics/prez_zings_gop_foe_in_a_timulating_talk_151572.htm#comments

Ya know, we wish him and America luck but does he actually think we are just going to take the word of whatever liberal bobble head he puts up there to talk to us?

"Trust but verify." Remember that?

Rush Limbaugh and others like him may not always be likeable and sometimes wrong but geez somehow I would rather take some of them and some of the other and make MY OWN MIND UP thank you very much Mr. President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ya gotta love it...

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/the-obama-presidency--here-comes-socialism-2009-01-20.html

Pay your bills

Sorry, but this is too funny.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be2_1228356541

Helen Thomas is an idiot!

While I was growing up I wanted to be a journalist. It was an honorable profession that not many could do successfully because above all you had to be "objective". I guess that requirement went out the window a long time ago.

So Helen, how about a journalist should be objective? But NOOOO she says they have to be liberal. Moron.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/01/21/what-else-should-report-be-liberal#comments

Some peoples ignorance can't help but be seen

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/01/20/bush-mocked-as-he-arrives-on-inauguration-dais/

Wish him and the country luck

Will I watch? No, I haven't watched before when it was someone I agreed with. Should I watch just because he is the first black man? I have an issue with that. To me, and it's just strictly the way I see things, is that doing something just because someone is a certain race or belief is just as bad as NOT doing something for the same reason.

It's a milestone in our racial relationships that is certain. Should it be celebrated? Only if we at the same time recognize that it still indicates how far we have to go.

Wouldn't it have been something indeed if a black man could get his party's nomination, campaign and win an election and serve his term without one time the word "black" having been used? THAT to me would indicate that we had finally overcome our racial differences. When we no longer have hyphenated Americans but just Americans recognizing that our differences make us strong not "different" and that one side is not any more patriotic or intelligent than the other.

Wish Obama well. Wish Bush well. I think the office deserves respect, too bad Bush isn't getting any. Even when I couldn't stand Clinton, I didn't bash him. Cannot tolerate Bush Bashers or any other presidential bashers.

Now about those Steelers.....

Jingle Bells, the Markets Fell

To the tune of "Jingle Bells"

Markets Fall
Selling subprime loans
In an ACORN friendly way
Now the people’s homes
The banks will take away
These people could not pay
Their mortgage was too high
But that did not stop Fannie Mae
She yelled “Securitize!”

Oh, the markets fall,
the markets fall
Credit’s a dry well
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a hand basket to Hell!
The markets fall,
the markets fall
Credit’s a dry well
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a hand basket to Hell!

A month or two ago
I thought I was alright,
But then Miss Fannie Mae
Said the future’s not too bright
So said Barney Fwank,
“Misfortune is our lot
We all own part of a bankrupt bank
Now stick this in your slot!”

Oh, the markets fall,
the markets fall
Credit’s a dry well
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a hand basket to Hell!

By TheMuse @ 01/07/09 09:15:38 AMreport abuse

Quote for Liberals

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to learn that there are other views." --- William F. Buckley