Shireroth

You guys rate people over guns? That explains why you have so many issues...

This week we suck. Next week everything will be lovely.

(Substitute "Indefinite relatively short time period" for "week".)

Jake is transforming in a Babhkan! RUN!

(Drinks Mango juice.)

I'm all better now!

Oroigawa Koreyasu wrote:

Jonas wrote:I don't get it... why are Americans spending more money on guns and the army then helping their own citizens?
If I had to chose, I would prefer to let them use my tax money for recovering the economy a bit and restoring trust on the share markets. What's the advantage of a strong army of your citizens lose all their money and job?

EXACTLY! WHICH IS WHY AMERICA SUCKS!

Actually yeah, I would put down "literally seeing trillions go up in smoke" as probably not the suggestion Keynes wanted when he said government should spend big on investment ....

Jonas wrote:I don't get it... why are Americans spending more money on guns and the army then helping their own citizens?
If I had to chose, I would prefer to let them use my tax money for recovering the economy a bit and restoring trust on the share markets. What's the advantage of a strong army of your citizens lose all their money and job?

Icebreaker will hate me for this and nobody else will even understand it, but... gb2lf

well you have to realize the economy isn't at this point and time something the goverment is supposed to be running, they oversee it of coarse but don't actively influence it, hence why they don't spend money on it.

National defense however is something which is strictly run by the national government. Also military activity be it war or just buildup of arms does produce jobs. since to my knowledge most American military hardware is built in the US.

Sorry, forgot you were controlled by the Chicago School ....

Sakat help us, they're controlled by the Chicago School! How can they possibly get out of the Depression without Keynsian Economics!

Jonas wrote:I don't get it... why are Americans spending more money on guns and the army then helping their own citizens?

Because guns go boom. Big boom fun. Fun is good. Guns are good.









Though people could go boom too...

Demon of the North wrote:National defense however is something which is strictly run by the national government. Also military activity be it war or just buildup of arms does produce jobs. since to my knowledge most American military hardware is built in the US.

The problem is, we're throwing trillions of dollars into another country while we're letting ours rot. That's not right. It's the governments place to provide and care for the people it rules over, not invade and change other countries with the money of its people.

Tons of money to blow things up, and we can't even keep our bridges standing on bad days.

I bank went under the other day. sad sad. it was sold to JD Morgan Chase, Nothing has changed for me. Life goes on.

Worst comes to worst, I'll flee the cities and start growing my own food somewhere.

That's the spirit!

I live in Charlotte, Wachovia's headquarters, and we're probably going to lose a lot of jobs to New York now.

The World Savings people just got used to being Wachovia....

Another good reason not to sink a 401K into your own companies stock.

I'm not to keen on stocks and credit and stuff. I know they have uses, but not that keen on them. I personally dislike being in debt.

Amen, Erik, amen!

You know we could all seceed from the US.

Gman Russell wrote:I live in Charlotte, Wachovia's headquarters, and we're probably going to lose a lot of jobs to New York now.

Good. New York loves eating other states' jobs.

Nom Nom.

More likely, jobs will leave NYC. Simply costs less to do business in North Carolina.

Oh americans, you're so silly. There is a very simple solution to this problem:

http://www.libertydollar.org/

We shall conquer North Carolina then!

And didn't the Liberty Dollar people have an FBI raid done on them?

You could infuse a thousand jobs into the Albany area and it'd still be a dump (i.e. Green Island). :P

Hey, you think Albany was an armpit, have you been to Schenectady?

Yeah, I have in-laws up there. Schenectady has a microclimate of sorts. If you can classify hellhole as a biome that is.

I am so sorry for you.

The Erb used to be backed by copper.

I have a jar of pre-1982 pennies - I could weigh it sometime.

And I could hock the copper plumbing from my house and crap in the backyard.