[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'C')ivilized society=Take from me=Give to the mooch class

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'C')ivilized society=Take from me=Give to the mooch class

[Satori]

lets just stop the foodstamp program
gee
what will happen when 45 million people
a LARGE # of them children are no longer getting fed

foodstamps are insurance against MAJOR social disorder

in my professional capacity I see a lot of people on foodstamps
I don't begrudge them the least little bit
they are all the elderly poor or the working poor

I rather my tax dollars go to them
as opposed to Wall Street and the banksters who continually defraud us all

[Cog]

Watching the entitlement mentality on display at the link is quite amazing. I wonder what the woman was thinking when she had six kids that she expects me to provide for. Maybe she felt she was owed it by The Man.

For a quick laugh watch the video at the link. I simple thank you for my donation to their entitlement lifestyle would have been nice.

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/lo ... 0810-am-sd

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')LAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Anger and frustration from dozens of Clayton County parents who say their children are going hungry after their food stamps were suddenly cut off.

State officials admit that something went wrong down in Clayton County at the office that administers food stamps and Medicaid but they're still not sure what.

Parents say they can't buy food without those food stamps.

Quote:
Terry Clark says she stood in line for more than six hours at Clayton County's Human Services Office because food stamp help for her six children unexpectedly ended.

"There's no telling my kids we can't eat. I'm not taking no. We don't deserve that. Nobody should go hungry here in Georgia," said Terry Clark.
State officials say the office was overwhelmed Tuesday with dozens of families facing a similar problem. The food stamps are just not there.

"Me and my kids they haven't ate since this morning. I was supposed to get my food stamps yesterday and I got nothing," said a mother.

A state spokesperson says what happened was out of the ordinary and unexpected but she said they don't know yet what went wrong -- what was the glitch that lead to this mess?

[Satori]

yeah Cog
go ahead and cut off food stamps
see what happens

you can rant and rail against "the entitlement class" all ya like

but don't forget to include the Wall Street types ,bankers and the defense industry crowd who have robbed us all blind

[Cog]

I'm for cutting them too. Fiscal austerity for all. Call it a controlled power-down.

[Satori]

and what will be the consequences of your actions ??

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Satori', 'y')eah Cog
go ahead and cut off food stamps
see what happens

you can rant and rail against "the entitlement class" all ya like

but don't forget to include the Wall Street types ,bankers and the defense industry crowd who have robbed us all blind

[Satori]

the current failing paradigm will exist for quite some time
it can be "breathing its last" for decades

once again

what will be the consequences of your actions ??

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Satori', 't')he current failing paradigm will exist for quite some time
it can be "breathing its last" for decades

once again

what will be the consequences of your actions ??

[Satori]

the economy has been on life support for the past 3 years
predictions of its collapse have been made a thousand times
TPTB keep plugging the holes in the dam
they will continue to do so
its ALL they know
its the Long Emergency
sometimes we're running 50 miles an hour towards the wall
sometimes 25
but the decline is inexorable
they can and will drag this out for a long time
barring a black swan of major proportions that is

[Cog]

If you believe that to be true, then you know that all sorts of things we currently fund won't be able to be funded in the future. Since I believe growth is impossible with expensive oil, there go any assumptions the CBO makes about GDP and revenue growth as well.

Entitlements of all sorts are already getting harder to fund. That will merely accelerate as we go down the debt road. So people will either adapt to that or die. Having a full belly isn't a right and is not the norm around the world. It won't be the norm in the good old USA either.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Satori', 't')he economy has been on life support for the past 3 years
predictions of its collapse have been made a thousand times
TPTB keep plugging the holes in the damn
they will continue to do so
its ALL they know
its the Long Emergency
sometimes we're running 50 miles an hour towards the wall
sometimes 25
but the decline is inexorable
they can and will drag this out for a long time
barring a black swan of major proportions that is

[prajeshbhat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')atching the entitlement mentality on display at the link is quite amazing. I wonder what the woman was thinking when she had six kids that she expects me to provide for. Maybe she felt she was owed it by The Man.

For a quick laugh watch the video at the link. I simple thank you for my donation to their entitlement lifestyle would have been nice.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('prajeshbhat', '
')These days its becoming obvious that pretty much everything that Americans do, can be done by asians for 1/10th of the cost. Combine that with peak oil.

[prajeshbhat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'T')he word 'Asians' should always be capitalized.

Maybe 1/10 the labor cost in some places in Asia, but not anymore in Japan, SK, Singapore, Malaysia, HK, SE China, Thailand, Macau, or ROC, among others. And even in the places in Asia where labor remains 10% of what it now is in Japan, North America or Western Europe, that doesn't mean 1/10 the cost of production.

[Keith_McClary]

Here's an interesting chart of US Fed budget expenditures & receipts as % of GDP:

Reviewing Federal Receipts

Where will these blue & red lines go in the next few years?

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('prajeshbhat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'T')he word 'Asians' should always be capitalized.

Maybe 1/10 the labor cost in some places in Asia, but not anymore in Japan, SK, Singapore, Malaysia, HK, SE China, Thailand, Macau, or ROC, among others. And even in the places in Asia where labor remains 10% of what it now is in Japan, North America or Western Europe, that doesn't mean 1/10 the cost of production.

[nobodypanic]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('prajeshbhat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')ell the article makes it sound like he's singling out Europe, I didn't see anything about the US:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]European governments need to restructure their economies to restore the confidence of financial markets as the global economy moves into a new danger zone, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said yesterday.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', 'W')here will these blue & red lines go in the next few years?