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Market is a bubble. Part of why real estate has bumped, rentals being bought right now.

My 401k is 5.56

Maybe if the numbers being reported were more honest people would believe them. Biggest problem to me is debt, dollar and DC.

If I got concession to 99 percent of my demands I would accept it......

Jordan is to blame...

Everything is bad and shut it.

Jordan doesn't even have a border with the Gaza concentration camp.

The spigot can't stay open forever. Too many thirsty mouthes to fill.


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Frank, most of my friends and family in Europe are in dire straits and operating at about half their salaries (and pensions) these days. Their Governments are implementing (or raising) property, estate, and other "luxury" taxes in order to pay their bankers' usurious interest rates and to hell with the people. They've never seen anything like it. I suppose they see the glass as half-empty just like their bellies and wallets.

In this country, the half- full glass folks tend to be union folk, government paper shuffling wankers, double dipping pensioners, workers in niche industries that haven't been outsourced yet, or management trainees at Costco. The majority of us mainstream folks are struggling with household budgets.


The irony is that many American small businesse's former, primary sources of income are currently thriving thanks to the "endless" supply of Government greenbacks, early retirements and/or layoffs (Government & corporations), and foreign interventions/rebuilding but they have little disposable income for domestic vendor contracts. In our situation, the client base has quietly shifted to the small business sector. We are planning on transferring most of our focus to one of the few areas of potential- healthcare. An area which will benefit us personally along with other families whose children fit under the ever expansive developmental umbrella.

I hope we get to personally discuss further. Keep the faith, brother. There ARE alternatives on less traveled roads out there.
Those who stay on their current paths, as comfortable as they seem, are not going to fare as well I'm afraid.

Sounds like the illegal's clarion call as they enter... Their families at home breathlessly await the foreign investment returns at the nearest Western Electric office.

The housing & construction bubble will burst as soon as the Fed quits dumping $40mil/month into it (propped up ponzi scheme). Nobody is hiring, and no one wants to spend their cash. Americans are now having to weigh-in for health coverage while illegal immigrants are given a free pass with benefits, cash, education, food, shelter, etc. American needs to start taking care of it's own, instead of trying to "police" the world and opening our doors to every idiot that wants to come here.

Austerity is coming. It's clear that's what the big "O" wants, and people voted for it.

It's going to get worse before it get better. Bring back the gold standard.

I see no reason to be upbeat about the state of affairs right now. Sure the stock market is up, but as soon as the fake money runs out, bye bye. Interest rates are too low to make it worth your while so lets take a greater risk in stocks. Great if you want to gamble or maybe you hope to get bailed out again. I don't have the extra money to lose anymore.

Everytime you turn around they are trying to infringe on your rights not protect them. Then we have to try and normalize and give legitimacy to every freakazoid behavior out there. We keep lowering the bar for humanity, just look at what people watch on TV these days.

I suppose after doing my taxes and adding up every tax, user fee or whatever they want to call it and giving nearly 60% of my annual income to federal, state, county, town and other various government entities I should smile ?

I'm not buyin it, of course I don't watch the nightly news either, my mind doesn't get it's daily dose of programming.

Wheel happens to correct. origins are origins, and that's where it began.

bye

read the history of Trans- Jordan

After capturing the West Bank area of Cisjordan during the 1948–49 war with Israel, Abdullah took the title King of Jordan and, in April 1949, officially changed the country's name to the "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan". The following year, he annexed the West Bank.

wheel,

at least I stirred up some shyte, just turned out to be the same ol' shyte. Guess I'm just bored with it, so I went looking for trouble.

I like those reataurant and bar rescue shows too. Always wondered what happens a year later.

Clearly I am beyond ready to unwind. thanks for the well wishes. Yes, St. Thomas.

Israel acquired Gaza and the West Bank through much more recent treaties with Jordan and Egypt. They own the concentration camps fair and square.

Well now my feelings are hurt.


Am I your dancing monkey now? I must entertain you with new material at the drop of a little monkey hat with no warning or free bananas?

will you ever forgive me?

That's the problem with alcoholics...they come in the life of the party but when it's effects run out...well..the depressions sets in. Work is the only place a functional alcoholic can find solace in...they get rewarded with more drinking off shift!

Two Martini Lunch !

One day everyone has to meet their Maker and justify what they played an active role in, what they ignored, and what they collaborated with during their lives. Perhaps the Old Testament is adequate justification for actions. Perhaps it is not. When the Messiah comes, do you think he will request to visit the watch towers, barbed wire, minefields, tanks, and artillery that surround the Gaza Strip and West Bank and say "This pleases me."

No freedom of movement. All goods in and out only at the permission if the Israel guards. The showers run water only when the Israeli guards allow it. Step too close to the fence and you get shot. No right of citizenship. Not even a right to be a second-class citizen. In continuous operation for 46 years. The crime committed by the inmates.....they are not Jewish.

It sure sounds like a concentration camp. I never said Nazi extermination camp. There is quite a difference.

When God asks "What is the meaning of all this?" we shall explain that it is just a slum. Hopefully God will have forgotten about the Warsaw ghetto and not see any parallel.

What an awesome post...especially when it's done off the backs of a nation that was blessed by a Creator. The American taxpayer has been shelling TRILLIONS of taxpaying dollars into that and to date we have received NOTHING. We allow them to behave that way while chastising other nations like Iraq and Iran for behaving badly...what a joke.

Our allies in the middle east can be characterized by two qualifications:

1. We sell arms to their military

AND

2. We are currently not attacking them via unmanned aerial vehicles.


Turkey
Israel
Egypt
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Kuwait
Dubai
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Oman
Pakistan*
Afghanistan*


* Attacks via unmanned aerial drones are allowed.

We don't like Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

We supply weaponry to Lebanon but would like to bomb them with unmanned aerial drones so they get their own category.

Now? Right now?

WTF knows. We had a pristine opportunity to overturn the proverbial "apple cart" in Iran...the youth only wanted our mouthpiece as support...they were willing to toss the religious zealots out of their government and we did nothing.

Then in Egypt we went "all-in" for a militant islamofascist group of thugs to toss out a guy who was almost as bad, but had control of the people and understood the military really runs the nation.

Both of these nations would love to see Israel wiped from the map and have been vocal about it. Our current clowncar is compliant in supporting them with weapons or ramping up the march to war. We don't have "allies" there anymore. We've meddled in their business and the blowback is what we get for CIA controlled demolotion of nations in that region.

The sooner we just implode under our own debt being the world cop the better.

Selling weapons, music and movies...that what we do.

Those nations will delight in any stumble we take and will dogpile at every instance...ever wonder where the massive support is for the Iraqis? Who's supplying them with weapons, soldiers streaming across the border just to take a hit at our boys? Say it?

IRAN.


A thorn that should've been removed by the highly educated youth of Iran that the Kenyan King let die on the vine.

First, who is going to attack the USA such that we would be calling on these nations to help?

Second, if you re-phrase the question to which would unequivocally & w/o hesitation come to our aid (soldiers, technology, air space...) if the US were attacking some nation.....many already have.

Take a look at the order of battle for the First Gulf War:

Coalition members included Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates.