thanks for posting this info. you two. Please keep more coming. Hey, Auntylynn, I had no idea you were so smart. ha. ha. just joking.
Posted by AuntyLynn (Member # 35938) on :
Interesting video LabRat.
Although I note that the filmmaker conveniently skipped over the -38 Bil in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which signifies that Uncle Sam started buying HIS OWN Government Bonds a couple of years ago, in order to make up for the "lack of interest" on the International Market. (To whit: China stopped buying our debt!)
Also of interest ..."Security" came to 838 Bil. This is the line for MILITARY expenditures.
Compare that to the entry for "Social Security," which is a mere 726 Bil. (and for which a special payroll tax is levied).
I find it more than a little disengenuous that our borders have been breached but once in over 200 years (by a handful of operatives - not by an armed force); yet we pay more for "security" each year than we do to support our retired and disabled citizens.
Yet, this author seems to point to 'social safety nets' as the main reason why our government is unable to balance the budget, while he blithely ignores our widely disparate military expenditures.
I thought the Constitution was framed to form a government "By and FOR the people" ... not for world domination, designed to benefit military-industrial (and oil-seeking) profiteers!
As for buying seeds - I've been collectng heirloom garden seeds for over three years.
Also canning supplies, food staples and practical clothing and tools. However, I fear that my modest cache will not be nearly enough when the inevitable inflation of impending QE3 - or the probable worldwide financial collapse - likely ensues.
As Pogo so aptly observed:
"We have seen the enemy, and he is us."
Posted by AuntyLynn (Member # 35938) on :
I have doubts this will work but lets see. Yea! if a pause happens and it starts over at the beginning, slide the little "brick" to the right to get where it was and it will keep going. This old boy is sharp, well he moved to Texas didn't he?
Posted by AuntyLynn (Member # 35938) on :
Texas is way too hot for me! LOL!
I need a little snow for a couple of months, just to add variety to life. (And LOVE the autumns up here.)
I'll try to see if I can open it a little later.
Posted by grandmother (Member # 19908) on :