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Oil and Stocks Have Bottomed, But Their Paths Forward Vary

Yes both parties bear responsibility for the current crisis, but the rot and cancer at the core of our politics for the last 30 years has been conservatism. Conservatives have derived their political power over the last 30 years by appealing to people's basest instincts; greed, fear, and hate. Vote for me, I'll cut your taxes. Vote for me, or you will be killed by communists / terrorists / socialists. Vote for me unless you want blacks and homos raping your women and children. It was a bag of cheap tricks, and very effective. Appealing to people's basest instincts is the opposite of leadership, but it will always work with a certain segment of the population. That segment is at long last in the minority, because I think enough people are finally disgusted with that, and the honest ones are disgusted with themselves for buying it. The dishonest ones will continue to claim that Liberalism is just the other side of the same coin. In a country guided by liberal humanist principals, you wouldn't have both parties owned by Wall Street. You wouldn't have 1% of the people owning 98% of the wealth. You wouldn't have a shell of an economy, disemboweled by Globalist freemarketeering and financial deregulation and speculation.
GOD DAMN ALL OF YOUR BLACK HEARTS.


On Apr 12 03:54 PM Nathaniel C wrote:

> Jim-- Regarding your discussion on politics I see that you are caught
> in the phony left/right paradigm. That is too bad because it blinds
> you from the truth that both parties are working together to ruin
> the US. They both stole trillions from the taxpayer (and borrowed
> trillions more) and gave it to the offshore banks that brought down
> the US economy. The single largest contributors to Obama's campaign
> were Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. The banks own both parties. That
> is why Hank Paulson (GS ceo) was Treasury chief under Bush and Geithner
> (NY Fed president also known as the bankers agent) was choosen by
> Obama. The banks always win.
>
> Both parties support perpetual wars: that is why Obama is increasing
> the number of troops in Afghanistan and the Dems and Republicans
> appropriate trillions to fund the war.
>
> Regarding social security and medicare: they are illegal under the
> US constitution but are coincidentally in the communist manifesto.
> I realize that Communists like yourself dont care for the US constitution
> but it is still the supreme law of the land. Even though politicians
> choose not to follow it anymore.
>
> I am surprised that you would support social security considering
> it is a ponzi scheme larger than Madoff's scheme (steal money from
> the youth to pay for the elderly). Social Security is not a benefit--check
> with the IRS about that. If you do not pay social security and medicare
> TAXES you will be sent to jail. Social security is a confiscation
> of wealth. The yearly inflation adjustments do not keep pace with
> inflation. Numerous studies have shown that if people could keep
> their own money (I know it is a radical concept) and invest it in
> bonds they would have monthly payments 3 times higher than what they
> get through social security. Instead retirees are kept in poverty
> and forced to eat dog food on their $1200 a month check. The government
> knows that will keep them loyal and obedient slaves.
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