sether

51.68% in 165 Days

Why should I care what a couple of 15 year-olds have to say?

National Health Insurance, 'Cap and Trade': Two Steps in the Wrong Direction

72% of americans want public health care.
90% of corporate money doesn't.
If public health care drives private providers out of business, GOOD. The sooner the better. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people. Health care for profit is unethical, and violates the hippocratic oath. Look into it.
Peter Schiff here reduced to FOX News-level propaganda. Nice work, you sellout. How do you sleep?

National Health Insurance, 'Cap and Trade': Two Steps in the Wrong Direction

If the free market can solve everything, why is it so afraid of a public healthcare option? Private healthcare is so great right now it should kick the ass of any public option, right? What harm can a little increased competition do to our health care oligarchs?

Decline in Jobless Claims Implies End to Recession

really dumb.

Social Security: Bankrupt System Will Impact Markets Sooner than Expected

Yes Gregman, this is end-stage capitalism. The 90's and 00's were Baroque and Rococo capitalism, respectively; characterized by convolution, complexity and excess to the point of obfuscation or abandonment of original principals. Anyone familiar with the evolution of style knows that either neo-classicism is next, or a completely different style, probably centered on a different continent.


On May 01 12:34 PM Gregman2 wrote:

> Companies won't provide for you. Government can't provide for you.
> With offshoring, wage compression and unpredictable freelance employment...retirement
> is all but an illusion anyway. Thanks to so much debt leverage in
> every sector, our system doesn't permit any capital formation, and
> indeed prevents it.

Social Security: Bankrupt System Will Impact Markets Sooner than Expected

eliminate the cap on contributions, lower benefits a little, increase the age of eligibility a little, problem solved.
I could give a sweeeeet sh*t what plutocrats and wannabees complain about. Take your tax hike with a smile or be eaten. Your tender white meat will fall right off the bone I'll wager.

The Case Against Re-Regulation

Self interest and the common good are mutually exclusive concepts, and an oxymoronic duality when applied to economics. Please stop with the "Invisible Hand" nonsense. You Rand/Smith acolytes are infantile in your evangelical belief in this purile hocus pocus. It's no better than a cult; whose cynical leaders unfortunately also controlled our economic policy, and forced us all to drink the kool-aid, willing or not. Much carnage resulted. How many more contrived boom/bust cycles and bailouts must we endure before people stop pumping unregulated capitalism? Lose that religion folks.

Sucker's Rally Approaching an End

Owners are capitalists. Workers are not capitalists. They are wage-slaves. The notion that harder/smarter work begets bigger profits is true, just not for the people actually doing the work. Labor's only source of power is to unite for a respectable, livable wage and humane working conditions, i.e., form "unions". Powerless workers get paid what is offered, under whatever conditions are offered. Are we are headed back to kids in factories, 13 hours a day, 6 days a week? OOOPS! we're already there, in Asia. Those kids do work hard though, and they're awful smart! It's amazing how far they can stretch a dime! I wish we could lower costs like that back in the US of A. Keep 'em ignorant, god-fearing and hungry. Jesus willing, we'll get there.

On Apr 13 01:24 PM Socialism cannot compete! wrote:

BS. Unionization leads to what we see in the auto industry -- falsely high costs that become unbearable. It leads to wages that are paid NOT based on individual merit -- which is the lifeblood of capitalism, the notion that harder/smarter work begets bigger profits -- but instead, pay based on a collective...this is socialism in pay calculations.

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.
>
>

Wall Street Is Short Barack Obama

Market fetishist. He wrote that and actually made it public. WTF. No perspective. This guy must have serious E.D. by now.

On Mar 06 01:19 PM raytayzmd wrote:

> ..."...recent Business Week poll of anonymous voters indicates that
> 42% of respondents blame Obama for mismanagement of the economy."...uhhh,
> the guy's been in office hardly a month and they're doing polls on
> how his management?...let's see, if I put you in a rowboat and dropped
> you in the middle of a tsunami, how well do you think you would do?..."The
> Wall Street voting bloc is alarmed by the prospect of higher taxes..."...that's
> where you should have stopped...if all those expenditures you mentioned
> served to enrich Wall Streeters at the expense of Main Street, no
> doubt their roar of approval would be deafening...and WTF is this
> from your website:
>
> "...Do you pine for me - the way I pine for you? Please. Please,
> say Yes...
> No.
> You are a ho.
> I hear the stories - but I don't believe them. Nope. Not my Green
> Eyes. Not, Miss Precious. How could my sweet, delicate flower do
> this to me? How could she treat me..."
>
> ...ooooookaaay -- I hope you'll pardon me if I don't seek your investment
> advice.

Wall Street Is Short Barack Obama

The socialism thing is a straw man. It's still distracting people like you from the great unwinding of everything. The socialists aren't coming to take what you (and I) have worked for. That is already long, long gone. This fact is more apparent to some than others. You'll get there. When the sh*t really comes down you'll be on our side. You got moxie I can tell.


On Mar 06 03:58 PM fireball wrote:

> sether
> come take your free lunch. it's free. hope you like lead. come on
> little piglet. come take your lunch. hope you got a taste for the
> lean meat of a predater. oops i mean succulent pork. i guess i'll
> use you for fertilizer. think you'll mix well with manure.
> pretty sure i made my gains by my own labor but just for fun let's
> say i took it from weaklings like you. bleat his name obahahahamahahaha.
>
> usually i like reasonable conversation but there are exceptions.
> come take your free lunch little piggy. i'm weak and helpless. easy
> prey for you. come on over. i'll give you exactly what you deserve.

Wall Street Is Short Barack Obama

attention all fearful, fat, white, petty stock speculating, FOX watching, 60-something, arterial sclerotic piggies. You have nothing to fear from the new regime of the great unwashed; so long as you take your tax hike with a smile, keep your petulant cake-holes shut, and fade quietly into political and economic irrelevance. That is your future. I enjoy the fact that you will spend the waning years of your life gnashing your teeth and crying bitter piggy tears. Squeal piggies, squeal louder, SQUEAL.

Five Predictions for This Market

Caren, you twit.
Who milked the system? I assume that by 'milking the system' you mean 'made billions of dollars'. Was it the fly-by-night mortgage companies writing NINJA loans and immediately selling them to Investment Banks? I-Banks and the like who securitized those loans and re-sold them world-wide? The ratings agencies who rated this crap AAA? The folks buying and selling CDO's CDS's based on this junk? The de-regulators that facilitated all this?
You are not smart. Turn off the FOX and think for yourself. Duh indeed.


On Mar 04 04:18 PM Caren wrote:

> People milking the system generally tend to be more socialist in
> nature. Duh.

Five Predictions for This Market

Cheers. Yet another columnist who can't leave the gratuitous Obama bashing out of an otherwise fairly decent article. Like the rest of us, all these stock market fetishists are alot worse-off than they were just a few scant quarters ago. We're all angry about it. The difference is that they don't quite know where to direct their anger. Petty stock speculation is now and has always been superfluous to the economy. Wall Street is not the economy. Reviving Wall Street is therefore not at the top of this administration's to-do list. Thank God.


On Mar 04 09:17 AM oldcurmudgeon2 wrote:

> Why would I follow the advice of an idiot who is blaming President
> Obama for this crisis? Some kid who apparently thinks all the Bush
> tax-cutting created this extraordinarily strong economy we have?
> Garotte Garot!

Market Death Spiral Continues

Yank is a crank. Cranky.
No one listening to mass media is what conservatives want. The FOX model of 'news' is designed to discredit ALL media by suggesting that it is all just opinions, left or right leaning, and that there is no fact-based reporting, and by extension no facts. This provides cover for whatever atrocities are committed by government / corporatocracy. Papers like the NY Times are one of the few big-media sources which still do actual investigative reporting. They are not perfect of course, but yes they are a valuable and still powerful watchdog. That is why they are the target of relentless and shrill attacks from the right. Don't worry, they will deliver the dirt on the left as it unfolds. The last 8 years have been such a shitticane of horrors from the right that naturally any media outlet's body of criticism from that time would seem heavy weighted on the right side of the spectrum (except FOX). Get real. Don't cry. By the way, in order to dance on a grave you must be capable of dancing.


On Mar 02 09:28 AM yank wrote:

> alpha:
> you are correct. The stark differences between McCain and Obama were
> readily apparent to the average voter but the deceitful ,conniving
> media did everything possible to make Obama look like JFK and McCain
> look/appear like Nixon. One of the most dangerous outcomes from this
> election is the fact that soon no one will listen or pay any atention
> to this mass media. When that happens we could be ripe for anything
> from a revolution to a demagougue as President. The media from the
> main TV networks to the NY Times "sold their souls" to the devil
> in the adoration of Obama. Now they will pay the price as ratings,
> ad revenues, and circulation fall off a cliff. When a liberal newspaper
> recently failed in the Pacific Northwest one journalist bitterly
> complained that the people had lost a "watchdog" of Govt. Unfortunately
> we need to susbstitute the term "lapdog" instead. And now they will
> pay the price for their "bias". The day the NY Times goes bankrupt
> I will happily "dance on their grave." Bastards.
>
> Yank