Tag: debt

Both sides agree. They're on board to give bankers, warmakers, other corporate favorites and super-rich elites a bigger piece of the pie. So-called negotiations are noise.

Dollar bills glide effortlessly to the ground, dropped from the giant QE machine in the sky. All is quiet, all is calm. There is peace on earth, well, at least in Washington D.C. and on Wall Street.

During the past year, VA provided Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program grants to community organizations across the country, helping more than 28,000 Veterans and their family members in the first 10 months of program operations.

While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered japanse foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is now down to "A," a level unacceptable to a nation that most still consider a world "super-economy."

There is a theory known as the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which holds that the mind involuntarily rejects information not in line with previous thoughts and/or actions.

Live and learn! After 75 years of reading ‘history’ I just now learned important details sent to me by my longtime anarchist buddy.

There is so much information on the Internet, I'm ashamed to admit I missed it back on June 30, when I posted my column about a good video documentary people should watch.

People believe that 1865 marked the ending of slavery in America, and they are wrong.

The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs. It is time for progressives to remind the government that it has a legal duty to create jobs, and must act immediately

With the United States mired in seeming never ending warfare in the Middle East and Central Asia, and with America’s real national security imperiled by a gigantic and ever growing debt, a number of politicians, even in the hawkish Republican Party, are following their constituents and advocating the diminution of America’s imperial presence.

I have been as confused as Mrs Banana when it comes to following up on the great news extracted from a long, but outstanding, video presentation put out by a citizen's commission on Debt-O-cracy ; featured by this column on June 23.

Bring the Army home and close the friggin' borders totally, "shoot to kill" totally. Freeze all assets held by Federal Reserve banks. If any (almost all) those banks are found to be foreign owned, declare all relationships with them to be inconsistent with our constitution. America will no longer pay banks, particularly foreign owned, to profit on our debt, sell us our own money and do so in direct violation of our laws.

The latest example of political hyperbole is that the U.S. Treasury is ready to default on its debt. An actual examination of the underlying facts is that the relative purchasing value of the currency has long ago swindled debt holder in U.S. Bonds of their promised returns.

I can write about many topics with some authority, but economics aint one of them. So I bow to others.

“In any economy DEBT is poison. This is not opinion, this is fact, “past and present so-called "economists" and their moronic word-weaving notwithstanding. It is poison Period.

Greece is in crisis because it has too much debt. The US is in crisis because it needs to issue more debt.

Why do the working class people of world need to pay the scam-created money of banksters? Because their governments are too corrupt to say no.

My fellow suckers, lets do what is right, for a change. Lets force our representatives to actually represent, and as a nation call for one more $800 billion fiat "bailout" but this time make them (our government of, for and by) disperse the money (all of it) in good checks of $40,000 or so, to each taxpaying person or family, and let the people “spend it into circulation."

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