Financial topics

[aedens]

H mentioned the employment aspect
http://fms.treas.gov/mts/mts.xls

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgu ... _politics/
The misery of the working-classes is suggestively described by Gerard.
There is more serfdom in England now than at any time since the Conquest. I speak of what passes under my daily eyes when I say, that those who labour can as little choose or change their masters now, as when they were born thralls. There are great bodies of the working classes of this country nearer the condition of brutes than they have been at any time since the Conquest.

[Higgenbotham]

Former coworker was born in China in the late 50s and works in state government in the US. She was disgusted with the corruption and started filing grievances. She told me that during one of the grievance meetings she told the management that this place is more corrupt than Communist China. Judging from the tone of her voice, she wasn't joking, she in fact seemed quite angry. I asked her what the management said in reponse to her comment. She said they laughed. She regrets coming to the US.

On a simlar note, I've been reading some statements lately from Russians who are making comparisons to Russia during the days of Communism and the US at present. Just one example: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/ ... _socialism

[aedens]

http://www.addogram.com/project/the-evo ... ral-banks/

[OLD1953]

There is certainly plenty of corruption, but which particular piece you want to discuss on a given day gets you politically identified (or misidentified) as being on a "side". And it also depends on what you call corrupt.

Myself, I think corruption is any usage of power or position in any form to enrich oneself at the expense of the group or mission you have pledged to support (by taking on the task at which you are supposed to be laboring), or to hide or otherwise mismanage failings of that group or mission or prevent persons whom you or your group has injured from seeking redress. Therefore, I see corruption everywhere. Churches, business, government, media and individuals are generally corrupt under that definition.

I doubt seriously that the US is more corrupt than the other countries mentioned, we do seem to love to wallow in news of how awful we are. In many places reporting on corruption at all, slanted or not, is a jail sentence at the least.

Projecting growth trends tends to ignore limits. The central banks are heading for a total collapse of their infrastructure, and the impact when they fall will shake the world.

[aedens]

…because monetary problems are not comprehended by the public or by the average businessman, “money management” will continually cross up public opinions concerning economic trends…
Few understand
http://generationaldynamics.com/forum/v ... mal#p14996

" One might ask the question, "Aren't American socialists in favor of their own country's survival?"
To answer this question, we must turn to abnormal psychology.

http://generationaldynamics.com/forum/v ... rmal#p9115

We are only a few years into this cycle. mark well nov the last week as we go forward.
Mosi went right to the Thermidorian Reaction: The Jacobin government lasted barely a year.
Although the conspirators of 9 Thermidor, who came to be known as Thermidoreans.
He knows he must get past this point as we recorded the mid feb vote.
Always look ahead of these events. This is covered in amos but you need to read the greek
to get it and what is coming.

[OLD1953]

I can't even identify a clear trend right now. I think that's a large part of why people are saving and hunkering down, they can't see any future clearly. There is no clear formula for success now. Every one of the maxims children have been raised by have been falsified by events.

[aedens]

Cluster groups are energy margins. I cannot confirm but some idiots are moving binary compounds.
But I heard a snip on the wireless.
For the love of anything I would not want to be that guy about know. My earlier reference was
in direct context to amos7:1 LXX and more than a few need to find a good library on tranliterations.
http://generationaldynamics.com/forum/v ... amos#p4294
The World has always staggered to be on a course. I like Johns whit on the observation always a time to buy.
Like I conveyed to H I am 1/3 short since the Hill are temps. Goes back to is the cup this or that and the answer is yes.
I am seeing confirmation on events, hell we have been waiting for them and it is like, ok that was rather timely.
recap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhax1-va ... ature=plcp

[OLD1953]

Socialism has become so muddled that I have to ask which socialism? The socialism of business, the socialism of the wealthy or the socialism of poverty? The notion that the public will destroy the republic by voting themselves benefits from the public purse has gone by the wayside, the vote doesn't reflect that at all, the strongest votes against deficits and tax increases come from the states getting the most federal money in relation to what they sent to washington.

http://thecentristword.files.wordpress. ... ialism.jpg

Much of that is military of course, but not all by any means. That WalMart holds classes to get their workers on food stamps perplexes me, how does my paying for food stamps really equate to cheaper prices? It's simply gaming the system by letting the food stamp line cross the line they pay their workers, this limited hour business is NOT all about health care. Much is about making sure taxpayers pick up many of the essentials. If they didn't, WalMart would have to pay more.

http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate- ... ayer-costs

http://247wallst.com/2011/05/20/the-ten ... rywhere/2/

So you tell me, which is WalMart? Is this corporate subsidy or government subsidizing the poor?

The waters are too muddy for me.

[aedens]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C09lJQ4Blks

Illertracy of the Book is the most dangerous condition. The book of Judges; a work which, while it introduces the history of Samuel and that of the kings of Judah and Israel, forms in some sort a supplement to the book of Joshua, and furnishes the only account we have of those times of anarchy and confusion.

John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher whose work contributed to the establishing of the foundations of English Empiricism and the beginnings of the Enlightenment in England. His major work is the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Voltaire admired Locke and was influenced by his ideas.

Sir Isaac Netwon (1642-1727), English mathematician, author of Principia Mathematica (1687, "Mathematical Principles") dealing with laws of inertia, action and reaction, acceleration and force (Newton's laws). Voltaire greatly admired his work.

Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher; inventor of calculus; satirized in Candide for his belief in a kind of optimistic determinism which placed on God alone the ability to bring about change and transformation.

Seven Years' War (1756-1763), worldwide conflict over colonial possessions and European hegemony involving an alliance of France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and Spain against Great Britain, Prussia, and Hanover; as a result Britain acquired Canada and Florida, Spain got Cuba and the Philippines, while France won colonies in India and Africa as well as Guadeloupe and Martinique

American Revolutionary War, 1776; uprising against English colonial rule and political and economic oppression; inspired by the ideals of the French Enlightenment

French Revolution, 1789; popular uprising against the monarchy of Louis XVI; ideals of liberty, equality, and brotherhood; issuing of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen"

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
I can see his point and will read his works.

[aedens]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-0 ... december-4

Walton had a set of ethics. Business just says it makes decisions. Both can be called cults can they not?
And the growing gap between the rich and the poor is not going to stop is it?
I just went through another consolidation and ruthless is lightyears of separation to that word of what I seen and how people are under stress act.
It was and is another socialist mental illness study that was witnesed with words and actions that are just another typical case study. Over four decades I have watched this effect coming on other segments. I seen it first hand in 1978 and later laws got passed to the financial debauchery. It was bad enough to watch our so called government what was done on another issue to the people in our area alone. The old men actually had pity on the nation and lamented what was coming. It burned a impression in me on the action of men of the land who took it the Lords view and acepted what was to come as they struggled to move all. I see it every day, they do not it is that plain and simple. The second trend already years ago is for developed markets to reassess their supply chains to enable greater agility by returning to source more locally and in the process becoming green. On balance the trend is still towards outsourcing to lower cost countries. Stock up, you are going to need it in my opinion alone. The seal in the forehead is nothing compared to the ones with blindness as it is with those who have one on it. Its coming and already is here, so yes save as much as possible since they are not even begun to be done with Vanilla.