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February 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM #511887February 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM #510988
scaredyclassic
Participantok, maybe you’re right. i see both sides of the issue.
February 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM #511135Participantok, maybe you’re right. i see both sides of the issue.
February 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM #511547Participantok, maybe you’re right. i see both sides of the issue.
February 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM #511640Participantok, maybe you’re right. i see both sides of the issue.
February 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM #511892Participantok, maybe you’re right. i see both sides of the issue.
February 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM #511231macromaniac
ParticipantIn case anyone hasn’t realized yet…
1) The Governements job is to CONTROL the masses through Propaganda to ward off people realizing they are getting ass raped from every angle right now. They do not tell the truth and they use the media and BS statistics like CPI to make people think everything is OK so panic does not hit people and cause a full blown melt down within 48 hours.
2) The economic collapse is imminent. It’s simple math and if anyone thinks otherwise…please go take Math 101 and educate yourself. There is a collapse and reset coming to this country. It is not sustainable people. Be a realist.
3) It would be very smart to buy ALOT of food and water, a few guns and plenty of ammo, to be prepared. Worst case, you eat the food because its, well, food. If meltdown does not come then you can go to the range and shoot all your ammo in celebration. So no loss here.
4) The internet is the vehicle to a coming revolution because it strips the mass media propaganda machine of the deception and allows people like me who have a clue to reveal the BS and free people of ignorance.
5) Its time to prioritize and prepare and live as lean as possible. Do not deceive yourself through false hope that this is going to end without a major reset and reboot of pricing, incomes,as everything will change.
6) You should drink good wine and take one day at a time…
7) Buckle up, the BS ride is coming to a head.
February 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM #511378ParticipantIn case anyone hasn’t realized yet…
1) The Governements job is to CONTROL the masses through Propaganda to ward off people realizing they are getting ass raped from every angle right now. They do not tell the truth and they use the media and BS statistics like CPI to make people think everything is OK so panic does not hit people and cause a full blown melt down within 48 hours.
2) The economic collapse is imminent. It’s simple math and if anyone thinks otherwise…please go take Math 101 and educate yourself. There is a collapse and reset coming to this country. It is not sustainable people. Be a realist.
3) It would be very smart to buy ALOT of food and water, a few guns and plenty of ammo, to be prepared. Worst case, you eat the food because its, well, food. If meltdown does not come then you can go to the range and shoot all your ammo in celebration. So no loss here.
4) The internet is the vehicle to a coming revolution because it strips the mass media propaganda machine of the deception and allows people like me who have a clue to reveal the BS and free people of ignorance.
5) Its time to prioritize and prepare and live as lean as possible. Do not deceive yourself through false hope that this is going to end without a major reset and reboot of pricing, incomes,as everything will change.
6) You should drink good wine and take one day at a time…
7) Buckle up, the BS ride is coming to a head.
February 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM #511791ParticipantIn case anyone hasn’t realized yet…
1) The Governements job is to CONTROL the masses through Propaganda to ward off people realizing they are getting ass raped from every angle right now. They do not tell the truth and they use the media and BS statistics like CPI to make people think everything is OK so panic does not hit people and cause a full blown melt down within 48 hours.
2) The economic collapse is imminent. It’s simple math and if anyone thinks otherwise…please go take Math 101 and educate yourself. There is a collapse and reset coming to this country. It is not sustainable people. Be a realist.
3) It would be very smart to buy ALOT of food and water, a few guns and plenty of ammo, to be prepared. Worst case, you eat the food because its, well, food. If meltdown does not come then you can go to the range and shoot all your ammo in celebration. So no loss here.
4) The internet is the vehicle to a coming revolution because it strips the mass media propaganda machine of the deception and allows people like me who have a clue to reveal the BS and free people of ignorance.
5) Its time to prioritize and prepare and live as lean as possible. Do not deceive yourself through false hope that this is going to end without a major reset and reboot of pricing, incomes,as everything will change.
6) You should drink good wine and take one day at a time…
7) Buckle up, the BS ride is coming to a head.
February 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM #511884ParticipantIn case anyone hasn’t realized yet…
1) The Governements job is to CONTROL the masses through Propaganda to ward off people realizing they are getting ass raped from every angle right now. They do not tell the truth and they use the media and BS statistics like CPI to make people think everything is OK so panic does not hit people and cause a full blown melt down within 48 hours.
2) The economic collapse is imminent. It’s simple math and if anyone thinks otherwise…please go take Math 101 and educate yourself. There is a collapse and reset coming to this country. It is not sustainable people. Be a realist.
3) It would be very smart to buy ALOT of food and water, a few guns and plenty of ammo, to be prepared. Worst case, you eat the food because its, well, food. If meltdown does not come then you can go to the range and shoot all your ammo in celebration. So no loss here.
4) The internet is the vehicle to a coming revolution because it strips the mass media propaganda machine of the deception and allows people like me who have a clue to reveal the BS and free people of ignorance.
5) Its time to prioritize and prepare and live as lean as possible. Do not deceive yourself through false hope that this is going to end without a major reset and reboot of pricing, incomes,as everything will change.
6) You should drink good wine and take one day at a time…
7) Buckle up, the BS ride is coming to a head.
February 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM #512136ParticipantIn case anyone hasn’t realized yet…
1) The Governements job is to CONTROL the masses through Propaganda to ward off people realizing they are getting ass raped from every angle right now. They do not tell the truth and they use the media and BS statistics like CPI to make people think everything is OK so panic does not hit people and cause a full blown melt down within 48 hours.
2) The economic collapse is imminent. It’s simple math and if anyone thinks otherwise…please go take Math 101 and educate yourself. There is a collapse and reset coming to this country. It is not sustainable people. Be a realist.
3) It would be very smart to buy ALOT of food and water, a few guns and plenty of ammo, to be prepared. Worst case, you eat the food because its, well, food. If meltdown does not come then you can go to the range and shoot all your ammo in celebration. So no loss here.
4) The internet is the vehicle to a coming revolution because it strips the mass media propaganda machine of the deception and allows people like me who have a clue to reveal the BS and free people of ignorance.
5) Its time to prioritize and prepare and live as lean as possible. Do not deceive yourself through false hope that this is going to end without a major reset and reboot of pricing, incomes,as everything will change.
6) You should drink good wine and take one day at a time…
7) Buckle up, the BS ride is coming to a head.
February 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM #511281partypup
Participant[quote=Operation]Oh my god. Armageddon has arrived. The lawyers are out of work. Crap, this could get ugly. Fast. Big, scary, evil roaming hordes of blood-thirsty cannibals living off the flesh of a tattered civilization lost to a moral decay, Goldman Sacs and peak oil.
Kids, breakout what ever weapon you have. I don’t care if it’s a baseball bat, gun….hell, even a damn 2×4 will do. Once the blood-thirsty zombie army of attorneys has to start giving up the 250K/yr jobs, private club memberships and starbucks lattes in 24K gold to-go mugs they are going to have to eat…something. The Ivy league zombie lawyers will eat the brains of a small child in seconds. Nasty bloodsuckers!
Seriously though, when did lawyers actually make something that contributed to GDP?
Finally, to all you paranoid, end-of-civilization heads espousing the eminent coming of ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’, you need to take off the tinfoil, back away from the PC you’ve been sitting at for days straight and go outside and get some toxic, soot-laden air into your rotting, diseased lungs.
It’s going to be just fine. Really.[/quote]
Lawyers contribute very little of worth to the GDP, and I count myself among that lot. The career decision has paid off for me financially for the past couple of decades, but I would be lying if I said that I was happy with what I contribute to society on a daily basis. So sue me 😉
That said, you are really fooling yourself if you think that unemployed people – regardless of how much they made or what value they serve to society – are not YOUR problem. Very soon, the volume of unemployed lawyers, accountants, Ivy league brats, vermin, whatever the hell you want to call them – is going to affect YOU, my friend. Because when they don’t have jobs, they don’t buy. Period. And the wheels of commerce will slowly grind to a halt. Unless, of course, you are fortunate to have a job that is in no way dependent upon another living being to buy (directly or indirectly) what you are selling, making or providing. What are you, an assassin or something? Are you the only person on this board NOT affected by the economy?
I love how people only envision one of two possibilities in the future: everything is either going to be “just fine”, or it’s going to be “Armageddon”. WTF?? Is your life really that black and white? How’s that level of nuanced thinking worked out for you so far?
February 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM #511427Participant[quote=Operation]Oh my god. Armageddon has arrived. The lawyers are out of work. Crap, this could get ugly. Fast. Big, scary, evil roaming hordes of blood-thirsty cannibals living off the flesh of a tattered civilization lost to a moral decay, Goldman Sacs and peak oil.
Kids, breakout what ever weapon you have. I don’t care if it’s a baseball bat, gun….hell, even a damn 2×4 will do. Once the blood-thirsty zombie army of attorneys has to start giving up the 250K/yr jobs, private club memberships and starbucks lattes in 24K gold to-go mugs they are going to have to eat…something. The Ivy league zombie lawyers will eat the brains of a small child in seconds. Nasty bloodsuckers!
Seriously though, when did lawyers actually make something that contributed to GDP?
Finally, to all you paranoid, end-of-civilization heads espousing the eminent coming of ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’, you need to take off the tinfoil, back away from the PC you’ve been sitting at for days straight and go outside and get some toxic, soot-laden air into your rotting, diseased lungs.
It’s going to be just fine. Really.[/quote]
Lawyers contribute very little of worth to the GDP, and I count myself among that lot. The career decision has paid off for me financially for the past couple of decades, but I would be lying if I said that I was happy with what I contribute to society on a daily basis. So sue me 😉
That said, you are really fooling yourself if you think that unemployed people – regardless of how much they made or what value they serve to society – are not YOUR problem. Very soon, the volume of unemployed lawyers, accountants, Ivy league brats, vermin, whatever the hell you want to call them – is going to affect YOU, my friend. Because when they don’t have jobs, they don’t buy. Period. And the wheels of commerce will slowly grind to a halt. Unless, of course, you are fortunate to have a job that is in no way dependent upon another living being to buy (directly or indirectly) what you are selling, making or providing. What are you, an assassin or something? Are you the only person on this board NOT affected by the economy?
I love how people only envision one of two possibilities in the future: everything is either going to be “just fine”, or it’s going to be “Armageddon”. WTF?? Is your life really that black and white? How’s that level of nuanced thinking worked out for you so far?
February 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM #511840Participant[quote=Operation]Oh my god. Armageddon has arrived. The lawyers are out of work. Crap, this could get ugly. Fast. Big, scary, evil roaming hordes of blood-thirsty cannibals living off the flesh of a tattered civilization lost to a moral decay, Goldman Sacs and peak oil.
Kids, breakout what ever weapon you have. I don’t care if it’s a baseball bat, gun….hell, even a damn 2×4 will do. Once the blood-thirsty zombie army of attorneys has to start giving up the 250K/yr jobs, private club memberships and starbucks lattes in 24K gold to-go mugs they are going to have to eat…something. The Ivy league zombie lawyers will eat the brains of a small child in seconds. Nasty bloodsuckers!
Seriously though, when did lawyers actually make something that contributed to GDP?
Finally, to all you paranoid, end-of-civilization heads espousing the eminent coming of ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’, you need to take off the tinfoil, back away from the PC you’ve been sitting at for days straight and go outside and get some toxic, soot-laden air into your rotting, diseased lungs.
It’s going to be just fine. Really.[/quote]
Lawyers contribute very little of worth to the GDP, and I count myself among that lot. The career decision has paid off for me financially for the past couple of decades, but I would be lying if I said that I was happy with what I contribute to society on a daily basis. So sue me 😉
That said, you are really fooling yourself if you think that unemployed people – regardless of how much they made or what value they serve to society – are not YOUR problem. Very soon, the volume of unemployed lawyers, accountants, Ivy league brats, vermin, whatever the hell you want to call them – is going to affect YOU, my friend. Because when they don’t have jobs, they don’t buy. Period. And the wheels of commerce will slowly grind to a halt. Unless, of course, you are fortunate to have a job that is in no way dependent upon another living being to buy (directly or indirectly) what you are selling, making or providing. What are you, an assassin or something? Are you the only person on this board NOT affected by the economy?
I love how people only envision one of two possibilities in the future: everything is either going to be “just fine”, or it’s going to be “Armageddon”. WTF?? Is your life really that black and white? How’s that level of nuanced thinking worked out for you so far?
February 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM #511934Participant[quote=Operation]Oh my god. Armageddon has arrived. The lawyers are out of work. Crap, this could get ugly. Fast. Big, scary, evil roaming hordes of blood-thirsty cannibals living off the flesh of a tattered civilization lost to a moral decay, Goldman Sacs and peak oil.
Kids, breakout what ever weapon you have. I don’t care if it’s a baseball bat, gun….hell, even a damn 2×4 will do. Once the blood-thirsty zombie army of attorneys has to start giving up the 250K/yr jobs, private club memberships and starbucks lattes in 24K gold to-go mugs they are going to have to eat…something. The Ivy league zombie lawyers will eat the brains of a small child in seconds. Nasty bloodsuckers!
Seriously though, when did lawyers actually make something that contributed to GDP?
Finally, to all you paranoid, end-of-civilization heads espousing the eminent coming of ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’, you need to take off the tinfoil, back away from the PC you’ve been sitting at for days straight and go outside and get some toxic, soot-laden air into your rotting, diseased lungs.
It’s going to be just fine. Really.[/quote]
Lawyers contribute very little of worth to the GDP, and I count myself among that lot. The career decision has paid off for me financially for the past couple of decades, but I would be lying if I said that I was happy with what I contribute to society on a daily basis. So sue me 😉
That said, you are really fooling yourself if you think that unemployed people – regardless of how much they made or what value they serve to society – are not YOUR problem. Very soon, the volume of unemployed lawyers, accountants, Ivy league brats, vermin, whatever the hell you want to call them – is going to affect YOU, my friend. Because when they don’t have jobs, they don’t buy. Period. And the wheels of commerce will slowly grind to a halt. Unless, of course, you are fortunate to have a job that is in no way dependent upon another living being to buy (directly or indirectly) what you are selling, making or providing. What are you, an assassin or something? Are you the only person on this board NOT affected by the economy?
I love how people only envision one of two possibilities in the future: everything is either going to be “just fine”, or it’s going to be “Armageddon”. WTF?? Is your life really that black and white? How’s that level of nuanced thinking worked out for you so far?
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