Even when it’s on the news it’s not on the news:

My husband had PBS news on a couple of days ago and one of their stories was about Syria. The story was announced as “The Syrian government today lifted its longstanding state of emergency….” Then they cut to some visuals of public violence, which had a soundtrack with a British voice commenting; it wasn’t clear where the footage came from (my understanding is that they have expelled the journalists from Syria–I guess it was brave citizen footage), but the story was accurate, the British voice (which as far as I could tell was not explained or credited) was giving the actual news, that the protestors are still being mowed down mercilessly by the Syrian government. I was pleasantly surprised to see the truth being broadcast–and couldn’t believe it when they cut back to the host who summarized the story again as “Syrian government lifts state of emergency.” That was the frame every time at PBS person touched the story during that show–before and after the story, and at the beginning and end of the broadcast. The truth was hidden in plain sight!

what you care about they dont have to care about..

we act like a boxer who will nto take a punch…
so we cringe from many options.

they dont mind if they lose a million people or more, they can take a punch, if it means it opens an oppoenent to a strike…

so if you sit there and assume your enemy wants simlar things to you, your going to be VERY mistaken, as that will give them advantage if your wrong.

any country willing to ahve a one child policy to create an asymetry of 30 million troops with no future – and murdering 100 million of its own…

is not going to care much about being hammered if after the day is done, only one remains standing.

they have factories, they have infrastructure, capital, etc..

all we have are the things progressives werent able to remove

Tom Grey

You are advocating hyperinflation, then.

Money printing IS taxation. Now the tax is on liquid financial assets: cash, short term credit instruments, debt-assets…

Really anything denominated in USD.

We are hyperinflating right NOW. Taxes have EXPLODED upwards. But like any embezzlement, the victim at first does not realize the theft/ tax.

Right now that means YOU.

You, like most Americans, figure that the Fedsury can print money out of thin air and there will be trivial impacts.

My friend, check your food bill, your local gas pump and witness the chaos in the mortgage market.

The Fedsury is gaming the markets by intervening all over the place: System Open Market Account ( SOMA ) activity is run through the markets by JP Morgan Chase.

That ONE institution is insanely over represented in the derivatives market for one reason: SOMA.

Very much like AIG FP — which famously blew up — the Fedsury is writing protection derivatives in box car quantities that it can’t possibly ‘cover’ solely to permit further issuance of paper at nil interest rates.

Instead of paying for liquidity — as interest expense — our Fedsury is paying for liquidity by absorbing risk — in effect running AIG FP gambits/ interest rate risk underwriting on a magnum scale.

The end game MUST be a crack-up; this time taking down the Fedsury and the US Government with it.

When Weimar Germany imploded she was forced to yield her sovereignty in financial affairs: an international team of bankers came in and forced a massive, traumatic reduction in state expenditures, layoffs and tax hikes. The national legislature stood by helplessly as it happened.

Hyperinflation in NO WAY is like inflation+. Inflation, classic, is caused by easy money and the growth of bank lending — which causes credit-priced assets to rise. ( Think real estate and any other thing that is only purchased if credit is to hand. ) In short, inflation is a market driven euphoric leveraging up of collateral-assets.

Hyperinflation — seen in the War of Independence and the Confederacy — is raw state sponsored money printing. It’s the same con as counterfeiting. It is paper without any collateral.

The only reason that this process has been drawn out this far is Red Chinese manipulation of international trade. It has blown up on her as she is caught in a trap. Purchasing USD financial assets to hold the yuan down in a time of hyperinflation means that China is paying America a staggering tax. Namely, her holdings of confetti.

The Communists have finally realized that the only way to win is to not play. There is a rumor that the yuan is to be revalued over this weekend. It’s high time.

Should such a bold stroke occur the USD will be hammered. So, too, will be Walmart and kin. Our import tab will explode. A lot of the stuff China exports now has no alternate vendor. It will take a while to change that.

The talk is 10%. The need is 50%.

This move has been a long time coming. China had to un-dollarize her economy first. Obviously, that has finally been accomplished.

Congress’s ability to get foreigners to pay our taxes by way of the reserve currency is coming to an end. With that, it’s going to be Madison all over.

Check out Fernando Ferfal Aguirre’s “The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse” (you can order it on Amazon.com for $25 bucks, and it is well worth it) about his and his family’s experiences when everything–the banks and currency, food availability, employment, law and order–just collapsed in that city, and he had to arm up, set up a defensible dwelling and, somehow, keep his wife and child safe and find enough to eat. His book has some suggestions that might, unfortunately, come in very handy for city dwellers here in the U.S. if things get as dicey as they could very well get.

Big gov’t liberals policies are as if both are false: they reward failure AND punish success (terrible incentives), and want gov’t programs like they’re a Free Lunch. Of course, everybody has had a lunch somebody else pays for — that seems like a free lunch, to them.

Big, but probably not Hyper, inflation is coming to the USA, and to the World: EU; China, India; Brazil. Even the Middle East.

The USA will, for one time, be able to inflate its debt obligations away, because it has been the world’s reserve currency, and there is still no substitute.
Because of American farmers, the food crises of many other countries will be less of a problem.
(It would be great for Republicans to scrap all agro-subsidies now. Get rid of market distortions and reduce spending, both. Also sugar tariffs.)

S&P is right about US debt; wrong about Mortgage Backed Security debt.

It would be better to print money to pay debts than to raise taxes.

The desire to raise taxes “on the rich”, is a similar sentiment as to hate the rich, the desire to burn the rich. To kill the rich. To commit genocide against the rich. Envy against the rich.
Against rich Jews; against rich, or educated, or foreign contacting Cambodians; against rich Tutsis.

The immorality of ever-increasing levels of “taxing the rich”, so as to allow mostly middle class to enjoy gov’t provided free benefits, is the terrible legacy of far-left cultural propaganda.

The MSM is too full of leftist ideology and PC junk.

Well, it looks like it’s gonna get far worse before it really starts to get better. Tea Party small gov’t type people need to find more ways to take back the culture from the Leftists who now occupy the institutions.

The worst states will be first, so how they are handled, like CA (and Wisconsin???!!!), will continue to be good predictions of the future. Dem dominance in CA predicts a terrible future.
Suggestion in any budget deficit:
1) Fix as an amount the median taxpayer’s prior year income (ranked order, not summed average). About $40 000.
2) For all gov’t workers, and retirees, reduce their pay benefits above this amount enough to balance the budget, without raising taxes.
3) Make this calculation, and allow 60 days to make other budget cuts before a re-calculation is done and implemented.

“Those who borrowed to invest in equities did very well for a time in Germany (the euphorics, per blert), as did the wealthy. But in 1923 an American shareholder in a German firm refused his dividend payment because the cost of shipping all that paper, billions upon billions of marks, to the US exceeded its value in dollars.”

Indeed! Go tangible and invest in commodities: grains, precious metals, and energy futures. And the other tangibles: food in the pantry and ammo in the closet.

Without a significant change in course within the next 2-3 years, all bets are off. It will be every man for himself, government against all.