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GJDailleult
They aren't "state owned banks". They are banks that received government guarantees.
There is only one reason for a government to guarantee a bank, that reason is called organized crime.
Posted in: Irish opposition on brink of election win
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GJDailleult
The 10 year thing was a budget trick, which I was going to point out, but I see it was done above already.
Agree about the reason for not attending being disingenuous too. For all we know Assange was invited only because the organizers knew he wouldn't be able to attend, but they thought sending an invitation would give them some "cred". Real reason for not attending probably something else.
Posted in: Bush nixes Denver visit, citing invite to Assange
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GJDailleult
I see, the solution to some people not having enough money is for other people to not have enough money. But people with lots of money should keep all their money. Got it.
It is a bit silly to for the writer write a logical analysis of what is just a lot of illogical, ideological gibberish. This stuff is either about diverting attention from the planned asset stripping of Wisconsin's public assets, or worse, people like Walker actually believe what they are saying, and they are representative of the total economic illiteracy of the USA that is bringing us all down.
And no, I have no strong opinions about unions either pro or con, but I do have strong opinions about con-men / idiots who claim something that is not the cause of the problem is the cause of the problem.
Posted in: Facts overshadowed in debate over union bill in Wisconsin
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GJDailleult
The question is how did they even manage to get 17%? Should have been 0%. My Gaelic is a bit rusty (about 4 generations of no usage does that) but I thought Fianna Fail meant "soldiers of incredible moronic stupidity and mind-blowing levels of corruption".
Posted in: Irish opposition on brink of election win
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GJDailleult
smith, a "sheila" or "bruce" reference would have been very impressive indeed, but the comment made is still pretty good for an American (inside Canadian joke there, butt of the joke is not Americans). Even better would have been a reference to "The Prisoner", probably before smith's time, but wow, Karen Travers was gorgeous. Assange is basically the Karen Travers of the 21st century, minus the gorgeous bit.
Myself I have no problem differentiating the guy, Assange, from the organization, Wikileaks. Suspect he is not a guy I would want to have a beer with, but doesn't mean that he isn't be doing something useful. Not sure why that goes over so many heads, as my head is very close to the ground.
Posted in: Bush nixes Denver visit, citing invite to Assange
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GJDailleult
Just heard on the news the same thing. So before anybody posts a "what were they thinking putting up brick buildings in an earthquake zone?" comment, let's just make it clear that the city was built long before anybody had any idea it was located in an earthquake zone. The whole science of plate tectonics is really very new and only really accepted in the 1970's, before that the danger was not recognized or understood. A huge problem for New Zealand, and also Canada and the USA in the BC, Washington and Oregon areas.
If it is possible for anything good to come out of this disaster, it would be that it wakes people in those places up to the danger and focuses them on reinforcing buildings and taking other safety measures as much as possible.
Posted in: New Zealand earthquake toll at 145 dead
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GJDailleult
smithinjapan, SolidariTea was just showing his knowledge of Australian lingo there, actually a pretty good line. Bush (I am using capitals, so don't get mad at me!) equals outback, in fact it is the much more common term when you are in Australia.
As for the banks being in a panic, the question is what could Wikileaks have that is worse than is already known.
Posted in: Bush nixes Denver visit, citing invite to Assange
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GJDailleult
It means that the private sector needs to increase its wages. Lots of countries (ie. the third world) have low private sector wages, why would you want to emulate them?
The more important thing though is that in the debt-money system we have, all money must be borrowed by somebody. People can only borrow what they have the earning power to pay back. If you are rich and have money in the bank, then obviously the bank has to find somebody to borrow the money who will pay them more in interest than they are paying you in interest. Otherwise the bank will go broke (I will ignore the fact that in reality they already have). So by attacking unions and trying to force down wages, the American rich are basically attacking themselves, they just don't know it. That though has nothing to do with whether unions are good or bad, that question is politics, not economics.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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GJDailleult
Actually, the question is whether he has done any great harm to the United States. Seems more like he has done great harm to many other countries, but as for the USA it seems he has exposed that the USA seems to have a reasonably competent State Department, out in the world gathering information. They aren't reporting on the USA itself, though that would be very interesting if they did.
Otherwise, enjoyed the assessment of smithinjapan's thought processes, keep them coming. And some friendly (seriously) advice, the "whackos on the far Left" line is past its sell-by date.
Posted in: Bush nixes Denver visit, citing invite to Assange
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GJDailleult
So he doesn't want to be part of a forum that invites people with different views, even though that person will not be attending. An odd idea of what a "forum" is, and an odd response from a person with an odd idea of what a forum is.
Posted in: Bush nixes Denver visit, citing invite to Assange
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GJDailleult
I am not saying I am smarter than anybody. I am saying their opinion is irrelevant. It is like asking asking the passengers on a plane how long they want the wings to be. "Right wing" political systems collapse economically, "left wing" political systems collapse economically. The only relationship between politics, and the economic and monetary systems, is that politics can screw things up. This is just a case of politics making a bad situation worse.
And it may surprise molenir that, even though I almost always disagree with his opinions on the USA, I find he usually is the guy making the most sense whenever he turns up on other, non-USA focused, comment threads. But on this one, I think you have things backwards. The imbalances between the private and public sector, whether they are real or not is unimportant, are not a sign that you have a public sector problem, they are a sign that you have a private sector problem. And nobody is doing a single thing about it.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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GJDailleult
Then the majority of the state of Wisconsin is wrong.
But thanks for making the point for me much more competently than I have been doing. Manfromamerica is like most people, he thinks what we have here is a political problem of right vs. left. He is wrong, what we have is an apolitical problem of the economic and monetary systems. Those systems are like any other systems, they are issues of engineering not politics. The difference is that in other systems, money is made by designing the system well (ie. you make no money if your airplanes keep falling out of the sky), while in the monetary system you can get very rich by designing it badly. The politics though are what is laid on top of the system, a question of how to divide up what the system provides. What has happened in the USA is that the system has been damaged, maybe beyond repair, which means it makes no difference what political system is laid on top of it.
Scott Walker is just another guy who thinks there is this stuff called "money", and that if he keeps it away from one tribe then there will be more for his tribe. This has been happening for hundreds of years, the inability to understand the difference between economics and money, and politics, and it always ends badly. It will again here and then the people of Wisconsin will elect a Democrat, and he won't know what he is doing either.
Too much money to be made in not knowing what you are doing.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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GJDailleult
This entire Wisconsin union situation is something being pushed by people with absolutely zero understanding of the economic situation, zero understanding of how the USA got to this place, zero understanding of the role of unions in how they got to this place, zero understanding of their own precarious financial position, and zero understanding of the extreme dangers that lie ahead that may wipe them out themselves. The question of whether unions are good or bad is a real question, but it is basically an ant when compared to the elephant question. Scott Walker and the people behind him and who support him have no credibility whatsoever.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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GJDailleult
What? No complaints about $35 billion of hard-earned private sector tax dollars being spent. I thought the debt and deficit was "killing America".
Don't worry though, it isn't your money anyways. Your money was spent long ago. It is your debt though. Somebody at the Fed just pushed a key on his computer and there it was. A debt that can never be paid pack, at least not in cash.
Posted in: U.S. Air Force awards $35 bil airborne refueling tanker contract to Boeing
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GJDailleult
About 10AM in Japan, same pattern seems to be emerging as was seen on yesterday's comment thread on this topic. The superiority of Adam Smith's invisible hand vs. a top-down, centrally planned hierarchical structure being shown again.
A couple of things, one that the "Walker was only saying in private what he says in public" defense seems to be coming out in a lot of places. Aha, so a man can be openly insane and still be elected governor in the USA. This is very interesting. Second is about the myth of the "powerful" unions, which this article repeats. There is an amazing chart that shows the number of strikes involving over 1,000 people in the USA from 1947 to the present. From 1947 until the early eighties (this being the time of Sarah Palin's "Real America") they ranged from a little under 200 to about 475, with the average about 350. Then in the early '80s they fell off a cliff, until today, when there are none. There are no strikes today of course because the unions are so POWERFUL that they don't have to, har, har, har. Or maybe there are other reasons????
Breaking the unions and the outsourcing and globalization that went with it are all part of the giant scam used to maintain "prosperity" without price inflation following American peak oil and the oil price rises of the '70s. The problem is that the people who came up with the scam knew it was a scam. The generation of today don't. Republicans are basically the "Ore Ore" caller who really thinks he is your grandson. No, he doesn't think it he KNOWS it!!! Cue reaching for J-E dictionary.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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GJDailleult
Drugs, Bin Laden, and why am I not being treated like the Queen of England, she has been in power longer than me. I mean, not in power like I am not in power. Lunatic. Also, doing the "speech" by phone and not TV makes it look like he is losing control quickly and is in hiding.
Posted in: Gadhafi forces, foreign mercenaries strike back at revolt near Tripoli
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GJDailleult
That is what they think they are doing. What they are doing in reality is just creating a country of "have-nots", they are going to go down hardest in the end. Economics and money is a system, no different from nature or anything in engineering, political left-right structure is just a small component of the overall system.
But hey, you know what they say about inherited wealth.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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GJDailleult
Thanks JT, this was the most informative article and comment forum I have seen on your site.
And I know that yabits and globalwatcher agree.
Posted in: Wisconsin governor pranked by caller posing as donor
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GJDailleult
Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my. After I posted my comment above went to another site to check on the news and the YouTube video was posted, so thought I would check it out... "Communism fell because Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers".
Sorry, I can't comment anymore, I am laughing too hard.
Posted in: Wisconsin governor pranked by caller posing as donor
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GJDailleult
If they were really "powerful" then they wouldn't have to be spending their time fighting against idiots like Scott Walker. They would just pick up the phone and make a call, and they wouldn't have to deal with Walker.
As for the Koch brothers, they are not "businessmen", they are terrorists. Money junkies, nothing more. The purpose of business is not to promote the collection of money, the purpose of money is to promote the activity of business. Basic fact that has been understood for thousands of years, but somehow beyond the comprehension of the American alchemist class. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan have a lot to answer for.
Posted in: Wisconsin governor pranked by caller posing as donor