Posted: 11/7/2012 5:01:35 AM EDT
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I live in a nation of people who are too fucking stupid to understand the most basic concepts of economics.
I think that if we're going to EVER fix this country, we need to start teaching it in kindergarten. That is all. |
| Considering we needed an across the board cut of 50% just to start with it didnt matter who was elected. We were fucked either way. Obama will just cause it sooner. Math doesnt budge. We are royally fucked. Im past the point of caring. The vast majority of the country is retarded and deserves what they are going to get. |
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Considering we needed an across the board cut of 50% just to start with it didnt matter who was elected. We were fucked either way. Obama will just cause it sooner. Math doesnt budge. We are royally fucked. Im past the point of caring. The vast majority of the country is retarded and deserves what they are going to get. Ultimately, this. While I'm sure it's not much of a consolation at this point, there was no way a Romney Administration could have enacted the drastic, nigh-apocalyptic changes necessary to put your fiscal house in order, even if it wanted to. Even had the Republicans won control of all branches of government, the political will does not exist to buckle down and deal with the short-term hurt necessary to right the US economy for the long haul. The debt service payments for 2012 will sum to something like $470 billion. It is expected that debt service will exceed military expenditure by 2016, even if interest rates do not rise. And it is unthinkable that countries will continue to loan the US funds indefinitely at an effectively negative interest rate, with the US's credit rating likely to fall further during that timeframe. While I'm sure you guys don't want to hear it, but changing presidents now is simply re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. A colossal effort and much gnashing of teeth for no purpose. |
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I live in a nation of people who are too fucking stupid to understand the most basic concepts of economics. I think that if we're going to EVER fix this country, we need to start teaching it in kindergarten. That is all. Do you think the government is interested in teaching children how to have personal responsibility and be free, or the opposite? If you think more government is the solution, see my sig. |
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Most people don't understand economics. Price controls, subsidies, protective tariffs, bail outs for failing companies and other market-distorting measures are popular. Bankers and rich people are evil. They vote their feelings on these issues. Sometimes I wish I'd never studied Econ at all. I'd still be getting fucked, but I'd be having a lot better time of it. 
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