Comments on: Everybody should have anticipated

By: flyarm616

flyarm616 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:50:54 +0000

How can we possibly think we have a democratic republic when the same people keep getting re-cycled???????

As a democrat all my life, i have serious problems with the fact that Obama sent Henry Kissinger to Russia to represent his new administration, and then this?????????

And we think the new boss is a new boss? oh Please…….the New Boss is just a continuation of the old boss..in fact many of the old bosses..anyone here remember Nixon and his wiretaps??????? and who was the same guy who was re-cycled by Ford, Reagan, GHBush, and GW Bush?????????
Who sat in GWBush’s White House and worked with Bush and Cheney on the War in Iraq?????????

Henry Kissinger..

Yes *that* Henry Kissinger, that has the Nick Name of “THE BUTCHER OF CAMBODIA”…

The wiretapping in Nixon’s White House ..anyone remember it? i wish i could laugh…

And who is now working with the Obama Administration????????

You got it..Henry Kissinger..

and his ties go deep..like with Timothy Geithner..

and don’t miss this dear democrats…..and I say that with all my kindest respect..because I as a lifelong Democrat have a very difficult time staying in my party after the crap i have seen over this past year, and knowing my vote was not counted in my state of Florida in the primaries!
and now you wonder why..wonder no more…..

Remarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy

Published February 8, 2009
Speaker: James L. Jones

U.S. National Security Adviser Jones ( edit to add: new USNSA advisor hired by Obama!!!!) gave these remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 8, 2009.

“Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.

Source: http://www.cfr.org/publication/18515/remar… …

Seems to me , the new boss is the same as the old boss..or run by the same criminals that have run hot and heavy throughout all the Republican presidencies.

This is supposed to be the change we were all told about?????????

Yeah..and pink pigs fly.

By: demi

demi — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:06:10 +0000

Out west as in parts near LA where you have family? If so, I wish we could have hooked up.
I thought you went fishing.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:00:35 +0000

Stagflation was the lag between inflation that got embedded (some external causes but mainly bad policy) in the 1970s and when policy makers finally took action to deal with it.

By: selise

selise — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:00:08 +0000

safe travels

By: Waccamaw

Waccamaw — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:56:44 +0000

Doin’ well; gotta go tend a cousin for a few days who just had knee surgery and then on to the coast. Everything loaded in the car except the ‘puter so this really is a *poof*.

By: selise

selise — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:53:20 +0000

commodity speculation was just one example. inflation does sometimes happen in other weird circumstances, for example, stagflation (just trying for a recent american example).

anyway, it takes a lot to convince me…. will be thinking more on this…

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:49:16 +0000

Tsk, tsk tsk. The Greenspan rule is that as soon as wages start to rise in real terms, it’s time for a new recession to stomp out that invidious form of inflation.

Can’t imagine Bernanke would be more enlightened.

In a serious vein, wage “inflation” lags price inflation, so it is unlikely that a little inflation would do anything other than hurt workers. Although I agree with your general point that deflation is the problem now.

By: selise

selise — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:48:04 +0000

deflation certainly.

i’m just trying to play out different hypotheticals as thought experiments.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:45:41 +0000

If I am understanding what I am seeing now the problem is deflation which I believe to be worse. I don’t think some inflation would be such a bad thing if it goes to increase incomes for the working class.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:44:06 +0000

The only prices subject to speculation are those that have commodities markets, as very small percent of all prices. And the ability to pass along commodities price increases is limited as we saw in this last round. They mainly squeeze profit margins of companies that use commodities as raw materials.

In general, retailers don’t have pricing power because consumers have no spending power. Thus the rise of Wal Mart and the rush to the bottom.