Tough Times For Retailers

[dawman]

Again Brotha' Man Braincell,
I gross 4 to 5 grand a week and pay out 60-65 % of that, so I guess in the Liberal playbook I am rich.
I drive little wortless vehicles, not big SUV's although I wish to buy a Ford F150 now that they are selling below cost.
The 300 USD a year you speak of is cool, but trust me, once the Liberals take over they will blame everything on the other side, and begin their fleecing of the middle class.
They can do that because we cannot afford to move our money out of the country or hire fancy lawyers to avoid paying taxes. We are sitting ducks, and right now they are licking thier lips as they are counting the numbers. There are 210,000,000 of us, do the math.
Once again the working men and women will cover the mistakes of Washington.
The rich will stay rich, the poor will be poor, nothing changes.

Except for the sore dick deals we are temporarily seeing at local retailers.

[braincell]

We had a lot of problems at the same time. Deregulation of the banks starting with Ronald Reagan which was continued by the other republicans. Then interest rates were cut so low that investors went crazy with these sub-prime mortgages with no job required and low payments for the first 5 years. Americans, stupid as they are bought these homes they can no longer afford. At the same time we had the futures traders driving up the price of oil; again with no regulation. Credit cards being issued to anyone. No income required! We had two big fat wars costing billions plus a trade imbalance with China. Tax cuts for the rich... WTF??? and corporations??? Medical costs through the roof because of no regulations (sound familiar?). Insurance companies just care about their stock holders. When their investments do poorly, they charge us more but when their investments do well, the price of insurance does not come down! That's not right. My doctor is on my side but the insurance companies don't care. Screw that! We have to nationalize it.

So to the anti-regulation conservatives or whatever you call yourselves now, we tried you way, and that tactic turned out to be a miserable failure. Now we are going to do something different. I am so glad Obama was elected.

[garyb]

wrong.

the Federal Reserve is a private bank. it shouldn't be printing dollars and we shouldn't be paying interest for the service. that's what the National Debt is, the interest due upon the loans from the Fed. the sub-prime mortgages were the engine, but not the cause of the trouble. in fact, this method of bank takeover has been used before...

just repeating the drivel spouted out for an ignorant public by a controlled media is NOT knowing.

i DO agree that banks need to be regulated and not allowed to practice fractional reserve lending, but putting a government that is controlled by those same banks and corporations in charge of regulting the same will only result in what we have now, a regulated public that has no right not to have all of it's data in government bases and every move photographed while the government itself is top secret.

there are NO differences between Democrats and Republicans except in certain examples of rhetoric. in reality, Reagan's policies started with Carter and Ford and Nixon("opened" up China) and Johnson(admitted CIA sponsored coup d'etat) which led to Clinton's work which led to G W B all in an unbroken chain, all members of the CFR and Bohemian Grove, and culminating in the present elected president Obama who will continue in the same fashion(as his adviser Breshinski and chief of staff Emannuel are both part of those past regimes). if you don't think all of these presidencies are part of a continuum then explain how a man like David Gergen could be a policy adviser to both Reagan AND Clinton(and Nixon and Ford).

[garyb]

thanks, stardust, but i personally have no theory of conspiracy at the top. i do have some direct observations showing a long term agenda. the theories from there are your own or from others. a theory is "an educated guess". there is no theory needed to call the sky blue or fire hot, i'm not guessing, except when i tell the future. no one knows the future for certain, even those who hold the highest levels of influence and power over the future.

[braincell]

It's not a conspiracy, it's people taking advantage of a sloppy government. Democrats went along with it but it was instigated by the republicans.

The Reagan administration ushered in the first frontal attack aimed at dismantling the antitrust policies of the United States. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act was passed by a republican controlled Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in December 2000. That is what led to the volatility in oil prices.

[siriusbliss]

Those who benefit the most are the culprit.
It's ALL conspire-ing to the demise.

There are no Democrats and Republicans. It's all an illusion pulled over your perceptions of reality so that you can't see through the veil of lies.

The past 40 years agendas of both so-called 'parties' has been driven out of policies generated at the CFR and instigated by the global bankers.

It IS a conspiracy - and to call it shy of that is not allowing one to see through the veil.

Greg

[garyb]

then you don't read their own literature.

they DO conspire, even while competing. this is not speculation. it is true. that is how intergenerational goals are met by folks who trace their bloodlines back through the elite of all great civilizations. if you read the works of Huxley, Malthus, Wells and the rest, you can see just how closely the script is being followed. sure, they jockey for position within the order, but they also work to establish the order for whomever makes it to the top. just because YOU would not be so treacherous, doesn't mean that others wouldn't, especially those born and bred for the job. why do you think that the elite(royals and high level bankers and the like, or call them "highborn" if you prefer) are so particular about who marries whom and who reproduces?

braincell, no matter how you try to shove the past down the memory hole, your controlled version of the recent past is flawed. you are demonstrating doublethink to a "t"...

[braincell]

Everything in my last post is a fact. Which part do you disagree with?

I think Obama will be great. He's the first internet president. He's addicted to his Blackberry. Not yet a web 2.0 president but one step closer. I remember Bush said he wouldn't touch a computer because he doesn't want to leave any evidence or something to that affect. Obama is also the first president who probably took acid and he reads! It is so refreshing to have a president with a brain after the last 8 years!

[garyb]

he CAN'T fulfill that which was never real in the first place.

there are plenty who are VERY seriously calling him the Messiah, though. these guys can even get violent at the suggestion that Obama is a crook, the same as if one spit upon a Catholic's rosary. the funny thing is that he's specified so little actual policy and the policy he has specified is just the exact same program, already running. it's just a further step. oh, he plans on bringing change, all right. i believe that! what KIND of change and WHO actually benefits, still remain to be seen.

braincell, first off, whether or not a guy has a blackberry has nothing to do with him being a good public servant.

second, if the man does anything more than administrate, any more than execute CONGRESS's rules, then he is a criminal like the rest of the presidents(at least the last 8 of them) before him, and things will certainly get worse, although if that happens, i'd bet everything that the "media" will declare the new horror wonderful.

so these are your choices, he is an honest public servant and he does his job properly and by those idiots-who-want-a-king's estimation, he will be "weak" and "innefectual", or he can be some degree of crooked, usurping power for the presidency, working for the oligarchy and in history he can be called "the Great". be sure that if it's the latter, suffering will multiply for the vast majority of the population.

[dawman]

When we see this..............it'll be a sign of the end times.

[garyb]

It's not a conspiracy, it's people taking advantage of a sloppy government. Democrats went along with it but it was instigated by the republicans.

The Reagan administration ushered in the first frontal attack aimed at dismantling the antitrust policies of the United States. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act was passed by a republican controlled Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in December 2000. That is what led to the volatility in oil prices.

all just surface isssues which ignore where this legislation came from and who the framers and supporters of the legislation work(ed) for. these things aren't at all secret, but they are veiled by soundbites like yours.

also, this "democrats went along, but it was republicans who started it" stuff sounds like little children tattling on each other. face it. both parties colluded on the subject and left those they claim to represent footing the bill, while they all became a little more fabulously wealthy.

and since when does the USA control international trade prices? THAT would be the hugest conspiracy of all! what IS true is that US based international corporations, and the finaciers and royaly that own them engineered the price "instability". they are the ONLY one's with the ability to do so, having members in various positions of world government and authority.

do you notice how i used the term "world government"(governance would be the preferred term)? not just the governments of the world, but the world governing organization itself....

[garyb]

When we see this..............it'll be a sign of the end times.

Jim, with respect i disagree.

that will be the sign of the new times, possibly even the back to paradise times.

[dawman]

I should have put a little logo by her saying something like................." Times are tough when the Queen has to shop at Wal-Mart. "
I am in total agreement about the powers that be............since I can't do anything about it, I tend to want to have fun with it.
BTW I hope you, j9k & siriusbliss don't suffer too much from rolling black outs and fires.
Keep your piece handy, like right above your privates.
I can already see the smoke coming up through Antelope Valley in the south side of Emerald Bay............Dayamn.

[siriusbliss]

I should have put a little logo by her saying something like................." Times are tough when the Queen has to shop at Wal-Mart. "
I am in total agreement about the powers that be............since I can't do anything about it, I tend to want to have fun with it.
BTW I hope you, j9k & siriusbliss don't suffer too much from rolling black outs and fires.
Keep your piece handy, like right above your privates.
I can already see the smoke coming up through Antelope Valley in the south side of Emerald Bay............Dayamn.

stay safe yourself.
I barely made it through the San Diego fires last year. And I mean barely.

Greg

[garyb]

I should have put a little logo by her saying something like................." Times are tough when the Queen has to shop at Wal-Mart. ".

gotcha!

[garyb]

Dodi will take it over

no end times

[siriusbliss]

Dodi will take it over

no end times

hehe

[garyb]

BTW I hope you, j9k & siriusbliss don't suffer too much from rolling black outs and fires.
Keep your piece handy, like right above your privates.
I can already see the smoke coming up through Antelope Valley in the south side of Emerald Bay............Dayamn.

yeah, the fires are a lot heavier than when i talked to you. the streets look like an ashtray or a very dirty first snow here in Long Beach. maybe they'll give us some rain.

[dawman]

As a child my family did the Route 66/Disneyland trip from St.Louis every year 'cause my Mom grew up there.
Many people say oh this happens all of the time.
But this has only become a yearly event on such a large scale in recent times.
They were a seasonal event up by Big Bear & Arrowhead but never spread this much because of the altitude and when Santa Ana'a revenge ( old school )came, it carried the jet stream moisture also.
My Uncle lives there still in Santa Ana Hills ( modern day Alamo ) since the late '20's and also thinks these are manmade from overdevelopement.
Just glad ya'll are O.K. as SoCal and L.A. are one of the most dangerous places to live on the Planet IMHO.
Gotta Go, one more set,....Tables and chairs tonight.

[sharc]

In all fairness, paricipants from American Idol should be able to tell Simon Cowell how they feel publicly after his comments. The ratings would hit the roof IMHO.

TBH I couldn't care less about the contestants on Pap Idol ..or the US spin-off. I've got about as much time for them as I've got for Cowell himself.