| noname2200 said: I repeat: we've been through far, far worse. Reconstruction, the Great Depression, Stagflation...loads of personal debts, mortgage crises, energy crises, hostilities abroad, none of this is new, and none of what we're going through now is anywhere near as severe as it was in the thirties or seventies. We survived then, we'll survive now. Although I'm curious as to why you're so certain that things are only going to get gloomier. Not to attack you personally or anything, but what exactly is it about now that you think will bring us down?
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The national debt. It will cripple our economy in the next few decades. Our currency will simultaneously inflate and depreciate, thus hurting our position throughout the world market. The infinite line of credit we have written for ourselves (as well as the ludicrous amount of outstanding debt held by the public) will all come crashing down once our national debt gets too high.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
