| Jackson50 said: I have read most of the posts in this read...and not one mention of the Federal Reserve. It is both unbelievable and unfortunate. Anyway, the bill passed in the House and currently awaiting approval in the Senate is not an "emergency stimulus." It is an abominable, contemptible piece of legislation that every American should pray is somehow opposed in the Senate and eventually abandoned by our government. This past week caused me to feel a modicum of pride in my estranged party-GOP. |
I was talking about the Federal Reserve! I'm not acting like a broken record like the rest of these people claiming that one decision by Congress led to an entire economic collapse. If you truly believe that, then I sincerely hope you are never put in any kind of position of power relating to economics. Economics is far more dynamic than simple but-for causation.
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
