Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Gold won't help you when China drops the bomb and you have to defend yourself against zombie Americans in the nuclear wasteland, formally known as the United States. Beck should be telling his audience to stock up on bullets.
Originally Posted By Mr X If it hits the fan, gold would be only slightly more useful than paper money..though both would have their uses. Paper money can be burned, so you can cook with it. As for gold, it can be melted down to make fillings, so that plus some rudimentary dental skills might be useful in terms of bartering. If you REALLY want to prepare for the worst, you need (in increasing order of importance) guns, ammo, survival skills, nonperishable foodstuffs, water, and lots of friends. Gold will get you nowhere.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones I actually know of a guy who is really afraid China is going to invade, lol.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh So we're all in agreement - the stimulus is a huge success because it prevented an invasion by zombies. I'm pretty sure it's also doubled the population of unicorns, and kept the oceans from boiling.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I'm pretty sure it's also doubled the population of unicorns<< No, that was the truckload of Viagra that Joe Biden dumped in the Magic Rivers of Grythshadow.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 LOL! Seriously, though, when Obama took over, the economy was a patient in the ICU. Hemorrhaging 700,000+ jobs A MONTH. The first thing you have to do with a patient like that is to stop the bleeding. Obama did that, which was far from a given. The recovery and rehab will be a longer, tougher slog, but we're starting that too. But we need to get serious about financial reform if we don't want the same characters who knifed the patient and stole his money in the first place to be able to do it again. Because they will.
Originally Posted By snappyfun I agree, there never has been a time when the country was in a economic slowdown and then the economy came back, only Obama could have done this ... It's a miracle!!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Snow me another time when we went from 700,000 jobs lost a month to essentially 0 within a year, and you'll have a point. Otherwise it' s transparent sour grapes.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Snow me?" Apparently he wants to be blinded by statistics.
Originally Posted By snappyfun "Snow me another time when we went from 700,000 jobs lost a month to essentially 0 within a year, and you'll have a point. Otherwise it' s transparent sour grapes. " Zero jobs lost? Please show me where it's zero, I would love to see this information. And I guess you have missed that we still have 9.7 percent unemployment, and if you add in the number of Americans who have given up looking the number is 16% to 17%, nothing to brag about at any time. Also Obama has injective over a trillion dollars into the economy this year and that’s not including all the money for the bank bail outs. And I hate to tell you we have to pay that money back for these temporary government and union jobs that Obama is using to pay off his political supporters.
Originally Posted By snappyfun "Snow me another time when we went from 700,000 jobs lost a month to essentially 0 within a year, and you'll have a point. Otherwise it' s transparent sour grapes. " This might help you get some real information. <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Real-Unemployment-18-Will-etfguide-1206878140.html?x=0&.v=1" target="_blank">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...x=0&.v=1</a> The real numbers Today's headline numbers report was that the unemployment numbers, 'surprisingly fell to a five-month low of 9.7%,' according to today's government report. In reality, unemployment spiked to an all-time high of 18%. Yes, 18%! This is the official number reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Hope that helps you but get some real information. I wish things where better but there just not. Sorry..
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Also Obama has injective over a trillion dollars into the economy this year and that’s not including all the money for the bank bail outs.*** You think President Obama shouldn't have bailed out the banks? You're angry with President Obama over this?
