The Greatest Depression

[BobCox2]

Save your Pennys

[SaroDarksbane]

Save your Pennys

Today's nickels are also currently worth 7 cents apiece.

[stillman]

And you can shoot and eat the deer that keep eating your stuff, jmerv!

[SaroDarksbane]

And you can shoot and eat the deer that keep eating your stuff, jmerv!

I'm convinced that it was squirrels who knocked over my trellis the other day and ripped a bunch of my peas out of the ground. They'd better watch out; I was born in Alabama. NOM NOM NOM

[BobCox2]

[SaroDarksbane]

I dunno, I think that the EU's problems look pretty big, even from over here.

[jmervyn]

And you can shoot and eat the deer that keep eating your stuff, jmerv!

Living in the Empire State as I do, I have no firearms in my household. They're all at my Dad's farm in Idaho.

I'm convinced that it was squirrels who knocked over my trellis the other day and ripped a bunch of my peas out of the ground. They'd better watch out; I was born in Alabama. NOM NOM NOM

Whereas I'm just a dangerous criminal. Don't ask about the coon.

I never knew that those damn things (squirrels) would eat tomatoes, but a friend of my Mom had incessant problems with them taking out her plants (in Maryland, where she kept them outside).

[BobCox2]

I dunno, I think that the EU's problems look pretty big, even from over here.

What's a time bomb? They think they can always buy time.
They do journal entries and print some papers.

The USA has the Mideast and EURO in it's pocket when ASIA comes looking to cash the paper.
The Matrix of old Europe Bankers is getting screwed, What happens when the Swiss have it all?

I'm on the leftcoast I take my chances with God and taxes.
It's All Good.

Trust Me.

[krischan]

The USA has the Mideast and EURO in it's pocket when ASIA comes looking to cash the paper.

Do they? In which way?

The Matrix of old Europe Bankers is getting screwed, What happens when the Swiss have it all?

Have what? All the Euros? In which manner is it important for me where the money is? The more important question is, where are the resources, the economy, the infrastructure and the qualified workers, engineers, scientists etc. which back up the value of a certain currency?

Trust Me.

Yes, trust him

[jmervyn]

Time to lighten it up -

President Obama has always been able to open up better when speaking in foreign nations, because they … get … him. I think we Americans have always been a little standoffish with him, as we just don’t relate to him very well, so you can understand his being more comfortable in an international setting. So while speaking to CEOs at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings, he said that American businesses have “been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades.” And this isn’t the first time he’s criticized American businesses, as last September he said that our country “had gotten a little soft” over the last couple of decades.

Now, I know the typical reaction here is to get all angry and point your chubby finger back at him and say that while he’s calling us lazy it seems like he’s on the golf course half the time, but that’s just kneejerk and stupid. If we were smart, we’d consider this criticism instead of continuing to blame Obama for what’s wrong with our economy. Maybe it’s time for us to really take a look at ourselves and ask: Is Obama actually a great president, and we’re just a lousy country?

It’s not really that radical a question. I mean, look at him: He’s a bright, Harvard-educated man who’s not only been to other countries but has actually lived in them — he knows cultures and viewpoints beyond the narrow ones we have here. And he surrounds himself with the greatest minds on earth. And who are we, compared to him? We’re a bunch of slobs, really. Kind of ignorant. Maybe a little racist. And we surround ourselves with bowls of flavored corn chips. But the country’s problems are supposed to be his fault? Does that make sense?

Look at what Obama did to try and get our economy going. He had this big, hundreds of billions of dollars stimulus that was designed by all the great economists who work in his administration — the top minds. It should have worked. The economy should be roaring right now and unemployment a thing of the past. America should be a utopia. So what was missing from the equation? That the people the stimulus was used on are a bunch of lazy dimwits. Obama did everything he possibly could, but apparently Americans just aren’t very good at running businesses and creating jobs. Obama has given us so many advantages that even chimpanzees should have been able to create jobs, but we just sit there like useless blobs while our companies crumble around us. We’re failing the country. We’re failing him.

And that’s not the only time we let Obama down. Remember when he passed ObamaCare? There was Obama, making sure we’d all finally get health coverage and be taken care of when our morbid obesity caught up with us instead of letting us die in the streets like we probably deserve. But what did we do? We ran whining to the Supreme Court, “That mean man is trying to force us to buy health insurance!” He tried to help us — tried to preserve our very lives — and we’re taking him to court because we just don’t like having to do stuff.

So let’s face it: We suck. And while we’re so worried about how the miserable state of the country affects us, none of us ever worries about what it’s doing to Obama. Our horrible economy is making him look like an idiot. Foreign leaders have to be snickering at him behind his back at how badly America is doing, but it’s not his fault. He’s actually done a great job, but we’re the ones who are constantly failing him. Is that fair? It’s like if Tom Landry were saddled with a bunch of out of shape, unmotivated slobs and expected to make them a winning football team. People would make fun of Landry for coaching such terrible players, he’d constantly be yelling at the useless lumps he’s fruitlessly trying to turn into a winning team, and it would be frustrating and pointless for everyone involved.

Is that what we want for ourselves and Obama? Though Obama has slipped and insinuated it a few times, he’s just too concerned about our feelings to come out and say what’s now quite obvious: We’re a waste of his time. Plus I know I can’t take it anymore seeing the disappointment in his eyes every time he looks at us after the new jobs numbers come out. It’s unfair to keep him as our president only to make him watch us fail while tarnishing him in the process. In 2012, we really should just go with some dumb “me want cut taxes” Republican — we deserve no better — and let Obama go on to bigger and better things.