Comments on: No Armageddon, Not Yet http://dougist.com/2009/05/no-armageddon-not-yet/ Douglas Barone Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: mutuelle http://dougist.com/2009/05/no-armageddon-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-362 mutuelle Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:55:36 +0000 http://dougist.com/?p=247#comment-362 <p>I agree Ebmeier,but we have to stay optimists, we have good leaders</p> I agree Ebmeier,but we have to stay optimists, we have good leaders

]]> By: Ebmeier http://dougist.com/2009/05/no-armageddon-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Ebmeier Sat, 09 May 2009 01:39:21 +0000 http://dougist.com/?p=247#comment-343 <p>The most meaningful observation in all of that text (in my humble opinion of course), is that we now, courtesy of an obscene debt load, have a political economy. We have a commander-in-chief who removes executives from office, and chooses companies to stand with, and not stand with... our economy has become a vacuous political match in which the wrong side (meaning spenders) have possession of ball for the entire fourth quarter.</p> <p>When I looked back through history at civilizations extinct, I wondered whether the people of those times, in those times, recognized the turning point. We've crossed the Rubicon, jumped the shark, given up on fiscal responsibility. The numbers are simply incomprehensibly large.</p> <p>This guy is great. I met him this week in DC. I want to move to Wisconsin. http://www.house.gov/ryan/video/32409GND.htm</p> The most meaningful observation in all of that text (in my humble opinion of course), is that we now, courtesy of an obscene debt load, have a political economy. We have a commander-in-chief who removes executives from office, and chooses companies to stand with, and not stand with… our economy has become a vacuous political match in which the wrong side (meaning spenders) have possession of ball for the entire fourth quarter.

When I looked back through history at civilizations extinct, I wondered whether the people of those times, in those times, recognized the turning point. We’ve crossed the Rubicon, jumped the shark, given up on fiscal responsibility. The numbers are simply incomprehensibly large.

This guy is great. I met him this week in DC. I want to move to Wisconsin. http://www.house.gov/ryan/video/32409GND.htm

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