Gasoline Prices and Speculators: They Think You Are Stupid

[denner]

Quote from Ricter:

Lol, sour grapes.

Write some substantive retort or leave the conversation to the grown ups.

Links to Krugman and a few poorly labelled graphs do nothing for your argument.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from pspr:

We could put tarrifs on Chinese goods and send them back to third world status.

I know you're not listening and that's normal, but we cannot afford to lose China as a customer.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from denner:

Write some substantive retort or leave the conversation to the grown ups.

Links to Krugman and a few poorly labelled graphs do nothing for your argument.

Oh! It's the labels on the graphs you don't like.

 

[Hello]

I fully agree that Bush basically did the exact same thing. The destruction of the USD been the U.S. monetary policy for years.

I am still up in the air in terms of whether or not i believe it is "deliberate" in the sense that they are intentionally crushing the middle class, or deliberate in the sense that they are following an agenda they are actually naieve enough to believe is good for america.

There is no question in my mind that what they are doing is deliberate, the only question is whether or not they actually believe what they are doing is good, or they are crushing america for their own personal reasons.

Quote from denner:

It's a deliberate attempt to bankrupt the middle class and destroy the sovereign individual. Without the means to keep pace with the inflation and the dollar debasement, he/she will be forced to either borrow more (favor the banks) or live off of government assistance (cynically, a ploy to gain another Democratic voter). Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this was a big part of Bush's playbook as well, so it is a bit unclear which party this does benefit. In either event, it's a crude way to create more loan demand at some point as it forces borrowing (just like the higher education scam) where no middle class parent can afford to drop anywhere from $80k-$200k for these costs. Heck, private secondary schools are running $10-15k a year as well.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from denner:

The fact that you are posting on this forum 24/7 leads me to believe that your "income" are a bunch of direct deposits from the Canadian government.

Ad hominem, you have lost this one.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Hello:

I fully agree that Bush basically did the exact same thing. The destruction of the USD been the U.S. monetary policy for years.

I am still up in the air in terms of whether or not i believe it is "deliberate" in the sense that they are intentionally crushing the middle class, or deliberate in the sense that they are following an agenda they are actually naieve enough to believe is good for america.

There is no question in my mind that what they are doing is deliberate, the only question is whether or not they actually believe what they are doing is good, or they are crushing america for their own personal reasons.

The middle class is being squeezed because their jobs have been going overseas. It's not deliberate, it's "built into" capitalism--capital goes where the returns are to be found.

 

[Hello]

Quote from Ricter:

The middle class is being squeezed because their jobs have been going overseas. It's not deliberate, it's "built into" capitalism--capital goes where the returns are to be found.

I already said what i would do to address this in my intitial post, and i fully believe what you are saying,(as it pertains to the middle class in the private sector) but re-read my initial post and look at why i think we are fucked from all angles as it pertains to that problem, and current government policy.

I am working on a response to your initial post right after this, i simply wanted to respond to denner cause he was the first to respond to me.

 

[denner]

Quote from Ricter:

Ad hominem, you have lost this one.

No, I simply touched a nerve.

You are making all this income, but spending all your time trolling on this site. Sure, makes sense.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from denner:

No, I simply touched a nerve.

You are making all this income, but spending all your time trolling on this site. Sure, makes sense.

You went ad hominem because you touched one of my nerves??

 

[denner]

Quote from Ricter:

You went ad hominem because you touched one of my nerves??

Not even witty.

Maybe you can get your neighbor, Gabfly to write copy for you.