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Are you among the lucky few working Americans at a point when labor force participation is at a historically low rate?
I thought women were supposed to stay home and raise the kids?
The chart is damning
Labor Force Participation Rate Plummets To 38-Year Low
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
Based on that chart in isolation, the Great Recession has yet to reach bottom.
P.S. That 38 year period is a near perfect overlap with the time I have spent in the U.S. labor force. (Still in the shrinking pool after 38 years!)
“Are you among the lucky few working Americans at a point when labor force participation is at a historically low rate?”
Indeed I am, lucky for several reasons, and three of these reasons are:
1. I belong to a labor union and …
2. I work in a non-right to work state, and …
3. My job is such a type that it cannot be exported.
IOW, I have it made in the shade. And, to add a bonus reason, the wizards that run the company have adopted the all wonders of Six Sigma, hence I not only get to go to work, I also get to be entertained while I am there.
Life is good.
“I have it made in the shade.”
Your grave mistake.
Dude, you just can’t let anybody else be happy, can you? It’s nice to have that kind of job security. Not many people still have it.
-I hire and fire union labor as a matter of course.
-It is “I got it made” style shallow thinking that ignores lifes reality.
-You take life much too personal my friend.
” adopted the all wonders of Six Sigma, hence I not only get to go to work, I also get to be entertained while I am there.”
ROFL, I love those projects. I know, from the outset, that it’s going to be weeks of time billed with not a single tangible result required for all the billing. Note, I’m not a six sigma guy, just often get pulled into those meetings.
Work? Is that what people do when they’re not skiing? I skied this in 2013:
http://www.picpaste.com/IMG_20151003_092519.jpg
Region VIII
Yes, I have a college degree, white and I am under 65. No complaints from CA.
Didn’t do you any good Liberace
Says the guy who does not understand the power of credit.
Is this a bad time to own stocks?
Ditto for houses?
who was the spoofer buyn all the e mini s&p contracts yesterday?
Me Yellon and his cronies around the world.
“Is this a bad time to own stocks?”
$11Tr says yes.
Just make a list of things that have been run up in price with credit, and if you have cash don’t put it there.
Another day another murder of innocents. Nobel Piece Prize at work….
3 doctors killed in air strike on MSF hospital in N. Afghanistan
The phrase “collateral damage” has always bothered me. That’s what I read this morning about the Doctor Without Borders Clinic casualties. That was horrible. I don’t believe the death toll is known yet.
The cavalier response won’t win us any credibility points.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-03/us-bombs-afghanistan-hospital-kills-9-civilians-injures-37-tosses-it-collateral-dama
Stuff happens!
Somehow this has become routine
Hey, war sucks, and total war totally sucks.
“stuff happens” and it cost a lot of money.
Jeb 2016! He will give us less spending and less gov!
Am I reading this correctly? We bombed a hospital?
Nah. Omaba would never do that.
It’s a war crime.
Will sad pandas ask for Omaba to be tried for war crimes a la Shrub/Cheney?
Speech! Speech, Obama!
Tell us all about “sickness in the head”. And gun control. Speech! Speech!
Would you prefer to call it “friendly fire”?
Meanwhile, the (chuckle) harpy freak “Ambassador” to the UN (giggle)
tweeted…TWEETED (lmao) a sternly worded warning to p-p-Putin BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAROTFLMAO
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-02/foreign-policy-140-characters-or-less-us-ambassador-tweets-warning-russia
(wiping tears from my eyes) You can’t make this stuff up. Seriously, peak goobermint incompetence under Oblammy. I mean, this just gives you an idea how bad it is. It’s just one f-up after another.
I see Arne Duncan is crawling back to Chidcocko, hoping to get out before the chit really hits the fan.
cool bomb a hospital but not a mosque…and we are the good guys….right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY - 290k -
That’s it? A cartoon song? Where’s the spin,man? The cray-cray? You’re just phoning this stuff in, phony.
I even wrote a rap song for you, but I’m not busting it out until we get some quality spin from you.
Where my dog phony wit da full cray-cray?
“Where my dog phony wit da full cray-cray?”
Right here.
Planet Still Standing 500 Days After French Foreign Minister Warned of ‘Climate Chaos’
8:08 AM, Sep 29, 2015 • By JERYL BIER
In May 2014, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry that “we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.” Late last week, time ran out. Fabius’s original remarks were as follows:
Well, I’m very happy to be with John. There is no week without a phone call or a visit between John and myself, and we have on the agenda many items, many issues – Iran, because negotiations are resuming today; the question of Syria, and we shall meet next Thursday in London together; Ukraine as well; and very important issues, issue of climate change, climate chaos. And we have – as I said, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos. And I know that President Obama and John Kerry himself are committed on this subject and I’m sure that with them, with a lot of other friends, we shall be able to reach success on this very important matter.
As THE WEEKY STANDARD reported in May 2014, it is unclear exactly where the foreign minister came up with 500 days, but France is hosting the “21st Conference of the Parties on Climate Change” in from November 30 to December in Paris. The conference is scheduled to begin 565 days after the foreign minister originally issued his warning.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/…-french-foreign-minister-warned-climate-chaos_1038074.html - 105k -
Comment by phony scandals
2015-10-03 14:55:25
Planet Still Standing 500 Days After French Foreign Minister Warned of ‘Climate Chaos’
weeklystandard.com/blogs/planet-still-standing-500-days-after-french-foreign-minister-warned-climate-chaos_1038074.html
Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Hillary
How noncitizens decrease Republican chances of winning the White House next year.
banana republic…this country
Republican idiocy is what’s going to cost them. As usual, they’ll point fingers and learn nothing. Crybaby conservatism is ascendant.
Hillary! Hillary! Hillaryeous!
i hate to admit it but she is right on this one……….
Patriot Coal is trying to take $18 million of the $22 million put aside for retired coal miners, wives and widows and use it to pay its lawyers instead,” Clinton said in a statement provided exclusively to Reuters. “Ensuring healthcare and retirement security should be the first priority in a bankruptcy proceeding, not the last.”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-blasts-patriot-coal-bankruptcy-010809072.html
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
- George Bernard Shaw
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” - Honore de Balzac
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
This depends on whether the fortune was create by adding value (by say, creating a new technology, like a Google, or Intel or Cisco) , or whether the fortune was created via extractive means, like fraud which is bailed out by the taxpayer, or subtle theft from the populace.
The Robber Barons of yore at least left vast infrastructure in their wake, as they created value and also committed crimes. Today’s Robber Barons, primarily in the FIRE sector are most certainly merely extractive.
You bring to mind a question that came to mind when I recently helped my aging parents with their finances. I noticed that some financial planner that advised my dad got them to buy some annuities in Mom’s name a couple of decades ago. Dad had these listed on his asset summary at current market value, but my folks never submitted the form to request payments on these contracts. My impression is that the contracts would expire worthless unless they submit the payment election form.
My question is, how much bank are insurers making by selling annuities to old people who let them expire before receiving any benefits because they don’t understand the product? Seems like a potentially large scam.
We’d need more details on the type of your Dad’s contracts, were they joint/survivor, is your Mom deceased, etc. But I have some experience with annuities and this doesn’t pass the smell test. I find it hard to believe that your Dad has lost significant money on an annuity because of a paperwork oversight.
Mom’s alive and thriving at the ripe old age of 87 and the two contracts they own are in her name. Dad is in much less robust health, at similar age but with a chronic degenerative medical condition.
To start payments, they have to choose between a range of options which include either life only or joint/survivor, and also whether to include a guaranteed period (e.g. life only with 5 years guaranteed would pay out for at least 5 years, regardless of whether Mom survives to age 92).
Which form of payment would you elect under the circumstances? (I have my answer in hand, but am curious what others would suggest…)
I wouldn’t take joint/survivor because you’d be accepting a lower payment in return for the (apparently unlikely) possibility of your Dad continuing to receive payments in the event he outlives your Mom.
As for the guaranteed period, that’s only an issue for you yourself (or whoever their heirs are). If the amounts are substantial and you would feel cheated if your Mom died soon after the annuitization, you may want to take a 5-year guarantee.
Also, if just taking cash is an option, they may want to consider that, if they need money to cover medical bills, etc.
annuities are pure gold to the fin planner industry
“US Beef Prices Fall Again”
http://www.thecattlesite.com/news/48679/us-beef-prices-fall-again/
More positive economic news…… Remember. Nothing accelerates the economy like falling prices of all items, including housing. Nothing.
Swedes are getting their reality check.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/swedens-liberal-reputation-tarnished-as-race-attacks-rise
Swedes made my 330,000 Volvo 940. Great Engineering. 20 years of service, but could not pass the smog anymore.
lying.through.her.teeth.the.whole.time.
maybe not a bad place to live…They seem to appreciate the working stiff…How about a 6 hour work day…Canada may be next;
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QqQIwAGoVChMI7PD74c6myAIVkqSICh0Wuwbq&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2015%2F10%2F02%2Fnews%2Feconomy%2Fsweden-6-hour-work-day%2F&usg=AFQjCNEowdXZNo5zWN6ptA3a88HC0nBxTA&sig2=visjW7h1R_sqbXQIvpxB1w&bvm=bv.104317490,d.cGU
“Steel Prices Fall In US”
http://www.platts.com/latest-news/metals/pittsburgh/hot-rolled-coil-steel-prices-fall-in-us-as-mills-21187404
Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. The only cure of a moribund, ailing economy.
Living-wage jobs going away for good, to be replaced by waiter and bartender jobs in our Obama-Fed-Goldman Sachs “recovery.” What happens when all those service jobs have no one left to service? (Except for the hookers in The Hamptons.)
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/10/02/chart-depicts-new-terrible-trend-in-jobs-mess-fewer-employed/
They already went away. Now the price structure is crumbling as a result of collapsing demand.
anyone in san fran
HBB needs to be first to call the turn
Denver was quick
Chinese money still pouring in. tech bubble collapse is still a year or 2 out.
Plano, TX Housing Prices Crater 9% YoY; Price Declines Spread Across Texas
http://www.movoto.com/plano-tx/market-trends/
The Plano area is booming. Toyota just broke ground on their new 5,000 employee HDQ and Liberty Mutual is about to start on their 2,000 employee campus.
$350k for a median price is extremely high in Texas.
With housing, oil and other prices falling, you’re going to get a growing economy.
Booming? Doubtful.
Housing prices are not falling in the Plano area. Quite the opposite.
It’s reality my friend. Data.
The music will stop at some point but it’s still rolling here right now.
Isn’t socialism grand?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3255914/Woman-relives-nearly-raped-trafficker-smuggled-North-Korea-aged-13-saved-mother-offered-instead.html
Socialism is responsible for your impotence and ear hair too!
Damn straight. Capitalism has cure for it; bailout the rich and hand them cheap money to boot!
“Farmland prices fall 11.3 percent”
http://www.businessrecord.com/Content/Real-Estate-Development/Real-Estate-Development/Article/Farmland-prices-fall-11-3-percent/173/835/70292
Bottlenecked prices resulting in collapsing demand is the problem. Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels resulting in rising demand is the solution.
Comrade Pelosi’s permanent Democrat supermajority will be a fait accompli by 2020 if HillaryJeb gets elected.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/03/politico-illegal-aliens-could-elect-hillary-as-president-in-2016/
The 14th Amendment. The major problems and oddities in our Constitution are pretty much all caused by slavery, our nation’s original sin that haunts us to this day, and maybe forever.
Don’t be a Lola and get a job.
Don’t be haunted by things that have been overcome.
Its relics still litter the Constitution.
Jeb may well be a bigger moron than his brother W.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/oregon-college-shooting-jeb-bush-says-stuff-happens-when-asked-about-gun-control-a6677771.html
Jeb may well be a bigger moron than his brother W. ??
Impossible….
Of course it’s possible. Skippy was the one who installed his bro’ in office, hanging chads and all.
That’s ‘Jeb!’
It’s pronounced, Yeb!
Non-farm payrolls: not enough lipstick in the world to make this pig look pretty.
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/non-farm-payrolls-theres-not-enough-lipstick-in-the-world-to-pretty-up-this-pig/
Last paragraph of that article;
The best we can hope for now is that the insane neocons running the Department of Defense do not start pushing the wrong buttons as a means of deflecting our attention from a system that is economically, financially, politically and socially collapsing…
CraterRage Photo Of The Day
http://goo.gl/OwgBDV
Cedar Park(Austin), TX Housing Prices Fall 6% YoY
http://www.movoto.com/cedar-park-tx/market-trends/
The Fed says that 94.6 million Americans are out of the work force because they “don’t want a job.” While that’s true of many of our exponentially increasing army of Free Sh!tters - sponging off taxpayers is so much more rewarding than going out and finding a job - it ignores that reality that in our Obama-Fed-Goldman Sachs “recovery,” living wage jobs are being wiped out and replaced with temporary, low-wage service jobs in our Oligopoly-ravaged economy.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-02/they-just-dont-want-job-feds-stunning-explanation-why-946-million-americans-are-out-
Went and visited a couple of my recently “bought out to go away” buddies last week.
For starters, their “buy outs” were ridiculously low. Supervisors and engineers with 25-30 years in were only getting about $75-90k.
Most are doing work locally. All the jobs worth having are filled by the local word-of-mouth networks before ever getting to HR. They can get by, because their houses in BFE are paid for. And the few jobs that are put out to the public suck, and don’t pay enough to justify a relocation.
So we have the chicken/egg argument. Did the crappy job market create the FSA, or did the FSA create the crappy “can’t find anyone qualified who will work for table scraps” job market.
Having observed decent paying jobs disapper from this country for the past 40 years, I’m going with “A”.
For starters, their “buy outs” were ridiculously low. Supervisors and engineers with 25-30 years in were only getting about $75-90k.
That’s actually generous now. I’m hearing of places just giving those people their walking papers and 30 days pay.
For the benefit of our non US HBB’ers, in the USA they don’t have to pay you any severance when you are laid off. They only offer you something in exchange for your signature on the dotted line, where you promise to not sue for wrongful termination.
Employers don’t wanna pay. Why toil 2 or 3 jobs to just make 30,000? Makes perfect sense to not work and collect the bennies.
Income from 2-3 jobs, minus the costs associated with holding those jobs (transportation, child care, assuming you can afford it, dead time shuttling between jobs) = $3-4/hour?
IOW, you can go broke sooner and well rested, or go broke later and worn completely out.
The money paid to the FSA is the defacto “minimum wage”. Republicans want to eliminate goodies to the FSA, essentially dropping the minimum wage to zero.
Hello deflation. Good luck selling your house, at any price.
Thanks to the NRA, there are plenty of ways for the wretched refuse to supplement their income. Pretty soon, the cops won’t even bother filling out a report, unless someone gets killed, or the loss is over $5000. And as crime statistics have shown us… If there isn’t a report= it didn’t happen = low advertised crime rate.
Sorta like the “low unemployment number”
Thanks to the NRA? NRA + FSA = ???
Another gun grabber?
What bennies are those? $160 in food stamps? Geee… how great!!
The bennies are 25k a year. For NO work. More for more kids. For no work. But not a de facto minimum wage. A wage is earned. This is a Dole, Lola.
Can you break those down for the single guy who chooses not to work. (not fired) and is a American with a ss#?
How do you get $25 k a yr? Seriously!
18,959 nearby properties found Austin, TX Real Estate and Homes for Sale
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Austin_TX?ml=4
5,634 nearby properties found Austin, TX Price Reduced Homes for Sale
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Austin_TX/show-price-reduced?ml=4
A full 30% of all sellers reduced prices at least once.
The -fixr now has more important priorities than worrying/arguing about this stuff anymore.
Just got invited to be a trainee Sugar Daddy.
Its good to be the King…….
trainee Sugar Daddy.
How does that work?
Hellifino. I’m winging it.
Of course, you may think that the -fixr as Sugar Daddy illustrates how bad things really are out there….
Basically, if I dont want to go to a concert/show by myself, she said to give her a call. Sorta sounds like a “date” to me.
After that……its sorta complicated. No, she isn’t a relative.
Yes, the potential for me to end up on Jerry Springer’s show is high.
Go your own way, fixr, go your own way and avoid trouble.
Veteran here. What in the world do you mean “complicated”?
While lieberals blame the gun on the murders of twelve people in Oregon, the same people are quiet about sixteen unarmed people killed by U.S. government drone strikes in Afghanistan, nine of whom were staff at a hospital without borders.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/airstrike-kills-doctors-without-borders-staff-in-afghanistan-1443851465
Will Barry even bother to pretend crying about statist murders, which happen on a daily basis? He is counting on the American sheoples continued hypocrisy, giving government a pass on mass murder while being angry over lone nut shooters.
Violent crime by citizens in the U.S. dropped by 49% since 1993.
I will not disarm myself before the government disarms.
They would have screamed bloody murderer if it was Shrub/Cheney. The anti war movement is nothing to do with peace. It’s tool for the lefties to gain power. Once they gain power, they will kill, maim as ruthlessly as the right.
And that is exactly what the lefties in power are doing. While you hear nothing but crickets among the lefty State worshippers.
lefty State worshippers.
Hey, we said “stuff happens”. What more do you want?
If those doctors had been carrying, they could have shot those planes out of the sky. It’s probably all fake anyway, just an excuse to take our armed drones away, so only the government has them. And the criminals.
And anyway, Doctors Without Borders sounds commie to me.
I’m just filling in for the lefty State worshippers, they’re still sleeping in. If my opinions seem a little inchoate, it’s because phony is also sleeping one off, and I’m unable to fully form my opinions without his guidance.
You guys always have Fox News.
I already have been cussed at by a lieberal State worshippers with my post of this on FB. Then he said I am name calling. He was so mad he lost any sense of reason if he had any to begin with. It was delightful making him angry and defend Obama. He said I was demeaning Obama. I asked how come pointing out Obama’s hypocrisy is demeaning? Oh you leftists love free speech as long as it is favorable to leftism…
how come pointing out Obama’s hypocrisy is demeaning ??
Its not….What is demeaning of the man, his family and the presidency itself is the “bigotry & dog whistle racism” we have seen from politicians & news outlets alike…
“You guys always have Fox News.”
Libertarian’s have no news media. We cannot stand the gunsg ho war mi gearing and hysteria about immigrants from the right. We cannot stand the anti gun hysteria and anti capitalism from the left on MSNBC.
We libertarians use Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul institute for peace and prosperity, anything by Andrew Napoitano, zero Hedge, anti war.com for our media.
+1, dave. I am no fan of Obama, but sometimes I actually feel desperately sad for him. I really do believe there have been things done that he was powerless to prevent, but that have been done in his name.
Actually, it appears Zero Hedge is pro-war when Russia is waging it.
Open the borders and let the 700 million Indians come who polls say want to come and take you job. 700 million. 700 MILLION.
A genius at the Fed …
“Kocherlakota Says Low Inflation Warrants Further Fed Stimulus”
“‘My main point — this is a time to think about adding accommodation, not a time to be thinking about taking it away,’ he said.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-03/kocherlakota-says-low-inflation-warrants-further-fed-stimulus
Houston, we do not have liftoff. Repeat, the launch has been scrubbed … again.
Houston, we do not have liftoff ??
There are only two that are considering raising rates…USA & BOE…Everyone else is cutting or have cut…Draghie’s monthly purchases are going all the way to the end of 2016…
I really don’t think a .0025 increase is going to have any impact directly on our markets…I think its already baked-in…The problem is it will strengthen our dollar against the other world currencies even further….
If we see further deterioration in the job numbers particularly significant revisions downward I think you are right;
“Houston, we do not have liftoff”…
Kocher-a-lola?
More money-printing is a given. Keynesian lunacy of endlessly repeating the same failed strategies. Weimar 2.0, here we come.
Can anybody who understands John Boehner’s cryptic guidance to his successor as Speaker of the House kindly explain?
“Garbage men get used to the smell of bad garbage. Prisoners learn how to become prisoners, all right?”
I think he’s saying it’s not a particularly enjoyable job.
it’s not a particularly enjoyable job ??
How can it be with some of the lunatics he has to try to manage…
I think he’s saying speakers for the Establishment GOP (and future lobbyists) very quickly learn to come to terms with the miasma of corruption and sleaze hanging over their institution, and learn to love being prison bitches of the Oligopoly, who will willingly shovel K-street drafted legistlative garbage onto the Main Street rubes. That’s my interpretation, anyway.
We need a Teddy Roosevelt up in here.
We need a Teddy Roosevelt up in here ??
One would think that the President would make the difference but with the divide is so great there is not much left in the middle to get to meaningful things done…With this great divide we have, maybe the answer is autonomy…Let each state pass and have their the own laws…If you don’t like the laws of your state, move to one that you like…
Right. He and Wilson were the founders of the “progressive” movement, which brought us permanent federal reserve bank, permanent wars and permanent income taxes (theft).
founders of the “progressive” movement, which brought us permanent federal reserve bank, permanent wars and permanent income taxes (theft) ??
A system in which you have prospered right Bill ?? I know I am right because you constantly tell us how much you have, and how much you make…
How much do I make? Tell me now.
from your job: low six figures?
How much do I make. The question.
C’mon now…. spit it out. How much does he earn?
Every dollar he earns is worth twice the dollar earned by a debt donkey!
he is probably broke.
Most of the people in the U.S. Profit one way or another directly or indirectly from the command economy. It is a fallacy to think they would not profit in a Laissez-Faire economy.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Valdimir Putin:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-03/russia-claims-isis-now-ropes-fighters-desert-after-60-airstrikes-72-hours
whew, that didn’t take long.
Um, yeah. In December 1995 the Russian General Staff said they would crush the Chechen rebels in two weeks. Then they drove in Grozny and got their asses handed to them. And they still haven’t totally suppressed the insurgents in the Caucasus.
I will transmit this to Vladimir.
All kidding aside, Chechens are a whole different animal than a bunch of Langley Arabic assets.
During the war in Chechnya the Russian Ministry of Defense used to release daily tallies of “illegal armed formation” members wiped out, “command centers” hit, etc. It was a joke. Shamil Basayev used to release mocking counterpoints of his own, noting that by Russian MOD figures, every Chechen rebel had been kiled at least five times over. You don’t finish off insurgents from the air. You have to find, fix, and finish them on the ground as well, and that would take tens of thousands of troops. Let the Russians and Chinese deal with that quagmire.
“Let the Russians and Chinese deal with that quagmire.”
+1 I’m all played-out on terrorism; phuc the middle-east!
Russian propaganda. But still I am liking that they are bombing the sh1t out of terrirists we support.
I am convinced that just like al quida was Carter’s brain child and nurtured by Ray-gun, ISIS is Omabs’s brain child. Who will nurture it? Time will tell.
Could be. I remember reading somewhere that both the CIA and KGB, back in the 1970s, each nurtured competing Muslim sects, appealing to their extreme religious edicts, arming and using them as proxies, mainly in Afghanistan. So the old USSR is just as culpable. I guess the CIA’s was Al Queda, not sure what the KGB’s was.
Prior to that, “radical” Islam was pretty much on the way out. But oh, no, the deep states of both the US and USSR had to go and revive it, not only revive it, but put it on steroids and create the craziness we see today. Sick.
This is a cool graphic representation of US immigration throughout our history, showing where each group came from and when. Note the squeeze/”bottleneck” right after the Great Depression.
http://insightfulinteraction.com/immigration200years.html
I thought it was the home grown rebellion. Omaba and the neocons had nothing to do with it.
Russia Accused Of Bombing U.S. Armed Rebels
Jokes write themselves. This country…banana republic.
Who owns your Republicrat candidate?
http://theantimedia.org/who-owns-your-candidate/
In 2008, when the Federal Reserve perpetrated the biggest screw-job on US taxpayers in American history, 95% of the electorate nonetheless meekly bent over and grabbed their ankles on demand by voting for Wall Street water carriers. Ditto for 2012. In 2016, however, the sheeple seem to be getting angrier, and more restive against mindlessly voting for more of the same. So when the Fed bends us over again with NIRP and the next round of QE, will ‘Muricans react with the same docile complacency, or will real resistance surface?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-03/how-will-public-receive-news-more-qe-nirp-cash-bans-and-capital-controls
uncle FED has the best interests of the economy on their minds.
Goon, you Tinder maestro you, did you attend the Amber Rose Slut Walk?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/10/03/breitbart-editor-ejected-from-amber-rose-slut-walk-by-police/