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Comment on What am I going to do about it? Five things we can all do to be ready for whatever may come. by dlhitzeman

dlhitzeman — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:39:03 +0000

I agree that bartering can be a powerful tool, but I wonder how many people have any real sense of what anything is actually worth. Most people have been just paying whatever the marked price is. Many people also produce very little barterable goods.

Comment on What am I going to do about it? Five things we can all do to be ready for whatever may come. by Keneil

Keneil — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:11:40 +0000

You might add bartering. If money is scarce many times the barter system works just as well.

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Comment on Looking ahead by dlhitzeman

dlhitzeman — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:42:38 +0000

JD Johannees makes his own predictions.

Comment on Born to die by mom

mom — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:51:06 +0000

And never will I be able to thank Him enough for His gift to me. So it is my task with my meager abilities to serve Him and share this great gift with those around me. I ask for His forgiveness for the times I fail and for strength to continue to do His work until that day when I will be with Christ and all the saints in Heaven. Blessed Christmas to you!

Comment on So, really, do you need any more evidence? by djhitz

djhitz — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:56:06 +0000

It’s hard to imagine a lot of people who’s careers in the private sector were so budding, they decided to take public office and seem needy. Perhaps this is just a way to skim fat off the top before the soup lines open in our sector. I hate to say to humbly grant this Christmas gift from the quiet American, voting populace. If things do not improve before the next time, they do this again then lobby like a “two ton heavy thing” before the ink dries on a new bill.

Comment on What is really wrong with the economy by dlhitzeman

dlhitzeman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:51:01 +0000

My goal has always been to participate in the process by which the federal government is reduced to its Constitutionally mandated role. I really don’t care which politicians accomplish that task, as long as they do.

I agree, business should run business.

Comment on What is really wrong with the economy by djhitz

djhitz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:49:30 +0000

I hear you. In previous posts, I thought you were inaffectively looking forward to 2010 and 2012 to reestablish, conservativism into congress. Sorry, I was blinded by the moment (2008 Election).
President(-elect) Obama will only be there for a short time. After his term, our government will still be there. Let’s vote out, our dead wood, senate in 2010. Put back in effective, conservatives, libertarians and the like to revolutionize our government from within, This will be a good thing and might lead to supporting democracy rather than socialism.
Business should run, business not government run, business, right?

Comment on Bailing out the wrong people by djhitz

djhitz — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:10:34 +0000

The main reason, your, constant dissent, theory is dead in the water, today is out of convenience, a dirty word causing deevolution. In colonial times our work was more, third worldish.
If American folks had to go back to being horse drawn. The speed, ethic would be out the door. Imagine what that’d do to FedEx and every shipping business and auto and truck industry.
If you wanted a car. You’d have to build it yourself. If you wanted to fuel it. You’d have to mine the oil and refine it, yourself.
If you wanted electricity. You’d have to build your own, dynamo.
If you wanted gas heat. You’d have to tap the natural gas itself, deliver it and burn it efficiently. Nowadays fire light and heat seem fun. Imagine them as necessity.
We thought, we had all this stuff, about technology, down pat.
What about the food business? Last I checked, another cornfield’s become a housing addition or a Wal-Mart parking lot. Don’t, we have enough homes, people can’t afford?
Americans are not willing to part with their M-TV, so to speak. They just want to sit on their duffs, watch TV and not be directly involved with their leadership and complain about it.
If you want a government to work for its people, advertise that it’s a good idea and send them their first set of change of instructions, because the average American has lost his/her, minuteman appeal. Haven’t they?

Comment on Why the bailout plan will fail by dlhitzeman

dlhitzeman — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:13:20 +0000

The problem that I see with the unwillingness to take risk is the assumption that the status quo will remain as it is. The current economic situation, which is a direct result of people assuming the status quo will remain when it, in fact, failed, is a perfect example of why the people need to do something.

Consider the consequences if we do not act: billions of dollars in investments have and are being proved to be frauds (not just Madoff; think Enron and Worldcomm) while trillions more are being promised, not to help anyone like the taxpayers, but to keep business whose products have already been proven to be unprofitable or fraudulent themselves (think subprime mortgages) in business.

From my perspective, I have no choice but to act. My future is being directly threatened by the self-centered choices being made by greedy and immoral politicians and businesspeople who obviously do not care what the country might look like thirty or fifty years from now. I cannot afford not to act if I do not want to live like a peasant.

Historically, these are exactly the kinds of conditions that caused our Founding Fathers to toss tea in Boston Harbor and draft a Declaration of Independence. I think we are getting really close to needing to do those very kinds of things again.