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[speculawyer]

Odingacare?

Edit: oh, cause he's "Kenyan".

Nice catch. I though it is was just a typo.

Apparently it is a whole conspiracy theory.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m.../chain-email/not-a-cent-from-unrelated-obama/

 

[Blader]

No but the way global governments operate will be different and people will have to change the way they live.

That sounds like a fairly drastic change, though. Which, as you pointed out, we're too late for.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

The world will be different in twenty years. NOSTRADAMUS HAS SPOKEN

 

[TheHeretic]

Not me. I gotta pay income taxes and don't want to go to jail.

They can just be paid at the point of transfer, that doesn't keep it as the predominate currency. Same tired points, over and over again.

 

[besada]

The world will be different in twenty years. NOSTRADAMUS HAS SPOKEN

I was literally just about to name check Nostradamus. Get out of my head, Joe.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

They are similar in that 1) creditors can pull the rug from under you and demand higher interest when you roll over your debt, 2) money you spend to service the interest is essentially wasted (or goes to the top 1% in this case), and when you are stuck printing more and more money, everybody will rather take someone else's money.

In what universe? This is like saying " what if the zombie apocalypse happened?"

Fun, but not realistic.

 

[TheHeretic]

In what universe? This is like saying " what if the zombie apocalypse happened?"

Fun, but not realistic.

Because MMT is clearly grounded in hard realism. If something sounds too good to be true, it ain't.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

It'd probably easier to list which select parts of the government they'd keep around.

U.S. Military
Merge Department of Education with the newly created Department of Jesus
Rename the DOJ, Department of Justice for White Folk
The rest of it can burn in a fire.

 

[Sanky Panky]

In what universe? This is like saying " what if the zombie apocalypse happened?"

Fun, but not realistic.

In the universe of the last 7,000 years of civilization. Based on history, It is much more far-fetched to say "what if debt didn't really matter?"

 

[Ourobolus]

U.S. Military
Merge Department of Education with the newly created Department of Jesus
Rename the DOJ, Department of Justice for White Folk
The rest of it can burn in a fire.

Don't forget turning the EPA into the FFFFF (Fossil Fuels are Fucking Fantastic Foundation)!

 

[theprodigy]

Sanky Panky arguing techniques:
when you're proven wrong, keep repeating the same thing over and over again and throw out more conspiracy theories!
hmmm....seems familiar

 

[Vestal]

U.S. Military
Merge Department of Education with the newly created Department of Jesus
Rename the DOJ, Department of Justice for White Folk
The rest of it can burn in a fire.

Soooooo. Nazi Germany.

You forgot the EPA changed to Department of Oil Federalizations(DOOF)

 

[Ourobolus]

How can I forget the Department of Abort the Mother Because She's a Whore?

 

[Savitar]

Boehner's Faceback wall is full of raging nutballs.

If you wanted to drink bitter tears here you go.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

In the universe of the last 7,000 years of civilization. Based on history, It is much more far-fetched to say "what if debt didn't really matter?"

When money became arbitrary. After the gold standard became finally obsolete.

 

[Loxley]

Boehner's Faceback wall is full of raging nutballs.

If you wanted to drink bitter tears here you go.

I have to keep reminding myself that there are around 315 million people in this country and that these psychos are far-and-away in the minority.

 

[wsoxfan1214]

All of the sarcastic responses to my post is proof of the hostility and that the US is slowly falling apart and it's citizens are going against each other. You guys don't even realize it themselves. Meanwhile Boehner and Obama are playing poker and smoking cigars right now while people were financially damaged by the shutdown and angered.

They make it way too easy, Obama and Boehner are geniuses.

Aren't you getting bored of your charade?

 

[Sanky Panky]

When money became arbitrary. After the gold standard became finally obsolete.

Except fiat currency has existed since 10th century China. Since that time, no country has successfully gotten away with printing paper money freely.

It didn't work then, and it won't work in this young 40 year experiment. History may not exactly repeat itself, but it sure rhymes.

 

[reilo]

This thread is turning into a goldmine :lol

 

[Epsilon-delta]

Boehner's Faceback wall is full of raging nutballs.

If you wanted to drink bitter tears here you go.

They're just pissed probably because some liberal Democrat at the workplace was giving them shit about Obama calling Boehners' bluff and now they have egg all over their face. Gotta love those salty tears.

 

[empty vessel]

They can just be paid at the point of transfer, that doesn't keep it as the predominate currency. Same tired points, over and over again.

What does this even mean?

 

[Stumpokapow]

It was brought to my attention that this is basically PoliGAF 2: Talk about Anything Political. Feel free to discuss low-level issues (ie fallout, Republican reactions, the run-up to Jan/Feb) there or create a new thread if there's a specific theme or story to explore in depth. And while it's too late now, it probably would have made more sense for someone to have created a new thread when the news that the shutdown was over occurred.