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Because the Federal Reserve is buying $100 billion worth of government debt a month. They are paying for the deficit by printing money. I think rising prices will hurt the economy. Many people can't afford to pay more for food and gas. The Federal Reserve is playing a dangerous game with these inflationary policies. Honestly, I can't see many foreign countries like China buying very many more bonds. I think the Fed will end up having to buy more. There will probably be QE3 which will be significantly larger then QE2.

Do you not see any problems with your economy?

I really think your economy needs to focus more production then consumption in order to fix the economy. I don't think you will be able to spend your way out of this one.

What makes you believe that inflation will solve the problem?

Your country has to artificially pump in $100 billion a month in order to keep the economy afloat. Goldman Sachs says they may need to pump in $2 trillion this year in order to keep it going. You really don't see anything wrong with your economy. Your Government along with the Federal Reserve have screwed you along with every other citizen in your country over. The standard of living will fall for Americans as the cost of living rises. The middle class is dying while Wall Street's profits soar. Wall Street set to pay out record $144 billion Gerald Celente pointed out that that would rank #49 in GDP of the world's countries. Do you really not see what is going on.

I could take this the conspiracy way and say that the Federal Reserve is bringing down the U.S. Dollar and economy in order to gain public support for implementing some sort of North American or global currency by claiming it to be some sort of savior. No it isn't. Countries are flooding the market with currencies, precious medals are bound to go up in this environment. I started buying silver at $16.50/ounce, its now worth $26.00/ounce and will continue to go up because of programs like QE2 and other central banks inflationary policies.

I hope you guys have been buying silver like I advised you to. With QE2 the Federal Reserver will be pumping $100,000,000,000 into the economy a month for the next 6 months. The dollar will continue to fall driving up commodities, last I saw silver was up $1.50 today. The dollar is collapsing.

...I really thought prop 19 was going to win.

The problem with having debt as money is there will always be higher debt levels then dollars in circulation because of the interest. Inflation is necessary in order to pay off the interest of the debt but that only leads to more debt which will then need more inflation which leads to more debt... Very rarely do wages keep up with inflation and in that case savers and the working class get robbed of wealth. The positive thing with having gold or silver as money is it is debt free.

That is a very dangerous game to play. What is so bad about a drop in wages if prices drop too? A gold standard is a way to keep the government in line. There we go, fractional reserve banking is a big part of the problem. Banks should not be allowed to create wealth out of nothing and then charge interest on it. under this system, banks grow too large, they start gaining too much power and influence over the economy, then they start rob the citizens of their property.

You're wrong, Keynesian economics will lead to the collapse of the U.S. dollar.

They count unemployment differently now. Some say real unemployment numbers are somewhere between 15%-20%. The surface of the U.S. economy may be shining right now but the inside rots. Bernake is inflating the dollar in order to help the economy and as a result the dow is rising because it is measured in dollars. What people aren't looking at is how inflating the dollar is hurting the savers. Prices will rise, the cost of living will rise and because of that unemployment will rise. Not too mention that the stimulus isn't the real economy, once it disappears many of the jobs associated with it will disappear as well. The stimulus is more of a bubble to the economy then a fix.

No, no it isn't. You have to much faith in Keynesian economics. Keynesian economics is what lead to the problem in the first place, it won't solve the problem. America's economy and China's economy are intertwined, I am not denying that. If America falls, China will feel it. China relies heavily on Americans to by the cheap crap they make. That being said, China is looking to other countries to trade with because they see how terrible the U.S. economy is doing. China won't continue to buy American bonds when the U.S. dollar continues to lose value, that would be a terrible investment. Eventually China along with other countries will stop buying American bonds, when that happens, America will turn to the Federal Reserve to buy bonds. If that happens, the dollar will inflate risking hyper inflation killing the U.S. dollar along with their economy. You have to look at what China has been spending their money on. They have been building trains, improving their infrastructure while America has been spending its money on wars. China is in a lot better shape then America.

If you listen to Alex Jones interview Peter Joseph the creator of the Zeitgeist movies, you will see why I dislike Alex Jones. Alex can be very repetitive and close minded to new ideas. I don't completely right off Alex Jones but I would rather listen to something like Coast to Coast A.M. As for government wrongdoings, it blows my mind that nobody was charged for lying about WMD's being in Iraq. I don't know if we are more compliant then ever before, that being said, I never lived anytime before now so I can't really say for sure.

I read 1984 after I saw VFV, I liked 'em both. That was a pretty good watch. You should give Zeitgeist a watch, it is divided into 3 parts, 1st is religion, 2nd 9/11, 3rd the federal reserve. The first 2 parts are alright but if you are willing to watch any of them, watch the 3rd part.

All that means is that wall street is seeing higher profits by using cheap labour. China won't continue to finance the American government, they are losing too much money with the devaluating U.S. dollar. They will soon cut and run from the dollar, when that happens the dollar will come crashing down. China holds the power.

Those were implemented on a failed terrorist attack, what would happen if an actual terrorist attack occurs, what happens if it is of the same scale of 9/11. Also, have you heard of the Patriot Act? It may not be as extreme of a case as in Nazi Germany but America is headed in a similar direction. I wasn't trying to impress you. You dismissed my definition of fascism even though I took it almost word for word out of my text book, that was my point.

You got it backwards, China owns America.

I'm taking political science at the University of Winnipeg, most of the definition I said came strait out of my text book. I didn't redefine anything. Phil Donahue was fired from MSNBC. Well, we were the only antiwar voice that had a show, and that, I think, made them very nervous. I mean, from the top down, they were just terrified. We had to have two conservatives on for every liberal. I was counted as two liberals. - Donahue He was the top rated show on MSNBC at the time. Jesse Ventura It was awful. I was basically silenced. When I came out of office, I was the hottest commodity out there. There was a bidding war between CNN, Fox and MSNBC to get my services. MSNBC ultimately won. I was being groomed for a five day-a-week TV show by them. Then, all of a sudden, weird phone calls started happening: “Is it true Jesse doesn’t support the war in Iraq? His show was cancelled before it even began. That is the mainstream media, it is used to serve special interest groups. The Federal government has been taking rights and liberties away from citizen in order to protect them from terrorists.

These levels are too high. Yes it is a bad idea. The government has created a bubble economy threw inflating the currency, inflation will lead to an increase cost of living. In the U.S, many people are already struggling to get buy, they won't be able to afford the higher prices. Goldman Sachs has said "expect higher gas prices in 2011 & 2012".

Fascism doesn't necessarily mean having governmental control over all of that, fascism is the merger or state and economic powers with an aggressive use of nationalism and with a natural belief in inequality....America. An apology is good enough, it does us no good living in the sins of yesterday. If Germany wishes to help others, they should do so because helping others is good thing to do not because they feel they are indebted to others. America should forgive Al Qaeda. 9/11 killed 3000 people. According to CNN, nearly 7000 coalition troops have died in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Thousands of more Iraqis and afghans have died or been displaced. These wars are and will continue to create bigger problems the longer they go on.

Hitler used fear and nationalism very well in order to control the German people. Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. - Adolf Hitler Neoconservatives in America are doing the exact same thing. If fascism is the merger of state and corporate powers, by that definition America is fascist. The war in Iraq wasn't a war by the people, it was a war by and for special interest groups. I think there is the possibility of martial law occurring in America in the next few years. As the economy continues to deteriorate, more and more social unrest will occur, this could lead to food riots and all sorts of other problems.

I don't know if you can compare Bush to Hitler but you can probably compare fascist Germany to fascist America.

Exactly, science and technology solve problems. We should apply that to solving poverty and other problems that plague society instead or relying on politicians.

It was grassroots, I saw it come to be. I never really listen to speeches from Palin, she supported McCain, I lost interest in her right there. I think Palin is an attempt to co opt the movement. O'Donnell supports smaller government, Ron Paul has been preaching that message for years, that is why they support her. That is exactly why the Tea Party will gravitate to him next election like they did the last election, they are tired of all the lies and deceptions. Come the November mid term election, the Republicans will take control. The people will think that change will actually be coming like they did when Obama came into office, they will be left disappointed again, nothing will change. These next few years watch to see protesting rise in America as the economy continues to unravel and the dollar collapses.