ZerkonXXXX wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:54:25 -0700, DB wrote:


I'm sure you didn't mean those people who work, are given subsistence
aid, or help because they're poor?

Did you?
Welfare to the poor is only a distraction while the Bankers pick your
pockets clean!

I think what we are faced with today runs deeper.

While bankers have, well, forever 'picked pockets' the newer thief on the
block is a modern economic basic. Namely, making money from money only as
opposed to the products/labor of money.

Not that this has not happened before, after all capitalism is making
profit from ones capital, but capitalism, until recently, invested in
product and the labor needed to produce products. Now that many products
and the labor needed have been outsourced, these investments are put into
debt. A "anti-product" actually, a thing based on labor not yet done and
product not yet produced.

Capitalism has become based on promises to pay yet never really wanting
the promises to be filled. The old economic virtue of paying off ones
debts has been replaced with that of debt service.

We don't live in a capitalist economy. What we live in is a
socialist/communist economy that attempts to masquerade as capitalism.
Any time there is a problem, 'capitalism' is to blame, even though it
had nothing to do with it. The solution? More socialism/communism.

Credit is killing the economy and it will kill again.

THE BEST INDIVIDUAL ADVICE that can be given is *get out of debt, NOW!*
Live within your means; be financially responsible and follow a budget.

Credit and debt are tools of the devil, get out of bondage, get out of debt.