X2. Excellent.

Yep its about time, the government needs to change its policy in regards to spending. First they need to pull us out of these stale wars so we spend less money, that will help the bottom line right away. Than make cuts until it hurts to balance the budget and start paying down the national debt.

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

No more tax credits for buying a house.

No, lots of tax credit!

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

If you have $10,000 in the bank, it'll only be worth $8000 after this. Ugh.

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Current:
2014 VW Tiguan SEL 4Motion 43,000 miles.

2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (wife's).

Past:
2006 Jetta TDI 135,970 miles. Sold Nov. '13.
1995 E-320 Special Edition. 220,200 miles. Sold Sept. '07.
1987 190-E 16 valve. 153,000 miles. Sold Feb. '06.
1980 300-D 225,000 miles. Donated to the National Kidney Foundation.
1980 240-D manual, 297,500 miles. Totaled by inattentive driver.

Only if you pay cash for the place.

Invite the Head of the Head of the Chamber of Commerce to the White House. The next day announce you are turning the full force of The Dept of Homeland Security loose on employers hiring illegals. Zero tolerance with mandatory fines and or jail time for even first offenders. CEOS are not immune.

No one wants to hear it's bad. They want to be lied to and made to feel good. Look at the success of Reagan and Bush Jr. They lied through their teeth and told people all is good.

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

No more tax credits for children.

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

What would a child do with a tax credit anyway?

put an eye out?

Wanna run for President?

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

I think this guy had a solution.



I bet the Govmint still has a few boxes of these laying around. (They were free for the taking) I'm sure these will work just as well now, as they did then.

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"Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration...
don't Fail Us Now"

I think you're a bit confused about how the Fed works.

The Fed is entirely apart of the government, however control of the central bank is separated from the main branches of government because this allows the bank to maintain "sound" economic principles by not falling prey to the political pressures of Washington.

Contrary to popular belief, the more independent a central bank is from the government, the lower the inflation is.

http://ideas.repec.org/a/mcb/jmoncb/v25y1993i2p151-62.html
Here is a paper I had to read in one of my monetary policy classes by Alesina and Summers highlighting the trend between more independent and government control banks. Page 155 has some graphs comparing independence vs inflation.

There is a difference between monetary (fed) and fiscal (government) policy.

The Federal Reserve Chairmen and its governors (Bernanke) are hand picked by the president and all report directly to the senate committee on finance. They all have 14 year lengths terms. Their positions have to be confirmed by the Senate and they cannot be removed from their positions due to opinions on policy.

There are a handful of positive things that a less valuable dollar can do for our economy. For starters, it makes US exports cheaper to other countries bolstering the manufacturing sector.

However it can also cause the price of oil to rise since oil is priced in dollars. Cheaper USD to other countries means cheaper oil.

"Good" monetary policy is hard. There are multiple paths one can travel down that can be good, but hurt other industries and since there is no right answer there is no panacea to our economic troubles.

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-Typos courtesy of my mobile phone.

Oil really does not end up cheaper for other countries, the price rise in oil is often merely the balancing out of a drop in the value of the dollar, so the only loser is us, while to other nations the price of oil has, in relation to their currencies, remained the same. Since dependence on foreign oil is at the heart of just about all our problems, I think that's a good thing, and that, like the Europeans, a heavy tax on the stuff should be applied as well.

Most Americans are utterly stupid when it comes to the economy. Health care, for example, is 15% of GDP in the US, and 7% of GDP in Germany. That means Germany has 8% of it's GDP to invest in industries that provide more jobs, while in the US, that 8% is going to fat profits for insurance companies and to general administrative waste. Couple that with Germany's lower dependence on foreign oil, and you can see why we are getting our brains beaten out, our investment capital either goes down the health care rat hole or down the foreign oil rat hole. And we seem powerless to do little about it, except for monetary shenanigans.