tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post6747076748155926541..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Recipes for the Greater DepressionBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-52193340640882050022010-11-20T18:12:31.058-08:002010-11-20T18:12:31.058-08:00In other words, Simple Bowels are full of shit. We...In other words, Simple Bowels are full of shit. Well, duh. We knew that. But thanks for one more piece of data showing it :).<br /><br />- Badtux the Foodie PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-55714436096650007022010-11-20T16:53:16.509-08:002010-11-20T16:53:16.509-08:00The reality is, if the vigilantes or speculators t...The reality is, if the vigilantes or speculators thought any of the things that Simpson Bowles are saying, Bond prices would collapse, which is another way of saying that interest rats would go up. Aint happening.<br /><br />On quibble on the inflation : employment trade off. If you look at the SGS alternate, which seems to be a more honest measure, over the last 16 years there's a pretty fair inverse correlation between inflation and unemployment.<br /><br />http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data<br /><br />Note also, that by their reckoning, GDP growth has been stagnant to anemic since the beginning of Reagan's first term, and in the sewer for a decade.<br /><br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-21989959279087102552010-11-20T09:01:44.177-08:002010-11-20T09:01:44.177-08:00I detest euphemisms like "bond vigilantes&quo...I detest euphemisms like "bond vigilantes" and "the market." What those terms mean is "speculators." There is no such thing as "the market," only a mass of maggots who are scheming on how to screw things up so they can grab more money. And they don't give a rat's ass if they destroy lives or entire countries when they do it.<br /><br />Why is it that the messed meeja considers a word like "speculators" too much of a value judgment to use, but they'll gladly employ cover-up phrases? Fucking bunch of lily-livered pussies, or pussy-livered lilies...Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-78781697136755041142010-11-20T05:44:15.001-08:002010-11-20T05:44:15.001-08:00If the Cat Food Commission really was about cuttin...If the Cat Food Commission really was about cutting deficits, they wouldn't be supporting tax cuts for corporations and the rich. This commission is about transfer of income and wealth from the middle class and the poor to the rich.libhomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-58624978388838670802010-11-19T23:27:40.719-08:002010-11-19T23:27:40.719-08:00Well... yes. But that's in this reality, where...Well... <i>yes</i>. But that's in <i>this</i> reality, where there's a lack of demand causing a lot of folks to be out of work, not in <i>their</i> reality, where unicorns are real, cotton candy grows on trees, and tax money apparently just disappears into a black hole rather than, err, being <i>spent</i> and re-entering the economy again, thereby putting money in people's pockets, thereby creating demand, thereby creating jobs ... oops, here I go with that reality stuff again! My bad!<br /><br />- Badtux the Snarky PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-81650390265239174142010-11-19T23:16:27.514-08:002010-11-19T23:16:27.514-08:00A massive job killer would be slashing the federal...A massive job killer would be slashing the federal budget, just the opposite of the Catfood Commission claim. But then, republicans do want everything to collapse.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.com