tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post4583671733596787553..comments2024-02-11T14:15:58.105-06:00Comments on The Conservative Kitchen Table: Love Letter to Sallie M.lady redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-78431566386526865122014-06-27T17:30:15.714-05:002014-06-27T17:30:15.714-05:00Given the global patterns of energy consumption an...Given the global patterns of energy consumption and production, the economy will be international or it will not exist.<br /><br />I get the case for radical nationalism and self sufficiency. I also get that it will kill several billion globally. Several billion who likely will not go so quietly.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-37717277373220222712014-06-27T07:41:44.601-05:002014-06-27T07:41:44.601-05:00Perhaps we can agree as a first step that if we ar...Perhaps we can agree as a first step that if we are going to insist that debtors play by the rules, then the government must ensure that the creditor agencies do so as well? And, perhaps, not allow them to set aside $70 million to pay for illegal and abusive practices as a mere administrative matter?<br /><br />I'm all for playing by the rules, so long as they are evenly enforced. <br /><br />However, in the wake of the Wall Street Bailout, it is very clear that there are no rules and that the elites will plunder the Treasury at will to make losses public while using every measure at hand, including abusive collection practices, to ensure profits remain private. <br /><br />As I said at the time, this is not going to work. And now the toothpaste is out of the tube. I think most people now realize that people who play by the rules are fooling themselves.<br /><br />If the USG is a plaything that can be used to enrich one's tribe, why should ordinary, middle-class Americans not join the fun? After all, they are expected to pay for the rest, including powerful Wall Street mega-banks like Goldman Sachs, an organization that is CLEARLY nothing more than yet another boring Transnational Organized Crime Organization (though with better suits, one must admit).<br /><br />This is the world the elite wanted. They now have it.<br /><br />When you add to this their war on middle-class Americans in the form or massive legal and illegal immigration, the writing is on the wall. The rules are out the window and it's kill or be killed. <br /><br />Prediction: Right now, the old divisions between the Jeffersonians and the Jacksonians prevent any opposition; however, the hubris of their joint, Wilsonian/Hamiltonian enemies will eventually drive them together. At that point, the game is up. I suspect in 20 years we won't even think of the economy as something that is international anymore, as whatever new powers that be radically re-write the rules.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-56575073245052067512014-06-27T06:46:09.843-05:002014-06-27T06:46:09.843-05:00Also, forgiving student loans would be akin to bai...Also, forgiving student loans would be akin to bailing out home mortgages. Those who were prudent and sensible when buying their home saw their tax monies distributed to mortgage companies holding underwater notes,while the mortgagees will be dancing all the way to the bank when the market recovers. There were MANY people incensed at that little ploy, but anger didn't stop the powers-with-the-pursestrings. Anger won't stop them from forgiving student loans either, whether for votes or because our economists want to fiddle with the money to prevent a "crash".lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-24212974902467641162014-06-27T06:15:10.917-05:002014-06-27T06:15:10.917-05:00Yes it would lewy. Also, the taxpayers who chose n...Yes it would lewy. Also, the taxpayers who chose not to go to college and incur this massive debt will be looking for torches and pitchforks.<br /><br />Then, the race baiters will jump in the fray and demand that college be paid for by the gov't for black people and for brown people....and then, the ADA cheerleaders will demand college for every American with a disability, including low IQ. And on and on and on.<br /><br />Like I said. Selling America's soul.lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-35955379727786612682014-06-26T20:20:10.148-05:002014-06-26T20:20:10.148-05:00Only one problem with forgiving the student debt.
...Only one problem with forgiving the student debt.<br /><br />It would make fools of everyone who paid theirs.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-84745472456344423272014-06-26T18:32:12.018-05:002014-06-26T18:32:12.018-05:00I love your letter. I abhor Sallie Mae. Go get ...I love your letter. I abhor Sallie Mae. Go get 'em!lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-12764215324771774142014-06-26T18:31:03.650-05:002014-06-26T18:31:03.650-05:00Don't worry Jourdan. Either Barry O. will forg...Don't worry Jourdan. Either Barry O. will forgive your debts, or Hillary Carpetbagger will forgive them after the next election. <br /><br />I suspect that even tea partiers would vote to have their damnable, back-breaking student loans erased. Hillary (or whoever) would be a shoo-in. <br /><br />Unless...the Repub candidate ALSO promised to flush all this debt. That would be evil, of course. And brilliant. Utterly brilliant.<br /><br />Giving money back to the producers would certainly stimulate the economy. Housing sales would boom, new cars would fly off the lot, and stores would post record profits. And another bit of America's soul would be owned by the devil. Or the Chinese. Or both.lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.com