On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > (apologies the boomers on this list for my upcoming rant - I'm sure > you're not included :)
> Their parents saved America and then raised a bunch of kids who've > never heard the word no. You mean Gen-x. Baby Boomers grew up with Father Knows best while Gen-x grew up with Roseanne. > It's hard to find an industry or institution that their leadership > hasn't ruined, including our government. The Boomers didn't vote in the guy that just spent $14 trillion dollars in two years and has nothing to show for it. Gen-x did. > I look at this ridiculous squabbling over the *2011* budget, > threatening a shutdown over a few billion? While at the same time > we've got the World's largest math problem that, by CBO estimates, is > now going to hit crisis in 2019. A few billion? GOP want's to cut $6 trillion over ten year. O man will probably hit us up for another $10 trillion for his next project. > The key question is, can these boomers do anything unless they're in > an actual crisis? Of course the answer is no. Both sides are Boomers. So again you're not making sense. > All we can really do is stock up on non-perishable food and other > things we can use to barter. Think about if you couldn't go to the > store for a year; what goods would you need to have? Then start > stocking up on those. Or... we can stop defending the fools that refuse to pass a budget. This is last years budget and the dems still haven't even proposed one. Everything the GOP suggests is stupid. Are you advocating that we just ignore the stupid budget and spend like there's no tomorrow for your children? > Although the good news is that local currencies have been making a comeback: > > Bay Bucks San Francisco area currency. > Burlington Bread Burlington, Vermont area. > BerkSares Western Massachusetts area currency. > Madison Hours Ithaca Hours inspired currency in Madison, Wisconsin. > GLCC River Hours Another Ithaca-inspired Hour, this time in the > Columbia River Gorge area. > Whidbey Terra Whidbey Island Exchange Aren't all those places bankrupt and in need of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335999 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
