He always has only 2 responses:1) you cannot do that here (i'm serious)2) what you're trying to do is rip someone offNo matter how hard I try to explain that I want to create a win-win situation, he has this core belief that if you're "making money off somebody" then you're scamming them.

Read this Bernanke presentation carefully - it is about as precise as any study I've ever read.My belief about the money supply (M2/M3, not M0 and generally not M1) is probably as close as any, but the DEFLATION caused the most pain in the contraction phase (we're in that now and gaining momentum) - it FELL 30 percent, rather similar to today's RE/Fuel/Machinery pricing trends.

Listening to Republicans and republican policy supporters moan just reinforces my belief that they have learned nothing and deserve no support whatsoever until they acknowledge their part and apologize for this mess and their destructive policies.Hyper-inflation is definitely one of many possible outcomes of trying to save people from collapse in their lives, but what you do differently besides the hands-off, let the financial system work things out themselves attitudes the got us here.

Contrary to popular belief, your time is worth something.

Puritans were a religious group, btw, not a political persuasion and there were many types of them.

It was looked upon by those founding fathers as providing a system so as not to prevent anyone from being able to do what is necessary to provide for their own welfare not "sit on your but and I will give this to you because you voted for me"It also allowed for the communities to provide for those who are trying but were down on their luck without the governmnet prohibiting such activities by regulating commerce or religious organizatons that would help these people.

:wink: This is as religious as I'll get about that idea when I say, "Dear God no."

Yet for some people, they have a religious zealot dedication to liberalism and will fight for it.

There are people that will always follow the most absurd beliefs.

Too often, I feel like the candidates on the right feel the need to push (or at least continue to reiterate) their religious beliefs just to get support of those who have the same beliefs.