Thread "Crash of the US Economy?" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 12:02AM, Feb. 2, 2008

Can this please be moved to the 'Debate & Discussion' area? It's making my alcoholic succubus angry. Aw, hell, there she goes spilling her drink.

Agreed. This topic seems out of place, neh?

Oh, and just for the record, there's a reason Canada has free health care.

Health care sucks in that country.

That is all.

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 2, 2008

Kyupol: Stop with your conspiracy theory crap.
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But however it DOES work, you still don't need to encourage Kyupol's conspiracy garbage.
But it's fun. :/

Have you actually tried doing research?
No, not really, but it doesn't look like you have either.
"Stuff is bad!"
"Really? Why is it bad?"
"Iunno! hur hur hur"

I grew up on property where we used to kill and butcher our own beef.

I have been a vegetarian for over 12 years now and feel very fit and healthy (I try to eat organic where possible).

The biggest problem with eating meat is not so much the poor quality of most meat available from the butcher shops (because of the intensive farming practices where the cattle are fed grain, are crammed in together with no excercise, and are generally stressed).

But 1, the amounts of anti-biotics in the meat, and 2, the massive amounts of adrenalin in it produced in the steer's last hours when it smells all of the fear and death in the abbatoir.

Have you ever listened to cattle waiting for the slaughter, as they scream and bawl from the smell of death that surrounds them? Then when they are killed, often hung with their throats cut while still alive?

Visit an abbatoir and experience it for yourself.

People that eat a lot of meat often have anger problems because they are constantly ingesting adrenalin and other 'fear' hormones produced in the blood and muscles of the terrified cattle.

Sorry for being off subject… The US economy has been artificially 'propped up' again and again when it is threatened. Unfortunately the world trades oil in dollars, so any US crash will invariably damage the rest of the world.

Economists have been warning of the US Crash for many years.

It was held off by the Iraq invasion (Iraq was about to trade in Euros instead of dollars so the US had to invade to prevent this… other countries were threatening to follow suit) and some interesting little tricks pulled off by the Fed (which is privately owned by the way).

Rorl, I share your sense of optimism. The media does propagate fear for a living. Even if things crash as bad as some say, the end result will be positive. Drastic change is often the most productive.

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 2, 2008

I have nothing against vegetarians but I think I wouldn't like to abandon meat altogether. At least back home it's illegal to inject hormones, anti-biotic or any other shit in our livestock or feed them animal products (resulting in mad cow disease). It's funny actually. If I by a bag of cat food, there's a special note stating "do not feed this to your livestock". Thank goodness I don't milk my cat.

Posted at 7:02AM, Feb. 2, 2008

I grew up on property where we used to kill and butcher our own beef.

I have been a vegetarian for over 12 years now and feel very fit and healthy (I try to eat organic where possible).

The biggest problem with eating meat is not so much the poor quality of most meat available from the butcher shops (because of the intensive farming practices where the cattle are fed grain, are crammed in together with no excercise, and are generally stressed).

But 1, the amounts of anti-biotics in the meat, and 2, the massive amounts of adrenalin in it produced in the steer's last hours when it smells all of the fear and death in the abbatoir.

Have you ever listened to cattle waiting for the slaughter, as they scream and bawl from the smell of death that surrounds them? Then when they are killed, often hung with their throats cut while still alive?

Visit an abbatoir and experience it for yourself.

Thanks for actually bothering to come back with a coherent argument; it's appreciated. :)
I eat free-range meat and organic vegetables unless I really can't help it.

Posted at 8:02PM, Feb. 2, 2008

I love it when "elite" people of another country want the United States to fail, yet not realizing that if the US crashes, everyone will go down with it.

Posted at 8:02PM, Feb. 4, 2008

Wasn't our economy revamped way back to avoid depressions? Don't we just have recessions now? I'm not sure we'll ever have another true crash. And I agree with Terminal about the "elite" people. I lol'd with him.

Posted at 10:02PM, Feb. 4, 2008

by "revamped", are you referring to the Greenspan policy of raising and lowering the interest rates to cool down/heat up the economy? that probably doesn't kill off depressions altogether. On the other hand it might be setting things up for a really really big crash. the danger is in taking two-steps-forward-and-three-steps-back, to a point where they'll run out of interest rate percentages to cut one day.

about the eat-don't-eat meat thing, all them shaolin kung-fu fighting monks with balls of steel are pure vegetarians, y'know? why balls of steel? saw a demonstration once where they invited member of the audiences to come on stage and kick 'em in the 'nads, i kid you not.

Posted at 10:02AM, Feb. 5, 2008

The economy is such a whack job. The entire economy is altered by 'feeling's that someone gets…if someone gets a bad feeling, the stock market and economy take a hit. If someone has a good feeling, markets improve. It's like a religion.