thi s a thread full of scared little whiny idiots.

unbelievable trash.

longweekend58 wrote on Nov 29^th, 2011 at 5:17pm:



So you know better than the economists longy? In 2007 we could excuse your ignorance because very few economists picked up on the global financial crises that later hit.

This time we have history on our side and in our face on a daily basis if you care to watch some "global news".

You are ignoring the facts because you are heavily mortgaged and you stand to lose out big time. Bad luck! you should have listened instead of laughing in the face of good advice.

You better choose two tents and an en-suite because you'll be in them for a long time.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 29^th, 2011 at 5:52pm:


Actually Pansi, if Longy was heavily mortgaged, and the world turns to Sh!t and hyperinflation is the order of the day, Longy would actually stand to gain significantly if heavily indebted; the debt would be absolutely worthless and could likely be retired with a weeks wages.

Just as a side note: They say you could line all the worlds economists head to toe around the equator and they still won't reach a conclusion.

Even a stopped watch is right twice a day!

It_is_the_truth<<So, I propose that leftards be sent to Mars instead - after all, they are used to being weaklings. >>
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The leftards will do very well on this beautiful planet called earth thankyou. We will clean it up and bring it back to health after you greedy capitalist pigs get off with your filthy CO2 pollution and your filthy mining industries.

Righties are dirty polluters poo!!!

Back to nature!!!! and pristine oceans mmmmmmmmmm

A post from a while back... from Alastair Cooke's 'Letter from America' regarding Franklin Roosevelt's 'New Deal' response to the great depression...

Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ and his signing of a welter of new laws were designed as he put it ‘to punish the economic royalists and spread the resources of the national government to the lowest in the land’, not least the 13 million jobless who had been there when he went into the White House. These ‘economic royalists’ – the bankers and captains of industry felt Roosevelt had betrayed them – which he had.

Roosevelt had campaigned to dismantle the bureaucracies of the central government and return its powers to the sovereign states. But once he was President, (as Cooke eloquently put it), ‘he suddenly looked beyond Washington and the east coast and the social landscape he’d inhabited and adorned. He lifted his eyes to the bankrupt farmers and the small businessmen of the mid-west and the bread lines outside the smokeless steel mills and the locked automobile factories and to the scurvy-ridden farmers of the deep south and the forlorn stevedores of the pacific coast and the one family in three or four that had nothing coming in… and he changed his mind’.

He decided that the states had neither the will, nor the power nor the money to rescue their own people and asked congress to give him powers ‘as great as would be given me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe’ and Congress, fearful of the disaster that had befallen the country, gave it to him. He ruled virtually by decree. Some of his ideas were fanciful and half baked and came to nothing, but his first vision, 'is the one he made real and the one for which he will always be remembered and the one that established the national consensus of the duties of the national government that is not going to be changed'.

Cooke goes on to describe his shock and ‘alarmed admiration’ on first seeing the President in the flesh. Virtually paralysed from the waist down, his upper body, heart and will had doubly strengthened to meet the challenges of his disability.

Finally Cooke recites the words of a sworn enemy of Roosevelt (Westbrook Peggler) who’d finally broken down and offered this eulogy to the great President. “As a social and political liver shaker he’s had no equal in our time in this country. Ornery, tricky, wayward and strong as a bull, he looked nice and dressy back there in 1932. There was nothing in his past record to indicate what a cantankerous hide he would turn out to be. Yet never in our time have people been so conscious of the meanness which a complacent upper class will practise on the [lower classes] and the government’s duty to do something real and personal for the assistance of those who are so far down that they can’t help themselves. If the country doesn’t go absolutely broke in his time, it will be a more intelligent and better country after him”.

Will the US and Europe soon need to elect their own respective 'Roosevelt'?

corporate_whitey wrote on Nov 29^th, 2011 at 6:16pm:

Maybe Australia will one day need a Roosevelt.

Life_goes_on wrote on Nov 29^th, 2011 at 5:58pm:


I'm not full of doom and gloom. If the  Market tanks tomorrow I'm prepared. I do seem to be better informed than you are though.


http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/201111/s3374648.htm