Reply #31: His words were exhortative. You think it's going to happen? I have a bridge to sell you.

[MADem]

ALL currencies are faith-based. So fucking what? Why do you think that's news, to me or anyone else?

That's why people will take pieces of PAPER for things of value. No one runs around carting gold or silver coins, or pieces of eight anymore, in case you have not noticed.

Why do you think that comment was...profound, or something?

Give us all a list of how many first-line nations or empires sat back on their asses and let that sort of thing happen without taking aggressive steps to reverse the trend.

You also seem to forget that, even with a shitty ecomony, the US is a nation of CUSTOMERS. That's why people love to sell their shit over here--because it's a MARKET. What are these boycotters going to do, sell to each other? That'll do nothing but screw their own bottom line in a huge way.

One way to motivate an economy? Start a war. A big war. I don't endorse this method, but it is one way to do it.

War is a racket--Smedley Butler said that for a reason. But rackets make MONEY. BIG money. You want to see recovery in the auto sector? Get those bastards making more Hummers and tanks. The manufacturing sector? War creates a requirement for bombs, bullets, aircraft, caskets, uniforms, boots, Meals, Ready to Eat...the list goes on and on and on. If wars require stuff, manufacturers will MAKE stuff. In order to make stuff, they have to hire employees. Employees make money, and spend money. Voila--you've got a recovering economy before you know it.

Someone needs to do homework, all right, and it's not me. A few cherries do not make a pie--your perspective, like the perspective of that clown doing the pontificating in that original article, is woefully incomplete.

Hit those books.