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Archive for November 14th, 2011

We have “no” or “very little” inflation, right?

Well, if you’re talking about wages this is absolutely true.  But how about prices?

If you don’t want to eat, maybe.  But what if you’d like Thanksgiving dinner?

The cost of a Thanksgiving dinner in the U.S. will jump 13 percent this year, the biggest gain in two decades, as prices rose for everything from turkey to green peas to milk, the American Farm Bureau Federation said.

A meal for 10 people on the holiday, which falls on Nov. 24 this year, will rise to $49.20 from $43.47 last year, the biggest increase since 1990, based on foods traditionally served including stuffing and pumpkin pie, the farm group said today in a release. Turkey was the most expensive and had the biggest gain, with a 16-pound bird up 22 percent at $21.57.

When will we, the people, hold Washington account for its lies?

The truth:

U.S. consumers are paying record prices, including hams, ground beef, bread, flour and cheese.

For how long will you continue to tolerate this gross abuse?

CBS News

and…

 CBS News

Insider trading by Congress; I’ve been covering this since The Ticker began.  It’s legal for them to do what you or I would go to prison for.

And finally… 60 Minutes gets a few quotes and a nice story….

Are you still willing to consent to being governed by this group of people in Washington DC?

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Damn we don’t learn, do we?

Merkel has suggested she would like to see the EU have the right to interfere in national budgets in extreme cases where euro zone stability is put at risk. But Germany has stopped short of that in its proposals and asks rather for sanctions for those that breach deficit rules to be written into the treaty.

This would involve the right to challenge states at the European Court, to have their budgets declared void, without meddling further in the details.

Uh huh.  Void a budget eh?  So what can you spend without a budget?  That would be…. nothing, right?

So what is the fundamental function of a government?  Why it is to provide services to the people that enable it (remember, all governments exist with the consent of the governed.)  What Merkel and the rest of Germany proposes is nothing less than the arrogation to themselves of the sovereign right of other nations.

That’s what happens in a war ladies and gentlemen, and whether its done with a briefcase or a gun it is in fact the same thing.

The inevitable outcome of this action will be the same too, just as it was in the early 1900s and then again in the 1930s.

And people wonder why I have said that the “Tea Party” has no claim to anything here, as they sold out immediately upon election and have utterly refused to demand that the people and institutions responsible for the mess we are in be held to account.  In fact we have both sides of the aisle claiming that “there was no lawbreaking” going on — of course as I have repeatedly documented this is only true if you ignore repeat offenses in securities laws, money laundering for drug cartels and the filing of over a hundred thousand perjured affidavits — for openers.

As a direct and proximate cause of this willful aversion of eyes, along with the complicity and active involvement of both major political parties, we’re seeing the inexorable march of the same dynamics that twice before led to massive armed conflicts once again arise on the land, and originating in the same part of the world where it did the last time.

We learned nothing.