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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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 Posted - 07/09/2010 : 07:47:25
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I liked these responses left by followers on the Zero Hedge site... they say it better than I could:
by Cognitive Dissonance
on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 09:23
#458235
Moral cowards always have the ability to ignore anything that would force them to grow some balls. Let's start calling this what it really is folks. We dance around the politically incorrect subject all the time because we're afraid of being called moral cowards ourselves.
Either we stand up to this use the bathroom or we shuffle away while making excuses. The time is here. Where do you stand? Do we meet every moral coward with a challenge or do we sugar coat it in order to have "civil discourse". Of course, this means we must also grow some balls.
Am I asking too much?
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by B9K9
on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 09:55
#458294
CD, it's done. Imagine a wealthy single-parent who has 4th stage cancer. There are charlatans promoting miracle additives, and other hustlers trying to divert attention while looting the property.
Amongst the din, there might perhaps be a few responsible individuals who are beginning to make preparations for the children: food, shelter, security, education, health, etc. (Some might even be attempting to manage the estate in an orderly process, but the looming chaos will overwhelm their efforts.)
The time for talk is over - the astute realize it's time to begin dealing with what is to come. Cut the deficit, impose austerity & default/deny/delay both hard/sort liabilities (debt, SS, Medi, etc), the fed.gov comes apart; implement QE X.0, and the end comes anyway, just in a different form.
The social compact is broken - not many people recognize this, but what it means is that it's all over. Best to begin preparing.
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by Cognitive Dissonance
on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 10:07
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"The social compact is broken - not many people recognize this, but what it means is that it's all over. Best to begin preparing."
And as long as we enable the denial, the denial will continue. I've already taken care of all I can within my family. And for the longest time I tried to keep peace by not pushing reality upon anyone in my family.
But over the past 4 months, I've been doing precisely that. I'm not deliberately hurting feelings but rather just speaking bluntly. A family member wanted to borrow money, I said no and told her I was getting ready for the collapse and can't spare what won't be paid back. That shocked a number of people. Another wanted me to spend some money with other family members to send our mother on an extended vacation. I gave the same answer. Shocked some more. And mom was applauding me. Another wanted investment advice and I told him to get out of the market because it's rigged. That really upset me to the point of seeing yellowed him off but at least he had the balls to ask more questions before pulling the covers over his head and cutting off contact with me.
I'm not trying to hurt anyone be neither am I going to avoid hurting others simply because I'm speaking truth. I will no longer enable others to live peacefully in denial by my silence. That doesn't mean I will go out of my way to speak truth. But neither does it mean I will avoid speaking truth. I will no longer hold my tongue because others are covering their eyes. And I see a lot of it here on ZH. People talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
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Lemon Thrower
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Posted - 07/09/2010 : 09:26:23
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quote:
The social compact is broken - not many people recognize this, but what it means is that it's all over. Best to begin preparing.
that's it in a nutshell. the sooner everyone realizes this, and all its dimensions, the better.
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