Hour 2 – Politics – Trade and The Situation Across The Pond
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- Segment 5: Big Al and author and radio commentator Lowell Ponte discuss socialism in America.
- Segment 6: We continue our thought provoking discussion with Lowell Ponte.
- Segment 7: Big Al wraps up his discussion with Lowell Ponte with a discussion of the fallacies of fiat currencies.
- Segment 8: We wrap up KER Politics with Chris Temple discussing the role of America in the world.
Segment 5
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Low amount of postings , could mean an end is near……..and the bottom is in. 🙂
The end to what is near, OOTB?
end of the sell off of gold and pms………
We will see as gold and other pm’s are very unpredictable.
Thanks Tony, I will be working on these comments all day so I will reply to everyone that is appropriate.
Best to you Tony
Re. segment 8
Mr Temple , has the quality’s of a great Statsman in what he thinks & says , well said Chris
My recepy towards a path to world piece would be.
Arrest every member of the deep state..( We who are awake know who they are )
Abollish the FED.
Only fund the MIC for DEFENCE ONLY.
End ALL sanctions imposed by the US against other countries
Europe & the Middle eastern countries, get together & tell ISREAL , Enough is Enough, we will NOT tolerate your behaviour any longer.
& for feck sake leave RUSSIA alone.
i forgot to add.
Get rid of the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency.
No one country should have the sole right to control the currency of the world.
I forgot to add.
Get rid of the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency.
No one country should have the sole right to control the worlds currency.
And, what would you suggest would be a viable alternative, Mr. Irish?
I agree with much of your comment, Mr. Iriish.
I like your thinking Irish. Somehow I dont think it eventuate though.
Hi Ozibatla….One can only hope for the best , without hope what have we to be optimistic about. Have a nice weekend.
Mr. Irish,
Without hope we have nothing and God does provide hope.
Likewise mate!
Ozibatla,
What does the word “eventuate” mean?
Guess I don’t have a very big vocabulary!
It means to take place, occur, come to fruition etc
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Re. segment 5
Its my oppinion that the US is fast becoming a socialist nation, & sad to say thats what the powers that be in the US wants.
They want a failed system, as it suits their aggenda .More socialism = more power for them.
But to quote Margaret Thatcher..Socialism works until you run out of other peoples money.
Imo, the workforce in the US is shrinking (despite what the Govt, tell the people)
Therefore , less workers = less money to pay for socialism.
Then the system falls apart.
Mr. Irish, I strongly disagree.
My take on socialism in America is that it will never happen. I say that because The Democratic Party has few, if any, viable candidate at a high level that are electable unless you think that Sanders is electable.
There may be a fair number of “socialists” who do not understand what that term really means, but the majority of Americans do know what it means and that will keep it from every flying over here.
Do you really think it is as bad as that Jerry? 18 is pretty young and them receiving some type of welfare can mean a lot of things. For example a family with 5 children that is receiving some type of welfare can really skew the end result of those numbers.
SEG 6……..Have heard the same story for 15 yrs…….Fiat vs gold…….
Too funny………..no jew talking around here…………Big Owl, should have warned the guest speaker …..(just joking)…….LOL
Jerry….The big fella , is no brass monkey….HaHa
Mr. Irish,
And, what do you mean by a “brass monkey” in this case.
Hi..AL…Three brass monkies , see no evil / speak no evil /hear no evil.
In other words you hear about it , you see it , & you speak about it .
Hi Jerry..I have to tell you i agreed with everything AL & his guest said in section 6 , as i am sure you do…Have a good weekend.
Hello Irish,……..I like the comments from the guest speaker……dealing with antiques,and coins……Ditto,……..You have a great weekend as well……
Real estate taxation is for the birds……..there should be NO REAL ESTATE TAX
Jerry….Its not a tax on the property.
Its a tax on you for working your butt off so you could have somewhere nice to live.
So the moral is…Dont work your butt off & you will pay less tax……….lol
I do find it amusing, when the majority of sheeple , think a big house is an investment
More like a big target…………lol
OOTB Jerry, I found Irish Tony’s comment to be hilarious and appropriate.
Well of course, I agree also Jerry and I have for years.
Thanks Irish, just trying to keep our site polite.
Well of course, Jerry, we discussed this subject many, many times in the past.
Re segment 7…
Al the dollar is backed by something.
Its backed by the scam the FED carried out against the American people in 1913 , with the blessing of the then Govt.
And its still backed by the same scam today.
Until the FED FRAUD Banksters is ended……there will be no relief in sight……..
The dollar is backed by the world’s largest military – and by a Deep State that will use whatever means–including overthrowing others it doesn’t like–who don’t play by its rules.
You are preaching to the choir………. 🙂
Thanks for the observation Mr. T
Gooberment is the greatest rip-off ever yet not one in a hundred thousand realize it.
Coverage for the week….Trump good or bad……..or same old ,same old politics..
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50107.htm
I posted your source and will invite the writer to be on our Show recording on Monday.
This is the first time , I have read this publication, …..should be another interest view…jmo
interesting…not interest
Dang, this Ponte is exactly right about how fiat money is the great wealth stealer yet not one in a hundred thousand realize it! The masses must realize this theft!
Mr. Big Al Korelin and all you boys, let’s face it, we are living in the biggest debt bubble in history and it’s going to blow at some point. And when it does, the masses will demand the gooberment “do something.” So I think more gooberment control of the economy and our lives is inevitable. (And you have to admit that technology is certainly enabling this.) The masses have been indoctrinated for this in the gooberment run youth indoctrination centers (i.e. gooberment schools).
I truly hope I’m wrong! (I’ve been wrong about many things in the past and I’m sure I will be in the future and let’s hope this is one of them.)
And here’s a diversion for you. You boys see this? Sure this guy has world records but so what. There’s world records for everything these days. And I’m sure many people on this blog can do this. I bet Mr. Big Al Korelin and Jerry could do this, easily.
Heck, I tried and in under a minute I got my feet rotated 90 degrees inward and then outward. After another 20 seconds I got another 20 degrees. I’m sure the last 70 degrees will be a bitch but it can be done with patience and practice.
And walking backwards? That’s the easy part. I do that every time I buy mining shares! 🙂
I have also done it many time when buying mining shares, Eddy!
Owl…..does the motion, after a few brews……… lol
I bet he could beat that record!
I really don’t think so gentlemen!
RE: Segment 7
Yes, you don’t own real estate, the gooberment does. Just try not paying your ever increasing property tax and you’ll find that out real fast.
And most local bond measures and other assessments (i.e property tax increases) measures pass. And the local gooberments have a real racket there. They use the tax payer’s money to hire consultant/pr firms to help them craft and market the tax increase measures with pure propaganda.
Here’s an article about it.
https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/despite-law-politicians-use-taxpayer-funds-for-campaigns/
How do you fight your own money?
t’s now common for local officials seeking tax increases or bond issues from voters to hire campaign consultants on the fiction that they will provide unbiased information to the voting public.
These consultants conduct polling to determine which angles of proposals are most attractive to voters, write the measures to stress those popular features and then produce literature and ads to trumpet those selling points.
An example a friend sent me.
Yuba County officials have been paying hundreds of thousands of tax dollars for marketing firms to convince citizens by phone and mailer surveys to pay more taxes.
However, the solicitors neglected to ask this question. County employees make 2-3 times more than you do and will retire collecting most of that pay for the rest of their lives. Would you support paying more taxes for that to continue?
In fact, the November 6, 2018 ballot argument for the Measure K sales tax increase never mentions the financial tsunami of employee spiking pension and health costs. The very dysfunction driving the county into insolvency is suspiciously missing.
In 2015, Stanford University’s Pension Tracker found every Yuba County household owed $14,490 each if the pension debt was spread equally to pay for county retirees that year.
The number of government employees along with their pay, pensions and health benefits are out of control and officials at every level of the national bureaucracy have lost their voice. Unions have them by the short hairs.
Steven Greenhut writes, “This is a state where police sergeants routinely earn total compensation packages in the $250,000 to $350,000 range and retire at age 50 with 90 percent or more of their final years’ pay. Many University of California employees earn more than $1 million a year and median firefighter compensation tops $175,000. State employees earn medical packages that would be the envy of royalty everywhere. Then there are those myriad pension-spiking gimmicks (such as allowing managers to earn special pay for ‘management’ duties).” By the way, many executive employees pay nothing into their pension plans. They hit the lottery without even buying a ticket or driving to the store.
At a California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) hearing where city officials from across the state came to describe their plight one representative expressed concerns about bankruptcy, and another noted that in 10 years pension costs will consume 94 cents of every payroll dollar in his city. Maybe it’s time for each household to get a 5 gallon can of asphalt patch to fill cracks in front of their residence.
Did some public employees ever imagine they would retire as millionaires? LA Deputy Police Chief Earl Paysinger retired after 33 years of service cashing out with $1,473,823.20. LA Assistant Fire Chief Emile Mack (33 years) was paid $1,457,638.62 in 2016 to stay home. Statewide there were nearly 700 retirees collecting more than a half a million. That year, there were more than 8.6 million state pension records found by Transparent California. And, nearly 62,000 retirees were collecting 6 figure incomes.
In 1999, there was a pay and pension increase frenzy retroactive to the start of employment as local governments caved in to union pressure. The legislators also passed a union-backed law (SB 400) raising the pension multiplier to 3% (times the number of years of service) that “CalPERS promised wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime.”
It didn’t cost a dime but rather billions of dollars. Yuba County taxpayers do not recall being asked for their opinions via survey prior to the Supervisors’ vote on the pay and pension increases.
The entire government pay and pension debacle can be traced to politicians and unions. The citizens have been shafted by unions promising to elect politicians and by politicians promising to reward union pay contracts. It works beautifully for government workers and politicians. However, like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher liked to say, “Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money.”
Usually when a marketing campaign is fear-based like the Measure K effort you should be suspect. Proponents are hiding something, in this case the real cause. An honest Measure K would have pitched a sales tax for higher pay, pensions and health costs that few of those paying the bills enjoy. The answer would have been no.
However, with most people being fairly ignorant of ballot measures when voting and with government people bullying and silencing the business community there are good odds for passing Measure K. If it does fail, Supervisors will use more tax dollars for another campaign at the next election cycle.
Weaponizing the IRS….
Lois Lerner (Obama) and John McCain guilty:
Both should be in Jail
The Teaparty would be around if, the sum bags were not in office….
but, …….again we do not need a party….people can see through both
the Dems and the Repubs…….The TWO HEADED SNAKE
In my area the Teaparty groups either disbanded or were driven underground due to the IRS persecution. There is one group about an hour from where I live that meets informally and they no longer use the name Teaparty.
hanks CFS, I just watched it.
Eddy, I think that you know my feelings about unions.
Been going on for a long time Eddy.
I used to be on the Blaine Economic Development Committee. The city was virtually broke and they hired a consultant who they paid $100K to do a study for the city. I terminated my membership shortly thereafter.
RE: Segment 7
Harlan Adams – The Anatomy of Failure: Why the US Loses Every War It Starts
It’s long past time for the US to NOT start wars!
If, you win all the time, ….your enemy gives up, and if , they give up,….how are you going to sell them any weapons……….. MIC…. military insiders cheat
Yup, there’s just too much money to be made from war. Same goes for poverty.
The U.S. did not really start many of the wars that he claimed it did.
By the way it is Harlan Ullman and not Harlan Adams.
Yes, sorry about that. Another typo and I don’t catch them as often anymore as my eyesight isn’t so good now.
Nice to hear Chris.
You will hear Mr. T from now on in every Segment 8 of KER Politics.
Boys, get this for all your progressive friends! 🙂
http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Butt-Hurt-Salve-770×736.jpg
Kind of cute Eddy!
EBO………………Here is one for you……..Mexican town kicks out ALL GOVT>
https://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2018/08/25/this-mexican-town-of-30000-has-been-government-free-for-7-years-video.html
As it turns out, it was more than awesome!
We met with a town elder who explained to us how murder, extortion and kidnapping were rampant when the politicians and the police were allowed in. But, as soon as the locals kicked them out, crime virtually stopped!
Pro-tip: When 30,000 people come together to overthrow their local government and their lives all improve as a result, perhaps that’s something more communities may want to try.
Interesting point OOTB Jerry.
thanks…… 🙂
I can see it working in a smaller town, but a city of a million?
Thanks, Jerry. That’s great. I have passed that on to a local rabble rouser. 🙂
🙂
I haven’t seen Jeff for a long time, but as I recall he is a pretty decent guy.
Trump will not get fair representation in the court of public opinion , he has been condemned by the “Democratic lynching-bee”, and partisanship, malice, and twittering hysteria. Big mistakes have been made by both sides, but if you are probing The Democrats to the bottom you are nothing better than ” Bolshevicki”. A term easily used by the socialists and communists. The Democrats like to see themselves as “Super Patriots” and Internationalists, but they are the real socialists and communists.
I predict that their lack of strength could become apparent in 2018. We will see.
A great big hello to everyone.
A great big thank you to everyone who put the weekend show together at the KER factory.
Lets try & get the comments section up over 100 like it used to be.