From: Tegger on
"Mike Hunter" <Mikehunt2(a)lycos,com> wrote in
news:4b4bb9c9$0$12067$ce5e7886(a)news-radius.ptd.net:

> Actually the Fed is doing something today, that was never done before,
> under ANY President.
>
> The fed is BUYING US Bonds from the Treasury Department, thus
> monetizing our money.



True. That is scandalously incestuous and potentially damaging in the
extreme.

If a private company tried what the US government is now doing, the
principals invloved would face years in jail. In fact, if private companies
tried doing what the US government has done since /December 1913/, the same
thing would obtain.



> That can only lead to inflation and a devalued
> dollar.



You mean even /more/ damage than the 90% devaluation since 1971? Amazing!



The goal is to pay off part of enormous trillions of dollars
> in NEW debt, being build up under BO and the Dims, with inflated
> dollars. As was the case under Carter, we can look to more double
> digit unemployment, interest and inflation rates for years to come.


I can think of one bright side: The (slight) possibility that the 78-year
experiment with government-monopoly money may finally die, drowning in its
own excrement.



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Tegger

From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:03:20 -0500, dr_jeff wrote:

> Mike Hunter wrote:
>> Actually the Fed is doing something today, that was never done before,
>> under ANY President.
>>
>> The fed is BUYING US Bonds from the Treasury Department, thus monetizing
>> our money. That can only lead to inflation and a devalued dollar. The
>> goal is to pay off part of enormous trillions of dollars in NEW debt,
>> being build up under BO and the Dims, with inflated dollars. As was the
>> case under Carter, we can look to more double digit unemployment,
>> interest and inflation rates for years to come.
>
> What about the budget deficit under Bush and the doubling of spending by
> the US gov't. Bush never once vetoed a spending bill.
>
> Jeff

Bush isn't President anymore. Can you please focus on the empty suit now
occupying the White House?




>
>> "Tegger" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9CFDBD1CF733Dtegger(a)208.90.168.18...
>>> Hachiroku <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in news:hig6jo$s3l$1(a)news.eternal-
>>> september.org:
>>>
>>>> in order to reclaim more of the money spent on the bailouts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The Fed is already asking banks to prepay their 2010 premiums to help
>>> cover
>>> the purchases of Treasury debt.
>>>
>>> That's a brick wall you see, way up ahead there in the mist. It was
>>> erected
>>> jointly by all presidents from Nixon on up, and all Obama did was move
>>> it closer. Guess who's in the car heading towards it? You.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tegger
>>>
>>>
>>

From: Tegger on
dr_jeff <utz(a)msu.edu> wrote in
news:U8idne26DsfIV9bWnZ2dnUVZ_gdi4p2d(a)giganews.com:

> Bush never once vetoed a spending bill.


And nor will Obama.

Failure to veto spending sank Bush, and so it will Obama.


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Tegger

From: Tegger on
Tegger <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in news:Xns9CFDCE04E15BAtegger@
208.90.168.18:

> dr_jeff <utz(a)msu.edu> wrote in
> news:U8idne26DsfIV9bWnZ2dnUVZ_gdi4p2d(a)giganews.com:
>
>> Bush never once vetoed a spending bill.
>
>
> And nor will Obama.
>
> Failure to veto spending sank Bush,



Sorry, should read "sank the Republican-dominated Congress".



> and so it will Obama.
>


Sorry, should read "AND will sink the Democrat-dominated Congress".

Just watch those mid-terms. The Democrats have committed fatal errors due
to hubris and blindness.



--
Tegger

From: Mike Hunter on
Who was talking about the Annual Budget, not me. My reference was to the
NATIONAL DEBT, not the Annual Budget and where did you get the opinion that
Government spending "doubled" during President Bush's tenure, dr_jeff?
Look up "Debt" and "Budget" and educate yourself, WBMS.

One can have a balanced budget, or even a budge surplus like the Republican
Congress created under Clinton, and still be accumulating added DEBT, as
happed under Clinton as well, dummy. The Treasury never stopped selling the
US Bonds, that add to the NATIONAL DEBT, but are carried as a "asset" as
part of the Annual Budget

The NATIONAL DEBT went up a half billion over eight years under Bush
because of our on going war with the Islamic nuts around the world. However
the NATIONAL DEBT is now going up TRILLIONS more because of the war and BO
and the Dims in Congress spending TRILLIONS we do not have. Allowing the
fed to buy US BONDS is adding even more to the NATIONAL DEBT because the fed
simply prints the money thus reducing the value of the dollar and causing
inflation.

Actually President Bus did veto spending bills, but his vetoes were over
ridden by the Dim Congress

"dr_jeff" <utz(a)msu.edu> wrote in message
news:U8idne26DsfIV9bWnZ2dnUVZ_gdi4p2d(a)giganews.com...
> Mike Hunter wrote:
>> Actually the Fed is doing something today, that was never done before,
>> under ANY President.
>>
>> The fed is BUYING US Bonds from the Treasury Department, thus monetizing
>> our money. That can only lead to inflation and a devalued dollar. The
>> goal is to pay off part of enormous trillions of dollars in NEW debt,
>> being build up under BO and the Dims, with inflated dollars. As was the
>> case under Carter, we can look to more double digit unemployment,
>> interest and inflation rates for years to come.
>
> What about the budget deficit under Bush and the doubling of spending by
> the US gov't. Bush never once vetoed a spending bill.
>
> Jeff
>