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September 16, 2008 at 00:53:49

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Need Extra Income? Sell Your Teeth!

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I kid you not. In the midst of watching cable news talking heads report the financial gloom and doom of crashing markets and multi-billion dollar "too big to fail" conglomerates ... failing, I am suddenly confronted by a smiling dude in a Dapper-Dan suit and slicked-back hair telling me that they will buy ANY of my gold -- "even unpaired earrings and GOLD TEETH!"

Sheeesh! If you're wondering how bad things will get, maybe this will give you a hint. Already, we have folks paying for prime-time spots during some of television's most-watched political commentary programs asking you to hock your choppers for some extra dough to pay the electric bill. And they're only doing it because they know times are tough, and they just wanna help.

Or maybe it's because the only thing that will be worth a warm bucket of spit in a few months will be gold. Those little slips of paper with faces of old white men in powdered wigs you keep in your pocket won't be worth the ...er... paper they're printed on.

There have been those who have been telling us this for years. Gold is where it's at. Ron Paul has preached till his hair turned white that the worst thing to ever happen to the country was when we eschewed the gold standard and started making money from thin air. All the "educated" folks called him a kook.

A group of true believers started making Ron Paul "Liberty Dollars" a while back from gold and silver. The gub'ment didn't think it was very funny. FBI and Secret Service agents raided their offices and took everything in them, including "all the gold, all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars... They also took all the files, all the computers and froze [their] bank accounts."

The webmaster at WhatReallyHappened.com posited that, "Maybe George Bush was jealous because nobody wants to put his face on coins (just toilet paper)."

One OEN reader has commented that he just lost $50,000 from his 401(K).

Another good investment, for those who are fairly certain the next president will be another old white man, may be in bomb shelters (as per an article by Ms. Mary MacElveen.)

Oh, well. I gotta go yank some molars. Now, where did I put those pliers...

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I am a writer who currently writes pieces for my own blog http://www.marymacelveen.com I have been published by Buzzflash.com, Legitgov.org, TheLiberalPatriot.org and MikeHersh.com. I was a guest on the Jay Diamond Radio Show on WRKO in Boston and have appeared on CNN. I have done numerous web broadcasts for sites such as RadioLeft.com, TVNewsLies.org and FranklySpeakingRadio.com.
Mary MacElveenI am a writer who currently writes pieces for my own blog http://www.marymacelveen.com I have been published by Buzzflash.com, Legitgov.org, TheLiberalPatriot.org and MikeHersh.com. I was a guest on the Jay Diamond Radio Show on WRKO in Boston and have appeared on CNN. I have done numerous web broadcasts for sites such as RadioLeft.com, TVNewsLies.org and FranklySpeakingRadio.com.

Loved the article...

Hey, JC...I loved, loved, loved the article and as a great fan of Ron Paul, I too agree...Also thanks for the assist in linking my article to yours. While your's was laced with humor and mine a clarion call, in both we are just trying to warn folks of how dangerous a McCain/Palin administration can be.

All the best,

Mary MacElveen!

by Mary MacElveen (264 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 31 comments) on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 5:50:57 AM

JC Garrett is a freelance writer and Constitutional scholar from the piney-woods of East Texas. He apologizes to the entire world that the great Lone Star State could have produced the neo-Neanderthal currently occupying the Oval Office.

"I'm not ashamed to be an American. I'm ashamed George W. Bush is an American."

Mr. Garrett owns and operates an independent recording studio, plays several instruments, writes, sings, and produces music.

His stories have ...

to see more of bio, click on member name
JC GarrettJC Garrett is a freelance writer and Constitutional scholar from the piney-woods of East Texas. He apologizes to the entire world that the great Lone Star State could have produced the neo-Neanderthal currently occupying the Oval Office.

"I'm not ashamed to be an American. I'm ashamed George W. Bush is an American."

Mr. Garrett owns and operates an independent recording studio, plays several instruments, writes, sings, and produces music.

His stories have ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Thanks Mary

I personally think Obama will win decisively, so I won't be shopping for bomb shelter stocks.

After McCain's "fundamentalist" views on the fundamentals of our economy still being strong, he's toast.

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments) on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 12:17:59 PM

I invented an earth-friendly tool, the bucket SLOGG. Its a five gallon bucket cleaning/recycling tool made from stainless steel. It has hundreds of uses.

I am very, very pro Dennis Kucinich and very anti mainstream media and corporation. Corporations are killing democracy and the media is complicit.

I am female, 51 years old, pleasantly married and quite independent... except that I am a registered democrat, but will change that to independent if Kucinich doesn't get...

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bucketsloggI invented an earth-friendly tool, the bucket SLOGG. Its a five gallon bucket cleaning/recycling tool made from stainless steel. It has hundreds of uses.

I am very, very pro Dennis Kucinich and very anti mainstream media and corporation. Corporations are killing democracy and the media is complicit.

I am female, 51 years old, pleasantly married and quite independent... except that I am a registered democrat, but will change that to independent if Kucinich doesn't get...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Well thay cain't have mine...

I'm saving my gold filling for bargaining myself outta the FEMA camp they're going to drag me off to for blogging...

by bucketslogg (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 86 comments) on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:15:05 PM

I'll meet ya there, buddy.

But only after I send as many as I can to that neocon resort haven of fire and brimstone, where they will wail and gnash their teeth - and perform all kinds of other Cheney-inspired mannerisms.

I have no intention of going quietly.

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments) on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:37:33 PM

10 year Navy veteran,former Federal employee with various agencies,
Gallaher10 year Navy veteran,former Federal employee with various agencies,

Who is Obama going to tax now?

I would love a hand out as much as the next guy buy who is going to have money left for Obama to take it from to give me.

Maybe he can just print some?

by Gallaher (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 797 comments) on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 11:32:20 PM

Who will he tax now?

He will tax the same people now that was was going to tax before.

You have to remember that it is a statistical FACT that Obama's plan will actually give 95% of all Americans a tax CUT.

Also, the overall amount of taxes collected from ALL the American populace will DECREASE! That's right - under Obama's plan, the IRS will receive LESS American taxpayer dollars than George Bush's does right now, and LESS than McCain's plan will collect.

Plus:

Senator Obama’s plan would add $3.3 trillion to the national debt (including additional interest costs) while Senator McCain’s plan would add $4.5 trillion."

According to the report, the debt would increase by $1.2 trillion more under the McCain plan.

If enacted, the Obama and McCain tax plans would have radically different effects on the distribution of tax burdens in the United States. The Obama tax plan would make the tax system significantly more progressive by providing large tax breaks to those at the bottom of the income scale and raising taxes significantly on upper-income earners. The McCain tax plan would make the tax system more regressive, even compared with a system in which the 2001–06 tax cuts are made permanent. It would do so by providing relatively little tax relief to those at the bottom of the income scale while providing huge tax cuts to households at the very top of the income distribution.

Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center's Tax Vox Blog:

Obama would use the money to provide modest tax cuts to low- and moderate-income people while imposing stiff tax hikes on the very wealthy. McCain would cut taxes a bit for the working-class and a lot for the rich.

...Despite McCain’s recent claim that Obama would raise taxes for all, it turns out that middle-class families would do better under Obama (who would cut their taxes by $1000 in 2009) than McCain (who would cut them by only $300).

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments) on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 12:31:58 AM