The Hindenburg Omen

[ZetaNine]

Glen Beck was a failed stand up comedian. He will say whatever for profit. Him and his ilk are a disgrace to the American media.

failed stand-up?  no.  I know beck.  he got started at wfla in tampa..a station I worked with for many years.
call him what you will......but he's not disingenuous  the man talked like this when he was broke..at lunch.

[oakranger]

failed stand-up?  no.  I know beck.  he got started at wfla in tampa..a station I worked with for many years.
call him what you will......but he's not disingenuous  the man talked like this when he was broke..at lunch.

Is that the same station he started in when he was 13-14? 

[ZetaNine]

noooo..this was the station that assisted in helping him launch his current/format and the beginnings of a small network of affiliates.  both the kids who produce his show (well..they're not kids anymore) were in house producers at 970 WFLA

[MORAY37]

without FDRs (and therefore the US taxpayers) massive investment in infrastructure, the US wouldnt have been able to maintain such spectacular growth during and after WWII ... the timescale for macro interventions like this can be in generations, not terms of office ...

QFT, and not taking sides.  This is factual.

[ZetaNine]

to that end..eisenhower followed it up quite nicely with his highway and other infrastructure projects. (most of them we still drive on today)

the problem is...and politicians know this...infrastructure spending is "not sexy".  nobody even can see 90% of it when completed...but to me it's part of our national security.

our nation's infrastructure is crumbling.  sewers, highways, bridges, dams, electrical grids, ..this would have been a great way to jolt the economy.. and so as not to get political..I will leave it there.

[AAJagerX]

Beck cracks me up.  The guy has a great sense of humor. 

That's why I watch TV...  Entertainment. 

[fbWldcat]

I just quipped, I know the situation and how it came to be. FDR thing was just a small crack joke.

I would love to see America rise again to the superpower it was, but ever since 9-11, we just haven't been the same. Americans are too afraid to spend money, sad.

[RTHolmes]

our nation's infrastructure is crumbling.  sewers, highways, bridges, dams, electrical grids, ..this would have been a great way to jolt the economy.. and so as not to get political..I will leave it there.

I read somewhere that about 40% of the road bridges in the US will need replacing within the next 20 yrs and many are pretty borderline already ...

[Mace2004]

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[RTHolmes]

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[Waffle]

Fair warning - watch dragging the politics into this thread. The original post was about stock market / trading patterns.

[Mace2004]

I think your reply is rather telling of the major problem with US politics which must be very hard to see from the inside, but is obvious as an outsider - and that is just how completely polarised it is.

If i say I disagree with a single policy of Party A, its automatically assumed that I therefore completely sign up to all of the policies of Party B. whereas all it really means is that I disagree with that specific policy from Party A.

makes it almost impossible to have any useful debate or find any common ground, both of which are essential.

I doubt that Holmes as we're actually far more in agreement than disagreement.  

I actually have a very good view of problems caused by government control because after 24 years as a Naval Officer I retired and became a government contractor.  I see the government paying huge amounts to contractors to do things that used to be done by the military itself.  I'm doing the same job I did in my last tour as a staff officer and getting 30% more pay to do it.  Counting my retired pay and benefits I've doubled my income.  My company isn't close to being the biggest and has over $7B in contracts.  Consider also that it's only one of hundreds.  30% of the personnel at the headquarters I work at are contractors.  What's the sense in that?  Wouldn't it be smarter to grow the military so it can do this itself?  Well, Congress sets the size of the military and government contracting is the only means we have to make up for the reduced military capability.  Does any of this make economic sense?  No, but the guys that set these rules are the same ones that are now making massive changes to our economy.  The free market is much more like a wild animal than anything else and it's easily spooked.  There's the old saw about "it's better to be quiet and let them think you're stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."  That applies to the government's handling of the economy.  If they'd sit back, stop their meddling and STFU, the market would be much, much happier as would we.

[Waffle]

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