Comments on: Dr. Edwin Vieira’s Amazing Crystal Ball, 2006

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:50:52 +0000

So the Democrats were crooks and thiefs even way back then, eh? Amazing how they keep getting away with looting the citizenry. I think it’s time for a change. A real change.

By: Sonic Ninja Kitty

Sonic Ninja Kitty — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:58:55 +0000

The wide price fluctuations are recent occurrences.

http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=gold+prices+1850+to+present&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.nma.org/pdf/gold/his_gold_prices.pdf&w=gold+prices+1850+present+presents&d=LQwoP52uSc1y&icp=1&.intl=us

And from Wikipedia:

After World War II a gold standard was established following the 1946 Bretton Woods conference, fixing the gold price at $35 per troy ounce.

The system held up until 1971 Nixon Shock, when the US stopped the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold.

By: lightacandle

lightacandle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:36:35 +0000

The rightwing revisionist goons here will never give up, but I wish they would stop tarring FDR’s legacy with Obama junk. There is NOTHING Obama is doing that resembles anything FDR did. FDR never gave billion dollar bailouts to Wall Street critters and crooks. FDR helped the ordinary Americans, NOT the rich ones.

FDR owed The Big Money Boys NOTHING; they did not help to elect him — but they did help to elect Obama with massive infusions of corporate money into Obama’s campaign.

I guess the favorite president of the rightwing revisionists here would be Calvin Coolidge or Warren Harding.

The point is these rightwing revisionist goons actually don’t know anything but are very determined to spread their drivel.

By: lee M

lee M — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:40:59 +0000

Sorry – I meant FRANTIC push not franatic.

By: lee M

lee M — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:32:48 +0000

I wonder if the franatic push to pass the GIVE Act, and to try to hide it amongst other community service organizations is a prelude of what is to come? This group of people would be at Obama’s beck and call. His personal Gestapo,so to speak. The economy is in a free fall. In this morning’s Yahoo News, the Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek, whose country holds (for now) the presidency of the EU says U.S. Plans to spend its way out of recession is “a way to hell”.

The G20 meeting on April 2nd should be very interesting. I have no confidence in any of our Treasury Officials, and ABSOLUTELY no confidence in Mr. Obama. Neither are really working for the American people. They are working for TPTB and each action they take convinces me more than ever that this financial collapse was a planned thing. It was a step needed to further the takeover of the many by a few.

By: Sonic Ninja Kitty

Sonic Ninja Kitty — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:57:41 +0000

This is one thing that is so fascinating about FDR and the Obama phenomenon we are dealing with today. FDR was a very sympathetic man. People understood he cared about them. But when policies end up doing more harm than good it is difficult for people to admit their revered leader made a mistake.

Here’s another example: you know how Rahm Emmanuel said ‘never let a crisis go to waste’? There was (and still is) a rightfully indignant reaction to that. How dare he look on crisis and misfortune as a political advantage? You know what? Hillary said it, too, about a month ago. There was nary a peep on this and other pro-Hill blogs because we cannot reconcile our deep admiration and respect of her with that kind of political gaming.

Obama is a personality, a race, an idea: a representation of what a great America should be to the people who admire him. The stronger their emotion, the stronger their refusal to objectively analyize his actions.

By: Buzz Latte

Buzz Latte — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:38:55 +0000

FDR has an enduring aura of saving the common man. He was not a friend of small businesses and thus the business=republicans and civil servant=democrats thinking took hold.

There are a myriad of reasons in time that events play out.

By: I'mFedUp

I'mFedUp — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:32:23 +0000

You are right Buzz. Even my lunatic libbie friends are changing their tune. Change is coming all right. Away from the commie thieves.

By: Buzz Latte

Buzz Latte — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:29:13 +0000

It could be sooner than 2010. It’s apparently happening right now with the moderate dems coming out in opposition to the Obama WH.

By: Ellen D

Ellen D — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:07:26 +0000

I agree, lightacandle. This whole revisionist history complete with devil comparisons, and attracting right wing rants belongs somewhere else.

By: Ellen D

Ellen D — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:00:47 +0000

I agree ritamary. When gold was part of the currency system it made sense to bring it into government hands under a fair price to try to strengthen the dollar, otherwise you would have two competing currencies – one of which could fluctuate wildly, damaging the dollar.
FDR was not the devil. I’m afraid this type of characterization brings into question the veracity of the other statements in this essay.

By: I'mFedUp

I'mFedUp — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:42:23 +0000

By 2010 I bet America wants to crucify the entire Demoncrap party that handed us the Fraud, screwed Hillary, and turned America into a Banana Republic.

By: Sassy

Sassy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:38:42 +0000

The one certainty that I have about FDR is that he was revered by my older family members and friends.
They were from both political parties, but they agreed that FDR brought this country through a very dangerous time, much like Lincoln.
They did not have instant communication, and may not have had access to information of today, but they trusted the man to stand for and with them!

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:29:36 +0000

Hitler had the Jews as scapegoats, the cause of all evil, and an easy target for focused hatred. They were blamed for all of societies ills. 0bama has Republicans.

By: I'mFedUp

I'mFedUp — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:18:31 +0000

We also have the Fraud because of these “party” rants by people who are incorrect in the first place. Like claiming Bush caused Fannie and Freddie – ROFLMAO. When people get out of the meme that anyone who isn’t a bat crap crazy liberal, hell bent on trashing America, is a dirty Republican, then we might get somewhere.