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It's quite amazing that you can reconcile this view with your fetishization of the consumer and their seemingly limitless power to influence markets and corporate behavior. Does anyone around here buy your "objectivity" anymore?

Powerlessness To The People!

The idiot politicians are always saying how governments should think like households, balancing their checkbooks and such. I know when I'm short on cash I sell some old shit. We could start small; how impressed would the bond traders and ratings agencies be if we offloaded Guam? The Aleutians to Russia? We could sell Puerto Rico back to the Spanish, oh wait, they ain't got no fucking money either... We could probably maintain our "permanent" war in the mideast for years (where it matters) if we unload some of that imperial booty of yesteryear that's just gathering dust in the geopolitical attic! Craigslist Now!

How about Hawaii? We should start offloading some territory, pronto. Like France did back in the day.

Could we give China the Korean peninsula in exchange for debt forgiveness?

...things probably would've turned out better letting China take the whole Korean peninsula. History is funny, MacArthur was a fuckstick.

Mmmm. Efficient.

Well it's a good thing that humanity doesn't have any real problems to deal with so these opulent twat bankers can sit around waiting for a pick-up game of craps that taxpayers get stuck for when they roll snake-eyes.

I'm not sure if people engaging in this kind of activity are trying to save the world. Perhaps they're just trying not to gang-rape it to death for a quick turnaround on their investment...

This is a homemade car, dudes! Would You Drive This? No! No, you wouldn't. Then why in heaven's name would you put the equivalent of this car into your body?

Now would these two examples be considered sound or productive? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/sports/baseball/18investors.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/business/15lawsuit.html?scp=1&sq=investing%20in%20lawsuits&st=cse Jesus Christ! These people's money should be expropriated outright. A seven year old could find a more beneficial use for it in the Fred Meyer toy aisle.

Externalities.

Power to the People!!

What good is having a coercive arm of the State if you can't use it?

Is flying back and forth to New Zealand and commuting 50 miles to a fishing hole always going to be factored into the "local" equation? Whatever. As long as "low, low prices" hide the true costs that are hidden by externalizing pollution, rapid resource depletion, environmental degradation, dependency on corporate intellectual property, and all the myriad real costs associated with a failing model your math might work.

While eating cat shit from the litter box has certain social and nutritional limitations, the economic benefits can't be beat!

If Jay's favored model for industrialized agriculture and the global transportation networks it depends on were capable of including the real costs (the ones it currently externalizes) of its "low, low prices", the math would look a lot different. The game's up.

The math will set us free.

But didn't you know, oldlarry, a rising tide lifts all...oh, wait...FUCK!

Secret writing! So cool.

My food supply for one year... The efficiencies are astronomical!

This is a joke right, Bill? Ha ha, I get it. You're all sarcastic, like, "INFLATION!!!! NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" 'Cause the real danger now is deflation and you knew that. Good one. Funny. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1-oquwoL8&feature=player_embedded