1 Oh, I think we already do.

2
2011: The Debtening

3 We're boned!

4 Makes me want to go to the barter system.

5 And that, friends, would be a most appropos memorial at the WTC site. A 200 story tower of money.

6 But Zimbabwe teaches us that those piles are much, much smaller if you print bills in billion and trillion dollar denominations.

7 Is that all for me?! Dayum!

8 So, Bush knocked down the World Trade Center so his buddies on Wall Street would have room to put all their 100 dollar bills!

Google it!!!

9

Gah.  It's a good thing it's now the weekend so I can start drinking.

Seriously, that makes me want to throw up.

10 ...and yet... well George W. Bush, following Ronald Reagan in both intellect and ideology, strategically created vast debt in order to justify a broad attack on the Social Security system. Ace doesn't give a shit about "debt." he spent eight years rubbing his balls on this shit blog imagining the size of Dick Cheney's cock.

11 Hey look its erg!

12 We're boned!

It's OK!

The Strategic Astroglide Reserve is a reservoir the size of the Great Salt Lake. So it'll last for...lemme see...three hundred million times a hundred and forty—

nnnnnnnnggggggg

13

Posted by: eric rudolph at July 29, 2011 04:56 PM (wTX7A)

You don't have to imagine the size of my cock, though, do you? I mean, it's in your mouth right now....

14

and yet... well George W. Bush, following Ronald Reagan in both intellect and ideology, strategically created vast debt in order to justify a broad attack on the Social Security system.

That's like some weapons-grade stupid right there.

That's got to be a parody.

15 Hey look its erg!

And he still doesn't get the difference between billions and TRILLIONS.

16 Graphic Content: Visualization of US Debt
Can't visualize.  Still visualizing Maryeve Dufault in a bikini.  Sacre bleu.

Danica Patrick is dead to me.

17 Fuck you mooch sock.

18

Viral you say, oh great and wise Ewokian one? Consider it done.

All nine of my readers will be amazed.

19 Eh. In a decade, my pocket-full of bullion will represent a more valuable stash.

20 SayUncle had this up earlier, so I put it up on my blog as well. It's a good graphic. Release the hounds!
http://tinyurl.com/3emvvze

21 _{...and yet... well George W. Bush, following Ronald Reagan in both intellect and ideology, strategically created vast debt in order to justify a broad attack on the Social Security system.}

So the national debt is a problem?

_{Ace doesn't give a shit about "debt." he spent eight years rubbing his balls on this shit blog imagining the size of Dick Cheney's cock.}

Or is the national debt not a problem?

22 Oh, and it's the weekend!  Yeah buddy.

23

That's like some weapons-grade stupid right there.

That's got to be a parody.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 29, 2011 04:58 PM (sbV1u)

Nah, look at the name.  Definitely Erg.

24 20-Hey BB, your blog is pretty good-I mosey over there frequently.

25 Ace doesn't give a shit about "debt." he spent eight years rubbing his balls on this shit blog imagining the size of Dick Cheney's cock.
Posted by: eric rudolph at July 29, 2011 04:56 PM

Hey erg, haven't seen ya in a long time, how ya doin' ?

Now, go home and get your fuckin' shine box

26 If you didn't have my economic team's insight and plan, that pile would be the size of Rhode Island instead. You should be thanking me.

27 Simple solution, just stop printing $1 bills and things will look a whole lot better.

28 Finally, a visualization of a monument that New Yorkers could worship... a stack of money taller than the World Trade Center.

29 Oh boy!  The Five is on!

30 I can't get Average Joe from eric rudolph . Is this some kind of book cypher ?

31 Fire never burned cash

Google it!

32 I thought that Ronaldus Maximus and W were supposed to be stupid. If that is the case, how could they conceive of and implement a long range plan such as this to destroy Social Security, and what's more, to what purpose? The mixed message of these fools is something to behold.

33

 Oh, and it's the weekend!  Yeah buddy.

Hoist 'em if you got 'em. And I just finished my first week at WORK! in three and a half years! It's part time, but at this point, I'll drink to anything.

34 Finally, a visualization of a monument that New Yorkers could worship... a stack of money taller than the World Trade Center.

Fire can't melt paper!

35

Nah, look at the name.  Definitely Erg.

Posted by: buzzion at July 29, 2011 05:01 PM (oVQFe)

Duh.  Shoulda figured.

What's up with lefties?  Do they not teach logic or critical thought in school anymore.  I ain't seen a lefty make an argument worth a shit since...oh....1972.

Never mind...union....school teachers....got it.  No need to answer.

36 35-Woohoo!! What are you doing now?

37 30 Finally, a visualization of a monument that New Yorkers could worship... a stack of money taller than the World Trade Center. Posted by: George Orwell at July 29, 2011 05:02 PM

Well, there's nothing outside of the five boroughs that matters in the world. I heard it on Batchelor today while looking for traitors on Hillbuzz

38 Makes me want to go to the barter system.

Posted by: fluffy at July 29, 2011 04:53 PM (SwkdU)

That is exactly where we are headed when hyper-inflation takes off. Shortly after that the great collapse comes.

39 Shit who put Maddow in the sidebar as Harry Potter?? I think I just pissed my pants a little. So fuck you for that. But thanks for the laugh.

40 Is this an entry in the Powerline Prize contest?

41 Y'all notice the worse Barky does in the polls the more spittle flecked and angry ergie gets .

42 _{Hoist 'em if you got 'em. And I just finished my first week at WORK! in three and a half years! It's part time, but at this point, I'll drink to anything.}

Gotta pay for the beer somehow.

Cheers!

43 We'd have those stacks of money if you selfish bitches would just pay more taxes!

44 I don't care who you are, that sidebar thing with Maddow is hilarious.  I actually thought it was a really bad picture of Radcliffe at first.

45

Nah, look at the name.  Definitely Erg.

Posted by: buzzion at July 29, 2011 05:01 PM

If ace wants to see if it's erg, he usually does a quick IP check. If it really bugs him, he calls it out

46 Perfect analysis of Obama, Democrats, and what is happening to our country, from Hotair: Q: What does Obama want? A: He wants a huge, and permanent, increase in the size of government. This is the “change” he campaigned on, but never really described. The goal was to make the US into a European-style “Social Democracy”. Q: Does he really think he can finance it indefinitely with huge deficits? A: Of course not. The plan was to corner the Republicans and force them to agree to huge tax increases in order to pay for it. So spending was raised first, and eventually the Republicans would face the choice of raising taxes or having the national debt spiral up to clearly unsustainable levels. "What Does Obama Want?" Q: Are Democrats in the House and Senate on board with this plan? A: Mostly they are. Q: Why haven’t they been honest about it? A: Because they know that the majority of American voters would object. They’re trying to sneak the program through, relying on the fact that once it’s in place it will create its own constituency. Q: Why haven’t the Democrats passed a budget for the last two years? A: Because if they did, the cat would be out of the bag. It would be impossible to hide their real agenda if it was all down in black-and-white. Q: And Obamacare is part of this? A: Yup. The real goal all along was “single payer”, but that wasn’t legislatively possible even in a D-majority congress. So the bill was set up so that private insurers would continue, but the terms which would be forced on them would make them “voluntarily” leave the market. With no insurers remaining, the Democrats would then “reluctantly” pass a single-payer system. Q: Is this something new? A: Hardly. It’s the continuation of a process that began with FDR, and made huge gains with LBJ’s “Great Society”. Reagan tried to reverse it but failed. (Also, Reagan had other things to worry about, like winning the Cold War.) Q: Is Obama going to win on this? A: Your time is up. Please insert another quarter. **************** OK, so there it is, in black and white and obviously TRUE. The only way to deal with these bastards is to not cooperate. You know what? LET the government default. Better now, while Americans still remember what life without socialism is like.

47 The chart is messed up. Listing $1 Trillion twice breaks up the flow, especially if you're scrolling through quickly. Could do two pictures with one caption, but they caption both.

48 I just finished my first week at WORK!

Congrats.  I mean it.

49

We'd have those stacks of money if you selfish bitches would just pay more taxes!

You must be talking about the 47% of the country that doesn't pay taxes instead of the 5% that pays 60% of the taxes.

50 46 I don't care who you are, that sidebar thing with Maddow is hilarious.  I actually thought it was a really bad picture of Radcliffe at first.

I was wondering what a picture of River Cuomo of weezer was doing in the sidebar.

51

20-Hey BB, your blog is pretty good-I mosey over there frequently.

Thanks for the shout-out. I have a small but dedicated audience and I'm happy to include you. Glad you like it.

I haven't been as active as I once was thanks to my current JOB! but I'll still keep posting as often as I can. Friday's normal post will probably get moved to Saturday, gots to keep teh funny coming, if only for myself.

52

Oh boy!  The Five is on!

Interesting format.

Of course Beckel ruins it completely.  What a gasbag.

 

53 If the GOP wad smart they would buy up $140 million of ad time showing this as a 4-minute spot of thia as a rotating slideshow and no sound. ---- That last shot needs a tiny Obama on to of the money pile with hands in air shouting "Winning the Future!"

54 yeah I found this a couple of days ago.  Posted it here but since I'm told no one reads my posts guess no one saw it.   I'm still nauseous.  And I can't sleep.  I've sent it to everyone I know.  Included the link at the bottom of my work email.

Thanks ace for bringing this forward.  A picture truly is worth a thousand words.

55 I'm still nauseous.

Too much champagne will do that, hun.

56 Don't worry. I have an idea. Give Obama all of the power to raise the debt ceiling another 2 trillion dollars. That should solve this problem.

57

I'm still nauseous. I guess one of the hobos I serviced "slipped one past the goalie".

brb, going to planned parenthood

58

That is exactly where we are headed when hyper-inflation takes off. Shortly after that the great collapse comes

Does a couple pints of whiskey a week get me a spare bedroom at your pad?

I'll even mow the lawn.....

59

I'm still nauseous.

 

Stay away from the mirror.

60

Posted by: deviant at July 29, 2011 05:11 PM (c45xH)

^5

61 61

I'm still nauseous.

 

Stay away from the mirror.

Posted by: garrett at July 29, 2011 05:11 PM (GD1c9)

why?  That's only for vampires silly....

62

Stay away from the mirror.

i'z confused.

63 Hoist 'em if you got 'em. And I just finished my first week at WORK! in three and a half years! It's part time, but at this point, I'll drink to anything. Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 29, 2011 05:03 PM (d0Tfm) -------------------------------------------------------- CONGRATS! Just finishing my second week. I am doing my best to build up my sweet, sweet social security stash!

64 I'm really hoping they don't get some shit to JEF by Tuesday. I can't wait to hear what the Talking Krautchairs say when nothing happens. These assholes don't ever mention that the downgrade in creditworthiness has little to do with the debt ceiling, and all to do with the unsustainability of Fed spending.

When even  I can understand this it's pretty fucking simple after all.

65

When even  I can understand this it's pretty fucking simple after all.

So you don't understand second and third order effects then.

66

I'll even mow the lawn.....

Posted by: Delta Smelt at July 29, 2011 05:11 PM (8f0xW)

I just mowed it yesterday. That's a 3 beer job. 

Does a couple pints of whiskey a week get me a spare bedroom at your pad?

Couple of pints a day might do the trick.

67 I have the sound down, but it looked like Beckel just compared Tea Partiers to anarchists.

68

Since when did cats get e-mail?

 

69

I have the sound down, but it looked like Beckel just compared Tea Partiers to anarchists.

Just ask Beckel if he's pounded any hookers lately.  It usually shuts him up for a while.

70

Couple of pints a day might do the trick.

Damn, I better start hoarding then.  Off to the LQ before it closes in an hour and a half.

71

 35-Woohoo!! What are you doing now?

Absolutely nothing that I can use my 35 years of manufacturing experience for. I'm currently a telemarketer, tho' not making cold calls, which helps immensely. We're just getting this department up and running, so in a way I draw a lot from general life experience and the way I'd want to be treated if I were on the other end of the phone.

My direct supervisor is a drumming buddy of mine from way back whom I'd lost touch with until about two years ago, and my big boss is a really nice younger fella, who's I think is a conservative, but it's way too soon to start that conversation with him. Discretion, valor, etc...

One of my coworkers is from my hometown, (which probably makes us related in some way) I've managed to replace her bass-playing hubby in more than one band in the past five years, but we're still good friends. Their oldest son, at age 14, is a fookin' monster guitar player that I've jammed with a lot. The kid's got potential.

All in all, I could've done worse. I really hope this works out as I don't need a whole lot of money to get my head above water and the hours suit me well. I can still gig and can work around what few conflicts there might be.

72 Barack, King of the Dims Act IV, Sc. III BARACK. Now, Empire, where's Boehnerius? EMPIRE OF JEFFRIUS. At supper. BARACK. At supper? Where? EMPIRE OF JEFFRIUS. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are even at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat Barack and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes, but to one table. That's pragmatism in politics. BARACK. Alas, alas! EMPIRE OF JEFFRIUS. A man may plant an arugula that hath mulched on a Barack, and eat of the salad that hath grown from that arugula. BARACK. What dost thou mean by this? EMPIRE OF JEFFRIUS. Nothing but to show you how a Barack may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. BARACK. Where is Boehnerius? EMPIRE OF JEFFRIUS. In the Congressional men's room. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him in the women's room yourself. But indeed, if you find him not before the fourth of August, you shall nose him as you go up the stair, into the press room.

73 Hello! Hey!  The news needs to slow down long enough to allow for an open thread.  What we need is a break from the budget debacle.  If you're in the Denver area (Longmont), come on out to a free classic rock and roll concert and be sure to say hello to me.  Details posted at the Yahoo group. 

74

One dumb ass in the comments was all "think of what that money could have done for science"

Dude thats ninja money, yo. Thats money that doesn't even exist, fool.

Negative dollars > everything else

75 76
One dumb ass in the comments was all "think of what that money could have done for science"
Posted by: Max Power at July 29, 2011 05:30 PM (q177U)

And altruism. Don't forget altruism ...
Spoken by an effin' scandi, of course.

76 Wow.  A picture really is worth a thousand words -- or in this case:

1,000 x $1BIL x 14 = $14 TRILLION.

;">We'll need three generations to pay this off, even if we don't add another dollar to the deficit!

77 Jesus...that graphic makes me feel sick. We're truly fucked.

78 The word insurmountable comes to mind.

79 This is an excellent graphic.

But I can't really even process a skyscraper made of $100 bills.  This is the best effort I've ever seen, but it's still unfathomable.  If they cut it in half or doubled it, it would have the same impact on me because I can tell it's too much, but I can't really understand the point we are on the too-much-scale.

What I do know is we've growth this debt really fast since the democrats got the House back.  I know the debt compared to GDP actually went down from 2000-2006, but skyrocketed after.  From the low sixties to the 90s as a percentage of GDP.

It's a rapidly growing number that almost no one can really wrap their minds around, but it's a desperate situation.

80

Not bad.    But the fact is that the amount of national debt, even if it were reasonable, would still dwarf planes and buildings, etc., because we're a big country.   300 million people can handle a lot of debt.   The real problem is imagining the debt we have now, not as a gross debt that dwarfs the Empire State Building, but the debt per taxpayer that dwarfs what we owe on our cars, our college loans, our houses.  

As everyone ought to know, the real taxpayers (the top 10% who pay more than 70% of the income taxes) are the people who really "owe" the national debt, just like it's me who owes money we've committed to pay for my son's Catholic boys high school, not my son (who doesn't have any income).   Those top 10% (and that's just of the 140 million or so filers) are the real "debtors" who will have to pay the vig eventually.   So there are about 14 million of us who are going to have to pay off the $14 trillion in national debt.   Now we're talking.... that's about $1 million per taxpayer in that upper income group!

Put it that way and it really does sound scary big.

81

Stuff like this makes me want to go home, cut off the DirecTV, XM Radio and start listing everything I just can't make myself sell on Craigslist.

Take every ounce of cash I can find and start buying MREs.

82 Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the terrific works guys IÂ’ve added you guys to my blogroll.

83 I wonder if my Congressmen have seen this.  Somehow I doubt they would be able to grasp it in it's simplicity.

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