What is Digg?676 Comments
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -50/+299Nothing quite like an endorsement from a loony.
- StickWST, on 03/07/2009, -17/+160So digg hates Obama now?
- pookydirt, on 03/06/2009, -41/+159I just have these great visions of Chavez wearing a Snuggie, hand outstretched, luring Obama at the cult gates of the of the communism commune compound...
- bpwrinn, on 03/07/2009, -37/+150It's like the right wing diggers are getting organized and underground. We've got a Digg resistance movement!
- reaganwinger, on 03/06/2009, -145/+252Does Chavez really even need to offer? Isn't Obama going pretty far along that path on his own?
- JasonCox, on 03/07/2009, -46/+151I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Republicans only come out at night here on Digg.
- rheaume, on 03/07/2009, -18/+84They just go with the flow, its pathetic
- acudoc, on 03/07/2009, -21/+85Capitalism and free markets get a bad rap, but the real culprit sabotaging the system is the fraudulent debt-based money Congress saddled us with when in 1913 it established a fractional-reserve banking system based on the issuance of fiduciary media.
To prevent the destruction of the world economy, the citizens of the United States must strike at the heart of the dragon, the Federal Reserve System instituted unconstitutionally in 1913 by an Act of Congress.
Therefore, by Constitutional Amendment, we must forgo debt-based money entirely and in its place substitute money with inherently-increasing purchasing power, money that is backed 100% by (1) all physical assets encumbered by loans in existence as of January 1, 20?? (backdated) that have been created in any fractional-reserve banking institution of the Federal Reserve System, and by (2) U.S. federal, state, and local debt obligations.
ALL such debt contracts, cash, and checking account deposits are to be exchanged for new American Freedom Notes. Creditors forgo liens in exchange for FULL CASH OUT in American Freedom Notes of principal or nominal value of debt contracts. Debtors (individuals as well as institutions, and that includes all manufacturers) ASSUME 100% OWNERSHIP of encumbered assets.
Loans are made from that point on from the resulting quantity of American Freedom Notes, fixed in number by this Constitutional amendment, with interest on new loans determined solely by market forces. Fractional-reserve lending is strictly prohibited.
Debt forgiveness, greed forgiveness, a clean slate with an honest system that lends capital ENTIRELY from the fixed amount of savings in new American Freedom Notes. No fractional reserve monkey business, no artificial setting of interest rates by nine white guys sitting around a table in Washington, D.C. Honest money for a change!
If not this, what other course of action can be recommended? The discussion needs to be started NOW by American citizens regarding a new currency. The financial class will bring us down unless they are paid off, as they are in this proposal, and the debt strangulation of our productive enterprises must end with the forgiveness of all indebtedness. We are drowning in debt to the fractional-reserve banking system, which is legally empowered to create loans without consideration. FUBAR.
Your comments would be appreciated.
- jake1337, on 03/07/2009, -8/+65Even Chavez is trolling now
- deema1, on 03/07/2009, -29/+80Obama:
"Shut up Chavez. You're blowing my cover." - pookydirt, on 03/07/2009, -28/+78And he is a loony because...
A: He actually likes to help his people
--->Apparently you don't know any Venezuelans personally. No, he does not like to help his people, he likes to oppress people (by whatever means necessary including bribery, terrorism, withholding life's basic needs, brainwashing, propaganda, and guerillas with guns) under the GUISE of the benevolent, helpful caretaker.
B: He stands up against US demands and stops delivering oil when you mess with him
--->He stands up against the US, because it is (was)capitalist, has free speech, and threatens his isolation barrier that keep his people oppressed.
C: He endorses direct democracy (meaning: The people get their powers back)
--->He endorses his sole rule, and people have no power. But he plays the "people power" card just enough to maintain the brainwashed impression of service to, from, of, for, and by the people. Case in point: the rigged referendum vote that will keep him in power until he dies or is overthrown by coup.
D: He is no friend of Israel
--->No friend of Israel, as he's a terrorizing communist that bears more in common with other oppressive, totalitarian, terrorist, and communist regimes... hence enjoys keeping company with those more like himself.
E: He is not a friend of capitalism
--->Of course not. Capitalists have power to become successful of their own volition and wherewithal. To maintain pure control of the populous, he must be in charge of success, failure, and class of his people.
Looney was being POLITE. - TylerDuhrdan, on 03/07/2009, -11/+57Obama was endorsed by alot of loonies.
- offrdbandit, on 03/07/2009, -16/+62"We've got a Digg resistance movement!"
So opinions you don't agree with are a "resistance movement"? - inactive, on 03/06/2009, -28/+69remember the hanging memorial to Che Guevara in one of his campaign offices? i guess that didn't raise enough red flags! lol
- bbland, on 03/07/2009, -10/+48How uninformed you are my friend. There are more guns per capita in Venezuela than in most countries in the world.
About 130 murders every weekend in the country's capital alone. - humanerror, on 03/07/2009, -54/+92lol @ selfish socialist agenda
- biuku, on 03/07/2009, -22/+59The U.S. is further from socialism than any country in the history of human civilization, except perhaps the U.S. of last year.
Take all the great economies of the world today that have not collapsed; sorry, take the one great economy in the world that has not collapsed: Canada.
- Heavy banking sector regulation.
- Socialized medicine
- Liberal gay marriage laws
- Liberal marijuana possession customs
True Marxism is evil. But socialism; it's the opposite of AIG failing their way to $100 billion in taxpayer-funded welfare. Properly blended with an aggressive private sector, it is the only model of not FAIL. - HappyScrappy, on 03/07/2009, -23/+59Venezuela's inflation rate is 31 percent right now. And with them now expropriating the production of basic needs, so they can institute price controls, it's going to get far worse.
I don't think Chavez has any leg to stand on when telling the US which way is the best way.
And anyone can look at Venezuela and see that no matter how much people try to apply the socialist label to Democrats, they're not even close to being socialists. At least not yet. - noahgelman, on 03/07/2009, -51/+87***** Chavez
- Logrusmage, on 03/07/2009, -9/+41And? How is making a comparison changing the facts?
Most Euro countries don't actually have a real Right wing anymore. Neither do we. We get to choose between big government religious nuts and big government social justice nuts. - Terasiel, on 03/07/2009, -32/+6350 days. 50 days after Bushes 2920 days in office and it's somehow Obama who's destroying our nation. Gotta be easy to think so little.
- DirtyVicar, on 03/07/2009, -3/+33The problem with the assertion is no one watches MTV.
- Anybody17, on 03/07/2009, -7/+35"He's sending Venezuelan oil profits BACK to the people of Venezuela, NOT to his own pocket, or the pockets of a wealthy few."
I made an account here just to answer this comment; it made me cringe.
I am Venezuelan and you are thinking just what Chavez wants the world to think. The wealthy right now are the ones working for or with Chavez, as long as he likes them and decides to keep them under his wing.
Chavez started all of these "Misiones" to help the poor and that's the message the world gets, which sounds pretty good right? The idea itself is not half bad.The real issue with the "Misiones" is that they are not reliable at all, they were just made for propaganda. For example, "Barrio Adentro" the health care government plan in the "Misiones" employs mostly cuban doctors whom can barely do their job right. State of the art equipment? Probably in 10 years... no wait, by then oil probably won't be selling as well as today so we will not have the money to do that, that's just too bad isn't it?
Venezuela wasn't in it's prime before Chavez, hell we were far from it. We needed someone to pick the country up and clean up the mess that has been made from all these past years and 80% of venezuelans which are poor saw Chavez as the man for this. What amazes me is how now, almost 10 years later, you go to the supermarket already thinking you might not find sugar or milk and that the price of everything will have gone up by a bit every 2 weeks or so and part of the population still supports him! The country is crumbling down because of this megalomaniac and his goonies who are just leeching off of all that oil money that should be being handed to our people but instead is being handed to whomever can sell them Hummers and huge houses and brand name clothes, yeah, they just despise America. - inactive, on 03/06/2009, -6/+33HAAAAA snuggie!!!!!
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -29/+56no. obama"socialism" is about as socialist as the right wing of most civilized countries
- Seann7656, on 03/07/2009, -5/+31Digg isn't a person, every individual of the digg community obviously has their own views. These reactions are about a move to socialism. Which I would hope anyone sane person would be against. Otherwise I fear greatly for this country...
- buddyw, on 03/07/2009, -7/+31This makes me want to fight for America. I'll stay strong.
- lollapaloooza, on 03/07/2009, -10/+34And the sheep go "Bahh."
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -31/+54To understand Chavez, you must understand both Venezuela and his enemies.
Venezuela has one of the most unequal distributions of wealth. A very small fraction of the population are rich, where as everyone else is dirt poor. Unfortunately for Chavez, his enemies have complete control of the private media within Venezuela and constantly barrage the population with propaganda to undermine his every move. This was nearly his undoing back in 2001 when the CIA backed coup was NEARLY able to remove him from power. They used the media, manipulated the video footage and effectively portrayed Chavez as a murderous dictator killing innocent civilians. However, because he had overwhelming support from both the military and the population as a whole, he was quickly reinstated.
His enemies are all in bed with one another. They mainly consist of the U.S. government and the wealthy corporate owners in Venezuela.
To put it simply.
The U.S. government doesn't like Chavez because Chavez won't sell them cheap oil. The U.S. have been unsuccessful in corrupting Chavez with lavish gifts and money.
The private corporation owners in Venezuela don't live Chavez because Chavez chooses to redistribute the wealth to the poor, and not to a select powerful few.
The problem with Chavez is that he isn't motivated by money or power, unlike your usual dictators like Mugabe. He's seen too much suffering in his time. His motivations lie within alleviating poverty and raising the standard of living for his people.
He's sending Venezuelan oil profits BACK to the people of Venezuela, NOT to his own pocket, or the pockets of a wealthy few.
So be careful what you read in the media. A lot of it is propaganda. - BananaGrabber, on 03/07/2009, -24/+46Every digg comment has been sounding like a Bill O'Reilly talking point lately. What happened to you, digg?
- organik, on 03/07/2009, -27/+49So many of you asshats don't even know what socialism is. Sociaism is not communism, and while we're at at, America is not a "democracy", it's a republic, and capitalism is not form of government either. Just thought I should mention it.
Try reading a book, ok? - DirtyVicar, on 03/07/2009, -4/+26I dunno.. I looked at the profiles and about 2/3rds of the right wingers joined in the last six months. I think the Young Republicans have some sort of campaign going on to storm the blogosphere.
- StopTheBullshit, on 03/07/2009, -2/+22What's the matter liberals, you guys loved him when he called Bush the devil. Don't stop now!
- RonPauls, on 03/07/2009, -1/+20Agreed. FRB is allowed to continue because of the Fed and FDIC.
If only people in America were economically literate... - geekee, on 03/07/2009, -6/+25So bloomberg is right wing? Maybe if you consider huffingtonpost a credible news source.
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -7/+26You like Chavez because he's infamous and everyone is afraid of him and you think he's "cool". He doesn't help people, he helps himself.
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -11/+30You mean tax cuts to the people who provide employment to the vast majority of the nation enabling them to expand their various businesses and ideas and hire the people required to do so, thereby putting back ten fold into the economy through taxation of those now employed and making money?
What a horrible idea!
No we need to fabricate pity jobs and pay them money that came from the people now "earning" it. Because OBVIOUSLY in a closed system like that wealth can be created, right? I mean logic obviously says that taking $10 dollars from you and "paying" back $5 makes sense, right!?
If you want to see a working example of not giving a flying ***** about the poor, the environment, or even basic human rights just look at China. They saw faster economic growth than any nation on this earth ever has and it's all because they gave almost unlimited power to the richest businessmen. They took MILLIONS of people out of poverty in just a few years and are now on the road to complete world domination. - Evilblobs, on 03/07/2009, -2/+20Capitalism sure as hell didnt collapse my economy
Capitalism doesnt have
-social security ponzi schemes
-large taxes at all levels
-corporate welfare
-trillion+ in bailouts
capitalism wouldnt have things like Freddie/Fannie buying up mortgages.
no it wasnt capitalism. - maviis, on 03/07/2009, -8/+26"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -40/+58This is what happens when you vote for someone cause MTV told you to
- OrdinaryPanda, on 03/07/2009, -2/+20Yeah the CIA has never backed coups in foreign lands, and specially not in South America!
- QuantumBios, on 03/07/2009, -2/+19I agree with most of what you say. Freedom must prevail!
- tdmeth, on 03/07/2009, -15/+32Its not about what he's done in the past 50 days. Its about the plans he's unveiling for the next 1410 that has people worried.
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -1/+17Why do the terms "Socialism" and "regulation" have to be thrown around like they are at all? Seriously, those terms seem to be talking points set up like "Death Tax". Having banks accountable to the law of the land isn't regulation, it's the ***** law. Our issue right now is because that ass hat Bush read to much Rand and thought banks were somehow Enlightened by Greed.
It Isn't socialism to have banks prohibited from fraud by the government any more then it's socialism that I can't murder someone and take their house. - inactive, on 03/07/2009, -8/+24Wow, liberalism really is a mental disorder.
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -86/+102Unlike Venezuelans, American are armed. Eventually the straw will break the camel's back and things are going to get really ugly here.
- edstate, on 03/07/2009, -8/+24Are you CRAZY?
...look, obviously none of us should automatically believe what the MSM tells us. Or, even what our Government tells us. ...but do a little research before you post. Sometimes they're not wrong.
pookydirt laid out most of it, but really, he's right: talk to some Venezuelans. I know several. And they have all been severely, negatively impacted by Chavez, and his naively dangerous policies. These are people who have lost their jobs. Their families have lost their homes, and their properties have been confiscated "for the greater good". And none of them are upper class, and a few of them are actually lower-class. Chavez preys on the stupid, and if they didn't have oil revenue it wouldn't have gotten near this bad.
Again. Read. Ask. ...but don't post that idiot crap. All the "points" you posted reek of insanity. - govsucks, on 03/07/2009, -99/+114B-b-but Obama and Chavez are noting alike, are they!?
/s - cheesehead, on 03/07/2009, -1/+15I dug you up but as a Canadian I would like to know how Canada's liberalized marriage laws equate with fiscal responsibility?
- SatoriSeeker, on 03/07/2009, -1/+15http://www.measuringworth.org/graphs/graph.php?yea ...
Please sir, by all means, continue enlightening us...
1) Since you're so smart, i assume I don't need to tell you when our currency was gold/silver and when it was fiat in the above graph
2) Interest rates are a market price you fool, they're supposed to be reflect something other than how Bernanke feels in the morning. A central bank setting interests rates is price fixing, do i need to explain to you why price fixing is bad?
3) Fractional reserve banking and too much credit out of thin air triggered the GD, check out buying stocks on 10:1 margin
The correct solution is to repeal legal tender laws and let the market decide what it wants to use as money, you can keep using federal reserve tickets since you love them, and everyone else can use what they feel is the best. -
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