Joe 6 Pack wakes up

[audrey_girl]

fyi:

[Kadriana]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

Ok, the comment about them smoking green shoots made me spit out my coffee. I wonder how long until he has to take a trip to the ER while making one of these videos.

[Mega]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

I think he saw this:-
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...wning-in-debt/
Mike

[audrey_girl]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

I think he saw this:-
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...wning-in-debt/
Mike

thanks mega - that is a great video

check this out:

SCHIFF, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPES:




schiff destroys the CNBC talking head

[snakela]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

CNBC just needs to have that guy on for a half hour every day. All the rest would be fluff.

[raja]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

The banksters and Wall Streeters should be afraid . . . very afraid.

As I've said before, this time it's going to be different . . . because of the internet.

[metalman]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

The banksters and Wall Streeters should be afraid . . . very afraid.

As I've said before, this time it's going to be different . . . because of the internet.

that's right... this guy might be our next president.

best youtube comment on the vid... 'His kid is going to be pissed when he sees what happened to his toy car.'

[RebbePete]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

This reminds me of Howard Beale's famous speech From the movie Network:

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I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

[shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,

[shouting] 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:

[screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

[audrey_girl]

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that's right... this guy might be our next president.

best youtube comment on the vid... 'His kid is going to be pissed when he sees what happened to his toy car.'

funny - I was thinking half-way through this that this guy could probably when a national election as President with how upset people are today and the way things are going

[Quincy K]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

an uneducated individual believing that he's educated. a very dangerous combination.

especially with that axe and baseball bat.

[ThePythonicCow]

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I think he saw this:-
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...wning-in-debt/
Mike

Good article. Near the end he has a nice one line summary of KaPOOM:

If you’re not destroyed first by the big freeze of deflation then you’ll be lucky to survive the fire of inflation.

[ThePythonicCow]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

an uneducated individual believing that he's educated. a very dangerous combination.

especially with that axe and baseball bat.

It is not clear to me that he is uneducated.

[Jim]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

an uneducated individual believing that he's educated. a very dangerous combination.

especially with that axe and baseball bat.

No worse than an educated individual believing he is wise or more deserving. A much more dangerous situation, that may possibly be rectified by the great unwashed.

[RebbePete]

Re: Joe 6 Pack wakes up

I don't know that J6P really is waking up yet. Poll numbers indicate that, so far, there's a mild sense of unease, but not anger. Generally, most people seem to be swallowing the "let's give the stimulus package more time to work" and the infamous "think of how much worse it would have been if we hadn't done this." *

If the USA really does go down the same route as Argentina, then we all have something to be scared about.

* reminds me of the old joke about dinosaur repellant. A man finds a young boy wearing a raddish around his neck. The man asks the boy "What's up with the raddish?" The boy replies, "It's dinosaur repellant." The man responds, "Dinosaur repellent? There aren't any dinosaurs around here!" The boy responds, "See! It works."

[raja]

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that's right... this guy might be our next president.

best youtube comment on the vid... 'His kid is going to be pissed when he sees what happened to his toy car.'

Maybe not the next president . . . but he's someone a lot of people can relate to . . . unlike EJ, who's commentaries are great, but rarefied.