Comments for Common Sense Economics http://quillian.net/blog Opinion Economics Political Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:29:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Markets Need To Clear by gdd http://quillian.net/blog/?p=473#comment-120 gdd Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:29:06 +0000 http://quillian.net/blog/?p=473#comment-120 Thank you so much, James. Appreciate your answer. GW Thank you so much, James. Appreciate your answer.
GW

]]> Comment on Markets Need To Clear by James Quillian http://quillian.net/blog/?p=473#comment-119 James Quillian Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:06:54 +0000 http://quillian.net/blog/?p=473#comment-119 I am short ANR ACI MCP and BTU. I don't have positions in the four you mention but I would be more inclined to short them. I think the bottom is going to fall out of the gold market. I am short ANR ACI MCP and BTU. I don’t have positions in the four you mention but I would be more inclined to short them. I think the bottom is going to fall out of the gold market.

]]> Comment on Markets Need To Clear by gdd http://quillian.net/blog/?p=473#comment-118 gdd Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:36:52 +0000 http://quillian.net/blog/?p=473#comment-118 James, Have the mining shares gone through a bear market or is it too risky to buy them. They are beaten down.....slw aem anv abx Thank you. GW James,
Have the mining shares gone through a bear market or is it too risky to buy them. They are beaten down…..slw aem anv abx
Thank you.
GW

]]> Comment on Jimmy Hoffa’s “Sons Of Bitches” Speach by James Quillian http://quillian.net/blog/?p=232#comment-94 James Quillian Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:39:56 +0000 http://quillian.net/blog/?p=232#comment-94 Unions have no survival skills. Union labor is not competitive. Disliking the motives of employers does nothing toward changing the economic realities unions face. I have never known a case where a Teabagger or Republican has acted out of hate or bigotry. Please give details. Unions have no survival skills. Union labor is not competitive. Disliking the motives of employers does nothing toward changing the economic realities unions face. I have never known a case where a Teabagger or Republican has acted out of hate or bigotry. Please give details.

]]> Comment on Jimmy Hoffa’s “Sons Of Bitches” Speach by Proud to be Union http://quillian.net/blog/?p=232#comment-93 Proud to be Union Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:23:41 +0000 http://quillian.net/blog/?p=232#comment-93 The only thing people lose when they join a union is the threat of being taken advantage of by greedy,self seving companies.These company owners/stockholders could care less about their workers having healthcare or a decent wage.All they care about is how much money goes into their pocket.They hire illegal aliens who will work for less than nothing because they pay no taxes and take the money back to their third world countries and live like kings.If you were a true patriot you would support Unions 100%.With all the hate and bigotry spewing from the mouths of Teabaggers and Republicans maybe it's times for us Democrats to get tough right back in your face.Go Hoffa!! Tell it like it is even if the losers like you don't want to hear it.Get your facts straight buddy. The only thing people lose when they join a union is the threat of being taken advantage of by greedy,self seving companies.These company owners/stockholders could care less about their workers having healthcare or a decent wage.All they care about is how much money goes into their pocket.They hire illegal aliens who will work for less than nothing because they pay no taxes and take the money back to their third world countries and live like kings.If you were a true patriot you would support Unions 100%.With all the hate and bigotry spewing from the mouths of Teabaggers and Republicans maybe it’s times for us Democrats to get tough right back in your face.Go Hoffa!! Tell it like it is even if the losers like you don’t want to hear it.Get your facts straight buddy.

]]> Comment on The American Economic Trinity by Steve Quillian http://quillian.net/blog/?p=145#comment-45 Steve Quillian Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:44:22 +0000 http://quillian.net/blog/?p=145#comment-45 Perhaps it was actually this "external stimulus" that the thugs in London were rebelling against. This is the way with children many times who act out in rebellion against the wrong they see in their parents, teachers or other authority figures but have no other way of expressing their frustrations - for lack of language and other communication skills. So might the rebels in England be rebelling - albeit wrongly. Perhaps wrongly blaming the rich, knowing something's wrong, and that someone is to blame for pulling the wool over their eyes. I know that I myself get fed up with how I get carried away with simple things that seem to put themselves in my life and I can't get away from. Sometimes I'd love to just throw the TV out, but I can't. Oh, I could, but I think the Hell i'd catch for doing it. I'd like to say my allegiance isn't to the television sometimes, but then I do what I did tonight and watch it for 3 hours straight - kinda like if you can't beat, join em. I think people as a whole and then individually and internally know that something is just not right - but don't know what to do about it. Then you get locked into a position where you can't do anything about it - locked into a mortgage you can't afford, car payments, credit card debt. You get so locked in that you can't look up because if you do, you'll find yourself falling behind on the things you've obligated yourself to in the name of "being free" or something like that. Get into a position like that, and I'd watch TV too. But then even that's a trap because everything on TV is geared toward not facing reality as it really is, not to mention spending all you have on this thing or that. So I agree that people may grow a resistance to external stimulus, because I think the most of us long to be stimulated internally, with truth, knowing what to do, not because we're being obedient to something we're told is right, or to a law, but knowing what to do because we know what to do from within, and we don't need anyone to tell us what to do or how to be, because we will already know without them. And then the upright lives we live based on that internal stimulus will become the standard and the example people will live by. I think that perhaps people have such an F.U. attitude because they somehow have this sense of desperation and a need to break free, without even really knowing how or why, much less express what it is that's really bugging them. They are tired of escaping into video games and drugs. They are tired of trying to find pleasure and satisfaction from external stimulus because they are tired of feeling something empty, knowing that there is something better out there. Something more. Maybe they are thinking, "There is something more and those bastards with all the money won't let us have it." And so they rebel, break things and steal what they think is owed them. But then they wake up and they aren't satisfied again. What they are trying to gain, will not be gained by sheer force of will. But perhaps it will be gained by realizing the truth - that we don't have to be subject to the suggestions that surround us. But to break free and live that way - tough. have to be debt free Perhaps it was actually this “external stimulus” that the thugs in London were rebelling against. This is the way with children many times who act out in rebellion against the wrong they see in their parents, teachers or other authority figures but have no other way of expressing their frustrations – for lack of language and other communication skills. So might the rebels in England be rebelling – albeit wrongly. Perhaps wrongly blaming the rich, knowing something’s wrong, and that someone is to blame for pulling the wool over their eyes. I know that I myself get fed up with how I get carried away with simple things that seem to put themselves in my life and I can’t get away from. Sometimes I’d love to just throw the TV out, but I can’t. Oh, I could, but I think the Hell i’d catch for doing it. I’d like to say my allegiance isn’t to the television sometimes, but then I do what I did tonight and watch it for 3 hours straight – kinda like if you can’t beat, join em. I think people as a whole and then individually and internally know that something is just not right – but don’t know what to do about it. Then you get locked into a position where you can’t do anything about it – locked into a mortgage you can’t afford, car payments, credit card debt. You get so locked in that you can’t look up because if you do, you’ll find yourself falling behind on the things you’ve obligated yourself to in the name of “being free” or something like that. Get into a position like that, and I’d watch TV too. But then even that’s a trap because everything on TV is geared toward not facing reality as it really is, not to mention spending all you have on this thing or that.

So I agree that people may grow a resistance to external stimulus, because I think the most of us long to be stimulated internally, with truth, knowing what to do, not because we’re being obedient to something we’re told is right, or to a law, but knowing what to do because we know what to do from within, and we don’t need anyone to tell us what to do or how to be, because we will already know without them. And then the upright lives we live based on that internal stimulus will become the standard and the example people will live by.

I think that perhaps people have such an F.U. attitude because they somehow have this sense of desperation and a need to break free, without even really knowing how or why, much less express what it is that’s really bugging them. They are tired of escaping into video games and drugs. They are tired of trying to find pleasure and satisfaction from external stimulus because they are tired of feeling something empty, knowing that there is something better out there. Something more.

Maybe they are thinking, “There is something more and those bastards with all the money won’t let us have it.” And so they rebel, break things and steal what they think is owed them. But then they wake up and they aren’t satisfied again. What they are trying to gain, will not be gained by sheer force of will. But perhaps it will be gained by realizing the truth – that we don’t have to be subject to the suggestions that surround us. But to break free and live that way – tough. have to be debt free

]]> Comment on Debt Crisis, Instinctive Behavior and Denial by Joe T http://quillian.net/blog/?p=121#comment-33 Joe T Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:16:35 +0000 http://quillian.net/blog/?p=121#comment-33 This is one of the most insightful and succinct things I've read regarding our present state of affairs that I've read in a while. Thanks. This is one of the most insightful and succinct things I’ve read regarding our present state of affairs that I’ve read in a while. Thanks.

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