Government has fallen into the hands of a dying generation with old Marxist ideas that are destroying society. They cannot see that raising taxes and shoveling tone of cash out to bankers is screwing the younger generation. They are protesting everywhere. That will eventually turn violent next year. You cannot keep raising taxes and hunting down the rich and expect to create jobs for the youth. The higher their unemployment, the less there is to pay pensions and the whole system is imploding. It will crumble to dust and fall to the floor.

“The downside for the central banks is that short-term interventions have further emptied the physical vaults (once) again. And where is this gold coming from? It’s coming out of unallocated bullion bank inventories (at the Comex). The central banks may be leasing out gold, but it’s not leaving their vaults (at this time)….
…..The Fed, LBMA, Comex & Banks On The Edge Of Disaster

The Telegraph:

Regardless of whether or not scientists are wrong on global warming, the European Union is pursuing the correct energy policies even if they lead to higher prices, Europe’s climate commissioner has said.

So she did. Climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard:

“Let’s say that science, some decades from now, said ‘we were wrong, it was not about climate’, would it not in any case have been good to do many of things you have to do in order to combat climate change?”

…find yourself subject to a ban on fingernails. Here’s Jonah Golberg on The Myth of Live-and-Let-Live Liberalism:

Seriously, who else do people think are behind efforts to ban big sodas or sue hairdressers for charging women more than men? Who harasses little kids for making toy guns out of sticks, Pop Tarts, or their own fingers? Who wants to regulate the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the beverages you drink? Who wants to control your thermostat? Take your guns? Your cigarettes? Heck, your candy cigarettes? Who’s in favor of speech codes on campuses and “hate crime” laws everywhere? Who’s in favor of free speech when it comes to taxpayer-subsidized “art” and pornography (so long as you use a condom, if liberals get their way) but then bang their spoons on their high chairs for strict regulations when it comes to political speech?

Read the whole thing here.

“And what I don’t understand is that after getting so thoroughly f#$*$% up the a%%, without a job, $100,000 in student loans…you still side with them. You still don’t get it.”

Gun free zone.