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ronaldo comments on Fed to come clean

vinod I would correct your "The bank will get its money back." portion of your thread as the bank will not be getting their money back on the "portfolio of loans that has very little in arrears" that you were involved in giving out, because the bank never put up any money to start with, your loans were all made out of "thin air' just a click on the computer. So the bank can not get back what they never put out to start with. Just a point of fact.

ronaldo comments on Fed to come clean

treedoc Since you seem to be interested in truth and not just someones opinion the following may be of interest to you. It can be verified by checking the court records. Lewis v. United States, 680 f.2d 1239 (1982) John L. Lewis, Plaintiff/Appellee. No. 80-5905 United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted March 2, 1982 Decided April 19 1982. As Amended June 24, 1982. Plaintiff, who was injured by vehicle owned and operated by a federal reserve bank, brought an action alleging jurisdiction under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The United States District Court for the Central District of California, David W. Williams J., dismissed holding that federal reserve bank was not a federal agency within the meaning of Act and that the court therefore lacked subject-matter jurisdiction. Appeal was taken. The Court of Appeals, Poole, Circuit Judge, held that federal reserve banks are not federal instrumentalities for purpose of the Act, but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations. Affirmed. If you care to examine the complete case you will find that the only exception is under Section 4. Section 4. TAXATION The Reserve Banks are deemed to be federal instrumentality for the purposes of IMMUNITY from state taxation. So you have a privately owned corporation IMMUNE from taxation. Enjoy.

ronaldo comments on thomas jefferson

vinod and jb You two have the capacity of putting out more dribble on this web site than all the other PBH'ers put together. What I was talking about is HOW A BANK REALLY WORKS. Tell me jb, what does any of your threads in this domke7 post on Thomas Jefferson have to do with HOW A BANK REALLY WORKS? And what does your last thread mean..........."Sigh"............What has that got to do with HOW A BANK REALLY WORKS....... ..........you act like an old woman. And vinod, if you think what I have written here is not correct and that as you have said "....... my level of financial knowledge that I appear to possess and the level of my ignorance"........, then please demonstrate once again your brilliance and tell us again that the Federal Reserve is part of the US Government. Further if I don't know what I am talking about when I said that "you loan out money that your bank does not even have", please tell us where the bank that you work for gets the money that you lend out?

ronaldo comments on thomas jefferson

vinod First of all you have to throw those financial statements in the garbage if you want to know how a bank really works. Or a more appropriate use for them would be to give them to someone who still has an outhouse.

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What should be threatening American Democracy is America as a Republic. Democracy as we know it was designed by British Aristocracy when the pheasants threatened to lop of their heads, so to prevent that they designed what is now known as democracy. They, the Aristocracy, decided they had to give the pheasants something , so they gave them the vote and let them elect their representatives who were to do the pheasants bidding and then corrupt the representatives so they did the Aristocracy bidding. Sound familiar?

ronaldo comments on thomas jefferson

treedoc.... also the Federal Reserve provides no financial statements to anyone, NOT EVEN THE US TREASURY OR IRS, and some of the directors are not even US citizens and are foreigners setting the monetary policy of the USA. Talk about a license to steal. AND further vinoid, Canadian chartered banks are "institutions of issue" and "create credit" every day in their banks. If they didn't, how would they have any money to lend out since "depositers" money never leave the bank nor do any funds from share subscriptions? Banks have even mastered the task of having the taxpayers pay ALL interest on their own deposits in their banks. Banks do not pay one single penny of interest on bank deposits, the taxpayers pay ALL the interest paid to the depositers. Banks are the slickest thought out and most profitable business venture known to mankind and are designed that they are IMPOSSIBLE TO FAIL and they CAN NEVER FAIL as a bank. What you do in your commercial lending in the bank that you work for IS LOANING OUT MONEY THAT THE BANK DOES NOT EVEN HAVE. I don't know how you could work for a bank all your life and not know how our monetary system even works.

ronaldo comments on I'm a Medicare doctor. Here's what I make

tasco66 ..............or a Wall Street crook. Why not go for the best pay...........Wall Street crook tops the list.

ronaldo comments on thomas jefferson

Sorry, vinoid, but I don't support financial enslaving of my children and grandchildren just to make a quick buck for me now. Slavery is not going to be my legacy to my children. I like to think that I have more principals and "balls" than that. I don't join the majority of typical Canadians who say "but what can you do" every time they lack the guts to take action or speak out against something that is wrong.

ronaldo comments on I'm a Medicare doctor. Here's what I make

It is not widely known, but medical doctors who left Canada for big bucks in the medical field in the US are now returning to Canada as the pay is higher in Canada than in the US. Canada now has a net migration of doctors back to Canada instead of a minus immigration to the US.

ronaldo comments on Goldman Sachs being sued by Pension Fund Shareholder.

At one time in our history, some people used to go in a bank and say "stick em up", and rob the bank. But the banks have gotten even, now when you go into a bank, the bank does everything it possibly can to "rob" you. They just don't say "stick em up" anymore, but they sure as hell "rob" you.

ronaldo comments on Doctors vs. Guns.

Your statistics are flawed, in 1999 alone there were 3,385 children killed by guns. In 2010 the number will even be higher. Last year there were 1,825 children killed by their stupid parents leaving loaded guns laying around that the kids got a hold of. An average of 5 per day.

ronaldo comments on thomas jefferson

vinoid, one wonders what side of the fence you are on? You tout buying Canadian bank stocks when in 1802 Tomas Jefferson warned against these banks. The banks have already achieved what Jefferson warned against as they own just about everything now. Why would you continue to support the enslaving of the population by these banks?

ronaldo comments on the ultimate airport screening device for explosives

Clean up not a problem...each containment booth would have a plastic sleeve in it and you would just remove the sleeve and install a new fresh sleeve. Would also have a removable top and bottom plastic container. "Just step in here, sir. Switch on, BOOM, new sleeves please, Next" Problem solved.

ronaldo comments on Apartment for Sale in Barranquilla - Cra 43 con Calle 85 - Nice views

Specifically, what does 600,000 COP Administration fees pay for?

ronaldo comments on Avianca Airpasses explained

Great post.............I knew about the Avianca Colombia Pass but not the international Pass. Thanks for this valuable post.

ronaldo comments on Olbermann Hypocrisy

jb, why would you consider overpaying? $6.00 seems like too much to me.

ronaldo comments on Socialism for foes, capitalism for friends

vinod, not just socialists politicians, capitalists politicians are as guilty because the name of the game is "WHATS IN IT FOR ME" and all of them are only interested in filling their own pockets. Remember the REFORM party, (now the Harper party) all claimed that none of them would take "those golden MP pensions" and every one of them that are left are all on the list for the "doll" of up to $155,000 a year after 6 years as an MP. How about capitalist Paul Martin (Canada Steamship Lines) registered his shipping country off shore to avoid paying Canadian taxes and then when he got into the government finance department he arranged to bring his capital back to Canada tax free. A one time thing just for him. There is a never ending list of examples. REMEMBER, if you assume that the government is lying to you 100% of the time, you will be correct 85% of the time: AND if you assume that the government is NOT lying to you, you will only be correct 15% of the time. As far as Bob Rae is concerned, I don't know why any party would even let him through the door, not alone be a member of the party. Bob Rae, another way of spelling ........D - I - S - A - S - T - E - R. Just look back at the nightmare that he brought to the people of Ontario.

ronaldo comments on Something Very Strange Is Happening With Treasuries

Not difficult to explain, when no arms length investor wants to buy them, you simply buy them yourself under a different name ( in this case undisclosed name) to create the appearance of demand for the product. Probably the Federal Reserve. You can imagine the reaction in the marketplace if you had to admit that there were "no takers". A real disaster.

ronaldo comments on HATS OFF TO OBAMA

jb fastpatch Feb 8, 2010, 21:07 On Feb 8, 2010, 11:47 I posted on a thread which read in part: ".................I am beginning to think that you have mental problems" I will now correct that statement to read as follows: ".................now I know that you have mental problems" You state in the above thread on Feb 8,2010, 21:07 "How is confiscating money from the banks going to help anyone?" Tell me something jb? Question Number (1) When the American taxpayer lends money to the banks to bail them out and then expects the banks to pay back the American taxpayer at some future date...........how possibly do you in your twisted mind think that if the banks pays back the American taxpayer for their loan to the banks, that the American taxpayer is "confiscating" the banks money? Did the banks get this money in some kind of "inheritance" or "entitlement" from the American taxpayer? When the banks loan jb money and then expect jb to pay the bank back are the banks "confiscating" jb's money? You must be nuts. In your same thread you also stated: "I know you (meaning me, Ronaldo) are clueless about economics, but even you should realize that banks can't lend money to business if the government steals it." Question Number (2) Since I am "clueless about economics" would you please enlighten me and tell me where the banks get the money that they loan to business to expand and employ more people and loans to homeowners in the form of a mortgage to buy a home for their family? ALSO in the same thread you stated: "Thats right Ronaldo, all money possessed by governments is stole from productive taxpayers." For once I agree with you, IMAGINE THAT, except I think that "stole" is a rather strong word to use in this instance, but if you prefer "stole" I will go along with it for the purpose of my next question. Question Number (3) When you were going to school, in your way of thinking, you "stole" money from productive taxpayers, single persons with no children, couples with no children and grandmothers who actually had their money "confiscated" in the form of education tax to pay for jb's education. You never paid the "true" cost and were subsidized with "other peoples money". Right? Seems that you are also a closet "freeloader". So question number (3) is that since you are always shooting off your mouth about someone "confiscating jb's wealth and giving it so some other non-productive person" have you ever gone back to the school boards (and the taxpayers who funded these school boards, better known as "other peoples money") and insist that they allow you to pay the "true" cost of your education so you can not be called, by your own stated standards, a "freeloading socialist parasite" who used "other peoples money " to pay for his education? Or jb did you just take the money and run? Now, jb, you have a habit of ducking or ignoring the questions put to you with regard to your own statements, as other people have brought to your attention here before, so for once, can you have the "balls" to answer the three questions as put to you in this thread?

ronaldo comments on HATS OFF TO OBAMA

jb fastpitch January 15, 2010, 20:19 "Ronaldo cheers as unemployment rises as more people loose their homes in the worst reccession........................" Jb you make the most absurd assinine statements, and I am beginning to think that you have mental problems. How do equate my saying that the American taxpayer should get his money back from the banks for the bank bailouts as me "cheering as unemployment rises and more people loose their homes etc" How in your mind do you relate these two statements?

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You know we have someone who posts a lot of threads about "lefties" and the "Communist Party USA Agenda" on this site. Which begs to ask the question "how does he know so much about "lefties" and the "Communist Party USA Agenda""? Could it be possible that we have a closet "commie" in our midst?

ronaldo comments on Inflation

Juepaje Right on, ALL governments lie (manipulate the numbers to produce what they want for results). Most people confuse the value of a dollar with the exchange rate. The exchange rate is what it costs to buy a different currency and the value of a dollar is what it can buy. If you combine the exchange rate and the result of the true inflation then the value of the dollar since I started to come to Colombia is a DISASTER. The inflation rate in the last 3 years is for sure double digit. barn m I agree with you, please azunoman, no more RR, he did enough damage when he was pres.

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jb, first of all, you have not asked a question. Secondly you have stated for a fact that we are on welfare, work for the government or a union. So, jb, you see all the PBH'ers reading your thread are going to note that you are running off at the mouth again. If not, then provide all the PBH'ers with facts proving that I am on welfare, work for the government or a union to back up your statement of fact. You have my permission to expose me with your facts.

ronaldo comments on HOW MUCH DO YOU OWE?

Sloop as a family of one your share of the National Debt as of 05 January 2010 is $40,153.17.

ronaldo comments on 20 reasons Global Debt Time Bomb explodes soon

As I have said before in other threads, " the debt can not be repaid" and that "there is a word for this and it is spelled"..................................................B - A - N - K - R - U - P - T

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christobeldawg jb fastpitch does not answer any of the questions that he is asked. He just rattles off something not related to the question to avoid answering the question.

ronaldo comments on The Rush Limbaugh Musical

I remember a few years back of an Independent Journalism Study of Rush Limbaugh radio program. Finding: 55% of his claims are true. 45% false and fabricated by Rush to support his claims in 55% truth. In other words he is 45% liar.

ronaldo comments on iPad

iPad Sounds more like protection for a woman to me? Dumb name.

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US$ will be further devalued and will be replaced as the currency that world commodities are measured in. For all of you living in Colombia look for 1,500COP for 1US$ or even less.(For me the US$ has already devalued 37% in relation to the COP, so I can only buy less than 2/3rds of what I bought before). Take the money that you are spending every month now to live in Colombia and remove 37% and put it away somewhere safe and see what happens to you lifestyle with what you have left. Its already happened to me and I look for a further devaluation of 25%. What I used to buy for US$ 3,150 now cost me US$ 5,000. Another way to look at it is the lifestyle that cost me US$ 3,150 in Colombia now casts me US$ 5,000, so without me injecting another US$ 1,850 a month just to maintain my lifestyle I would have BIG BIG cutbacks. With the massive, massive national debt burden in the US, even at these artificial interest rates the debt CAN NOT be paid. And that spells B-A-N-K-R-U-P-T.

ronaldo comments on GM hy wire.........car of the future...

sloopskipper, they also got caught in the conspiracy in the Los Angles case and had to pay millions in fines. They also pulled up the tracks the next morning after wining the "bribed" vote at city council to make sure that the streetcars were never put back in service. They installed their "own" people into the transit system to screw up the schedule as much as possible for the street cars and then burnt the street cars the day after the vote. SO MUCH FOR THE ALLEGED "FREE ENTERPRISE" SYSTEM.

ronaldo comments on GM hy wire.........car of the future...

I also agree with sloopskipper, GM is still operating like it was 1955. As far as GM trying to get rid of Hummer, it was very difficult seeing GM had to get a letter from every buyers Doctor of Psychiatry stating that the buyer was NOT NUTS. GM did not want the liability of the buyer to later claim that they must have been insane to buy this thing. AND barn m is right the electric car will be the car of the future, just as soon as it is FREED from the stranglehold of the existing car manufacturers and the oil industry.

ronaldo comments on GM hy wire.........car of the future...

TOO COMPLICATED AND WAY TOO COSTLY. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE BILL IF YOU EVER HAD TO SERVICE IT? ONLY WORK FOR ME IF GM PROVIDED 100% MAINTENANCE FOR 10 YEARS AND DID NOT COST OVER $30,000.

ronaldo comments on HATS OFF TO OBAMA

No jb fastpatch....................Ronaldo is not speechless, he is just busy.................I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

ronaldo comments on why does it take us forever to honor our heros??????? the medal of honor

A Medal of Honor is not enough. Should get the keys to the City. This man can never be repaid for what he did. Should be Honored in all schools.

ronaldo comments on Geithner’s New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure

This is for vinod................ One of the banks that received this magnificent payout was one of your favorite Canadian banks, the BOM at 1.2 BILLION, more or less, and the reason that they were able to meet their dividend payout for that year, AND ALL COURTESY OF THE US TAXPAYER.

ronaldo comments on U.S. taxpayers to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie

Guess who is going to have the $400 Billion?

ronaldo comments on Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers

goin south Dec 28, 2009 11:15 I Googled "Venezuela Food Cost" and found lots of food cost articles but was not able to pin point 2 liters of Coca Cola. The articles gave examples of inflation rates of food but concluded, even by enemies of Chavez, that Venezuela is doing better in the cost increase of food than most of their latin coumterparts. Venezuela imports most of their food stuff from Brazil, Cuba and Argentina.

ronaldo comments on Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers

goin south Dec 27, 2009 18:31 A 2 liter bottle of coke costing equivalent to 8 American dollars, I doubt it, but if it is true its the best thing that could happen to the Venezuelan people because they could not afford to buy it and their health would certainly improve from not drinking that stuff.

ronaldo comments on thread pickins are so slim it's like the starvin in darfur, lookin for scraps

dwmte7 Dec 27, 2009 12:34 I forgot one other pay classification that deserves "special mention"..................POLITICIAN.

ronaldo comments on Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers

jb fastpitch Dec 27, 2009 17:03 Before I respond to your last thread, I would ask you to go to my post "HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH" Dec 27, 2009 06:03 and tell us how much a UAW worker should be paid as you have made a negative reference to their pay in your thread. I am sure that a lot of PBH'ers will be looking forward to your response.

ronaldo comments on "HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH" How much should anyone be paid? Is there no limit?

lpdiver Dec 27, 2009, 13:10 Thanks for a great start. Humor is always welcome. Ronaldo

ronaldo comments on thread pickins are so slim it's like the starvin in darfur, lookin for scraps

dwmte7 You have said that threads are "slim pickin" like slow starvation. I will place one thread that should get guns blazing. "HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?" This question will ask how much is enough for anyone to be paid. Be they, Brain Surgeon, Lawyer, Piano Teacher, Rock Star, Plumber, Airline Pilot, Fast Food Worker, Auto Assembly Worker, Public Bus Driver, Corporate CEO, OK......... you get the picture. Lets launch this one.

ronaldo comments on Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers

vinoid December 27, 2009 09:32 "And just exactly to whose blackmail was the Canadian government yielding? Would that be GM or UAW?" As you have phrased your question it should be obvious, GM, (Chrysler would also qualify). GM (Chrysler) is the only party who has the power to withdraw production from Canada. UAW does not, UAW only has a collective labor agreement with the auto manufacturers and has no power to dictate management decisions. That is why during the bailout of the auto manufactures, the auto manufacturers negotiated new labor agreements with the UAW. Does that answer your question?

ronaldo comments on Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers

jb fastpatch Dec 26, 2009, 21:27 You seem to have an adversative reaction to anything you can "label" "left". "You are just flat wrong about the electric death traps laughingly refered to as cars by the left." Because they are made by the "left" what makes them deathtraps? Your detailed crash tests will no doubt be welcome here by all interested parties who are interested in purchasing ZERO EMISSIONS cars. "If you look into the energy expended in producing the batteries and the pollution involved, they are an ecological disaster" You have no doubt done the research on this subject and I look forward to you sharing it in detail with me and all the PBH'ers. "One of the reasons Detroit looks like Dresden circa May, 1945 is what the federal regulations of the leftists and the unions have done to the US auto industry." Could you be more specific as to: (a) What federal regulations of the leftists that you are refering to, and; (b) What the unions have done to the US auto industry.

ronaldo comments on Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers

vinoid Dec 25, 2009, 23:05 "Since when are blackmail and extortion legitimate "negotiating tactics"?" Since always that when. It was just done by US auto manufacturers when they said to the Canadian Government "either bail us out or we will withdraw production from Canada". Seems it is only "blackmail" for some people when someone you don't like does it. "Give us (auto manufacturers) more concessions (cash handouts, tax concessions, free land, free infastructure etc from government) or we will close this plant". They (auto manufacturers) have been doing it for decades.

ronaldo comments on Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers

Nothing new about sharing technology in auto industry. Canada just signed an agreement between the auto manufactures and independent repair shops for the big auto manufacturers to provide the technology to service big auto makers cars to the independents. Long overdue, so nothing earth shattering about sharing technology. As far as the Chinese are concerned, I just researched some of their electric cars. They have a nice four seater all electric zero emissions car great car for every day pick up the groceries etc car for just $5,500 US$ FOB China. They also have a nice all electric zero emissions car the size of a Honda, Toyota and as nice in styling that will do 130 k and hour and go 455 k on one charge at that speed. Cost $9,000 - 11, 000 US$ FOB China. Problem is big auto makers lobby has blocked them for use in Canada. All you people who are complaining about Chavez should be more concerned about the big auto makers preventing trade in your own back yard.

ronaldo comments on Left rebels against health reform

Cancel all these proposed plans and go directly to Single Payer Plan - everyone covered and everyone pays.Only system that will work to cover everyone.

ronaldo comments on How Golman Sachs Makes Money for Dummies

vinoid Dec 4, 2009 "And it doesn't take any brains to make money when the taxpayer gives you the loot to make it with." Just like the Canadian banks that you are always touting..eh!

ronaldo comments on Acorn and the Housing Bubble

vinod Nov 26,2009 20:30 With regard to BMO dividends you may wish to note that without the US Government (American taxpayer) bailout of the BMO in the amount of 1.1 BILLION US$ in the AIG affair BMO would have declared NO dividends. Taxpayer to the rescue again.

ronaldo comments on Acorn and the Housing Bubble

manINred Nov 25,2009 20:46 Sorry I will stick to the monopoly argument. You are correct on telecommunications rip off in Canada. I figure it is about 5X the cost in US. "Canadian Banks add real value to the economy........." I don't get that one at all...please elaborate. Transaction fees...........sorry again to disagree with you on this one, most people don't realize how banks "nickel and dime you to death" with a fee for everything they possibly can. CHECK THIS ONE OUT FOR MAYBE A SURPRISE........CIBC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DATED 31 JULY 2009.........QUARTERLY REPORTING.............INTEREST INCOME $1,369B...........FEE INCOME $1,488B They make more from FEES than they do from INTEREST and they are a bank in the loan out money and make interest business. SURPRISE...SURPRISE. I bet most people don't realize that, did you? I never said anything about their size.......nada...silch...nothing. But I will say this about size, you can not operate big time and be very, very profitable without a "price fix". The Telecommunications that you mentioned is a perfect example.