Daily Archives: 28 July 2009

Marc Faber on the Fed, Government intervention, 17% real unemployment & more

Mark Faber @ 7:30 – “The best reaction to a crisis is not to increase your fiscal deficits and government spending and ease money, what you should do is fire half the government staff, because the government in the U.S. , municipalities, states and the federal government is already half the economy. So you fire half of them, and make these characters work instead of just looking after their offices and doing nothing all day.”

“There are 33.8 million food stamp recipients in the United States out of an elligible population of about 200 million. . . so in short the unemployment rate is much higher in the U.S. than what the government is publishing. The publishing is lying.”

Marc Faber on the Fed, government intervention, 17% real unemployment, & more

Clinton says 9/11 ringleaders in Pakistan

“U.S. officials ‘firmly believe’ that al-Qaida leaders who planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.

At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton said Washington has told the Pakistani government what it believes about the location of al-Qaida leaders on its soil.

‘With respect to the location of those who were part of the planning and execution of the attack of 9/11 against our country, we firmly believe that a significant number of them are in the border area of Pakistan,’ she said when asked about the U.S. view.” (Read more from myantiwar.org)

Let us fear. Let us hate. Let us have permanent war.