Gosh let's see:
Survival rates for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma can be computed here but you would need access to Mr. Thompson's medical records to determine it exactly. Although we know his age so that drops down his time on Earth a little right off the bat by about 20%.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/c...non-Hodgkins_lymphoma_staged_32.asp?sitearea=
The Dow is stable at over 13,300 (highest in history), inflation is virtually non-existant, and we have a 4.3% unemployment rate. You're right, the ecomony is doomed.
If I borrow three million dollars to pay off all my bills, buy a house, a car, a trip to the Caymans, donate money to GreenPeace, my Church, build a school for the community, feed all the poor on skid row for a year, hire a gardner and a cook and buy a helicopter am I any better off? I don't think so, all I am is three million in debt with little assets to show for it. So I borrow more money next year to pay a little interest on the loan. And then the next....
Also all the things you have mentioned can be controlled by the amount of money in the economy except inflation. Well guess what? You are dead wrong about inflation, inflation is at highest level in ten years and climbing:
Percentage change 12 months SAAR 3
ended in December mos. ended
in March
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
All items 3.4 1.6 2.4 1.9 3.3 3.4 2.5 4.7
Food and beverages 2.8 2.8 1.5 3.5 2.6 2.3 2.2 7.4
Housing 4.3 2.9 2.4 2.2 3.0 4.0 3.3 3.5
Apparel -1.8 -3.2 -1.8 -2.1 -.2 -1.1 .9 -.9
Transportation 4.1 -3.8 3.8 .3 6.5 4.8 1.6 8.3
Medical care 4.2 4.7 5.0 3.7 4.2 4.3 3.6 5.6
Recreation 1.7 1.5 1.1 1.1 .7 1.1 1.0 .1
Education and
communication 1.3 3.2 2.2 1.6 1.5 2.4 2.3 2.7
Other goods
and services 4.2 4.5 3.3 1.5 2.5 3.1 3.0 4.7
Special indexes
Energy 14.2 -13.0 10.7 6.9 16.6 17.1 2.9 22.9
Energy
commodities 15.7 -24.5 23.7 6.9 26.7 16.7 6.1 30.9
Energy
services 12.7 -1.5 .4 6.9 6.8 17.6 -.6 13.8
All items less
energy 2.6 2.8 1.8 1.5 2.2 2.2 2.5 2.9
Food 2.8 2.8 1.5 3.6 2.7 2.3 2.1 7.3
All items less
food and energy 2.6 2.7 1.9 1.1 2.2 2.2 2.6 2.3
If you look you will see energy costs are up 23%, food 7.3%, on average this year. I find this significant and this is just an ugly begining. You can not blame it on the war, Iraq pumps more oil this year than it did last...
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
If you understand things like balance of trade, the value of the US dollar, the entitlements due to retirees, you might be a little more concerned. We can prop up the economy on borrowed dollars until no one wants them anymore but sooner or later we will have to pay up. When we pay up with US dollars by the tanker car full they will become about as worth as much toilet paper. When the dollar becomes worthless and we will be unable to buy just about anything as we have sent most of our manufacturing base out of the country. If we don't reverese this trend we are done.
Historically FT is good to go on 2A. However I never intend to have to use that right as that would mean we are seeing catostrophic conditions in this country. I would like to keep the right to free speech, right against warantless searches, self incrimination through torture, secret evidence, secret prisons, etc, etc... For Fred Thompson to support getting rid of these rights is far more important than any essay he will ever write on gun control. Because the truth is when they come for you and your family at 3am and torture a confession out of you, and throw you in a secret prison never to be heard from again your guns won't mean squat, unless you used them in which case the only difference will be you are dead. Anyone who will so easily dismiss the bill of rights cares nothing for freedom.
We talk about the coming police state, we talk about how the Democrats are going to turn the country to socialism and Rudy G will take us to authoritarian fascism but the truth is the tools are already in place and Fred Thompson was a big cheer leader putting them there. All in the name of a little more security and safety.... People who support that garbage deserve neither.
Will you stand pat against it or are you looking for more of the same? Because Fred Thompson is more of the same. The choice is yours.
