Fuzzy Numbers: Extent of the Deception Revealed in Barron's

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@Nichoman

Chris, et al.

Crucial to several of your posts Chris…plus others comments on this web site. In addition, other superb web site commentaries, offer the following…

1.) Competence Of Decision-Making. Do we have the institutions, processes and personnel to make the tough and correct decisions? Future Impacts?

2.) Desperation To Maintain Status Quo. Human nature applied to proven human values and principles are a clear indicator of future behavior. Draw your own views of our government and if they are following or rejecting these as a type/form of greed and ignorance.

In the past, I’ve provided my personal experiences and views to the above points as key to how things are progressing. Then ultimately…effective understanding and applications to future individual and societal decisions. Result: How can "they" change…when the government doesn’t see themselves as key architects of the problem?

Propose…shouldn’t these actions and behaviors have been expected? If data released is questionable…smoking gun to points 1 and 2 above?

Connecting the dots…aren’t we getting a clearer picture of what and quite possibly how this will unravel the next several months?

Reading commentary in this and other venues…impression too often is were reacting or surprised by these actions. If so, why? Do we still not fully grasp the magnitude of the governments role in this?

If so, are we fully maximizing or threatening our individual and collective ability to meet all these challenges?

Don’t we need to be prepared mentally (i.e. understanding), emotionally, physically and societally to future changes?

Have we fully diagnosed all the causes to our predicament? I suggest for many (including myself)…maybe no?

It further motivates me that I (we?) can and should be doing more to plan and prepare.

 

Nichoman

 

Cat et al,

I appreciate your comments and as I scrolled down the thread had very similar conclusions to Nichoman. Nevertheless, each day when I read the incredulous data being spewed out of MSM I come up with similar questions. And each day I say to myself "why do I bother to ask myself those questions" as I allready know the answer!

And I also wonder aloud that if I continue to have similar Qs to yours and we (on this and similar sites) are those I consider to be more aware of the predicament than most, then there is no way that your garden variety politician would ever come to the point of saying " well I can see that these are really fuzzy numbers and I had better do some research before making a wrong decision"!

So on #1, The decisions ARE bad.

And #2, the medicine WILL kill the patient.

And as Nichoman posted:

on #1, YES however they will not be found in politics but rather in the "grass roots" arena.

and #2, DON’T BECOME A PATIENT and you will survive. That means no Status Quo, no debt, skillsets to provide food, shelter, transportation, and community/security for yourself and others. Let’s here it for planning and preparing. IMHO I don’t think that it can be overdone at this time.

I know I am preaching to the choir here, sorry for that. Looking very forward to "Lowesville" and meeting fellow "grassrooters"!

Coop