General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: takebackourtemple on May 09, 2010, 05:42:30 PM
Title: What does this picture mean to you.
Post by: takebackourtemple on May 09, 2010, 05:42:30 PM
I have one word in mind when I think of this image on the top but I'm wondering how many others here will come to the same conclusion. I'll post what comes to my mind in a few days.
Looks like what could happen if inflation runs amuck!
I figured it might be too obvious of a point.
Title: Re: What does this picture mean to you.
Post by: Iron Greek on May 09, 2010, 09:07:10 PM
They decided to put his face on there because under his administration every time he blinks a million dollars is spent so its only suitable to put him on the million dollar bill!
Title: Re: What does this picture mean to you.
Post by: White Israelite on May 09, 2010, 10:08:40 PM
Title: Re: What does this picture mean to you.
Post by: MassuhDGoodName on May 09, 2010, 10:20:50 PM
I'd love to be in Zimbabwe's local "McRat's" Drive-Thru Restaurant and watch the clerk at the register try to make change after some jigaroon pays for his "Boiled Rat in a Sack" lunch with a ONE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLAR BILL!
I can't stop laughing just thinkin' about it! :::D :::D :::D :::D :::D :::D
Title: Re: What does this picture mean to you.
Post by: muman613 on May 09, 2010, 10:21:36 PM
Or this picture (http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/american-dollar-toilet-paper.jpg)
Title: Re: What does this picture mean to you.
Post by: Ithaca-37 on May 10, 2010, 06:08:27 AM
It's understandable that Zimbabwe would be a source of humor. After all, the last Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, was ridiculed for opposing native rule on the grounds that (in Smith's own words), "You just can't give a modern society to a bunch of primitives who still believe in witchcraft." Nothing annoys the left so much as when the right is proven to be correct.
But in fact, Zimbabwe is a classic Greek tragedy, not a comedy. Rhodesia was a modern nation, the breadbasket of Africa, and now it's in ruins as Zimbabwe. And while a lot of people are pointing toward Greece as what awaits the United States, I point to Zimbabwe. At least Greece is heavily populated with Greeks. The United States is brimming with third world primitives, each with his own axe to grind.
Even if the USA does not descend to the open war on Europeans that has been the case of Zimbabwe, there's still the awful specter of hyperinflation. The USA has not experienced serious inflation in 30+ years, and people have forgotten (or never learned) how horrific it is. I had an old economics professor back in college, a really wise gent, who would constantly say this: "Inflation is a cruel tax." Try to find a contrary opinion from the few inhabitants with a brain in Zimbabwe.
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Title: Re: What does this picture mean to you.
Post by: Debbie Shafer on May 10, 2010, 06:34:07 AM
False prophets and Dictators appear!
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Post by: syyuge on May 10, 2010, 10:43:31 AM