Sir
You like to writer stories about finances and stocks. Why not write one about what will happen when the greenback is so inflated it goes the way of Nazi Reichmark or the Zimbawee Dollar? What sort or anarchy would exist during a transition to reforming our government or our monetary system and how might they go about it? Could the US Military take over as happens in other countries? What might life be like? And perhaps a detailed list of what to own and what not to own before during and after? Something more detailed then the obvious Guns & Gold, Bullets, dried food, silver? What skill sets would be in demand?

And if I own 100 shares of XYZ company after a transitional period, would I not still own some portion of XYZ Company?

Lastly, I hate these little boxes to type your message. Why not make it so my Outlook pops open and I can spell & grammer check. My apologies for and typos or disjointed grammer.

Paul G Huiber, CPA

I'm for maintaining the current debt ceiling and let the chips fall where they may. Does anyone feel that by increasing the ceiling now would avert it needing to be raised again when the true costs of Obamacare are know. Oh, by the way, there is little discussion about our $100 billion unfunded liability to Social Security and Medicare. How about the fact that there is no retirement fund sitting there for military retirees; it's paid out of the annual defense budget. The same is true for disabled veterans who have sacrificed for our country that is now considering that we may not pay the war wounded.

Some ideas:

1) Immediately stop all foreign aid except for Isreal (Did you know that we give foreign aid to China and Saudi Arabia (look it up)

2) Immediately pull all troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq; most of the bad guys have moved to Somalia. Iraq and Afghanistan are not worth one drop of american blood.

3) Bring home all of our troops from Europe; let them remain in S. Korea because of the madman to the North.

4) Drill Baby Drill ! You idiots!!!!!! Get nuclear powerplants up and running. Forget Chernobyl, that was a man-made disaster caused by two scientists. Start tapping our natural gas deposits. Pursue clean coal. Eliminate all environmentalists and their snails and frogs.

5) Consider closing several embassies; people hate us anyway

6) Draw down the size of the military force (remenmber we're out of all wars) and let Reservists go home to their families.

7) Take back the 16% raises that Obama just gave to all his staff.

8) Smash the printing presses at the treasury

9) Sorry, but I've run out of time.

This is exactly what Oboma had planned all along. He does not like this country, does not believe in democracy and wants to destroy our way of life. This is his opportinity to do so and blame everyone else. I hope someone has the know how to avoid all of this be it either party. He as never had a job and really does not understand what he is doing. He needs to step down. He said after the election WE WON SO SHUT UP Bet he wishes he had not won. Life as we know it is gone.

When Republicans morphed into rogue elephants, they abandoned democratic principles. Instead, they use tactics to have everything go their way, or no way at all… for only they are "right."

I'm sure that each of us has had conversations with the sort of people who are "right." They disregard our viewpoint, disregard statistics, disregard needs, and disregard history. The best response to such people is to CLOSE THE DOOR to further communication on the topic. By refusing to engage with bullying tactics, we at least gain some respect. And in the future, the always-right sorts may change their approach and deal with us more as co-equals.

Rogue elephants are crazed. Rogue elephants trample all in the path. Rogue elephants are irrational. When trying to deal with the Republican rogue-elephants, it does no good to appeal to tenets of democracy. For they will not adhere to principles of compromise, majority rule, and justice.

So I think that the only effective tactic is to disengage and evade so that the nation does not go into default. Otherwise the rogue elephants will push us all over the cliff.

Mike:

In your comments, you accuse us of hyping this story and say that, as a country, we need to control our spending.

Clearly you cannot be reading us regularly, for fiscal prudence at the federal level and better regulation of the out-of-control Wall Street institutions that (along with Washington) have been central catalysts to the financial crisis has been a Money Morning mantra since BEFORE the financial crisis began. In fact, with stories such as the one I post the link to below, we WARNED of the coming financial crisis.

And we've been resolute in following our mantra. We've published a number of open letters to Washington in which we urge our elected leaders to adopt smarter, sounder spending and regulatory policies.

So accusing us of fear-mongering and hype is not only unfair — it's completely inaccurate.

Let me make one other point in closing. Money Morning's key role — in other words, the focus here that is Job One — is to serve our readers. That's why, each and every weekday, we deliver all this content, carefully researched and written, much of it derived from our group of global investing gurus (who, I might add, are some of the smartest investing minds I've worked with in my 25 years in journalism).

It's why we deliver twice-weekly "Buy, Sell or Hold" features. It's why we write lead stories that predicted the huge run-ups in gold and silver and cotton — and that also provide our readers with specific recommendations as to how to play these trends.

Our track record is pretty doggone good. And we do all this — paying a complete editorial staff to do so — and yet we don't charge our readers one thin dime. Money Morning goes out each morning … free of charge.

There aren't many other publications that do what we do, and we do it quite well.

I appreciate your taking the time to comment. But I think we do quite a lot for our readers, and know that creating fear among our readers is not one of our pursuits.

Thanks.

William Patalon III
Executive Editor
Money Morning

http://moneymorning.com/2008/04/02/credit-default-swaps-a-50-trillion-problem/

http://moneymorning.com/2011/01/05/open-letter-washington-slash-federal-budget-deficit-save-us-economy/

http://moneymorning.com/2011/01/05/plan-to-cut-the-u-s-federal-budget-deficit-draws-strong-response-from-money-morning-readers/

http://moneymorning.com/2010/10/28/deficit-debate-tobin-tax-cuts/

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