And here's a "funny little chart" to match:

Theres no fixing this.. I dont think Obama will be highly looked upon in the history books. He didnt make the mess, but he'll be the one remembered for it.. sad.

I have said that all along drangonlunch.  It didn't matter which candidate went into office they will be remembered badly cause there is no way 1 4 cycle can fix all of our problems. 

LOL at how much jonebone loves him some graphs!
~~NGD

Agreed . He must have access to like all the graphs that have to do something with economic status of the U.S.

Well, the upside is that Jonas' chart claims we're almost to the bottom! Yay!

we needed to hit rock bottom and start over

jone- do you live in a tin foil room?

Pedro is funny

That went over my head, I don't understand the nature of your quip...

As for the graphs, I frequent a now 430 page long "Great Depression 2.0" thread on another forum that was started over 2 years ago.  It's kind of funny because this one guy basically stated how the banks would fall, house values would plummet, credit would freeze, etc.  Lots of people laughed and told him he was fear mongering...  Now those people have disappeared and it's quite eerie to look back and see that almost everything he predicted is falling into place exactly as he stated 2 years ago...

I am guessing he is saying something like the "tin-foil hat" people, only bigger. Those are the conspiracy nuts and doomsayers usually.

^ Oh I see, thanks for the clarification. I don't believe conspiracy theory and I'm not trying to lead a revolt against the Government, lol. I just have the philosophy that it is better to prepare for the worst and hope for the best rather then get blindsided by the worst when you are unprepared.

See the movie, Conspiracy Theory, with Mel Gibson.

^However if you prepare too much for the worst and it never comes, then your life seems pretty negative and you become a pessimist? I just think that there shouldn't be any people who actually prepare for nothing, because these are the people who are absolutely gullible and act stupid when we get hit by an attack.

Well, in preparing for "the worst" it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to prepare for anything much worse than the previous Great Depression. That seems like a sort of fundamental bottom of how low things can go without a total revolution occurring. If things DO get worse than that...any previous plans are pretty much fucked anyway, and you just need to survive until the dust settles. Then you're back to square one with everyone else.

But, at this point, it is incredibly ignorant to discount the possibility of the next few years mirroring the original Great Depression. I don't think it's highly likely...but I definitely think it's plausible.

As far as I can tell, the only people who don't think the current situation is a "big deal" are people who are too young in age, or too early in their careers to (a) own a home, or (b) have enough invested to feel the pain of the pullback in the markets over the last year and a half.

Well if I was truly preparing for the worst, I'd be spending all of my spare time building a bomb shelter, hording food / water / supplies, and purchasing hand guns and ammunition. That would be the extremist "THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!! OMG!!!" point of view, and I'm nowhere near that.

The only real preparation I'm doing is reading and informing myself with the knowledge to make my own opinion rather than the spoonfed BS the media delivers. I'm still going to be buying a house this year, and I'm still putting money in my 401k. I still have my money in a real bank (ING / BoA) as opposed to Mattress Inc. I'm not THAT pessimistic...

Hey, have you been watching my house lately or something?  That's exactly what I'm doing in my free time..  but I'm not purchasing hand guns...  Sniper rifles are your friend..  why shoot someone close up when you can get them 1000+ yards away from my watchtower? 













Just kidding everyone... 

^^^ Yeah, I was gonna say..."handguns"? Why? You want rifles and shotguns...and maybe a couple of submachine guns for good measure. And BODY ARMOR.

Don't get the grenades and C-4.... you can never have enough stuff that goes BOOM!

Speaking of which...I saw some awesome 12-gauge rounds that turn your shotgun into a rocket propelled grenade launcher. VERY cool. Evidently, they contain an HE-charge and are accurate up to 100m.

LINK???

Sorry, I don't have one. My boss had a video of the thing being tested, though. It's basically a cylinder, the size of a standard 12-gauge sabot round. When it leaves the barrel, it has little stabilizer fins that spring out and give it aerodynamic assistance and improve the accuracy substantially.