Global economic situation for liveaboard cruising yachties

[masalai]

According to Jay interviewed G. Edwin Griffin http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceame...aspx?aid=43941 - - All the good citizens of USA are the serfs of a Fascist empire.... Does it feel good to know your ass is owned? these are some of the originals - - 7 men representing Rockerfella, Morgans, CoonLobe (Rothschilds, Warberg banking etc...) along with the involvement of the "Fabian Socialists" were into implementing "collectivism" where the group is more important than the individual - the leaders of course were more equal than everyone else and remain so.... favouring FASCISM by definition... 'The Rhodes Scholarship' is their recruitment vehicle...

Buy the book "The creature from Jekyll Island" it will be the best and most useful and enlightening thing you could ever learn of your country... Read it...

If MY ass is owned, why are YOU the fool obsessing over my country? Damn, boy - Get a life! We're doing fine here.

[masalai]

Mark as an idiot there is not much that surpasses your status... bend your knees and pray for deliverance, do not create issues with me, as I am just a messenger who cares for those who would like to listen...

I'm sorry, you goofy old queer. Saying it does not make it so. You have demonstrated continuously that your "reality" does not jibe with "reality". Why don't you obsess over something else for awhile, eh?

[Zed]

Originally Posted by masalai

Buy the book "The creature from Jekyll Island" it will be the best and most useful and enlightening thing you could ever learn of your country... Read it...

Nah.. its too thick... too long... too green...

[Zed]

What does it look like in your part of the US Mark?

I talk to a few over there that are saying its OK elsewhere but not so good where they are for xxx reason. Trouble is they all seem to say that! I get a lot of negative feed back from those I have contact with!

Unfortunately we do obsess with the US, you lot are the 800 pound gorilla ! The US farts in the bath and we get tsunami... so to speak! We worry about you lot because our fate, historically, has been more aligned with yours than anyone else. Mebe that is changing but it is still true to some degree.

[Zed]

Originally Posted by mark775

Now we know what kind of an idiot would go out of his way to make people despise him, then show his house? I don't think so... Not even the maricuita de mierda is that stupid, so it stands to reason that he took some photos of some decent neighborhoods, and nothing more. Had the opportunity to put some grapes back on the shelf the other day when I saw "product of Chile". I'll talk to the Safeway manager and see if we can get those grapes put in the same place as the diseased Chilean farmed salmon - anywhere but here!

Hey I took the pic's on holiday, you are never gunna find me there! Some stupid capitalist owns the place anyway Ooops thats a give away!

[masalai]

Oh well in that case mark would not read it as there are no pages for colouring, or join the dots, or pictures with words in bubbles, so how would he follow a simple plot... let alone this one

[Zed]

Some OK pics... kinda uld but!

[nyalex]

Originally Posted by masalai

Oh well in that case mark would not read it as there are no pages for colouring, or join the dots, or pictures with words in bubbles, so how would he follow a simple plot... let alone this one

Hahahahaha!!!! That's funny ... I'll come back to make a comment later. Have to do something first.

[nyalex]

Originally Posted by Manie B

please answer the question



guys please dont turn this into another drivel / global politics **** thread

Too late ....

[masalai]

Oh ****, an abundance of drivel, and not an original thought to add? Nappy changed? and mommy sent you out to play? well, hopefully the bowel is empty and the gruel has not been digested... CYA...

"We worry about you lot" Thank-you. I am in the tourism business and reservations are off some twenty percent. This twenty percent...as I see it; Many Japanese tourists until their recession and they havn't been back.
Europeans more than filled the void, especially Switzerland and Germany.
A few years ago I happened to get in with a bunch of Scots presenting six percent of my business in '07 and '08. Since I met my present wife in... I better get this right... 2000, about four percent Mexican (she's Mex). Quite a few Kiwis, few Ozzies, a group of Somalies every year and Hawaiians, "the new Japanese" - fun loving, always bearing gifts, respectful, empathetic towards others, wonderful.
Then disaster hit. The Europeans were no longer allowed to take back large amounts of fish and they abruptly stopped coming in 2009. For twenty years, my friend Cristian, with a campground on the Bodensee, and a travel agent acquaintance were sending large numbers of Germans and Swiss. It was not uncommon for Europeans to head back over with 500 kilos, or more, of salmon and halibut. It was sometimes then sold to pay for their trip. I think they are limited to 25 kilos or such now and it is not such a good deal anymore. I will be twenty percent down from average again this year - certainly not going to make up for it with Americans - they are all (the smart ones) pinching their pennies until the Robin Hoods are out of the government. What does it mean to me? Well, I'm not even thinking of selling a property in this business climate, I am setting up my boat to commercial fish for cod in April and May (the ex-vessel price will be in the neighborhood of $.60 lb.), I am eating more wild game and fish (good for my health anyway), building a greenhouse and getting a start on spring with the veggies, completing tests on an invention, negotiating manufacture of another invention in Mexico, doing a few boat related jobs for poker/diaper money, and not going on vacations. I'll be fine. In all, Alaska is so natural-resourse rich that we'll do well as long as the environmentalists don't get it ALL shut down. We've got a democrat senator now (Mark Begich) and while mayor he bankrupted Anchorage, now setting his sights on America. He'll be a "one-termer". A lot of hippies here, feeding off of the system, they'll probably leave when the funds stop rolling in.
In Mexico City, where I usually winter (my wife is there now), it is worse. Tho the standard of living was never, on average, high, inflation is rearing it's ugly head. I can now buy Florida oranges cheaper in Alaska than I can buy Mexican juice oranges in Mexico City. Entertainment was always pricey there but now the average citizen is getting hit pretty hard. We try to compensate by giving jobs to any who look like they need it in our area. We are pretty lucky there, as my wife's family is wealthy. My family in Seattle area is hunkering down, getting houses paid for, etc., readying for any worsening in economy. Property values are starting to come down in Texas and we are shopping there for retirement property.
In all, everyone is on the edge of their seats here, waiting for word from the experts in Queensland, Puerto Rico, and Chile (edit, "and NY").
Talking to clients from around the country (and world), it is off everywhere.

[nyalex]

Originally Posted by mark775

"...supposed to be a boating forum". I just click on new posts and almost everything I see is dog-pile on America. I've got an election to help win for Palin in 2112. I've got a family to support always. I'll have little time for you people and I suppose the likes of you would just as soon see the likes of me fade away anyway. Just don't think that because the only voices you hear are your own rattling around in your near-empty skulls, that Americans like me don't exist. Sorry, not dead yet. I intend to take back my country (I am part native, as well, Boston, but I don't mean take it back that far - say, like, 1981). I intend to see a supreme court full of Clarence Thomas's. I intend to see inner-city low-lifes get hungry enough to get a job. I intend to see our youth pull their pants up, turn their hats around and help that old lady with her groceries. I've got enough to see and do in this great country to listen to you Godless chapulins berate her, nor will I be spreading many tourist dollars your way. Carry on with your drivel - I've got work to do.

Mark the revolutionary ... I never would have guessed. Yeah, you have a good idea up there, get off this thread and use your time wisely to support your family by getting another job. Nothing too complicated, don't hurt yourself, pump gas or something ... shovel snow, you know ... monkey work.

[masalai]

MARK, - - Thanks for the information - - Keep well and good wishes please keep that sort of info coming as nervousness is showing in the markets everywhere lately...
Looks like gold is headed for a test of 1000, and I would like to see the AU$ at .6000 - long way to go as .89 and falling on a rising US$ - - Things look headed for a big shakeout - - very bumpy ride ahead - the next week or so may be sentiment driven and assisted by heavy FED manipulation...

Someone is going, - - "ahh, aahhhh, AHhhh, AAAHHHH" - - and if that someone is "economic USA", then the usual for Australia is that we catch a bad case of economic H1N1 type flu....