{"id":18359,"date":"2012-12-30T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18359"},"modified":"2012-12-30T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T16:22:46","slug":"we-have-passed-the-point-of-no-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/we-have-passed-the-point-of-no-return\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Have Passed The Point Of No Return&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2012-12-29\/ron-paul-fiscal-cliff-we-have-passed-point-no-return\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zero Hedge<\/em><\/a> recommends that everyone listen to outgoing Congressman Ron Paul&#8217;s analysis of the fiscal cliff negotiations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a little under three minutes, Ron Paul explains to a somewhat nonplussed CNBC anchor just how ridiculous the charade that is occurring in D.C. actually is. This succinct spin-free clip should be required viewing for each and every asset-manager, talking-head, propagandist, and mom-and-pop who are viewing the last-minute idiocy of the &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217; debacle with some hope that things will be different this time. <strong>&#8220;We have passed the point of no return where we can actually get our house back in order,&#8221;<\/strong> Paul begins, adding that &#8220;they pretend they are fighting up there, but they really aren&#8217;t. They are arguing over power, spin, who looks good, who looks bad; all trying to preserve the system where they can spend what they want, take care of their friends and print money when they need it.&#8221; With social safety nets available to rich and poor, there is <strong>no impetus for change<\/strong> and &#8220;the country loses,&#8221; but Paul concludes, the markets are starting to say &#8220;there is a limit to this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero Hedge recommends that everyone listen to outgoing Congressman Ron Paul&#8217;s analysis of the fiscal cliff negotiations: In a little under three minutes, Ron Paul explains to a somewhat nonplussed CNBC anchor just how ridiculous the charade that is occurring in D.C. actually is. This succinct spin-free clip should be required viewing for each and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,53,13],"tags":[158,697,698,71,419,553,101],"class_list":["post-18359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-ronpaul","tag-senate","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4M7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18359\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}