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Try sending the message direct to the mod
So he gets an "Inbox"
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Release Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from Federal Government Conservatorship
WE, the undersigned, hereby petition our U.S. Federal Government and our President Obama for the immediate release from Federal Government Conservatorship for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, by Executive Order of President Obama, or Director Melvin Watt, or any other means whereby full and immediate release from conservatorship would be effected.
Whereas: the extraordinary economic circumstances under which the conservatorship of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae might have been necessary have passed, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have fully repaid the Federal Government every dollar provided, further conservatorship serves no useful purpose; for these and other compelling reasons the conservatorship of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should be ended immediately.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae-federal-government-conservatorship/RmNVw8sB
Published Date: Dec 20, 2014
Issues: Economy, Housing, Urban Policy
CONTACTING EVERYONE AND ANYONE who is sympathetic to this cause, such as your legislators, housing advocacy groups, realty and mortgage associations, ect. - that would be doing even more.
Everyone means everyone. That includes wives and children and neighbors who have email accounts. If they have an email account, they qualify to sign the petition.
Also, any homeowner who ever wants their home to go up in value needs to sign the petition.
Setup a table at the entrance to Wal Mart or your local grocery store. Let people use your laptop or tablet to sign the petition. Remind them that they will be getting a verification email that they will have to respond to.
Sold JNUG @ $2.23 Bot JDST @ $18.90
You are entitled to your opinion.
Last time it got 500 sigs in 30 days. Now that # was hit in 2 days. As I said, you are entitled to your opinion. Please don't diminish the fine efforts of the board members who are working hard on rallying signers to our cause.
For a petition that was started on a Saturday morning, it has done well so far.
I predict this petition has a real chance of getting somewhere when the movers and shakers start advertising it.
Every signature counts. Can we count on yours today?
BT Signer #57
INFOGRAPHIC: Are Gold Miners On Track With Projected 2014 Costs?
By Alex Létourneau of Kitco News
Monday December 22, 2014 10:00 AM
(Kitco News) - Alright, no sense flogging a dead horse – we all know that 2014 was the year of the great cost cuts by gold miners.
You would be hard pressed to find a gold mining company that didn’t get the memo, after historic gold price drops in mid-April 2013, which kept sliding into 2014, forced a lot of hands.
The all-in sustaining cost (AISC) and all-in cost metrics were being used by more and more companies during this bid for more transparency in the gold mining sector as 2013 progressed into 2014. The good people at the World Gold Council have you covered if you’re wondering what those metrics are.
The graphic below shows mining companies that Kitco News readers have shown an interest in over the last year and their year-to-date performance in their cost cutting endeavors.
Note that not all companies below report in AISC metrics. The companies that do not use the mentioned measures are labeled with their respective cash cost measurements.
Also, mine costs shift quarter-on-quarter. One high quarter cost of production does not translate into the year being above cost projections, and vice versa. Not all reported their first nine-month results.
502 sigs in less than 2 days!
Keep promoting the petition.
BT Signer #57
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Release Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from Federal Government Conservatorship
WE, the undersigned, hereby petition our U.S. Federal Government and our President Obama for the immediate release from Federal Government Conservatorship for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, by Executive Order of President Obama, or Director Melvin Watt, or any other means whereby full and immediate release from conservatorship would be effected.
Whereas: the extraordinary economic circumstances under which the conservatorship of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae might have been necessary have passed, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have fully repaid the Federal Government every dollar provided, further conservatorship serves no useful purpose; for these and other compelling reasons the conservatorship of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should be ended immediately.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae-federal-government-conservatorship/RmNVw8sB
Published Date: Dec 20, 2014
Issues: Economy, Housing, Urban Policy
This one needs to be hit many times
ElRushbo@eibnet.com
I am sending out a C&P of the petition from the White House
Website with the link.
It is short and to the point. It says most of what needs to be said.
BT signer #57
Everyone please post your signer # as your sig to all Ihub posts.
Think of it as a lapel button to get people to ask you what it means.
BT signer #57
Great Job!!! This is what it is going to take.
2% return on direct mail ads are about normal.
200 million posts would get us at least 4 million sigs.
This needs to go viral.
Family, friends, neighbors (especially if they ever want to sell their home for a profit), blogs, twitter, facebook. Off the IHUB boards to everywhere. News blogs. Newspapers. Business web sites. Pay for an ad in the paper. List it on Craigslist.com. News media. Newspaper Op Ed pages. Youtube.
Ask for it to be signed and then reposted by signers everywhere they can think of.
10 million signatures would get Obama's attention.
BT Signer #57
And you aren't late for dinner. (g)
Not really
Do you backup to an external drive?
Looks like it will hit that tomorrow.
Signed #57
White House comment on FnF
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/comprehensive-approach-wall-street-reform
Says they were responsible for the crash.
Free Fannie Mae
Please sign this White House petition and send the link viral.
This needs to go viral! http://wh.gov/irdnA
Link Worked Great
Added my sig to the petition.
This needs to go viral! http://wh.gov/irdnA
Got a link?
Can't find it on the site. 101 petitions but nothing about FnF.
Gone now
Nowhere on the site
Open your registry and do a search for "Runonce"
See what it is.
Have you run Malwarebytes?
If you read the JNUG website
It clearly states that the ETF will NOT meet the objectives long term. they make it clear that JUNG is intended to be traded and not held long term.
http://www.direxioninvestments.com/products/direxion-daily-junior-gold-miners-bull-3x-etf
What happens after this multiday consolidation?
Do a System Restore back to the week before it started.
Sometimes there are things out there that just aren't worth the time it takes to track down.
You are saying NO! Right?
Gold and JNUG just took off
Gold looks to be moving
Kitco showing same price for gold for over an Hour???
If it were'nt for days like this.....
I wouldn't have a frame of reference for knowing when I was having a good day.
Bot 4th and last serving of JNUG @ $1.83
Reverse split will not affect the value
The stock reflects the value of the underlying gold indexes. It will not act like a normal RS stock and nose dive.
Added third serving JNUG @ $2.45
U.S. oil drillers last week idled the most rigs in almost two years as crude tumbled below $60 a barrel. Producers including ConocoPhillips (COP) have curbed spending, and the number of rigs is declining from a record 1,609, threatening to slow the shale-drilling boom that has propelled U.S. production to the highest level in three decades.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-14/u-a-e-says-opec-won-t-change-output-even-if-price-drops-to-40.html
Just what the Arabs wanted.
Paying Down The Debt Is Now Almost Mathematically Impossible
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Exactly 199 years ago, in 1815, a “temporary” committee was established in the US Senate called the Committee on Finance and Uniform National Currency.
It was set up to address economic issues and the debt accrued by the US government after the War of 1812.
Of course, because there’s nothing more permanent than a temporary government measure, the committee became a permanent one after just one year.
It soon expanded its role from raising tariffs to having influence over taxation, banking, currency, and appropriations.
In subsequent wars, notably the American Civil War, the Committee was quick to use its powers and introduced the union’s first income tax. They also detached the dollar from gold to help fund the war.
This was all an indication of things to come.
Over the subsequent decades there was a sustained push to finally establish the country’s central bank that will control money and credit, as well as institute a permanent income tax to feed the expanding aspirations of government.
They succeeded in 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed and the 16th Amendment ratified, binding the country in the shackles of central banking and taxation of income.
Over the century that followed, the US has gone from being the biggest creditor in the world to its biggest debtor.
Decades of expanding government programs, waste, endless and costly wars, etc. have racked up such an enormous pile of debt that it has become almost impossible to pay it down.
A lot of folks don’t realize that, since the end of World War II, the US government’s total tax revenue has been almost constant at roughly 17% of GDP.
In other words, even though the actual tax rates themselves rise and fall, the government’s ‘slice’ of the economic pie is almost always the same - 17%.
I’ve worked out a mathematical model which shows that, even with absurd assumptions (7%+ GDP growth for years at a time, low interest rates, etc.), it is simply not feasible for the US government to ‘grow’ its way out.
Default has become the only option. And that could mean a number of things.
They could default on their creditors (other governments like China who loaned money to the US government). But this would spark a global financial and banking crisis.
They could default on the Federal Reserve, which owns trillions of dollars of US debt. But this would create an epic currency crisis for the US dollar.
They could also default on their obligations to their citizens—primarily to future beneficiaries of Social Security (who collectively own trillions of dollars of US debt).
Or they could choose to default on their obligations to every human being alive who holds US dollars… and engineer rampant inflation.
None of these is a good option. And simply put, the US government has reached a point of no return.
I aim to demonstrate this to you in today’s video podcast episode. It’s a very sobering realization.
Join me to see it for yourself: