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Maybe because it is all a big Ponzi scheme?

That's true until Jan 2016. Once past that date, you'll need a internal passport to fly. I'm guessing that it's just the camel's nose and once people get used to having to produce an internal passport to fly, they will believe it necessary to produce one when performing other modes of travel as well. As has been noted, DHS/TSA have already performed checks in bus terminals & highway rest stops, "To keep us safe". Totalitarianism, one small step at a time.
   

Uh, negative on that, Jim. I used to make 1% per day in the stock market; I buy at good buy times and sell at good sell times. I currently don't trade because I don't care to lose money; if I'm not playing to win, I'm playing to fund someone else's golden toilet seat.

I know people whose accounts were halved and worse, and haven't recovered. Even if I invest in SCHD and JNK, I'll have to keep appraised of the market; it could easily go south, and then I'll have to just hold onto it--but it's easy for things to crash down and never recover, which is what happened to IndyMac Bancorp, THM, and a few others. Some of that money just went away.

This image tells a grand story: if you bought in at 1929, you were fucked; 1932, you were rich. 2000 was a bad year; 2003 was great. The DOW is nearly level with 2008. Both the DOW and S&P are showing extreme volatility; the line on the left, followed to the bottom of the second drop, is where the S&P should end up.

Buying in now is buying into a volatile market. Not great unless you have good reason to buy.

Dang it, I was wrong, I got tricked in the graph I linked to, which is measuring GDP in gold ounces (an utterly useless measurement for this purpose). Here's a better graph. I didn't realize the economy was growing so quickly at the end of the Ford administration.

That's because you're indoctrinated and have fallen into the black hole called faith

I could say the same to you, you choose to believe the evolution and a made up story of history.

Noah managed to gather all the animals in the first place

Noah did not gather the animals. The bible said the animals came to him. Read the text to answer your questions. Also a simple answer as to stopping the animals from eating each other is cages. You build walls around them to stop them making a mess in the boat. Really these are simple questions.

how to explain how he had room for the vast number of species, or the lack of a global flood in the geological record.

It is ridiculousness to think Noah carried all the species on land. The Bible said of each "Kind" not of each species.
You do not need to carry all of the current species we have today. The specification of the animals would of happen rapidly after the flood.
Hence you would only need to carry 20000-25000 kinds, otherwise you will need several cargo ships instead of just one cargo chip.
The Bible says "kind" which roughly translate as Phylum. For example: There are currently over 150 species of dogs but you only needed 2 wolfs (M&F) for the kind, from them they specified into the species we have now.

There is alot of evidence for a massive flood. There are huge sedimentary basins are all around the world. Map of sedimentary basins

The Grand Canyon which each of it's layers laid down in water.
The Three Sisters of Australia

Now what is unscientific about a scientist putting to sleep a man, taking a sample of his tissues and cloning him but without the Y gene.

What's unscientific about it is that it is based on a childish myth invented by primitive people to explain their origins, and is no different than any of the other childish origin myths in existence. What's also unscientific about it is that the fossil and genetic record completely refute this childish story.

Again you are trying to attack the creditably of the source but not attacking the data directly. It's based on History, and no matter how much you want to put your fingers in your ears and say "i am hearing you", you still have not refuted this scenario. We humans almost have this technology now, yet you refuse to even admit to yourself that God would have this technology. Grow up and take this subject matter seriously instead of yelling "I dont want to believe it, its Christain voodoo magic" to paraphrase what you are doing.
Again you have refused to talk about what evidence does the fossil record provide with transitional forms? All phylum are fully formed in the fossil record when ever they are found. The extreme lack of any transitional forms screams creationism. The problem is so great for evolutionists that they invented another theory called punctuated equilibrium, where suddenly out of nowhere the species, gaps, evolves without leaving any trace. Hence the lack of fossils now becomes evidence for evolution.

They believe that can happen, and there's a natural progression of species in the fossil and genetic record, and yet they can't believe in evolution as the origin of species. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be their childish Bible stories holding them back?

Again you didn't answer my question, please define your "evolution". Us creationists believe in what operational science can show. We Christains take the Bib

Public works projects as a way of recovering from a recession has never worked. It didn't work for the Japanese in the 90's, they spent 10 years building roads and bridges and wondering why nothing was happening. It didn't work for us in the 30's. And it will never work.

Actually the New Deal did work. If you chart the spending from the New Deal against the unemployment rate, industrial output and real GDP and compare it to the recession that was throttling the nation prior to the New Deal you will see it was a huge success.

Of course there are those who deride the New Deal and the teachings of John Maynard Keynes but when you read and analyse their arguments there are puzzling and outright false conclusions and logic.

First and foremost, you don't have to be a Nobel Laureate Economist to realize the "no shit Sherlock" logic behind Keynesian Economics during a recession. When individuals and corporations stop spending and the government steps in to create demand by spending of course its going to create jobs and stimulate the economy. To argue otherwise you'd have to be an outright moron or so pathetically stubborn you'd refute the facts to your own detriment.

But an even deeper fallacy in the arguments presented by the Heritage Foundation are their circular references to their own reports to provide credibility to their own conclusions, assumptions that the lag in starting up an infrastructure project precludes it ever creating jobs even though jobs will be created for the planning and engineering long before a shovel breaks soil, and the absurdity that federal funds for state infrastructure projects will only offset existing state funds already approved for the project that will be shifted to other state expenses some how does not create jobs. Uh, hello, do these people even have brains? If the federal funds offset existing approved funds which are then shifted to other state spending didn't the total expenditure, demand, and job creation just double? So much for common sense logic.

And the Japanese and their lost decade was not created by Keynesian Economics, it was created by outrageous speculation in real estate and securities, loose credit policies and low interest rates to fuel the speculation, and the greed of those running the financial institutions who were benefiting from the churning of the credit. Compared to the United States, Japan was already using Keynesian Economics as their government spending, according to the Heritage Foundation, was already over 31% of GDP while the United States is traditionally between 18% and 20%. And then to call Japan's government spending "flamboyantly unrestrained" while in the same paragraph pointing out that some governments spend greater than 40% or 50% of GDP is ridiculous.

The funny thing about the Japanese and their exploding economic bubble at the end of the 1980s is the cuts in taxes they made at the same time they increased government spending to prop up the failing economy. One has to wonder how much of Japan's debt problem is related to decreased tax revenue which to this day have not returned to the levels they experienced during the mid 1980s.

"According to the Elliot Wave Principle, the first echo of a major top coincides with higher sentiment among market participants than at the initial peak." I would say this isnt 2.0 but merely an echo of the initial mania. Oddly enough, investors are usually more sure of themselves in the echo. They are also usually wrong on future prospects. http://www.safehaven.com/article-6113.htm

Opec: Oil for Euros...

The plan on the table is not to change to another fake paper system,
but to sell oil for gold directly, a physical tangible asset vs. monopoly
money that is printed at a whim and carries no ties to a physical valued object .

Most if not all of the world's banks went off the gold standard long ago .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard

They fiat currency of the Euro and the Dollar are all monopoly money, ie. fake .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_currency

A more detailed and possibly over zealous dissertation on it :

http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/davis/davis1.htm l

This I feel is what the Iranians and Indonesia have decided in which they no
longer want to participate, and it may spread to Opec as well .

In fact Iraq did it shortly before we went to war with Iraq .

http://www.safehaven.com/article-1251.htm

Ex-MislTech

this estimate gives a ballpark of around $20 billion - $30 billion for 100mhz of spectrum. That would more than offset the government's costs to move.

(Though, if the gov't keeps fucking with our currency they way they are, I'm not sure if $20 billion will be worth all that much)