Posts by Jeffrey Jackson9

Sam Ruiz60 said:If they were offering it to you, you’d probably end up buying a Mercedes or a Honda.
Well, obviously a Mercedes—because with those price tags, owning one becomes a status symbol, and that's exactly what they're banking on.
People get hooked. They play on basic human impulses just to turn a profit, exploiting fears of shortages or promises of sudden prosperity. Now, everyone's chasing this idea of "the good life." They see a neighbor driving a Mercedes and think, "Why should I settle for less?" Even if it means taking out a massive loan. And thank God, banks seem to sprout up everywhere like mushrooms after a rainstorm, specifically popping up just to offer these endless auto loans.
People land jobs, start businesses, spend money they don't have, and pile up mortgages and car loans.
Then, once the banks decide to tighten the screws, they seize the real estate and the Mercedes vehicles. On top of that, you have a government that borrowed heavily just to fuel consumption, forced to take out even more loans and liquidate assets as if the group that came in specifically to fleece us hasn't already taken enough.
And then, to top it all off, they have the nerve to lecture us through the IMF.

Do you seriously believe most people today are ready to buy a car just because of their neighbors!? Is a Mercedes really bought solely because the guy next door has one!? If Mercedes-Benz relied on that kind of shallow thinking, they would have gone bankrupt ages ago!!!!

Sam Ruiz60 said:We could just flip the script and imagine a world without Greece or America, couldn't we?

Think about it—people buying overpriced Volkswagens and Mercedes, or filling their carts at Walmart and Lidl with German goods because their own domestic industries were systematically dismantled by central planning.
The Germans would be left with absolutely nothing.

They don't have raw materials, and they don't even have a climate suitable for large-scale agriculture.
All they really have is what they manufacture, which they then offload onto other nations, often using the IMF and similar tactics to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
Of course, people go along with it. I mean, who wouldn't choose the path of least resistance when there are plenty of people willing to do all the heavy lifting for them? But does that mean we owe anything to such manipulative players after they've used us?

Oh, so Germans produce things!!!
So Germans work!!!!
What's so bad about that!!!!
That's exactly why they can "dump" whatever they make onto anyone else!!!
And what exactly are we producing!?!?