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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 08:38 AM Original message |
U.S. recession could be worse than recent downturns |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. They're saying nicely that we're royally screwed. |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. here's something that might brighten your day |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Will the margins be large enough to be beyond the reach of the Neocon Election Stealing Machine (tm) |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:36 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. well, it looks like a 2 for 1 by a cursory count |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. That might squeak by! : -) |
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pokercat999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
58. That light at the end of the tunnel is the Obama/Clinton |
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greyghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. The free cheese is on it's way.eom |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
37. Mmmm, "commodity" cheese we called it. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
39. Some are still getting free cheese - the problem with that will be |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
52. Mmmmm. I remember free cheese! |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. And why would the Surprised Economists say that? Is it the $9+ trillion debt? The endless war? |
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H8fascistcons (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
45. What If? |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-07-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #45 |
66. you are correct |
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foxer (255 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
50. Maybe the 3 trillion budget, only 10,000 per capita |
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MikeNearMcChord (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
4. Folks let us call this for what it really is |
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greyghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Exactly, and it WILL BE worldwide. eom |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Ya |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
27. If it weren't for welfare and Social Security more |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
40. If we did not have a monthly pay check for the poor and the elderly |
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Phred42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
5. Ravi Batra on Thom Hartmann's show about 3 weeks ago |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Great Depression of 1990? |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. I read that, too |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #19 |
30. I found this... |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
44. Just curious: When did we start borrowing billions a day from other |
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Phred42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #44 |
60. Clinton left us in better shape - remember? |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-07-08 10:58 AM Response to Reply #60 |
65. Agreed. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
56. I'm sure he didn't have access to just how much our government |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Yes the Dems will get the blame eventually according to the repuke spin plan. |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
38. Amen. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
46. That actually sounds good to me. I grew up on a small farm before |
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ananda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
6. Fuck you so much, Bushinc. |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
7. Yesterday's ISM Services number was very bad. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
8. The only solutions is to make the tax cuts permanent! |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Exactly! I'm sure the Chinese will float us a loan for that. |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. God save us from the "fiscal conservatives". |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #9 |
23. Haven't we learned that? |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
13. I once had a Political Science Professor who said "Never forget that the cure for poverty is money." |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:24 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Oh, no. The government should only give money away to people who HAVE money. |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 08:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
62. Yeah Fucking Dumb-Assholes |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:30 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. It does make sense |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
47. Or start a new REA program to promote alternative energies and |
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inMD (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
15. Anybody see any similarities??? |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Welcome to DU, inMD! |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:31 AM Response to Reply #15 |
26. Spooky comparison |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
53. Exactly! |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
21. What I find really amusing is this... |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
22. We have to roll back those tax cuts to corporations and elite |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
24. Who can possible fix this Republican disaster of an economy? |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #24 |
33. You mean a pro-business corporatist? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #33 |
51. Yup, we have a choice of two. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
32. Hmm..latest breaking news? Didn't anyone with half a brain |
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Broadslidin (949 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
34. Communist Chinese demand representation inside President's Cabinet (No, not the liquor cabinet) |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
35. "from spending on social programs and the Vietnam war.." note the |
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krkaufman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
36. "heavy consumer debt ... could make any recession worse than ... experienced over past 20 years." |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 01:00 PM Response to Reply #36 |
54. Indeed |
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Pappy (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
41. Were all screwed! Will it be the next Great Depression? |
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greyghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. It could very well be. |
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flasoapbox (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
42. My personal fear is... |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 01:17 PM Response to Reply #42 |
55. Unlikely |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
43. "The chances of the United States avoiding a recession..." |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
49. I have been reading a book called "The Depression Years as |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
57. THIS IS PURELY THE RESULT OF REPUBLICAN ECONOMIC POLICIES. |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
59. just last night, I was tossing and turning over this |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
61. Call it what it will be. |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 08:46 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. Agreed for sure. n/t |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-07-08 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
64. Ahhh, yes |
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