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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:23 AM Original message |
Brazilian President Makes Fun of Wall Street's Super Brains |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. Looks like we'll have to change the name to "Freedom Wax." |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. "Freedom nuts". nt |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. "In Brazil, we just call them nuts..." lol nt |
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YDogg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I LOLd. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
2. There goes another Brazzilion n/t |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. How much is that? |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
5. Rhetoric to reassure the masses...it's as phony as McCain's |
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izzybeans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. The point is the arrogance with which economic development policies have been carried out. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. For exactly that reason, the Brazilian government has been investing in the internal market. |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. I love your sig line |
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knixphan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 12:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
66. Bravo!! |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. There is a foundation for his argument or derision. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Certainly, But, what goes around WILL come around. |
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amdezurik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 10:14 AM Response to Reply #24 |
43. you mean Dole is going back there? |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 10:35 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. No. I mean that human nature is human nature. |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 11:51 PM Response to Reply #45 |
53. Better him than me, Better him than me. |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 09:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
34. Latin America has long chafed at the know-it-all arrogance of Western financial elites |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 06:52 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. No way. He's taking shots at the World Bank, USAID, WTO, IMF, et. al. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. How many presidents are there in a brazilian? |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
7. I heard they had Brazillians down there /nt |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
10. MEMO TO ALL: citing the "brazillion joke" makes you look like a moron. That will be all. -nt |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. How many morons make a brazillion? |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
13. Collapse of the "Washington Consensus"? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. Yeah, a lot of credibiliy gone down the drain, and there was not a lot left before this debacle. nt |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. There is going to be a lot of gnashing of teeth among the Investor Class |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
15. Bear in mind |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. In what respect, Cherlie? |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. LOL NT |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Average income |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 06:42 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. I calls it the Silva doctrine |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 06:46 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Ok, |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #33 |
48. Just my take on "in what respect Cherlie" |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #32 |
47. sorry wrong place |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
31. Yeah, we can still play those people good enough to come out on top. |
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ronnie624 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 09:55 AM Response to Reply #31 |
41. For many, |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 10:02 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Not exactly what I said |
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knixphan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #41 |
67. Right on target, imho! |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:42 AM Response to Reply #15 |
38. Keep telling yourself that bucko.. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 09:00 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. People have been predicting the destruction of the american |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 08:00 AM Response to Reply #39 |
54. Just because someone cries "wolf".. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 01:20 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Oh well in that case |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
51. HAHAHAHA! Oh, I love the smell of ignorant jingoism in the morning. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #51 |
58. Prison population? |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 09:25 AM Response to Reply #58 |
60. In respect to the hundreds of nice, honest, friendly, hard-working Americans in this board |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 10:34 AM Response to Reply #60 |
61. With all due respect |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 11:01 AM Response to Reply #61 |
62. that doesn't actually say very much |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Brazil is bordered |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 11:26 AM Response to Reply #63 |
64. Is GDP per capita the only metric of standard of living? |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #64 |
65. Ok |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
16. Oh, that's gotta hurt. |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Not really... |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 11:16 AM Response to Reply #19 |
55. never for the brainwashed nationalists |
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Sivafae (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. Brazil's not looking so bad... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
26. This crash is a perfect example of the Have-Mores's greed got in the way of good sense. |
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MadinMo (519 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
28. I suspect we better get used to this kind of opinion about the US. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:52 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. To hearing it or reading it, anyway. |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. This week Wall Street.. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
35. Brazils economy is a rounding error |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:28 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. They would be better off under our heel, owned by ferners and in debt to the World Bank? |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 09:48 AM Response to Reply #35 |
40. If you consider one fifth a "rounding error" |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #40 |
50. 1/13 gdp |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 09:16 AM Response to Reply #50 |
59. Oh, first it was per capita, now it's not? Typical. Read your own links. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
44. I want to point out that Lula is NOT making fun of the USA. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 10:38 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. I suspect most people don't make the same nuanced distinction. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. That's why I thought to mention it. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 11:18 AM Response to Reply #44 |
56. yeah, but you are saying what should already be obvious... |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
52. The GOP/Bush has made America a JOKE.....a Large Joke.... |
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