shadowknows69
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Mon Sep-22-08 08:52 AM
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Unless Schumer, Dodd, et al want to tell us what apocalyptic shit Paulson told them |
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We shouldn't even consider this bailout until there is a new President and Congress. Fuck em. Or there better be some water tight oversight on this shit. Grow a spine Congress!
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Mon Sep-22-08 08:54 AM
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1. Yeah, that part keeps bothering me. |
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Mon Sep-22-08 08:55 AM
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2. it's all theater...they enjoy this....n/t |
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Mon Sep-22-08 08:56 AM
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3. Then they should "enjoy" the theater of being retired by their constituents |
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Mon Sep-22-08 09:04 AM
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7. It's been a pattern since 9/11. |
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It worked so well against the Congress to sound off apocalyptic fears of terrorist attacks, now they're doing it with economic gloom and doom.
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Mon Sep-22-08 08:56 AM
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4. In 1993 we heard behind the scenes story that Greenspan warned Clinton that |
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if BCCI was pursued and further exposed the world's economy would collapse. Well, now I believe that was just a cover story for Clinton's people, since it is obvious now that Clinton never intended for BCCI matters to be further scrutinized - Jackson Stephens and Poppy Bush needed protection at all cost to this nation and to the Dem party.
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Mon Sep-22-08 08:58 AM
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5. apocalyptic loss of campaign fundage? |
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Mon Sep-22-08 09:04 AM
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for them, maybe. more like financial weapons of mass distraction.
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Mon Sep-22-08 09:06 AM
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8. Apparently, it has something to do with buying groceries with gold- |
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Mon Sep-22-08 09:07 AM
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9. You want my money? Tell me why |
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And tell me what you're going to do differently, and whose head is rolling down the steps for this colossal fuck-up.
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Mon Sep-22-08 09:14 AM
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10. True. I recall another time 9-11 when they were stampeded 9-11 into acting foolishly. |
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Edited on Mon Sep-22-08 09:17 AM by TexasObserver
And let's not IWR forget the other time IWR they were stampeded IWR similarly.
Time for Democrats to stop being so easily misled by the Bush administration. Since Bush has fucked up everything he's done, why in the world would we trust him and his lame appointments to fix the problem? The Bushies are trying to force Democrats to bail out all the GOP problems. Don't do it.
Let them fail!
Sooner or later, someone will have the guts to say what I will say now: We cannot get past this problem without letting the air out of the markets. They are artificially inflated, and have been for some time. Without all the machinations of the Bush administration the past 13 months, all the economic slight of hands, the DOW would be below 10,000, as it should be. We are not growing, we are shrinking, as an economy, and inflating the dollars inflated doesn't result in true value. It only kids us into thinking the markets are still performing. They are not.
It's like a tire that is losing air. You can keep filling it with more air as the tire gets flat, but you have to add more and more air, and do so more frequently to get the tire properly inflated. But even so, you've still got a badly leaking tire that is eventually going flat if not actually fixed.
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Mon Sep-22-08 09:33 AM
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11. Schumer led the charge on this one.. |
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