dave123williams
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:31 PM
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So, you're saying you want 700 billion dollars with no strings attached, by Friday. |
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Seven hundred billion, folks. The free marketers are now officially out of hot air. Make no mistake; they're asking us to nationalize the failures of their idiotic philosophy. They're asking for a government handout, and it's really rather a large one. They want to move the burden from Wall Street, to your living room, and they're saying they want the money....by Friday.
It's like dealing with a bunch of degenerate gamblers. Exactly like that, actually.
I say let 'em crash, and we keep the 700 billion. Pigs get fat, and hogs get slaughtered. That's the free market. This crisis is a real market condition, and now's the time to prove, if you're a Republican, that you really do believe in the free market. Perhaps it's time for the guys who work on Wall Street (almost entirely GOP) to stand up for their high-minded philosophy that now runs the risk of being seen as merely unfettered greed coupled with a complete unwillingness to own up to personal responsibility.
Maybe they'll have to give up their mansions in Greenwich and Stanford, lose a trophy wife, sell the Ferrari f450cs, give up cocaine, etc.
Boo. Fucking. Hoo.
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:32 PM
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1. You know what I'd pay to see... |
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Paulsen hitting up a couple thousand PayDay loan shops.
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:42 PM
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:34 PM
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2. I say let them crash--no place for bailouts in capitalism |
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Otherwise, it is socialism. Let them drink that. Let them fucking fail.
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:35 PM
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3. I would like to win Lotto this Friday...no strings attached. |
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:36 PM
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4. allowing them to fail would be the responsible thing to do |
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they played the game and screwed the pooch, so they lose their business. that's the way it works... or the wy it's supposed to work.
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:36 PM
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5. And don't you dare tell them how much compensation those CEO's can |
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receive out of that 700 billion, or they'll take their ball (WHAT ball? It's a BAILOUT!) and go home.
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:38 PM
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6. You don't have to let them crash, but you also don't need to |
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give them the keys to the candy store. I hope that congress personally steam roll Bush's nuts flat and do the right thing by taking tough action and enacting severe regulations against the financial sector.
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:39 PM
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7. Hey! Hand it over with a smile and make it snappy! |
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Gimee Gimee Gimee! :eyes:
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:41 PM
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8. would this bailout work like a credit line with a 70b limit??? |
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:43 PM
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11. Apparently more like a cash pool from which Feds can decide what they will, or won't buy. |
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Then, those securities get auctioned to the highest bidder.
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:47 PM
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14. It sounds to me like they want it all in unmarked bills. n/t |
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:42 PM
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9. Nothing like having a gun put to our heads. |
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:44 PM
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12. Does this remind anybody of how they sold us on Iraq? |
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:46 PM
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13. no strings attached huh? |
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no oversight, just give them the money huh? it doesn't work like that. ENOUGH.
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