Dow 10,000!

[Cocoa]

:-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036862/posts

[LuLu550]

1. What great news!

The economy is surging! Re-elect Bush!

[Cocoa]

4. the tax cuts worked!

steady leadership in times of change!

[Arugula Latte]

19. Stay the Course!

Pay no attention to the fact that everything is in shambles! What are you, Un-American?

[BlueEyedSon]

2. More like under 9900

LOOK OUT BELOW!!

[rumguy]

3. I have a message for the freeps

Why aren't ya celebratin' now? Why aren't ya celebratin' like the Iraqis were supposed to be dancing in the streets passing out chocolates?

Anyway it doesn't matter, most of you are to fat and out of shape to dance...

You are cowardly chickenhawks. You are a disgrace to both this nation and to humanity itself...

I hope your ulcers get worse! Cuz I know you can feel them forming in your rot-gut stomachs.

[Cocoa]

5. I wonder if the Dow is still a "leading indicator" to them

or is that only when it's going up?

[hatrack]

6. What are they talking about? 9890 last time I looked.

Not exactly tossin' the cowboy hat in the air/shootin' a six-gun numbers.

[napi21]

7. Not NOW! 9867 at 1:00 noon

It's down 137 pts right now.

Gosh, does that mean the Pubs will NOT vote for Shrub?

I don't think the stock market #'s really mean the economy is good or bad. I think a much better indicator is unemployment. The REAL unemployment that incorporates thos that have fallen off the gov't rolls. And of course, the NEW jobs creation.....what are they? If somebody takes a job at Walmart out of sheer desparation, and their earnings fo from $35-40M to $18M, the economy is still shit!

[redqueen]

8. Oh there you go with that 'nuance' stuff

You know things like detail and context make their heads hurt! How cruel!

[GiovanniC]

9. Man, I'd Take That

"If somebody takes a job at Walmart out of sheer desparation, and their earnings fo from $35-40M to $18M, the economy is still shit!"

$18 Million?

At Wal-Mart?

I mean, even though it's $15-20 million less than I was used to... I'd take $18 million.

[napi21]

15. OK, PIA, so it should have been a small m. Thousand!! n/t

[PragMantisT]

10. Why would freepers care about the Dow?

Those lazy shits only leave their trailers to buy mayonnaise sammiches at Wal-Mart not Wall Street!

[Cocoa]

11. Freepers are likely upper middle-class

I picture them being heavily suburban and affluent.

[PragMantisT]

12. I picture them using public library computers

and bitching about paying taxes for them to have books.

I don't think any affluent suburbanites are praising the Dow breaching the 10000 mark after being there for a long time and slipping below in light of the skyrocketing economy.

[ParanoidPat]

13. I picture them as being heavy, subhuman and flatulent!

:evilgrin:

[Cocoa]

20. lol

that's what I meant. :-)

[KayLaw]

18. Goodness

I don't see them that way at all!

[beyurslf]

14. Wonder what they say now that is under 9900?

And don't they remember the Clinton years? 11000 anyone?

[info being]

16. When the $ falls against the Euro, the Dow goes up

When the $ gains against the Euro, it goes down. Fluctuations in the market aren't reflecting new value being created in the economy...it is just an exchange rate game that is affecting the stock market.

[darkstar]

17. On long drive home Monday

heard Cavuto on Hannity's radio show. He's Fox's finance guy, right? Well how's this for sophisticate, fair and Balnced analysis:

"The prison scandal is making the the market tank b/c investors are worried that this decreases the chances for W's reelection and they are very concerned about a Kerry presidency." (paraphrased)

I never ever ever *ever* thought it would get this bad in my lifetime.