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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 07:00 AM Original message |
Financial Realities We Must Grasp |
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Clear Blue Sky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
1. The debt keeps increasing. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 07:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Interesting analogy considering what is happening to the mortgage market |
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Clear Blue Sky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. With a house, you sell it. The debt gets repaid and you move on to another house. |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. I looked at this recently |
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Possumpoint (937 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
3. You ought to |
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zazen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
4. I can see it now: "Obviation of Debt Oligations to Nations Harboring Terrorists" Act of 2011 |
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CanonRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
5. And that was always the plan... |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
6. There's an easy progressive solution the mainstream media won't let your hear about |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 02:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Just a side note; our military spending is very close to $1trillion per year. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 07:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. uh, Hamden...if that happens |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 04:59 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. There are more productive things than being in the army |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
7. Republicon economics: borrow and spend |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 08:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. Then blame the democrats for doing what's necessary to clean up their mess! |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
8. Not only that but as soon as a Democrat wins the Presidency the Fed will raise interest rates |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
9. so let's just give up and kill ourselves now? |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. What are your suggestions? |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 01:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. How about lowering defence spending, raising the capital gains tax |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. We are going to have to do those things at a minimum just to pay our bills |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 02:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Perhaps, instead of raising cap gains |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 02:06 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. WTF is the purpose? To stop the pie-in-the-sky bullshit about what we're gonna do with all that $$ |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 07:28 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. WTF is the prupose of resposes like these? |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
15. The only way out I see is a ruthless campaign of energy independence |
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