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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:36 PM Original message |
They KNEW this was coming. They had to get their $Trillion dollars BEFORE |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Too bad we spend all our money on a "cure"... |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. And gee |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is the polar opposite of the Shock Doctrine. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. and privatizing the social security as well |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. They've wisely given up on that during this shock. |
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Papa Boule (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. Not quite. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:43 PM Original message |
LOL. The most perverted use of the term "socialism"...ever... n/t |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
8. Seems there's a distinction between socializing services Vs. socializing liabilities |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. Indeed, but a common one. Should I have said "government influence and intervention?" |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Who's taking over whom? |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. King Hank has a 2-sided business card. SOT on one side and Goldman on the other. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. A case could be made for either, since the only differences are either semantic |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:59 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I think the Milton Friedman ideologues are like the NeoCon ideologues... |
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mhatrw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #17 |
29. As if this was a battle of ideologies. |
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mhatrw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Let's see that regulation. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
23. It's fascism, really. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 05:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. hahahaha..... great point! |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
35. Two words: "National Socialists" |
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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Socialism run by the corporations that own the government. |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. I respectfully disagree. The neocons attempted t bankkrupt us out of Medicare and Social Security |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 04:01 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Right. They tried to move the nation economically rightwards and failed. |
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mhatrw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 05:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. We are frogs in a pot. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 05:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. If by failure you mean the largest redistribution of wealth upward in history, then yes. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 10:29 AM Response to Reply #30 |
41. Which, again, has nothing to do with what we're talking about. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 09:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. not the righties, according to the tv. they're moving further right. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. take careful note of who supported the theft, and helped force it down our throats.... |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Agree n/t |
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mikelgb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. yep, and none of them are still running for President... |
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mhatrw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 05:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. Yes, n/t |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 04:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
40. Yes. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. All we have for potential leverage is this ELECTION, this is for all the marbles. eom |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. While at the spa - they raised a toast to the Democrats! |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Not much longer. |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. The market hasn't actually tanked yet. |
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NoSheep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
19. You're thinking the way I have been thinking. Anybody who trusts these pigs is an idiot |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. the bailout bill, the lard in it, AIG, the Freddie & Fannie, the FED, the FDIC |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
31. I moved mine to fixed funds before this crap took place...only lost 1k. |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
33. That money is still sitting there in the Federal Reserve. |
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Hidden Stillness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
36. The Only Thing the Bush/Cheney Admin. Ever Did was Steal From Us |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 03:14 AM Response to Original message |
37. And the shocks have only begun... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
38. The fed hasn't purchased anything- not one mortgage asset has been bought under the current plan |
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endthewar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 03:26 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. You're right, but missing the point the OP was trying to make |
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