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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:18 AM Original message |
We can either slam into the ground at 200 MPH or 500 MPH. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yah, but the question is: Do we land on top of the rich or do they land on top of us? n/t |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. They have parachutes |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Social dissolutions can happen with startling rapidity.. |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. It wasn't the rich that were hurting after the 1929 crash. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:34 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Some did, some didn't... |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Yes. They bought property at 5 cents on a dollar. nt |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:28 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. You're completely correct, unfortunately. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
2. It's a good thing military spending and tax cuts for the rich don't cause deficits... |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yeah, especially when it's been giving the government surpluses for many years. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:28 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Yes, but what are you going to do for the next 20 years? |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
6. Or, we can use a coffee cart and take back this sucker, maybe. Let's roll. . . |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:07 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. We are being played. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. If it's a fight to the death, only one side is fighting. I agree - follow the money, and fight back |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
7. Well, slamming into the ground at either speed is fatal, |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
8. Regrettably, many do believe that the fedgov has the mystical powers that are required |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
10. Self Delete - Posted wrong spot. |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
13. The choices are to go back to taxing corporations, the wealthy, end |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:34 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. And what are you going to do about the odious debt... |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:38 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. The same thing Jim Baker did in '87 - deflate it, and let the Asian note holders take the hit |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. And it's not the government either. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:46 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. That also needs to be deflated. The bursting of the housing bubble was a start |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:49 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I don't know if deflation is really the way forward |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. It doesn't when it's done in a controlled way. The 1980s showed that. |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Tax the rich at Eisenhowers 91% rate and the DEBT is gone in ten years!!! |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:18 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Um, yeah, not the private debt. |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 07:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Only if you actually make the rate stick. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
21. I could do 200 MPH as long as there is a ramp to redirect my momentum |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
23. Or try for a soft landing atop "tax the rich." |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
24. OR YOU CAN RE-TAX the RICH!!! |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:17 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. You know, it's not even about the government. |
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