Is anyone watching the Dow?

[SpiritAlight 1]

Like I said, the back door is where the party will be.

Join us!

[sly_wolf 199]

NPR just had some news....the DOW down 550 points.

Are we having fun yet?

Look I really do not think we need some corporations to make our world go round.

The greed has caused this kerfuffle.

It's time to let it collapse and re-invent it better...let it work for the people....not just a few rich guys.

It'll happen. We'll return to bartering, mark my words. When the German economy collapsed after WWI, you needed a basket of notes to buy bread. Someone left theirs ouside a bakers by mistake. When they returned, the pile of money was there but someone had stolen the basket.

Oh, and I nearly forgot:

I dont think bartering would work for the IRS.

Sly

[rebeccajo 14]

A real fix would be to allow homeowners who've defaulted on their loans to keep their homes. That's plugging the hole in this sinking ship. The Fed could buy up the mortgages and renegotiate the terms to 40 or 50 year loans with a fixed interest rate. We should have done this back when some in Congress were proposing it. Now the whole banking industry is in dire straits. This was totally foreseeable and avoidable. F##king stupidity.

From what I read this morning, that was in the bill.......

[AlHayatZween 2]

i read that both the Republicans & Democrats did not support the bill, so it seems that both sides are in agreement in their disagreement so to speak.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

The only people who are pushing this stuff as essential are the guys in or around the govt. I must confess I don't know enough about it to know for sure whether it really is.

Certainly I'm not inclined to trust George Bush at face value. Perhaps it is necessary (though not really democratic), but we should never have been in this position to begin with. And now we're looking at scuttling the ship rather than trying to save it - neither solution sounds ideal.

I also didn't like how Bush kept saying only "most" of the money would be repaid...

I would actually love to see someone ask Bush to explain the Laffer curve. You know, just to see if he even knows what it is.

[rebeccajo 14]

Good timing too, I'm thinking about a house. I hope the economy crashes much harder than this.

Well yippee for that 'as long as it doesn't affect me' attitude.

[SteveLaura 0]

Bahahaha!

Thanks for not disappointing.

I love that story about the bread.

A true story, if my History teacher is to be believed.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The only people who are pushing this stuff as essential are the guys in or around the govt. I must confess I don't know enough about it to know for sure whether it really is.

Certainly I'm not inclined to trust George Bush at face value. Perhaps it is necessary (though not really democratic), but we should never have been in this position to begin with. And now we're looking at scuttling the ship rather than trying to save it - neither solution sounds ideal.

I also didn't like how Bush kept saying only "most" of the money would be repaid...

I would actually love to see someone ask Bush to explain the Laffer curve. You know, just to see if he even knows what it is.

That's one of the things that turns me off watching Bush's speeches (I'll read the transcripts so I don't have to hear his awful delivery), as it always seems clear to me that he doesn't have much more of a grasp on the issues than is written on his teleprompter.

[alienlovechild 75]

And so...let's talk about this.

What if we all bartered and traded with each other.

Stopped with global agriculture and brought it back home and respected the soil and the plants and the animals...no pesticides, no antibiotics, no hormones.

Just real, fresh and pure.

Solar and wind power...even wave power...sustainable energy.

Get rid of anything requiring petroleum...yes that includes PLASTIC!!!!!

That would be a great start!

(Hey, this is just me typing faster than I can string the words together...in excitement of the possibilities.)

You're channeling the movie, The Postman.

[sly_wolf 199]

i read that both the Republicans & Democrats did not support the bill, so it seems that both sides are in agreement in their disagreement so to speak.

CNN is saying Republicans caused the failure

Sly

[almaty 19]

the gop f##ked the economic ..for certain

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

There were enough Democrats (40%) who agreed with the Republicans to make it fail

[rebeccajo 14]

i read that both the Republicans & Democrats did not support the bill, so it seems that both sides are in agreement in their disagreement so to speak.

CNN is saying Republicans caused the failure

Sly

CNN online is citing Pelosi to blame for a partisan speech on the floor that pissed off the GOP faithful..........

The measure only failed by 13 votes.

This is a political shill game being played to the nines!

Edited September 29, 2008 by rebeccajo

[sly_wolf 199]

i read that both the Republicans & Democrats did not support the bill, so it seems that both sides are in agreement in their disagreement so to speak.

CNN is saying Republicans caused the failure

Sly

CNN online is citing Pelosi to blame for a partisan speech on the floor that pissed off the GOP faithful..........

Moral of the story ... never trust your finances with a lawyer or a politician.

Sly

[SpiritAlight 1]

I dont think bartering would work for the IRS.

Sly

Now we're talkin'!

Have you ever heard of "Natural Person".

Have a google....