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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:08 AM Original message |
US Fed Chairman demands plan to cut social programs |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes, they are. n/t |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. Start with our most costly social programs |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Exactly. e.o.m. |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
90. Never dawns on them to roll back the Reagan tax cuts...problems solved |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:42 PM Response to Reply #90 |
92. Enough money to rebuild infrastructure and cover free education with roll back |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:43 PM Response to Reply #92 |
93. Medicare is a deficit ONLY because it covers the elderly and disabled alone |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:44 PM Response to Reply #93 |
94. If everyone were allowed Medicare it would always be solvent and cover dental also |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #94 |
95. Our military spending alone is double the costs of all other nations combined |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:47 PM Response to Reply #95 |
97. combined spending for defense. We have answers but the wealthy don't like them |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:47 PM Response to Reply #97 |
98. They would rather buy off congress and the media and rob the treasury blind |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #98 |
99. and after milking it all say we don't have enough to cover SS or Medicare. |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #99 |
101. The money to cover all these programs and more is in your pockets. |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #101 |
102. We the people demand regulation, and rolling back the tax cuts on the wealthy and their corporations |
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wolfgangmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #102 |
119. There is a subject section and a message section. |
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Johnny Noshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:08 PM Response to Reply #119 |
164. He's been posting that way for ages... |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:23 PM Response to Reply #102 |
146. Tax on stock purchases |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #95 |
154. That's because we provide security internationally. |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #154 |
204. Yeah, but the f*****g Elites PROFIT obscenely from it. |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #93 |
118. Also the drug benefit |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #118 |
181. Yes, isn't that interesting... |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 07:51 AM Response to Reply #181 |
220. Absolutely it's by design and exactly |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #181 |
222. It's absolutely by design |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #90 |
177. Even better |
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biermeister (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
106. ding, ding, we have a winner here!! nt |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
167. YES!!!!!!!! |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
192. Yes. Let's start with corporate welfare. The most costly |
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Omar4Dems (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
229. My thoughts exactly. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
3. You know, in South America they used to have to do this by coup |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
178. Well, that's because the same people were responsible. |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
4. Get out of Iraq, cut all military spending, make churches and corprats pay taxes... |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:19 PM Original message |
We have a winnah!! nt |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
5. Needs to be seen. K & R. |
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That Is Quite Enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
6. Whaddya know, it's the cabal rearing its head in public once again. |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
7. Begin a repayment plan for the bailouts n/t |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
48. Repayment. |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #48 |
57. WTF? I hadn't heard that. nt |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:09 PM Original message |
News hasn't been playing it up not very populist story. |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
128. wow - had no idea - thanks! nt |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
165. Thank you for all these URLs |
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asolarski (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:59 PM Response to Reply #165 |
186. Good reference? |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #186 |
226. Well thanks for that information, too |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #48 |
81. Dupe |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #48 |
150. Maybe because the Obama administration correctly values future solvency. |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
8. Yup... here it comes. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
9. And why are we making it hard for the banks to pay back the TARP? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Same reason the banks want to pay it back. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:50 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. True: TARP 1 generates $7 billion profit for the US annually |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Pretty cool to make $7B on money that was never your. n/t |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:34 AM Response to Reply #30 |
37. You're right that the TARP is a money maker for taxpayers. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Misplaced populism is fun. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:41 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Citigroup, AIG, GM and Chrysler. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:50 AM Response to Reply #40 |
47. Some symetry there |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
83. What's more amazing is that this is the first I'm hearing of this |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #83 |
172. That's because most people don't want to hear about it. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:57 PM Response to Reply #28 |
105. Tell us the details on the trillions the fed disbursed. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 06:14 AM Response to Reply #105 |
216. Between $1.4 and $2 trillion were for the Fed's commercial paper program, also profitable |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 06:19 AM Response to Reply #216 |
217. no, the *details*. & you're silly, tonight i've posted from at least 3 sources besides wsws. |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #217 |
221. now, now |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:23 PM Response to Reply #28 |
111. Your diversions are impressive... |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:47 PM Response to Reply #28 |
151. You continue to spread lies and disinformation. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:01 PM Response to Reply #28 |
153. Around $600 billion has been disbursed, not $350 billion. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 06:11 AM Response to Reply #153 |
215. Your source is wrong right off the bat. AIG is a separate bailout |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 11:36 AM Response to Reply #215 |
223. AIG is the one entity that should have been allowed to fail. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. All the last 8 years I kept hearing how we can't afford our social programs. |
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Broken_Hero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:55 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. ........ |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. What we need here is a good old shoe throwing. Bernanke is entitled to that. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
115. We should lock him in a cell and play "21st Century Schizoid Man" at 120db |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #115 |
129. Alas! Would That It Were So! |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #11 |
52. well put. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:19 PM Response to Reply #52 |
72. And you know what else, we didn't hear that shit until the Worst President Ever was elected. |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
12. Confidence of the financial markets” |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
15. George Carlin said those guys want it ALL. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
88. Implementing for 30, planning for 50. n/t |
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frog92969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:32 AM Response to Original message |
16. Are we there yet!? |
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democracy1st (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:33 AM Response to Original message |
17. If this happens that will be Obama's downfall ! |
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kjackson227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #17 |
59. If this were any other administration besides President Obama's... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
82. Why? Who cares? |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:28 AM Response to Original message |
18. "The fuckers are going to kill people." |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:17 AM Response to Original message |
19. He's still pushing the neo-liberal model |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:19 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. just a poor fool - who runs the fed. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:21 AM Response to Original message |
21. And I demand cuts in the corporate and MIC programs. |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
103. As a citizen and tax payer I second that. CUT CORPORATE WELFARE n/t |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
22. While his target may be objectionable |
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tiny elvis (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. ideology wants to sleep on your couch |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. you get a choice: |
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tiny elvis (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #31 |
49. I am all for killing the poor |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #49 |
85. At least you're honest. That's more than most "progressives" can manage. |
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Riverman (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:17 PM Response to Reply #31 |
144. No Shared Goal of Corporate Welfare and Endless War |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:03 AM Response to Reply #22 |
50. For someone who just gave trillion-dollar bonuses to failed bankers |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Loaned. Loans which will generate $7B in revenue for taxpayers this year. n/t |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #53 |
67. Stop. Stop. You're cracking me up. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #67 |
75. Then why are they trying to pay back money they stole? |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:46 PM Response to Reply #75 |
78. Because they realized they went too far |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #78 |
80. Sure. Well keep building that gallow if it makes you feel better n/t |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #78 |
174. Bwahahahaha! |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 12:18 AM Response to Reply #75 |
207. Well, they *took* that interest from somebody's pockets... |
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kjackson227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #50 |
61. Ain't it the truth. How can these services be cut, when poor/working poor... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #61 |
86. WHO will stop it?? Do you see "progressives" hitting the streets in support of poor folk? |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
68. Cut military spending. That's where the fat is. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
74. social security is self-funded. medicare & medicaid = single payer for less than we pay now. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
84. Yet, when poor people can no longer survive and try to kill themselves, |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #22 |
138. But we could cut back on military spending |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
23. Like George Carlin said, "They're comin' after your retirement.." |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
25. We need to address the conservative sense of entitlement. |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #25 |
62. Amen. n/t |
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Shireling (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
26. Chalmers Johnson |
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icnorth (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:56 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Is big business merging with government? |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
32. I posted about this before... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
33. ... because they don't fear the reverse. n/t |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
34. Exactly what the IMF and the World Bank have been doing to vulnerable economies |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:41 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Yep, they've got it down to a science now. (nt) |
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BelgianMadCow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #34 |
163. Predictable disaster capitalism indeed. Usually, the IMF does that to 3rd world countries |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
35. Another reason for HR 676 nt |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
36. Let's start with cutting the entitlements for the senate and congress and the pentagon. |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 12:25 AM Response to Reply #36 |
208. Sorry. Without millions in the streets everywhere, senate & congress... |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
41. Hanging Wall Street bankers would send a more proper message. |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:44 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I'm wth you. |
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ArcticFox (654 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #41 |
100. Seconded |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #41 |
161. Ain't it the truth |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
42. Close the tax loopholes first, and wait till we get out of Iraq. |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
43. The 800 lb. gorilla in the room... |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
45. Who is he to say where the cuts come from?!! Cut some defense spending! |
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Badgerman (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
46. see this DU thread... |
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The Leveller (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
51. Austerity |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
54. keep printing Bernanke and STFU nt |
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dusmcj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
55. let the financial markets eat cake, and fuck themselves with it |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
56. They already have killed MANY IMHO nt |
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keepCAblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
58. Schwarzie is doing the same in Calif... |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #58 |
77. It certainly does smell that way |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:39 PM Response to Reply #58 |
127. They would rather seize the elderly's assets when they die. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
60. I hope that he someday ends up dangling from a lamp post for this. |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
63. 'Disaster captialism' out in the open w/ absolutely |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
64. END THE FUCKING WARS! |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:23 PM Response to Reply #64 |
73. Yup. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
65. Economic Hitman free to roam the Homeland |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
66. Read your Naomi Klein |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:46 PM Response to Reply #66 |
132. They are counting on Americans to put up with this. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #132 |
168. How right you are -- bulldozers in the orchards, uprooting a productive farm to get subsidies |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
69. I am all for belt-tightening and cutting spending. |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:17 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. Yep. n/t |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
70. This is how you turn the world's only superpower into a third-world hellhole. |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
76. Who elected this motherfucker and put him in charge of our President? |
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droidamus2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
79. What they wanted all along |
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DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
87. Fuck you Bernanke |
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diane in sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
89. Fuck that, end the warring and tax the hell out of the upper 1% and the corporations |
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diane in sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
91. Also, raise the income cap on taxing for social security. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 03:31 AM Response to Reply #91 |
209. why? so the gov will have even *more* money to "borrow" to fund the general budget |
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florida08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
96. dirty S.O.B |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
104. The Chair of the Fed should hold |
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november3rd (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
107. THEY BETTER FREE THEIR MINDS INSTEAD |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:24 PM Response to Reply #107 |
147. And WHEN Or HOW Will this Begin To Take Place??? All I See Is More Of |
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rhymeandreason (255 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
108. We need to address |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
109. First of all, dipshit, Social Security is NOT an entitlement. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
110. What's the matter with Pres Obama? Bernanke and Geither must go now. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
112. Bush failed to kill Social Security. Pres Obama may succeed. nm |
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kjackson227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #112 |
120. President Obama will kill Social Security???? Lets not get carried away. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:34 PM Response to Reply #120 |
125. Not him personally. But the nastier pills are administered under Dem majorities |
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kjackson227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:47 PM Response to Reply #125 |
133. I guess you're right, ~SIGH~ |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:50 PM Response to Reply #125 |
185. You mean faux Dem majorities |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:13 PM Response to Reply #185 |
199. True |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:08 PM Response to Reply #120 |
193. So how do you take the OP? nm |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 03:37 AM Response to Reply #112 |
210. If you've followed what what's gone on in Europe, it's the "left" parties who often |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 06:47 AM Response to Reply #210 |
218. And that is because they are 'reformists'. |
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windbreeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
113. How about we TAX those who hold all the money, like we should...n /t |
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biermeister (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
114. Ask your Rep to support HR 1207!!!! |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
116. Or we could rebuild healthcare from the ground up and make SS taxes progressive |
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Metta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
117. Happy karm, fascists. They'rw not interested in helping people. How about ending corporate welfare? |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
121. besides writing letters and pissing up ropes |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
122. They are "going to" kill people? |
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Moral Compass (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
123. We can restore fiscal balance if... |
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Jkid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #123 |
124. Military...sacred cow |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
126. I take it that Gethners report on China indicated some Hostility... |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
130. oops I thought we were socialist? |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
131. LOL Maintaining the confidence of the markets - go to hell Bernanke. nt |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
134. Yep. That's what they do. Time to move to a REAL country. nt |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
135. Bounce Baucus and Bernanke -- MEDICARE FOR ALL -- |
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colsohlibgal (670 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
136. Enough Is Enough |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:19 PM Response to Reply #136 |
145. Wasn't That ONE HUGE Promise Obama Made Over & Over & Over??? |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
137. Start by cutting back the military to actual defensive needs |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:19 PM Response to Reply #137 |
201. The empire won't last long |
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Mnpaul (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
139. I have an idea for Bernanke |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
140. K&R Bernanke can go suck an egg! Yeah, let's protect Wall Street.... |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
141. All I REALLY WANT TO KNOW IS... Where Does The Buck Stop???? |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
142. This kind of stuff is why at times I think total collapse of the monetary system may be needed. |
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wishlist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
143. Repubs would benefit if voters blame Dems for cuts in social programs n/t |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
148. The fuckers are going to kill people. |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #148 |
158. I've been Successfully "On Strike" since 2003! |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:38 PM Response to Reply #158 |
189. I'm headed your way, Grinchie! Thanks for a great "to-do" list. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 01:19 PM Response to Reply #158 |
227. Well and good, but.... |
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Old Codger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
149. FUCK Bernanke |
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Qutzupalotl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #149 |
160. Careful... |
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Old Codger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:42 PM Response to Reply #160 |
171. LOL |
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boomerbust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
152. Never happen |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
155. Why don't they sell the national parks? |
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Jazzgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
156. How about we just get rid of Bernanke. |
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MasonJar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
157. Let's see...hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm! Withour W and his wars and |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
159. How about we all quit paying our taxes!? |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #159 |
194. I'm with you on the Tax thing |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 03:42 AM Response to Reply #159 |
211. *That* would be worth trying to organize. Because there's support on the right side of the aisle |
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mrs_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
162. ok then - start |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
166. Fuck you Bernanke!!! and all those that rode in with you. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
169. Ah, there it is...the other shoe. Been waiting for that one to drop |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #169 |
190. "Entitlements for the Entitiled" |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
170. Who the hell elected Bernanke to anything, anyway? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
173. The fed doesn't control fiscal policy so this is nothing more than hot air |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 03:43 AM Response to Reply #173 |
212. you think not, eh? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 12:16 PM Response to Reply #212 |
224. They don't... |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
175. "Fiscal balance"?!?!?!?! |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #175 |
191. Yes, it is ljm2002. And they consider themselves the "brilliant" class who deserve far |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
176. Bernanke, read my lips you goddamn criminal piece of shit. |
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Locrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:03 PM Response to Reply #176 |
179. abso-fucking-lutely |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
180. Meanwhile, Grover Norquist is at the bathtub standing by |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
182. There WILL be blood in the streets if they go along with this. |
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INdemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
183. The Obama administration is acting more like Republicans than Republicans |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
184. From whom does this Bernanke get his authority to tell our President what to do? |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:16 PM Response to Reply #184 |
195. Why, Bernanke is the Head of the Federal Reserve! Empowered to Counterfeit Money! |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
187. Obama will replace this guy in 2010 right? |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #187 |
202. Out of the frying pan and into the fire... |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
188. Looks like Obama is going to have to choose which side he is on. |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:35 PM Response to Reply #188 |
203. The choice happened when Obama appointed his economic team. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
196. Right out of the play book. First the SHOCK and then the REMEDY. |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
197. Does that xxxxard know how dependent most of the citizens are on their ss and medicare? |
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pam4water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
198. You know he's bought in to the right wing nut job think when he calls them entitlements. |
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Stardust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
200. Fuck Bernanke. |
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farmboxer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
205. Wall Street should be cut. It's easy to cheat a 90 year old |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
206. It's all about class warfare and a pissing contest |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 05:20 AM Response to Original message |
213. End the occupations and cut the Pentagons's budget... |
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northernlights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 05:41 AM Response to Original message |
214. I don't think Obama would come close to implementing this |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
219. I see the fascist agenda is proceeding as planned (nt) |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
225. Banks gettin' hungry again? |
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228. Kick |
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