Isn't anybody PISSED?

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Isn't anybody PISSED?
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Sat, 09-27-2008 - 6:42am

This bail-out (which at this point, they tell us, is too necessary to be negotiable - which I don't believe based on the research I've done)...


This is OUR tax money people!!!  Nobody cares.


Listen, I went through my phase as an idealist when I was younger; I'm over that.  I'm not stupid nor uninformed.  This bail-out, however, is complete horse poop, and anyone who understands it fully will agree ( I think).  The Fed.....


I say, let it all crash and burn.  I'd rather dig my way out on my own. 

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iVillage Member
Registered: 05-27-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 6:58pm

As for the Great Depression, all I can say is that I once asked my Great Aunt what her family did during that time to survive, and she laughed and replied, "We played a lot of cards. That was a lot of fun."

Yep my dad had a lot of fun also. He came from a family of 12 and was forced to quit school at the end of the fifth grade and went to work in the greenhouses. Yep he and his family really had a lot of fun.

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-27-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 7:00pm

All those other things you mentioned...Yes, the government does them, but I think they do a mediocre to down-right crappy job at doing them.

And the private financial industry has done such a wonderful job?

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-27-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 7:18pm

So if the "free" market needs to be regulated, how is that "free"?

"Unregulated free market" is an oxymoron. It is a contradiction of terms.

You might want to go back and review the Constitution. The framers of the constitution recognize the danger of unfettered free trade and provided for regulation. Deregulation got us into this mess and re establishing regulations will get us out and keep us out.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-11-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 7:43pm
I'm not saying a terrible economic downtrend is FUN, I'm just saying that my Great Aunt was already so poor that it had no effect on her whatsoever. That was all she would say about the entire era, which tells me that like most people her age, she just made the best of it. Besides, you father didn't starve, grow up in Somalia watching his friends and relatives murdered, or have to worry about things like AIDS! Being poor and having to work hard isn't exactly the end of the world, people.
mcpayton

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