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| Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:56pm |
Is there anything for the citizens who don't want to become socialists to do. What should I be doing? I don't want our country on that path and it seems it is.

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maybe that libertarian paradise....
Somalia.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Gas Prices - Of course the gov't should intervene; our economy & nat'l security depend on it.
I know, right?
'Cause instituting massive domestic surveillance programs without disclosing them to the public or congress or the FISA courts isn't "big Orwellian-style government." Like buying an 80% equity stock in the world's largest insurance company to keep it from going belly-up isn't "big, Orwellian-style government." Like running up several trillion dollars in debt isn't "big, Orwellian-style government." Like....aw, hell, I could go on, but you get the point.
Or, perhaps, it's the thought of having to run the gauntlet of freaking PIRATES that's keeping the "Chee-Tos-And-Ayn-Rand" crowd away, LOL.
Yes, the last 8 years have been disastrous.
Sopal
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>"A lone voice of dissent in the 2004 proceeding came from a software consultant from Valparaiso, Ind., who said the computer models run by the firms — which the regulators would be relying on — could not anticipate moments of severe market turbulence."<
Obviously not one of the old boys.... Wrong school, wrong clubs?
>"a measurement of how much the firm was borrowing compared to its total assets — rose sharply, to 33 to 1. In other words, for every dollar in equity, it had $33 of debt."<
I heard a program on NPR about some of this.
Did you note that Paulson was in on this?
Sopal
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