A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 7:22pm
I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT TAX AND SPEND DEMOCRATS EVER AGAIN! Brought to you by the Administration that is paying for a war on credit while sending stimulus checks to its citizens. This country is broke financially, and bankrupt intellectually and morally. Private profits, public bailouts.
Radical bailout plan has a jawdropping price tag
Sep 19, 7:02 PM (ET)
By TOM RAUM and JEANNINE AVERSA
WASHINGTON (AP) - Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration on Friday laid out a radical bailout plan with a jawdropping price tag - a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions.
Relieved investors sent stocks soaring on Wall Street and around the globe. The Dow-Jones industrials average rose 368 points after surging 410 points the day before on rumors the federal action was afoot.
A grim-faced President Bush acknowledged risks to taxpayers in what would be the most sweeping government intervention to rescue failing financial institutions since the Great Depression. But he declared, "The risk of not acting would be far higher."
#2re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 7:28pmThus, I don't ever want to hear that Obama is a Marxist anymore.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 7:33pmI don't ever want to hear that it was a good idea to systematically set about dismantling the New Deal from the mouths of people whose administrations have created the largest new beauracracies in US history AND decided to spend a half-trillion dollars it doesn't have because not spending it would be "riskier."
#3re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 8:35pmHalf a trillion here, half a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking about a lot of money.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 8:40pm
Cheney said Reagan proved "deficits don't matter."
To quote the late Gracie Allen, "the hens have come home to roast."
#5re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 8:53pm
Things are, to quote a recent hit musicale, "TOTALLY FUCT"
I'm a lil frightened.
But sure let's just vote for McCain/Palin and see just how muh worse we can make it! Let's set a new world ord---I mean record!
#6re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 8:57pmWhoever wins this election is going to have a huge mess to clean up after Lil' George's romp in the White House. He got to play soldiers, got to tell people what to be and be the boss just like the grown ups!
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#7re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 8:58pmYou people only want to see what's "bad" in the world. Don't be so pessimistic! Cheer up!
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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#8re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:13pmWe can all make wonderful houses from discarded refrigerator boxes!
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:21pmI am endlessly amused by the Republicans who can't find a few dollars for school funding or to pay their UN dues but suddenly have a half-trillion dollars on hand to prop up Wall St.
#10re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:23pm
I am buying my new home with a variable rate mortgage and no money down! I'm hoping to flip it for a profit!
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#10re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:23pmThere you go again!
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#12re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:24pm
And the CEOs of these failing private businesses getting their 20 million dollar bonuses just a few short months ago but to talk about increasing the taxes on those mothereffers and you get Roxy screaming about how it's wealth redistribution.
What do you call HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS IN BAILOUTS GRAMPS?????
#13re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:28pmWhy are people with little money republicans, anyway? Do they just hate gay people that much?
#14re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:30pm
.... and who is gonna pay for it?
I would love to know the government was there for me if my tiny privately owned business was to screw up and fail!
#15re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:33pmThat would be socialism!
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#16re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:38pmThanks, but no thanks!
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Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:44pm
And when you consider how much more dificult they have made personal bankruptcy....
I'm going to try to be like Miss P and see the bluebird and not the clouds.
#18re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:48pmI think we should just put all these failing banks and investment firm on EBAY.
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#19re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:48pmJoe, I'm not seeing any bluebirds. I'm being sarcastic!
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Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:51pm
Whew. It was wearing me out.
I can't find it online but heard Sean Hannity rip into Obama this week saying that being "Negative" about our economy hurts the US on the world stage. Do you think they even try to believe crap like that or just throw it out there knowing it's BS?
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#21re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 9:57pm
I may be a "positive" person, but I'm not delusional, stupid or Sarah Palin!
I can't tell you how many times I have heard Republicans say things like, "Why do you people have to remind us about all the sadness in the world? I know people are starving, babies are dying and disease is rampant. You don't need to tell me about it!"
I'm serious.
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#22re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 11:31pm
Of course it's not lost on us that McCain's chief economic adviser is none other than Carly Fiorina who totally torched Hewlett-Packward before she was sent packing with a sizable severance package which included $21 million in cash.
When will the neocon-driven GOP reign of terror and utter stupidity end?
#23re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 11:34pmRepublican economics: "Privatizing profits and socializing risk."
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#24re: A Half-Trillion Dollars, or, The End of an Empire
Posted: 9/19/08 at 11:41pmThis is the Septemer surprise! A Half-Trillion votes to show that that Bush is in control and that Obama is wrong.
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