Wow, the Dow.

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At the 9,830.06 point this morning.

When's this bailout going to start working? I already spent my Save America Rebate check.

And the quarterly profit reports aren't due until later this week.

Might have to sign-on to the TH and find some wisdom and guidance from the experts on 'personal repsonsibility' and how America is number one, that we're winning, and anything said against that is treasonous and to trust our brave and cowboyesque leadership 'cause they know the liberals are friends with the terrorists.

Let's see how far they take this personal responsibility thing, see if they could survive those who might come a knockin' cashing in on that concept. I'm trying to resist it myself but it's getting harder each headline.
 
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they know the liberals are friends with the terrorists.



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Wait, is this true or not true? Fox News™ leads me to believe Obama and Biden are planning to murder my family and sell our country's abundant natural resources to overseas investors.



I mean, with a name like Obama, are you really that surprised?


SZ
 
GW wanted everyone to buy a new washer and dryer with their Save America Checks. I'm guessing they didn't.

This morning though, he said we're going to be fine.

Whew, I was worried.
 
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At the 9,830.06 point this morning.

When's this bailout going to start working? I already spent my Save America Rebate check.

And the quarterly profit reports aren't due until later this week.

Might have to sign-on to the TH and find some wisdom and guidance from the experts on 'personal repsonsibility' and how America is number one, that we're winning, and anything said against that is treasonous and to trust our brave and cowboyesque leadership 'cause they know the liberals are friends with the terrorists.

Let's see how far they take this personal responsibility thing, see if they could survive those who might come a knockin' cashing in on that concept. I'm trying to resist it myself but it's getting harder each headline.

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GW wanted everyone to buy a new washer and dryer with their Save America Checks. I'm guessing they didn't.



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That's neocon speak for 'America, get ready to be taken to the cleaners'.
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My college macro economics prof was Walter Heller, Kennedy's financial advisor. He taught Keynesian econ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics.

Even though I did poorly in the class I paid very close attention to the lectures. Over the years it's seemed to me that the further we drifted from Keynesian econ the worse the economic reaction. One of the basis of Keynesian econ is that the government spend money on infrastrucure and that private industry produce goods. This leads to more wages, more goods which leads to more tax revenues which should be reinvested in the same cycle. Roosevelt did this to grow the US out of the Depression. Even though some of his projects were found to be unconstitutional the good that was started by government projects moved the country forward.

An economy built on real goods not imaginary or artificial 'value' is much stronger.

Last week when I was at the TCI Rendezvous I talked with a fellow who lives along the Blue Ridge Parkway in western Virginia. He said that there is no money to put up trash cans at the rest stops. The Parkway is falling apart. The BR Parkway was built by the CCC and related projects. We've had the use of a fine piece of infrastructure for decades, now we need to do some repair work. This will generate real goods, jobs, motel rent for the workers, trucks to haul, payroll taxes.
 
There's some good in the growing bad. People are starting to take notice of things they couldn't ordinarily be bothered by or needed to before. Unfortunately it's going to hurt a little, most everyone.

I'm just worried about the mentality that's evidently growing that feels the need to lash out at tangible things, excuses, and out of fear, the unknowns, other people and cultures at large. PLacing blame like a shotgun blast instead of coherent awareness. I'm not too optimistic about society's fixing the problems when many of them have no idea what's causing them.

I'm quoting a professed "Christian" from another site this morning:

"Many years ago a very sweet old man who had worked the oil rigs throughout the middle east, a man I never heard curse save for this one occasion long before 9/11, said to me. "The best thing we could do is kill all them damned ragheads.".
I know that is immflammatory and ethnically bigoted....but more and more I understand that the only true solution for some cultures is oblitoration."

That sounds like Hitler using the Gestapo working with Gen. Custer to manifest a destiny.

So we're not all looking to an end of cause of conflict, but an increase instead. Didn't think that's what Jesus had in mind but I don't know. "True solutions" means the right solutions, someone else's "right".
 
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There's some good in the growing bad. People are starting to take notice of things they couldn't ordinarily be bothered by or needed to before. Unfortunately it's going to hurt a little, most everyone.

I'm just worried about the mentality that's evidently growing that feels the need to lash out at tangible things, excuses, and out of fear, the unknowns, other people and cultures at large. PLacing blame like a shotgun blast instead of coherent awareness. I'm not too optimistic about society's fixing the problems when many of them have no idea what's causing them.

I'm quoting a professed "Christian" from another site this morning:

"Many years ago a very sweet old man who had worked the oil rigs throughout the middle east, a man I never heard curse save for this one occasion long before 9/11, said to me. "The best thing we could do is kill all them damned ragheads.".
I know that is immflammatory and ethnically bigoted....but more and more I understand that the only true solution for some cultures is oblitoration."

That sounds like Hitler using the Gestapo working with Gen. Custer to manifest a destiny.

So we're not all looking to an end of cause of conflict, but an increase instead. Didn't think that's what Jesus had in mind but I don't know. "True solutions" means the right solutions, someone else's "right".

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You are hi-jacking your own thread.

It's the economy, stupid. (absolutely no offense meant, merely a popular culture reference which I hope you appreciate, you bleeding heart liberal)

Hugs and hypothetical kisses,

SZ
 
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