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No I do not feel safer. And neither do most New Yorkers and residents of DC who did not vote for bush in 04. We a re citizens of the cities that were directly impacted.
Why didn't the Maverick work to get rid of some of it to help us get out of this mess. The latest bailout has pork barrel for Alaska fishermen!
Delusianne: A personal attack is a defensive move from someone who feels threatened and has nothing constructive to offer.
I started with Peter Schiff's book "Crash Proof" and then used economic articles on the Internet to clarify. That's a reasonable approach for a layperson with no economic education.
I started this thread to understand more. Now I'm leaving. Good luck to each of you in the future economy.
Way to go, aaauger. Of course, much of the economic basics could come from any of the very good introductory college textbooks out there (one of my favorites, though, was written by Michael Parkin Economics Place ). Brian Baumol had a hand in a good one a few years back, too, but I don't know if his is still in print.
Furthermore, any self-employed financial planner could give the kind of information that would confirm that NOsama's plan will take this country into financial ruin.Moderator cut: personal attack
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Republicans are more likely to help the economy? BS! First of all. Mc Cain plans to repeal the AMT tax, which will add a few billion dollars to the deficit. No plans of ending the Iraq and Afghanistan war, in 4 years, that would add another couple trillion to the National Debt. With the rising interest rates, the amount of interest we will be paying on this debt is just outrageous, especially if he will be adding even more to it. In history, this country has never seen the National Debt grow so quickly as in the last 8 years. Ironically, the Republicans party is supposed to be the party of "fiscal responsibility". There are obvious reasons why most economists think that Obama's economic plan is better.
Don't forget the BUSH created the Department of Homeland Security so the US will not be faced with terrorist attacks like in 911. This is the biggest expense but do you feel safe today?
Don't forget that there were natural disasters in the US and the world like KATRINA, tsunamis, fires that the BUSH administration had to address.
He had NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND which critics say is still underfunded.
The people of New Orleans felt pretty safe a few years ago. Oops.
The people of New Orleans felt pretty safe a few years ago. Oops.
Yeah, have Bush maintain the budget surplus. Get rid of homeland security. Get rid of FEMA. Get rid of NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND so the US can save money. Get rid of stem cell research.
You'll be rich but dead. Everything in America premises on GREED. Do you even know what a CHEMICAL and BIOLOGICAL WARFARE is like?
Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.
He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to
their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."
The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars. They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!
Now you have a better understanding of how the WALL STREET BAILOUT PLAN WILL WORK !!!!
Gee, Thanks Senator McCain. Not only did we have to pay 700Billion for your monkey business, when you rode off on your shiny steed we got stuck with 110Billion more.
Just like all other administrations the effect of a presidency often isn't felt until after he leaves office,clinton reaped the awards of the reagan/bush era and GW is having to deal with the poblems created by his predecessor are now coming to fruition....Examples: freddie and fannie rule changes, the deregulaion of wall srteet, the first bombing of Iraq , and more... all was clintons doings and GW had been rolled over by the snowball that clinton hand packed....Now no more of this and lets not vote for a ''Barrack hussien obama'' to get even with the rights and lets do whats good for AMERICA !!!
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