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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:17 PM Original message |
The Federal Reserve says it is taking over crumbling insurance giant AIG in an $85 billion rescue pl |
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kansasblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Congress? I thought we had a congress thing they may want to review this. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. yay, maybe they can just print up some more money out of thin air |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. Now we're in the insurance business. Wait...how does that work since |
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nradisic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. The Republicans are toast.... |
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Aqaba (781 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Heres a pictorial of what just happened - |
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Booster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yep. The neocons are rushing to get their agenda in, and that is |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. Remember the brouhaha over the Chrysler bailout? |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. And the taxpayers get what out of this deal? |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. 80% of a company that will go bankrupt at some point. |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:39 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. They will surely sell off all the junk and we'll see nothing from that. |
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Omnibus (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. No, Strings attached! |
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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. Socialism for the rich........capitalism for the poor n/t |
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alfrankenaynrand (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
11. better than starting a chain reaction of corporate failures |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Those 'checks' have been systematically removed |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
12. The caps are socializing before our eyes |
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Project Grudge (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
13. Neo Con agenda at work |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. The GOP's one-sided interpretation of "Res Publica" in action .. |
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PerfectSage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. So who's going to take over the Fed when it start's crumbling? |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 09:03 PM Original message |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. They'll probably appoint Arnold Schwarzenegger President of the USA for life. |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 09:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I have a couple of printing presses |
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PerfectSage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 09:25 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Yeah weboth know what's coming. Inflation. |
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SweetieD (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
20. This loan is akin to giving a crackhead a 500,000 mortgage. It ain't going get paid back. |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
21. I can haz health insurance now? |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
22. 85 billion at an interest rate of 11% is gonna hurt AIG |
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