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TomCADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 10:54 PM Original message |
TARP bailout to cost less than once anticipated |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think that a lot of time will have to pass before this can pass a political objectivity test. nt |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-30-10 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. The main point is that we are bailing our a failed economic system ... over and again ...!! |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Capitalism is over? And the alternative is? |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Who's talking about Marxism? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. The person I was responding to said "capitalism is over." nt |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 04:12 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Problem is, we have a plutonomy, not socialism OR capitalism. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. We do have capitalism ... though it is now unregulated capitalism which is organized crime -- !! |
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laureloak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 11:38 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. The alternative is a mix of capitalism and socialism. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Fine with me. n/t |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:22 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. That was what FDR/New Deal offered ... we had it -- and right wing overturned it .... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. World existed a long time without capitalism... how about simply economic democracy... |
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jtuck004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. They are only leaving about $7.1 trillion worth of detail out of that story. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 04:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Please don't try to confuse us. |
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jtuck004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:25 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. LOL - n/t |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. We also bailed out foreign banks in this go round ... and let's recall S&L Theft & Embezzlements ... |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. Care to tell people why that might be? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 04:59 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. "Mark to myth accounting." I love. Therefore, I steal. |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
29. Whoever made that graphic needs to learn how to read a balance sheet |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 04:52 AM Response to Original message |
9. recommend |
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independent_voter (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. when you start with a trillion dollar givaway that does nothing for the middle class |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. +1000% -- |
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independent_voter (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
16. TARP and H-1b visa proved that some classes always win, and other classes always lose |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. Exactly ... !! |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
17. Even it it ends up a profit the ignorant masses will continue to think it was massive giveaway.. |
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independent_voter (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. BOTH parties supported it, and even in the extreme remote chance it made a profit |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Except that virtually every Rethug is now bashing TARP trying to score cheap political points. |
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independent_voter (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 05:02 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. i dont form my opinions by who is for or against something |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 05:17 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I dont either.. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:26 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. hmmm.... |
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