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wysiwyg (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:30 AM Original message |
Is the administration trying to wreck the economy? |
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thinkingwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes |
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corkhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. that and stealing elections eom |
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thinkingwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
37. oh man, that's 2 things! |
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alpizzy (737 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes n/t |
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RubyDuby in GA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
3. I completely agree that they are trying to wreck the economy |
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nancyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Wreck the economy |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
56. Indeed. And welcome to DU! nt |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:42 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. Well, if there are no job prospects except for the military... |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. *s idea of good government is one that fights wars and rules |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
5. Wasn't there some flak a few years back about how "Clinton/Gore" |
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StClone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Thanks |
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Justitia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
6. Official name: "Starve the Beast" (how to kill domestic programs) -eom |
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HootieMcBoob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
45. Bingo! |
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Sammy Pepys (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
7. Let's say they are... |
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Dunvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:41 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Radical coup. |
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wysiwyg (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:47 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. How would the economy work after a crash? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
40. I don't think you're looking at the real agenda. In order to impose |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 02:58 PM Response to Reply #40 |
49. It worked with 9/11, too. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. Personally, I lean toward sheer stupidity, and incompetence but |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
31. I don't know if that is their concern. I think they want to move |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
34. A good book to read is: The Long Emergency: |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. They want to collapse the economy so corporations can take over America |
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StClone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. "Coincidence that Cheney started privatizing many of the military duties" |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:50 PM Response to Reply #19 |
33. Coincidence that he went straight to Halliburton after Dept of Defense? |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:22 PM Response to Reply #33 |
57. I love the hoops people go through to believe in coincidence theories. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:43 PM Response to Reply #57 |
61. Heh...amazing how they want to believe these things just "happened" |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 02:00 PM Response to Reply #9 |
44. In this scenario, many women will also have to serve the |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 04:19 PM Response to Reply #44 |
52. We'll all be in service to the corporate fascists to feed our children. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. Trying to destroy the economy, and the functions of government in general |
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StClone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
11. You need to ask? |
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Dunvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
15. The goal is zero government assistance... |
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BillZBubb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
16. No, I don't think they want to wreck the economy at all. |
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wysiwyg (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:04 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. They weren't trying to wreck Iraq either |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 02:03 PM Response to Reply #16 |
46. They don't see the weakening of the US economy |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
17. Trying ?? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
20. BFDUH. |
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blue in ohio (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
21. Marx the prophet. |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
22. bushco is creating the super rich elite class that will have all....... |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
35. I think the chances of a revolution in the future are |
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Angry Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
23. It's "economic cleansing." Katrina was a PURGE. |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
24. Don't forget disenfranchising select groups of Americans... |
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warrens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
26. That was the plan from Day One |
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Panda1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
27. Of course, they want serfs. |
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schmuls (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
28. Yes. Along with cutting health care and food aid to seniors so |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
30. Don't forget this Shrub quote: |
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Lone_Wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
32. The costs of an American Empire... |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
36. This was plan all along. I predicted this in 2000. Benefits the rich. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:21 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. One of the funny things I see in this is that many people |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
38. Dubya is trying to destroy the planet |
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Pathwalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
39. Absotively, posilutely - yes! |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
42. The greed that has driven this country is what is destroying it. |
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newportdadde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
43. Wealth transfer, keep the labor market loose, social darwinism. |
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Nederland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
47. If so |
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wysiwyg (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 03:40 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. who provides the numbers? |
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Nederland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 04:03 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. The same people that have always provided them: |
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wysiwyg (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-08-06 09:02 AM Response to Reply #51 |
66. I think it was one of Carville's books |
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Nederland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-08-06 11:56 AM Response to Reply #66 |
68. This is old news and irrelevant |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
48. A real tricky balance, wreck the economy and retain wealth. n/t |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:35 PM Response to Reply #48 |
60. Not really. Looters have been doing it for centuries. It's what they do. |
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LibertyorDeath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
53. Bush’s Tyranny for a Bankrupt Nation |
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holdyourbreath (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
55. they literally want to enslave us all... |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
58. Feudalists resent Democracy and yes, Capitalism. It is intentional. |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
59. What better way to tank the "entitlement" programs? |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
62. yes, they're all into hedging nowadays |
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AmandaRuth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
63. personally i think |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-07-06 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
64. The last act of a failed government is to loot the treasury. |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-08-06 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
65. the TOP 3% wants a TWO CLASS SYSTEM |
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wysiwyg (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-08-06 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
67. Lots of DU'ers are even more pessimistic than I am :-) |
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