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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:41 AM Original message |
I'll take my chances in a great depression against pampered bullshit millionaires ANY DAY. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. bailout or no bailout, this is our future... |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I'm afraid so too.. |
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FatDave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
69. Exactly. Get it over with. |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. You're a fool...... |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. We're already in a class war.. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. You're a fool if you don't see that war has been waged for generations now. |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. It's the poor who will suffer the most in a depression..... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:04 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Gee. Just like the poor suffer most NOW? I know where the shit stops rolling. |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:10 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. The poor will suffer MUCH more than they are now..... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:17 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. There's only so far down to go. |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:51 AM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Your an idiot kind of guy. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 10:02 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. "You're the left's version of a Rapturist." Bingo!!! |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #31 |
41. Oh now there's irony.... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:45 PM Response to Reply #31 |
43. They are left wing libertarians |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:25 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Oh my. I never thought of ANY of these startling pieces of reality! |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #29 |
54. Very VERY well put |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
64. Jade Fox, I would be on your side, but it is too late. |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 05:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
74. do you really believe.. |
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galileoreloaded (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. You are smack in the middle of a collapse. Read JK Galbraiths "1929-The Great Crash"...n/t |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
44. The war already exists but has, until now at any rate, been waged by |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
62. Jade Fox |
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FatDave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 06:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
70. My mother grew up in the great depression. |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. That's my thought too,, let Wall Street go down.. |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
61. Build factories which make consumer products the world wants... |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
5. Not all of us are equipped to fight a class war. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:59 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I will not be violent except in defense. I will not be raiding rich people's homes. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I will not wish Madame Guillotine on our nation. n/t |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I won't wish, but I won't get in her way, either. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 10:29 AM Response to Reply #9 |
33. skinned alive for 75 years |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. Oh my! No PHONE!? no LIGHTS!? People will DIE! |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #38 |
59. No electricity, no heat, yeah they wil die actually |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:45 PM Response to Reply #38 |
65. No phone! No lights! No motorcar! Not a single luxury... |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
7. It's going t hit anyway. It's only a question of when. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
39. I agree. That is why I would rather keep the 700,000 million. nt |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
12. Don't forget that there is a safety net that did not exist ....... |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:33 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Medicaid's a joke. Sure you can have it after you sell or lose whatever little you & your family... |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:41 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. uh, wrong. My mother gets Medicaid. She hasn't had to sell off any assets |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:17 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Either your mother has less than $2000 to $2400 in savings or life insurance, or YOU are wrong. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 10:38 AM Response to Reply #19 |
35. Medicaid or Medicare? |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #19 |
68. Medicaid is much different than mediCARE. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
18. If a depression hits, many of us will lose what we have and |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:43 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. You should take my words as: we are very close to an economic crash. What happens after is |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
21. You need to educate yourself as to what the Great Depression was like |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
22. um, the rich people will still be rich and you'll be pickingthrough a dumpster for food dude... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:36 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. exactly, these people on DU hoping for a depression just haven't the |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #25 |
46. Seems that you are ignorant of history yourself. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:37 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Ummm. I have fed my family from a dumpster "dude". |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 10:03 AM Response to Reply #26 |
32. I think the point is, you won't be alone. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. I don't think there will be anything to eat IN the dumpster. I was just rolling with the metaphor. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 10:33 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. the point is genius, the rich people won't be picking through shit. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:30 AM Response to Reply #34 |
71. link? |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 12:36 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. link you to what, common knowledge? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 05:25 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. Oh! I meant "kick". Sorry. nt |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
49. Exactly - it won't be the rich who suffer if a depression hits |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
24. Do you honestly have any idea what a depression entails? |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
27. So you'd rather EVERYONE suffer |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
47. Have you read Thom Hartmann's article at CommonDreams.org? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:08 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. Thank you for writing this. In my haste I came across as wanting a depression |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. No problem. |
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watercolors (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
28. You do not want to be in a depression!! |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
36. Well, I am not going to bother trying to compose responses to everyone's posts. |
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TexasLady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
42. I listened to horror stories |
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sfwriter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
45. Amen, we can do this! A Big FU to power - no bailout... |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
48. I've already lost 10's of thousands |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. So you want every family in america to pony up 10,000 dollars? |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. You want to devastate my family? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #52 |
56. ALLLLLLL through the dayyyyyyy, I Me My, I Me My, I Me My.... |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:10 PM Response to Reply #56 |
60. I'm with the poster below "SKIP IT" |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
55. "skip it" |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
57. And how, exactly, are you going to keep your money? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. I am thinking beyond money. What a limited scope. I certainly don't expect to packing |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
63. The already-poor, sick, elderly or very young would suffer in a great depression much more than |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
66. Last year when my mom passed away, I found her ration stamps from the depression. |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
67. Rich fat cats have been waging class war on everybody else for generations. |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
75. yes, we can all become hobos and hop trains |
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76. Hey Radiation! I agree....I got my pitchfork right here... |
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