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adamuu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 05:38 PM Original message |
"Thank God it passed!" |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. At the time I was in favor of the bank bailout |
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AlecBGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I think we should have let them fail... |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 06:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. We would be facing it now |
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LawnLover (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 09:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. Yeah, that's would've worked. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 07:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. At what cost? |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. What I see happening is that it is just a matter of time |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:21 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. It doesn't have to be that way |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Nothing has changed in the banking and wallstreet industry |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. There is still a chance for positive change |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 09:01 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I do not want us to go down the slope |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 09:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Neither do I which is why I don't think we should run down it |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 09:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. What would you do to rein in the banks and wall street?? |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 09:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. How much time do you have? |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. There you go |
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Witan00 (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 10:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
31. I'm beginning to think that letting the country plummet into a full-scale depression... |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 10:39 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. I have a different interpretation of how that would play out |
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Witan00 (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 01:19 AM Response to Reply #33 |
41. And if that were to happen, then at least we would finally know with absolute certainty.... |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:27 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. How would that make things better? |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. A bailout with no strings attached was just a setup for delaying an economic collapse |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 07:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. I think it was just the |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 07:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. EXACTLY. +1 nt |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 10:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. Well said. nt |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. Should be: "We could have let banks fall and been in majority for 40 years" nt |
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adamuu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yes n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
5. Baird was my rep. Good riddance to him. |
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davidwparker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. No, save the economy and then PROSECUTE those who |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Saving the banks is destroying the economy. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 10:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. Again, well said. nt |
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davidwparker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 11:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
38. Makes sense. |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. We should of let the banks fail. All we did was put off the ....... |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Yes |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Bingo! |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 09:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. +1000 |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 10:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
32. In reality, many smaller and medium size institutions who ran their business in the proper manner |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 10:51 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. We would of never hit 25% unemployment......... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 11:14 PM Response to Reply #36 |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 01:27 AM Response to Reply #36 |
43. You hit it exactly right. And, per usual when considering some posters, all you got in reply was |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 01:29 AM Response to Reply #32 |
44. Changing the subject - per usual. n/t. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 11:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. There were plenty of alternatives to this disastrous abdication. n/t |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. Baird makes no sense |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
24. File under nonsense |
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adamuu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 07:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
46. It appears we traded a fast collapse for a slow one |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
37. It seems to me that many DU'ers don't really understand what was at stake in those frightful days... |
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Safetykitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 01:26 AM Response to Reply #37 |
42. Food riots, Goldman Sachs sleeping with cats and dogs! |
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