So what happens a year from now with unemployment and the economy still tanking?

[Safetykitten]

So will there be another extension? You really think that would happen?

But the republicans will be running the show (as if they are not now), and all that money will have been tied up forever. Becuase it's now officially permanent.

[bigdarryl]

1. Michell might as well start looking for a house in Chicago

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Unless there is another bubble of some kind the economy

isn't going to improve. Energy prices & outsourcing guarantee it. As long as they keep funding those stupid wars and the tribal chiefs they know god damn well that they have to fund the unemployed here.

[ieoeja]

7. It would help if you gave the investor class an incentive to invest.

Say, I have an idea. How about we raise taxes so they re-invest their money to avoid paying those taxes each year instead of just pocketing it?

Wow! I'm a fucking genuis. I am shocked nobody ever tried that before....

[DJ13]

3. Look for the next GOP pipedream and cave in yet again

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Clinton suffered the same fate, and he got more GOP programs passed than any Republican President would have dared to try for.

[Demeter]

4. A very good question

with no good answers....

[Ikonoklast]

5. So what happens if it improves?

Just as silly a question, unless you own a crystal ball.

[Demeter]

6. You don't need a weather man to knowq which way the wind is blowing

there is nothing in this economy to reverse its direction. Nothing.

[Ikonoklast]

9. Watch shipping.

I do.

It's to my business advantage to keep an eye on rates, tonnage, trends, etc.


It actually is the crystal ball as far as being a leading economic indicator.

[Demeter]

10. And?

Shipping hasn't been this low in decades....your point?

[Ikonoklast]

11. It's building a base.

Nowhere to go but up.


Unless there is a total economic collapse the likes of which this planet has never seen before.

Don't see that happening, unless we get hit by a comet.

[ieoeja]

8. Has unemployment ever NOT gone *up* in response to a tax cut?

Serious question. Haven't tax cuts ALWAYS started off with investors cashing out rather than re-investing?

Riddle me this, Batman. What is a one word defintion for a tax dodge? Answer: investment!