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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:10 PM Original message |
The Economy is fucked...the Dollar is Fucked::Its all Bushies & GOP Fault |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. China & the others depend on the US to buy their shit. We'll |
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MikeNearMcChord (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Maybe, maybe not |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Yup, and its because America Trusted them GOPers and their Best Guys ...BUSH/Cheney |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
59. Really? Gore won. Kerry won. Sometimes the criminals steal you blind. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 10:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
64. No, actually, they won't |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
2. Read the Naomi Klein book The Shock Doctrine |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Well, they are deliberately ruining the government. I assume they are |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Us Dems been trying our best to WARN the NATION but not enough peeps listened.... |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
39. It may be about Armageddon for the religious right, |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:31 AM Response to Reply #39 |
50. The eventual winner of the election has the op to choose from the many economists out there to |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:18 PM Response to Reply #39 |
69. Kucinich gets it, too. |
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earthside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
5. Not Just Bush |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:05 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Its the end of the upward spiral..... |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:39 AM Response to Reply #5 |
51. Thom Hartmann has a Pretty Good Sense of How This Happened |
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liberalla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 07:41 AM Response to Reply #51 |
76. Oh boy - did you hear him yesterday? |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
6. You want some comic relief, read what the extremists are saying... |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I got so much flack for buying gold and dumping debt. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. How did you buy gold? Actual coins or what? |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:52 AM Response to Reply #10 |
28. you can get |
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Trailrider1951 (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 08:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
49. This place lets you buy small amounts and small denominations |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:06 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. It was their upbringing...ignorance is BLISS |
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buzzard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:24 AM Response to Reply #6 |
36. My thoughts on this are that although the Canadian dollar is higher right now it cannot continue |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:55 AM Response to Reply #6 |
58. Stupid ignorant fucks up to their fucking necks in ignorant bullshit. peeee U |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
7. Conservatives... in either party |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:07 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. They Conned us ...thats what they did.... |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:11 AM Response to Reply #18 |
33. Yes they did, And we had no choice too. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:32 AM Response to Reply #33 |
40. A VOTERs REBELLION...aka LANDSLIDE would be a first step |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:48 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Landslide; I'm thinking that's why Rove's vote cheating failed in '04 |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
9. Dumping the dollar will be one way to get "our" attention regarding |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
11. correct, bush has run this country into the ground like every other venture... |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 11:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. and add the GOP for aiding and abetting the dude....they are responsible for this crap... |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:13 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. most agreed... |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
16. Hey, at least the low dollar is good for production and export |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Them Chinese cheap goods not gonna be so cheap soon.... |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 10:19 AM Response to Reply #16 |
65. No, the Chinese currency is not pegged to the dollar |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
20. Here is what I don't get. Smirk and Sneer in 1999/2000 ran around talking down the economy, |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:19 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. They will soon be....its so obvious.....LOL... |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:24 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Ya know........... |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:23 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. The Recession will be just in time for the Repugs to blame |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:27 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Well that much is obvious. And it's a damn shame the working class repugs don't get that. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 10:02 AM Response to Reply #26 |
61. No, they don't. It's all about guns and "patriotism", for them. And then they wonder why they can't |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:25 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. They hated the strong Clinton economy |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:31 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. And yet the rich benefited from it. I think what they hated is the tax increase, The rich hate |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
29. every conservative ideology of the last century |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:08 AM Response to Original message |
30. The US is a second world country. The global community sees it that way. |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:24 AM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Don't get out much I see... |
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Josiah1982 (204 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
31. Dubya has destroyed this country... |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:35 AM Response to Reply #31 |
41. DO NOT TRUST THEM PUBS is all I have to say..excuse for the shouting |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 10:03 AM Response to Reply #41 |
62. I don't think you have to worry about that here. |
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Hidden Stillness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
32. Destroy All Structures, Just to Clear Them Away |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:29 AM Response to Reply #32 |
37. POWER in the Hands of a few CORRUPTS...all human history teaches us this...ya think we would....? |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
34. A weak dollar is not necessarily a bad thing... in fact, |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:31 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. The Good thing about a weak Dollar is to remind peeps NOT TO VOTE PUB |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:44 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. that too... short term it can be painful... |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
44. suck! suck! suck! suck! suck! sluuuuuuurp! |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 02:56 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Swampy ...you cad you....LOL |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 07:39 AM Response to Reply #44 |
48. George sure knows how to hold his licker! |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:42 AM Response to Reply #48 |
54. Swampy even put those swatzikas on the background flags...LOL |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 10:56 AM Response to Reply #54 |
67. The pubs be wagging the dog and the sausage at the same time. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 11:01 AM Response to Reply #67 |
68. BTW here's an idea that might reverse the downward trend in the US |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 05:41 PM Response to Reply #68 |
70. Who knew them Bushbots helped the terrorists??? No shit, repeal the cuts. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #67 |
72. Them GOOPers got Pooch Porking 101.03 down to a T...even got Cliff Notes |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 05:58 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. The economy ain't all the GOPers have FUKT |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:38 AM Response to Original message |
46. I thought it was Bill Clinton's massive penis that caused it! |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:52 AM Response to Reply #46 |
47. More like them Pubs who are jealous Bill got a BJ something their wives refuse to do, or so it seems |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
52. It Had To Happen Sooner Or Later |
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kickysnana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:47 AM Response to Reply #52 |
55. You are assuming people have a dollar. Most Americans are in debt and are even losing credit. n/t |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:50 AM Response to Reply #52 |
56. Many Nations are now dumping Dollars preferring Euros....I see bad shit coming |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
53. Why isn't this on the greatest page yet?! |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:53 AM Response to Reply #53 |
57. Not many out there understand economics and the consequences of poor decisions |
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CGowen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
60. The guys at Wall Street are optimistic |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
63. Here's what I don't get: I can understand living high on the French Riviera, but CRAWFORD, TEXAS?! |
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CGowen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 10:46 AM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Bush took Paraguay |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 05:44 PM Response to Reply #66 |
71. Iz he gonna be a hermit...himself and fam down by the river eating spam... |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
74. but, but, traffic is up, so the economy must be ok- people are driving to work... |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 07:17 PM Response to Reply #74 |
75. The Rise of the machines have led to the workers demise.... |
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