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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:20 PM Original message |
Anyone who says we are not in a depression as bad, in an overall sense, as the Great Depression is |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. You might want to look up the definition of... |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. "kook" this: |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Deleted message |
dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. why SDuderstadt, where you going with that dictionary? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. By that definition, the great depression was already over by FDR's inauguration. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. how to get out of the hole? keep digging.....right? |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. the definition of insanity..... doing the same thing and expecting different results. |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. well, as with the housing market, when they keep saying how great it is, some of it is wishful think |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. I'm sorry |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. Yes we are in a Depression. I have |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. You know |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. I think you make a crucial point: |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:38 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Very well said. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
11. Last August, a yahoo article headlined Obama calling this a "Depression" -- |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. That sounds like one hell of a conspiracy D&P!!! |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
12. One more tiny little thought |
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Vinee (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. here's a depression story for you I heard from an old timer |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. when I was a kid... |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
14. one difference is that most people have a lot of *stuff* due to |
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William769 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
17. un rec. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
18. you are wrong. and you have one purported measure and nothing else |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
19. But this thread itself obfuscates the issues. |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. Well at least people aren't standing in soup lines. |
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drpepper67 (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #20 |
35. While not standing in a soup line |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
24. So how come the restaurants where I live are packed every weekend? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 04:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. The restaurants are full where I am, too |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. I think in some places it's almost as cheap to eat out |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:44 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Depending on what one wishes to cook on any given night, that's true here |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
26. I read somewhere that the Great Depression was named as such because |
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Urban Prairie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
27. People "may" have been poorer overall in the Great Depression |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. We ought to call this the Great Structural Clusterfuck. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:29 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. "Great Structural Clusterfuck" |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:09 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Welcome to it. |
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StarsInHerHair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
30. kicking it |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
32. A good starting point would be implementing progressive fiscal and tax policies, ending corporate |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
34. Stories from the Great Depression |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
36. One big difference...QE and ZIRP |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
38. Here are some real stats! |
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