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Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 03:54 PM Nov 2012

How Obama's re-election would screw the economy…

First, you have to realize that depressions are only bad for the Little People.

For every farm that was lost by a poor family in the Great Depression, a rich person acquired a nice farm at a super-bargain price.

For every company that went bankrupt and cost the small investors their life savings, some economic predator acquired a company at bargain-basement prices.

You can make as much speculating in a crashing market as in a soaring one. That's what selling short is all about.

Andrew Mellon summarized it all nicely: "Depressions are merely those times when wealth flows back to its natural owners."

And that Goddam Obama interrupted the depression that Bush got so handily started. Romney's plan is to get the collapse back on track so he and his fellow vultures can finish their feast on the corpse of the nation.

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How Obama's re-election would screw the economy… (Original Post) Jackpine Radical Nov 2012 OP
Spot on, Jackpine.. Permanut Nov 2012 #1
It's all about the efficiency. dchill Nov 2012 #3
A Randian Paradise for some and Hell for the rest. SleeplessinSoCal Nov 2012 #2
Perfectly explained. Thanks. Scuba Nov 2012 #4
THANK YOU for that Mellon quote. I didn't know he said that and it's perfect n/t yodermon Nov 2012 #5
They shouldn't want that now RegieRocker Nov 2012 #6
They neglected to read their Machiavelli. Jackpine Radical Nov 2012 #7
Like the boss said we take care of our own! vrguy Nov 2012 #8
Welcome to DU! Hydra Nov 2012 #9

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,123 posts)
2. A Randian Paradise for some and Hell for the rest.
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:04 PM
Nov 2012

Seriously, Hell. While claiming to be a democracy we would actually be a plutocracy. So ugly. Not the country the sane want it to be.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
7. They neglected to read their Machiavelli.
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:12 PM
Nov 2012

Ol' Niccolo always said you have to leave the peasants sufficient crumbs to keep them from rising in desperation.

vrguy

(236 posts)
8. Like the boss said we take care of our own!
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:21 PM
Nov 2012

Gosh,

Like the boss said we take care of our own!

I still cannot wrap my arms around how health care for all people is a sin.

must be the socialism in me I need a shot or something

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
9. Welcome to DU!
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 04:27 PM
Nov 2012

And in the religion of Wall St and Rand, yes, your socialist leanings are indeed something that must be purged out of you, or we'll have an even BIGGER welfare class of little people demanding handouts. Those handouts belong to Exxon, doncha know!

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