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TexasLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:33 AM Original message |
Qatar & Vietnam ditch the dollar |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
1. And the band played on... |
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poverlay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. That's serious business. I can't believe that Qatar number. I must go buy some Euros and gold...nt |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. It may be past the Eruo/Gold thing. May have to start planting food and diggingq |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:52 AM Response to Reply #16 |
50. moron* and his room full of dopes and SCOTUS staged coup 7 years ago... |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
3. We must invade them. That is all. |
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BB1 (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Noooo! Don't invade! |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:54 AM Response to Reply #8 |
51. When one country changes over to the Euro, moron* and poppy invade... |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. Well when you see a Congress who just writes blank checks |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Bill Gates said the dollar would collapse, back in 2005. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
37. Is this the same Bill Gates who said |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Just wait about 10 years when Social Security and Medicare obligations consume the bulk of revenues. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
27. So the bulk of US Reserves is from SS Taxes?? |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 04:36 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Google for 'fiscal wake-up tour' |
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Vitruvius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:46 AM Response to Reply #30 |
48. Link to WaPo article |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 05:00 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. According to the Mayans the world ends in 2012 anyway |
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druidity33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 05:50 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Dec 22? or was it the 23rd? nt |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. I believe it's the 21st -- the Solstice |
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druidity33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:15 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. the translation |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:57 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Everything's related to the Mayans, right? |
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BB1 (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-06-07 05:51 AM Response to Reply #43 |
53. do you know if there's |
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DemReadingDU (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 05:05 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. I have heard that Medicare is in worse shape than SS, n/t |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:07 PM Response to Reply #32 |
39. Yep, it's been seriously underfunded by the pukes |
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pokercat999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:43 PM Response to Reply #27 |
42. The continued rape of our treasury by corporations through |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
41. Fiscal Wake-Up Tour (impending financial oblivion for the US re: SS and Medicare) |
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freefall (617 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 07:04 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Thanks for these excellent links. We should all be asking the recommended |
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Klukie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. What the hell is going on? |
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BB1 (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. it's breaking down. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. The quick version is |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. I know! Let's offshore jobs to Vietnam!!! That'll resolve everything!! |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
28. Ask Nike |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
10. and so it begins... |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. wheelbarrows to lug those dollars around when you shop for groceries? |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. For a grocery item, period. Not groceries plural, you optimist! nt |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. yes - how foolish of me . . . |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. wheelbarrow of money for loaf of (ersatz) bread...Weimar. nt |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. well . . . I guess this is one way to deal with our nation's obesity problem . . . |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. My family, my sisters family, and my brothers family |
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LadyAziz (274 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
11. . |
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HuffleClaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
12. good n/t |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
15. Let's say we didn't begin the war, but the dollar situation is where it is today |
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jaybeat (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Well, not dumbing billions of $US a week into a black hole would help. (nt) |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yeah, that's why I was curious as to how we would rectify this if the war |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Since we've been sold out by the democrats in congress |
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jaybeat (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 08:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
46. I'm not sure, but what other countries have had to do is pretty nasty |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
23. Oh. Shit. |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
24. China's next |
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TexasLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
29. And now this from UAE |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
33. Can ya' hear it? The house of cards? |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
34. Dollar's double blow from Vietnam and Qatar |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
45. Thanks Bush. When the euro hits $1.50 they should put your picture on it |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
47. Don't think that Bush isn't fine with this. Now they can all buy up our Commodities and Real Estate |
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olddad56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
49. Vietnam? After we treated them so good in the war? where's the love. |
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nguoihue (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:24 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Well, you know what they say |
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