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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 08:30 AM Original message |
Jim Kunstler: "We are a much poorer nation than we thought... the reality is just too hard to face" |
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JohnyCanuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Things can get out of control very fast |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. It takes a lot less time and money to break things than it does to build things. |
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Demagitator (236 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. The truth speaks to power n/t |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
3. the beams of the National House have been removed to line the media rooms and |
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Birthmark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
4. Well, that's happy. |
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elizfeelinggreat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
5. this part sticks out to me |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. In a nut shell |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 10:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. The new US economic model: |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
7. in the world of the working class, what the banks are doing is called 'kiting' |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
8. Where'd all that money go? |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 10:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. A lot of the money that kept the economy running was foreign investment... |
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Sock Puppet (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
11. this guy strikes me as something of an alarmist |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 10:57 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. You Can Take It Out Of The Sand |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 11:14 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Just a tad |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 12:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I honestly hope that you're right. |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. In recent (Bush) years median income has indeed dropped in real terms |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 12:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Oh please, "poverty rates?" |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 01:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. But what you're missing is it doesn't matter |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 06:24 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. You wanna buy my medical debts? |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-01-08 01:03 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Why would I want to? |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-01-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. I don't think the market will crash... |
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gasperc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
19. Kunstler also supported Edwards |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 04:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. James Howard Kunstler majored in THEATER in college. I'll listen to his critiques of Hamlet, |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 08:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. And I suppose we should believe the mainstream pundits who said tech was a "new paradigm"... |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-01-08 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
24. and how both that US infrastructure! |
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