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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:30 PM
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Shhh! Don't Say Anything Bad About Banks or Billionaires Tonight on DU...
Otherwise if something predictable happens tomorrow, it will be your fault.

Don't you see it on FOXNEWS? Liberals hate America, undermine values, cause market crash.
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:32 PM
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1. Is that seriously what they're saying?
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:36 PM
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Well, it is what some DUers are saying
:freak:
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:37 PM
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7. Yup. That DU is going to single-handedly drag the economy down....
.... I bet you didn't know we were that powerful, huh?


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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:41 PM
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9. You know wall street looks at us to gauge where the economy is at.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:48 PM
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14. Thank them for their concern.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:49 PM
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15. I for one am impressed. I don't even know anyone in Asia.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 06:20 AM
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18. Well, I'm in Asia
but I wasn't involved in the market meltdown.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 07:41 PM
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19. Yes, but can you prove that?
You don't know who is reading your posts. :P

Hi new friend from Asia! :hi:
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 07:56 PM
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21. Hello from Asia (Japan)
Of course, I can't prove that I wasn't involved in the Asian market meltdown :P

But I can prove that I'm in Asia-- just ask Lydia Leftcoast. :hi:

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DemocratInSoCal Donating Member (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:32 PM
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2. I'll Take FULL Blame
I was the one who started the entire collapse, by posting on a message board.

So if/when things fall apart, please send all letters my way.

Damn, I am such a bad influence on the world sometimes.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:34 PM
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4. ...
:spank:
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:32 PM
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3. Shit, look at some of the threads in GD right now.
"We're not in a recession so stop saying that!"

"If we are in a recession it's your fault cuz you're panicking and not buying stuff!"

"Capitalism is teh awesome so stop saying it's not!"
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:42 PM
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11. Indeed - that's what prompts my thread.
And you know I'm just thrilled about a lifetime of poverty - at least it will be with most of the rest of you.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:36 PM
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5. Wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to be engaged in the war on Easter this week
It's getting hard to keep all these evil acts straight.
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:40 PM
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8. You'll have to multitask
If you manage your time wisely, you should be able to ruin Good Friday AND the stock market in one week.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:42 PM
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10. And I am in DC this week working on ending the war
Too much evil to combat; not enough time.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:36 PM
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6. LOL, I never knew I had such power!
Who knew posting on DU would cause the asian markets to plummet.....Damn, I guess this post will make them drop even further...geez... Who knew!
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:42 PM
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12. Knell down to Zod
he mentioned this at his site and hasn't change his platform since 2004


I do not take orders. I give them. Congress shall no longer have the ability to impeach me or override my decisions, and the Supreme Court shall not meddle in government affairs.
Your freedom will be expanded. You will be even more free to give your money and lives to me, and to be my eternal subjects.


Eliminate the Iraq War. The Iraq War has shifted $187 billion to the defense industry. How is this "defense industry" to kneel before me? Are my praises to be sung as footnotes in their paperwork? You will stop giving these corporations your wealth. I suggest you put the money into your own schools and health care, so that I may have intelligent, healthy servants. I will indulge your wishes if you all want a Westernized, unpopular regime in Iraq, and I too shall gloat in its troubles, but it will not be done at my expense.

Universal health care. Even a criminal like myself is shocked that millions are not able to get health insurance and cannot pay for basic surgery. Who are these power brokers that allow the pigpen to become wormy and filthy? I demand your very lives, but I am not such an imbecile as to institutionalize suffering and poverty. You have my assurance that this shall change swiftly.
Corporate reform. You people have become disgusting minions to these things you call "corporations". These things take your money and your land, put you into debt, send your jobs overseas, provide you with unsafe foods, and sue you when you say anything bad about them. Yet you people fatten them up at the ballot box. You give them free land, name your stadiums after them, allow them to telemarket you, and even sacrifice your own bankruptcy protections. Quite frankly it astonishes me. I will break this sickly codependency. It is I who shall be your ruler. I shall empower you with wealth to give me as tribute. A corporation cannot bow to me or give me tribute that comes from the heart.

You will buy U.S. made items. Why do you buy Chinese-made items when you know that it sells out the jobs of your family and friends? How will you buy those cheap things when you have no job? You are sending my wealth and tribute to foreign lands. I will not tolerate this.

http://www.zod2008.com/
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:43 PM
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13. You know wall street looks to us as a gauge on the economy
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-16-08 10:49 PM
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16. See we all should have bought Humvees instead of saying how bad they
polluted and ate gas. And its our fault we don't shop at Wally World. And its our fault for wanting trees to clean the air. And its our fault we didn't want our children and grand kids drinking brown water from the company upstream dumping chemicals. And its our fault we don't want lead water pipes, lead paint, lead gasoline or lead toys. And its our fault we want unions, higher wages, work place safety and 8 hour work days. And its our fault that corporations aren't given a free hand on how they do business, after all they work hard for the money they steal and we are so greedy because we want to tax them and keep the death tax in place. Everything is our fault, just ask any puke.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 12:29 AM
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17. I'd rather be a farmer than a banker. Money does not grow on trees.
And, I'd rather watch the wheat futures than bank stock for a realistic reading on the market.
Annual crop commodities underlie a large part of the economy and export for more dollars in this market.

You know life is changing when old banks are cheaper than a new social network domain!
Google sold at under 100 at IPO. A volatile market is an opportunity, especially for
American investors if those based in other currencies are moving out and fast selling is happening.

Meanwhile, if the dollar is losing some ground to other currencies, maybe the government should go back to balanced books!
That's the unspoken scandal behind the economic shift under Bush and his war.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 07:43 PM
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20. They've got a point. If no one would report bad news...
... we wouldn't be hearing bad news. It's true. It's not relevant to anything much, but it's true.
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