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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:42 PM
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How would you describe ...
... the current economic situation.

The GOP-controlled media has begrudgingly admitted that we are in a recession. But they waited a full year before admitting it.

Does that mean we're in a depression?

What does it mean?

What word/phrase would you use that best describes the economic situation that we find ourselves in?
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:44 PM
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1. Quicksand
Every movement just sinks us further.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:48 PM
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4. But, as we've learned from "Blazing Saddles," we can escape alive. n/t
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 06:02 PM
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9. The only thing I remember about that movie was the campfire scene
:nuke: :rofl:
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Kip Humphrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 06:09 PM
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11. Not quicksand, 8 years of bushit.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:45 PM
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2. It's "Nothing New" for poor people. Same old/same old.
Welcome to our world.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:47 PM
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3. Hmm. So, instead of "universal healthcare" we can say we have "universal poverty" ? n/t
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 06:52 PM
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14. I wasn't trying to be funny or cute. What I said stands. It's NOTHING NEW for us poor folk.
Welcome to our world.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 07:21 PM
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18. I'm sorry.
I wasn't making a joke.

I was trying to find a way to name what's going on.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 07:19 PM
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17. Agreed but I don't think I have ever been this afraid and this deep
in the mire. Desperate would be my word.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 02:27 PM
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22. That's what they want us to be. Afraid and desperate.
Until we learn to COME TOGETHER, and end this "rugged individualism" shit, they will have us this way... afraid and desperate.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:51 PM
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5. AAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!
But that is restricted to people who know how bad it really is.

My own case is an "Oh shit, not again!" because I'd only been middle class for 2 1/2 years when the stock market wilted and though I know how to be poor, I was hoping I wouldn't have to do it again quite so soon.

We're not in a depression yet. However, if Congress sits on its corpulent ass and dicks around with tax cuts and price supports, we will be within the year.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:53 PM
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6. Ask any Republican: Obama inherited the Clinton recession that Bush did all he could to end.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 06:12 PM
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13. Hmm. How can we work 9/11 in that title? n/t
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:55 PM
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7. I would go for the "Up Shit Creek without a Paddle" option
but I'm a lady, so I'll just say we're fucked.
And moving towards a depression if we don't do something NOW.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 05:58 PM
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8. Friedman-esque
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 06:08 PM
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10. Surreal
and not being able to shake the feeling that it will get Worse before it gets better even though Thank God Obama won. The worst time in my life since I was born. I have pretty much done the right thing and worked since I was 14 (lied and said 16) and I now have nothing to show for it. No hope, no outlook for future employment , no investments, no savings anymore nothing but my 2 dogs I love so much and my family. Welcome to the American dream. Thanks * you SOB
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 06:10 PM
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12. Nice. I like the idea of using one of their names in it.
So, no matter which asshole is the face/voice for the party (Limpballs? Steele?) one of their forefathers will always be remembered.
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 07:11 PM
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15. By using this acronym: G.R.E.E.D.Y. S.O.B.S
Edited on Sat Jan-31-09 07:12 PM by pacalo
It's related to the trickle-down economic policy:

Greedy
Repressive
Enterprises
Eager to
Destroy
Your

Salaries
Occupations
Benefits &
Self-worth
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 07:22 PM
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19. Damn/ n/t
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 07:18 PM
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16. Bleak/scary
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 07:22 PM
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20. It's been like (or is) a Depresssion here in OH for years. n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 07:24 PM
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21. I wish 60 Minutes had done their story earlier.
I had heard about Wilmington last year (but months after it happened) I just wonder how long they'd been sitting on that story.

Link (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/60minutes/main4747832.shtml ) if you didn't catch it.
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