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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:19 PM Original message |
The Ultimate Class-Warfare Struggle |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. There are more of Us than there are of Them |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. Unless you want anarchy |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Why only short term 'nationalization?' |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. I want the banks to be private, smaller, and in competition |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:54 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. We the People: Set the Rates. Set the Terms. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Sure, when the world turns into Paradise. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. The world IS paradise - for the Ruling Class |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I think it is a very few very large banks that are in trouble... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That's where you're wrong |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. But the small banks are not "too big to fail".. |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Credit Unions seem to be just fine ... |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is our chance to renegotiate from a position of relative power. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Basically, I think that is true. |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. .. let's hope our new President and his Cabinet are on OUR side ... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. More likely the penultimate class-warfare struggle ... |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. We need a jubilee... |
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nbsmom (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. It wasn't insurance |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 05:00 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. AIG is collapsing because they provided insurance... |
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nbsmom (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. A 'form of insurance' |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 07:39 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Regardless of whether they were formally "insurance"... |
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nbsmom (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I know what you mean |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
16. The other winners are all those of "us" who played the same speculative games that fed |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
17. Where is the bottom? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Excellent analogy |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 05:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
37. Excellent graphic! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. That's why Big Brother aka Rush Limbaugh is such a blowhard. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. imaginary air |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. heat provided by friction from |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
20. I will gladly kick the stool from under their feet and watch them hang. |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
24. Funny thing how; When the super rich wage war on the |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 03:06 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Exactly |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 05:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
38. That's what happens when you have a wealthy press corps. nt |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
26. There are more of us then there are of them. Get the guillotines! |
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backtoblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
28. Feudal |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 03:54 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. True. I just hope we don't have to repeat the events that solved that problem. |
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backtoblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. True |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 05:38 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Pandemic |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-03-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
32. Ah, people don't want to hear that. Most people would choose a phony "peace" over justice any day |
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