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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 08:37 PM Original message |
I'm a little confused: Did the bailouts actually accomplish anything? |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes! |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 08:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Or, in alternative universe #2 there was no bailout and the economy |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I'd like to be in that one! Tickets???? n/t |
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rollingrock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. What a load |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Well, I remember "loads" of DUers talking the U.S. as a smoking hole in the |
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rollingrock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Wall Street bullying and fear-mongering tactics |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. No these were DUers. Right here on the ol' DU. Archives will show the picture. n/t |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. Allowed the federal gov't to go further into the hole, |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. Of course, it helped the richest and most privileged Americans. |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 08:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I understand that Bush started this bullshit. But hasn't Obama continued it? |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 08:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. You can feel as you wish....it's a free country. But not in the alternate universe |
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western mass (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
8. Only if you believe the people who benefited |
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rollingrock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. +1 |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. Well it apparently helped some and some of the banks have already |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
11. It briefly postponed our drowning. |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:39 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. OHHHHH NOESS!!!!!111 Head fer tha hills!!!! n/t |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 10:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. The two Circuit City stores in our town are empty... |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
12. I have heard eonomisst on Bloomberg Business, CRose |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. We cannot really know. The Federal Reserve is resisting efforts to find out who got the money. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. More money for wealthy profiteers. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
19. there was no "bailout" there was a daylight robbery |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
20. made the filthy rich even nastier. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-05-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
22. it delayed the inevitable for a while longer. |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
24. Given unemployment is leveling off and the market is recovering |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
25. First off, the Bailouts and the Stimulus are not the same thing |
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