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change_notfinetuning Donating Member (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:05 AM
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If We Duers Had Half a Brain,
we'd have pooled our money last year, and invested all of it in health insurance company stocks, cashed out in a few more weeks, and contributed the profits to worthy Democratic candidates in the midterms.

Then again, the way it looks, it's probably not too late.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:09 AM
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1. If we had half a brain...
Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 11:10 AM by JHB
we'd be Palin supporters. I prefer the whole thing, thanks.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:11 AM
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2. Ha! Good one. nt
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:11 AM
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3. Half a brain?
You're way too optimistic...


:7
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:19 AM
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5. Try two brain cells.
And that's being generous.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:24 AM
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6. Those are the Beckerheads
(not that one set doesn't include the other)

:puke:
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:19 AM
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4. I divested my Global Health Funds 6 months ago
in protest of the HUGE lobbying money being handed out across Washington to derail HCR and I don't regret a thing

The Health funds were only producing 11% return at the time and "other funds" were producing 26% - They even Screw Over they'er investors
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no limit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:25 AM
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7. Yeah, now all we actually need is the money to invest.
Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 11:25 AM by no limit
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BP2 Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:25 AM
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8. The sick thing is that

insurance and pharmaceutical stocks did not start on their most recent uptick until after the
House passed their version of HCR, as the Senate started deliberations on their version, sometime
after September. Those stocks have been up ever since.

Guess we got played the fool, huh?

Yeah, ha ha. Thank you Senate for your support of the Progressive cause.

The Senate lied, Health Care Reform died.
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change_notfinetuning Donating Member (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:52 AM
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14. Well, the time to buy was when the graffiti was signed by Rahm Emanuel. n/t
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:26 AM
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9. cynical but true nonetheless
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change_notfinetuning Donating Member (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:34 AM
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12. Just trying to live closer to the "real world". Maybe even inhabit it. I'm trading
that phony "pony" and real jackasses for FDR Democrats.
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:31 AM
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10. I dont know, I am watching Democracy Now in Haiti!
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:32 AM
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11. If Cap & Trade is next then invest in coal mines
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change_notfinetuning Donating Member (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:40 AM
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13. Did that last fall, as soon as I read Cass Sunstein's book, "Nudge".
(What do we want? Clean Coal! When do we want it? Now!)
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:53 AM
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15. I'm going to have to rec this.
just because it's an idea I haven't seen before.
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BP2 Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 12:06 PM
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16. What's next - buy Electric Fence & Firearms stocks when Congress takes on Immigration Reform? SICK!



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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 12:10 PM
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17. I agree. It's a sad comment . nt
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change_notfinetuning Donating Member (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 12:20 PM
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18. Sad is seeing those stocks go up because they are going to take you for a ride
and you don't even care about your own welfare.
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change_notfinetuning Donating Member (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 12:33 PM
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19. From Chicago, huh? It's like I'm telling a Chicago gambler to become a bookie.
Only what I am proposing, buying stock and donating the profits to benefit Americans - unlike the activities of Chicago bookies - is legal, can help others, and you won't find yourself buried alive in an Indiana cornfield. And if this health care bill is so good, and these companies are so interested in saving lives, then what's negative about buying stock in health insurers? Yet you are comparing them to manufacturers of things that kill, not save lives.

If you ask me for an apple, how will I know if you want an orange?
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