WHAT THE F**K! We can bail the banks out to the tune of TRILLIONS, but --

BigBearJohn

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Mon Aug-23-10 03:24 AM
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WHAT THE F**K! We can bail the banks out to the tune of TRILLIONS, but --

they can't bail out our small businesses with loans?

I sometimes wonder how much worse off we would be if we
just let them all fall face flat in their own shit and
did NOT bail them out. How much worse?

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Electric Monk

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Mon Aug-23-10 03:35 AM
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1. Everybody knows the emperor has no clothes. Bow to him anyway, it's better than being alone.

-Arcade Fire

/I'm frustrated too.

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Robeysays

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Mon Aug-23-10 03:38 AM
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2. tell me about it. :(

strugglin' here too

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Skittles

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Mon Aug-23-10 03:46 AM
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3. it's what happens when you demand no accountability

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BigBearJohn

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Mon Aug-23-10 04:02 AM
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5. It's time to get out my bellbottoms and tie-dyed shirt and hit the streets (again)!

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madokie

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Mon Aug-23-10 06:03 AM
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11. Its past time

my problem is I don't have any left, long since gone

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Anakin Skywalker

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Mon Aug-23-10 03:59 AM
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4. The Bailout Money Taxpayers Gave to Banks Went to Line the CEOs Pockets

That's the beauty of the free market.

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Norrin Radd

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Mon Aug-23-10 04:03 AM
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6. And we had told them no to bailouts in the first place... eom

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BigBearJohn

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Mon Aug-23-10 04:05 AM
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7. Seems like it's ok to bail out a corporation, but when the little guy wants help -

he's asking for a "hand-out" and then the GOP
reaches for their blow-horns.

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Mon Aug-23-10 04:49 AM
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8. Not all the banks,

just the big Wall Street banks.

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Mon Aug-23-10 05:05 AM
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9. well, gee, we'd love to bail the small business out, but see, there's this big deficit

which is so high because we bailed out the big banks first.

so it's the small businesses' fault for not getting their hat in hand first....

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tavalon

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Mon Aug-23-10 05:53 AM
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10. Much worse in the short term

But in the long term, our country might just survive. If we continue this, we will not.

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sendero

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Mon Aug-23-10 06:16 AM
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12. Not worse at all..

... the whole idea that we had no choice but to bail out the banks and AIG is bullshit. It would have been painful, but it's moot because our government is owned by those interests so it will never happen.

Most players that I respect claim that all of the big banks are still actually bankrupt if they had to mark their "assets" to market, i.e. what they are actually worth.

The Fed / Treasury are banking on re-inflating the housing bubble to correct this, but only a toadstool thinks that has any chance of happening. So, it is quite likely that the bankster bailouts are not even done yet.

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