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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:19 PM Original message |
All this talk of financial armageddon if the debt ceiling isn't raised sounds eerily familiar |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Unfortunately we all will burn if we hit the debt ceiling. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 06:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Why we will all burn? And what exactly does that mean? |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 06:16 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. We are all on this Titanic. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 11:23 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I am not on your ship. But good luck with the rest of your voyage. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 06:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Who is this "We" you speak for? |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 06:13 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Do buy things, like gasoline and food? Do you use electricity or water? |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. We & Ours would do OK. |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. 2008 was so long ago. who remembers that far back!! |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm not a economic wiz but I'm pretty sure that not raising the debt ceiling |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I hate to break it to you, but we're already there |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:39 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. unemployment is at 50% I don't think so |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Great depression unemployment was around 25% |
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Citizen Worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. A friend's masters thesis was on the calculation of unemployment. HIs conclusion, multiply the BLS |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Unemployment in the Great Depression was between 20 & 25% - |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. my company has been hiring over the last year, that would not happen in a depression |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. We're there already bro |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. You have got to be... |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. the Republicans are to blame if the US defaults. I think it's close. |
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Wounded Bear (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yep, it's like the last chapter in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" |
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Dj13Francis (343 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
13. It is just a matter of time... |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. This is a scam. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
17. Perhaps it sounds farmiliar because it is true? |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
23. And why should we listen to you? |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 07:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I never said you had to listen to me |
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