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- "How many shares of AIG does each citizen get?"
Posted by daveqwerty
Apparently twice as many as the company is worth.
Some serious thievery going on here. - Reply to this comment
- "It''''s gonna take 6 months before the Liberals in this country find out that Obama cannot do all that he has promised. They won''''t admit it but they will see it."
Posted by guyfrompa49
It has been 30 years since the "Reagan Regressives" made promises, which to date have never been delivered, and still some neocon-derthals cannot see it. - Reply to this comment
- [bobnjersey - Exactly none, but you idiots believe it.]
[Posted by guyfrompa49 at 02:07 PM : Nov 11, 2008]
so paguy ... i just stated that there has never been a candidate that will do all that they promise ... and you just seconded that.
so ... what''s your problem? how could i still believe it when i never believed it?
is your issue cognitive ... or is it linguistic ... or maybe it''s a dyslexic thing?
no, no ... i got it ... it''s an idealogical thing ... with you being blinded by yours. - Reply to this comment
- Mr Goper wrote: Employers are fearful of an Obama presidency and are laying off workers in droves because of it.
Posted by gop_will_Win -
No they lost and we know why!
Excuse me... Where have you been the last 8 years? This economic disaster has been completely brought on by the GOP and republican policies over the last 8 years. 6 of which were completely republican controlled - house senate executive branch. When Bush stole office and Clinton''s term was over Clinton left a balance budget and the govt was running in the red. The state of our union was strong. Next lie pal! - Reply to this comment
- "The size of the AIG lifeline swelled to more than $150 billion"
Strange, the first $85B was supposed to give the US government a 70% stake in the company, now we almost double the stake.
How can we own almost 200% of a company, you might ask?
The answer is, of course, we cannot.
Someone is simply stealing money. I wonder how much Bush, paulson, and Bernanke are ketting under the table, 10% maybe? - Reply to this comment
- [It''''s gonna take 6 months before the Liberals in this country find out that Obama cannot do all that he has promised. They won''''t admit it but they will see it.]
[Posted by guyfrompa49 at 02:01 PM : Nov 11, 2008]
noooo ... say it aint so!
what presidential candidate has ever done all that they have promised during the campaign? - Reply to this comment
- No way, no how. The market news would not have allowed anything but a downturn. These are profit reports coming in from companies, not election results. If you want to know what''''s really driving the markets, go to bloomberg.com and read the articles. Not one has anything to do with Obama. Grow a brain, willya?
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Posted by ghostfighter
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I disagree. Employers are fearful of an Obama presidency and are laying off workers in droves because of it. - Reply to this comment
- systems6- You''re right on. They''re saying as soon as February, possibly to next summer before government financial collapse.
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- ghostfighter- You need to do more research. Start with Lehman Brothers for the credit freeze. First you should do some research into the Bush family history though, and finish with Jeb Bush and cousin George Walker getting on the board of this bank a year and change before it''s collpase and denied bailout. They are following an agenda they''ve had in the works for atleast a decade now. Deregulate, implement scam for banks to carry out pushing loans, stand by for several years while money is moved out of the sheeples banks, collapse the markets, crash the economy, bailout (give free money to corporate elite) with sheeples tax dollars, and insert international monetary regulations for the oligarchy. "New World Order" George Bush Sr. talked about in 1992, "mission accomplished".
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- [The Fed stepped in with an $85 billion loan in September because the company is so big - linked to mutual funds and retirement products held by millions of Americans, not to mention ties to U.S. mortgages - that its failure would have devastated the economy. ]
i assume that the federal regulators are now looking at this company as a candidate for an anti-trust suit. if it''s too big to let fail ... then break it up so this is not an issue. - Reply to this comment
- Put the crack pipe down sir.
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Posted by melchg
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I dont have any cracked pipes, mine are all in good working order. And its mam BTW. - Reply to this comment
- Put the crack pipe down sir.
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Posted by melchg
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I dont have any cracked pipes, mine are all in good working order. And its mam BTW. - Reply to this comment
- Within the next month or two, these three trends will reach their unavoidable conclusion: a loss of faith in US debt and the dollar . This will produce something never before seen in modern economics: simultaneous deflation and hyperinfation . Foreign and domestic investors will rush move their wealth out of the dollar by selling US assets (Treasuries, bonds, stocks , etc...). The selling of US assets will accelerate the deflationary collapse we have experienced so far this year, and the move out of the dollar will drive up the costs of oil, food, and other commodities we consume.
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- Must be nice to live in la la land.
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Posted by melchg
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Lala land? I dont live there. I live in Altoona Pennsylvania, the birthplace of Jesus. - Reply to this comment
- TOTAL COLLAPSE!!! It''s getting worse by the day and I see a total collapse coming. Hang on for the ride folks
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- WHY ARE WE REWARDING CORPORATE FAILURE AND MISMANAGEMENT?
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Posted by frankson2
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Its the American way! I guess you liberals are against that too. - Reply to this comment
- Every single bad thing happening in our great country is the fault of Democrats and the complete morons who voted for them.
Posted by Hitoyou1
Exactly!! There is nothing wrong with this country that 8 more years of Bush working with a Republican controlled Congress couldn''t fix. I shudder to think of the dismal state this country will be in after four years of liberal rule. - Reply to this comment
- "Any money would be on top of the $25 billion in loans that Congress passed in September to help retool auto plants to build more fuel-efficient vehicles."
I keep trying to tell you people, in case you couldn''t tell these last eight years, the markets are fixed. Right now they are killing two birds with one stone. GM is priced for the rich to see the 1300% returns they are used to. Gm also is going to cut paying their pensions (government accepted), as they''ve made blatantly obvious these last few weeks in the market propaganda media. Now once they are "back on their feet" and raking in the cash come 2011-2012, do you think they are going to reinstate paying those pensions? Of course not, so let''s see. Do everything possible, in the propaganda media, to make your value appear down. Scare all the grandparents into selling their stocks at huge losses (95%) by telling them the company is going to be "worthless" ("sell, grandma, now that it''s at the bottom"). Move the rich and connected in for profits that are going to be through the ceiling in three years (what''s 1300% on a few million?). Ask the government to pick up the pensions or they''re going to have to cut them. Once those are gone start making money hand over fist, and all those pensions, conveniently, are gone, meaning more money for the companies elite, at the expense of people who worked their whole life, for a promise reneged on.
Love American greed. - Reply to this comment
- Why don''''t they just give the U.S. away?
Posted by Hitoyou1 at 01:23 PM : Nov 11, 2008
lollll...after, what - 14 years of Republican Congress and 8 years of a Republican President - and all of their debt?
You can''t get clear title to the U.S. any more. - Reply to this comment
- WHY ARE WE REWARDING CORPORATE FAILURE AND MISMANAGEMENT?
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