Comments on: Dow Drops 500 Points In Turbulent Trading

Skittish Investors Fearful About Ailing Financial Firms

[getreeltex]

Wow!


In the face of this disaster all McCain has to offer is baseless personal smear?!


McCain is hopelessly out of touch!

[getreeltex]

Wow!

Just a couple of weeks ago McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong?


He must have been talking about his own fundamentals.


I guess when you have 9 houses, 13 cars and are worth over 100 million, it''s easy to lose touch with what the average American is experiencing.

[closethippy1]

Hey generey, I think you must be mental for even believing what your writing. Is your life really so horrible under the Bush leadership? You are much better off than ANY other country, yet you bash the Republican party as if Bush is to blame for your bs. Grow up.
Posted by gruvinak at 06:21 PM : Oct 07, 2008

Brainwashed like a good Nazi.

[yongamerica]

All of George Bush''s economic advisers and department heads were crowing the US economy is strong and getting stronger in the late winter and early spring. How did things turn around so fast? Or was it the Bush administration couldn''t control what came out of their Pandora''s box of economic reform policies?

[element51]

gruvinak.....I don''t know what your age is but if you were around in the 80''s you must have been sleeping. This whole mess started with your hero Reagan. The first thing he did when he took office was to start to implenemt his "trickle down" economic policy. It began with de-regulation. He de-regulated everything in sight. Communications, transportation, banking, health care, savings & loans, everything in sight. And he continued his policies even when it became obvious that they didn''t work. Bush 1 himself called it "voodo economics." Then when Bush 1 took office he continued the same policies. Then Clinton came along and although things got a little better he didn''t do much and his pushing through NAFTA and GATT was a mistake. Even so, when Bush 2 took over there was a surplus and the economy was doing well. Then Bush went back to the "trickle down" theory even though it had been proven to be a failure. But his rich friends liked it because it was flooding their bank accounts with easy money so nothing was done. The end result is what you see today. And as much as I hate to say it the democrats didn''t help much. So get your facts straight before you pile the blame on the democrats.

[gruvinak]

Hey generey, I think you must be mental for even believing what your writing. Is your life really so horrible under the Bush leadership? You are much better off than ANY other country, yet you bash the Republican party as if Bush is to blame for your bs. Grow up.

[closethippy1]

"666 is no longer alone,
He''s getting out the marrow in your back bone,
And the seven trumpets blowing sweet rock and roll,
Gonna blow right down inside your soul.
Pythagoras with the looking glass reflects the full moon,
In blood, he''s writing the lyrics of a brand new tune."
Supper''s Ready by Genesis

[smirk5]

"The fundamentals of our economy are strong."
John McCain
Sept. 15, 2008

[smirk5]

Don''t forget that the man John McCain goes to for economic advice, believes that all of this turmoil in the economy is just a bunch of whining by a bunch of whiners.

[Renegade.Rivers]

renrivers - Well, the Republicans have had their moment in the sun. 8 years of a president and 6 years with a OVER-RULING MAJORITY in Congress. They screwed things up pretty bad - isn''''t it fair to give the other party a shot?

You know, the party that presided over the largest economic growth period in the history of the U.S.?

Posted by rwassel

While you can blame the Repubs for the last 8 years, I never saw any Democrat leader push for a true investigation of 9/11, or the lies told that got us into Afghanistan and Iraq, or the impeachment of Bush or Chaney. Nor have the Democrats done anything to bring our troops home, or cut the military budget. Nor did I see any of the Democratic leaders coming out against the bailout of the corporations and banks. Nor have I heard any Democrats come out against the stomping of our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. The Democrats are as deep in this as the Repubs, and you know it, put the pipe down, and wake up, neither of the parties give a dam about the American people.

[generey]

Anybody know what the lowest the DOW has been, say, in the last twenty years or so???

[lemonskink]

How dare you Gruvinak blame this on a party that just wrestled minimal control after the Republicans owned the Congress for 12 years, had a brainless President as leader, and a sneering co-conspirator named Cheney. Are you mental?

[lemonskink]

While retirees or people about to retire lose everything, these guys will be having a ball on your 700 billion. Just think how many luxurious trips to the spa they''ll be taking. See, folks, they are in a win win win situation.

http://www.ronnierayjenkins.com/

[generey]

This does NOT look good, people......


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Posted by singinrich at 06:01 PM : Oct 07, 2008

Actually it has passed the point of not at all funny. I have no sympathy for the brokers, traders & all the rich wall st punks, but it is now getting too serious. People are going to get hurt bad now. (But boy george says it will be ok).

[closethippy1]

This morning, a friend told me that a relative of his went to work this morning as usual, at a massive Aluminum Products Plant, and they had the doors locked and were handing out notices that the Company was belly up. They had NO notice or hint of this Company''''s dire financial situation, and now must find other jobs in a market awash with unemployed workers.
This does NOT look good, people......
Posted by singinrich at 06:01 PM : Oct 07, 2008

This is all a bunch of crud. We are all being scammed by the government and Wall Street. How nice it is they all made out like bandits on this, but the rest of us are getting stuck with the bill. They are a bunch of liars and crooks. No way any business should go belly up in a couple of weeks, so just how long has Wall Street and Bush known this was going to happen?
Posted by beader59 at 06:03 PM : Oct 07, 2008

What better proof that the MSM media is corporate owned and and are only loyal to their Wall Street masters.
Not only the government but the entire mass media also needs some serious redoing for refusing to do their job and question authority.

[gce65]

Oh, a storm is threatning
My very life today
If I dont get some shelter
Oh yeah, Im gonna fade away

War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way


(Gimme Shelter! by Mick Jagger & "Keef" Richards)

[gruvinak]

Why do you blame Bush? This all started with the Democrats and now you are happy to blame Bush. Republicans had nothing to do with this mess. Bush got stuck with this Clinton mess.

[getreeltex]

Retirement age?


Retirement accounts have dropped by 2 trillion dollars!

Can you afford 4 more years of Bush''''''''s failed trickle down economic policies?

Can you?

[beader59]

This is all a bunch of crud. We are all being scammed by the government and Wall Street. How nice it is they all made out like bandits on this, but the rest of us are getting stuck with the bill. They are a bunch of liars and crooks. No way any business should go belly up in a couple of weeks, so just how long has Wall Street and Bush known this was going to happen?

[generey]

I LUV the pic''s of the traders - Too funny! 1-800-wah-waah !