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"Yes. Welcome to real life. Their are no guarantees. If shits broken we have to try and fix it and hope for the best. I don't hear a better solution from the right there than "leave it alone and you know, maybe shit will get better.""
How do you know that's not the answer? Every time these boneheads make an announcement the market fucking drops 300 points. 'Hey we've got this great plan that we're going to form a committee on and ...' the dow drops 100 'then we're going to do X' plummets another 125 points. Every time these taints talk they fuck up the economy and overall confidence a little more, what makes you think them actually doing something is going to fix anything? Pure optimism? Seems to me that there are plenty of economists who all agree on one thing, and that is that neither of them believes the other one is right. No one even still has an idea about what exactly needs to be stimulated. Do the banks need more capital liquidity or do people need more money in their pockets? Chicken or the egg?
The part I have a real big problem with is twice now Congress has rushed this crap through when no one voting on it had a chance to even read it. I still can not believe people aren't storming the gates on this fact alone. Bailout 08 I believe was issued 2 days before and none of the people voting on it claimed to have read it .. then there is this Stimulus package that was published the night before? This doesn't scare you? We're toying with the total devaluation of our monetary system here and they can't wait 4 days to let people digest it before casting a vote? Isn't the whole idea of government so that individuals representing large groups of individuals get to meet, discuss and make educated choices that effect all of us? Would you do it this way .. maybe you're filling out paperwork for a mortgage and you have no clue what your interest rate is or what your monthly payments are and for how many years you're going to need to pay it ... let's say you haven't got a fucking clue what the ballpark value is on any of those variables. You could be paying 10k a month or 1k, no clue. Do you sign it? Or try to do a little research so that you know what the hell you're signing up for. It's simply the responsible thing to do.
- Completely agree, the rush to pass these plans is completely ludicrous and irresponsible.designbot
- You're confusing bailout and stimulus. Again.TheBlueOne
- Again? And no I'm not. Be more specific where you think I am.tommyo