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Baby and bathwater caveat
Nice caveat
Lindy
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9/23/2008 10:21:31 PM
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If the economy is fundamentally sound why is an instant $800 bailout necessary?
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Bowser
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9/21/2008 4:38:16 PM
Think of it as an economic "surge".
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ER
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9/23/2008 7:57:44 PM
Just had a terrible thought
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McFly
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9/22/2008 3:37:19 PM
2 Well Planned Deal
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carl
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9/22/2008 4:33:44 PM
What we have just witnessed is the final triumph of Reaganomics,
(n/t)
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ER
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9/22/2008 10:41:12 AM
No.
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TB
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9/22/2008 5:29:45 PM
Missed again.
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ER
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9/22/2008 6:47:01 PM
Stability
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TB
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9/22/2008 11:53:19 PM
All compromises are half-assed.
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ER
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9/23/2008 1:33:33 AM
Ideology
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TB
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9/23/2008 3:52:28 AM
I know you don't even realize how you sound...
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ER
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9/23/2008 10:29:57 AM
"Love thy enemies". If you won't, at least understand them.
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Bowser
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9/23/2008 12:33:45 PM
As an old labor relations person - - -
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Bowser
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9/23/2008 3:30:10 AM
Is there a gun parallel here?
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Bowser
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9/22/2008 8:46:29 PM
Baby and bathwater caveat
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ER
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9/22/2008 10:05:59 PM
Nice caveat
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Lindy
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9/23/2008 10:21:31 PM
Thank you, Lindy.
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ER
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9/23/2008 11:37:06 PM
You have a way with words.........
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Lindy
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9/24/2008 1:43:39 AM
re: Baby and bathwater caveat
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TB
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9/23/2008 12:06:27 AM
By Western European-type societies
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ER
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9/23/2008 1:28:37 AM
Thinking gap
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TB
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9/23/2008 1:56:40 AM
So we have different views of where the pendulum is.
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ER
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9/23/2008 2:55:48 AM
re: So we have different views of where the pendulum is.
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TB
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9/23/2008 4:18:32 AM
"It makes a difference who controls your life. "
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ER
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9/23/2008 10:44:06 AM
Let's see...
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/23/2008 12:28:27 PM
I feel like the only atheist at a Baptist convention.
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ER
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9/23/2008 1:01:17 PM
I've got no problem with that.
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TB
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9/23/2008 5:35:15 PM
Fair enough.
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ER
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9/23/2008 6:06:09 PM
re: Fair enough.
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TB
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9/23/2008 6:10:05 PM
re: Fair enough.
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ER
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9/23/2008 6:16:30 PM
Or...
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TB
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9/23/2008 7:32:33 PM
And by the way, Techie...
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ER
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9/23/2008 1:06:08 PM
Actually, I was being generous to both.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/23/2008 1:33:24 PM
"I'm sorry, but people blaming this on capitalism or free-market economics are, to be blunt, ignorant on this subject, willfully or otherwise."
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Bowser
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9/22/2008 6:09:01 PM
And, on the subject of regulation and deregulation...
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TB
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9/22/2008 5:57:57 PM
"Why add to the burden to keep the wealthy, wealthy"
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ARRELL
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9/21/2008 9:04:07 PM
Another premise to have died. Tax cuts lead to employment.
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Bowser
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9/21/2008 9:31:56 PM
That's not strictly true, Bowz
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ER
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9/22/2008 12:07:00 PM
Bingo.
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TB
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9/22/2008 5:50:58 PM
You're right in the broad sense, of course. I wonder if that was the case here.
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Bowser
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9/22/2008 5:44:43 PM
The Conqueror Worm, Ouroboros
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ER
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9/22/2008 6:13:09 PM
"Nobody making anything"
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TB
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9/23/2008 12:19:31 AM
There's catching up, and then there's...
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McFly
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9/23/2008 2:35:01 AM
oh well
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McFly
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9/23/2008 8:19:50 PM
Well...
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TB
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9/23/2008 8:45:56 PM
Actually...
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McFly
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9/24/2008 1:16:36 AM
Green Tea
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/23/2008 9:22:18 PM
re: Green Tea
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TB
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9/23/2008 11:00:45 PM
Don't worry, it wasn't missed.
(n/t)
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ER
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9/23/2008 8:23:52 PM
You might have a point.
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ER
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9/23/2008 1:39:18 AM
Never trust the "this price is only good until you leave the showroom" deal.
(n/t)
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Bowser
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9/21/2008 4:47:33 PM
Another thought: Given the $1.8 trillion new debt, how much will be left for NASA?
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Bowser
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9/21/2008 5:27:11 PM
ZILCH! As Long as the CEO's get thier PARACHUTES
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carl
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9/23/2008 5:39:36 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.