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Caren, you twit.
Who milked the system? I assume that by 'milking the system' you mean 'made billions of dollars'. Was it the fly-by-night mortgage companies writing NINJA loans and immediately selling them to Investment Banks? I-Banks and the like who securitized those loans and re-sold them world-wide? The ratings agencies who rated this crap AAA? The folks buying and selling CDO's CDS's based on this junk? The de-regulators that facilitated all this?
You are not smart. Turn off the FOX and think for yourself. Duh indeed.


On Mar 04 04:18 PM Caren wrote:

> People milking the system generally tend to be more socialist in
> nature. Duh.

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Cheers. Yet another columnist who can't leave the gratuitous Obama bashing out of an otherwise fairly decent article. Like the rest of us, all these stock market fetishists are alot worse-off than they were just a few scant quarters ago. We're all angry about it. The difference is that they don't quite know where to direct their anger. Petty stock speculation is now and has always been superfluous to the economy. Wall Street is not the economy. Reviving Wall Street is therefore not at the top of this administration's to-do list. Thank God.


On Mar 04 09:17 AM oldcurmudgeon2 wrote:

> Why would I follow the advice of an idiot who is blaming President
> Obama for this crisis? Some kid who apparently thinks all the Bush
> tax-cutting created this extraordinarily strong economy we have?
> Garotte Garot!

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So you're upset that your guy lost. Boo hoo. And your paper assets have taken quite a beating I'll wager. Your big fat ice-cream cone just fell in the dirt. Better to blame a newspaper, unions, and trial lawyers than engage in any sort of self examination. Your whole belief system lost, dude. And good riddance. We will be paying for THAT for a long time. Better to piss and moan about media bias than have to acknowledge that your heroes sold you out. You are small potatoes, getting smaller, like the rest of us.


On Jan 20 10:15 AM yank wrote:

> Dixie:
> You were right about the NY Times and CNN spouting Obama propaganda
> ad nauseum. And we thought Bush's presidency was the "Imperialist"
> presidency. Forgetabout it! The mass media has elevated Obama to
> a deity. It's absolutely revolting if you ask me. The day that the
> NY times declares bankruptcy will be a fine day. I will enjoy "dancing
> on their grave". As for Obama. Well what can you expect when one
> candidate outspends the other by 20:1 and is given a free pass by
> the media. And wasn't Barrack just a positive campaigner when he
> accused McCain of playing the race card, and then turned around and
> played it himself (...did I happen to mention the other candidate
> is black?) There's only one problem with Barack's comment. McCain
> NEVER made that statement. But it went unchallenged by the media
> because the NY times was too busy cooking up a fraudulent and slanderous
> article on McCain accusing him of cheating on his wife. Funny how
> once it was proven false there was no retraction or apology by the
> Times. Ooops.
> Let's be honest. Obama is extremely inexperienced and beholden to
> massive special interests that have no interest in fixing this economy.
> Trial lawyers, union activists, corrupt judges, and others are "leeches"
> on an economy that is now on life-support. He has ZERO foreign policy
> experience. Oh I almost forgot. Joe Biden and HIllary are going to
> walk him through that one. Yeah right. This guy will be the ultimate
> "bagholder" victimized by European leaders who want to see us pulled
> down to their level. And more likley than not bushwhacked by a Putin-led
> Russia just itching to test Obama's resolve. Too bad that we will
> find out he has none. This guy is a fraud and charlatan. All talk.
> No substance whatsoever. We will be paying the price for his inexperience
> for a long time.
>
> Yank

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The inheritance of the 'young', and that of their children, and their children's children, has already been spent. Reagan and the Bushes (mostly W) and conservatives in general, derived their political power over the last 30 years largely by telling us that we don't have to pay taxes (and by scaring us with communism/terrorism, blacks/homos, and abortion). It was a bag of cheap tricks, and very effective. Appealing to people's basest instincts is the opposite of leadership, but it will always work with a certain segment of the population. That segment is at long last in the minority. The OLD minority, who have of course discovered too late, that there is no free lunch. But these fat old, bitter, bald, conservative, chickenhawk freemarketers, like their political heroes, refuse to acknowledge any mistakes. Obama is not popular with these (old) folks because his election represents an explicit and stultifying rejection of their beliefs, and marginalization of their regressive influence. The young love Obama because he is YOUNG. And he believes, as they do, as does anyone else who can see beyond the end of their balance sheet, that being poor, ignorant, ill and afraid is no way to go through life in America.

On Jan 18 10:25 PM freefall51 wrote:

> Equity has no Clue wrote: "The irony is that the young LOVE obama"
>
>
> When the young will discover (of course too late) that Obama will
> have taxed away their inheritance the enthusiasm will cool off rapidly.

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All you suckers go ahead and get back in.
Again.

On Jan 18 05:46 PM Big K wrote:

> I can see many people have a negative view of the future of our economy
> and stock market. With the vast majority of people so bearish, I
> can think there is a possibility of a bull run coming soon. When
> everybody is bearish, all who are going to sell have already done
> so, and big money is sitting on the sideline. At this point only
> long-term investors remain, so there are few people to sell on the
> bad news, hence apparent support. The bearish sentiments have been
> priced in the market. Possibly, many of the above bears have put
> in short positions, which is even more bullish. The market usually
> moves in the direction opposite to what the majority expect. This
> makes perfect sense. Everyone has already positioned themselves for
> the anticipated direction. Why would all these chicken littles saying
> armageddon is coming still be invested in the market? Of course they
> are not, because once armageddon comes, it's already too late. Therefore,
> I think there is a higher probability the market will go up rather
> than down.