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    • ON: Wed Sep 3rd 08:45 AM
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      Would Trickle-Down Policies Really Help All Americans?
      As a former republican voter, I have had it with the trickle down baloney. One look at the repub convention, and you see a literal sea of white preppy faces with an occasional oriental or black person mixed in. It is quite ironic. If anyone can honestly say from Katrina bungling, lack of regulation over financial/credit markets, limp energy policy, devastating Iraq war costing 4,000 of our best young people and trillions in costs, no healthcare reform for the little guy, no immigration control, that repubs care about the individual and the unfortunate.........?
      You are smoking republlican weed. Wake up. Someday you may be on the outside of the country club looking in.
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    • ON: Fri Aug 29th 08:25 AM
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      Why Bubbles Can't Be Stopped
      Capitalistic system greed HAS to be regulated...otherwise the masses get screwed royally. But regulators have to regulate and in this they failed us massively, while the powerful and the gamblers were pocketing huge bucks. I am no longer a republican.

      Finally a candidate for prez offered that we might get the same healthcare insurance as our illustrious congress is giving themselves! I'm in.
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    • ON: Wed Aug 27th 09:51 AM
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      Keep the Remaining Blue Cross Plans Non-Profits
      Wadhamite.....sadly, your comments are very indicative of public perception of these issues. Those of you who are 'totally free enterprise' types on everything need to understand that not everything can be solved by 'totally free markets'.
      I worked in corporate health insurance for 20 years. It is a different animal 'totally'. Our drinking water, if totally provided by a free market, would be very unjustly distributed - the best to the rich, the poor quality to the poor.
      Regulation/oversight/c... has to be given those goods that the public need for 'life, and pursuit of happiness'........not threat of bankruptcy due to a greed-filled, broken system as is healthcare financing that leaves 50m uninsured because they cannot afford $1,200 a month for family coverage.

      You better hope the gov't gets more involved in healthcare.....or one day your employer will 'reduce you at age 55' and you'll have to go find your own quotes. Then you'll understand - just like my 56 yr old brother now understands what I have been telling him for years.

      Now, he is a true disciple of a national healthcare plan.
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    • ON: Tue Aug 26th 09:11 AM
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      Food Makers Scrimp on Ingredients in an Effort to Fatten Profits
      S c r e w the food corporations. Find a farmer's market, roadside farmer if at all possible, buy fresh produce, cook it while imbibing on wine, eat it. Live.
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    • ON: Mon Aug 18th 11:02 AM
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      California Gets $1.2B in Foreclosure Help [Housing Tracker]
      'Realtors' - after buying and selling3 homes, I ditched the shysters and handled everything myself with a good closing attorney.......NO problems whatsoever.

      People who depend on realtors are lazy or naive. The only case they are useful is if you are transferred out of town and need them to sell your house.......thats it.

      Who deserves a 6% commission split for opening a door and saying, 'don't you just love the kitchen', on a $300k house. Amazing.
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    • ON: Mon Aug 18th 08:29 AM
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      Second Mortgages: Why Absolve Consumers for Stupidity?
      There is plenty blame to go around. Easy money by the loan sharks did not help the situation of people wanting to have the 'American dream' of the best home they could get........since home ownership is fed to us by our Gov't and tax laws.

      Now, all are suffering. The real blame is Greed, as usual. This is the American system...stick it to them and get yours, regardless.

      We have lost our moral compass. I fall somewhere between capitalism and socialism. Allow freedom, but heavily regulate and punish those who attempt to take advantage.
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    • ON: Wed Jul 30th 08:41 AM
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      Are We There Yet?
      murphy - "More time is needed to see if the July lows hold"........WOW, now that is totally brilliant :)...nothing like financial analysis.
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    • ON: Mon Jul 28th 08:05 AM
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      Are Stocks a Good Hedge Against Inflation?
      No matter what congress we get, the power to move this country in a direction still belongs to the President-and IMH-unpolitical-O, Bush/Cheney have done a terrible job.

      Almost every federal office we fund, including immigration, emergencies, housing, money, and the waste in Iraq....has been mishandled or abused. The FHA, Fed, even the SEC...all have sat on their so-called 'educated' hands and here we are now, in a real mess.

      Nothing substantial has been done about national healthcare...and so now companies are rolling the 55+ age worker, not only to cut salaries, but because they drive their health insurance costs up. Oh, they do extend paid coverage for 6 months...then its famous COBRA for up to 18mos.......then they get to go out there and seek quotes for themselves at 57 years old!!!

      It is badder than we know.

      The President is a key (like FDR, Lincoln, Washington) in getting us outa this mess.
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    • ON: Sun Jul 27th 09:04 AM
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      Oil Price Targets
      JohnEgan-agree with you wholeheartedly. Our once great country is being run by a circle of greedy little boys now grown up and wanting to play with their military toys. Power and greed hungry. I often put myself in the place of other smaller countries and imagine what they would think about studly USA.

      Instead of doing 'what is right and good for the country'...our leadership is like the USGA officials I just recently came in contact with at an amateur championship - they hold these national events at the posh, private, ultra-exclusive country clubs - instead of on courses for the common golfers. Therefore, no minorities or middle america kids show up for what are great golf matches, where you can actually walk the fairway with the players. And the USGA wants to 'Grow the Game'....

      Its the 'good ole boy' USGA still wanting to rub shoulders with the rich rather than do what is 'right and good for all'. Thats our country right now, unfortunately.
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    • ON: Thu Jul 17th 09:54 AM
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      Greenspanism Is Looking Pretty Good
      This article is an example of the Short-Term thinking of a self-centered who-cares-about-the-fu... investor. Yes, lets go swimming in the cool waters, without thought to the fact it is deep and we may drown.
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    • ON: Thu Jul 17th 09:45 AM
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      Is It Time to Buy or Sell?
      The Bunning video is more than extremely telling...He is simply 'truth-telling' while other senators, namely Shelby (seen smiling broadly like an idiot), and Dodd (stupid joke about Bunning should be more direct)...is very worrisome, and shows just how much they are 'out of it'. This country is in trouble.
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    • ON: Sat Jul 12th 09:10 AM
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      McCain's Economic Advisor Says "Recession Is Mental"
      Simply goes to show why Congress is a do-nothing. These people are so far removed from average life, they know not what is actually going on. The Senate gym, receptions at the White House, thats all they care about.
      We need leaders from somewhere, please God.
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    • ON: Fri Jul 11th 00:16 AM
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      Uninterrupted Declines
      We have a leadership crisis of enormous magnitude...over the last 20 years. Healthcare affordability/access is in the crapper, credit, housing, energy, jobs are now being flushed, IRS regs are beyond ridiculous, national spending/debt. Can't think of anything going really well right now, except SH and SDS.
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    • ON: Sat Jul 5th 08:59 AM
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      Short Week Was Plenty Painful
      Thanks for the charts also, but please, not so much verbage on what 'we already know'. Don't like spending time reading experts telling me just what happened like I have been on another planet. E.g., the sun did rise today as expected.
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    • ON: Tue Jul 1st 17:07 PM
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      The Politics of Hurricane Insurance
      you appear to be swilling for the dirtpoor insurers...i attended one of those 'town hall' meetings in FL where the insurers were explaining their dire circumstances. 'due to the hurricanes of 2004-5, they'd had to use up their reserves all the way back to 1992', they whined.
      i asked one of their swills in the back of the room, what had happened to the profits they'd made from the 70's to present? weren't they buried in investments, bonds, real estate.....all those assets where profits are hidden through the years, which is why you never hear of an insurer going bankrupt? he walked away.
      just like the health insurers, they hide the profits from good years in investments and 'reserves'....and use current year underwriting loss ratios to attempt to justify huge rate increases. i don't think you know insurance.
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