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Old 01-09-2009, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Lakes & Mountains of East TN
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We have to bite the bullet and take our punishment so our grandkids don't have to. No stimulus, no bailout.
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Old 01-09-2009, 10:46 AM
 
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7.2 wow that's the highest unemployment rate since Bush's daddy was president. I guess the acorn didn't fall to far from the tree.
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Old 01-09-2009, 01:33 PM
 
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7.2 wow that's the highest unemployment rate since Bush's daddy was president. I guess the acorn didn't fall to far from the tree.
Was unemployment that high during Bush Senior's reign?
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:15 PM
 
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Yes...peaked at 7.8% in June 1992...
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:24 PM
 
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We have to bite the bullet and take our punishment so our grandkids don't have to. No stimulus, no bailout.
Punishment? What is this, some sort of divine retribution? We are unworthy sinners who must do heavy penance in order to redeem ourselves in the eyes of the great god of prosperity? Pardon me for saying so, but this is an absurd vision of the world...
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:25 PM
 
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9% by next year, maybe higher the year after that.
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:29 PM
 
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They can just print more money. With more people arriving (35 million projected from 2000-2010) there was and will be people to spend it and send it home. Make jobs I think the debt thing is over rated...... The more debt we have the more dire we feel. Our generations sputnik....
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:33 PM
 
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There are many Americans and ecnonomists that prescribe a cleansing of this process, and NO MORE DEBT, no more FED bullcr*p.
Actually, there are few Americans and almost no economists who share your sense of ecstacy in anticipating some sort of approaching financial Rapture.

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That's why Obama will inflate his way out of this mess, the same way GWB did after 9/11.
Well, let's see. The NYSE alone has shed better than $6 trillion worth of wealth, and the so-called stimulus package will put back at most $2 trillion. How is this inflationary again? Is your answer affected at all by the fact that virtually every other significant economy in the world has been/is/will be doing the very same sort of thing?
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Charleston, WV
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Yes...peaked at 7.8% in June 1992...
Did not realize that -- so did we have a billions in economic stimulus package to ease it? Don't think so. But what did cause the upswing.

Not that I am complaining toooo much about Obama's plan - I like parts such as NOT raising my taxes like he said he was during the campaign.
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:38 PM
 
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Actually, there are few Americans and almost no economists who share your sense of ecstacy in anticipating some sort of approaching financial Rapture.


Well, let's see. The NYSE alone has shed better than $6 trillion worth of wealth, and the so-called stimulus package will put back at most $2 trillion. How is this inflationary again? Is your answer affected at all by the fact that virtually every other significant economy in the world has been/is/will be doing the very same sort of thing?
Their beliefs already killed them out... Short lived CD life.
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