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Old 08-13-2008, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Throwing this link out there for the masses on this board.
I do plan to go see it ($12/ticket) on 8/21.


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Old 08-14-2008, 11:02 AM
 
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Bet they will let you pay your $12.00 by credit card.
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Old 08-23-2008, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Did you hear Warren Buffetts remarks at the premier? He agreed there were problems but not nearly as doom and gloom as the filmmakers portrayed.
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Old 08-23-2008, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Yeah..Buffet was all rosie about the future..grow your brains and the pie will grow.
Never a mention about the debt we owe.

I did notice yesterday that when pressed to "invest" in Lehman he bowed out.
LOL..if the future is so rosie why did he pass on such a great deal ?

Overall though I thought it was a good movie that shows what this country has done to itself in terms of debt. I took my son (17 yr old) and it probably did more good than any high school economics class.
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Old 08-23-2008, 06:16 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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It's hard to argue with Buffett because he's been so right for so long. However, I think he's deluding himself if he thinks we'll grow ourselves out of this.
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Old 08-23-2008, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Backwoods of Maine
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Buffet let them wrangle his 130 million oz of silver away from him (rumor: it was used to start up Barclay's ETF, "SLV"), so he can play the game, too. They all say what will fly well politically, but what they do is a whole 'nother thing.
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Old 08-23-2008, 07:04 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Buffet let them wrangle his 130 million oz of silver away from him (rumor: it was used to start up Barclay's ETF, "SLV"), so he can play the game, too. They all say what will fly well politically, but what they do is a whole 'nother thing.
Amen. Does anyone actually believe T Boone is putting in a bunch of windmills? It's just a cover so he could secure land/water right of ways for all of the property he purchased in north Texas. The USA is the Saudi Arabia of coal. A major coal burner is on it's way. It's amazing the hoops you have to jump through just to secure property rights these days. Aren't property rights pivital in a free market society?
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Old 08-23-2008, 07:37 PM
 
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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It's hard to argue with Buffett because he's been so right for so long. However, I think he's deluding himself if he thinks we'll grow ourselves out of this.
We will. Always have before and will again. Actually Reagan's deficits were far higher as a percentage of GNP than Bush's are. And by the late 90s they had all dissappeared and the budget was on balance and even had a nice surplus! The same will happen again once the economy revs up this winter.
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Old 08-23-2008, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Yeah..Buffet was all rosie about the future..grow your brains and the pie will grow.
Never a mention about the debt we owe.

I did notice yesterday that when pressed to "invest" in Lehman he bowed out.
LOL..if the future is so rosie why did he pass on such a great deal ?

Overall though I thought it was a good movie that shows what this country has done to itself in terms of debt. I took my son (17 yr old) and it probably did more good than any high school economics class.
The debt we owe is easily manageable. As a percentage of GNP it is really quite small. If we can grow the economy even at 4% a year- which should be easy- and hold spending increases, the deficit will be history quickly and then the debt will begin to go down as well.
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Old 01-18-2009, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Sitting on a bar stool. Guinness in hand.
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Default full movie

MyStream.to - Share Your Files

It's not the best quality but it the full version of the movie.

1. to watch you have to have a DivX player (that is downloadable everywhere on the web.)

2. have to press play button on the corner of Div X player. It doesn't start automatically.
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