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1 posted on 02/10/2009 12:16:07 PM PST by Graybeard58
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2 posted on 02/10/2009 12:16:48 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

“Why the rush to ruin economy?”

So from the ashes they can rebuild a socialist utopia.


3 posted on 02/10/2009 12:18:03 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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The ‘why’ is relatively easy to understand, once you know how long the average ‘recession’ has lasted, based on the historical record.

18 months, folks. The average length is 18 months.

The mid terms are 21 months away. Thats the easy part, ‘why’ they wanted this done NOW, quickly.

The part not being factored here, and what is scaring the hell out of our new President, is this is NOT YOUR AVERAGE RECESSION.


4 posted on 02/10/2009 12:19:46 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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It’s the politician’s corollary to “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

“If you can’t fix it, break it really badly, really quickly, so you can blame the previous administration.”


8 posted on 02/10/2009 12:22:30 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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“they forget that haste makes waste”

It’s kind of a weird world where these writers can’t see the obvious, they don’t “forget” haste makes waste, they know haste gets waste, programs and pork they want.

It is a sales tactic. Obama wants a pile of money to dole out over 8 years to his pals. How to get it quick with a minimum of input? Claim emergency and call it something else: stimulus.

Maybe the Republican politicians are shy to point this out since Bush II was the administration to invent this sales strategy. And if things start to look iffy on passage, Obama turns up the scare meter. He learned that from Bush too. Talking down the economy.

Claiming they “forget” is like claiming the brokers “forgot” the risks of derivatives. No they didn’t it, they didn’t care and got their money.


10 posted on 02/10/2009 12:24:58 PM PST by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: Graybeard58

They are crying “Wolf!” over and over again.

Soon we shall be deaf to their insistencies, because there is not now, and never has been, the size of “emergency” they have claimed. They have mistaken “illiquidity” for “insolvency”. For a very short temporary time, there was a series of runs on the bank, which would have stopped quickly enough by declaring a “bank holiday”, or at least limiting the amounts that could be taken out of any one account over a period of time.

The pucker factor was at work.


14 posted on 02/10/2009 12:26:05 PM PST by alloysteel (The term "Islam" does not mean "peace", it means "gaining serenity through surrender".)
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To: Graybeard58
Why the rush to ruin economy?

NEW WORLD ORDER

17 posted on 02/10/2009 12:29:25 PM PST by bmwcyle (I have no President as of Jan 20th 2009. No Congress either.)
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i heard that by the time they voted on it it had become $838 billion


19 posted on 02/10/2009 12:31:59 PM PST by GeronL (please stand by...)
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22 posted on 02/10/2009 12:39:16 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 ((D) = Taking the Culture of Corruption to lower standards.)
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To: Graybeard58
The rush is because the Democrats know that they have the opportunity to push this nation straight into socialism and closer to communism without anyone being able to do a thing about it.

The Democrats have no intention of trying to save this economy. Its all about ruining capitalism and handing control of everything to the government controlled by them.

29 posted on 02/10/2009 1:19:43 PM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: Graybeard58

“Why the rush to ruin economy?”

To stampede the panicked dolts into the chains of Communist slavery.


30 posted on 02/10/2009 1:30:29 PM PST by TexasRepublic (I am inconsolate over the death of our country.)
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The rush is to consolidate power, not help the economy.

What we are witnessing is the constitutional republic version of a coup d’etat, for with passage of the rat bill, they will never relinquish power.


31 posted on 02/10/2009 1:51:59 PM PST by Jacquerie (More central planning is not the solution to the failure of central planning.)
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To: Graybeard58
"Why the rush to ruin an economy?"

Because given their head, that is what politicians do.

Intelligent non-politicians know that deciding to do nothing is also a decision, and often the best one.

32 posted on 02/10/2009 6:39:53 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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