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Heard this plan today on the Dave Ramsey show. He has the audio at Dave ramsey MP3

And his main page for this plan is: Dave ramsey discussion

1 posted on 09/23/2008 6:05:14 PM PDT by Craigon
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To: Craigon

I know... I see the stupid typo’s in the title. Been a long day.


2 posted on 09/23/2008 6:07:38 PM PDT by Craigon
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To: Craigon

Thanks for bringing this up. I missed it.


3 posted on 09/23/2008 6:08:05 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Craigon

I think a year or two would be a good period of time to discuss all these great ideas.


4 posted on 09/23/2008 6:09:49 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: hiredhand

KaBoom Bump !


5 posted on 09/23/2008 6:10:43 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Craigon
Dave is a great guy, but he has a problem with his plan.

Much of that paper that the investment banks are holding that represent properties is being used to back their credit default swaps (CDS). The CDS bets are failing and the value is gone.

Changing the rules on Mark to Market will help a tiny bit (mainly with commercial banks), but it will really do nothing to tame the giant that is lurking at our door.

8 posted on 09/23/2008 6:28:18 PM PDT by politicket (Palin-tology: (n) - The science of kicking Barack Obambi's butt!)
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To: Craigon
My plan --

send the $700B bill to Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, the ACLU and every other liberal organization clamoring for businesses to throw caution and common sense to the wind just so under/unemployed individuals (who already demonstrated their irresponsibility) could buy houses they couldn't afford in their wildest dreams.

They need to bring back literacy (and add IQ) tests in order to vote. And, in light of the current situation, issue the tests before you borrow money. If you are too stupid to read, write, add, and subtract; you are too stupid to borrow money and should rent from a person smarter than yourself. -- Voting should be out of the question. Now that's survival of the fittest.

10 posted on 09/23/2008 7:18:48 PM PDT by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job)
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To: Craigon

GOOD READ


11 posted on 09/23/2008 9:28:54 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Craigon

Thanks; I emailed our Congressman and Senators.


12 posted on 09/24/2008 5:32:55 AM PDT by Lacey
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To: Craigon

I’ve done a lot of reading on this situation. I’m an engineer and kind of glaze over trying to understand how $250B in bad mortgages turned into a $700B+ problem..

How do speculators/investors/traders make the credit swaps become bigger than the original debt? Is it all the layering and repackaging into larger bundles?


13 posted on 09/24/2008 5:43:18 AM PDT by IamConservative (On 11/4, remember 9/11...)
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Thanks Ernest.

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14 posted on 09/26/2008 3:32:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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