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We're Doomed, DOOMED!
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ^ | 2/27/04 | Self

Posted on 02/27/2004 10:13:06 PM PST by cartoonistx



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cartoons; greenspan; socialsecurity
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To: William McKinley
Licking their chops?

Frothing at the bit?


21 posted on 02/28/2004 6:00:28 AM PST by Neets (“I now know Him in a more personal way that I have. It is as it was " Jim Caviezel)
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To: Neets
And now, sucking on acorns.

Who knew?

22 posted on 02/28/2004 6:03:47 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: Neets
ROFLMAO!!!


23 posted on 02/28/2004 6:12:06 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: William McKinley
Is that the Blind Pig who Found an Acorn???


HAHAHAHAHAHA
24 posted on 02/28/2004 6:13:04 AM PST by Neets (“I now know Him in a more personal way that I have. It is as it was " Jim Caviezel)
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To: William McKinley; MurryMom
Looks like we found her Leader.
25 posted on 02/28/2004 6:14:03 AM PST by Neets (“I now know Him in a more personal way that I have. It is as it was " Jim Caviezel)
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To: Neets
The blind, leading the blind.

If you look closely, you can see John Effin Kerry off to the left of the optically challenged porcine Senator.

26 posted on 02/28/2004 6:15:13 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: William McKinley
If you look closely,

Yuck. Thanks, but no thanks, I just ate breakfast...the porcine is enough.

27 posted on 02/28/2004 6:16:28 AM PST by Neets (“I now know Him in a more personal way that I have. It is as it was " Jim Caviezel)
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To: Neets
I cannot tell an (implicit) lie.

I did not find that picture.

Some very talented lady who happens to be you did.

My contribution was adding the "height=" and "width=" attributes to the IMG tag. (See source on how to do it)

And the geeks shall inherit the earth...

28 posted on 02/28/2004 6:20:13 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: William McKinley; Bitwhacker
I love you geeks.
I really, really do.
29 posted on 02/28/2004 6:21:55 AM PST by Neets (“I now know Him in a more personal way that I have. It is as it was " Jim Caviezel)
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To: cartoonistx
OMG! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!

Wait a minute, oh, I guess none of us were ever going to live forever. Never mind.....

30 posted on 02/28/2004 6:22:49 AM PST by LibKill (Ketchup-Boy is more French than the French!)
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To: William McKinley
Shouldn't that sign read Meathead!
31 posted on 02/28/2004 9:58:09 AM PST by .cnI redruM (At the end of the day, information has finite value and may only come at a significant price.)
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The cartoon is foolish. In addition, Alan Greenspan has been a great Fed chief, probably the best ever. He basically blackmailed Congress into reducing its deficit by refusing to lower rates.

He's kept rates unnaturally low to counteract the effect of inflated oil prices, but that has led to a slowing in the growth of available capital, and contributed to the economic slowdown. The slowdown itself was engineered by OPEC, however.

It's not all bad though. Slowing the growth of capital has all but eliminated those huge, produce-nothing buyouts. It's also juiced the skids for companies who simulated growth through buyouts and consolidation -- companies with familiar names like Enron.

Social Security has always been nothing but a ponzi scheme in which the current "investors" contribute (in this case, at the point of a gun) the money needed to pay off those who formerly contributed at the point of a gun. It was created at a time when there was no retirement benefit for most people, even unionized labor.

There's often talk about delaying the age at which people can collect Social Security. THAT'S ALREADY ON THE BOOKS. Anyone born after 1937 has already been affected, unless they're retiring early due to disability.
32 posted on 02/28/2004 12:10:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (*** The left isn't cognitively closed, because it isn't cognitive in the first place! ***)
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To: cartoonistx
Greenspan's war against the "wealth effect," including his (and Clinton appointee Larry Meyer's) 50 basis point interest rate hike in May 2000, two months after the NASDAQ crashed, led to the vaporization of $4 trillion in market capitalization and the loss of millions of jobs now blamed on Bush. In other words, Greenspan had a major role in bursting the Clinton bubble and helping to create the Social Security gloom & doom about which he now disingenuously sputters.
33 posted on 02/28/2004 7:20:35 PM PST by OESY
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