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Dems Pledge to Scrutinize Big Business
AP via Yahoo Finance ^ | 8 November 2006 | Brad Foss

Posted on 11/08/2006 7:28:00 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Isn't Nancy worth $55 million?


41 posted on 11/08/2006 7:51:50 PM PST by roses of sharon
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To: raybbr

I told my lib friend to go an ask his boss for a pay cut. If you won't go and ask for one, why would you vote yourself one?
Eyeball Pelosi said that they may want to return to the tax levels of Clinton.


42 posted on 11/08/2006 7:52:44 PM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
That is not to say Democrats, who will now be in charge of all 21 House committees, do not have plans to shake up business as usual after a dozen years in the minority.

I cashed out of equities in my IRA's today. Will be happy to sit on the side lines and collect rising interest rates when the Dems launch their spend-a-thon.

43 posted on 11/08/2006 7:53:52 PM PST by Starboard
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

OK Nancy, you won. Go ahead and propose all your socialist European utopian ideas if that makes you feel important. That can be stopped with gridlock. Whatever it takes to keep you and the democrats happy so you will stop damaging our foreign policy while making us all terrorist bait.


44 posted on 11/08/2006 7:55:07 PM PST by faq
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To: muawiyah
basically, this is the same kind of fear we had back when the Clintonistas arranged the election in the early 90's ....remember, the Rats had all both houses then too...

it was gun confiscating and it was universal health healthcare....it was a lot of things....

IIRC....the Pubs actually grew some testicles back then......in the long run, it made the Pubs stronger....

we'll see what the present day Pubs can do.....

45 posted on 11/08/2006 7:55:49 PM PST by cherry
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To: tomnbeverly
"God forbid we take some money from the studies of the Reproductive habits of the African Green Tree Frogs... No we have to cut military spending..."

Those types of studies are essentially welfare for unemployable academics.

46 posted on 11/08/2006 7:56:26 PM PST by Starboard
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To: conservative in nyc
Don't worry. Small Businesses will get theirs too under the "New" Democrats - it's called a "roll-back" of tax cuts for the so-called "rich". And since the federal government ain't Wal*Mart, roll-backs aren't a good thing.

Also minimum Wage.. Although W has said he was going to push for incentives for Small Businesses... but, not sure how much the incentives will offset the minimum wage hike.

47 posted on 11/08/2006 7:56:27 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
This is just the very first suggestions in their drive to punish big business, and hobble the economy.

"...the Democrats, are promoting an economic agenda that would put more money in the pockets of ordinary citizens and government, while leading to greater oversight of big business."

Only a Democrat would talk like this. You don't put money in people's pockets without taking it from whoever earned it by force, They then give it to those who are then politically beholden to them. This means extra and probably onerous taxes, based on some retributive and murky formula hatched in the socialist mind, and decline in profits and economic activity. As usual, the Democrats buy their votes with other people's money, as corrupt a practice as American life has.

48 posted on 11/08/2006 7:56:42 PM PST by Richard Axtell
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Does the writer know how ominous that first sentence sounds? It's like the first scene in a dark, spooky movie. lol.


49 posted on 11/08/2006 7:57:46 PM PST by Huck (TODAY ONLY--Half Price on all VANITY POSTS>>>GET EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The new masters of the House, the Democrats, are promoting an economic agenda that would put more money in the pockets of ordinary citizens and government, while leading to greater oversight of big business.

The next two sessions heading into the weekend on Wall Street should be very interesting to watch.

This news should evoke a rather different response than the "gridlock" inspired euphoria on the Street today.

Here come the Bears.

50 posted on 11/08/2006 7:58:51 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Mathemeticians are machines that turn coffee into theorems.)
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To: Huck
Does the writer know how ominous that first sentence sounds?

The writer has not a clue nor do the American people in general. The educational level has dropped so far, the majority of people in this country have NO idea about what is facing them.

51 posted on 11/08/2006 8:00:12 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The Dems had better divest themselves of stock in those "major corporations" or we'll find out and paste it across the planet. Hypocrisy won't work anymore.


52 posted on 11/08/2006 8:01:54 PM PST by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: bybybill

Are you kidding? Its time to buy WalMart stock. With all the new taxes that will happen there will be less expendable cash and when that happens business booms for companies like Wal-Mart.


53 posted on 11/08/2006 8:02:15 PM PST by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: raybbr

Her dad was in the mafia


54 posted on 11/08/2006 8:03:03 PM PST by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: claudiustg
Well you have a point there.

I just wonder if there will be a scandal on Pelosi (think HRC) to keep her from stealing the limelight for the next 2 years??

55 posted on 11/08/2006 8:03:14 PM PST by Repub4bush (Tony is STILL the Best Press Secretary Ever!!!!! PMWBB06')
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To: muawiyah
Can you give me more details on that? My brother lives in Indiana and does contract work for Likkl.
56 posted on 11/08/2006 8:04:23 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Tarnsman

Good, informative post. The Dims won't be able to ram anything through because they don't have the numbers, but the bozos who elected them don't know that and will eventually get frustrated with the Dims inability to move "progressive" legislation.


57 posted on 11/08/2006 8:04:41 PM PST by Starboard
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Make that Lilly!


58 posted on 11/08/2006 8:04:52 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Ummm....big business has already lowered drugs to $4 (cheaper than advil)


59 posted on 11/08/2006 8:05:00 PM PST by vidbizz
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To: aft_lizard
Its time to buy WalMart stock.

It's not time to buy ANY stock. Just wait for a while and see.

60 posted on 11/08/2006 8:08:16 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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