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Dobbs is a funny guy, some things he is spot on, others... well he wanders into nutsville...
1 posted on 01/23/2008 7:29:21 AM PST by wyowolf
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To: wyowolf

He’s definitely spot on on immigration. On other topics, he does tend to get a bit moonbatty.


2 posted on 01/23/2008 7:32:02 AM PST by Marathoner
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To: wyowolf

Agreed. Given many of Dobbs’ views, I’m surprised that he hasn’t come out and endorsed Ron Paul. The two seem to be in synch on the major issues.


3 posted on 01/23/2008 7:35:41 AM PST by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: wyowolf

Lol, Talk Radio is the MSM now.


4 posted on 01/23/2008 7:40:02 AM PST by BGHater ('A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry'-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: wyowolf

Typical drive-by media. Keep telling a lie often enough and people start to believe it. He is great on illegals, though.


5 posted on 01/23/2008 7:40:45 AM PST by mirkwood (Another Thompson write-in)
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To: wyowolf; LowCountryJoe
The truth is that consumers spend most of their money on foreign imports, and any stimulus package probably would be stimulating foreign economies rather than our own. Imports, for example, account for 92 percent of our non-athletic footwear, 92 percent of audio video equipment, 89 percent of our luggage and 73 percent of power tools. In fact, between 1997 and 2006, only five of the 114 industries examined in a U.S. Business and Industry Council report gained market share against import competition.

Couldn't have said it better myself. The Chinese economy doesn't need any more stimulation. They are on steroids now.

6 posted on 01/23/2008 7:47:47 AM PST by trane250
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To: wyowolf
I like Lou, I really do, but I honestly believe that he is but one commercial break from morphing into Howard Beale, and looking into the camera, saying:

"I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"



7 posted on 01/23/2008 7:49:24 AM PST by mkjessup (...........................................................>> GOP + FOX = The new "Axis of RINOs" <<)
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To: wyowolf
Bernanke endorsed the concept of a short-term economic stimulus package, but he cautioned that the money must be spent correctly: "You'd hope that [consumers] would spend it on things that are domestically produced so that the spending power doesn't go elsewhere."

Just what would you have us spend it on? The truth is that consumers spend most of their money on foreign imports, and any stimulus package probably would be stimulating foreign economies rather than our own. Imports, for example, account for 92 percent of our non-athletic footwear, 92 percent of audio video equipment, 89 percent of our luggage and 73 percent of power tools.

The stimulus is just feel-good politics, it can have little direct effect on the financial impact of falling asset values triggered by the distorted real estate market. They can only hope it has an irrational psychological effect on the markets.

Liberals and conservatives agree on free trade in principle, and then liberals cripple American business with suffocating regulations and liabilities regarding environmental, labor, tax, tort exposure, etc. The liberals' solution is NOT to do things to help make American businesses more competitive, but rather they fantasize about making foreign governments place the same shackles on foreign businesses. It's no wonder we have little to sell the world other than ownership of our businesses and our debt obligations.

8 posted on 01/23/2008 7:50:01 AM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: wyowolf; Travis McGee; M. Espinola
From the primary source article:

We all have to acknowledge that our problems were in part brought on by the failure of our government to regulate the institutions and markets that are now in crisis.

The irresponsible fiscal policies of the past decade have led to a national debt that amounts to $9 trillion. The irresponsible so-called free trade policies of Democratic and Republican administrations over the past three decades have produced a trade debt that now amounts to more than $6 trillion, and that debt is rising faster than our national debt. All of which is contributing to the plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar.

At precisely the point in our history in which this nation has become ever more dependent on foreign producers for everything from clothing to computers to technology to energy, our weakened dollar is making the price of an ever-increasing number of imported goods even more expensive.

All Americans will soon have to face a bitter and now obvious truth: Our national, political and economic leaders have squandered this nation's wealth, and the price of this profligacy is enormous, and the bill has just come due for all of us.

All well and good. I agree with Dobbs. But there is only one tiny detail: David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office says total U.S. Debt is over $ 50 Trllion . . . So who to believe ? Elected politicos or mainstream media commentators or ______________ ?

If you have a fast connection Watch This Short Video of Walker Speaking Out

12 posted on 01/23/2008 8:35:24 AM PST by ex-Texan (Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
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To: wyowolf
The irresponsible fiscal policies of the past decade have led to a national debt that amounts to $9 trillion. The irresponsible so-called free trade policies of Democratic and Republican administrations over the past three decades have produced a trade debt that now amounts to more than $6 trillion, and that debt is rising faster than our national debt. All of which is contributing to the plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar.

What do you attribute the falling dollar to?

14 posted on 01/23/2008 8:54:03 AM PST by Nephi ( $100m ante is a symptom of the old media... the Ron Paul Revolution is the new media's choice.)
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To: wyowolf; AndyJackson; ex-Texan
Yeah, everything is just GREAT! It's all the MSM's fault!

Dow, three year view.

Dow, 100 year view. Note the years 1929 until 1933, and how long it took to regain the 1929 high.

The Dow-God ratio is now 13 and falling.


19 posted on 01/23/2008 9:43:19 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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