[Bommer]

Great Depression my ass! If they started serious tax incentives for capitol gains cuts, put the damn government on a diet and declare we won and get the hell out of Iraq, (or have those Iraqi’s paying for the protection like Japan does) as well as make congress repeal every earmark they’ve implimented from Jan 2007, that would buffer the blow!

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From earlier today: Peter Orszag, head of the Congressional Budget Office, warned lawmakers of possible “chaos” if Congress did nothing, adding: “You would have a financial market meltdown that would cause very severe dislocations . . . maybe on the magnitude of the Great Depression.”