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Pelosi's petty partisan speech before the vote didn't help either..

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (L) walks past House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) at a news conference in Washington, September 29, 2008. The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday rejected a Wall Street bailout bill that would have authorized the Treasury Department to spend up to $700 billion to purchase soured mortgage-backed assets from banks with the goal of jump-starting stalled capital markets. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) (R) speaks about the failure of a bill to provide a bailout for the current financial and banking crisis on Capitol Hill as U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)(C) and House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) listen during a news conference in Washington, September 29, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)

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The media is saying the market ‘plunged’ 700 points; there is ‘panic’. Does it have to always go up? And if so, when will it stop going up? Was is always this high? 700 points is less than 10 percent. Why are people acting as if it plunged 80%? Yes, there is reason for concern; but why act as if it died?