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1 posted on 04/02/2009 7:59:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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Yah, we should listen to the Germans and the French - they also don’t believe Obama’s plan will work.


2 posted on 04/02/2009 8:09:03 AM PDT by Riodacat (Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.)
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"Not long ago, it seemed that the economic possibilities in this country were endless. The unemployment rate was low, the official inflation numbers seemed to be in check, and the housing market was booming. Who would have thought -- other than some of those pessimistic Austrian economists -- that the United States really had what Peter Schiff has called a "phony economy"?

what we had was phoney mortgages sold bundled up and sold on the bond markets as A+ investments. What the banks were doing, under FORCE by the DEMOCRAT initiative called "Community reinvestment" and enforced by ACORN, was giving loans out to people who couldn't afford them.

What we had at that point was a broke banking system. All that needed to be done at that point was allow those that took out this excessive debt, default, let those banks claiom bankrupcy, and allow the market to correct itself. Then all would be well.

Instead what we have is government destroying the entire economy, increasing spending and debt in a time where the opposite needed to be done, with stimulus towards private sector business growth to replace the jobs lost in the failed secor of the economy.

3 posted on 04/02/2009 8:11:11 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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As long as those who are actually to blame have the national media working on their behalf...


5 posted on 04/02/2009 8:19:34 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job
It’s a depression when you lose yours
And a recovery when Obama loses his


6 posted on 04/02/2009 8:20:55 AM PDT by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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It’s buckwheats for the economy folks...it’s buckwheats.


7 posted on 04/02/2009 8:44:59 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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Woman tells husband I got the shoes at 50% off and the dress was 50% off so you see I saved 100% and it didn’t cost me anything I put them on the cred card = obama logic


8 posted on 04/02/2009 9:11:14 AM PDT by Vaduz
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I agree with this guy on everything except this:

in the real world, one pays for imports through exports

That part just isn't true. You pay for imports with profits; those profits can just as easily come from the domestic economy as from foreign trade. Now, it's true that, under Obama's plan, we may not be able to afford many imports -- but we won't be able to afford much of anything, period.

9 posted on 04/02/2009 9:56:44 AM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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