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Republicans introduce bill to prevent Euro bailout
Washington Post ^ | 05/14/2010 | David Weigel

Posted on 05/14/2010 10:10:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

if pubbies keep this up they will win 80 seats in november!!


21 posted on 05/14/2010 10:52:51 AM PDT by genghis
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To: SeekAndFind
"This legislation would require that countries like Greece cut spending and put their own fiscal house in order, instead of looking to the United States for a bailout. "

Don't any of these morons understand that it is insane to be lending (giving away) money when you had to borrow it in the first place?

I'd really like to see someone propose legislation that would:
Require that the USA cut spending, cut unnecessary programs, cut government salaries and entitlements, cease all foreign lending other than that which is spent on US goods and services, cease all foreign aid not related to defense of an ally, cease all dues paid to supanational debating societies and one-world wannabes, and, in a timely manner, pay off legitimate loans (bailouts) it has already accepted.

Then I'll worry about somebody else's mismanagement issues.

22 posted on 05/14/2010 10:59:50 AM PDT by norton
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To: SeekAndFind

How’s this playing out on CrapNewsNetwork and the rest of the Lamestream Media?

Are they portraying Republicans as “heartless conservatives” again? And losing more common-sense viewers in the process??

(Bwaaaahahahahaha!!!)


23 posted on 05/14/2010 11:12:18 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: SeekAndFind
all EU countries are in compliance with their debt to GDP ratio requirement

What's our ratio right now?
24 posted on 05/14/2010 11:16:58 AM PDT by BJClinton ("Worse" technically is "change".)
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To: J Aguilar

“We are facing a chain default of big economies. No one would be unaffected.”

True, but necessary. If we go through with a series of bailouts, it’s just like giving the junkie money for “one more fix.” The Greek, Spanish and Italian economic policies will change just as much as the junkie will voluntarily go to rehab.

We’ve postponed the day of reckoning long enough. Let’s just take our medicine and get this over with.


25 posted on 05/14/2010 11:22:18 AM PDT by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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To: BJClinton
What's our ratio right now?

You can view the debt as percentage of GDP on this site

There are other sites, but this looks quite up-to-date.

TO make a long story short, we're not yet as bad as most European countries and even Japan, but we're perilously close to getting there.

26 posted on 05/14/2010 11:22:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
If Greece continues as the are the money will just evaporate into the socialist consumption mill anyway. Everyone is putting off the inevitable.

I wouldn't mind a few more years to get ready for an economic collapse...but it's only going to be worse the longer we wait. Some are not prepared and will never even try to be prepared.

27 posted on 05/14/2010 11:25:01 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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So can anyone tell me—IF we bail out these countries, will it make any difference at all, other than prolonging the inevitable?

I’ve seen lots of debate on this, but by stupid people who don’t know what they’re talking about. I figured people here might be a little better informed. Are any FReepers actually IN FAVOR of the bailout?


28 posted on 05/14/2010 11:25:49 AM PDT by RaiderRose (Obama has cured my husband's political apathy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

About freaking time!


29 posted on 05/14/2010 11:27:31 AM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: J Aguilar

10,581.09
-201.86 (-1.87%)
Real-time: 2:37PM EDT

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=INDEXDJX:DJI


30 posted on 05/14/2010 11:38:38 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah thanks. 52.9% in 2009. Probably close to 54% by now.


31 posted on 05/14/2010 11:59:35 AM PDT by BJClinton ("Worse" technically is "change".)
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To: NeoCaveman
It’s already time for Euro bailout two. A trillion doesn't go as far as it used to.

I'm series.

How does a nataion that is
bankrupt and defunct
get bailed out by a fund that is essentially
bankrupt and defunct?

32 posted on 05/14/2010 12:18:04 PM PDT by evad (Jack has become "The Terminator")
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To: evad

must be some kind of weird derivative scheme.


33 posted on 05/14/2010 12:19:20 PM PDT by evad (Jack has become "The Terminator")
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To: evad
Q How did Wile E Cyote able to run in the air for a while before falling?

A He didn't look down.


34 posted on 05/14/2010 12:21:44 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (we now live in a post-Obamapacolyptic world)
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To: pallis; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; dennisw; TigerLikesRooster; FromLori
It’s already time for Euro bailout two.

Why won't California demand a bailout after we pay whatever the Euro blackmailers demand? Will the political will to stop bailouts emerge only when the USA credit rating is downgraded?

35 posted on 05/14/2010 1:27:46 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I know that’s tongue in cheek, but California mostly got itself into the mess. I only say mostly because there massive federal unfunded mandates these days. That part you can’t blame California for, but other states are having to deal with it too.

California has been exposed to the will of the leftist Legislature. That has to change.


36 posted on 05/14/2010 1:30:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Excusaholic: MeCain lost to Jr., RINO endorsements are flying, & you live at 2012 Denial Blvd.)
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To: DoughtyOne

The larger point is that there is a very long line of entities, (governments, corporations and other monstrosities like Fannie.Freddie), each of which will say to Uncle Sugar, if you don’t pay me $xxxxxxxxxxxx you will be sorry, and the world will come to an end.

We’ll see what happens if Cal. elects a Dem governor. I must say though, that some Dem governors would be better than Charlie Crist.


37 posted on 05/14/2010 1:49:21 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

We’ve got the diseased vairiety that only grows big and tall under the California sunshine after plenty of fertilization from the Legislature in the state. Crist is a jerk. Imagine a Bustamante, Villagarosa, or another term of Jerry Brown.

We need to be responsible for our own debt. I’m sure you agree with that, but it really annoys me to hear talk of a bail-out. Heads should role first. We need a lot of high branches and short ropes.


38 posted on 05/14/2010 1:54:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Excusaholic: MeCain lost to Jr., RINO endorsements are flying, & you live at 2012 Denial Blvd.)
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To: SeekAndFind

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!

39 posted on 05/14/2010 4:12:34 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: evad
"How does a nataion that is bankrupt and defunct get bailed out by a fund that is essentially bankrupt and defunct? "

This can be easily explained.

The EU is shifting the risk, and by extension the debt, westward.

First London, then NY, and of course Washington DC.

This default will continue to morph, spread and move until the PAYER OF LAST RESORT, the US taxpayer, refuses the loan.

At that point things get really, really ugly.

40 posted on 05/14/2010 4:15:43 PM PDT by Mariner
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