Posted on 11/08/2006 6:03:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave
I don't know why you have that feeling. Certainly some people I voted for won; I kept my Republican congressman, at least. :) This thread is about the markets, and I have been very happy about those, this year. I don't think it's going to be the cataclysm that you do, so I suggest you follow your own advice and cash out.
I'll be there to buy. :)
a victory for al Qaeda.
Go ahead and buy.
At age 68, with this election and the Islamofacists saying think you, I will be selling at the end of the day.
A victory for al Qaeda and other Islamofascists around the world and in America.
Well, that is definitely a difference; I am 51. I am still in for the long term, although the long term has shortened since I started (or, investing was started for me), in 1958. :)
When given lemons, make lemonade.
No, Linda, what I have written, I have written.
"Presidensity" is a word Al Capp used in Li'l Abner, if I remember correctly. It seems to express things very well.
Walt Kelly, in the comic strip Pogo, was brilliant in the same way. One of my favorites was his use of "Congers" for Congress. Slippery, slimy eels.
Adlai Stevenson, losing the presidency to Dwight Eisenhower, said "I'm too old to cry, and it hurts too much to laugh". That seems to encompass my feelings this morning as I sit here hoping Virginia and Montana break the right way.
Thanks for the clarification. Those strips are a little before my time.... although only a little! :)
World markets aren't taking too kindly to this either...
The real question is: How can the AP spin this as positive for the dems?
I agree. With the Dims running so many conservative Democrats to gain power, the votes on party line issues probably have not changed that much. Particularly in the Senate which was already disfunctional with so many RINOs.
Sadly what has changed is we will have to endure the blathering of the committee chairpeople.
The other big problem will be immigration reform which could get pushed through in the next two years. With the President's help no less.
I think we had a good turn out this year. What I think the Republican leadership did not expect was that a lot of Pubs would get fooled and vote the blue dog dims in.
I think Steele was let down by Republicans in Maryland big time. Very sad.
The last I checked re ETF's, the Japan etfs and Asian funds were getting battered.
We have communism coming back to our hemisphere.
Danny Ortega, the lover boy commy of the liberals, is coming back into power.
Chavex is about as dangerous as Castro ever was and maybe more so with his oil.
Mexico stock market is probably in peril.
Then add unfettered except by nuance Islamofascism, we are facing a grim future.
When you get to be 68, remember me. Calculate how long your mother, grandmother and aunts survived and see how much you will need to live on for your expected life span. My wife will 67, and her mother and grandmother lived to just under 90 without the good health and medical care my wife has. She needs to calculate surviving to at least 90.
There is no room/time to recover from a heavy downturn in political uncertainity at our age. We have friends at our age and older, who lost 40% or more during the Clintoon bubble breaking. They have downsized their homes and lifestyles to try and stay afloat.
I just got off Fidility, selling our Fido Ira's remaining mutual funds and buying CDs or leaving money in the money markets.
Each transaction was slower than cold molasses being poured on a cold morning. So a lot of people are either buying or selling.
There was one 90 day CD paying monthly at 5.1 %. I loaded up on that.
"Gold and silver prices appear stable this morning."
Dropped overnight but now on the rise
Good advice, but since I'm adopted, things like my family's lifespan are a closed book to me. My husband's family tends to be long-lived, so we are planning for the long term.
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