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Stock markets have terrible day; Dow drops 500 points (I'm sure it's still "Bush's Fault")
msnbc ^ | 8/4/2011 | msnbc

Posted on 08/04/2011 1:35:40 PM PDT by tobyhill

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To: BipolarBob

“I got my azz handed to me today.”

Me too. My crystal ball was in the shop last month.


21 posted on 08/04/2011 1:53:29 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: GreatMan

I maybe melting by this weekend.


22 posted on 08/04/2011 1:53:36 PM PDT by tobyhill (Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
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To: tobyhill

Yes it’s Bush’s fault. Also Clinton’s and Obama’s for trade deals that exported our economy’s seed corn. Obama, talking yesterday, was still pushing for trade deals. We have to make more of what we import.

The nation’s current problem is JOBS not politics, health care, taxes or budget balance which seems to be the focus of Washington’s both parties. First things first.

There are some 25 million un/under employed put them back earning money, paying taxes and buying things and the economy will be back to the way it used to be.


23 posted on 08/04/2011 1:56:03 PM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: tobyhill

Happy Birthday, Dictator Obama.


24 posted on 08/04/2011 1:58:38 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: tobyhill
It's not all Bush's fault. It's Sarah Palin’s too. About three months ago a Time writer claimed that Palin was responsible for inflation because she predicted it.
25 posted on 08/04/2011 1:59:06 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: Cygnus Rising

If your not close to retirement, buy more shares now!


26 posted on 08/04/2011 2:07:21 PM PDT by vpintheak (Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
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To: BipolarBob

Stand in line for the bandages....think I am ahead of you.


27 posted on 08/04/2011 2:14:10 PM PDT by engrpat (A village in Kenya is missing their idiot...lets send him back)
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To: tobyhill
"Stock markets have terrible day; Dow drops 500 points (I'm sure it's still "Bush's Fault")"

Nope, believe it or not the new meme is the Tea Party Did It.

I am seeing this repeated over and over all over the net.

Here is one example:

Stocks

Handy Randy (47 minutes ago)
Hmmm.. look at the huge drop in the market, could that be due to the wonderful debt deal the teabaggers pushed on us and their taking us to the brink of disaster? Gotta love these nutjobs on the right. Had enough yet folks?

That is from my local city forum. I've seen almost the same message verbatim at half a dozen other sights. The Obama Team is working overtime to point the finger of blame away from themselves.
28 posted on 08/04/2011 2:15:44 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: tobyhill

So Obama; How is that ‘hope and change’ working for ya?

And Bonner; How is that ‘compromise with the communists’ working for you?


29 posted on 08/04/2011 2:20:01 PM PDT by Wildbill22
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To: ex-snook

If the 25 million un or underemployed people were employed in factory jobs averaging $35,000 pet year, and were taxed at 15%, the treasury would be bringing in another $131 billion in tax revenue per year.

We do have a tax revenue issue but it is not the tax rate issue the Democrats want to talk about. The revenue problem is about underemployment in e economy not about those who are paying taxes being asked to contribute more.

Bring the factories back to the USA. End the free trade experiment, reinstitute tariffs, drill for oil, kill regulation, and end the corporate tax on profits realized from US manufacturing. Step back and watch investment in job creating manufacturing boom.


30 posted on 08/04/2011 2:22:17 PM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: tobyhill

The only consolation is that this comes the day after Debbie Wasserman Shultz says they’ve turned the economy around.


31 posted on 08/04/2011 2:23:34 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
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To: BipolarBob

I didn’t make as much as I should have. Damn I should have bought puts right out of the open.


32 posted on 08/04/2011 2:25:57 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Obama/Biden '12: No hope and chump change.)
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To: Soul of the South

Bring the factories back to the USA. End the free trade experiment, reinstitute tariffs, drill for oil, kill regulation, and end the corporate tax on profits realized from US manufacturing.


Right on the money. And while we are at it, start nation building here instead of the rest of the world.


33 posted on 08/04/2011 2:35:55 PM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: tobyhill

I was just past making up my losses from the 2008 crash, and now we’re back to negative for the year...

I have been hesitant to put more cash into the market, but then it’s nice to know that with QE2 and the forthcoming QE3, my money market funds will be worthless in due time.

Is Robert Mugabbe Obama’s financial adviser?

Mark


34 posted on 08/04/2011 2:36:29 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Soul of the South

Even another in revenue per year is a tiny part of what it would take to balance the budget. The problem is that the government is spreading money around like water.


35 posted on 08/04/2011 2:43:24 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: BipolarBob
Me too but I bet the Hafricans friend Soros made a mint shorting America. Heck, even my so called safe stuff went down like a French gigilo!
36 posted on 08/04/2011 2:57:56 PM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: tobyhill

Make my own bread and jam. Only need peanuts.


37 posted on 08/04/2011 3:02:35 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This IS my blog site.)
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38 posted on 08/04/2011 3:19:40 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: tobyhill

Chickens


39 posted on 08/04/2011 3:44:10 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: tobyhill

Eat your peas! Everybody should have gold in their 401K.

Pray for America


40 posted on 08/04/2011 3:49:37 PM PDT by bray (Hey Country Club, your turn to hold your nose!)
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