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Re: Regime Uncertainty

Methinks — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:20:07 -0000

LOL, Martin. I almost choked on my snack!

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Sam Grove — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:18:43 -0000

Trumpit, the power of your intellectual prowess is just so overwhelming We thank you repeatedly for bestowing the illumination of your profound vision upon us unworthy types.

Where can I get some of that?

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Martin Brock — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:53:50 -0000

Oi! I only wish I had a scrawny ass. I told you - I'm part Jewish and my ass is the Jewish part.

Fat Tails make life worth living, really.

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Methinks — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:06:48 -0000

No the top 400 wealthiest people could die tomorrow and we'd likely be better off.

Two useful idiots. Goody.

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Randy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:55:22 -0000

Well, the above was particularly ugly... which is sort of fitting given the topic. Yes, I'd say that regime uncertainty is going to be a big player. Wealth grows best in a climate of trust, but Obama, like FDR before him, ramps up the politics of division. This could get really ugly.

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muirgeo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:31:35 -0000

"...once we're all done with the revolution and all wealth creation has been successfully squashed, how do you plan to fund social security?"

Wealth creation... oh yeah boy would we ever miss them and all their wealthy paper they make. Wow where would we be without them.

Kinda like saying good thing we have bank robbers so policemen can have jobs. Actually it's even stupider then that. No the top 400 wealthiest people could die tomorrow and we'd likely be better off.

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Hans Luftner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:24:55 -0000

People on Wall Street must be stupid. Why would they sell off when Obama gets into office?

Yeah. Didn't they read the bumper stickers?

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Hans Luftner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:20:49 -0000

once we're all done with the revolution and all wealth creation has been successfully squashed, how do you plan to fund social security?

Methinks, don't you listen? The government will take care of the elderly!

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Methinks — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:21:09 -0000

Are you an SS Nazi type?

How'd you guess? And I'm half Jewish to boot, so you can imagine how well that went over when I joined the party.

I bet most of them can kick your scrawy ass,

Oi! I only wish I had a scrawny ass. I told you - I'm part Jewsish and my ass is the Jewish part.

The 2nd amendment means that they can go ballistic with powerful guns galore.

'kay...but they're old. So, won't they forget where they stashed the guns or the ammo or both?

Many old people know how to shoot a gun straight.

Well, I'm sure they know how to shoot straight, with age comes the question of execution.

So, uh...once we're all done with the revolution and all wealth creation has been successfully squashed, how do you plan to fund social security? 'Coz after the 1917 revolution, those oldies who didn't have family members willing to take them in died in the streets like mangy dogs.

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Trumpit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:05:38 -0000

Your ageist remarks aren't worthy of a response from me, but they appalled me so... Because old people are weaker and infirmed in some cases, you feel it is okay to take away there SS check? You simply want to kill most of them off, do you. Are you an SS Nazi type? You sterotype old people in a truely artificial and hateful way; I bet most of them can kick your scrawy ass, cane or no cane. If millions of people, old or otherwise, think they are going to die from starvation or by being out on the street, you are just asking for another 1917-type revolution. The 2nd amendment means that they can go ballistic with powerful guns galore. Many old people know how to shoot a gun straight. Watch out for flying bullets! You might be a necessary target to take down.

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Methinks — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:41:10 -0000

Muirdiot,

In your clearly arduous and exhaustive study of history, did you somehow miss the chapters called "The Stock Market is not the Economy" and "The Stock Market Bubble in the Late 90's". Likely, you stumbled across these bits of information somewhere, the words bounced around a little in your empty head and then disappeared into the great abyss along with everything else of any value.

I'd love to stick around for the great smackdown of your history and my politics, but I find your love of WWF a little low brow for moi.

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Methinks — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:32:39 -0000

When the Social Security checks stop arriving in the mail or by direct deposit is when we, as a nation, will be ripe for another Civil War.

Yes, I can just see the army of seniors, fresh from hip replacements, inching toward me with one hand on the Z-frame and the other brandishing a cane. The ones in early stages of dementia guiding the ones who can barely remember to walk or pee in a toilet... I dunno, Trumpit, I'm a small but surprisingly strong woman. I think I can take 'em. Even without nukes.

One question, though, Trumpit...since bankrupting the fortune 400 and imposing a wealth tax effectively stops all wealth creation, how do you plan to fund Social Security on a going forward basis? Wouldn't the lack of funding lead the oldies to raise a Z-frame army to come whup our butts?

Oh what a great idea for a suspense novel: a nuclear civil war. If only I knew how to write.

If you knew how to write, you might be familiar with the term "Pyrrhic Victory".

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Oil Shock — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:26:24 -0000

Now when it goes up from like 3,000 to 10,000 like it did under Clinton that's a good thing right.

Nope. It was just an illusion. Greenspam said, "irrational exuberance" and then went back to pumping more air into the bubble.

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muirgeo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:21:17 -0000

Methinks,

When the stock market is lower then it was nearly 8 years ago when Bush took office I'd call that stagnation. If you're talking about economic growth we need to subtract out the growing debt as this fake toxic paper valued appropriately. Now when it goes up from like 3,000 to 10,000 like it did under Clinton that's a good thing right.

If you want to bet against Obama and history go right ahead... I'll be betting against you and with history. Because my history beats up your politics.

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Guest — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:12:17 -0000

Swing by Wikipedia and look up "strawman", "ad-hominem", and "irony". I'm done feeding you.

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Trumpit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:10:04 -0000

After your 401-k crashes to worthlessness, you may rethink your support of the Forbes 400, Methinks. When the Social Security checks stop arriving in the mail or by direct deposit is when we, as a nation, will be ripe for another Civil War. Yes, it will be a class/culture war. I hope it doesn't go nuclear. Oh what a great idea for a suspense novel: a nuclear civil war. If only I knew how to write.

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Trumpit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:59:03 -0000

I'm well aware of the obnoxious practice of calling someone you don't understand or that you disagree with a troll. In a fit of anger, I've called someone a troll. Grow up boys and girls! It saves you the mental effort of having to seriously question your own dubious values and views. Keep it up, and you will be banished to censorshipland, under the bridge, with your fellow trolls.

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Guest — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:49:53 -0000

And clearly because I called you to task I must be voting for McCain. Keep it up, Trumpit, you'll go far.

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Methinks — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:48:38 -0000

who must not understand hardworking Main St. very well

Hard working Main Street will have nowhere to work if you bankrupt the Fortune 400 and tax away wealth as wealth is invested in job creating activities. Go read some history about the Glorious Communist Revolution of 1917 and what followed. You propose nothing new or interesting. Everything you're whining and longing for has been tried before and failed. What keeps you from knowing this? Willful ignorance or profound stupidity? Which is it?

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Crusader — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:48:14 -0000

I'm just sick to death of the trolls. Either ban them or I'm gone forever.

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Trumpit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:43:27 -0000

I like Troll House cookies with MnM's. You can send me your recipe to my Email. I'll chew you up with every bite. You can vote for McBush and his trollopy-looking wife, Cinderella McBush, if you like. I'll cancel your vote, I'm please to say in a totally trolling way.

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Guest — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:35:59 -0000

That's right Trumpit. Because they disagree with you they are clearly either brainless or corrupt. Keep thinking that. Please troll someplace else.

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Trumpit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:26:34 -0000

I think the right-wingers' grand plan is to bankrupt the U.S. government. That would kill Social Security, Medicare, etc., which they've hated from their inception. But then how would the Pentagon get funding? It remindes me of that old bumper stick that said something to the effect: Will the day ever come when the Pentagon has to hold a bake sale, and our schools will get adequate funding? Right, the Pentagon will hold bake sales to get the 4 or 5 hundred billion that they are currently receiving each year. Are the Rethuglicans for real? Why are they not discredited all the time and everywhere? Can I also blame mainstream economists, who must not understand hardworking Main St. very well, for pushing or failing to condemn Bush's tax cuts at a time of 2+ wars. Where was the outcry? Where was the outrage? Disturbing, but true recollection on my part. I was there; I witnessed the disaster in the making.

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Sam Grove — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:14:20 -0000

My preference is to bankrupt the Forbes 400+ rather than bankrupt the remaining 300,000,000 U.S. citizens or the U.S. government.

It's not a question of preference anymore. We have all been bound together by the intertwining of government and finance.

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Trumpit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:06:32 -0000

My preference is to bankrupt the Forbes 400+ rather than bankrupt the remaining 300,000,000 U.S. citizens or the U.S. government. Why do you prefer the latter? Inviolable property rights? Hahaha.