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i dont care i got three years of law school to keep me in a safe cocoon while you engineers and programmers all starve.
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ahaha fuck i am applying for a student loan and i just realized the bank i am applying for a loan from no longer actually exists.

is this what it feels like to live in the soviet union.

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whelp, looks like I need to pack my shit and move over to europe.

I'm sure they got merchant marines over there


EDIT: yeah I get what you're saying about them loans I literally JUST got done trying to explain to my brother that it would be a bad idea for my dad to get a business loan right now even though I don't think he would do it regardless.
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Down to 9632.45.  I am really freaking out and depending on what it looks like at the end of the week I might seriously pull out.
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Someone just told me that the Clinton administration in the 90's passed legislation that forced the banks to give out loans to poor people... now I'm not pointing fingers but didn't this problem arise from people not paying back their loans?
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ahaha fuck i am applying for a student loan and i just realized the bank i am applying for a loan from no longer actually exists.

is this what it feels like to live in the soviet union.

College was free in the ussr.

Also, kucinich took his dick out of his wife earlier to publically call the bailout class warfare! Streets is gettin hot
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i was going to pull all of my money out of the bank today but my money is in a cd until november so i can't pull it out without huge losses. man, don't die until november!!
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It's all Clinton guys.  What a shit president that man was.  What were we thinking??

The more I watch as this clusterfuck unfolds before us the more I am completely convinced that the floundering economy spurred by continuous economic recession since the current administration decided to overextend the armed forces on two fronts and pour unprecedented amounts of taxpayer cash into the military/industrial complex has absolutely nothing to do with the current financial situation.  Lack of oversight by the Bush administration and the Democratic congress sitting on its hands also cannot be blamed.  It is so quite obviously the fault of a past administration that hasn't had the power to influence the market on a large scale in almost eight years!

The reckless endeavors and overall lack of discipline displayed by the people who are currently in power has undoubtedly led to these events.  It's been a capitalistic field day for major executives on Wall Street ever since Bush strode into the White House and demonstrated his utter lack of concern for the needs of the middle and lower class.  The machine is now grinding to a halt and everyone wants to pretend that there was nothing that could have been done to stop it, but I say fuck that.  

The sad truth of the matter is that the majority of us are going to be shafted and there is still no accountability to be had among the people who brought us to this point.  The United States is no longer the pinnacle of freedom and opportunity.  The only free enterprise left in this country is to bend our backs to the will of the elite few who control the resources and solemnly watch on as they purposely squander every good thing this place could have been.

My heart really does go out to all of you people who are going to lose your life savings or your college loans or whatever else, but I really don't see how no one could have known that this would happen.  Good luck dudes!
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i was going to pull all of my money out of the bank today but my money is in a cd until november so i can't pull it out without huge losses. man, don't die until november!!

don't pull your money out of the bank. it's FDIC insured and there is little to virtually no chance of you losing your deposits (even if the bank defaulted on deposits, small account owners are the most protected). All you would be doing is contributing to a run on the bank.

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

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It's all Clinton guys.  What a shit president that man was.  What were we thinking??
... my god... you treat anything the even remotely challenges your view and throw it out the window as a impossibility... You don't think that a bill passed a long time ago doesn't have any long term effects?

Anyway I NEVER FUCKING SAID THAT IT WAS ALL CLINTON. or EVEN HE WAZ A SHIT PREZIDENT... Fucking putting words in my mouth.
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Holy shit @ the Dow.

In other news, a gallon of gas went down about $0.40 over here.
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The Dow is back over 10,000!

Holy shit.

The last HOUR has seen the sort of gains that you would normally not see in months :(

EDIT: God I don't know what to think.  This is officially the craziest market ever.

EDIT 2: Closed at 9,955.
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Talk:Bailout Bill

Renaming bill
bailout bill...do we want to call it that? people might think there's someone named bill we're bailing out. it's a little cryptic. BobamaMan2008 (talk) 07:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
  For that matter, why do we have the dates all backwards, it goes month, then date. Welcome to America, gooks. POWMickeyCain (talk) 08:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
    THIS COMMENT HAS BEEN FLAGGED FOR DELETION NPelosi251 (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
  How does babby form in pregnate? HockeyMomWasilla 09:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Kill the blacks
nt DrGoldfingerPaul (talk) 01:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

i worked hard on this post...but i guess theres No Room For Heroes in GW.
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steel i enjoyed that post but i didn't want to post basically "lol" cos i didn't have anything else to say at that point.

edit: wait actually i posted about truth not long after. sorry! but at least....at least now you know.
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Lol on a lighter note: the economic crisis has made my wifes little stash of shiny coins in the safe worth over 30 G's


Since my old 401k is doing so bad I should pull out and invest in grillz

gold prices are going back down though so I think we should get more once it hits a price floor
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This whole situation is pretty annoying right now, considering I'm unemployed and most businesses in my area are sort of freaking out right now and not hiring.
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Since my old 401k is doing so bad I should pull out and invest in grillz

Tell me about it, I just lost another $300 bucks on my 401k.  Good thing I decided to open an IRA or I'd never be able to retire.
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Talk:Bailout Bill

Renaming bill
bailout bill...do we want to call it that? people might think there's someone named bill we're bailing out. it's a little cryptic. BobamaMan2008 (talk) 07:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
  For that matter, why do we have the dates all backwards, it goes month, then date. Welcome to America, gooks. POWMickeyCain (talk) 08:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
    THIS COMMENT HAS BEEN FLAGGED FOR DELETION NPelosi251 (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
  How does babby form in pregnate? HockeyMomWasilla 09:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Kill the blacks
nt DrGoldfingerPaul (talk) 01:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Ahahahahaha, this is PRICELESS.
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... my god... you treat anything the even remotely challenges your view and throw it out the window as a impossibility... You don't think that a bill passed a long time ago doesn't have any long term effects?

Anyway I NEVER FUCKING SAID THAT IT WAS ALL CLINTON. or EVEN HE WAZ A SHIT PREZIDENT... Fucking putting words in my mouth.

fuck man.  fuck!  what the fuck!

grrrrrrrrr..........you make me say things i didn't say.................

Hey guy, a bill passed by a prior administration will cease to have long term effects if the current administration possesses enough oversight to repeal it. 

I don't completely disregard anything that opposes my view.  I just don't agree with this whole idea that today's problems are a result of yesterday's legislation and there was nothing that could have been done to prevent it in the meantime.  Maybe if we weren't so goddamn preoccupied with makin' bombs and huntin' TERRISTS someone would've taken a bit of spare time out of their busy fucking day to maybe take steps to prevent the IMPENDING COLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. 
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