Comments on: Op-Ed Friday: From Housing Bubble To "Economy-Related Riots"?

By: AZSALUKI

AZSALUKI — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:17:28 +0000

a good friend and myself would joke, about a year ago, about building a shelter in my backyard and how it would look like “Mad Max” (the movie) here eventually. I’m not finding those conversations so funny anymore. and why hasn’t someone in his administration reminded the president about all of those HUGE tax cuts, credits, and breaks that he gave over the past 8 years? aren’t they aware that they already gave away the money that could have paid for all of his recent spending? had i known that collecting less while spending more could somehow work…..i may have gone in an entirley different political and business direction?

By: freemonster

freemonster — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:37:58 +0000

I just read Pres.Bush is giving 17.5 bil. to the auto industry. i believe this makes it offical our country is being run by the mob. A public works program with absolutely no money to pay for it. Print more funny money. Protect us from runs on the banking industry? These people are criminals. This sounds so much like a coup. Igor says pathetic

By: twist

twist — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:12:21 +0000

Hutch-

It seems to me that Obama’s jobs are nothing to write home about. None of them will replace the well paying jobs that folks have become accustomed to. As near as I can tell, these jobs will be for folks to change light bulbs, assemble wind mills, and hold signs on road crews. Then all these workers will be paid in dollars that are worth less.

The traders might end up begging for one of these jobs, but I don’t like picturing the world we live in at that point.

By: twist

twist — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:08:53 +0000

Mike, John, Admin-

It seems like we used to get these kinds of reports from, shall we say, less mainstream sources. More and more however, these reports seem to be substantiated.

Certainly we would not want our society to deteriorate into chaos, but the response that seems to be planned seems heavy handed and inappropriate.

Clearly our economy continues to deteriorate with no bottom in sight, now is the time to discuss what the implications are and how it will be dealt with. If Americans don’t step forward now, they will find that like these bailouts, more “solutions” will be forced upon them.

Igor’s “depressed”, and I don’t blame him.

By: Hutch

Hutch — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:52:25 +0000

Not having an MBA or PHD after my name I can’t have a ‘Carefully Considered Opinion’ so I’ll keep most of my ‘Wild Hunches’ about what the future holds to myself. I will share this one; these guys won’t find work on one of Obama’s construction crews.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/423577.html

By: John M.

John M. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:48:12 +0000

Admin -

I’m tearing my hair (talk about a limited resource!) at discussions like this that somehow dance around the possibility that shrinking the wars, occupations and Military Industrial Complex might be profitably put on the table.

By: John M.

John M. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:37:57 +0000

MikeC - Yeah, it came in April 4. Here's a link to Doomer hlowe's famous paranoid comment about the March 13, 2008 closed House session.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:23:07 +0000

Didn’t somebody post here back in April-ish about a closed session that congress had (?), where supposedly civil unrest was discussed as a “possibility” in 2009?

I usually don’t believe in secret conspiracy stuff, but that poster at least had it right when he spoke of the predicted economic catastrophe in September of 2008. Hmm…

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:30:33 +0000