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xMurtaghx I post too much
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject: Great Depression of 1929... I mean 2009? |
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As you know 2008 was a disaster.
Dow Jones Industrials (DJI^) crashed to 7500, a 18 yr low.
The housing market was at its worst collapsing through the whole year of
2008 as banks Failed, as people bought too expensive things and did not
have any money to give back to the bank. AIG, Meryll Lynch, Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac and Citigroup financial all needed bailouts while Lehman
Brothers and Bear Sterns failed and filed bankruptcy. Not to mention GM
was close to filing bankrupcy and started begging Capitol Hill wasa billion
dollar bailout that was improved. The $700,000,000,000 bailout that was
passed my congress didnt help anything. With unemployment raising to
7.2% for December, was an all time low since World War II. The national
debt (combined with Gross and everything etc) climbed over 53 trillion
dollars, which means an average family has about $95,000 debt. Some
countries in Europe like Poland and parts of Albania seaped into a
depression already.
I dont know if you payed attention to what I wrote but my question is...
Do you think we are going to go into a depression as ecomonists say we
are going to keep on declining.
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Evil Scarecrow Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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I Think we are in for some hard times, i personally HOPE we don't have another great depression....But tha facts are there...
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xMurtaghx I post too much
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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If unemployment climbed to 15% then we will go over the hill though.
I also dont think Congress should give bailouts.
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Trance Lover Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Obama should take 50% of all american billionaires money like bill fucking gates to pay for every debt everyone has and we'd be back to normal.....
Circuit city is gonna let I think 30,000 people go 'cause they're closing forever....
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Karakawe I post too much
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| cal17 wrote: | Obama should take 50% of all american billionaires money like bill fucking gates to pay for every debt everyone has and we'd be back to normal.....
Circuit city is gonna let I think 30,000 people go 'cause they're closing forever.... |
Socialist.
(By the way, that's a little like what he's doing anyway, just to something of a lesser extent.
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deleted19776 I post too much
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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I should also let you know that Hoover was hated on for not taking action, while Roosevelt did much better.
Get the relationship?
Hoover --> Bush
Roosevelt --> (maybe) Obama
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redslothx Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| cal17 wrote: | Obama should take 50% of all american billionaires money like bill fucking gates to pay for every debt everyone has and we'd be back to normal.....
Circuit city is gonna let I think 30,000 people go 'cause they're closing forever.... |
illegal.
and ppls debts arnt bill gate's debts. ok?
he doesnt have to pay for your crap. and the government should have to pay for your crap either.
so stfu and just be smart with your money instead of bitching to those better than you and having to depend on government to pay your crap.
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AverageAzn247 Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| cal17 wrote: | Obama should take 50% of all american billionaires money like bill fucking gates to pay for every debt everyone has and we'd be back to normal.....
Circuit city is gonna let I think 30,000 people go 'cause they're closing forever.... | that is communism. We fought a Cold War to stop that
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xMurtaghx I post too much
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| cal17 wrote: | Obama should take 50% of all american billionaires money like bill fucking gates to pay for every debt everyone has and we'd be back to normal.....
Circuit city is gonna let I think 30,000 people go 'cause they're closing forever.... |
Get the facts right, they're not closing forever, they're just closing 562
stores.
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thekiddo23 Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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yes u are right and it is all cause of bush. this is bushit (bullshit)
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oib111 I post too much
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| thekiddo23 wrote: | | yes u are right and it is all cause of bush. this is bushit (bullshit) |
I miss Bill Clinton
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AverageAzn247 Grandmaster Cheater
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| thekiddo23 wrote: | | yes u are right and it is all cause of bush. this is bushit (bullshit) | WRONG. This was caused by ppl giving out loans to poor ppl who couldn't afford them AKA subprime loans.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Meh the £ has fallen so much. From 1.98 to 1.45 on the dollar and we're almost matching the euro.
Job market has taken a dive here, alot of companies going into administration and closing. Even getting a job in a supermarket is hard, they dont have the money to employ more people. Housing market has gone to the shit as well.
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MapleStory. Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hell no, we're not going in to a depression.
I'm going to vent now.
1.) Banks loaned more money than they should have to people that shouldn't have gotten loans
2.) People borrowed more money than they should have
3.) gov't gave banks lots 'o money so they could start loaning again
4.) banks are BUYING OTHER BANKS and still not loaning money
5.) news people go on TV saying 'oh shit, we're in a depression. Save your money, stock market's gonna crash.'
6.) people panic, save money, and pull everything (if anything) out of the stock market
7.) I complain about it.
Also, Obama hasn't done SHIT yet. Don't judge him. If he does 1/2 of what he said he was going to(Giving every cent of treasury money to the average person is what I'm talking about.), we're screwed, though. Lets hope he's as crooked as every other politician out there...
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Karakawe I post too much
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:06 am Post subject: |
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We need another Andrew Jackson.
Most kickass president, yes?
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