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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

I bought stocks; my husband bought CDs. Now I can't bear to look

I can't get up the nerve to tell my husband just how much money we've lost.

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 07:20 AM

    let me continue that last thought

    when you do business with a bank, be it to borrow money, or invest it, you are putting trust in that entity that it will not do anything that weakens the position of the investors, you and me.

    when banks decided to become reckless, getting lobbyists to prevent government from overseeing the business, they became liable to their investors for their irresponsibility.

    IF A DOCTOR became reckless and decided to perform an operation while stoned, do you think he could get bailed out by the government to the tune of a million dollars?

    SO??? Isn't the United States so overloaded with attorneys just BEGGING to find work so they can enrich themselves??

    So where ARE these Goddamn lawsuits being filed against the banks? Are the banks STILL not rich enough???

    Where ARE the onslaught of lawsuits against the lobbyist system, questioning of the very BASIS that government cannot be sued or somehow otherwise compelled to perform its DUTIES and OBLIGATIONS on behalf of the 350 million people it PRETENDS to serve???

    Lawyers virtually RUN Washington. Should ALL lawyers be rounded up and shot at GITMO as payback for what the government CONSPIRING WITH THE BANKS is doing to us all?

    Do not mistake what is going on now in the economy to being somebody's HONEST mistake. These criminals are pulling the SAME EXACT stunt on America that they pull periodically on MOST nations, releasing overloads of money, letting the market become lax, then letting everyone get frightened and coming in and buying up the assets for pennies on the dollar.

    THIS IS A CALCULATED PROGRAM. You and I are INSECTS to these evil thieves.

    SO??? What will you do about this??? Oh, go watch teevee, your favorite 'reality' show is on. Bread and Circuses.

    Your kids will be poor and starving (after you worked your whole hard life), but at least you did not risk your own comfort to make sure these was a semblance of honest government above you.

    This planet is DOOMED.

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