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JamesMichael
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0 posted 2009-04-07 08:54 PM


Mr. President Stop Spending Our Money and Straighten Out This Affair

"A bonus and failure are in no way compatable..."

So now that Obama has sold all of our Treasurey bonds to China and India and Viet Nam, and now that Obama has designated over 700 Billion of Taxpayer Money to LOSER COMPANYS such as AIG, who continues to reward Crooks & Incompetents with bonuses they didn't earn nor deserve, now that Obama has furnished our Government with the likes of Geithner the Tax Thief, now that we the people will not be satisfied, pacified, nor justified until we watch the Crooks of Wall Street going on Trial, receiving their Sentences, and going to Jail...

Now this very same Obama thinks that we can TRUST him when he tells us that now is a good time to invest in a Stock Market that is still full of Crooks, Swindlers and Manipulators...I don't think so; only a fool or a crook would tell us that now is a good time to invest in a Wall Street that is still full of FOOLS and CROOKS.

May I suggest a mandatory ten year sentence for evey million that trustworthy investors were swindled out of by the Crooks on Wall Street?   May I remind you that in France, in the past the guillotine was used to settle situations similar to this.

"Taking a Company to the verge of Bankruptcy is not something you reward someone for; and why would a Company want to retain a bunch of losers that bankrupted that very Company."

JamesLee
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2009




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rad802
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1 posted 2009-04-18 07:40 AM


It has been said that America will become a country of service industries, with little or no manufacturing. I guess we will serve each other hamburgers.

Rick Delmonico

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2 posted 2009-04-20 12:07 PM


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So now that Obama has sold all of our Treasurey bonds to China and India and Viet Nam,



     The bond auctions go on as they have always done.  There was no reason to exclude these folks before, and presumably no good reason to do so now


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and now that Obama has designated over 700 Billion of Taxpayer Money to LOSER COMPANYS such as AIG, who continues to reward Crooks & Incompetents with bonuses they didn't earn nor deserve,




     I wasn't aware that the allocation was Obama's.  Perhaps it was.  My impression was that a large amount of this money was allocated under the last administration under pressure and under congressional protest to a wide range of financial institutions.  There was a specific point made in that allocation that funds were to be distributed to companies that both were in trouble and were not in trouble, to protect the solvency of those that were in trouble.  Correct me here if I have my facts wrong, please.  Many companies were loathe to accept the money but did under pressure.

     Was this a great idea?  I don't think it was, frankly; but you could make a good case for it, a slip a paper bag over your head and vote for old Glory kind of a case.  I think in the end that that's what congress did.

     Did these guys at AIG deserve the bonuses?

     I don't know.  Some of those guys didn't think so, and gave the money back.  I can't speak for the rest.  

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now that Obama has furnished our Government with the likes of Geithner the Tax Thief, now that we the people will not be satisfied, pacified, nor justified until we watch the Crooks of Wall Street going on Trial, receiving their Sentences, and going to Jail...




     If the man is a thief and can be so proven in a court of law, then he should go to jail.  Otherwise, there's a lot of proving to be done.  


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Now this very same Obama thinks that we can TRUST him when he tells us that now is a good time to invest in a Stock Market that is still full of Crooks, Swindlers and Manipulators...I don't think so; only a fool or a crook would tell us that now is a good time to invest in a Wall Street that is still full of FOOLS and CROOKS.



     Invest when and where you will.  There are values to be had here, and there are terrible mistakes to be made.  Good investors frequently test themselves against a chimp with a dartboard — no kidding! — and often find they do about as well.  You should have a sound reason to think you can do better before you try, shouldn't you?  No matter what anybody says.


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May I suggest a mandatory ten year sentence for every million that trustworthy investors were swindled out of by the Crooks on Wall Street?   May I remind you that in France, in the past the guillotine was used to settle situations similar to this.



    Economic chaos is not the same as a full scale social revolution, however, is it?  A thousand or more years of oppressive misrule, literal slavery, enforced religious repression, and an inability to have any say at all in your own fate while your life is rule by a hereditary class of nobility, and an inability to change class or status during any of that time is not the same as a downturn in the economy.

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"Taking a Company to the verge of Bankruptcy is not something you reward someone for; and why would a Company want to retain a bunch of losers that bankrupted that very Company."



     The ways of business are mysterious to me.  It seems silly to me put in those terms too, but if you look at some of the political business dealings over the last hundred years or so, I'd be very surprised if you didn't find exactly that situation re-enacted more times than you could shake a stick at.  I'm more motivated to find you Republican examples, but I'm not blind and stupid, and I know that my Democratic friends have done their unfair share of stuff as well.  I'm just personally inclined to think that Republicans are more, well, Republican about it.  I know that everybody can dip from the same poisoned well on occasion, and put on the same long and smiling face afterward.

Yours, Bob Kaven

[This message has been edited by Ron (04-23-2009 08:12 PM).]

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3 posted 2009-04-20 03:54 AM



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It has been said that America will become a country of service industries, with little or no manufacturing.


Welcome to the club.     When you lose an Empire you lose the Industry and industry upon which it was built, and vice versa.

Rob
(from the UK)

JamesMichael
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4 posted 2009-04-23 07:05 PM


Thank you rad802, Bob K and moonbeam for reading and responding...James
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