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2010-05-03 Economy

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Posted by ed 2010-05-03 00:05|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 The game is rigged.
There will be no meaningful reform.
We've been sold out boys.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-05-03 03:03|| 2010-05-03 03:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama is more dependent on "movers and shakers" in the financial sector than any president of our time

Bull. With all the money he passed to trade-unions...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-03 03:11|| 2010-05-03 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 A pox on both your houses.

Posted by lex 2010-05-03 09:45|| 2010-05-03 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Gr(o)m, I think earlier you used the phrase "The New Class" for something or other. Perhaps it's applicable here.

It looks to me like we have a semi-capitalist economy being run by all the same people who couldn't run a communist economy back in Russia.

Each day they wake up in the morning and tell themselves that the Russian economy collapsed back in the late 80's because the Russians were too stupid to make it work, but they personally are smarter than that and can make it work.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-03 10:13|| 2010-05-03 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 The only way to bring about reform in Washington is for the voters to shake the Congressional critter tree very, very, hard in November 2010.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-03 10:25|| 2010-05-03 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 It's primary season here in Ohio. If there's competition in your area as there is in mine, some incumbents can be put on notice if they lose their primary, and so they won't even be running in the general election in November. The Cincinnati Enquirer has a cute little interactive gizmo that allows one to mark a sample ballot -- with side-by-side comparisons of the candidates ticked.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-03 12:11|| 2010-05-03 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 I wish it was funny.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-03 15:51|| 2010-05-03 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 It's a stark illustration of the inequities of capitalism that organized labor can only afford to buy one political party, but Wall Street can buy both of them. ...Mickey Kaus

Posted by tipper 2010-05-03 23:04|| 2010-05-03 23:04|| Front Page Top

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