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Competition is hard. Easier to make money by hiring lobbyists, donating to campaigns and sending hookers to capital hill. Wanna join a growth industry and make some serious coin? Get yourself a good pair of kneepads and become a lobbyist.

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How? The usual methods. Public outrage, political pandering (how many minorities have you promoted this year, Chairman? Did you fly to this committee hearing in a private jet? Your company still burns coal?!), "unsolicited" donations to campaigns and political parties, an army of lobbyists...

Dissent is all but certain on a general market call on this board. ;)

Forget cold fusion. Reverse Engineering from Area 51 will save us. Or else the Illuminati. Or both. Just examine the crop circles for more answers.

Plenty of cheap houses in Detroit. Go for it. :D :D :D

Don't forget about populism. The public could get POed about any part of it and blow it all to smithereens. But it's not going to solve our economic crisis anyway. While the big problem for banks are all these toxic assets they cannot sell nor write off because it would tank them, it's not...

It's different this time. :rollseyes:

A significant "cause" of the hatred for Midas was his success as well - a central theme for many of the characters.

Of course he's laughing. Which party wins more power when the economy is shit, when people can't get jobs, can't feed themselves? Democrats. A worldwide depression guarantees power for him and his party. That's why he's pushing ahead on a massive carbon tax and socialized medicine. The...

Well, that's the question, isn't it? Can we reclaim our birthright, can we bring back capitalism? My guess is no, we cannot.

And people bitch about a private econ forum. LOL.

The fathers of our country would not be very surprised to see the current situation. Disappointed, perhaps. But evidence suggests they expected the country to last about 200 years before undergoing some sort of revolution/repatriation. WTF! I've got Florida State@ WTF?@!

My kid just got home with her summer reading list: "A Day At The Beach" By C. Side "A Large Arsehole" By Hugh Janus "A Visit To The Dentist" By Lord Howitt-Hertz "Anal Passage" By R. Sole "At The Barber's Shop" By Shaun Head "Baby's Revenge" By Nora Tittov...

Yeah. Free televisions, DVD players, etc. all for filling out surveys. Just send us $19.95 to tell you how to get them. LOL. If you check your email, you might find some additional offers of value. There's some money being held in Nigeria that needs to be deposited in your bank account...

That's the interesting part of this. Did Obama make a mistake? Yeah, probably. But nothing very serious. It's just a joke. But imagine the screaming rage and the front page stories and the endless hand wringing the left would have engaged in, had Sarah Palin said this.

Especially since we have so many members of this forum as regular athletes in the special olympics. Whoops. :D :D :D On one hand, the special olympics is a fairly common label used to describe less-than-professional results. On the other, it is fairly mean and something to avoid saying...

"The Rule of Law" only applies to republics. We were a republic, once upon a time, but we left that safe haven a long time ago. We're a democracy now. Democracies are unstable. Anarchy follows, then a chain of dictators that "keep the peace." There's no sense bitching about it. Just...

But it's not just AIG, the bailout is a couple trillion and counting. It's an unimaginable amount of wealth. So it's more like $200 and counting, and everybody is ready to literally kill people over a penny. The really bad people are the ones dealing with the 2 benjies, not the penny. And...