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A Children’s Treasury Of Conservative Reactions To This Poor Guy Having a Cellphone Near Michelle Obama Aww, Michelle Obama went to help out at a soup kitchen for homeless people on Thursday! And while she was there, the AP took a photo of this guy taking a cellphone photo of...

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Right....

He obviously meant "hedge funds" you moron.

I would raid the corporate offices with the FBI and SEC "Someone or something somewhere got us into this financial mess. Now someone somewhere is going to get us out. Along the way I hope that heads roll, people are thrown in jail, and the Wall Street investment banks that created this mess...

He will be seen as the guy who brought the United States out of the abyss. What better platform to start from than an economy the looks to be on the brink of disaster. Old timers in the market will tell you that a stock market bottom will come long before there is any good economic news. So...

Utterly ridiculous.

But the painful truth comes when you examine the home price/buyer income disparity. From Locked Out: "Despite the downturn in the housing market, California continues to face a shortage of housing that is affordable even for middle-income families. Because housing costs have outpaced wages...

Are YOU Listening, Rick Santelli? February 20, 2009, 9:00PM http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/jade7243/2009/02/are-you-listening-rick-santell.php Rick Santelli's CNBC whining rant on the so-called "deadbeats with the extra bathroom" has garnered a lot of attention. But few...

One of the dumbest posts on ET. Thanks for the laugh.

"Rick Santelli more or less told me everything that I needed to know when he said that he thought that a bunch of traders on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were a "good representation of America". My favorite part was how one of them screamed "moral hazard" "moral hazard" when...

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This bill targets derivatives. About $500 trillion in derivatives trades alone in 2008--the most speculative of transactions. A one tenth of one percent tax would raise $500 billion dollars a year. You are just collateral damage of this fairer system.

"Oh! The Humanity! We will have to find a real job!"

Fixed.

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By RALPH NADER Let's start with a fairness point. Why should you pay a 5 to 6 percent sales tax for buying the necessities of life, when tomorrow, some speculator on Wall Street can buy $100 million worth of Exxon derivatives and not pay one penny in sales tax? Let's further add a point of...

If this thing passes you must start looking for a real job. Chicago unemployed waiting list: http://unemployed.meetup.com/cities/us/il/chicago/

Exactly.