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When I was a kid, I had a traveling sales job. Used to go Northeast TN alot. Gatlinburg TN is very scenic. Moderate temps. but no idea what the RE prices are. Since those times, I think Dolly Parton built a large theme park nearby. (Pidgeon Forge??) Might have gotten trashy?? Also check out...

Yeah, that's what I hearing too. Sounds like the "cash" for clunkers is "check is in the mail". Sounds like dealers are getting stuck, handing cars out to retail, but no money coming from Obama. Do you really think anybody in Obama's office even knows how to set up an ACH transfer?? The...

Wow. Such clarity. How do you do it? Note to self: find the ignore button for this loony MB.

Geez, the government is having a heck year as well as wall street: Who takes credit for leaving Bernie Madack unattended for years. Do we need to give this guy a bonus? What about the CRA folks? Do you all needs some pay raises to come up with more ideas how to bring banks to their knees...

And of course, we are seeing our Democratic Government with its gears still meshing. Unless somebody steps down (obama, pelosi, reid), this is gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets any better. Anybody read about this new science czar (John Holdren)? He wrote in a book saying that trees...

And let me guess where they are moving to: someplace that has no unions, no EPA, no DEP, no OSHA rules, and probably very few lawyers. Am I correct? The U.S. economy does have massive overhead that is not realistic in today's world economy. Much of this is the direct result of the U.S...

The premise of this thread completely ignores one of the largest factors in the 1930's depression: Political instability across most of the industrialized world, except U.S. and Britian. Forget about opening up a manufacturing facility in Europe or Asia. Who would want to build export...

Career-wise, obama has had nice free rides, voting "Present", etc. I have read several psychiatrists diagnose obama as a narcissist. And they also predict he will experience bouts of "narcissistic rage". Sure to be a learning curve for everyone.

Yup, we're all gonna have to suck it in, because nobody in Washington is going to. The craziest idea has to be: * buying health insurance for 10 million illegal aliens when nearly 10% of America is unemployed

Short sellers are not investors. They are speculators. That's why they never qualify for long term cap gains. I am long an OTC stock for the past few years that was on REG SHO list alot. Now it's up 500%, in the past several months. Some of the rise is due to good news specific to the stock...

If the government started sending 100K checks to homeowners because they weren't paying their mortgage, NOBODY would pay their mortgage. YOu'd have to bail out 100% of residential mortgages. Car loans and credit cards would be next.

Yeah, I don't understand it. Obama got all the stimulus money, but nothing is happening. Drive down the highways here, they are full of garbage, grass needs mowing etc. The money is there. But nobody is doing anything. What's wrong with Washington? Is everybody there on quaaludes (sp?)

Mike, you may be younger, or never had the opportunity to talk to folks who lived the '30s depression. No problem, not a fault. I remember my mother (younger sister to my uncle who joined the 101 airborne), telling me of "hobos" who would knock on the back door of her mother's house. My...

Yes, in regards to Scataphagos, this is true. I asked an uncle (1922-2003) several years ago what he thought of the depression at the time. He replied, he had no idea they were in a depression. He added there was no TV, and little radio. Words of wisdom. Anyway, this particular uncle...

Can't get a summer job? When I was a kid, we used to cut grass (older brother and I), hourly rate. After a big snow, we would clear our parents' place, then go up and down the street, knocking on doors. Contract prices for that :D We'd make some pretty good money in a foot of snow. That...

I have a dog with cancer. He has had several operations, 2 separate radiation treatments, one being CyberKnife (Patrick Swayze had a CyberKnife treatment). All tolled, I have spent enough money on vet care for the dog that I could have instead bought a new small car. But if this care was spent...

How much do Asian MDs pay for malpractice insurance? How much do they spend on redundant tests and procedures to protect against lawsuits? The problem in the U.S. is not the Health Care system. The problem is the Legal system.

I was waiting patiently for it, and finally got it: an ad-hominem attack, the most reliable sign of the presence of an mindless Obamabot. Your link contains the same unsubstantiaded pap trying to create class warfare. And that is just a fancy phrase for jealously. If were true that doctors...

The fact that these people want to enact laws to change health care (> 15% of the economy) in a matter of weeks indicates, to even the most dim-witted, there is massive skulduggery afoot. Stay tuned.

Not just Grandma. The cost cuts they are gonna need will probably put folks over 75 outside the system for standard care. And for "state of the art" care, you'll probably need to be under 70 to get it. Almost nobody seems to notice the glaring contradiction. Washington bureaucrats will never...