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You have a couch I could come crash on for a few weeks? ;)

They would actually be like 55 - 54 being Iraq.

Give this man a cookie.

Your credit report can affect employment. Many employers do credit checks.

They were closing unused credit lines to reduce the amount of potential default liability they were carrying. They did it to me with one of my business lines that had a 0 balance and even sent me a letter in the mail explaining it. Took them about 3 weeks to re-open the line like nothing had...

Too bad the shorts would be insolvent by then. Wost.....Thread......Ever......

Where did you get this "word" ? They have so much cash they SELF INSURED the DWH rig. I call BS.

Agreed. He was given a bad situation and did as well as anyone can with it.

tsars in the US are PR figureheads, nothing more.

No one said BP. Name us 3 domestic oil companies that matter[read: have significant production] that Obama has influence over. The OP question is silly.

except only ~10% of the oil we use in the US is domestic, and they already regulate domestic production...

This isn't an emergency meeting. Someone should change the title of this thread to make it accurate.

he can't nationalize foreign companies.

Yes. If digging a ditch is the only paying job to put food in the stomach of your family then yes, I fucking expect him to take the job becuase that's what a Man does. For you to ask that question...what the fuck has happened to this country..??!?

theta is an evil bitch.

I totally agree, but you can tell from my post history i'm not in the black-helicopter crowd. Just trying to figure out what the ramifications of this are.

It's not just the defense industry, we just reached the highest ratio of income coming from govt. jobs vs. the private sector of any time in recent history. I see more and more people working for the govt, just wondering with the consequences of this will be. These people are making good...

I know a fair number of people that are employed by the govt(defense industry) with more being hired daily. Based on discussions with them, it doesn't seem that their work often makes it to production. I'm wondering if this is just a form of employment welfare: providing jobs for the sake of...

fair enough. the mass influx of the black-helicopter-crowd to ET has jaded me...

Good luck getting a decent job with that on your credit report.