I’m baffled.
VibrioCocci on August

That you know they are drunk with power is enough. The quest for power is self-perpetuating. Trying to understand how they got that way is like trying to understand how child molesters got that way. It doesn’t matter. Just identify them and rid society of them. We spend too much time agonizing over “why”.

We will see all taxes significantly increased. Local, Federal, State, business, sales,”user fees,” fines, etc.,etc.

Most of this cash will be skimmed off the top and distributed to the friends and associates of the party.

Conservatives in this country better wake up and get pro-active! They are taking the prosperity and productiveness of America away from us on purpose–to create a nation of dependent chattle.

Everybody on this site! Organize! Protest vociferously! Answer every challenge! Demand answers for every question! Don’t let up, or you LOSE YOUR WAY OF LIFE!

(some liberal): DOW keeps going up

Well, some liberal, if you wish to go long in equities, then do so, but know that you are investing at a time when the DOW is priced at roughly 700x earnings. Liberal logic, though, will allow you to believe that you will realize a return on your investment.

The trajectory of the excrement continues to indicate a direct intersection with the turbine blades in the not too distant future.

I can only hope that the big labor unions, “foundations”, and Acorns of this world are investing all their cash on hand into this market big time.

also, people are saying they will barter more, not report cash or just flat out lie.

“R-r-r-ead Obama’s lips…”

Upstater85 on August 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM

Well, sir, those are some mighty big lips to read….

But who is goin to believe a lying Marxist??

Jason Coleman on August 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM

That wasn’t nice. Now you are going to cause all the trolls to drop out since the quiz is too darned difficult.

Personally, I think a lot of the Democrats in this country are cruising along because their Boy King is “in the house”. There’s a lot of Bravo Sierra floating around about how it’s still a blue state country. (See the Gallup article above.)

Just like the Republican voters who snoozed their way into getting The Class Clown elected, the Dems will experience fecal downpour because they are either apithetic or will have become disenchanted with the crap Obama and the crew are trying to pull.

It’s not a tax on the middle class.
It’s a tax on people who use carbon.

It’s not a tax on the middle class.
It’s a tax on people who ____________________.

DOW is keeps going up. I guess the stimulus didn’t work

liberal343 on August 3, 2009 at 4:29 PM

If your conclusion is such, then I suppose you would be able to explain the cause?

anuts on August 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM

Because the government sucks at trading, and the market senses an easy kill.

http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090205/REG/902059981/1036

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ffa60e50-7f8c-11de-85dc-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

Free money poorly spent.

Secretary of Mistruth

Get in line. nice343 was just about to buy my jock strap of invincibility. 39 years and I’ve never died.

Chuck Schick on August 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM

You shouldn’t be so willing to part with it. 100% of people that eat a pickle will die.

DOW is keeps going up. I guess the stimulus didn’t work

liberal343 on August 3, 2009 at 4:29 P

Not that you’ll understand this, liberal, but the DOW is going up for a number of reasons, none of which puts Ogabe in a positive light:

1. Shell-shocked Americans who took a huge hit on their retirement savings have stopped consuming and started saving.

2. Foreign investors – particularly governments – have decided that the casino of the stock market is a better bet than the increasingly-worthless U.S. Treasury bond.

3. Corporate earnings have improved considerably – largely because businesses have fired so many workers and cut back on spending.

4. Money has flowed out of emerging-market investments because the current depression is global and investors see U.S. stocks as a safer haven than those of, say, Kenya.

5. Commodity prices have declined as a result of decreased demand, so investors have shifted out of commodities and into equities.

6. Professional investors see the very real possibility that Ogabe is going to crack down on “speculation” in commodity markets, so they are fleeing to equities.

7. Since Ogabe took office, the price of ponies and unicorns has skyrocketed.

8. There are several ETF’s linked to the size of Michelle Obama’s ass, which has exploded over the past 6 months.

Actually it’s due to the magic rock I have in my pocket. Wonder how I know it works? Well my magic rock also keeps sharks away from me. I haven’s seen a shark since I got my rock…

Have any proof or at least a reasoned argument as to how the ’stimulus’ – most of which was wasted by states trying to bandage their bleeding budgets or to Democrat special interest groups – accomplished this?

gwelf on August 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM

Get in line. nice343 was just about to buy my jock strap of invincibility. 39 years and I’ve never died.