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[ihatepeoplealot.livejournal.com]

Were you one of those liberal cuckoos who thought the US was already in recovery?
Welcome to reality, dodo-heads. Apparently over 400 banks across the country are shitting their pants and reaching into empty pockets.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fdics-problem-list-of-troubled-banks-tops-400-2009-08-27

Comments

not surprised

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

I am a liberal cuckoo dodo-head who thinks capitalism is on its death bed.

Re: not surprised

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

Where exactly have you seen capitalism in the last 3 years?

Re: not surprised

[ihatepeoplealot.livejournal.com]

I've got no problem with that.
I hope it rests in piece

Re: not surprised

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

At least that's an entirely consistent statement.

[root-fu.livejournal.com]

Hmphf. The Dow is down 11 points. Must be the HFT kicking in. Its like the VTEC of the "neu age". Hahahahaha.

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

Banks mean little to me. Jobs though...

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4452bed82adf3124e5884678e236d7fb.361&show_article=1

[ihatepeoplealot.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather you just be a reasonable, informed individual, who doesn't buy into corporate media hype, or government bullshit.

[reflaxion.livejournal.com]

"Were you one of those liberal cuckoos who thought the US was already in recovery?"

I think "cuckoo" is a good word to describe anyone who actually believed that liberals thought Obama was going to ride into office on a unicorn and wave his magic wand around, and the Fiscal Pixies were going to make everyone rich.

The economy is shit. It's going to take a while to recover. Sucks to be us, huh?

[pantsu.livejournal.com]

I think "cuckoo" is a good word to describe anyone who actually believed that liberals thought Obama was going to ride into office on a unicorn and wave his magic wand around, and the Fiscal Pixies were going to make everyone rich.

That covers quite a lot of young liberals, then.

what? Where do you get your crap?

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

I thought he had Excalibre the magic sword of Camelot inherited from Ted Kennedy?

Also, it is a pegus. A unicorn would be gay. Barney Frank has a unicorn.

[ihatepeoplealot.livejournal.com]

I feel fine. Sucks to be someone who cares about the economy, or depends on it.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Undoing 8 years of Republican spending sprees isn't going to happen overnight.

Spending sprees

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

By spending 8325 billion on a stimulus bill?

Raising minimum wage to make it more difficult to employ.

By hiring more than 30 'czars' to help run the country?

How exactly are the Democrats 'undoing 8 years of Republican spending'?

Last time I checked the economy started to crash afterthe democrats took over in 06.

The housing crisis is Chris Dodd's greatest achivement.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

You're right...it took about six weeks.

[ihatepeoplealot.livejournal.com]

I agree.
Overcoming a spending spree to rival much of that 8 years is going to take even long to recover from.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Pardon me whilst I cry a tear for the fucking banks.

< uurrrggghhhhhh.... ggghhhhhrrrhhhhggghhhh.... >

Nope, can't do it.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

dood, that doesn't sound like a lack of tears, it sounds like constipation. :P

[mijan.livejournal.com]

I think "cuckoo" would describe any conservative who's deluded enough to believe that McCain and Palin could do better.

Our country got where it is for a lot of reasons (and no, gays have nothing to do with it, SORRY), and it's not going to get fixed overnight.

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

I think McCain would have made things much much worse. He's such an apeaser. We'd have twice the stupidity we have now.

What brought up gays?

Don't you think we are past 'overnight' now?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

so it's, what, less then 8 months in to his presidency. Maybe we could give him 12, see what he can do with that?

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

The conservatives who expected and hoped him to fail miserably are now very surprised he hasn't fixed everything yet. I find this odd.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Of course, both things could be true. The economy could in recovery and the private banks could be going to the wall...

Indeed, the former might even be contingent on the latter! :)

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Or banks could be lagging behind as happens with a market that responds to economic situation like banks.

Or it could be the lizardmen, I guess that has as much evidence as the OP huh.

[ihatepeoplealot.livejournal.com]

I did. Lots of people did. and lots of people figured it out as time went on.

[root-fu.livejournal.com]

Glenn Beck might be down for claiming we're in recovery.

But, that would make his credibility go up, and we can't have that.

[hunterkirk.livejournal.com]

Yes but it is "slowing down" and "would have been worse if we did nothing"

see Talkingpoints.com