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I dunno if it has been mentioned in this thread or not, and I am frankly far too tired and lazy to troll back through it all to check, but did anyone comment on the fact that $700 billion - the amount Paulson is proposing - is exactly the amount that the Iraq war is estimated to have cost the US so far?

Bizarre coincidence, eh? ;)

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YOU ALWAYS IGNORE ME!

Re: Crunch
 

So I'm sure "world" isn't the appropriate forum to ask, but jOHN, are you on serious drugs these days or what? Seriously, I just don't understand what's happened to you....

Re: Crunch
 

Riiiiight.

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i never said money is bad:confused: but let them burn yes! just because i disagee with your monied view its infantile? these people bought us to this point and now they want our money to save them well fuck em! and fuck global capitalism|! the greedy bastards who bought this on us deserve the whole rotten system to go down and i won't be crying if it does.....even if i will be poorer. maybe less poor people will be exploited in the future by these scumbags.

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Word!

I can agree with you, even if I am sitting on a Northern Rock mortgage here. :D

I am absolutely not of the view that money is bad. It is what you do with it. Use it to create wealth from the suffering of other people, and you deserve everything you get. Use it to make the world a better place, and hats off to you.

But these gits are the Scrooge McDucks of the world and they are coming quacking to government to provide funds from the coffers filled by ordinary hard-working joes because they made themselves very rich and suddenly the golden goose isn't paying out any more. Cry me a fucking river...

Meanwhile, they all have offshore accounts and tax havens up to the earholes to avoid paying tax themselves. Poor things. Must be hard to cut down to only one tin of beluga caviar a week...

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Awwww... I don't ignore you. I am just getting absent-minded in my old age! If you posted about this and I didn't remember, please forgive me.

Sean - jOHN likes to have a bit fun with his posts. I don't see anything wrong in that, really. I guess one could always seriously ignore him if one thinks he is getting tedious or weird, but I like a bit of light entertainment after a hard day :D

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Yeah, I think CEO's are pissed at me too.

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Don't want to hijack the thread - as it's a good one. But have to agree with Sean on this one - and for me John's interjections do get a little tedious.

I always imagine this as a spoken conversation - that we're around a table and we come and go between tables/threads to add our piece, after listening to what others have to say. Sometimes we react vehemently, sometimes we're droll, sometimes we totally misread someone's comments.

John's commentary - as I imagine it in my head - spoken out loud - is generally irrelevant, with regards to the conversation that's taking place. (And yeah, I know there's a whole 'nother thread of therapy about why I'm imagining all these voices in my head. :))

Not disrespecting JR as an individual or a human - let's just say I've got a JR darktrain filter that works very well. I don't use the ignore function. It just makes these conversations seem even more dislocated.

I suppose I'm being an old bugger by thinking that most here would talk/explain themselves in the online form, much like they would in the real life form - and so I'm naturally confused by many of JR's comments.

Back on topic.

How is the bailout failure affecting you?

Some interesting thoughts here, particularly with the long term view - and asking the valid question - how will it directly affect little old me.

I've been cutting back on some expenditure, being a bit more prudent with car use - I'm lucky enough to own my house - and payments are well under control. To be honest most of those cost cutting measures have been as a result of the oil price hikes over the winter. So all before this collapse.

That and the fact that I'm due to become a Dad for the first time in March of next year - it changes how you view the important things.

What you need to know - Bailout 101

A good summary with linkage there too.

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It will come full circle in the near future chuck.

Thanks for the link BTW.

Love the last paragraph.


Rebuttal:
tedious - tiresome because of length or dullness. Neither apply to me, you'll need to find a new word I guess.(I want my damn smiley things back)