that congress. what a bunch of pussies

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

Perhaps they were too concerned at the time with the price of gasoline to spend too much time on other issues.

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coulda shoulda woulda

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
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One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

Maybe someday they will do something useful.

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and monkeys might fly out of my butt, too

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

Is that a side effect of the chemo???????

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

If pro is the opposite of con, then is progress the opposite of congress? This should have been foreseen I agree. I also agree that the government gives too many hand outs to able bodied people that should be able to take care of themselves. As much as I hate to say this, Bush made a valid statement. It wasn't just one group of companies. It was many companies. There is a point where when you expand to much to quick it breaks. That's exactly what happened. The market grew to a point where it was out of control and now it's broken. I did notice that the president didn't say exactly what the plan was besides bailing out a few major companies.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

We will want pics of that for sure.

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Why fuck up a streak now with the finish line in sight?

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Don't worry about any of this. I've got it covered.

I'll give them the money.

............. Why not? I have more money than the government does. I make my little salary every week and have a hell of a lot less debt than they do.

THYE DON'T HAVE ANY F__KING MONEY!

If you made $10 last month, YOU HAVE MORE MONEY than they do. Not this government or any other government has ANY MONEY! They don't, can't and will NEVER make any MONEY! Governments can only get money from it's people.

You can only hope that YOUR money is enough to pay for the things that a government needs and that they spend it wisely. The great depression that has been referenced a number of times differs in that then the government DID HAVE SOME MONEY.

Unfortunately THIS government DOESN'T have any money. They DO have the biggest DEBT obligation in recorded history of civilization. It makes no difference what placebo the politicians give us now. As Jude30 said, the stupid have met greedy, and now it's a huge shit sandwich that we all are having fed to us. The ratio of corruptions and non-producing parasites in our economy has simply overwhelmed the host.

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No what happened is greedy bankers figured out a way to make money off stupid people by convincing them they could afford houses that they couldn't. That is a recipe for disaster no matter how you cut it. The bankers didn't stop to think of the consequences of these loans failing in the long run because of the huge short term profits. Which was amazingly stupid of them since a monthly mortgage payment of half your salary is pretty much designed to fail. The idiot consumer on the other hand listened to the banker and took on those low low initial payments.

The only thing that grew too fast was the market of greedy to stupid. Bankers saw an easy short term profit, and the consumer saw that house that they "deserved" to have.

Short term greed (whether it was the investment bankers preying upon people that couldn't afford what they wanted, or by buyers knowingly accepting variable interest loans so they have more cash on hand while they hope the other shoe doesn't drop) is what the rest of us are now left to deal with. Thank goodness I've been paying a higher interest rate all this time so I'm already used to getting by on less cash.

I think the government should start buying lottery tickets.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Instead of giving the money to the banks give it to the people who can not pay their loans off, then let it trickle up.

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What a great idea!

So great an idea, in fact, that it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being adopted by the yuckleheads in charge of things...

"Trickle up?" Isn't that a little like pissing up a rope?

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Is it wise for the federal government to give money to people who couldn’t figure out that ARM payments can increase as well as decrease? Is there any evidence to indicate that their behavior would be more sensible now than when they signed their contracts? At least the Feds can regulate banks - they are companies. Would it be a good idea to have the Feds try to regulate the spending habits of hundreds of thousands of citizens?

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