“By their own admission, economists don’t know what’s happening, why it’s happening or how it happened. I don’t buy it for a nano-second.”

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Me either Felicity. Not buying this shit AT ALL. They’ve known for over a decade exactly how this was gonna play out. They just jacked up the timing.

Then again, maybe they DIDN’T jack up the timing, considering your suggestion that this might just be the excuse to cancel the elections.

I mean, it’s really the only thing that makes sense. They’ve spent the past 8 years literally stealing everything that isn’t nailed down, and laundered trillions of our dollars through the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan, to lead straight to their off shore accounts, where the money is probably stored in gold. The escape paradise has already been developed..what more is there?

Then there’s the stationing of US troops on US soil to handle ‘civil disruptions’ and rumors of martial law that I never paid much attention to until now. (I’ll come back with the link to that piece).

Credit is so tight that I can’t even finance a textbook, and one needn’t be an economist to know what it means when the flippin’ stock market crashes.

The ‘timing’ is just too damn convenient. But, at least we’re in California. We can always beg the Native inhabitants for survival help, and then just hope that we are deserving enough of a response.

This is exactly what TAO Walker has been trying to prepare us for. I’m convinced that the plan was to get rid of all of us, so they could have the place to themselves, but I’m not leaving. AND…I’m handy with knives…

Finally Paulson is pretending to listen to the people.

    NATIONALIZE THE BANKS!  hANG THE BANKERS!

Or take away their money anyway.

I live in Texas. Would it not be something if Texas went democratic as it did in the previous depression?

This is Bush’s final middle finger to everyone but the haves and the have mores.

Fuck you, poor people.

He has done some other things in his “last hurrah” days.:
Changin the endangered specise act—Fuck you , animals.
Selling nukes all over the world. Fuck you , planet.
Denying SCHIP—Fuck you , children.
Insisting on the FISA amendment: Fuck you , USA.

If the chickens are coming home to roost, they have bad aim.

Felicity,

You could be right.  I think George might be a little too weary.  For him, the job with all its days off is probably not as easy as he thought.  Leaving the WH for McCain to step in might be what’s in his mind.
But I have also been noticing that there’s no news but bad news.  It seems there should be an economic axiom here.  Like, When the system is rigged and those in control want it to crash, all events even the unplanned ones break bad for the masses. 
I’m starting to feel a litttle like a gnu in Africa being eyed by a predator and everyone around me who’s more secure is moving away.  The anxiety from waiting for the next bad news is immobilizing. 
Maybe Tao Walker has some good news in that Tiyoshpaye Way.  Something that those predators the Master Class, can’t get at.

Paulson is treasonous swine. Guillotine darn it and start the REVOLUTION!!!

FENWICK - You don’t suppose McCain’s ‘calling off’  his campaign because of the economic ‘crisis’ was but a forerunner of Bush ‘calling off’ the election (for the same reason?)  And we all thought bomb, bomb, bomb Iran would nix the election.

On to Paulson.  By their own admission, economists don’t know what’s happening, why it’s happening or how it happened. I don’t buy it for a nano-second.  On the other hand - an economist is the expert who can’t tell you tomorrow why what he forecast yesterday didn’t happen today.

“American International Group Inc., the insurer facing criticism for hosting a $440,000 event at a California resort less than a week after a federal takeover, plans another gathering for its brokers at a Ritz-Carlton hotel next week.”

The past CEO of AIG said that Cummings can stick it in his ear. 

Folks, it’s all over!  That’s all folks.

C-SPAN’s Susan Swain cut-off a woman this morning who brought up George’s acquired power to declare and emergency and call off the election.  Ms. Swain claimed the woman didn’t wait a month between calls.  That copout happens consistently when callers bring up something controversial.  C-SPAN’s Washington Journal should just have quetions like, Do you prefer this brand name or that one?

Paulie passes the buck to Neil Kashkari, ole Kash ‘n Kari from Sacks of Gold.  He’s 35 year old amoral nitwith who’s going to be left holding the bag.  That’s the ploy, when you can see the edge of the cliff, move side and give the steering wheel to a minority.  He’s young and fast, he might make it out alive.