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[bassman42]

Okay, so maybe I'm not sophisticated, don't understand high finance or whatever, but it's driving me up the wall that the US administration wants to give 700 BILLION dollars to Wall Streeters (you remember, the ones who brought us the sub-prime mortgage crisis and subsequent bank closures/bankruptcies etc) without much in the way of constraint and

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[liliths_roses]

The timing of this disaster is perfectly timed. While everyone is fighting over whether Sarah Palin's tits qualify her for office (don't even get me started), the financial structure of the Western world is swaying in the wind like a 115 lb girl who's had a few too many wobbly pops.

Thank gods my job is not disposable.

[bassman42]

Tell me about it! And the news just keeps getting worse...this morning I woke to see that the markets had plummeted deeply again, despite all the bailout plans etc. One of the few times I've been glad to work in human services, because it would be very difficult to get rid of me, though a pay cut COULD conceivably happen. Oh, and Sarah Palin? Blecccccch! IF that woman had a brain she'd be even MORE dangerous!