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  • 700 Billion No Way Today!

    The most experienced and well educated people at the top levels of these companies got us into this mess. Why then should we expect them to get us out of this mess. Take every CEO and board of directors of these companies and hold them accountable. Many have excess compensation to begin with, stock options, bonus and golden parachutes, to the ...
    Posted to Explainer by haveittodayray on September 24, 2008

  • Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -

    So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
    Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard1 on July 18, 2008

  • Re: What difference will it make?

    kgsbca: So the politicians should stay out of this, if they know what is good for the US economy. They probably won't, though, for if the company is acquired by a foreign owner, they will lose a valuable source of local campaign contributions, and we know that is the most important issue for politicians. No one yet seems to have noticed ...
    Posted to Moneybox by Saphireyes on June 28, 2008

  • When moms have the freedom

    I am so happy my husband supports my desition of staying with my child at home. I just couldn't leave him in childcare. I tried 3 different center after I actually visited like 15. It was just so devastating. I came home to cry all evening for leaving my child with who know who... We couldn't afford for me not to make money, we need my income. But ...
    Posted to Number 1 by ptiffany on May 10, 2008

  • what mommies do

    Lots of moms who have decided to stay home because they just can't leave their babies in daycare, either because they find the separation too hard or because after having to pay childcare fees and gas they don't really bring much money home, they are doing GPT sites from home. I am one of them. No, I didn't believe in those sites at first. My ...
    Posted to Moneybox by ptiffany on May 10, 2008

  • Re: Bush Setting Dems Up for Failure

    Hellifiknow, There is more than what you are saying which needs to be said. The biggest thing... Bush sort of did devastate the economy by himself. The previous office had decreased the national debt and secured a surplus. He did not inherit this problem, but rather birthed it, and then nurtured it and helped it to grow up big and strong. ...
    Posted to War Stories by Den on March 26, 2008