Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (50479)	7/19/2002 4:04:07 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

I bought my first shares of SUNW(not a large position) last week @ 5.10. Should have known; this happens seemingly every time!

To: JDN who wrote (50479)	7/19/2002 4:12:28 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

<<HOLY SMOELY BATMAN, What Happened?? JDN>> Like you said before: "If its GORE, baby we are going down the tubes, if its Bush, we got a chance to fly with the Eagles." See any Eagles down here? And you've also said: "Well, its done now, so beginning today I guess you can blame the good or the bad on Bush as we go forward." Okay JDN, i blame Bush. I read that an Israeli newspaper is quoting French sources saying that US action against Iraq is coming much sooner than any of us expect: before the November elections. If so, at least that will change the subject which might be good for the markets. Here's part of my take, which i've already posted to another thread: More than Harken or Halliburton, i'd like to see this administration held accountable for their fiscal malfeasance with the federal budget. Just consider the 10 year 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut. Instead of crafting a fiscally honest tax bill, they used accounting tricks to sneak in a much larger cut. After nine years, they pretend all the cuts are rescinded so they can count the tenth year (the most expensive year) as if taxed at 2000 rates. Imagine if a corporate CEO tried a stunt like that. Then there's the bogus growth assumptions. They use one set of assumptions to predict a large budget surplus, then they turn around and use completely different growth assumptions (more pessimistic assumptions) to say Social Security is in trouble. Again, imagine a CEO using this kind of dishonest accounting trick. Bush has an MBA, wants to be known as a CEO president, yet has offered knowingly dishonest budgets, has missed on both earnings and revenue every single quarter, and his company's stock is in the toilet. Average Americans may not pay much attention to this stuff, but investors do and they're taking their money out of the US. What happens to a CEO with performance like that in the real world? SEC investigation, bankruptcy, resignations, possible civil and criminal lawsuits... What happens here? Steve