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To: Road Walker who wrote (417650)9/17/2008 2:47:39 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1582530
 
And we do that... all the time.

We may look at it, but we don't do anything about it.

Very few federal programs get eliminated, and many of the worst of them continue to grow indefinitely.

You want a specific actual example? OK, the milk compact.

Sure it is...

Nonsense.


Nice partisan line but not the case.


Not a partisan line, it applies to Republicans as well as Democrats. Independents too.

And it very much is the case. Look in to the James Buchanan's nobel prize winning research.



To: Road Walker who wrote (417650)9/17/2008 2:55:50 PM
From: michael97123  Respond to of 1582530
 
BTW thread...take those 100k sipc protection seriously... In joint accounts its 200k right?



To: Road Walker who wrote (417650)9/17/2008 4:10:13 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1582530
 
emergency 1/2 point fed cut??? Folks on the exchange booed the fed decision on tuesday. Market has gone to hell since. I have not a clue how lowering the rates will help but maybe folks who know more than us are right???