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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (172523)	12/19/2008 9:17:27 AM
From: DebtBomb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Opex week.....75 cut and auto bailout....it's a miracle....yeah right. Typical opex week.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (172523)	12/19/2008 12:44:57 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 306849

Actually, gov't policies geared towards total control of commerce and life in general have much to do with real estate. Precisely why we had a real estate bubble and find millions left as debt slaves and the prudent are singled out as a source of funds to "fix" the mess. Gov't uses force, ever more unjust, to insure these policies. We find ourselves in a very sobering situation and time in this country. Arguing about who is responsible(Democrat or Republican) is about on the same level as trying to decide which 'wrestler' is the greatest athlete. It's all a show for the gullible. ---- Will Durant stated that "[a] great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic dispositions, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars." The nineteenth century historian, Jacob Burckhardt, observed that "[t]he essence of history is change," and that "the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life." The Durants expressed the point a bit more poetically: "civilizations begin, flourish, decline, and disappear – or linger on as stagnant pools left by once life-giving streams." Are you able to relate to any of this in your daily life? Major business interests employ the powers of the state to protect their established positions from the threats of open competition. In furtherance of such ends, legislation is passed to control trade and pricing practices, the licensing of new firms, and numerous other prohibitions, tariffs, restrictions, taxation benefits, and other regulations, designed to channel economic activity in directions that serve the more dominant business interests. The propping up of ailing industries – such as through government loan guarantees – or providing billions of dollars in research and development funding, has added to the processes of institutionalization that ultimately leads to "a loss of creative power in the souls of creative individuals." In such ways, the systems that produce the values upon which a civilization depends for its survival, become ends in themselves, or "vested interests," thus stifling creative processes. lewrockwell.com

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (172523)	12/19/2008 1:13:16 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

What does this have to do with real estate? ---- If I had read a little further the link was already confirmed. In AZ no less! -ng- ---- Message #172563 from bull_dozer at 12/19/2008 11:51:47 AM Ariz. police say they are prepared as War College warns military must prep for unrest; IMF warns of economic riots phoenix.bizjournals.com "Gov. Janet Napolitano’s office declined comment on emergency planning and possible civil unrest. Napolitano is president-elect Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of Homeland Security, an agency that oversees airport security, disaster response, border security, customs and anti-terrorism efforts."