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To: Road Walker who wrote (478049)5/5/2009 4:28:47 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574096
 
"Funny so few people think "what if?" all those insolvent banks had stopped functioning."

I know. The truly amusing thing is that all these (R)'s style themselves as amateur economists. Yet they totally miss this aspect. Things were so bad that some countries moved Capemax ships based on barter, something that hasn't happened in centuries. Yet, somehow, this was just a normal downturn...



To: Road Walker who wrote (478049)5/5/2009 8:28:45 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574096
 
But those tough "Republican individualists" would have been OK I guess. "They don't need no stinkin' banks".

Let me tell you......if the banks had closed their doors, the Rs would have screamed the loudest. Its their nature.


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