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Paulson and Bernanke ratchet up the blackmail talk | 59 comments (59 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Of course not!
Remember personal responsibility!
Helping mortgage holders would be ... un-American, French, European, socialist?

/snark

"Mark to maturity" prices. Unbelievable.
Well, at least they made their priorities clear.
A last $700 billion farewell present from Bush to his base, the "haves and the have-mores".

by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 02:19:37 PM EST
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Re: modest proposal (none / 0)

Hmmh. I guess as a frenchified fake American with a strong European identity I would think in that anti-American fashion. And I live in a city, NYC even, everyone knows that only small town and rural Americans are 'real America'. Plus I eat arugula, and drink wine. But I don't do lattes.

by MarekNYC on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 02:23:49 PM EST
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