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 Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 01:36 AM
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I think the gains made back in the market today
made this and even more complex issue.
If the DOW had fallen again, I feel sure a new bill,
different but similar to the one voted down, would have been
offered and passed.
But now, the new bill, if offered, might die.
I'm not so sure that's a bad thing  |
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Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 08:24 AM
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| I think it was old Winston Churchill who said that you can always trust America to do the right thing, after she's exhausted all alternatives, so now might be the time.... |
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Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 04:19 PM
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Greenchick- ROFLMAO!!!
That's choice. Rather true as well- except sometimes that "right thing" doesn't come for generations, if at all. |
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Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 08:49 PM
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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
-Winston Churchill- |
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Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 11:27 PM
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Churchill is a bit like Shakespeare, a quote for all seasons!
He was an old reactionary, why do you think we voted him out in '45? |
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Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 11:55 PM
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| greenchick wrote: |
He was an old reactionary, why do you think we voted him out in '45? |
Because he had done his job helping win the war and you wanted
him in a glass with a caption "Break glass only in event of war"
to look all spit spot.
First you quote him for your purpose, now you distance yourself,
all in one thread....it does not surprise me
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Posted: Oct 02, 2008 - 12:08 AM
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You're right, I have very ambivalent feelings about the old rascal! brilliant in times of war, he was the only one around the world who foresaw the menace posed by Hitler but he wasn't the right man to rebuild a nation.
But boy, did he ever have some brilliant one-liners...OMG, your vernacular is rubbing off on me!! |
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Posted: Oct 02, 2008 - 12:18 AM
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| greenchick wrote: | | You're right, I have very ambivalent feelings about the old rascal! brilliant in times of war, he was the only one around the world who foresaw the menace posed by Hitler but he wasn't the right man to rebuild a nation. |
He foresight was hardly limited to just times of war
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. |
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Posted: Oct 02, 2008 - 12:34 AM
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| He could certainly turn a phrase! I've just read the first volume of his memoirs of the years leading up to WW2 and you can hear those stentorian tones in each word! |
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Posted: Oct 02, 2008 - 01:10 AM
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WWII by Winston Churchill was the first real book I ever read.
Either that or "Call of the Wild"
I was a bit surprised to hear he flashed FDR.  |
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Posted: Oct 02, 2008 - 01:40 AM
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Dances with Heads up Their Bu..... errr... sorry ...  wrong thread. N |
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