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8 trillion dollars is the now current sum value of "bailouts" in the US. This is a sum that makes that 700 billion not even a month ago seem pretty quaint.
It is sensible to ask, "where, actually, is all this money coming from?"
To bring it back to Hawaii, where does anyone think the money is going to come from to pay for police, traffic signals--or even basic services? The projected revenue shortfall for Hawaii was 250 million bucks, and that is a surely very out of date number at this point.
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Nope....
The money will be going the other direction... from Hawaii to DC, then from DC to the east coast banks, from there to the fat cats pockets and maybe if the fat cats vacation in Hawaii... it might come back....
Transplanted Texan
"I am here to chew bubble gum and kick some *** ... and I'm all out of bubble gum"
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I do not believe that America is better than everybody else...
America "IS" everybody else.
The Wilder Side Of Hawaii
I know where $12,000.00 came from last April and about the same amount is going to come form this time AGAIN.
But according to the way things are going to CHANGE we haven't seen anything yet.
The Lack
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Somehow the phrase "The Sacking of Rome" comes to mind......
Assume the best and ask questions.
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The Sack of Rome was better planned and better managed than what is going now. The Vandals, Visigoths, and Huns knew exactly what they were doing.
Cheers from West Texas,
Jerry
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The Fern Forest Financial Complex is heavily diversified at the moment, with large holdings especially in U'ala and Kalo. We expect a 300% rate of return in 2008.
Do I get to have "off balance sheet assets" too?
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Do I get to have "off balance sheet assets" too?
You mean pakalolo?
Pua`a
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Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
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Anyone thinking of investing in the newly established Lakota Bank?
It is back to the gold/silver standard! freelakotabank.com
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looks real safe.
Bank of Hawaii looks better.
Transplanted Texan
"I am here to chew bubble gum and kick some *** ... and I'm all out of bubble gum"
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I do not believe that America is better than everybody else...
America "IS" everybody else.
The Wilder Side Of Hawaii
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Here is a website where any complaints and solutions can be posted where they might do some good.
http://change.gov/page/s/economy
I for one have written about our financial situation of course from a personal standpoint, (raped) and from the perspective of how we got into this mess (manipulated by the fed. reserve, and rampant unchecked speculation, just look at the price of gas and where it has been in these past 14 months). The Enron game plan for California electricity was the forerunner to this and that plan is being played out in other industries also, and I wonder when food stuffs will enter the game, one of the last necessities of life, besides water in CA.
So time will tell where we go from here, but the more suggestions the better at this point.
mella l
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
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