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Question: How would you have voted on the bailout bill?
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« Reply #25 on: September 29, 2008, 10:11:32 PM »
Nay (love the Constitution)
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« Reply #26 on: September 29, 2008, 10:46:02 PM »
Nay, who's to say that things wouldn't be even worse if the bailout passed?  All it would take is a year or two and the situation would be more serious. 

Here's a new idea: maybe credit caused this current crisis.  It just puts people in debt until they can't pay anymore, then things like the Great Depression happen.
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« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2008, 10:55:14 PM »
Yeah, this "bailout" is simply a bandaid on a gaping wound.
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« Reply #28 on: September 29, 2008, 11:02:52 PM »

Nice to see you back and posting!
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« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2008, 03:53:33 AM »
We need something done. I don't understand the details enough to know whether or not it should've been this specific bill though.
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« Reply #30 on: September 30, 2008, 08:10:20 AM »
I'm in favor of the principle, but not of the characters' writing the legislation. Nay.
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« Reply #31 on: September 30, 2008, 08:42:19 AM »
Aye of course, though I would have tried to bargain it higher.
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« Reply #32 on: September 30, 2008, 11:52:29 AM »
Nay. The bailout is a gigantic subsidy for large corporations that have messed up, due to no fault of the ordinary people of America, to be paid for with taxpayer money that the Us in reality does not have to spend, due to the huge national debt. This bailout is corporate welfare, socialism for the rich. It will only hurt the hardworking ordinary people, by bringing on even more out of control inflation and oppressive taxation.
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« Reply #33 on: September 30, 2008, 12:23:06 PM »
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« Reply #34 on: September 30, 2008, 04:47:47 PM »
Gave too much power to the executive branch.
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« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2008, 05:14:16 PM »
I would've voted Nay (I). That's not to say I'm against all intervention, I just don't consider this plan a positive.
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« Reply #36 on: September 30, 2008, 05:20:25 PM »
Aye(R)
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« Reply #37 on: September 30, 2008, 06:02:41 PM »
Quote from: PPTE Meeker on September 30, 2008, 03:53:33 AM
We need something done. I don't understand the details enough to know whether or not it should've been this specific bill though.
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« Reply #38 on: September 30, 2008, 07:12:46 PM »

Me too.
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« Reply #39 on: September 30, 2008, 07:18:07 PM »
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« Reply #40 on: September 30, 2008, 07:21:55 PM »
« Edited: September 30, 2008, 07:23:28 PM by PiT (The Physicist) »
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« Reply #41 on: September 30, 2008, 09:15:35 PM »
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« Reply #42 on: September 30, 2008, 09:32:16 PM »
Aye. It all sucks, but aye.
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« Reply #43 on: October 01, 2008, 02:59:27 AM »

^^^^

I was opposed to intervention, but I've come to accept its importance to the economy.
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« Reply #44 on: October 01, 2008, 01:25:50 PM »
Nay to the first, Nay even more emphatically to the second.  I won't bailout fatcats, send the country into socialism, or destroy the dollar.  I would voted against the $630 billion that was passed too and the other bailouts.  Raise the interest rates, ride out the recession, deflate and recover.
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« Reply #45 on: October 03, 2008, 06:29:54 PM »
Nay. (D)

There isn't a chance in hell that I would be willing to throw 700 billion at the feet of corporate America...regardless of how bad the situation is. Pissing ourselves out of fear and making rash decisions has not been a good policy in the past and it's not now.
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