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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 12:22 PM) Rumor is, Condi is on the VP shortlist for Mittens. That should work well: she's pro-choice. Yeah can't wait for the press to fall all over her like they did with Barack. No questions asked. Sure they will be just as gung ho thrill up their pants with the first woman/black VP being a Republican....... Waits for hell to freeze over.

"Now that I am out of gov't., I can tell you what I really believe.... Central banks are now so heavily influencing asset prices that investors are unable to ascertain market values....this influence is especially evident with the Fed's purchase of gov't. bonds, which has made it impossible for investors to use bond prices to learn anything about markets." ----Kevin Warsh, former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Resrerve Keep pumping boys!! I would love for someone to ask Bernanke in his HH testimony if he would provide proof that the FED does not intervene in the equity mkts through the NY dealing desk.

Should be intersting to hear "turbo Tim" testify in two weeks about the LIBOR rate fixing scheme, and why the NY FED did nothing about it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500395_162-574...customer-funds/ Another MF but on a smaller scale. And some of the customers were transplants from MF. Talk about bad luck. Just make a cash matress and sleep on it! Would not want to be working in the audit dept. of the NFA.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 02:20 PM) I don't know that the government can mandate a private organization to do something like that. It's a guild cap, not a government cap. Just tell them they will pay a penalty if they do not.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 01:33 PM) The federal executive has leeway in that regard, as the majority in Monday's AZ immigration ruling points out. States, however, do not have the authority to nullify federal laws. Nor does this explain or excuse DeMint's attacks on the court, calling the bill unconstitutional in spite of their ruling and advocating for actions that SC's in the past have ruled unconstitutional. edit: or Rand Paul's attack on the legitimacy of the courts: So Romney wins and tells HHS fuggedaboudit. Tells IRS not to collect the "penalty".

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 12:42 PM) It doesnt matter the justification, they are just semantics for the law professors to argue about. What matters is the end result, Congress has extremely broad powers to basically do whatever it wants. This ruling does not change that. Like through budget reconciliation? This being a tax and all.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 07:32 PM) Emergency care isn't health care. Then all emergency care should be exempt from BOcare.?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 07:32 PM) Emergency care isn't health care. Being treated by a doctor in a hospital and hopefully getting well soon thereafter, is not healthcare. Must be some liberalese that us right wing wackos can't understand. So if a citizen with insurance goes to the hospital for treatment of a broken arm, it is.......? Emergency care is not healthcare because it is not paid for by the people who utilize it the most. Tell them they are not receiving healthcare and they would laugh in your face.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 08:14 AM) We don't have actual free health care. We have less socialized health care than many latin american countries. Illegal alien walks into cook county hospital with a "problem", how much do they pay? 0. how much do you pay? 0

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 18, 2012 -> 10:57 PM) They won't come if there aren't jobs for them. But the free healthcare and education is just as good if not better.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 18, 2012 -> 07:18 PM) except for all of those state and local taxes and sales taxes and property taxes (rolled into rent) and gas taxes and liquor taxes and.... And free school breakfast and lunch and surely within a few years dinner. And busing. And spare me he property tax bulls***.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 02:48 PM) Hopefully we do hear about this for 7+ days, it's a great campaign move. Yeah that is all this asshole knows. Economy. f*** that I am going to pander to any and every possible person. Biggest asshole to ever occupy the WH. Can't sweep this trash out of Washington fast enough.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 12:13 PM) If a college kid is registered to vote in their home state, can they change their registration to vote in Wisconsin? And if so, how long until they can change it back? Or do they just vote in 2 different states, breaking the law in the process? Eric Holder would be all over this like flies on dung.

Kimberly Clark rushing shipments of diapers and Kleenex to the Wisconsin Dems.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 09:53 AM) That depends. My issue with government funded healthcare for retired workers is we live by two vastly different standards... 1) The union standard, where you are of retirement age at 51 and eligible for healthcare benefits/pension funds. 2) The private standard, where you are of retirement age at 65 and eligible for healthcare benefits/social security funds. So no, I don't want to be on the hook for paying their pensions/healthcare contracts because the unions made sweet deals with the corrupted politicians, then blamed the politicians for spending their money when they were the ones overseeing it...that's on them...they should fix it with their own workers, who get to retire as early as 51...maybe they should retire at 65, too. I would propose a bill matching gov't workers retirement age to private workers social security eligibility. You solve the pension crisis and put the state on more sound fiscal ground. And you could even let the saps keep their healthcare.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 09:18 PM) Did you just argue that "Healthcare for life" is a bad idea? When it's free, yes.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 08:59 PM) Pensions that workers earned for decades of service per contractual obligations=teat sucking unions. Yes. Contractual obligations. That is funny. That is what you call it. Ponzi is more like it. You keep believing the payouts are justified. You keep believing the taxpayers should make up the losses that pension funds lose. That's fair, right? It's an obligation. Where is the fiscal obligation of the assholes voting for this nonsense. You keep on believing 3% compounded colas are sound fiscal policy. You keep n believing healthcare for life is fiscally sound and honest to all the other working people who have to pay for these stiffs.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 03:43 PM) He also has new ad campaigns claiming that he brought the industry back. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/o..._n_1506105.html He is really amazing isn't he. He butt f***s all the bond holders in an unprecedented way and then for good measure gives the equity to the teat sucking unions. they call it a success knowing full well they will never see the almost $40 billion still owed the gov't. And last but not least let.'s throw in some tax loss carry forwards in another unprecedented show of good will to the tax payers.

Fed going to ease swap lines with ECB's? AGAIN???? Stress is mounting beyond the 3yr funding window.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2012 -> 02:30 PM) $15 billion would be a lot of cash to hold on to if you were only expecting to have to cover a $2-$3 billion hole. Well to be fair. The 15 billion repurchase is probably to be executed over a couple of years. These are not done in one year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 18, 2012 -> 02:58 PM) Not many industries out there can say they're still at their 2006 level of employment. If you walked on the floor of any exchange today you would not even recognize it. If familiar with the industry you would probably ask, "Is any trading occurring?" it is a ghost town compared to what it was. before I left the floor the CBOE initiated three rounds of layoffs, and that was before the 2008 crisis took effect.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 18, 2012 -> 10:51 AM) 5 years you've been saying this. 5 years from now...you're still going to be saying this. Are you seriously going to say he is wrong. Ask the Fed what they holding as collateral. I am sure they will forthcoming. They purchased 90% of treasuries since they put The Chubbster into play.

Syndicate had 17 million shares $38 bid at the end of day. I think with a little more time in the trading day this pig would have broken the issue price. Should be an interesting Monday. They won't be able to hold that price forever.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ May 17, 2012 -> 11:57 AM) Yeah, wow...taking the good policies and ideas of past presidents and somehow making it relevant to todays world. He isn't douchey, he's the first one who has a staff smart enough to do it. Yeah that's it.