Palin: US could face another Great Depression

Lets see- a few billionaires doubled their income over the past few years...and does the economic crunch ruin the institutions it originate from- or everyones lives? Seems to me like alot of drama.
Maybe the government shouldn't spend trillions in Iraq- what is sum? the federal government spends 15 billion a month in Iraq????
The oil companies earned 155 billion in 2007?
Come on- Sarah Palin instead of being mean, and telling you to choke and go back to Alaska- I'll say-"great comment" it looks hot in the headlines with your photo.
"We are headed to Great Depression"- "Country First"- Did she(Sarah -Palin/Clinton) learn about America from T.V?- I keep reading Sarah Palin/Clinton hasn't travelled much until now/recently.

They stopped at the toy store FAO Schwarz, where daughter Piper tried on princess dresses, the campaign said.

I guess America will be a monarchy after all.

Lets see- a few billionaires doubled their income over the past few years...and so does the economic crunch ruin the institutions it originates from?- or everyones lives? Seems to me like alot of drama.
Maybe the government shouldn't spend trillions in Iraq- what is the sum? The federal government spends 15 billion a month in Iraq????
The oil companies earned 155 billion in 2007?
Come on- Sarah Palin/Clinton instead of being mean, and telling you to choke and go back to Alaska- I'll say-"great comment" it looks hot in the headlines with your photo.
"We are headed to Great Depression"- "Country First"- Did she(Sarah -Palin/Clinton) learn about America from T.V?- I keep reading Sarah Palin/Clinton hasn't travelled much until now/recently.

Whats the average income to the core base of the Republican voters? And do they have individual rights?
Are all republicans the same? Or individuals?
Depressing- they have so much...so, so much- to give.

To paraphrase an earlier leader, Let them eat moose.

Is Sarah Palin a super hero? She could be called CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! Way to make a comment with absolutely no evidence of insight. She is an idiot. Not stupid, just horribly terribly ignorant. Her comments about NY even sound naive. Noone is that much of a hayseed. she is really being kept quiet. Too bad her debate will run as scheduled with Biden. What do they hope to accomplish with these rushed meetings with low-rent foreign leaders? BTW: Why is Laura B quoted in this? This is the first comment I've ever heard out of her that wasn't about elementary education. Is she qualified to comment on Palin because she's rumored to have a vagina? When will that party learn we women don't vote based on gender!

"Palin has been in New York this week for a series of meetings with foreign leaders, part of an effort by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign to counter criticism that the former small-town mayor lacks the experience to be vice president, let alone president in an emergency."

--So if any one of us meets with World Leaders through a series of 15-minute conversations, we are going to have bolstered our resumes? If that's the case, elect Bono of U2 as Veep (too bad he's Irish right?)...

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America's wealthiest should pay for the billion-dollar bailouts
By Senator Bernie Sanders

The current financial crisis facing our country has been caused by the extreme right-wing economic policies pursued by the Bush administration. These policies, which include huge tax breaks for the rich, unfettered free trade and the wholesale deregulation of commerce, have resulted in a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the very wealthy.

The middle class has really been under assault. Since President George W. Bush has been in office, nearly six million Americans have slipped into poverty, median family income for working Americans has declined by more than $2,000, more than seven million Americans have lost their health insurance, more than four million have lost their pensions, foreclosures are at an all-time high, total consumer debt has more than doubled, and we have a national debt of more than $9.7 trillion dollars.

While the middle class collapses, the richest people in this country have made out like bandits and have not had it so good since the 1920s. The top 0.1 percent now earn more money than the bottom 50 percent of Americans, and the top one percent own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

The wealthiest 400 people in our country saw their wealth increase by $670 billion while Bush has been president. In the midst of all of this, Bush lowered taxes on the very rich so that they are paying lower income tax rates than teachers, police officers or nurses.

Now, having mismanaged the economy for eight years as well as having lied about our situation by continually insisting, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong," the Bush administration, six weeks before an election, wants the middle class of this country to spend many hundreds of billions on a bailout.

The wealthiest people, who have benefited from Bush's policies and are in the best position to pay, are being asked for no sacrifice at all. This is absurd. This is the most extreme example that I can recall of socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor.

I'm already facing depression... when the Repubs actually picked Palin to run as V.P. How much lower can we go?

She's a "quick study". It only took her 6 or 7 years to finish her degree, and 5 schools to do it in. Hehe. She's as quick as Alaskan water.

Great. Chatty Cathy will now have a new line. Pull string to see which one she'll say next.

It's about time the right wing decided to acknowledge that this is not just going to blow over.

"The CBS interview was just her third major interview in nearly four weeks on the GOP presidential ticket. Asked whether there's a risk of another Great Depression if Congress doesn't approve a $700 billion bailout package, Palin said, 'Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on.'"

Even if CBS had to coerce her to respond in that manner.

But a bipartisan REFORM is exactly what is needed.

Palin is not ready to be a heart beat away from the Presidency.

Did she figure this out, all by herself, within the last week or so?
She must be a true Republican!!!!

Wow, what a unique perspective on the current situation. We never would have known this without her. Now, can she handle a press conference like Obama did today?

Interesting. Our year to date average unemployment is around 5.5%. The average from 1980 to 2007 is 6.09%. This is my kind of depression!

What The...??? She has given a THIRD interview??? What a Shocker!

And Laura says Palin is a "quick study"???

Yeah right! I know of at least FIVE colleges that will disagree with that assessment.

I heard Biden the other day... how are the two of them even going to talk on the same level? Does he caribou hunt maybe... common ground there possibly?

DUH!!! DO u need to be a rocket scientist to figure this?? YOU STATE THE OBVIOUS AND MSM PICKS IT UP!! BRAVO MSM!!!!???!!!

Of course there is going to be a great depression - We the People want one (look at how many rich people committed suicide during the last one...)...but my question still is, where does all that money disappear to, because it's registered somewhere somehow...value drops, oh yeah! Nothing is worth anything when people are broke - they just survive or die, or kill trying to survive...bring it on!

Hey all you Republicans, tell them Democrats - Y'all ain't Indepent and you're not Right where I'm at, but you'll be Left - behind all my Conserve-ative views...If you don't get the picture soon - I'm going Green!

Be very afraid, people!

First, it was possible mushroom clouds over New York.

Then it was Ike ("Storm of the century").

Then it was Gustav ("Certain Death!).

Then it was that the next terrorist could be a Canadian with an American face.

Now you're going to live through a Great Depression if you don't hand over the money right away.

I think someone's trying to yank your chains.

Wow, Ms. Palin. Incisive deduction. What happened? Were you looking out your window and catch the Russians semaforing about America's current economic state?

The only depression she knows about is the one on that 26 million dollar road to nowhere she had built.

I'm not worried. I heard somewhere that the fundamentals of the economy were strong. I don't think the guy who said it would lie...

nah.