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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Bev, thank you for writing the way you see the issue.  It matters.  One thing 
I have been doing for the past month is to take the time to read most, and 
sometimes all of the (sometimes) hundreds of reader's comments after economic 
articles in the NYT and the Wash Post.

  Remember that these are largely urban liberals, most are/or were 
'comfortable.  I'm seeing extreme anger in their many comments.  People are  
using expressions like, execution; bullet to the head; guillotine, 
Robespierre & Trumbeler; life sentences in supermax; burming banks; and on 
and on. 

 Now , all of this is just talk, for now.  But it is not the kind of talk you 
would hear from those particular liberal bastions of the MSM.  I'm thinking 
we could see violence, given one or two co-incidental events.  

Maybe President-elect has good people with good ideas, but 'how' is that 
possible when his advisors are all Goldman Sachs; Citibank, & Hedge Fund 
alums.  He is using the same people from the same outfits that ran things for 
Clinton and for Bush.  'Very hard for me to understand.  Soemtimes I think 
the very rich are seeing thuis as a last chance to grab all that they can and 
it's 'every man for himself' time.   Anyway, thanks for your input, Bev.  I 
hope the news from the Docs today was okay................

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--- On Mon, 12/22/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] [Homestead ] MY  microcosm of economic downturn
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 3:17 PM
> bobf wrote:
> > So, where is the remedy?  Surely things can't
> continue this way.
> 
> I honestly believe that many people believe that Obama will
> change
> things...the way people work or don't work, the way
> people get health
> care, etc.  (Please remember that woman who wouldn't
> have to worry about
> paying her bills) Many choose between the mortgage and
> healthcare-can
> only pay one.. I hope he does for my own sake, but the way
> he might do
> it is the issue for me.  I think long term, but anyway, I
> want to get
> into all of that now.   Bob things have just gone on and
> on, the split
> wider and wider.  I think, what you will see, is what we
> saw a week or
> so ago at Republic...employees demanding via peaceful
> protest to be
> treated fairly and not to be the trickle down victims of
> all of this.  I
> think the bailouts and stories like the sit in are now
> registering in
> peoples brains and you may see a lot of similar or copy cat
> stuff, maybe
> class action lawsuits even.  The success at Republic just
> fuels the
> likelihood of seeing it more.  After Columbine, schools
> everywhere went
> on alert for either real or imagined threats..I think you
> will see the
> same in large production facilities that hire lots of
> people....sit ins,
> etc.
> 
> 
> > That was my original observation.  The picture you
> just drew was not
> >  so much bleak as it is unsustainable.
> 
> IMO, it has sustained itself for several decades now..lol
> 
> 
> B
> 
> 
> -- 
> The true significance of Sacajawea's involvement in the
> Lewis & Clark
> expedition is that it was the first documented trip in
> history where men
> asked a woman for directions and followed them, allowing
> them to arrive
> at their destination.
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