Comments on: Bush’s “Stimulus” Cash Giveaway: “Gentlemen, Start The Helicopters” http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/bushs-%e2%80%9cstimulus%e2%80%9d-cash-giveaway-%e2%80%9cgentlemen-start-the-helicopters%e2%80%9d/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:31:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Trotsky's Ghost http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/bushs-%e2%80%9cstimulus%e2%80%9d-cash-giveaway-%e2%80%9cgentlemen-start-the-helicopters%e2%80%9d/#comment-13421 Trotsky's Ghost Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:20:57 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/bushs-%e2%80%9cstimulus%e2%80%9d-cash-giveaway-%e2%80%9cgentlemen-start-the-helicopters%e2%80%9d/#comment-13421 Wait, don't they want to round us up and make us march to the nearest Wal-Mart, not a detention camp? If we're all in detention camps there will never be enough consumer spending to jump start the economy, certainly not with the rather limited options at the camp commissary (grape drink, Ramen and Pop-Tarts). The idea of using Wal-Marts as detention camps is intriguing though. The shelving systems are all easily reconfigured in those stores, how long do you think it would take to switch them over to camps? Wait, don’t they want to round us up and make us march to the nearest Wal-Mart, not a detention camp? If we’re all in detention camps there will never be enough consumer spending to jump start the economy, certainly not with the rather limited options at the camp commissary (grape drink, Ramen and Pop-Tarts).

The idea of using Wal-Marts as detention camps is intriguing though. The shelving systems are all easily reconfigured in those stores, how long do you think it would take to switch them over to camps?

]]> By: Don Hawkins http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/bushs-%e2%80%9cstimulus%e2%80%9d-cash-giveaway-%e2%80%9cgentlemen-start-the-helicopters%e2%80%9d/#comment-13394 Don Hawkins Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:52:11 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/bushs-%e2%80%9cstimulus%e2%80%9d-cash-giveaway-%e2%80%9cgentlemen-start-the-helicopters%e2%80%9d/#comment-13394 Futures North/Latin America INDEX VALUE CHANGE OPEN HIGH LOW TIME DJIA INDEX 11,592.00 -514.00 12,130.00 12,140.00 11,569.00 11:29 S&P 500 1,265.10 -60.20 1,327.50 1,331.60 1,256.00 11:29 NASDAQ 100 1,773.50 -76.00 1,850.75 1,857.75 1,755.25 11:29 S&P/TSE 60 715.40 -31.50 719.40 721.60 710.20 14:50 MEX BOLSA 25,600.00 -1,363.00 25,800.00 26,160.00 25,600.00 14:50 BOVESPA 53,750.00 -3,630.00 54,200.00 54,800.00 53,500.00 14:57 Europe/Africa/Middle East INDEX VALUE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME DJ EURO STOXX 50 € Pr 3,703.05 -292.12 -7.31% 13:00 FTSE 100 INDEX 5,578.20 -323.50 -5.48% 11:35 CAC 40 INDEX 4,744.45 -347.95 -6.83% 12:10 DAX INDEX 6,790.19 -523.98 -7.16% 14:29 IBEX 35 INDEX 12,625.80 -1,029.60 -7.54% 11:38 S&P/MIB INDEX 33,903.00 -1,850.00 -5.17% 11:35 AMSTERDAM EXCHANGES INDX 422.45 -27.63 -6.14% 12:07 OMX STOCKHOLM 30 INDEX 917.75 -39.88 -4.16% 11:45 SWISS MARKET INDEX 7,287.14 -404.84 -5.26% 11:31 No you are not seeing things that is 514 down for tomorrows open if they don't change and those are the closing numbers for Europe and Middle East. If Mike reads his comments I wonder what he thinks. I remember the dot com bust and I don't remember a number like 514 minus 514. Take a look at where the Dax closed today yes that is 523.98 minus. England only 323.50. Like Mike said, "gentelman start your helicopters," and heck make it a full point Ben. Greed and stupidity not a good combination. Futures

North/Latin America

INDEX VALUE CHANGE OPEN HIGH LOW TIME
DJIA INDEX 11,592.00 -514.00 12,130.00 12,140.00 11,569.00 11:29
S&P 500 1,265.10 -60.20 1,327.50 1,331.60 1,256.00 11:29
NASDAQ 100 1,773.50 -76.00 1,850.75 1,857.75 1,755.25 11:29
S&P/TSE 60 715.40 -31.50 719.40 721.60 710.20 14:50
MEX BOLSA 25,600.00 -1,363.00 25,800.00 26,160.00 25,600.00 14:50
BOVESPA 53,750.00 -3,630.00 54,200.00 54,800.00 53,500.00 14:57

Europe/Africa/Middle East

INDEX VALUE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME
DJ EURO STOXX 50 € Pr 3,703.05 -292.12 -7.31% 13:00
FTSE 100 INDEX 5,578.20 -323.50 -5.48% 11:35
CAC 40 INDEX 4,744.45 -347.95 -6.83% 12:10
DAX INDEX 6,790.19 -523.98 -7.16% 14:29
IBEX 35 INDEX 12,625.80 -1,029.60 -7.54% 11:38
S&P/MIB INDEX 33,903.00 -1,850.00 -5.17% 11:35
AMSTERDAM EXCHANGES INDX 422.45 -27.63 -6.14% 12:07
OMX STOCKHOLM 30 INDEX 917.75 -39.88 -4.16% 11:45
SWISS MARKET INDEX 7,287.14 -404.84 -5.26% 11:31

No you are not seeing things that is 514 down for tomorrows open if they don’t change and those are the closing numbers for Europe and Middle East. If Mike reads his comments I wonder what he thinks. I remember the dot com bust and I don’t remember a number like 514 minus 514. Take a look at where the Dax closed today yes that is 523.98 minus. England only 323.50. Like Mike said, “gentelman start your helicopters,” and heck make it a full point Ben. Greed and stupidity not a good combination.

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