Some of you may have 401k's. The higher achievers among you, perhaps the elders, have actually invested beyond such tax shelters. At any rate, the stock market is now the 4th branch of government...assuming we're talking about checks and balances (the media was brought up as the 4th branch, but it tends to agree with most of the bad ideas coming out of washington so I don't think it's a check or balance on anything, so).

As a check/balance on gov't power, the stock market, inasmuch as many of us hold our retirements in there, goes up or down depending on the future of the economy as perceived by the sum of individual investors. When Bush says he's going to place a tariff on steel and lumber, the stock market suddenly finds a cieling and heads down from there...a great indicator to Bush and others in congress that they're FUCKING UP. Before E*Trade and other such demotcratizing things that informed us as investors, the government could wreck the economy, and the stock market by proxy, and none of us regular folk would any the wiser.

But it's the 21st century, and you can't erase my 401k anymore, ok Bush?! Sheeesh!!!

yeah he's trouble

george w bush is an uneducated, election-thieving, illiterate, stock-tinkering, tariff-imposing, national-forest-raping, environment killing war-mongering fool of a daddy's boy who is involved in the enron scandal up to his eyebrows.

the way it's looking now is that he'll singlehandedly, without congress' support and against the advice of his peers, declare war on the 'axis of evil', plunging america into debt and depression. but hey, at least the american public will be distracted from prosecuting him for his well-documented enron connections.

in short, he's a one-term loser and the best we can do (short of wishing for some kinds of divine act to take him and all his corrupt cronies out) is stall him for another few years until we can kick his corrupt, sorry ass back onto the dirt farm it came from.

sign me,
NOT a friend of dubya

hahaha "corrupt ass back to the dirt farm that he came from." hahahaha. If I had a nickel for every time the nation said that about Clinton as well, we'd all have recovered from the mess Clinton left us in.

No fan of politicians.

XxAxX said:

Now I dig that Post.Props on that.so true.folks can say that about CLinton to a point: but this is Part 2 of a Bush doing this kind of Crap&Jeb in Florida is Glassy-Eyed as well.they all seem a bit Slippery IMHO.

XxAxX said:

You got on a point on the ..."declare war on the axis of evil"... If he attacks Iraq, all Hell may break loose, especially from Al Qaeda(not sure on the spelling)!

It is all about money for politicians. An attack on Iraq and overthrow of Hussein means better trade and lower prices on barrels of oil, so it gives W the open door to do what he wants to do, control world oil. If we would close our borders and ignore those who we don't like, we could be self-sufficient as a nation. But, once again, more money is their goal, and they know that capitalism as we know it is about to fall right through the floor, and they are trying to save their ass by creating any war or market fix that they can to try and save it. If we would all work together, we could tell these corporate dictators what hole to crawl in, and "We The People" could have real change and real life here on earth and make the best of what we have in an IMPERFECT world with IMPERFECT people.

:PEACE:,
JD

Can't we all get along?

Nope.