Comments on: Why Is Anyone In This Picture Smiling? http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/ Portland Oregon Real Estate Search Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:31:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: uncle_git http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-659 uncle_git Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:58:12 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-659 Because they just pulled off the biggest theft in history on behalf their corporate sponsors.... Because they just pulled off the biggest theft in history on behalf their corporate sponsors….

]]> By: Jeff Johnson http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-661 Jeff Johnson Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:56:13 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-661 Hey Look ! There's Forrest Gump in the background ... (joke) Hey Look ! There’s Forrest Gump in the background … (joke)

]]> By: Corri Klebaum http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Corri Klebaum Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:16:41 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-660 I will be nice here Ron as this is your blog but poo floats. I will be nice here Ron as this is your blog but poo floats.

]]> By: Ron Ares http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-662 Ron Ares Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:44:31 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-662 Ben, I'm not suggesting that they shouldn't have acted...I just don't see what there is to be happy about. Something more like Rahm Emanuel's countenance in the foreground: grim, thoughtful, resolved. But not mugging for the paparazzi, please. Ben,

I’m not suggesting that they shouldn’t have acted…I just don’t see what there is to be happy about.

Something more like Rahm Emanuel’s countenance in the foreground: grim, thoughtful, resolved. But not mugging for the paparazzi, please.

]]> By: bearlee http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-667 bearlee Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:43:51 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-667 Were there any concessions like: 1) Caps on executive pay? Any hear about the WaMu's Platinum Gold parachutes?!?! 2) Tighter regulations and actual enforcement? What's going to prevent this god awful greed from killing our economy again? 3) Anyone worried about a bank monopoly with all the buy ups? 4) They predicted a great depression if this doesn't pass but they make no prediction of what good will come off this $800 billion? Could this $800 billion be spent another way to rev up the economy? California now wants $7 billion and I am gonna guess that NYC will be having their hands out, too. 4) Any assistance for those home buyers that were victims to the old bait and switch and other crimes of the mortgage industry? Good to see some crooks get prosecuted, even here in the Portland area. And no bail out for the speculators, of course. They had to see this coming. Do we really know what is going on here?!?!?! Were there any concessions like:

1) Caps on executive pay? Any hear about the WaMu’s Platinum Gold parachutes?!?!

2) Tighter regulations and actual enforcement? What’s going to prevent this god awful greed from killing our economy again?

3) Anyone worried about a bank monopoly with all the buy ups?

4) They predicted a great depression if this doesn’t pass but they make no prediction of what good will come off this $800 billion? Could this $800 billion be spent another way to rev up the economy? California now wants $7 billion and I am gonna guess that NYC will be having their hands out, too.

4) Any assistance for those home buyers that were victims to the old bait and switch and other crimes of the mortgage industry? Good to see some crooks get prosecuted, even here in the Portland area. And no bail out for the speculators, of course. They had to see this coming.

Do we really know what is going on here?!?!?!

]]> By: Ben Galvin http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-666 Ben Galvin Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:29:47 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-666 What do you feel would have been better? What do you feel would have been better?

]]> By: Matt Harris http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Matt Harris Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:54:23 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-665 Can you say "line items"? Whaaat? Can you say “line items”? Whaaat?

]]> By: Mike http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-664 Mike Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:53:25 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-664 Smiling because they held out long enough to get pork for their districts to help their re-election efforts. Smiling because they held out long enough to get pork for their districts to help their re-election efforts.

]]> By: Matt Harris http://repdx.com/2008/10/03/why-is-anyone-in-this-picture-smiling/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Matt Harris Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:56:01 +0000 http://www.repdx.com/?p=428#comment-663 Is this when Ashton Kutcher pops up and tells the world "you've been punk'd"? Is this when Ashton Kutcher pops up and tells the world “you’ve been punk’d”?

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