Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero - Latest Comments in Game over

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Elena — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:24:53 -0000

I’m really impressed with your article, that was exactly what I was looking for.. it was certainly a great read for me, I’ll be looking forward for more of your articles cause that’s one of the best I’ve read recently. Keep up the good work

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Cindy Way — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:22:14 -0000

What does approval by a moderator mean. Is there a little gnome reading my comments making a decision whether to post it or not?

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Cindy Way — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:20:32 -0000

What next? World currency. Not too distant future.

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Cindy Way — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:17:25 -0000

Looks like we're living in a New Age whether we like it or not. We shall see more and more of our American way of life fade away and more of our personal freedoms trampled on. We should stand up against tyranny whenever possible but not panic. Let us not give into fear and panic in the days ahead. It was foretold thousands of years ago that a time was coming in which many people would drop dead of pure fear because of these extremely perilous situations but not to be afraid. These things had to happen. Be of good cheer, there are people who have the ability to make unusually wise decisions in the midsts of these crisis if we pray and encourage each other. We can live simple and help each other out more than we do. I appreciate being able to read and understand from you. CW

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Nancy Roy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:10:29 -0000

What ever happen to "We the people", or did they rewrite that too ?

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Victor Lugo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:27:38 -0000

I appreciate your insight into the "ridiculous" but now "ludicrous" acts of the government. Basically we're all screwed. The best part is how this bail-out could be for absolutely nothing. It could all collapse after this with some other company going under. There are no guarantees that this will work even short term. I say let the dice fall where they may becuase ultimately they are going to do whatever they want and there's nothing we can truly do about it except hack our way into the 700 and send huge checks to everyone in America. That would be something huh?

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Chaz — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:31:30 -0000

This is insane. I've written all my elected critters and that useless POS Speaker of the House. I doubt it will do any good. Face it, we're fucked. I let my Rep and the Senator that's up for election if they vote for this, I'm voting against them.

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Jeff — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:07:37 -0000

The FAT CATS are just getting FATTER...THANKS TO THE BRAIN DEAD taxpayer. They don't say anything,don't do anything.... They continue to let these empty suits elected politicians and Bankers take their hard earned money. By this inaction and lack of interest other than reading the paper is a tragedy and so very SAD. The people have been screwed big time once again

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haroldcabezas — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:40:08 -0000

Thanks for bringing attention to this matter, most people have no idea the future repercussions of such a drastic move. This whole situation is very sad, many people will be affected by this bailout.

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cspenn — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:28:57 -0000

Contact your elected representatives with every tool you have at your disposal and urge them not to give the keys to America to Paulson and Bernanke.

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cspenn — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:28:22 -0000

It's blank in the sense that it's not a fixed $700B. It's a debt ceiling, so he can buy as much as he wants as long as some of it gets sold off to stay under the $700B ceiling.

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whitney — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:20:52 -0000

So what can we do to stop it? I think giving him a blank check is a disaster- any blank check is a disaster.
There are some amazing testimony given before Congress this week, available over on CSPAN radio- Lots of problems, and the finger in the dike approach is just worse than letting some things implode and clean up afterwards.

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Dave Kawalec — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:28 -0000

It doesn't say he has a blank check. It says he has a $700,000,000,000 check very specifically. The rest says the Secretary is the final decision maker regarding the matters that the Secretary is given under the law. My assumption is that there may be laws on the books specifically prohibiting the Secretary from taking these actions under normal circumstances. That section just says in the limited circumstances described in the law, the Secretary's actions are legal.

Regarding your headline, it's easy to make the argument that once you allow people to form corporations to limit their liability, the market is no longer truly "free" anymore. Certainly not equitable at the very least.

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kevindevin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:20:55 -0000

The more I hear and read about this "bail out" the more and more furious I become.