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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts) Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:28 PM Oct 2013

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I think the GOP is perilously close to losing the business vote over this.

*especially* if we default.

Let's hope Wall Street handles its' critters

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I think the GOP is perilously close to losing the business vote over this. (Original Post) LaydeeBug Oct 2013 OP

It's not their votes that matter, it's their money Cali_Democrat Oct 2013 #1

Maybe some of them....the Wall Street crowd will just short the stock and make a.... yourout Oct 2013 #2

When push comes to shove, they will cave. LAGC Oct 2013 #3

Good gopiscrap Oct 2013 #4

My downstairs neighbor works for a small company that sells these kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #5

Yet more reason to get money out of politics, period. xfundy Oct 2013 #6

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

1. It's not their votes that matter, it's their money

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:31 PM

Oct 2013

Wall Street will flee the GOP instantly if they don't raise the debt ceiling.

yourout

(7,531 posts)

2. Maybe some of them....the Wall Street crowd will just short the stock and make a....

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:32 PM

Oct 2013

fortune when it does down and turn around and make another fortune when it comes back.

LAGC

(5,330 posts)

3. When push comes to shove, they will cave.

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:35 PM

Oct 2013

They know who butters their bread, and won't upset their corporate overlords.

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)

4. Good

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:36 PM

Oct 2013

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

5. My downstairs neighbor works for a small company that sells these

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Wed Oct 9, 2013, 12:14 AM

Oct 2013

uber-pricey steaks and seafood by the box to rich folks here in LaLaLand. You know, the $175/5 or 10 lb stuff.

I told her about how the FDA is no longer inspecting imported meats and seafood, and as of the 17th the USDA will have no funds for operating the Food Safety and Inspection Service, which inspects slaughterhouses and packing plants in the US. I said she might want to have a talk with her boss about it if he wasn't aware (she was pretty sure he wasn't).

Our chicken and beef and pork supply is just about to be cut off. Ditto the fish and shellfish. And if you CAN get it, it's going to be UNINSPECTED.

That alone should have supermarkets AND restaurants AND small retailers pissing in their pants.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)

6. Yet more reason to get money out of politics, period.

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Wed Oct 9, 2013, 12:26 AM

Oct 2013

It's become a gaming system while the people always lose.

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