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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:16 PM Original message |
Official: Obama to back more business tax breaks |
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piratefish08
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. wow! more change! |
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Tierra_y_Libertad
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Trickle down"....again. |
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kenny blankenship
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. That taste..I'm getting a hint of |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
44. How do you figure? |
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Tierra_y_Libertad
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:06 PM Response to Reply #44 |
65. Getting pissed on by the capitalists. Who we pay with our taxes to provide jobs. |
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Individualist
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
57. pissed on...again. |
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Brickbat
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. Excellent! This will certainly continue the almost constant rate of job creation that the last |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
4. A tax break in capital investments? |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Absolutely.. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Good point, we should fear robots. |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Eh, I rebuild older robotic equipment myself.. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. I hear the Japanese now have robots that do horrible things to teenage girls. |
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Hello_Kitty
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. IOW, you don't have an argument so you turn to mockery. eom |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I don't think "OMG, robots" was ever really an argument to begin with. |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. You missed the "things like" part of my statement.. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. And you're ignoring all the ways it could put people back to work. |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Eh, business is *already* sitting on a hell of a lot of money.. |
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Skittles
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Tue Sep-07-10 09:12 PM Response to Reply #28 |
85. stop arguing with a table leg, Fumesucker |
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Hello_Kitty
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Tue Sep-07-10 09:07 PM Response to Reply #21 |
84. Looks like Robert Reich is all OMG robots too. |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Yeah, I've been trying to get my hands on one of those.. |
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doc03
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. They wouldn't even think of using that capital to |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
41. I fix robots for a living |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #41 |
52. You and me both.. |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. Shhhhhhhh. |
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Hello_Kitty
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. And we promise not to rain on your Trickle Down parade. eom |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:03 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. When someone here preaches trickle down |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #33 |
43. As I said, those mattresses must be huge and there must a great many of them.. |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. This is a way to get them to open the mattresses |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:38 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. What is the the point of capital improvement if no one is buying your product? |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:46 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Capital improvement isn't increase in production |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:35 PM Response to Reply #49 |
62. Umm.. better widget assembly lines are more efficient.. |
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:56 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. How do more energy-efficient windows or removed asbestos kill jobs? |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:17 PM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Is that all that's going to be purchased with these tax cuts? |
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:38 PM Response to Reply #66 |
70. Certainly very little of it will go for improving manufacturing plant |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:40 PM Response to Reply #70 |
71. Robert Reich disagrees.. |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #43 |
60. We need investment and consumption as well as jobs in the US. |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. How is this "trickle down"? |
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JDPriestly
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
40. Me too. Although I would like to see it for capital investments |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:50 PM Response to Reply #40 |
50. I'm giving up on the stuff, personally |
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MadHound
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
56. You do realize that tax cuts are the weakest way to stimulate the economy don't you? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #56 |
64. You do realize that stimulating the economy is a good thing, right? |
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MadHound
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Tue Sep-07-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #64 |
82. All the more reason to get all the bang for our buck that we can |
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dflprincess
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. Wow! That sounds a lot like the plan the Republican candidate for Minnesota governor came up with! |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #7 |
29. I respectfully disagree. Obama is calling for an investment |
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dflprincess
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:23 PM Response to Reply #29 |
69. Robert Reich disagrees |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #69 |
75. Reich said it will not create mass jobs |
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Abq_Sarah
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Wed Sep-08-10 12:58 AM Response to Reply #69 |
86. With all due respect to Mr Reich |
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Hansel
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:51 PM Original message |
Not at all. |
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SidDithers
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. Ah yes, the anonymous "administration official"... |
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Kurt_and_Hunter
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. This isn't a leak, it's an announcement. |
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SidDithers
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Guess we'll see tomorrow...nt |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. So we shouldn't post stories from major newspapers? |
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SidDithers
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. You should recognize that until Obama makes an announcement... |
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FBaggins
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
14. Sounds like yet another way to shift future demand into the present... |
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notesdev
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. ding ding we have a winnah |
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Hannah Bell
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
38. +100 |
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blindpig
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
55. The corporate model.... |
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Autumn
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
22. Good job, this is what will work, |
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inna
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
23. $200 Billion over TWO years?? |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
25. It's an investment tax credit. |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. But we need something that will stimulate _demand_... |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I imagine this is why the President is working on other |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:03 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. That is $50 billion.. |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. "Sitting on" the cash vs. investing it, |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. It must take a lot of mattresses |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:19 PM Response to Reply #36 |
58. Agreed. |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:20 PM Response to Reply #58 |
67. That awful Robert Rubin agrees with me.. |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #67 |
73. Robert Reich makes the point that the investment incentives |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #73 |
77. So it's only a ploy that will piss off the base... |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #77 |
78. I was under the impression that the so called base |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #78 |
80. Believe it or not, I started off wanting to believe in Obama.. |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #80 |
81. I disagree with how he's |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
51. In a word, yes: we're bribing businesses to spend their own money |
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madrchsod
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
37. the guy does`t have a fucking clue or.... |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
39. A capital investments tax break is a Very Good Thing |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:35 PM Response to Reply #39 |
46. We have a lack of manufacturing capacity in the USA? |
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. God yes |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:56 PM Response to Reply #48 |
53. That's just my point though.. |
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. So who's saying build more factories? |
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Fumesucker
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #54 |
76. Better phone systems cut jobs.. |
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Tue Sep-07-10 05:24 PM Response to Reply #76 |
83. What companies still have secretaries? |
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Abq_Sarah
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
59. Businesses were already allowed to write off the cost of equipment |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. Excellent! |
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ecstatic
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:21 PM Response to Reply #59 |
68. Why did so many people pile on without even understanding |
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #59 |
72. "Easy on that pencil, son... make it last a year and it's a capital expense" |
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
74. I don't know why the site is on fire because Obama gave a speech |
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mzmolly
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Tue Sep-07-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #74 |
79. Holding Democrats accountable I see. |
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eridani
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Wed Sep-08-10 03:52 AM Response to Original message |
87. Jezzus, how stupid! Put that money into the infrasrtucture bill |
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eridani
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Wed Sep-08-10 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
88. Jezzus, how stupid! Put that money into the infrasrtucture bill |
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