What will you do if the bailout passes the house?

burtonridr · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 763

I'm serious, I wanna know, who here is going to get off their ass and go protest for the removal of their representative if they vote for it?

I hope we dont get a bunch of smoke blowing in here because I know tension is running high right now, but seriously do you have a plan to organize a protest if this passes or will you site there and bitch about it?

Anyone plan on calling them?

Just voting against them come re-election?

Anything else?

Note: please dont make violent threats on here, it wouldnt be appropriate.
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vtsnowedin · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Posts: 632

well I only have the one congressman and he voted against it last time. My senators split on it with the socialist voting against it. Protesting against a Dem. congressman in Vt would be a complete waste of time so if he switches his vote Friday I will finish digging my potatoes and store them away in the root cellar very carefully. By Nov. 4 we will know if this has worked or not and thats what has those congressmen so nervous. It may be the only issue that matters by then.

AgentR

Ain't doin nuttin.

Not surprising since I'm for the bailout, but for the most part, those against it won't do anything either.
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TreebeardsUncle · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 15, 2006 Posts: 602

Am expecting the house to pass the bailout this time round. The senate passed it 74 to 25. Folks will be irked if they do not and that will be reflected in another several-hundred point drop in the DOW. (Folks get irked if they expect something and that is taken away from them or just not given.)
There should be a brief rally in the stock market that will last for a week to 10 days. After that there will be a renewed decline brought on by the usual concerns over tight credit, falling housing prices, declines in auto sales, more bank failures (National City) etc. This should bring the Dow down to around 10,000 to 10,500 by late October at which level it will stay through early November. That will be a good opportunity to buy more stock in Noble Corporation, Helmerich and Payne, Cameron, Smith International, Transocean, Diamond Offshore, Ensco, National Oilwell Varco, Atwood Oceanics etc.

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Quinny · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 03, 2008 Posts: 602

Whats the significance of Nov 4th?
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Roccland · Peak Oil Prophet Joined: Jun 16, 2007 Posts: 1696

With or without passage...I will still buy a squeeze of hay this weekend and ten cords of wood.

I will also fence a 1 acre grassy knoll for our goats...slaughter about 6 rabbits and gather about 6 dozen eggs before Monday.

See they don't care about me and I don't care about them...I have better things to do with my time.

Oh and help my son site in his 243 for the deer hunt in 3 weeks.
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joeltrout · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Sep 19, 2007 Posts: 1317

I will actually be happy. I might be the only po member celebrating if they pass the bill.

joeltrout

theragtopguy

Absolutely nothing.

Sit back and watch the eventual economic carnage to follow.

That's the way it is these days, nobody protests anymore, the Sixties are long gone.

People are too busy worrying about Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton.

vtsnowedin · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Posts: 632

burtonridr · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 763

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cynthia · Heavy Crude Joined: May 29, 2005 Posts: 382

I wish I could muster the hope that compelled me in the past to activate. I have done the street protesting, leafleting, calling my political peeps, emailing them, snail mailing them, and otherwise cried and pleaded to those I thought I could influence.

I used to think my vote mattered. Not any more.
Solutions regarding voter fraud during the past two presidential elections and how to stop it from happening again have not been addressed.
I still believe my vote counts in my local (county) elections but at this point, if there is a national election, I am not going to bother.

Yup, that's right, I plan to throw my soiled sanitary napkin into the sullied political ring and call it a day.
cynthia

Shannymara

Protesting seems to have become ineffective most of the time. Money is the only thing that matters.
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