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RCTjunkie on 30 September 2008

This thread is to come up and (politely) point out faults in VGChartz-made plans for the crisis America is in.

Rules:

1. No saying, "I wouldn't have gotten us in this mess in the first place" We're not looking at the past, we're looking into the future.

2. If you want to point out faults, be polite. This means no name-calling, harsh criticism, ect. Just point out the faults without coming off rude.

3. Make it realistic. Self-explanitory.

4. It's to HELP America. Please no plans that would knowingly destroy America.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd... GO!



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akuma587 on 30 September 2008

Blow up Wall Street.



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RCTjunkie on 30 September 2008
akuma587 said:
Blow up Wall Street.

 

 

Read the dang rules.

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akuma587 on 30 September 2008
RCTjunkie said:
akuma587 said:
Blow up Wall Street.

 

 

Read the dang rules.

-_-

Rules, schmules.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

psrock on 30 September 2008

move to Canada



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Onyxmeth on 30 September 2008

Something is telling me if I were capable of coming up with a feasible plan to fix the economy, I wouldn't be working in retail making 45 grand a year.



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coolestguyever on 30 September 2008

1. Firstly, I'd spell the title correctly. (sorry, wrongly spelt titles are my pet peeve, in the post its okay, but in the title, no way)

2. But to solve the problem, I'd do absolutely nothing. I think the economy has a way of naturally correcting itself. I think the more you try to fix it, the worse you make it. I think you just need to let the economy go through its cycle, and wait for it to correct itself.



coolestguyever on 30 September 2008
psrock said:
move to Canada

 

 thats a good plan at any time.

 

but our economy will be effected too. We pretty much follow america. your problems are our problems



O-D-C on 30 September 2008
psrock said:
move to Canada

cool man, I got a pull out a couch and everyting.

 



TheRealMafoo on 01 October 2008

Short Term:
I would not bail out the banks. Let them file for bankruptcy. That's what it's there for. I would also immediately put into motion huge spending cuts. Get rid of lot of what Government pays for. The government should NEVER spend money we don't have, or can't borrow (and we do it all the time). Making money up is a bad idea. If we have a surplus, we would have more options as to how to handle this crisis. We are broke, so that limits what we can do that will have positive results.

Long Term:
I would remove policies that attempt to help the lower class through questionable means. The best way to help the lower class is to remove them from the lower class through education and employment. Give them the tools to improve there lives, help them with additional funding if need be, but don't lower interest rates and incentives sub prime loans as an attempt to help the poor generate wealth. They are called sub prime loans for a reason ;)

I am a constitutionalist. I believe in what it stands for. We have been a long way from it for a very long time. I would do what I could to at least start moving back in the right direction.