Bank of America May Get More U.S. Aid to Absorb Merrill Lync

[masonyes]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home

hahahahaha

[RyaNtheSlayA]

america sucks sometimes...

[lordofduct]

I have prayed for socialism since I was old enough to understand it... but I didn't expect socialism to come in the order of capitalist state socialism. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


oh and to any non-socialist out there... do not open your mouth to my socialist theory view points. And enjoy whatever theory you too entertain. Unless, that is, you really want to debate with me. In which case... FUN WILL BE HAD!

[corn619]

My fiance lost her job at BoA in account security and verifcation. Her job was outsourced to India. So take comfort in knowing Boa customers, your account info is being held by someone getting paid pennies. Higher Standards, as their saying goes.

[Dakinggamer87]

My fiance lost her job at BoA in account security and verifcation. Her job was outsourced to India. So take comfort in knowing Boa customers, your account info is being held by someone getting paid pennies. Higher Standards, as their saying goes.

yeah really that's the sad truth unfortunately..

[masonyes]

Indians aren't paid pennies and although it sucks for your fiance losing her job, i'm sure she'll find another job. A common lament among people is the starving people of the world, yet when we use a pratical means of helping them, they get angry. The rate of pay is much lower than the us, but the again we are the richest country on the planet. Regardless the coporations are giving the extremely poor a job and a means of sucess. While not affecting the bottom line, that is reducing the overall amount of jobs. As I have never heard and I'm sure your fiance will be an attestment to this, to someonee who was laid off and became perputually jobless.
I agree with mozgus, socialism is a great theory, a grand idea. Equality for everyone, but time after time has shown it doesn't work. The citizens of a socalist country are left worst off, poor and starving and often are subjected to horrible means of death. I.E. the great purges of soviet union(20 million+(why people remember the holocost,but not this??), the chenobly accident, the massive genocide in cambodia(millions died,why people remember the holocost but not this??), and not to mention mass starvation,famine and generaly poor standards of living in soviet union,china and other countries. The whole point of socalism, is to ensure a better way of living right? But this never happens, when you compare our rate of success to socalist countries, the western world wins every time. And the signficant countries that have practiced socialism(let's not forget that soclaism has to be forced) end up forgoing their idea and transcend to capatlaism, which if you compare the facts to before and after, the people end up living much better, and having a higher standard of living than when they were living in a socalist government.

[lordofduct]

a) confusing me lordofduct with mozgus

b) confusing socialism and communism... Canada, Britain, Japan, France... socialists. China, pre wall Russia... communists.

A Democratic state with socialist values is very plausible and is performed by some of the most powerful countries in the world. Bear in mind, the US is a democratic state, not a capitalist state, yet we feel as if we should depend upon the eb and curve of capitalism here. As if money will solve all our problems.

Mama always said, "Money doesn't buy you happiness". Well I guess it also doesn't give me health insurance when I'm 8 years old and my mum has to break her ass working at the stocking factory for Hallmark because her psuedo-puritan mother pulled her out of school when she was 16 and mailed her 1400 miles away because she was an "embarassment to the family" and capitalist sponsored foundations hand out shitty 'welfare' to the poor like used toys and undersized clothes on Christmas, or SPAM for Thanksgiving. Fuck your Monopoly with half the shit missing, how about some penacilin for my chronic pnuemonia I've had since I was 2?

Go talk to a poor family and ask them about the time DCF tried to take away there kids because they had to wear grocery bags as snow shoes to school. They're unfit?? Oh no, they just spent the last of their money buying susie glasses so she could learn to read and the back up money on a cast because Billie got his arm broken rough housing with the bully at school.

But no, where did all that tax money mommy had to pay last year go? 35 billion to Bank of America... and all the others... because some idiot thought it'd be a bright idea to hand out home mortgages like they were candy!

"Hey fat cat mcgee, you know how we could bank all kinds of cash??"

"How slosh bottom Goldfurth?"

"Let's give a bunch of poor people money they can never pay back and collect on all the interest. Then in the subsequent inflation we can liquidate eligable assets of ours onto said poor people at 5 times its cost thus fueling the economy in a bubble of money!"

"And if it fails, good ol Uncle Sam will bail us out just like they did Amtrak and U.S. Airways!"

Go money!




You know what happens if we fail? Us normal people? We starve!

[corn619]

Indians aren't paid pennies and although it sucks for your fiance losing her job, i'm sure she'll find another job. A common lament among people is the starving people of the world, yet when we use a pratical means of helping them, they get angry. The rate of pay is much lower than the us, but the again we are the richest country on the planet. Regardless the coporations are giving the extremely poor a job and a means of sucess. While not affecting the bottom line, that is reducing the overall amount of jobs. As I have never heard and I'm sure your fiance will be an attestment to this, to someonee who was laid off and became perputually jobless.
I agree with mozgus, socialism is a great theory, a grand idea. Equality for everyone, but time after time has shown it doesn't work. The citizens of a socalist country are left worst off, poor and starving and often are subjected to horrible means of death. I.E. the great purges of soviet union(20 million+(why people remember the holocost,but not this??), the chenobly accident, the massive genocide in cambodia(millions died,why people remember the holocost but not this??), and not to mention mass starvation,famine and generaly poor standards of living in soviet union,china and other countries. The whole point of socalism, is to ensure a better way of living right? But this never happens, when you compare our rate of success to socalist countries, the western world wins every time. And the signficant countries that have practiced socialism(let's not forget that soclaism has to be forced) end up forgoing their idea and transcend to capatlaism, which if you compare the facts to before and after, the people end up living much better, and having a higher standard of living than when they were living in a socalist government.

There paided MUCH less than American workers, and account information is not as secure. And RI is #1 in the country "BoA being one of the reasons" for unemployment so finding a new job is no as easy as it seems. buts thanks for the encouragement.

[Ack]

And for the record, the reason Cambodia doesn't get talked about too much is because so few people know it happened. Cambodia did an excellent job at pulling off a total blackout of their country in the late 1970s. We had a few ideas, but for the most part both our intelligence services and our media had no idea what was going on. By the time anybody had figured it out, Vietnam was invading Cambodia over border skirmishes between the two.

If you want a genocide even fewer have heard of, try the Armenians during WWI.

[Hatta]

Everyone knows about the Armenian genocide. Except for the Turks apparently.

East Timor is a real shadow genocide. Unless you read Chomsky of course.