>>>>>http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/feds-grant-eminent-domain-as
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>>>>>I Haven't seen this in the main stream press, but definately scary stuff, If us defaults, China can take our stuff.
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>>>>More balanced reporting from the gun totin freedom lovin patriot section of the US. Not like those pinko commies in the soon to be red House.
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>>>>To be honest Robert how can you read this stuff. Scroll down that page and read some of the comments.
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>>>I'm really not sure if it is factual or not. I suspect not, but it is all over the web today. Not on the news *yet* Eventually if it is nonsense the news will at least comment on it (denouncing the 'rumour.')
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>>You must be on a different web to me :-)
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>>Big news to me was the drop in US GDP
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>>http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5815931.ece
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>>be interesting to see where the DOW goes today. Maybe Warren Buffet jumped in a little quickly after all.
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>From your link:
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>On the other front, Americans have become so anxious that they may also join the soaring numbers of unemployed that they have stopped spending on all but essential items such as food and petrol.
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>Everyone is finally taking Suze Orman's advice :o) Interestingly, in the most recent (over the past 3 months) talks she's given that I've heard, she's stressed that the overall condition of the economy is more important than individual economic well-being and she's stressed that folks not follow her standard advice but rather *buy buy buy!*

That's true. The individually wise course of saving now is collectively disastrous. The engine needs fuel.