Larry wrote:
JR North wrote in
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What's this got to do with boating?
JR



Boats take vast sums of money to buy, or just sit there rotting away at the
$600/month marina slip. In order to HAVE boats, some boaters have invested
vast sums of money in securities with various, previously-stable, banking
institutions now on the verge of collapse.

The solvency of the bank the "Boat Fund" is stored in is VERY on-topic to a
discussion about boat....unless you're Donald Trump and sold your little
house in Florida for $95,000,000 this morning to one of the Russian
billionaires. Don wanted $120,000,000 but had to take less to dump it.

By the way, the REAL ESTATE TAXES on Don's old house was quoted on the
radio at $16,830,000 PER YEAR....as of 2006. A "small tax increase" could
put the Russian's property taxes above the GDP of several small African
countries!

I think he screwed up....



We don't keep any significant liquid assets in any U.S. financial
institutions.

"HK" wrote in message
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We don't keep any significant liquid assets in any U.S. financial
institutions.



If there were *any* way I could prevent my tax dollars from benefiting you,
I would pay double to find and eliminate it.

Eisboch

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"HK" wrote in message
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We don't keep any significant liquid assets in any U.S. financial
institutions.



If there were *any* way I could prevent my tax dollars from benefiting
you, I would pay double to find and eliminate it.

Eisboch


It's National election season. 8)

D.Duck wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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We don't keep any significant liquid assets in any U.S. financial
institutions.


If there were *any* way I could prevent my tax dollars from benefiting
you, I would pay double to find and eliminate it.

Eisboch


It's National election season. 8)






Yes, it is, and it is my fervent wish the GOP and its supporters take it
right up a certain portion of their anatomy this fall, in every way
possible.

HK wrote in news:6eb76qF65rdqU2
@mid.individual.net:

Yes, it is, and it is my fervent wish the GOP and its supporters take it
right up a certain portion of their anatomy this fall, in every way
possible.



Substitute Freemasons and Council On Foreign Relations for GOP above. That
would be good for America but it cannot happen when ALL THE CANDIDATES ARE
ALL MEMBERS!

Harry still thinks Demoplicans and Republicrats are different.

Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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We don't keep any significant liquid assets in any U.S. financial
institutions.



If there were *any* way I could prevent my tax dollars from benefiting you,
I would pay double to find and eliminate it.

Eisboch




Treasuries Gain as Stocks Fall on Concern Bank Losses to Worsen

By Daniel Kruger and Sandra Hernandez

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries gained, pushing two-year note yields
down the most in more than two weeks, as stocks fell on concern that
U.S. banking-system losses may be worsening.

Predictions of wider losses overshadowed the Treasury Department's
support of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Washington Mutual Inc. posted its
biggest drop ever and National City Corp. tumbled to a 24-year low after
last week's collapse of IndyMac Bancorp Inc. spurred speculation that
more regional banks may be short of capital.

``There's a significant amount of grave concern about the banking
sector,'' said T.J. Marta, a fixed-income strategist at RBC Capital
Markets in New York, the investment-banking arm of Canada's biggest
lender. ``Now what we're having is solvency concerns.''


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Perhaps you and SW Tom can talk the U.S. economy out of its slide...

Why should we invest in or trust assets to poorly managed financial
institutions?

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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We don't keep any significant liquid assets in any U.S. financial
institutions.



If there were *any* way I could prevent my tax dollars from benefiting
you, I would pay double to find and eliminate it.

Eisboch

And if only we could get back the blood that was shed to protect Harry's
sorry ass.
America the beautiful. Love it or leave it.

Jim wrote:

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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We don't keep any significant liquid assets in any U.S. financial
institutions.



If there were *any* way I could prevent my tax dollars from
benefiting you, I would pay double to find and eliminate it.

Eisboch

And if only we could get back the blood that was shed to protect Harry's
sorry ass.
America the beautiful. Love it or leave it.



Pretty funny talk...since if you served in Vietnam, nothing you did
there was in anyway related to "saving" my butt.

HK wrote in news:6eb7mqF695h1U1
@mid.individual.net:

Pretty funny talk...since if you served in Vietnam, nothing you did
there was in anyway related to "saving" my butt.



Hey! We made the bankers and contractors filthy rich at your expense!

.....same as Iraq and Afghanistan....

Larry wrote:
HK wrote in news:6eb7mqF695h1U1
@mid.individual.net:

Pretty funny talk...since if you served in Vietnam, nothing you did
there was in anyway related to "saving" my butt.



Hey! We made the bankers and contractors filthy rich at your expense!

....same as Iraq and Afghanistan....



When the government your nation is supporting in South Vietnam has
Buddhist monks protesting against it by setting themselves on fire, then
you really need to ask your government what the hell it is doing there.

I really had hoped we had learned a lesson from our debacle there, but
apparently George W. Bush did not.