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Originally Posted by Aramike
My point being that there are much bigger fish to fry that you are no doubt aware of, but you choose only to go after those fish which you disagree with.
Why?
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And round and round we go. I couldn't care less about Rangel. He's been shown and proven time after time to be a scumbag. This stuff's been going on since 2008 with the internet site scandal and the Caribbean trips and whatnot. Old news to me. I hope he's booted out of office.
I'll copy and paste my answers to
the exact same question from just a few posts back on the thread.
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Probably a bit of both. 
He's held up to be infallible by a large segment of people. Given that, I think it's pretty shady to take advantage of people that believe that about you. He's using his position to enrich himself unfairly. Why does that not deserve to be called out?
Would I have the same low opinion if, say, Rachel Maddow did something like this? Absolutely. Would I make the same comments? Absolutely. |
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Hah! Well this also has to do with economics. Since economics is my job, I take a special interest in it. When someone screams about "omg hyperinflation! buy gold now!" I just have to shake my head - deflation is the problem they're trying to stave off now.
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I find economics scams far more interesting than the same old garden variety political ones.
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Originally Posted by Aramike
I agree with you that Goldline is a crappy investment, but it is providing specifically what it and Beck claims it provides - for a cost.
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Except it's not. It's providing collectables. Not commodity gold.