The fear is that at sometime if a deal is not reached, the Dow will drop a thousand points in a day. Rightly or wrongly the republicans will take blame for that from most people. Obama knows that. So do the republicans. The house republicans handed Obama the election in 2008 and they are about to do it again.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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