Emptying US
Emptying US Treasury: 75% complete…
(US Senate Floor)
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The truth is starting to become very painful and first…
Funny.
But sad. Very sad. :*0(
lol you said first
No one knows how to fix it, but pouring money into the wounds doesn’t seem to be helping. Enough already.
Money or salt? I think salt as we’re all going to be writhing in pain in the not to distant future. No wonder the approval rating for Congress is on 9%, the bastards sure aren’t listening to the constiuency.
Issue beatings.
Can we start with Barney Frank? I’d love to see that idiot thrashed..
I don’t see why not.
Sadly, our great-grandchildren will still be writhing.
Yours, maybe. We who have decided to remain childless can just shrug our shoulders, live our lives as we please, and when we’re done, we’re done!
I meant “ours” as those of our nation, but ok then…
Heh, nope. I have no interest in other people’s children, beyond keeping them the hell off my lawn!
lol
You mean I shouldn’t dig my new secret underground lair in your lawn?
Wounds? We might as well be pouring the money into a fire.
Actually this should be 99% complete since this was the Senate vote on the bill. Still, the point being made is valid.
True. Math doesn’t matter when you know you’re getting screwed.
Although you could say we are 100% screwed.
Verily.
They could have at least bought me dinner first…
I’d settle for lube and a reach-around at this point.
I think I will have to make due with a morning after pill. Yes, I realize I’m a guy but I don’t trust their species and parasitic ways…
POTD
Careful. Palin charges for those.
DOH!!!
Typical lib lie.
You are correct sir! It was rape kits she charged for.
I posit that this mess was created by top-down economic policies. With bottom up policies, the rich still take the extra money created by new economic activity, but they know what to invest it in: new businesses to meet the new demand. With top down policies, we just give the rich more tax breaks to stimulate the economy. But how do they know what to invest in? Why would they invest in new businesses when they can create an economic shell game, with their own rules, and invest in that? Obviously, they invested in the shell game. And the scary thing is, it’s been like that since Reagan, yet some people still preach trickle down economics when it has been shown, again and again, that it doesn’t work.
Indeed. If trickle-down worked, there should have, in theory, been much new job creation under the Bush fiscal policy with his tax breaks, etc. Instead we have the highest unemployment we’ve seen in a very long time, jobs going overseas, and the baking/securities crisis we now are facing.
Trickle-down also failed to stop the Great Depression. Hrm, indeed.
One of the very few times I got away with swearing in front of my grandmother without getting The Look was when I shouted at the TV “These bastards piss down my leg and calling it ‘trickle-down economics’!”
She pursed her lips, thought about it a moment, then said with a smirk that it was very accurate description of the policy.
Great, now I am a pissing tree for political dogs. Can I be excused? I will get a doctor’s note. I don’t want to play this game anymore. T_T
MMMMM…baking securities….yummy.
We also saw a number of increases in minimum wage, which directly affect unemployment (i.e. make it go UP).
Yes!!! A tax brake made bankers give loans to people with bad credit, made people take to much in loans, and made investors buy and sell bad mortgage security’s…
What I cant figure out is if Bowser hit the economy w/ a red shell (which would just be bad luck), a green shell (just plain skillz [especially of a rebound]), or a fucking blue shell (which just pisses me off). And yes, I was/am an avid Mario Kart 64 player, for those of you who got the reference.
Wait! There’s some left to empty?!?!!?
Not really, considering the deficit/debt we already had from the war(s).
It’s the old “Robbing Peter to pay Paul” syndrome. Unfortunately, we’re Peter..
Who’s going to pay China?
You can bet the Chinese Government is worrying over that very question right now. If their largest creditor files for bankruptcy, it’s gonna hurt.
yep. That’s why securities markets globally are faltering. House of cards.
Based on how cash rich China is ATM, they’ll probably shrug and remember the Opium war…
What happened to you, China? You used to be cool.
Pay later! Pay later!
Can we start our own form of slave trading and send over the members of Congress that voted yes?
Only if we get to beat them…
Line forms to the left.
Woops I was over in the other line… the bread line.
I plan to steal the club provided and use it to beat a bread line goer later. Then I get to give twice the beatings and still get bread.
I thought China already owned Congress !
No, Israel does.
Save a spot for me!!
form two lines and make them run down the middle..
I don’t think we’d get much for them.=(
True, but at least they couldn’t cause anymore damage. It’s like getting rid of that old car sitting your backyard. It may run, but it’s well beyond it’s time.
Whoever said Nay – you are my heroes. Same goes for those against the bail-out plan. I’m keeping up with which Georgia congressmen voted for it – and I pray they’re up for reelection. >:O
You’re from Georgia, too? (I’m in Marietta.)
Here is my idea. Hold a functional revolution where in we have a public hanging for half of congress. The rest are sent to work at gunpoint.
We have the right to press the reset button…for those of you who forget that.
Oh, and I know how complicated and difficult this would be. I know it would be hard afterward, but wouldn’t it be totally worth it at this point.
Saxby Chambliss voted for it. We’re working hard in Georgia to fire him.
Amen to that! I’ve been keeping up with everyone that voted yea. If they’re up for reelection, they won’t be getting my vote. Fellow Georgian, I like you.
Seeing as almost everybody, from both sides of the proverbial fence seem to agree, have we all contacted our congressperson’s office directly? Click my name for a link to finding out your rep. I try to let mine know how I feel on issues. I know it doesn’t seem to do much good a lot of the time, but the reason the “blank check” initial bill failed was in large part to the overwhelming response the Congress got from the constituency. If enough people keep on them, they have to listen sometimes. Writing them an email is as easy as posting here. You can find your two senators at the senate.gov site in case you need also.
I sent an e-mail to Frank Wolf telling him not to vote for the bail-out the first time, but predictably he didn’t listen. Just one more reason why I won’t be checking the box next to his name.
My Congressman is a Bush dog and usually doesn’t represent my interests either, but I try my best.
Emptying treasury? That seems to insinuate that we had money in there to begin with. We don’t have a balanced budget, and our balance from previous years add up to over $10 trillion. We don’t have ANY money.
they want to see if they can cash in the dust they find
No worries, mate! We’ll just print more . . .
If they’d just let it happen, let the company’s fail, it will hurt in the short term but in the long term we,d be better off. But they cant do that, its an election year…
DeathWyrmNexus, do u haz a life?
just one lil thing…
what treasury? you guys actually got money?
why not spending it to pay off the US debt?
Someone said something like, “The last action of any elected government is to empty the treasury.”
So if that’s true, the end of the United States is near.
Have a nice day.
Ok….
So where’s all the comics making fun of Obama?
Is he exempt from being an idot like every other politician in the world?
Anyone see the problem with bashing the republicans for this vote when they were the ones who tried to hold it up? The democrats were the ones who supported this plan more heavily.