How congress intends on spending 1.8 TRILLION dollars!!

Discussion in 'Politics' started by hippiehillbilly, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. hippiehillbilly

    hippiehillbilly the old asshole

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    The numbers keep growing and GROWING and GROWING..
    im sure inquiring minds like myself would like to know just where is all this money going??

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/26808715

    nice huh...
     
  2. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    give us some money lets' have some productive fun with this planet
     
  3. mariecstasy

    mariecstasy Enchanted

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    damn where is the few million for Marie?
     
  4. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    Those Federal Reserve printing machines are going to be working overtime
     
  5. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    I wanna print some money. Too bad we can't download 20's from a virtual ATM like they do.

    They're so illegal
     
  6. mariecstasy

    mariecstasy Enchanted

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    On the show Heroes, one of the super powers that a character had was that he could communicate with machines. So whenever he needed money....lo and behold....it was done.
     
  7. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    that's a cool ability...

    psychic hacking

    it's being done for sure, just not like that
     
  8. 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21

    1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21 Member

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    I don't understand why printing more money would help. What kind of result are they expecting?
     
  9. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    boom
     
  10. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    It won't help. It is not supposed to help. It's just supposed to prolong the inevitable from happening while they further destroy the currency until it is completely worthless.
     
  11. polecat

    polecat Weerd

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    1.8 trillion...

    ...plus interest.

    I think it's funny how the government is so stingy when it comes to any sort of social welfare program, always saying how they don't have the money and it's too expensive. But as soon as the corporations get in trouble, oh lordy! They're shoveling them the taxpayers money at a moments notice. Anger!
     
  12. Shane99X

    Shane99X Senior Member

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    Can i say, again for the record, how much i despise the baby boomers, this generation leaves nothing of value, debt upon debt upon debt.
     
  13. hippiehillbilly

    hippiehillbilly the old asshole

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    i just heard a analyst try an sell this legislation with,
    "the taxpayers of today wont feel this burden,it will be left for future generations".. WTF???????????
     
  14. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    and now back to your normal scheduled programming:
     
  15. mariecstasy

    mariecstasy Enchanted

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    as a mama..this hurts me deeply.
     
  16. hippiehillbilly

    hippiehillbilly the old asshole

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    dodd says "look i have kids to,but this is something that must be done"..

    SO SUCK IT UP,and deal with it.. lol
    right,,it would be much easier if i was a millionaire senator..:rolleyes:
     
  17. def zeppelin

    def zeppelin All connected

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    Ya, it's always the well to do folks that always tells us to suck it up, or tell us it isn't bad.

    OH, IT ISN'T BAD, I CAN STILL LIVE THE LIFE I ALWAYS HAVE... NO ONE IS EFFECTED BY THIS AND IF THEY ARE, THEN WHO TOLD THEM TO BE 'IRRESPONSIBLE' OR 'LAZY'? SERVES THEM RIGHT!
     
  18. smot

    smot Member

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    QFT

    Money always appears magically for the wealthy.
     
  19. zihger

    zihger Senior Member

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    I was watching the CBS news earlier one of the hang ups on the buy outs is some people want restrictions on how much the CEOs get for severance and the guys on wall street say they will refuse all deals that have limits like that and their not going to leave the game with out a big sum.

    So WTF give all the CEOs and top management millions to walk away form a mess they caused, while hundreds of thousands of middle class families are going homeless?

    All is fair in the game of Wall st, Fuck that.
     
  20. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    It doesn't have to be done there are other ways out but they don't want you to know about them. Addressing market to market valuation would be a start, but then they want this and if we panic they'll get their way, and they privatize social security. Fun thought isn't it. Where would your retirement funds be today, if they were all socked away in the market?

    http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/24/naomi_klein_now_is_the_time

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/85036-time-to-exempt-mortgage-securities-from-mark-to-market-rules

    Don't let them pull another fast one on us. I watched Paulson in the Congressional hearings today. I wanted to ask him how many banks he has to use to protect his savings? I know he has more than $100,000. We are not supposed to panic and do a run on the banks, but I think we should all pull our money out and put it under the mattress and learn to barter amongst ourselves. It would be more direct and at least you'd be personally aware of who the villians were.
     
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