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Sep. 19th, 2008 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojocattWell well well. I suppose it had to happen. But if you live in the United States, and pay taxes, you are now invested in $1,300,000,000,000.00 in bad loans.
If he's right about the $500 billion, the headline figure on the government's attempts to stem the credit crisis hits $1.3 trillion. That includes all the loans, investments and new programs committed by the Federal Reserve and Treasury this year.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/19/news/economy/paulson_plan_cost/index.htm
Congratulations.
You could have purchased 435,073,627,844 Egg-and-Muffin 2-Slice Toaster and Egg Poachers and made 435,073,627,844 poached eggs and 870,147,255,689 muffin halves.
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2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
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4. Post these instructions with your picture.
If he's right about the $500 billion, the headline figure on the government's attempts to stem the credit crisis hits $1.3 trillion. That includes all the loans, investments and new programs committed by the Federal Reserve and Treasury this year.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/19/news/economy/paulson_plan_cost/index.htm
Congratulations.
You could have purchased 435,073,627,844 Egg-and-Muffin 2-Slice Toaster and Egg Poachers and made 435,073,627,844 poached eggs and 870,147,255,689 muffin halves.
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Meme time.
1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.
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Date: 2008-09-20 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-20 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-20 02:32 am (UTC)Whatever. I'd have rather had a lot of egg muffins.
That's an impressive chest buckle, Fabio. The cape is so last year, though.
Start handing out homes to the poor!!
Date: 2008-09-20 05:41 am (UTC)BUT.
Part of me just wants to hold the deregulation fish in all of thier faces and let them collapse. One after the other. Hell, until 2 days ago McPain was still banging the deregulation drum.
I KNOW it would mean a hell like we as Americans could not imagine. I know it. But damn. It would level the playing field a bit, would it not?
It is the suck.
Now, if Bush's American bribery package had been more like 20k instead of a few hundred bucks, and it was not easily confiscated by those pirates at the IRS MAYBE we could have dug ourselves out of this hole... but probably not. We are the suck.
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Date: 2008-09-20 06:40 pm (UTC)