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1. #1
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:46 pm, Jeff2161 said:

   19 Billion more…Almost seems like small potatoes nowadays.

   sarc

2. #2
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pm, spaceycakes said:

   another $19 billion down the rat hole!

   As someone born in the Year of the Rat, I resemble that remark.

3. #3
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, flmom said:

   I’m assuming those retention bonus’s paid to top Fannie execs will be paid back any day now.

4. #4
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, Regulus said:

   Who among the Fannie-kissers in Congress will say no?

   That’s good. You could be a good lawyer in cross-examination, Michelle — you don’t ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.

   I was thinking this morning, you remind me of a cross between Horatio at the Bridge and Marcus Cicero: standing, pen in hand, in the path of the oncoming march of the irresponsible, the irresolute, the feckless and the malevolent who will be the downfall of the Republic and exclaiming, “Stop!”

   You may not succeed — Cicero sure didn’t — but for fighting the good fight, you deserve unreserved admiration nonetheless.

5. #5
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, tre said:

   Now my Grandchildren’s Grandchildren will be in debt, too.

   But, hey, if we just keep throwing money at the problem, eventually, it’ll go away and we won’t need to get our hands dirty to solve it.

6. #6
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, cpodug said:

   Well, Jeff(#1), you know, like Everett Dirksen said, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.”

7. #7
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, corona said:

   Why not? Here are a couple of more examples of your tax dollars at work a few blocks from my home. 1) A large sign was installed – quite impressive, with two wooden posts about 10′ high, and the sign itself being about 5′ by 4′. One slight issue – four weeks later, the wrapping hasn’t been removed, so no one knows what it says. 2) At a nearby intersection, eight “press here to cross the street” buttons were installed. One slight issue – whether or not the buttons are pressed, the lights go through the green cycle with “walk” on.

8. #8
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, Flyoverman said:

   There is ZERO need to appropriate another penny. The $19 billion can come from the banks that want to return their TARP money.

   Problem solved, if they have half a brain.

9. #9
   On May 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pm, Jeff2161 said:

   “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.”

   Back when a Billion meant something…Even a trillion doesn’t faze people much…

10. #10
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, Jeff2161 said:

    Problem solved, if they have half a brain

    Assumes facts not, in evidence…

11. #11
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:05 pm, frontierguy said:

    Maybe they are thinking, when China completely owns us, they won’t bomb us. Why would China take out their own property?

12. #12
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:12 pm, Auggie Dog said:

    Still waiting on my bailout. Do I just keep mailing in these checks every month? Or is that my mistake. Maybe if I hold on to my money the one will give me more? I’m not sure how these financial things work anymore. After all, I’m just a lower middle class caveman, who always paid his bills on time.

13. #13
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, cheapseat said:

    let’s all hold our breath while bawney comes down and chastizes these crooks as he did with those slug bankers. i’m waiting for the acorn busses to pull up in front of these wonderful civil servants mansions in connecticut and march a little “what do we want, justice. when do we want it, now” ditty and give the msm a photo-op quote about how these wonderful people are keeping those evil bankers from repoing their houses. PRAISE OBAMA!

14. #14
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, Jeff2161 said:

    Problem solved, if they have half a brain

    Assumes facts not, in evidence…

    I was off my meds…….. sorry.

15. #15
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:18 pm, granite said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, Regulus said:

    Agreed.

    O tempora, o mores!

16. #16
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:20 pm, bjc said:

    *Rat hole, rat bastard, what’s the difference when you’re talking about Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, et al; It’s time to abolish the Federal Reserve, let all these entities like Fanny bleed out, and commence with a recovery based on Austrian Ecomonics and a Federal Government living within its’ means; Catastrophy awaits otherwise.

17. #17
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Flyoverman said:

    After all, I’m just a lower middle class caveman, who always paid his bills on time.

    That’s your place you knuckle dragging, bitter, bigoted, zealot, homophobe.

    ACORN needs funding and the donors need some skin so pay up……

18. #18
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, Auggie Dog said:

    That’s your place you knuckle dragging, bitter, bigoted, zealot, homophobe.

    You forgot Xenophobe! Libs love that word.

19. #19
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:32 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Get this: stock market is rallying today on better than expected job losses. Why is it better? Government hiring is way up. Number rigged and manipulated everywhere you look.

    Yet Obama made another speech yesterday about how his budget will cut the budget deficit in half and how his “stimulus” spending will creatint 4 million new jobs with 90% of them being private sector jobs.

    Add that to what looks to me like bank mutual funds leading the charge in this market rally and… well…

    That is certain to boost investor confidence. The new “free” market forces.

20. #20
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:33 pm, sonofdy said:

    Well considering they are starting to have trouble getting anyone to LEND money to the usa anymore…. oh what the F. Free ponies for everyone. We will all be bankrupt in a year anyway so live it up!!!

    wwwaaahooooo

21. #21
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:39 pm, Jeff2161 said:

    Yet Obama made another speech yesterday about how his budget will cut the budget deficit in half.

    He can just cram-down the debt by, ‘Doing a Chrysler’

    sarc

22. #22
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:40 pm, Jeff2161 said:

    Free ponies for everyone.

    How’s that go ? There must be a pony here, look at that huge pile of manure.

23. #23
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, st_james said:

    Just keep printing money and diluting the dollar until we all have nothing. Then we can start over under our Chinese masters.

24. #24
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Free ponies for everyone

    No thank you. As my late father used to say “I don’t want anything else with a mouth or a butthole.”

25. #25
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:44 pm, WernerP said:

    Honestly, does it really make any difference at this point? We could easily add another zero and make it $190 billion. The hole Washington has dug for the entire country is already so deep that congressmen can now easily slip through and come out in China to go to the bathroom there.

26. #26
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:47 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Euro has broken out while the dollar is cratering again. Commodities are also rallying. Wonder why?

27. #27
    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, prendad said:

    NO PROBLEM Fannie Mae! Obama to Printing Room: PRINTING PRESSES TO FULL POWER!
    Printing Room: Ah but Captain, she can’t take much more of this!
    Obama/Captain: Give me all you’ve got Scotty/American Taxpayers. I need more power/money.
    MORE POWER, MORE POWER, MORE. . . .KAAAAABBBOOOOOOOOOOM.

28. #28
    On May 8th, 2009 at 3:03 pm, Hangfire said:

    I think a few more executive suicides are in order before we give Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac another cent.

29. #29
    On May 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pm, rfjjulie said:

    Spaceycakes:

    Thanks, I needed that laugh today!

30. #30
    On May 8th, 2009 at 3:32 pm, John Deaux said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:33 pm, sonofdy said:
    Well considering they are starting to have trouble getting anyone to LEND money to the usa anymore….

    Of course, it could be because they have shown that debt means nothing and they can wipe it out with a simple threat. That applies to all lenders, foreign and domestic.

31. #31
    On May 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Barney: “Come on! Cough it up! Baby needs new shoes!”

32. #32
    On May 8th, 2009 at 4:33 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    fannie-kissers??….yuk…suppose barnie would like it though….lol

33. #33
    On May 8th, 2009 at 4:35 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Just keep printing money and diluting the dollar until we all have nothing. Then we can start over under our Chinese masters.

    Or our muslim masters, or our aztlan masters….depending on what part of the USA you live in when its divied up.

34. #34
    On May 8th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    suppose barnie would like it though

    Now there’s a visual thought I don’t need. : )

35. #35
    On May 8th, 2009 at 4:42 pm, spaceycakes said:

    OT–I think Caldera got canned!

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_low_flying_plane

36. #36
    On May 8th, 2009 at 5:42 pm, cabrerski said:

    It’s Friday, and I believe we need a song (sung to the tune of “The Candy Man”)…

    Who can take a union, sprinkle it with dew
    Cover it with protection and a bailout or two
    Obama Man, oh Obama Man can
    Obama Man can ’cause he mixes it with tripe and makes the media tell lies.

    Who can take Fannie Mae, pull it out of a tush, spin around and blame it on Bush.
    Obama Man, Obama Man can
    Obama Man can ’cause he mixes it with tripe and makes the media tell lies.

    Obama Man hides and to nothing he abides, evasive and seemingly able,
    Now you criticize him at your dinner table, you will wear the racist label.

    Oh, who can take on Wall Street, bring it to its knees,
    Spend all the nation’s wealth before the ice caps unfreeze
    Obama Man, oh Obama Man can
    Obama Man can ’cause he mixes it with tripe and makes the media tell lies.

    Obama Man reads as fast as TOTUS speeds it really so very eerie
    Talk about your Constitution, you citizens had best be leery

    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Who can take our future, dip it in some sh*t,
    Show it to Congress and they think he has the wit
    Obama Man, the Obama Man can
    Obama Man can ’cause he mixes it with tripe and makes the media tell lies.

    Yes, the Candy Man can ’cause he mixes it with tripe and makes the media tell lies.

    Obama Man, Obama Man, Obama Man
    Obama Man, Obama Man, Obama Man
    Obama Man, Obama Man, Obama Man

    -with apologies to Sammy Davis, Jr.

37. #37
    On May 8th, 2009 at 6:12 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    I hear that $17 billion is a lot of money except in Washington, D.C. Must be true. That’s why Fannie’s looking for that plus another measly (in Washingtonian terms) two billion more. Good thing that 17 billion is getting freed up from the budget. Now we can use that money to enable—I mean, help out the poor homeowners some more.

38. #38
    On May 9th, 2009 at 8:12 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pm, Jeff2161 said:

    “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.”

    Back when a Billion meant something…Even a trillion doesn’t faze people much…

    Its like with computers. Back in the day when we thought we could never go beyond 640K (thousand) of memory, we tried to do every trick in the book to keep the entire OS and all programs using just that 640K.

    Now days when you can put 64 Gigs (billions) of main memory on a system, it still isnt enough.

    I can easily put an array of multi-petabyte (trillion) hard-drives in my home computer when 20 years ago a 10 Meg (milllion) drive was astronomical storage.

39. #39
    On May 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pm, lgm said:

    Would that rat hole be next to the Star Wars hole and down the block from abstinence only sex education and across the street from Blackwater contractors?

40. #40
    On May 10th, 2009 at 12:11 pm, txvet2 said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:47 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Euro has broken out while the dollar is cratering again. Commodities are also rallying. Wonder why?

    Glad I’m in commodities. Talk about your mixed feelings. My stocks are going through the roof and my money’s becoming worthless at the same time.

41. #41
    On May 11th, 2009 at 3:46 am, conservative in europe said:

    On May 10th, 2009 at 12:11 pm, txvet2 said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 2:47 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Euro has broken out while the dollar is cratering again. Commodities are also rallying. Wonder why?

    Glad I’m in commodities. Talk about your mixed feelings. My stocks are going through the roof and my money’s becoming worthless at the same time.

    Exactly the economic model of what Hitler did in the ’30′s. Eventually, the Fed will come out with “new money” and exchange it for Dollars in fractions. Like Mexico lopping off zeros for the “Peso Nuevo”. This allows the Govt. to control not only the average guy’s finances (taking pillow stuffing material out of the equation), but it forces those evil rich people hiding dollars offshore to cash in for the new stuff.

    Ten to one says we see this if Blue Lips gets a second term.

42. #42
    On May 11th, 2009 at 6:27 pm, DBNinKY said:

    On May 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pm, lgm said:

    Would that rat hole be next to the Star Wars hole and down the block from abstinence only sex education and across the street from Blackwater contractors?

    Nah – it’s next to the Tax Cut for 95% of all Americans located on Transparency Lane, which is just up the road from Out of Iraq in 16 Months avenue.