James Carville, former Clinton campaign advisor, once said about Paula Jones who accused President Clinton of sexual harassment "If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find." Just think what trailer trash might (will) turn up if you drag a trillion dollars through the American economy? Let's hope the government hires a better audit firm to track the bail out money than Bernie Madoff did for his investment company. Then again, the government has several Ponzi schemes of its own going, like Social Security, and its audit firm, "The House and Senate", doesn't seem too concerned.
Posted by warrenpeterson at December 23, 2008 10:16 AM | Email ThisWhich is not much different from the audit firm of Dewey,Cheatham & Howe. I'm fed up with bailing every nincompoop who doesn't have the horse sense not be get into financial trouble in the first place. A little thing called personal responsibility, which is eroded when Mommy government steps in and bails Junior out of bad decisions they've made.
Welcome to Nannystate,USA Population: 300 Million
So all them millionaires Madoff bilked have no horse sense too I suppose right?
I love reading comments from people born on 2nd base telling the less fortunate how "they" should behave. Like a little cancer won't eliminate any amount of personal responsibility anyone exhibited.
So how has 8 years of looking the other way while the tax payer was being robbed for around 7 trillion working out Rickey? All the Swiss bank accounts are full to the brim!!!!
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on December 23, 2008 04:36 PMI thought libs were all against corporate welfare. Whatever happened to that?
Posted by: pbj on December 23, 2008 06:32 PMOr about half of what That One wants to waste on failed bailout policies.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on December 23, 2008 08:29 PMhttp://www.amazon.com/Three-Trillion-Dollar-War-Conflict/dp/0393334171
3 trillion. That's if we left today.....
10k each for every man woman and child in America.
Social Security a ponzi scheme? I guess when my friend broke his neck, and "went on" Social Security, before ever paying a cent in, that made him a ponzi scheme victim right? I especially like how the SEC ignored warning after warning about Madoff. Remind you of anyone? "Bin Laden Determined...."
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on December 23, 2008 09:55 PMIf you look up the meaning of Ponzi scheme and see what the Federal Government has being doing with the money we pay into SS, you'd see that it is indeed a Ponzi scheme. Unless of course you think paying into SS and then government diverting those funds into other government programs (can you say General fund/Rat hole?)
in order to subsidize them rather than saving it for the purpose it was created for isn't all that bad. Every president for the past 35 years has defrauded the American people through these actions; both Democrats and Republicans alike; You may not be bright enough to see the forest through the trees, but there are those of us that can.
A little education can go along way...good luck with that transition, "Facts".
As for your pathetic links: posting silly, mindless links to a book on Amazon.com and quoting the Guardian newspaper doesn't pass the laugh test, but for a linear thinker like yourself, apparently, you're the only one that doesn't get the joke.
Cheers! and Merry Christmas all
If not, America itself will become the trailer park
Posted by: Douglas Tooley on December 28, 2008 09:57 AMIf not, America itself will become the trailer park
Posted by: Douglas Tooley on December 28, 2008 09:58 AM