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16 Responses to “About Bailouts”

1. uno Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

   Is that GS I see on the left…?

2. call me ahab Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 5:03 pm

   and the taxpayers on the right . . .?

3. tawm Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm

   Despair.com is fantastic. Check out other “demotivator” posters — they are spot on!

4. Mannwich Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

   Long Live the Tyranny of the Incompetent (hat tip, leftback), where it pays to be an incompetent, criminal, or ignoramus……or all of the above.

5. ab initio Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

   Now that we have ensconced serial bubble blowing as the core of our economic policy and Wall Street has institutionalized socialization of losses and privatization of profits and have obtained 100% taxpayer guarantee of all debts. What next?

6. Mannwich Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

   @ab: What’s next? Why, more bubble blowing, of course. This time it’s the stock & commodity markets (again). We’ve run out of ideas on how to facilitate and maintain a structurally sound economy, so we take the easiest route (think Occam’s Razor), which is serial bubble blowing. This won’t change until some extraneous factor forces our hand.

7. Pat G. Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

   So true and so sad. They bleed us like the pigs they are and toss us a few scraps along the way.

8. Stillaway Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

   Where’s my scrap? I must have missed the toss.

9. cvienne Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

   @ab initio

   “Now that we have ensconced serial bubble blowing as the core of our economic policy and Wall Street has institutionalized socialization of losses and privatization of profits and have obtained 100% taxpayer guarantee of all debts. What next?”

   —

   Next? That’s EASY…

   They repeal the 2nd amendment…When they “feel” that Americans have been sufficiently emasculated thereto, then, they deploy the National Guard locally to actually guarantee that you make those payments…

   It’s a piece of cake to be a dictator…

10. cvienne Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    …especially when the single propaganda radio & TV stations broadcast the “All Presidente…all Day” meme…

    …and YOU actually cast your ballot for El Presidente…

11. Wes Schott Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    cv –

    you talkin’ fascism?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

12. JustinTheSkeptic Says:
    August 7th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    I object the the juxposition. Shouldn’t, like so many times on the farm I recall, the pig with the money be straddling the pig without any? That’s not to suggest that males have more money than females.

13. rob Says:
    August 7th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Just have to pass this along, the guy did a good job! Ben & Co at their finest! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ79Pt2GNJo&feature=related

14. alfred e Says:
    August 7th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    @cv: el presidente. Correct.

    And what exactly were our choices as citizen’s of the most powerful, democratic, meritocratic nation in the galaxy? Evita 2? Except her husband wasn’t quite dead yet? Well maybe figuratively. Since Monica.

    Or Reagan exhumed from the prisoner camp?

15. How the Common Man Sees It Says:
    August 8th, 2009 at 3:04 am

    Looks like another piggy bank control mechanism is about depleted:

    Central bank gold sales won’t hit target

16. krice2001 Says:
    August 8th, 2009 at 7:57 am

    2nd Amendent? Fascism? Come on! Silly me, I thought this thread was titled, “About Bailouts”. This degenerated into right wing talk radio territory real quick. Disappointing to me ’cause I really love Barry’s blog. The banter is great and educational but when it gets into this meme, I get find i get edgy and irritated.