Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?
By Heather Saturday Nov 15, 2008 9:30amFrom The Onion:
With the economy sliding deeper into a recession, panelists discuss whether it's time to stop throwing our money into a massive pit out in the desert.
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The ironic part of this is that dumping money into a hole would make it more valuable.
As landfill.
That knows what to do with the money. Give me the job and I'll take care of the money.
Actually you are dead on here Ron. If they want to throw money away, then they should just send out cheques to the populace. Almost a trillion dollars in the consumers hands before Xmas, would turn the economy right around immediately.
in Iraq. So fat the hole has swallowed up almost a Trillion American dollars. Over 150,000 American soldiers were sent to hold down that money and were swallowed up by the huge ugly pit.
When the hole was originally dug it was hoped they would find oil in it, but all they found was blood.
Excellent analogy. So sad...
And did it really take a chairman of anything to notice that we were dumping all our money into Iraq for naught? Geez... we all could have told them that years ago!
Throw that money at us!!!
I say instead of giving $700 billion or $2 trillion, or whatever the amount really is, I think Obama should do his "stimulus" plan up right.
He should arrange for every certified American adult (over 18) to receive a check or a direct deposit of $1 million. That would only use a very small portion of the gazillions they're currently dumping in the hole that is the corporations and banks, and would, overall, be much better for the economy - worldwide.
Cause I know I'd sure be spending some of that right away - say for a new house that actually had heat and AC that works, or to pay off my niece's college loans, or to set up a school in Haiti or something.
The people know what to do with the money ----we would not horde it, or use it to buy weapons or throw it down that bloody hole.
Power to the people! Give the money to the People!
Go for it!..the hard part will be disconnecting the giant tube under it that leads to bush/chenys underground vault.
Fill it with cement.
Hand me a shovel.
Or if you prefer I can bend over and spread my cheeks.
Dumping money in a hole, all accomplished with the hard work and dedication of your friends from Halliburton.
is located in lower Manhattan.
Burning the money would also burn Republicans, who've been deep in the hole for years now.
Ok. Burn it!
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I'd be honored if they filled my hole with money. Fill me up big boys.
Seriously, I'm not sure why it's ok for my tax money to bail all these pigs out. Wealth trickles up, not down... we should all be getting food vouchers or something similar.
Put Bush and Paulson at the bottom of this money hole, and when we can no longer hear them holler "We need more money", cover it up.
reply to Sen. Leahy re: automakers bailout:
Handing out taxpayer money to idiots who purposely built low MPG vehicles while the demand for such was low and falling will only do ONE thing! And that is to stifle innovations and enterperneurial growth of the very types of "green technologies" that Obama claims to want to create. If all that vast amount of cash is going into the private accounts of Ford, GM, and Chrysler execs it sure as hell isn't going to be helping new start-up enterperneurial companies that actually HAVE the knowledge and will to take our transportation requirements into the 21st century!
I'd say you perfectly described the real "bailout" is corporate America, a new kind of socialism, only this one is limited to incomes well over 250K, a delinquent taxpayer like Joe the fake Plumber need not apply.
Allowing our nations manufacturing base to die will guarantee a major depression, and greatly hurt our national security. Destroying the unions, at all cost is what the neo-cons want. The rest of the middle class will quickly follow, and America will return to the ruling and peon classes. Reaganomics has taught us just how ugly--and dangerous--the depths of greed really are.
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. --Albert Einstein
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Nothing like the power of positive thinking, its the engine that drives recovery. You are going to have to keep your eyes on progress amidst the smoking rubble
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The question asks should we continue pouring money into a hole in the desert. Well that's tantamount to asking whether we should bail out the auto companies to the tune of billions. Every time the Saturday paper arrives with the section lauding a new car with the latest bells and whistles and super horsepower and 19-25 mileage, I cringe. What part of this takes a brain surgeon to understand? People want high mileage cars. See the movie, "Who killed the Electric Car" and then see if we need to bail out the auto industry. If a dime goes their way it needs to have attachments with it. They can't be trusted.
Another question: Why is our economy in the dumps? Pure and simple: When Bush started an unprovoked war on a sovereign nation and asked the american people to fund that war by going shopping and then borrowing from China, he in essence put us where we are today. Now, everyone points to Obama and asks Whatcha gonna do? He will get us out because he's smart, he can read, and he chooses the best advisors and then he listens to them. The sooner this lame duck do nothing is out of office the better off we will be.
Why can't people understand very simple concepts. Don't muddy it up with intellectual concepts, use the kiss approach "Keep it Simple, Stupid."
I don't find any of this F!@#in funny.
Speaking of holes! I know this one hole. I could put some money on it!
Trickle down economics works on the premise that all the money thrown in the money hole will come out the other end and land on consumers.
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