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The pols have learned their lessons well. Remember the S&L bailouts? Nobody cared. So they upped the ante with a bigger bailout and added the distraction of these bonuses. Big deal. An eighth of a billion compared to the thousands of billions in bailouts. Tell ya what, how about I...

I've said plenty of bad things about Bush. And McCain. And the current GOP for that matter, these people are not going to be a whole lot better than Obama. They'd be better than Obama. . . maybe. McCain might be pretty close. But ultimately we have crappy choices for government because...

It's not even following the letter or the spirit of the law. Look at all the dolts who want AIG to renege on their contractually obligated bonuses. It's not letter or spirit or anything else, just gimme gimme gimme, I'm taking mine and yours and you can go F yourself. AIG made some mistakes...

He's TOTUS - Teleprompter Of The United States. :D

AIG's not getting split up, sold off and closed down (yet anyway), Geithner's just talking about speeding up the current restructuring. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601127&sid=a6Z8vz0mx0fs

For 11 trillion, we could have given every single person in Ohio (7th largest state population-wise) a million dollars. Each. JFC that's a lot of money. Everybody in Ohio - here's a cool million.

Yeah, forget AIG, most of Congress should #@&^#$ off themselves.

In finance, it's different. Part of the job offer is a guaranteed bonus. It says right in the offer letter something like "This offer includes a guaranteed bonus of $xxx,xxx to be paid yearly in mm." And bonuses typically are substantial, high double digit percentages of your base salary...

You might have missed this post in the Jokes thread: From http://iowahawk.typepad.com/ Dear Barry: I've had a bit of a bad luck patch over the last month (losing my job, watching my 401k completely disintegrate, etc., etc.) and ended up relocating from a high rise in Lincoln Park to a...

LOL, I was wondering. . . .;)

I once talked to a guy who told me about seeing Woody and his followers at some convention - actually at some bar or restaurant or something similiar near a convention. He saw them all walk in, grab several tables and pull them together. Then, none of them ordered any drinks. Does some...

Government money with strings attached and open ended agreements? Naw. Say it ain't so. What's next, realization that doubling down on losers doesn't produce instant gambling wealth and politicians like to drink and get laid? By the way Mr. Banker the email from the Nigerian Oil Minister...

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Oh please. Green shirts, not brown. Haven't you been paying attention? I think you need to report to the reeducation camp so you can have your problematic thinking corrected. The green shirts are on their way. Please do not resist.

Bad schools, high crime and high taxes drive people out of the city. Nobody wants to commute an hour each way. But if the only other choice is paying through the nose so your kid can get mugged in class, you will go check out those nice big yards. Average commute to and from work ~ 25...

32 bit XP accesses about 3.5 GB. Figure about a third to a half for OS gives a 32 bit app 3 gig of core. I once saw an ad on some home shopping channel for Windows 95. The seller talked about how it was 32 bits compared to all the 16 bit stuff that was currently available. Then he said "32...

There's been a discussion about an invite-only econ forum here at EliteTrader for bright folks who are either in the biz or very knowledgeable about econ, particularly US economics. It's not political and it's not a forum about what should or should not be done. Rather it is discussions about...

From http://iowahawk.typepad.com/ Dear Barry: I've had a bit of a bad luck patch over the last month (losing my job, watching my 401k completely disintegrate, etc., etc.) and ended up relocating from a high rise in Lincoln Park to a new neighborhood along the Fullerton underpass on the...

The Obamassiah administration has a pile of cash they made by getting all these liberal tax cheats to pony up. But now it looks like will burn through all that phat lewt by putting a bunch of Obamassiah appointees behind bars.

There is a little difference. Obama'll spend money even faster than Bush (a very impressive feat, I might add). OTOH, he'll raise taxes. If we're going to have a massive government on which 90% of us rely for handouts then we should probably be paying for it. A massive, bloated government is...