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(Harvard Business) Interesting Is Obama the financial Dubya?   (blogs.harvardbusiness.org) divider line 488
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tchamber 2009-04-09 04:13:14 PM  
Did Obama create the crisis by lying about it, then send over 3,000 people to their deaths? No? Then STFU, submitter.

 
Ima10urin8 [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:17:13 PM  
^ asshat

 
Biggs [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:18:21 PM  
tchamber: Did Obama create the crisis by lying about it, then send over 3,000 people to their deaths? No? Then STFU, submitter.

lol

 
pwhp_67 2009-04-09 04:19:22 PM  
Nobody is the _____ Dubya. That retard was on a short bus all his own...

 
kronicfeld [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:20:01 PM  
Ima10urin8: ^ asshat

That's an awful thing to say about the person whose username appears directly above your arrow.

 
Mordant [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:22:00 PM  
Even I can't believe how much of a mess he's already made. I remember back in December when sensible conservatives first started pointing out all of the problems Obama had already caused and regrettably I didn't believe them at the time. Now... the awful truth is clear. This national nightmare feels like it's been going on for years already, and it's only going to get worse and worse.

 
kronicfeld [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:25:01 PM  
Dubya is the financial Dubya.

 
Bloody William 2009-04-09 04:27:15 PM  
If Obama was the financial dubya, we would have reacted to the housing crisis by bailing out the tech sector.

 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:28:15 PM  
If he was, we would attack Switzerland.

 
Gavino 2009-04-09 04:28:18 PM  
Mordant: Even I can't believe how much of a mess he's already made. I remember back in December when sensible conservatives first started pointing out all of the problems Obama had already caused and regrettably I didn't believe them at the time. Now... the awful truth is clear. This national nightmare feels like it's been going on for years already, and it's only going to get worse and worse.

Golf clap.

 
Joystk [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:30:15 PM  
Mordant: Even I can't believe how much of a mess he's already made. I remember back in December when sensible conservatives first started pointing out all of the problems Obama had already caused that the previous administration had caused and regrettably I didn't believe them at the time. Now... the awful truth is clear. This national nightmare feels like it's been going on for years already, and it's only going to get worse and worse.

FTFYF

 
EZ1923 2009-04-09 04:33:33 PM  
The financial dubya would have looked into AIG's soul and then given up golf in solidarity with the jobless.

 
SusanIvanova [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:38:11 PM  
Too soon to tell. We'll know probably by 2015.

If, by then, Obama's managed to put every financial institution and most industrial concerns under direct governmental control, cause sustained annual inflation north of 100%, run up a quadrillion dollars in public debt, make people look back fondly on Herbert Hoover, and put a third of the workforce out of their jobs, then he'll be eligible for the possiblity of consideration for a chance to be as almost as terrible on economic policy as Bush was in foreign policy and civil rights.

And even then, I'd be more inclined to forgive him, on the grounds that if this were to happen, it would almost certainly be because Obama didn't have a clue what the hell he was doing. Whereas Bush The Lesser knew exactly what he was doing.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:40:37 PM  
i'm pretty sure dubya was the financial dubya.

 
joshthewaster [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:46:02 PM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: If he was, we would attack Switzerland.

Bahhahahahaha!

 
Code_Archeologist [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:49:56 PM  
Harvard Business School educated most of the assholes that built the house of cards that caused our nation's economy to collapse. So I would have to say that anything writings coming out of Harvard Business are not even worthy of lining a pigeon coop.

 
Lando Lincoln [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:51:52 PM  
Mordant: Even I can't believe how much of a mess he's already made. I remember back in December when sensible conservatives

Oh, I get it. You're making a joke.

 
furiousxgeorge [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 04:53:57 PM  
kronicfeld: Dubya is the financial Dubya.

FlashHarry: i'm pretty sure dubya was the financial dubya.

Came here to say that.

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:05:27 PM  
Keep masturbating, Freepmitter. Something's bound to come out sooner or later.

 
neglogon [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:07:55 PM  
pwhp_67: Nobody is the _____ Dubya. That retard was on a short bus all his own...

Fark, he doesn't have enough Tard Sense to make his way to the back of the short bus.

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:14:10 PM  
EZ1923: The financial dubya would have looked into AIG's soul and then given up golf in solidarity with the jobless.

It beats taxing me to death.

 
impaler [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:15:00 PM  
kronicfeld: Ima10urin8: ^ asshat

That's an awful thing to say about the person whose username appears directly above your arrow.


It motivated me

deus-ex-machinima.net

 
impaler [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:15:41 PM  
Bloody William: If Obama was the financial dubya, we would have reacted to the housing crisis by bailing out the tech sector.

LOL

 
Lando Lincoln [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:18:07 PM  
feckingmorons: It beats taxing me to death.

Yet another Farker making over 250k. Man, you guys are everywhere.

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:19:11 PM  
Mordant: Even I can't believe how much of a mess he's already made. I remember back in December when sensible conservatives first started pointing out all of the problems Obama had already caused and regrettably I didn't believe them at the time. Now... the awful truth is clear. This national nightmare feels like it's been going on for years already, and it's only going to get worse and worse.


Banks are closing left and right, he forced bailout funds on banks that don't want them and now he proposes taking over the banks, limiting executive pay, and he is even telling CEOs to resign.

I'd prefer he left the economy alone and just kept thinking about shooting magic dust into the atmosphere to cool the world. Is there not some potentate to which he can go prostrate himself?

OJT is not something the President should be doing. He has less executive experience than a 29 year old manager at a ball bearing plant in Oshkosh. His staff are clueless too. He can't even fill his appointed positions. The guy is a freaking nightmare. Give him time, give him time, is the chourus we hear. Tell the North Koreans, heck tell the Cubans, Fidel want to camp out on the east lawn with the Congressional Black Caucus - who shoud not be involved in international realations as that is an executive function until such time as their approval is needed for a treaty.

 
cousin-merle 2009-04-09 05:20:05 PM  
This idiot doesn't even make any points. No, you can't just say Obama ignores economists to make it suddenly true.

Dow is above where it was on January 20th, except now with W (who, I don't know if it has been mentioned, is the actual financial W) gone it is trending up instead of down.

feckingmorons: It beats taxing me to death.

I'm taking your money to give illegal immigrants abortions. Go cry about it in the corner more because there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it.

 
Anaxphone [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:21:02 PM  
PC LOAD LETTER: Keep masturbating, Freepmitter. Something's bound to come out sooner or later.

Thanks for that lovely mental image.

Jerk.

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:21:25 PM  
Lando Lincoln: feckingmorons: It beats taxing me to death.

Yet another Farker making over 250k. Man, you guys are everywhere.


I don't know about you but that promised eight bucks extra in my check when the new withholding that Obama promised would put more money in my pocket reduced my pay by 12 bucks.

You don't have to make 250K, try 100 and you get screwed.

 
absoluteparanoia 2009-04-09 05:21:47 PM  
Bloody William: If Obama was the financial dubya, we would have reacted to the housing crisis by bailing out the tech sector.

win

 
Hender [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:22:14 PM  
Anaxphone: PC LOAD LETTER: Keep masturbating, Freepmitter. Something's bound to come out sooner or later.

Thanks for that lovely mental image.

Jerk.


Isn't that what you just said didn't like him doing?

 
absoluteparanoia 2009-04-09 05:22:42 PM  
feckingmorons: I don't know about you but that promised eight bucks extra in my check when the new withholding that Obama promised would put more money in my pocket reduced my pay by 12 bucks.

You don't have to make 250K, try 100 and you get screwed.


Oh my god. Won't someone please think of his twelve bucks? He's screwed I tells ya! Screwed!

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:25:11 PM  
cousin-merle: This idiot doesn't even make any points. No, you can't just say Obama ignores economists to make it suddenly true.

Dow is above where it was on January 20th, except now with W (who, I don't know if it has been mentioned, is the actual financial W) gone it is trending up instead of down.

feckingmorons: It beats taxing me to death.

I'm taking your money to give illegal immigrants abortions. Go cry about it in the corner more because there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it.



Actually yes there is. I can reduce the amount of taxes I pay through various methods including deferral of capital gains, and keeping my assets intact.

I don't pay taxes until I realize a profit on my investments. If I don't sell them you can't tax them.

We also decided to open the new part of the family business in the Yucatan and the money will stay there and not be returned to the US. Good luck taxing that.

See CPAs and lawyers still win. The tax code is a nightmare, but if used properly it can be advantageous to any particular situation.

Sure my salary is still taxed, but that is not the bulk of my assets nor income.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:25:14 PM  
feckingmorons:
You don't have to make 250K, try 100 and you get screwed.


so... let me get this straight. your taxes go down (if only by a little)... and you're "screwed?"

 
Tigger [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:25:41 PM  
I don't know about you but that promised eight bucks extra in my check when the new withholding that Obama promised would put more money in my pocket reduced my pay by 12 bucks.

You don't have to make 250K, try 100 and you get screwed.


If you noticed your pay change by 12 bucks you don't make more than 100k.

Also the fact that you're a weapons grade tardbucket also suggests that you probably don't make more than 100k.

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:26:41 PM  
absoluteparanoia: feckingmorons: I don't know about you but that promised eight bucks extra in my check when the new withholding that Obama promised would put more money in my pocket reduced my pay by 12 bucks.

You don't have to make 250K, try 100 and you get screwed.

Oh my god. Won't someone please think of his twelve bucks? He's screwed I tells ya! Screwed!


Well why don't you mail me twelve bucks every week. If you don't mind giving away $624/year send it to me.

 
Anaxphone [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:26:58 PM  
Hender: Isn't that what you just said didn't like him doing?

Is it still a decent attempt at humour if someone else explains the joke for you?

 
Nabb1 [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:27:20 PM  
feckingmorons: I don't know about you but that promised eight bucks extra in my check when the new withholding that Obama promised would put more money in my pocket reduced my pay by 12 bucks.

It's stupidity. I changed my withholdings to give it right back. I really don't need any reason to pay more on April 15 than I do already. And, I also tend to agree this guy looks to be about as bad as Dubya when it comes to fiscal matters.

 
burndtdan 2009-04-09 05:27:26 PM  
Bloody William: If Obama was the financial dubya, we would have reacted to the housing crisis by bailing out the tech sector.

thread over

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:27:39 PM  
FlashHarry: feckingmorons:
You don't have to make 250K, try 100 and you get screwed.

so... let me get this straight. your taxes go down (if only by a little)... and you're "screwed?"


No, the amount of money deducted for taxes when the new withholding tables were applied went up. I take home less money now.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:27:52 PM  
feckingmorons:
See CPAs and lawyers still win. The tax code is a nightmare, but if used properly it can be advantageous to any particular situation.


so, wait - you mean the super-wealthy don't simply fill out a 1040EZ and pay their 39%??? i'm shocked. SHOCKED!!!

 
Hender [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:29:29 PM  
Anaxphone: Hender: Isn't that what you just said didn't like him doing?

Is it still a decent attempt at humour if someone else explains the joke for you?


Not if you insert rogue u's in word that don't deserve them. If you're going to live here, learn to write the language!

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:29:50 PM  
Tigger: I don't know about you but that promised eight bucks extra in my check when the new withholding that Obama promised would put more money in my pocket reduced my pay by 12 bucks.

You don't have to make 250K, try 100 and you get screwed.

If you noticed your pay change by 12 bucks you don't make more than 100k.

Also the fact that you're a weapons grade tardbucket also suggests that you probably don't make more than 100k.


You can believe whatever you want but if you had some sense you would look at the updated withholding tables and find that above $80K the withholding increases, rather than decreases as Obama paraded about giving us more money in our checks every week.

Sure the guy at McDonalds may get the 8 bucks but I am paying for 1.5 fryolater operators pocket change.

 
cousin-merle 2009-04-09 05:32:26 PM  
feckingmorons: We also decided to open the new part of the family business in the Yucatan and the money will stay there and not be returned to the US. Good luck taxing that.

Good luck with that. Do you even know how taxes work?

feckingmorons: No, the amount of money deducted for taxes when the new withholding tables were applied went up. I take home less money now.

Liar.

 
impaler [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:33:04 PM  
feckingmorons: Well why don't you mail me twelve bucks every week. If you don't mind giving away $624/year send it to me.

LMFAO.

They're withholding more, not taking more idiot.

You'll get it back at the end of the year...

 
impaler [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:34:37 PM  
BTW, you can adjust how much they withhold until you have to pay at the end of their.

Biatching about withholding is a sure way to paint yourself a moron.

 
impaler [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:35:18 PM  
"end of their" = "end of the year"

Weird phonetic typo..

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:35:34 PM  
Nabb1: feckingmorons: I don't know about you but that promised eight bucks extra in my check when the new withholding that Obama promised would put more money in my pocket reduced my pay by 12 bucks.

It's stupidity. I changed my withholdings to give it right back. I really don't need any reason to pay more on April 15 than I do already. And, I also tend to agree this guy looks to be about as bad as Dubya when it comes to fiscal matters.


I even pay quarterly estimated tax above my withholding as required by the IRS (see pub 505 if you want to know why).

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:35:47 PM  
Dubya was the financial Dubya.

 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:40:26 PM  
cousin-merle: feckingmorons: We also decided to open the new part of the family business in the Yucatan and the money will stay there and not be returned to the US. Good luck taxing that.

Good luck with that. Do you even know how taxes work?

Yes, do you undersand the concept of different country and foreign corporations. If it has no nexus the IRS cannot tax it.

feckingmorons: No, the amount of money deducted for taxes when the new withholding tables were applied went up. I take home less money now.

Liar.


Did you look at the tables? No, you just assumed I am lying because it did not happen to you. So dumbass, for your edification I present an authoratative link (new window).

And one (new window) a with a bit bigger letters, and easier words.

 
TheOther [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 05:42:14 PM  
Obama gets a free ride till September 12th, like Bush...right?

 
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