EliteAnalyst: I don't understand how Americans can put up with this without so much as a single person picketing the Capitol. Don't you guys have like a billion firearms that the government is ascared of?

I can understand, say, Canadians rolling over for the gubmint, but Americans? What happened to you, man? You used to be hardcore.

because this saves the retirements of the baby boomers, who are both numerous and powerful.

but, at a more populist level, so many americans are in the situation where they have too much debt - credit card debt, mortgages they can't afford, etc, they are just as culpable. At a lower level. why blame a company, when you would take a bailout if it was offered to you?

I would like to see a company stand up, have some self respect, and say bailout? Bailout? I don't need your stinking bailouts. I can work my out of this on my own.

GaryPDX: Paul "Oil for Food debacle" Volcker. Yippeee!!!


i was wondering where i remember that name from. It sounded so familiar. Oh God. although truth be told, i'd take another Oil for Food scandal over an $8 Trill bailout any year. By comparison, it is harmless.

danwiseman: liberals: Tax and spend
conservatives: Don't tax and don't spend
republicans: Don't tax, spend like a son of a biatch and charge it to china, hope everyone forgets about it blame the spending on someone else, make sure the spending goes to oil rich CEOs, defense contractors or wall street CEOs. the ones who need it.

$7.4 trillion dollars is a hefty amount of walking-around money, even for Futurama's Mom. Good thing she has robots to do the heavy lifting when she goes shopping for what-nots and gee-gaws.

Here's my bail-out plan:

Since the GDP of Canada is about $1.5 trillion, you take $1.5 trillion of the bail-out money and distribute it to Canadians. Canada shuts down for a year.

The work Canadians would have done is given to Americans who have lost their jobs, homes, etc., especially in the Northern states.

The Canadians take a year off. We all move to the United States for a year and spend the $1.5 trillion boosting the economies of the Sun Belt states.

At the end of the year, any Canadians who are out of money go home and start the country up again.

Result: full employment in the US (full unemployment in Canada, except maybe for some people who refuse the money or don't trust you with an empty country next door for a year).

Trillions get poured directly into consumption (nothing wasted on savings and investment), stimulating the economy directly and reviving the housing market.

During their year off, Canadians produce millions of tonnes less carbon because they don't have to heat their homes and cars during the winter, or air-condition during the summer.

Any Canadians who still have money left after a year of vacation in the US get to keep it.

If one in three Canadians decide not to go home, there will be enough Canadian illegals in the United states (12,000,000) to overwhelm the Mexican illegal population.

Or we could just take the State of Florida off of your hands.

I'll take my finder's fee (10%) in US dollars, please. After a year of the country doing absolutely nothing, it'll take the Canadian dollar a while to bounce back from zero.

Some of you may be wondering what happened to the other $6,000,000,000,000.

What indeed? What do you think is going to happen to it under the Bush/Obama plans?

How would you like to cut to the chase and just buy everybody in Mexico a new house, education, job, and car? Then the illegals could stay home and you'd actually NEED 12,000,000 Canadians to stay on after their vacations are over. Once the money runs out, some of them will surely be willing to make beds, serve breakfast, mow lawns, run a sound and conservative banking system, etc., rather than going back to face another Canadian winter.

And Canada will be able to import 12,000,000 New Canadians to replace its losses. That means that millions of people in miserable countries can move up to a Canadian lifestyle, while reducing poverty, ecological damage in the poor countries, etc.

I like my plan.

I think it is better than anything world leaders have come up with.

And I could really use that US$150 billion cheque.

legton: anywho, we are screwed. I blame women.

Yep, pretty much.

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