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We've seen the future and it

Flavius — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:14:02 +0000

In reply to Self-generated unemployment

We've seen the future and it is ours.

And the bulldogs will have rubber teeth

I don't think you have to go

Flavius — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:10:34 +0000

In reply to When ever I hear these people

I don't think you have to go that far. Just think about the small minded, etc etc individuals who spoke from Washington in the 30s.

And since.

When ever I hear these people

cmaukonen — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:59:56 +0000

In reply to Mitt Romney wants to privatize Unemployment benefits!

When ever I hear these people from the right speak, these tea party types and republicans. They always reminds me of the utterings of another small minded, egotistical, megalomaniac, selfish and self centered individual who spoke from the Reichstag in the 1930s.

" ... if the millionaires tax

MrSmith1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:40:24 +0000

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" ... if the millionaires tax cuts don't produce X million jobs in 6 months they are retroactively rescinded!"

Incentive!! Genius!

Lisb, yes, I've heard about that show. It sounds like a reality show hybrid of 'Let's Make a Deal' (Instead of what's behind door number 2, it's what's in the storage locker"), and "Pawn Stars"... Proof once again, that you can make a reality show out of anything.

Where is Goldman-Sachs in

NCD — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:15:38 +0000

In reply to I think we're on to something

Where is Goldman-Sachs in this??

I liked an idea that if the millionaires tax cuts don't produce X million jobs in 6 months they are retroactively rescinded!

This would work well with your 'tax cut savings accounts'-GS could hold the TCSA money, charge a fat fee for doing so, and meanwhile gamble with it leveraged 33-1 until the job figures are in...!

I think I need a lawyer just

LisB — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:14:08 +0000

In reply to I think we're on to something

I think I need a lawyer just to explain this comment to me in language I can understand, hee. But it makes me think of a new game show or lottery that we could have....wherein we guess how many US millionaires have Swiss bank accounts, and then we guess how many US dollars they have hidden over there. Kinda like guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar. The person who comes closest to the actual amount wins.

Speaking of which, I keep hearing ads on my alternative rock station about some new show called "Storage Wars", which I can only hope is a joke. According to the disc jockey who mentions this show, all the storage spaces that are left abandoned get on a list and people bid on them, ending up with the contents (which can - supposedly - be worth a fortune).

Makes me wonder what in hell is next.

I think we're on to something

MrSmith1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:04:59 +0000

In reply to ...and the same gang of GOP

I think we're on to something ... Maybe we can bring it full circle, and insist that millionaires should be forced to open 'tax cut accounts' that they can draw on in times of 'financial need' (i.e., whenever their tax cuts expire), then we have the Federal government 'privitize' the millionaires' tax cuts. (It'll be like the deriative market, only with less actual substance.) The Federal Government would, of course, then pass regulations making them the 'lender of only resort' in all tax cut privitization transactions, thus ensuring the Fed gets a hefty commission back on the privitized tax cuts, which would, in effect, be taking a commission from the debt that the tax cuts would engender, thus taking back some of the money that we would otherwise be sending to China. This could be just the head-spinning, logic-numbing accounting procedural sleight-of-hand that we've been praying for! Privitize tax cuts for the wealthy NOW! (This is a joke, this is only a joke, do NOT try this at home.)

...and the same gang of GOP

NCD — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:05:46 +0000

In reply to Mitt Romney wants to privatize Unemployment benefits!

...and the same gang of GOP sociopaths and 'Saddam Getters' said the Iraq War would pay for itself.

Maybe the Pentagon needs a 'War Savings Account' to draw on, because killing thousands of people, pillaging, torture, breaking countries and blowing stuff up is a very expensive employment program.

Genius! The extrapolation of

MrSmith1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:01:21 +0000

In reply to Self-generated unemployment

Genius! The extrapolation of the day, Moat! LOL

For the win, moat. +1.

LisB — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:29:48 +0000

In reply to Self-generated unemployment

For the win, moat. +1.