TPMtv: Dollars and Nonsense
For $700 billion, I'd sure want to know what I was getting. So what is the American economy getting for its $700 billion bailout? Well, it's kind of like a bazooka, or a mythological sea monster, or something like that:
[Special props to TPM reporter Kate Klonick for inspiring this one.]
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Comments (7)
Please tell me I'm not tripping.
September 24, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm having a hard time believing - if we're to believe how dangerous spending time debating this thing really is - that each one of these elected "officials" can't speak intelligently enough about this unless it's being referred to in analogy or metaphor.
Laughable.
Do they not see how ridiculous it is that the seriousness of this need not be dumbed down to a mythical "bazooka?" Shut up already, address the problem and carry on.
Thank you.
September 24, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm confused. Whose bazooka is in which pockets?
September 24, 2008 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You'll get a bazooka to each of YOUR pockets Mr. Thomas if you keep up those silly questions. Yes, I'm threatening to shoot you with bazookas. In the pockets.
September 24, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that a bazooka in your pocket, or are you just thinking about the $700,000,000,000?
September 24, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
This would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
I'm trying to explain this all to my 2 year old, but all she does is look confused, and then pissed.
I can't blame her.
September 25, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
follow the money,
find out where is all of this money going to,
like for instance, not paying for those,
"golden parachutes" that they had planned,
and where in the world is all of this coming from, like for instance, taxes, your grandchildren, or your grandchildren's grandchildren..
are they just going to "print" more money to cover their butts?
you may laugh, but Im serious..
who is paying for this huge mess??
follow the money..
September 25, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink