The Coalition of the Swilling

How soon does the Robbing Peter To Pay Paul Act of 2009 take effect?

"some sort of aid to state and local governments so they don't have to raise taxes or lay off workers "

"SOME SORT" of aid? From where? Unicorn butts? The only place money COMES from in a system like this is taxes OR cutting spending. You can't not raise taxes or not lay off people AND still give aid.

This is crazy. A few weeks ago, someone was talking about wealth being like a pie that had to be cut up and passed around, and those of us who had "big" slices had to be ready to content ourselves with 'smaller" slices. Now they're acting as if there's some kind of Infinity Pie that keeps gushing money even when the economy's in the tank.

(Yeah, I just did a three-metaphor mix there. So sue me.)

Ye Olde Trough is bustling these days ... more than usual ... and THAT is saying something.

I'm still waiting for my handout...err...bailout.

Where's my ride?

My grandkids will never believe it when I tell them that the United States was once a thriving, prosperous superpower; instead of a debtor nation begging China and Zimbabwe for food aid.

And to think 233 years ago we fought against the most powerful empire of the time for freedom and now we're a nation of beggars willing to roll over and play dead for a few coins. OUR coins taken from us by a body of robber barons.

Great, a $100 bill will worth less than a roll of toilet paper.

I am so annoyed with Nutter's big fat mouth right now. This is the same guy who closed city libraries and pools even though the city footed a great deal of the bill for the Phillies parade and claims profits were made. What?

I'm slightly amused, within his first year in office he's going to outspend the Iraq war on bullshit programs at home. Taxing the shit out of us in the process to attempt to do it.

Could there be any more appropriate name for the mayor of Philadelphia than "Nutter"?

Well, any more appropriate name fit for a family newspaper?

It all could've been stopped. On the day Lehman was allowed to fail, it seemed for one brief second that a line had been drawn. But the next day the floodgates were opened. The thing about moral hazard is that once you concede that ANYONE should get a "bailout," there's no logical place to stop.

Y'all just STFU 'til I get mah check cashed. Yer bellyachin' could innafeeyah wit mah plans for mah own pussonal bail-out 'n I wouldn't take kindly tuh it, no suh.

Notice they only want to bail out the urban areas?

Excuse me gentlemen, but if you want to eat, you might want to at least consider the REST of the country? Yanno, the ones you want to TAX to death? You may succeed. Stalin did. He only managed to kill about 5-10 million with a famine. I'm sure you could do better.

Hmmm - that might need clarification. I'm not for bailout for ANY sector. We need a correction, no matter how painful.

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