Thank God It Passed

[RadiationTherapy]

Thank god it passed: $70,000 million in bonuses paid to execs who drove us into the ground.

Thank god it passed: Class war is a radical illusion.

Thank god it passed: $10,000 per household as our economy continues to fail and domino around the world.

Thank god it passed: A last hurrah for the mega rich.

Thank god it passed: Maintain the divide between the rich and poor for a while longer.

Thank god it passed: I got mine; screw everyone else. I am comfortable and DON'T WANT REAL CHANGE.

Soft heads and hard hearts.

[KG]

1. As A Worshipper Of The Status Quo, I Get Down On My Knees Every Day To Thank God It Passed!

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:rofl:

[Runcible Spoon]

2. snarf!

I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down.

[dbt]

3. There ain't half been some thankful bastards:

Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in discretionary bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash, the Guardian has learned.

:evilgrin:

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. I got mine; screw everyone else. That's about the size of it.

:thumbsup:

[geckosfeet]

5. That isn't even half of it. They got mine, and yours and every Americans.

They conned our government into handing over $700 billion of our tax dollars and money that we don't even have. They are picking our pockets with the help of the government.

The financial industry needs to be reformed and regulated far beyond anything that has been openly discussed, much less proposed.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. I guess that is what happens when the fox guards the hen house. Goldman Sachs Paulson done good by

his corpoRAT buds, didn't he?

[bean fidhleir]

8. I disagree. The "financial industry" needs to be *eliminated*

"Reform and regulation" are like repeatedly pruning back an invasive, destructive plant species that provides no benefit. Eventually a sensible person will wonder why they don't simply uproot the damned thing and be done with it.

[RadiationTherapy]

10. I agree with you. I wish i didn't get so pissed about it.

I grew up poor and have seen how the rich fugg us all day after year after decade. I get angry at myself when I allow for illusions of "change is coming". Change is not coming; well, maybe SPARE change...but I need to go back into my poverty cocoon. I can't handle the stress.

[bean fidhleir]

15. If we keep exposing it for what it is, with any luck we'll see the end of it before

it sees the end of us. That's the one thing that consoles me: it sometimes slips up and shows its true nature. And every time it does, a few more people wake up. If we can just keep up our strength and make the most of those times....

[RadiationTherapy]

23. A percentage who do see the truth, let greed lead them.

I dislike the term, but what we need is a consciousness shift. People need to perceive what capitalism has become as unacceptable.

The indirect violence and the blood of the proles oiling the gears of the economy are hidden behind a shimmering curtain of "maybe I could get rich".

[bean fidhleir]

24. 'a shimmering curtain of "maybe I could get rich".'

Education, do you think? Bageant's of your mind, too (and mine), about the need for a rise in consciousness. But how to get there?

[RadiationTherapy]

27. Not sure if education would work. Is greed taught?

Maybe it is like racism; some want us to think it is "inherent", but it is taught by parents and culture.

[bean fidhleir]

29. Probably it depends on how you define "greed". The full-strength form is for sure a

mental/emotional disorder.

Whereas the kind of "greed" we see just before bad weather and so forth when people fight over toilet paper at the supermarket is probably just a mix of prudence and silliness.

But plain acquisitiveness is probably learned, since there's proverbially a big difference between how the poor and the wealthy behave (there's a scene in one of the late lamented Ross Thomas's books -I can't recommend him highly enough as a writer of political novels- in which a ragged Central American revolutionary points a gun at an Anglo who might be a stooge for the generals and demands that he hand over his expensive watch. The visitor immediately shrugs, says "It's yours", and starts unbuckling the band. At which point the revolutionary puts his pistol away and says "No, that was a test - you are the man you claim to be: a rich man would have hesitated, perhaps tried to argue".)

[bean fidhleir]

6. Well said. Away to the GP with you. (nt)

[xchrom]

9. i thought you were talking about kidney stones. nt

[bvar22]

11. Hahahahahahahahahaha!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Now we got your children's money too !!!!

[RadiationTherapy]

12. No no no! Don't you realize? THERE IS NO FUTURE!!!

Without the baaiilllllout, we have a scorched earth scenario; so GIVE US THE GODDAMNED MONEEEEYYY!!! *pantpant*

[JVS]

13. I'd have rather not had it pass.

[G_j]

14. Dear American:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/22/hank-paulsons-bailou.html

Hank Paulson's bailout 419 letter

Hal sends us this "brilliant satiric email phrasing Hank Paulson's giant Wall Street bailout as Nigerian spam."

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to [e-mail] so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
Bailout Satire

[geckosfeet]

16. It is amazing how exactly accurate that is. And congress fell all over themsleves

complying with his request. They simply could not give our money away fast enough.

On the other hand, an internet savvy 10 year old knows enough not to respond to this type of email.

Our leaders are morans.

[HughMoran]

17. Hmmmm, I know who this is directed at

:eyes:

[RadiationTherapy]

18. It is directed at a mindset; the phrase is just marketing to an audience. nt

[HughMoran]

19. Bullshit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4161334

[RadiationTherapy]

20. Ummm...yeah. that's why there is an audience for this phrase to market to.

But it isn't about any of the specific grand poobahs who cheered the bailout; it is directed at the mindset.

[fascisthunter]

28. oh well

[dgibby]

21. They got theirs AND ours, damn the bad luck!

[lonestarnot]

22. Damn we are so lucky aren't we...

:puke:

[Swamp Rat]

25. And sod the proles who vote against their own interests every time.

[RadiationTherapy]

26. I love that graphic. Thanks for adding it. nt