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The Latest Reality Game: Let's Play "WALLSTREET BAILOUT"

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Wed, 09/24/2008 - 12:54 — McJ

I don't know anything about this congresswoman from Ohio but she in on fire over this latest $700 billion 'cash for trash' scheme the wall street big boys are peddling to congress.

"Let's play Wallstreet Bailout" here.

And for your further viewing pleasure...

"They want mama to make it all better" here.

Update:laughing out loud laughing out loud


From RAW Story
Published: Tuesday September 23, 2008
Viral e-mail forward mocks Wall Street bailout
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Viral_email_forward_mocks_Wall_Street_0923...
As retrieved from the Washington Post and numerous other sources, a satirical e-mail frames the proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout as a Nigerian 419 scam. The author is unknown:

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 wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov 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

‹ Canada's first convicted terrorist I wonder what the PTBs are going to be needing these for? ›
Wed, 09/24/2008 - 22:54 — McJ
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We just wanted to choose a really large number!!

Do you think this den of thieves debated amongst themselves what figure might sound reasonable or did they just pull it out of a hat?

From Forbes.com:
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/09/23/bailout-paulson-congress-biz-beltw...
The more Congress examines the Bush administration's bailout plan, the hazier its outcome gets.
...In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.
"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

No worries tho, Sen. Dodd's says ""I'm not about to give a $700 billion appropriation to a secretary I don't know yet."

What...are they are going to do lunch and then maybe a family get together?

"I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain..." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, v