Tosh's Tails : Bailout Blackmail

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Bailout Blackmail

In every life we have some trouble, when u worry u make it double

McFerrin

S’ok.....So why don’t we just GIVE some of the richest shysters on the planet 700 billion to pay off their bad debts and then trust the very same shysters to clean up the mess they made in the first place. Now, I might be just a beagle but i can certainly tell shite from Chivas when i smell it.....and this reeks.

Some of u might be thinking, “what does he care, he’s just a friggin dog, he’s not worth anything anyway”. True. I am a beast of meager means and my stock in trade is measured more in bones than basis points, but have i not eyes that weep? a heart that bleeds? a tongue that’s.......8 inches long and never stops.....

My point is, we r all human beings (OK, I’m not but i like to pretend) and it is patently wrong for a bunch of wall street wankers to run reckless with our savings and then expect......no......demand, extort, and intimidate us into saving their asses. The arrogance. The unmitigated gaul. The complete lack of respect.

Now I’ve never had much time for religion (jesus is allergic to dander apparently) but there is something very sweetly old testament about the “correction” that’s about to happen...if we have the courage to let it. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”, and we certainly shouldn’t be held to ransom by an elitist bunch of conniving millionaire Henny Penny’s with an attitude.

Remember what happened to poor Turkey Lurkey.....

Tosh

Published Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:42 PM by Marielee

Comments

	Horatia said: 8" you say? Chicken Little you are not ;P Were you watching CNN a few weeks back when 2 bankers who had just lost their jobs were gratuitously making out behind the CNN financial commentator?... News guy had no clue until the end of the segment -- too funny! Adored that two men who were lugging their boxes out of their office for the last time could have such a sense of humour. September 30, 2008 6:03 PM
	nova said: Tosh -- you're a Shakespeare fan! Since I've been up to my eyeballs in this crap for the last week or so, it takes a lot to make me smile about this issue..so thank you, dear beagle! Proud of many for their convinctions; Another plan is underway but ya know, it's the details. September 30, 2008 8:42 PM
	Columbine said: And they have the gall to blame it on people for taking out mortgages that they "couldn't afford." You know why most of them ended up defaulting? MEDICAL BILLS. Some catastrophic injury or illness, and they're out on their tails. Be glad you're a Canadian beagle. September 30, 2008 8:57 PM
	TinaMack said: :D September 30, 2008 9:12 PM
	Helenwheels said: Go Tosh! Never a truer word has been spoken...by a Beagle. September 30, 2008 11:00 PM
	Sharneliz said: Hey, I got a neat idea, what if the US gov't poured that money into bailing out the people who stand to lose their homes? They keep thier homes, their jobs, have money to put into the ecomony, and the green grass grows all around all around and the green grass grows all around. Pah, no one listens to me. October 1, 2008 5:36 AM
	DawninPA said: Pups are true windows into the souls of men. Funny how those who oppose funding for those honest hardworking people in need now demand a Bailout aka Handout to keep themselves living Fat. Must be rat owners.... October 1, 2008 12:46 PM
	Helenwheels said: Sharn, I'm with you...but with one exception. Think of it: seven HUNDRED Billion dollars! (Is that really the figure?) That is a huge amount of money. The US population is just over 300 Million. If the government took that money and distributed it evenly between ALL US citizens, adults and children alike, everyone of us would be Multi-millionaires! If they put it into a National Health Care System, we'd all have all the coverage we'd need to be healthy, productive citizens. They could give us each a cool Million and take the remaining BILLIONS and fix everything! Now immagine that they STOP dumping billions a month into the WAR, and they distribute THAT money to the PEOPLE, the schools, the infrastructure, the health care system, the Veterans who are homeless - well on and on it goes - and this would be a completely different kind of country. October 1, 2008 2:51 PM
	SpringsFans said: Um.. I'm no math expert and I'm blonde, but you might want to check your figures there, Helen. If $700B was divvied up evenly, that's about $2,333 for each American. Hardly making us multi-millionaires. But you raise very valid arguments, none-the-less. October 1, 2008 3:17 PM
	Kestrel said: sigh too right, Tosh me pup... too right. October 1, 2008 9:34 PM
	Chiarascura said: I have nothing to add but this: Tosh, if you ever run for president, you've got my vote. This whole thing pisses me off so much, I can hardly even talk about it. I'll be honest - I don't know very much about finance, but I'm pretty sure there's something's wrong with taking money from the poor (including future generations) to give to the rich. October 2, 2008 2:44 PM
	Mal said: Tosh for prime minister! Or at least Premiere of Newfoundland & Labrador :P October 3, 2008 7:34 AM
	gemchakra said: AND the House passes the bill. Grrrr Tosh, bite their legs. I'm momentarily speechless about this whole issue. Time for a long walk in the rain. October 3, 2008 3:10 PM
	isotoper said: Tosh, I say ya jus trots on over en lift your leg on the group of em. October 3, 2008 8:20 PM
	DawninPA said: I wonder if i will be able to afford to go to a GBS concert now, no matter i guess because i will be too busy working my arse off along with the rest to pay this off. I feel physically sick. October 3, 2008 10:57 PM
	Branwyn32 said: Reason #1293801298048792873847171029102972 to move to Canada. fumes However, the tongue 8" long and never stops bit did make me guffaw out loud, so thanks for that :) October 4, 2008 12:52 PM
	AnneInPhilly said: This is a stuation in which, as Mom says, "you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't!" Makes it good to be a beagle in NFld. Anne October 5, 2008 5:47 PM
	andi said: Actually Tosh, I think you're more human than many out there. But what do I know? October 6, 2008 12:51 AM
	Helenwheels said: oops. I guess I dropped a few zeros in my mental math! I stand corrected. October 6, 2008 1:48 PM
	ErinB said: So many, many Americans feel the same way: don't reward the criminals, help out the victims. Yet the bill passes. And we Americans got to see how the sausage is made. Yuck. October 7, 2008 5:04 PM