INTERESTING QUOTES ON THE BAILOUT
"How much inflation has there been? From the signing of the Constitution right up until landing a man on the moon the whole American experience, every house, car, television, freeway, airplane, war... everything, cost one trillion dollars. Then consider that the debt ceiling has been raised 2 1/2 trillion dollars just this last 12 months. Do you see the value in that? Of course not; that is because you didn't get it. The rich bankers and their Wall Street friends that you are now being told you have to bail out got the lot."
"The scheme is actually pretty simple. Please forgive my primitive graphics abilities.
The fund will buy mortgages from the banks at market value, and then re-sell them back to the banks at a discount. The fund will then repurchase those mortgages from the banks, who will sell them back to the fund again. The same product (perhaps an ill-advised mortgage for a half-million dollars taken out on a house in the distant suburbs of Las Vegas) will be bought, then resold, then re-bought and re-resold in an endless spiral of profit-taking. The taxpayer will lose on every transaction, the banks robbing the treasury each time each mortgage, or package of mortgages is swapped.
It is amazing to observe the greatest transfer of wealth in history, from Main Street to Wall Street,from the many to the few. What is even more amazing is that nobody seems to be stopping it."
My FDIC Sears card is bumping the limit at $150 billion but I may be able to hold them off for another month. It would be nice to have some money for food this month.
Then my brother-in-law Bill comes over. He's a nice guy but he's a crack addict and hits the bottle and my sister a little hard. But a nice guy at heart.
He hits me up for a loan. How can I turn him down? As I said, he's a nice guy. He needs $700 billion. Or is it trillion? Those numbers are so high I can barely cope with them. He needs $700 billion and he needs it now so he can sort out his crack problem. I can understand that, a crack problem needs sorting out.
'Here,' I say, 'Take my American Express Platinum card and punch it for the $700 billion. They may give you a little bit of a hard time but they know I'm good for it. I pay my bills mostly on time. What's $700 billion between friends?'
I know it's foolish but he really does need help with his crack problem and I want to do everything I can. My friends at American Express are sure to understand."
"We won the battle. Please remember this is a war."
--Mike Shedlock
And just a side note about caring from above:
"The Bush administration has abruptly halted a program that tests levels of pesticides in fruits, vegetables and other crops, arguing that the $8 million dollar a year program is too expensive."
"The Bush administration has abruptly halted a program that tests levels of pesticides in fruits, vegetables and other crops, arguing that the $8 million dollar a year program is too expensive."
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[October 4]
"Less than two weeks after Uncle Sam gave American International Group (AIG) an $85 billion loan - staving off financial collapse - execs from one of its insurance subsidiaries, AIG American General, gathered for a conference at the uber-swank St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, billed as “California’s only Mobil Travel Guide Five-Star Resort,” where ocean-view rooms start at $565 a night and “world class luxury” is the rule."
3 comments:
perhaps an ill-advised mortgage for a half-million dollars taken out on a house in the distant suburbs of Las Vegas
Don't be absurd. Vegas doesn't have distant suburbs. Vegas itself is the most distant suburb of Los Angeles! (And I can get you a very nice 5000 square foot house, in town, with a bunch of nice amenities, for less than $500,000, and you can rent out a couple of the bedrooms). The rest of the statement is pretty close to the proposal, but that example should cause people to question his credibility.
I think he chose Vegas because its THE city in Nevada, which has had the worst foreclosure rate in America for quite a while now, foreclosure being core to his topic.
"It is so bad in Nevada that they have more than 1 percent of the homes in the state in foreclosure. That is 5 times the level of 6th place Georgia." (That's in Aug 08.) More stats here.
And aren't you glad you aren't here? I have to stash more cash and head for the border if McCain-Palin wins. Not only will I be in danger financially, I have no doubt that the Thought Police will soon be upon us.
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