Asshole on CNN just said in answer to what can you do with your budget.

[lonestarnot]

"Find something to cut. Maybe you have your house cleaned to many times." Where do they get these motherfuckers? :rofl:

[BuelahWitch]

1. They are completely out of touch with real Americans

"Yes, I had to cut something, so I let the scullery maid go. Now I only have a butler, cook and upstairs maid. Boo hoo!"

[lonestarnot]

3. Doh. Cut those poor people that actually work for a living to the bone.

I hate these motherfuckers!

[azmouse]

2. I think I'll let the gardener go.

How much trimming does a cactus need anyway?

[lonestarnot]

4. LOL! Where is that sombitch! May have to eat it!

:P

[bluestateguy]

5. I'll have to cut back on the country club dues

I'll let the golf membership expire, and downgrade to a standard membership.

:rofl:

[Fridays Child]

6. Which shit-for-brains, terminally out-of-touch news zombie said that?

[lonestarnot]

9. Just another "morAn." Don't have the name.

:shrug:

[TWiley]

7. It is republican insanity. Cut Cut Cut think about this:

There is a limit to how much can be cut without destroying the family, business, or country. On the otherhand, the profit potential is theoretically unlimited by spending. Spending on education, Marketing, Machinery, Engineers, and so on.

As with most things, the republicans are DEAD WRONG.
The only group with a lower predictive success rate is the religious.

[lonestarnot]

12. No argument with that here.

[cliffordu]

18. You have my vote.

[Haole Girl]

8. Talk about out-of-touch

Sigh.

[HopeFor2006]

10. I suppose I could let the dog walker go....

Oh wait, that would be my daughter.

[Liberal In Texas]

11. I guess I'll have to decide between the Rolls and the Porsche.

Decisions decisions....

[AlCzervik]

13. So i should have been paying myself all along for cleaning my house and now

i have to lay myself off?

[lonestarnot]

15. Yeah!

:rofl: And kick your own ass while your at it!

[AlCzervik]

17. i also going to have to fire the person that washes my car, oh wait, i'm out of work again.

[lonestarnot]

20. Can you get unemployment for that? :)

Cristo! Going to have to fire the shit scooper and eat the dogs!

[HopeFor2006]

14. Similar discussion on MSNBC

Recommended that Americans cut their holiday spending in half. :wtf: I did that last year- pretty soon I'll be giving out pet rocks from my garden.

[lonestarnot]

16. OMG! Save 'em! They make good heat in the winter!

[Madam Mossfern]

21. The problem with that

is that my husband's business depends on holiday spending. His numbers are already down a bunch. How does not spending help the economy? Well, we can always cut back on food, that'll get me back into a size 2 in a jiffy.

Wait, if we don't spend money on food, then how will the grocer survive?

[lonestarnot]

23. I guess you haven't heard that w/o a job there is no holiday money?

:rofl: Good luck to you!

[jwirr]

27. Cutting Christmas spending may help our personal budgets but it

will not help the economy. When we do not have enough money to buy the merchant is the one getting hurt and then the manufacturer. It is a circle and that is what has happened when they moved our jobs overseas.

[Fuzz]

19. LMAO. I've had to cut back on the crew on my yacht too. Times are tough.

[lonestarnot]

22. Good Gawd Gilligan! You could get lost!

:scared:

[onager]

24. Just send Richie Rich to Egypt...

...where I've lived for 3 years.

And let's give him a cushy job with the government. Or teaching school.

He will make about 500 Egyptian pounds (LE) a month. That's between $70-80 US dollars. Which has to pay the rent, buy food, gas for the car, and schooling or tutoring for the kids. And everything else.

Or if he's a more average Egyptian, he'll rake in about LE 200 per month. That's around 30 US dollars.

Now let's not forget that we are in the middle of a GLOBAL economic crisis. So like everywhere else, prices are going up for just about everything in Egypt right now.

I sometimes resent it when Egyptians say things like "all Americans are rich." (My usual response: "If I were rich, I wouldn't be here working.")

But believe me, compared to these folks, most of us ARE rich. It's been an eye-opening and generally humbling experience.

[lonestarnot]

25. Word. Point.

[petronius]

26. Why not just earn more money?

:shrug:

:sarcasm: