ok, so - somehow, I get $1,000 of your money. beg, steal, borrow, doesn't matter.

[ulysses]

All you know - all you get to know - is that I have to have it or some Dire Thing will happen. I'm going to use that cash for a Specific Purpose, which purpose will hold Dire Thing at bay.

A few weeks later, Dire Thing has become Really Huge Dire Thing in spite of your willing or unwilling donation to the cause. I've since fleeced you for a couple more hundred dollars anyway, and the Specific Purpose has been replaced with other Specific Purposes. I reserve the right to replace these with even further Specific Purposes. You, having already had the cash taken from you given the cash, have no say at this point.

I already have a somewhat shaky reputation for fiscal management.

What's your reaction?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Chimpy Fucknuts, go away.

We've fallen for your Dire Thing stuff before. We're not gonna take it.

Fool us twice, uh, we won't get fooled again.

[Wiley50]

7. And as Mike Malloy says:

"Fool me three times and I come after your ass with a goddamned baseball bat"

Mike has a way with words

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. Oh, GOOD!

Ultimately, I do believe physical violence - just talking about it, not actually doing it - is the answer.

Thank you.

Don't we all feel better?

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. As long as you've hired other people who went bankrupt due to their management mistakes,

I trust you completely and applaud you for being a decider, and for being resolute and staying the course.

Have another $5,000!!

Seriously, guys like you, who make major financial mistakes, are in the best position to know what those mistakes are and not make them again.

I'd be stupid - abjectly, literally, utterly fucking stupid - not to keep you in charge, and I'll keep feeding you cash until you make it work.

Just, whatever you do, just don't bother me with details or anything.

Oh, and be sure to keep some for yourself as a tip.

[ulysses]

3. we have a winnah!

The tip was a nice touch. :D

[jimshoes]

4. There are no consequences, they don't give two shits

what anyone thinks. They skate, with our money, no questions asked. Now if a few of these thieves were stood up against a wall with blindfolds and a firing squad at the ready, they might think twice about their unbridled thievery.

[TexasObserver]

5. It's called FRAUD, and there are criminal and civil liabilities for it.

1 make a false representation, known to be false at the time made

2 that is material

3 that is reasonably relied upon

4 by another party

6 who changes their economic position

7 based upon reliance on the false, material misrepresentation

8 suffering economic damages by virtue thereof


This was a heist. They frauded us. It was a flim flam game.

[ixion]

6. exactly

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Reaction? How many more times before they leave office will bu$hco pull this crap and

get away with it?

[KoKo]

10. It was another "Scam" like "Iraq/Saddam WMD, TERRA, TERRA"

That's what I thought at the beginning...but I'm always hoping to be proved wrong. Paulson didn't prove me wrong in his screed, halting speech today. :shrug:

[KG]

11. Thank Gawd It Passed!

:hurts: like a bowel movement after eating a block of cheese the size of a car battery!