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- RAISE TAXES ON ALL VAGUELY RICH PEOPLE ASAP, SRSLY: “For the first two months of the fiscal year, Treasury reported a record deficit of $401.6 billion.” And all because of… Obama. [Marketwatch]
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2:54 PM
on Wed December 10 2008
By
Jim Newell
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At this rate we’re (a) looking at about a $1.3 trillion deficit next year;l (b) fucked; or (c) all of the above.
Prepare to meet your new Chinese financial overlords.
Anybody have 401.6 billion bucks they can lend the Treasury? I can throw in 3 pennies and a Promissory Note for 3 more of said pennies.
AH FUCK IT we can just have China flip the bill. They pay for everything! Thanks, China!
Yaaaaay! The government’s poorer than I am!
How much can we get if we sell all the states in the middle?
hedgehog: $.3 trillion. Less if you include Illinois.
I’ll gladly sell them my carbon offsets I won for crashing cars in the game thingeee..
There’s your legacy right there, Bushie boy. And thanks for playing.
Not too vaguely rich, though. I still want that condo in the new Trump tower on Wabash and riverside.
When will they seize and liquidate the assets purchased by AIG execs with default swap cash?
The Cayman Islands express their gratitude to the US taxpayer for the new found wealth.
Most of the deficit is tied to black people and their no monies.
Confiscating property may be more efficient. Then forced labor camps. Paul Pot had the right idea but managed it poorly.
Reinstitute slavery! What’s that? It never ended!? Oh bother!!!
I still have checks in my checkbook. Am I vaguely rich?
How could one man do so much damage to a great country in only eight years?
queeraselvis v 2.0: Oh Queer, haven’t you heard? The Democrats have had control of Congress for 2 whole years, this all started because the libruls took over. *Throws something*
And to think: if only in 1977 Carter had not passed the Community Reinvestment act that allowed the darkies to buy their own homes everything would be swell now. At least that’s what Neil Cavuto tells me.
Better yet: a tax on gains from corruption. 100%, retroactive to 1980.
Also, a high tax on speaking fees could bring in some dollars and help shut some people up.
I shouldn’t have made that collect call to the Gamma Hydra Cluster from the Senate payphone. My bad.
shanemcgowan:
The insult to the injury is that voters were repeatedly warned in 2000 by the victims of all his previous failures. Nobody listened.
DangerousLiberal: The Chinese are fucked worse than we are. They’ll keep buying Treasuries like a goose taking the funnel at the foie gras farm. They can’t feed or employ their people if they don’t have us to buy their cheap crap. No way out. However awful the Bush Depression is here, it will be much worse in China.
I could win the Powerball and still not cover what the government owes for those two months. Dang! Might as well keep all that cash for myselfs.
George Bush doesn’t care about tax payers.
USD$401,600,000,000.00
How much is that in real money?
hedgehog: Tennessee’s already in foreclosure. You can have it for a song (”Blue Christmas,” I’m thinking).
It’s only money.
I, for one, welcome our burqa-clad Muslin overlords!
OK. How about a 5-cent tax on blog comments? Should do the trick.
This is EXACTLY why Ron Paul was the perfect nut for the job, sheeples!
Big deal. First thing President Hopey is going to do is put the whole US of A in Chapter 11. It’s the American way. (insert salute here) Sorry China, India , Finland, Saudi Arabia and pretty much the rest of world.
Vanity Smurf: Really? The four week T-note is going for negative interest. But, hey, it’s still a better return than anything else out there! Whee!