“Over 7,000 presidential appointments are up for grabs. The Obama administration is making history once again by being the only place in America that is currently hiring.” – Stephen Colbert
“I don’t want to say things look bad, but Barack Obama’s new slogan, ‘Maybe we can.’” – Jay Leno
“We already know his economic plan. It’s designed to help small businesses that make under $250,000 a year. You know, like General Motors and Chrysler.” – Craig Ferguson
“Thanksgiving just around the corner. . . . I hope you’re planning on doing something for people less fortunate. For example, if you get the opportunity, if you have your Thanksgiving dinner, invite a Lehman brother.” – David Letterman
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Maybe Obama will want to tax these so called funny guys. I noticed the Wichita Eagle home corporation lost bigs bucks again, I bet that’s not funny.
the lead on this thread is in extremely bad taste. There is absolutely nothing funny about millions of retirees who worked and saved their entire lives and are now seeing that savings evaporate.
Yes, the late night comics will make jokes about anything–and the jokes are funny. But the economy is not…and the lead for this thread was poorly conceived.
Sometimes you have to laugh (ya know, to keep from…)! The comedians I find funniest are those who take our everyday lives and help us see the humor. One of my favorites was Erma Bombeck. A change of attitude often helps us overcome our challenges.
Economy is so bad it’s funny
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Yeah, but gas is cheap. Time to fire up the ‘69 Camaro SS and listen to her lope.
“Please don’t eat the daisies”…yeah, Erma Bombeck was absolutely hilarious…and you are right, Linda, if we don’t laugh, we will probably cry about it all.
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
Erma Bombeck
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/erma_bombeck.html
“Raptor” –
“Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” was written by Jean Kerr.
Try again.
Ron Paul told you so.
But doncha fret none, Obama will fix it. Relax.
Time to fire up the ‘69 Camaro SS and listen to her lope. hell yeah brother. What is your cam profile?
Erma Bombeck
Damn shame we lost her.
SolDevVB
Posted November 21, 2008 at 9:33 am | Permalink
Time to fire up the ‘69 Camaro SS and listen to her lope. hell yeah brother. What is your cam profile?
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I can’t remember. I’ll have to go back to sleep to see it or drive it!
:)
Q: What is the first thing the country should do about its monetary policy?
A: We should immediately audit the Federal Reserve. I am the ranking member of the Monetary Policy subcommittee in the U.S. Congress, yet I can get more information about the internal workings of the C.I.A. than I can about our central bank. This secrecy is fundamentally wrong, and I believe that people from all over the ideological political spectrum can agree on that.
Bloomberg News this month has gone to court compel the Fed to disclose securities the central bank is accepting on behalf of American taxpayers as collateral for trillions of dollars of loans to banks. Expanding transparency is critical and could be done very quickly.
Q: What are your expectations for the next four years under an Obama administration? How might President Obama’s interventionist economic policies impact our lives?
A: Unfortunately, I don’t expect many good things. I do expect a lot of spending and even more debt. To really cut spending and balance our budget, we need to change foreign policy. Obama’s rhetoric on foreign policy is better than what we have gotten recently, but don’t expect any real change.
He may be more likely to wind things down in Iraq, but he’s still planning on keeping troops there for a least 16 more months. He wants money for Georgia and more troops in Afghanistan. He isn’t going to bring home our 30,000 troops from Korea or our 50,000 soldiers in Germany, and he won’t close any of our 700 foreign bases. At the same time, he is planning even bigger spending here at home. I hope I’m wrong, but if this spending and debt continue, the dollar is going to crash and we will see the middle class in this country take a grave hit.
Here’s something really sad/funny from a few weeks ago.
“My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.”
And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”
-Governor Palin
Q: Do you still believe that the financial industry needs no regulation because markets are inherently stable and always act rationally?
A: The free market is the most stable and fair system. Government intervention and manipulation of interest rates are at the heart of the whole mess we are currently in. Government intervention causes unintended negative consequences. Artificially low interest rates help out special interest and elites, not the common person, all the while creating malinvestment and booms and busts in our economy.
That’s one thing I can’t find humor in — word salad. She needs to stick to what she has memorized or can read from a script.
Artificially low interest rates help out special interest and elites, not the common person, all the while creating malinvestment and booms and busts in our economy.
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Fo’ showa!
Q: Do you believe that it is possible to make positive incremental changes to our monetary policy, entitlements, taxes, etc. within the system, or is it just a matter of waiting for failure and then coming in with a solution?
A: Yes, I do believe we can make successful changes. And I want to start making those changes now so that we can avoid a devastating collapse. But we need to start quickly before it’s too late. If we can cut spending and balance budgets, beginning with our overseas expenditures, we can do a lot to fix this mess. We also need monetary reform. I would begin with the incremental step of repealing legal-tender laws and legalizing the use of gold and silver to act as a currency alongside the dollar. That would help stabilize the dollar and strengthen our monetary system.
Sol,
Unfortunately I believe without some overwhelming revolution, the cut throats will always run our country in their best interest.
Did you’ll hear the one about “Change you can Believe in”?
Really funny!
RFL
Posted November 21, 2008 at 10:31 am | Permalink
Did you’ll hear the one about “Change you can Believe in”?
Really funny!
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Yeah, That One is a hoot!!!
Change is all you’ll have left in your pocked on pay day.
pocket…
A penny saved is a goverment oversight!