That's pretty funny. Is it from Vanity Fair Magazine?

I need one of those too!! I'll send it in today before the rush and maybe my bailout check will arive in time for Xmas!

No worries Doug, I will send in a request on your behalf along with mine. How much? I know you said you only need $10 billion right now, but by the end of the month you will probably need more. $34 billion enough?

Yeah, us paying for our own bailouts would be silly. I'm thinking all Wall Street execs, all airline execs, all U.S. auto execs and all Federal elected and appointed officials cut their pay to $1 a year until the economy is completely healed. Put that money into a pool. Divide it up between taxpayers earning less that $300,000 a year.

It's a start.

LOL somebody spent some time on this! Wish it was that easy. We could all use a bailout after what Congress has and is still doing to us. I am afraid to turn my back on them for a minute and definitely won't be bending over to pick up the soap :0

I am doing my part, I sent this to all my friends and coworkers so they can get in on the bailout too! Thanks for the post!

Thank you so much for this, I had been looking for it everywhere! I will send it in today and go order that big flat screen TV tonight! Merry Christmas!

We laugh to keep from crying. But I still don't understand how Congress can consider a bailout for the Big 3 auto manufacturers without conditioning it on a bust of that union and a complete re-write of that golden retirement plan that is what is burying the auto industry right now. Without that, tax payers will be paying the pensions and health benefits for retired auto workers forever!

Ian is right, we are laughing when we should be demanding that Congress put a steep price tag on any financial aid. The union (and its workers) are bankrupting an entire core industry. The auto execs are to blame for giving in to the union demands. I know, the strikes cost money. That is why I hate unions, it is like legal extortion. But they gave in knowing this day would come. Now here it is and they face bankruptcy because of it. No way is it the taxpayers responsibility to rescue all the big companies that did stupid things. We should be screaming!!!

I have to agree with Ian. What is happening is our law makers are spending all our money that was paid in taxes for other things just like they always do. Then there never is any money to fix our infrastructure because all the highway taxes have been spent to finance other things most of us didn't even want. That amounts to "taxation without representation" because even when we say no, they do as they please.

What do we need to be heard? Another tea party in Boston Harbor? Revolt and anarchy? Maybe that is what it takes to get Washington to do what we want and stop doing what we don't want!

Yes Ian, and the execs can quit worrying about the union retirement plan for a while and get back to collecting their extravagant pay packages and retirement benefits and golden parachutes and living large. Until they need to return to the taxpayer well that is. Then we are back to square one.

That is funny :))

Being a man of few words, I feel the following applies;

#&%(%U^#)^%&%^$(*#$#@^.

There, I've said it and I'm glad.

My sentiments exactly, popal, well said! Hope to hear more from you!

Doug