[patientrenter]

[quote=mike92104]It’s time to start a PAC to rid us of Frank, Dodd, and Schumer. Since we can’t vote them out, maybe we can help fund someone who can beat them.[/quote]

For every $1 that PAC receives, $1,000 would go to funds to re-elect these folks. People who believe in the kind of governmental financial probity that Ron Paul advocates are a (small) minority in the USA. Most people want a government that will bail them out when they are hurting, regardless of the bigger consequences.

[patientrenter]

[quote=mike92104]It’s time to start a PAC to rid us of Frank, Dodd, and Schumer. Since we can’t vote them out, maybe we can help fund someone who can beat them.[/quote]

For every $1 that PAC receives, $1,000 would go to funds to re-elect these folks. People who believe in the kind of governmental financial probity that Ron Paul advocates are a (small) minority in the USA. Most people want a government that will bail them out when they are hurting, regardless of the bigger consequences.

[patientrenter]

[quote=mike92104]It’s time to start a PAC to rid us of Frank, Dodd, and Schumer. Since we can’t vote them out, maybe we can help fund someone who can beat them.[/quote]

For every $1 that PAC receives, $1,000 would go to funds to re-elect these folks. People who believe in the kind of governmental financial probity that Ron Paul advocates are a (small) minority in the USA. Most people want a government that will bail them out when they are hurting, regardless of the bigger consequences.

[patientrenter]

[quote=mike92104]It’s time to start a PAC to rid us of Frank, Dodd, and Schumer. Since we can’t vote them out, maybe we can help fund someone who can beat them.[/quote]

For every $1 that PAC receives, $1,000 would go to funds to re-elect these folks. People who believe in the kind of governmental financial probity that Ron Paul advocates are a (small) minority in the USA. Most people want a government that will bail them out when they are hurting, regardless of the bigger consequences.

[patientrenter]

It’s funny to watch all this play out – sorry for my sang froid, partypup, but at least it’s not grim Germanic schadenfreude.

Chinese people learned to make dishwashers and DVD players and TVs and lots of other goodies for us, and tens of millions of them devoted their waking hours to getting us lots of the goodies at cheap prices. Price hardly mattered, though, because we were manufacturing new investment instruments and selling these back to the Chinese for lots of money. You can buy a lot of TVs for every $500 million bond issue you sell.

Now a huge US industry that grew up around making these financial instruments, and all the professionals servicing that industry, are being told that what they produce isn’t worth as much as they’d hoped. You do have to feel sorry for the minnows being dashed onto the rocks here, but the whole premise of many careers was shortsighted and crazy, and there is no sustaining it (short of social engineering that would starve the sectors of the economy that need to grow more, thereby making paupers of our children.)

Oh, and I work in the heart of the private financial services industry, with no bailouts on the horizon, and I just got a huge cut in compensation, and have had to prepare continegency plans identifying who gets cut, knowing I could be on another list, so I really do understand.

[patientrenter]

It’s funny to watch all this play out – sorry for my sang froid, partypup, but at least it’s not grim Germanic schadenfreude.

Chinese people learned to make dishwashers and DVD players and TVs and lots of other goodies for us, and tens of millions of them devoted their waking hours to getting us lots of the goodies at cheap prices. Price hardly mattered, though, because we were manufacturing new investment instruments and selling these back to the Chinese for lots of money. You can buy a lot of TVs for every $500 million bond issue you sell.

Now a huge US industry that grew up around making these financial instruments, and all the professionals servicing that industry, are being told that what they produce isn’t worth as much as they’d hoped. You do have to feel sorry for the minnows being dashed onto the rocks here, but the whole premise of many careers was shortsighted and crazy, and there is no sustaining it (short of social engineering that would starve the sectors of the economy that need to grow more, thereby making paupers of our children.)

Oh, and I work in the heart of the private financial services industry, with no bailouts on the horizon, and I just got a huge cut in compensation, and have had to prepare continegency plans identifying who gets cut, knowing I could be on another list, so I really do understand.

[patientrenter]

It’s funny to watch all this play out – sorry for my sang froid, partypup, but at least it’s not grim Germanic schadenfreude.

Chinese people learned to make dishwashers and DVD players and TVs and lots of other goodies for us, and tens of millions of them devoted their waking hours to getting us lots of the goodies at cheap prices. Price hardly mattered, though, because we were manufacturing new investment instruments and selling these back to the Chinese for lots of money. You can buy a lot of TVs for every $500 million bond issue you sell.

Now a huge US industry that grew up around making these financial instruments, and all the professionals servicing that industry, are being told that what they produce isn’t worth as much as they’d hoped. You do have to feel sorry for the minnows being dashed onto the rocks here, but the whole premise of many careers was shortsighted and crazy, and there is no sustaining it (short of social engineering that would starve the sectors of the economy that need to grow more, thereby making paupers of our children.)

Oh, and I work in the heart of the private financial services industry, with no bailouts on the horizon, and I just got a huge cut in compensation, and have had to prepare continegency plans identifying who gets cut, knowing I could be on another list, so I really do understand.

[patientrenter]

It’s funny to watch all this play out – sorry for my sang froid, partypup, but at least it’s not grim Germanic schadenfreude.

Chinese people learned to make dishwashers and DVD players and TVs and lots of other goodies for us, and tens of millions of them devoted their waking hours to getting us lots of the goodies at cheap prices. Price hardly mattered, though, because we were manufacturing new investment instruments and selling these back to the Chinese for lots of money. You can buy a lot of TVs for every $500 million bond issue you sell.

Now a huge US industry that grew up around making these financial instruments, and all the professionals servicing that industry, are being told that what they produce isn’t worth as much as they’d hoped. You do have to feel sorry for the minnows being dashed onto the rocks here, but the whole premise of many careers was shortsighted and crazy, and there is no sustaining it (short of social engineering that would starve the sectors of the economy that need to grow more, thereby making paupers of our children.)

Oh, and I work in the heart of the private financial services industry, with no bailouts on the horizon, and I just got a huge cut in compensation, and have had to prepare continegency plans identifying who gets cut, knowing I could be on another list, so I really do understand.

[patientrenter]

It’s funny to watch all this play out – sorry for my sang froid, partypup, but at least it’s not grim Germanic schadenfreude.

Chinese people learned to make dishwashers and DVD players and TVs and lots of other goodies for us, and tens of millions of them devoted their waking hours to getting us lots of the goodies at cheap prices. Price hardly mattered, though, because we were manufacturing new investment instruments and selling these back to the Chinese for lots of money. You can buy a lot of TVs for every $500 million bond issue you sell.

Now a huge US industry that grew up around making these financial instruments, and all the professionals servicing that industry, are being told that what they produce isn’t worth as much as they’d hoped. You do have to feel sorry for the minnows being dashed onto the rocks here, but the whole premise of many careers was shortsighted and crazy, and there is no sustaining it (short of social engineering that would starve the sectors of the economy that need to grow more, thereby making paupers of our children.)

Oh, and I work in the heart of the private financial services industry, with no bailouts on the horizon, and I just got a huge cut in compensation, and have had to prepare continegency plans identifying who gets cut, knowing I could be on another list, so I really do understand.

[patientrenter]

I just bought my first TV in a while. I had a 1984 rotary knob 13″ TV until 2001 or so. When I started renting DVDs, I upgraded to a Sony Trinitron 27″ flat screen. I threw it out last year, just before I moved across country. Haven’t had a TV since then.

The one I just purchased is a 65″ Plasma (Panasonic TH-65PZ850U, $4800 online incl tax and delivery). Should be good for watching movies. Of course, all the ancient DVD and sound equipment I have may not even work with this new thingy. For people who hardly ever buy things, it’s shocking to see how far behind we can get in the technological knowledge required to make an informed purchase of a common consumer good.

[patientrenter]

I just bought my first TV in a while. I had a 1984 rotary knob 13″ TV until 2001 or so. When I started renting DVDs, I upgraded to a Sony Trinitron 27″ flat screen. I threw it out last year, just before I moved across country. Haven’t had a TV since then.

The one I just purchased is a 65″ Plasma (Panasonic TH-65PZ850U, $4800 online incl tax and delivery). Should be good for watching movies. Of course, all the ancient DVD and sound equipment I have may not even work with this new thingy. For people who hardly ever buy things, it’s shocking to see how far behind we can get in the technological knowledge required to make an informed purchase of a common consumer good.

[patientrenter]

I just bought my first TV in a while. I had a 1984 rotary knob 13″ TV until 2001 or so. When I started renting DVDs, I upgraded to a Sony Trinitron 27″ flat screen. I threw it out last year, just before I moved across country. Haven’t had a TV since then.

The one I just purchased is a 65″ Plasma (Panasonic TH-65PZ850U, $4800 online incl tax and delivery). Should be good for watching movies. Of course, all the ancient DVD and sound equipment I have may not even work with this new thingy. For people who hardly ever buy things, it’s shocking to see how far behind we can get in the technological knowledge required to make an informed purchase of a common consumer good.

[patientrenter]

I just bought my first TV in a while. I had a 1984 rotary knob 13″ TV until 2001 or so. When I started renting DVDs, I upgraded to a Sony Trinitron 27″ flat screen. I threw it out last year, just before I moved across country. Haven’t had a TV since then.

The one I just purchased is a 65″ Plasma (Panasonic TH-65PZ850U, $4800 online incl tax and delivery). Should be good for watching movies. Of course, all the ancient DVD and sound equipment I have may not even work with this new thingy. For people who hardly ever buy things, it’s shocking to see how far behind we can get in the technological knowledge required to make an informed purchase of a common consumer good.

[patientrenter]

I just bought my first TV in a while. I had a 1984 rotary knob 13″ TV until 2001 or so. When I started renting DVDs, I upgraded to a Sony Trinitron 27″ flat screen. I threw it out last year, just before I moved across country. Haven’t had a TV since then.

The one I just purchased is a 65″ Plasma (Panasonic TH-65PZ850U, $4800 online incl tax and delivery). Should be good for watching movies. Of course, all the ancient DVD and sound equipment I have may not even work with this new thingy. For people who hardly ever buy things, it’s shocking to see how far behind we can get in the technological knowledge required to make an informed purchase of a common consumer good.

[patientrenter]

[quote=JustLurking]Partypup is not a guy. [/quote]

LOL! Some probably already knew that from prior threads. For the rest, partypup’s 3rd post on this thread ended with “I’m so very frightened…”. Zero macho quotient. That gave the game away for the rest of us, apart from a stray reader who doesn’t pick up on social cues. Oh, in the movie, what was Borat’s defining quality? (No offense to our own resident Borat, just enjoying the humor here…)

[Author]

Posts