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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 1pLUs44 on September 29, 2008, 04:40:53 PM
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And as soon as it doesn't pass, Nancy Pelosi sends all the blame to the Republicans. When 1/3 of the democrats didn't even vote for it. :rolleyes:
This is getting more and more sad.
Here's an estimate that I found out about this 700 Billion dollar fail out plan.... It was gonna pay the companies for all they lost. But, that's so much money, they could give everyone over 18 in America about 5 MILLION dollars, and if they included people under 18, it would be about 3.2 MILLION dollars...
Seems a bit to the extreme doesn't it? Not needed IMO, and ACORN would be the first to benefit. WHY would we want a voter fraud organization to benefit?
Edit: Wow, my math skillz are AWFUL. But, I'm keeping my awful math skillz up front. My mistake :salute.
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Your math is off...
it would be about $2300 per person... not 3.2 million per person. That's what happens when you post spam though
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Your math makes people richer (or poorer in case of Dynamite math). My math gives only $2,300 per capita or about $1,300 per tax payer...
Edited to add Dynamite's math...
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Big- you're right... I forgot to carry a zero or two hehehe
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Big- you're right... I forgot to carry a zero or two hehehe
hehe, I wouldn't mind 3.2 millions tho, especially if financed by 1pLUs44
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Your math makes people richer (or poorer in case of Dynamite math). My math gives only $2,300 per capita or about $1,300 per tax payer...
Edited to add Dynamite's math...
There are more taxpayers than there are people? (not sure how it's more per capita than it is per taxpayer, unless there are more taxpayers than there are people?)
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There are more taxpayers than there are people? (not sure how it's more per capita than it is per taxpayer, unless there are more taxpayers than there are people?)
You're right. fat fingers, 3,100 instead of 1,300
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Aside from math, that was a total "IN PELOSI'S FACE" thing after what she said about the Bush administration and the republicans as a whole.
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She was making sound bytes for an osamabama and congressional campaign commercial, i am sure...
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Woa, you're right. Sorry about that :lol
I always was bad at math (Only class I'm failing :( Everything else, A's :lol )
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the democrats have the majority in the house, they should have been able to pass the bill without the republicans, 93 democrats voted against the bill.
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And as soon as it doesn't pass, Nancy Pelosi sends all the blame to the Republicans. When 1/3 of the democrats didn't even vote for it. :rolleyes:
This is getting more and more sad.
Here's an estimate that I found out about this 700 Billion dollar fail out plan.... It was gonna pay the companies for all they lost. But, that's so much money, they could give everyone over 18 in America about 5 MILLION dollars, and if they included people under 18, it would be about 3.2 MILLION dollars...
Seems a bit to the extreme doesn't it? Not needed IMO, and ACORN would be the first to benefit. WHY would we want a voter fraud organization to benefit?
Edit: Wow, my math skillz are AWFUL. But, I'm keeping my awful math skillz up front. My mistake :salute.
Here's the facts. About 140 million tax returns are filed each year. Of those 140 million, 44 million pay zero or negative tax. That leaves about 96 million actual tax paying entities to pay for that 700 billion. So it you rough out the math, it works out to a little over $7,000 per tax paying return filed in this country each year.
The average fraud amount for a case of identity theft is about $6,300.
Of that, the average victim is only responsible for about 7% of that amount or about $420.
We are hyper vigilant preventing identity theft. Yet it might be your congressman the robs you for for about 15 times what an identity thief would get from you!
You gota love math.
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Don't worry guys, Krusty should be here in a few and using his advanced 4+4=10 mathematical formula will provide us the correct figures.
We will then be able to verify the figures Krusty gives us by comparing them using Gunman26's mathematical 26+26=42 formula.
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Don't worry guys, Krusty should be here in a few and using his advanced 4+4=10 mathematical formula will provide us the correct figures.
We will then be able to verify the figures Krusty gives us by comparing them using Gunman26's mathematical 26+26=42 formula.
ack-ack
:rofl
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Don't worry guys, Krusty should be here in a few and using his advanced 4+4=10 mathematical formula will provide us the correct figures.
We will then be able to verify the figures Krusty gives us by comparing them using Gunman26's mathematical 26+26=42 formula.
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Winnah Winnah Chicken Dinnah!!!
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History of bailouts
http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts/
http://www.propublica.org/special/bailout-aftermaths
And even more eye opening http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/business/22lobby.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
"Other firms hope to be hired to manage the assets that Treasury acquires, a job that could earn them $1 billion a year, even if they charged fees that were modest by industry standards. Among them are the asset management companies Pimco and BlackRock. Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, is also vying for the work.
Some private equity firms, including the Blackstone Group, may be interested in pursuing an asset-management assignment from the government, people briefed on the matter said. Such firms have already expressed interest in buying up distressed debts after having bet against them early last year.
That raises complications because those firms hold assets similar to the ones the Treasury plans to buy. Democrats suggested on Sunday that a provision be added to avoid any conflicts of interest, with a firm making money from handling assets like its own. "