get ready to pay.

forever.

All our moneys is THEY CAN HAS. Not us, THEMS!

I mean fuck, I don't even have any money, but they still get to take from me what I wasn't gonna get anyway. How the hell does THAT work?

We need a corporate gunsizing.
It's like "rightsizing", but more bullety.

then again.

If we kill enough little old ladies maybe there'll be enough free property that we can monetize that to pay off the debt.

How much is 7 billion dollars worth of little old lady?

I think you meant $700 billion worth of little old lady.

And the answer is: I don't think we have enough. We may have to import some from China. Of course we'll need to borrow money to afford them, and then we'll just be right back where we started. (I can just see a brisk trade in old lady futures developing, followed shortly by the bottom falling out of the old lady market.)

My favorite quote from this mess so far, from shortly after the House passed the bill: "Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., another convert, said, 'I have decided that the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of doing something.'" The really sad thing is that this nitwit will probably be re-elected.

In other news, that "Did God want you to get that mortgage?" story about "Prosperity Gospel" pentacostals is also pretty wacky. "Walton says that this encouraged congregants who got dicey mortgages to believe 'God caused the bank to ignore my credit score and blessed me with my first house.'" I suspect many investment bankers and politicians are part of this religion.

Well, we can always redefine "little old lady death" as a "life collateral default situation".

And they ARE a renewable resource.

I wonder if they'll ever ponder the question "maybe satan was tempting us, and we all fell for it!"

damned damned damned.

I raise you Famous Person

A follow up story shows that this woman had her loan forgiven and her house signed over to her.

I think the bailout will work, if everyone who is being foreclosed upon shoots themselves!

ah christ.