Posted on 12/16/2008 11:33:07 AM PST by pikachu
In early November, KTVT-Channel 11 busted 14 Dallas Fannie Mae employees for teeing off at the Cowboys Golf Club in Grapevine -- 22 days after the feds took over Fannie Mae, whoops. Said the CBS affiliate, taxpayers coughed up $6,279.26 for the golf outing, which "outraged" Rep. Jeb Hensarling. So much so he shot off a missive to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank in which Hensarling demanded an investigation: "Since the American people have put their tax dollars at risk to bail out the financial decisions of Fannie Mae, I want to ensure that their dollars were not being used to subsidize golf, booze, and mango towel service -- whatever that is."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.dallasobserver.com ...
Let me just say, having played there, that on a hot day, an ice cold mango scented towel is nothing to sneeze at.
Dallas - Chicago - New York
every culture rips of the public in different ways
At least in Dallas you can get a round of golf in while you are fleecing the public!
Where are the cries for a “perp walk”? Embarrassed, my aunt’s sweet patootie! Lock him up and throw the key away. The managers and expense accountants that sign off on this are just as guilty.
How about we use his credit card to pay our bills? Fraud, you say. That goes both ways, brother.
I would love to see the golf scores with this bunch. No erasers needed, just plain good old cheating.
I’m sure there will be harsh repercussions.
Fanny Mae got a “mulligan” from the government.
“So much so he shot off a missive to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank in which Hensarling demanded an investigation: “
He shouldn’t waste his time. Any shots sent to Bawney Fwank get sucked into a brown hole.
So we're supposed to be outraged at a $6300 golf outing, but not the eight (8 !) figure "bonuses" paid to an assortment of Democrat Party hacks.
ML/NJ
$6300 for an office golf outing? Big friggin’ deal! Let’s talk about how much Fannie Mae contributed to Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and 0baambi. Let’s talk about how many millions Franklin Raines made/stole! What a friggin’ joke, These poor bastards are gonna pay big time but the real thieves, liars and cutthroats will be in the House, Senate and White House.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Many FReeper taxpayers enjoy golf outings at $448 a round?
“The poor bastards”... My heart bleeds for them. You know, it must be absolutely rotten to lose billions of dollars and then have to suffer the indignity of being subbed so they can play a round of golf. How they can cope the humiliation, I will never know.
Altogether now: “I knock you down, you pick me up again, and I ain’t never gonna miss my golf...”
The term “Merchant Banker” is known around the English-speaking world for rhyming slang. The word it replaces, to use its closest and politest equivalent in American, is “jerk-off”. Canadians, Australians, Brits, Irish, South Africans... doesn’t matter where you go, English-speaking people get the joke straight away. Bankers ARE jerk-offs.
These degenerate golf-playing muppets might be marginally more use to the rest of society than the average degenerate welfare scrounger, but we could’ve kept ten million degenerate welfare scroungers fed and watered for a hundred years, and spent less money than it cost to keep these wasters in jobs. (Or playing golf).
If these idlers were on welfare you’d be screaming at them to go out and get a proper job instead of poncing off the state, but NO. They’re BANKERS, so they can be completely bloody pointless, state-funded, unproductive and STILL you give them the benefit of the doubt.
ML/NJ
Whenever I want to explain to someone how totally absurd our Federal government is, I tell them to consider that the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is a sexual deviant with a speech impediment.
I live in Dallas, right across the street from a golf course. I have baskets of golf balls collected on my many walks on the course and bad drives into my yard.
How about if we play dodge ball with these guys, only these guys are the targets and we use golf balls......We can do this from the comfort of my front porch ....... adult beverages provided......
This has all been planned. Public outrage at these practices will “force” the government to intercede more and more into all these business, and this will lead to government takeover. What will it turn out to be? Fascism or socialism?
Everyone is embarrassed when they get caught.
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