Posted on 04/13/2009 7:49:58 PM PDT by Nachum
The U.S. and Europe were widely expected to clash at the G-20 summit in London last month over how to address the global financial crisis. Voila, in just two days the problem was solved with a joint promise to increase International Monetary Fund resources by $750 billion to a total of $1 trillion.
The U.S. portion of this new commitment is more than $140 billion. Yet Congress has debated neither the amount nor the proposed use of the funds. Instead, President Obama and his fellow leaders simply waved their hands, like a Star Trek captain, and said make it so
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Where’s my billion?
and the Constitution states all spending bills originate in the House of Representatives???
Somewhere around here but it’s in Zimbabwe dollars.
Mccain lost the election ,when he stopped his campaign went back to washington, heard the details of the bailout plan and said: “Okay lets go with whatever Obama says.”
You can mail one bill in Zbwe to me
McCain lost the election when he was nominated.
Once again, hard working middle class people won’t receive any of the money - they’ll be forced to contribute to it. :(
Yes, in coins.
Why don’t they just take 9 zeros off of everything?
They found a better answer, stop printing money at all, and use another country’s money.
I went to Italy b efore the Euro and walked around with a million in my pocket. I think that was about $500. Thought I had it made.
Because it reminds them of the actual value? That first set of banknotes I posted does have a monopoly money look to it no?
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