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Joe Biden "Jokes" About Bringing Hundreds Of Millions Of US Taxpayer Dollars To Bail out Greece
Zero Hedge ^
| 12/05/2011
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 12/05/2011 11:50:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Vice President Joe Biden, now best known for being the man who relies primarily on Jon Corzine for financial advice, continued his recent roll of epic linguistic blunders this morning. As Reuters reports, the VP, "joked during a visit to debt-choked Athens on Monday about bringing money to help Greece out of its deepest financial crisis in decades. Introducing a member of his delegation during a meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, Biden said: "This man represents the Treasury department. He's brought hundreds of millions of dollars." His comments drew laughs from both the Greek and U.S. delegations." It is unclear if the Greeks laughed because the noted number was orders of magnitude less than what would be needed to actually put a dent in the Greek fast-motion train wreck, or because everyone was waiting to see what the American taxpayer's response would be to learn that while America is hopelessly locked in gridlock of releasing more cash to that country's middle class, the US Treasury is quite happy to disburse taxpayer funding to Greece. We are holding out breath to find out.
From Reuters:
Euro zone ministers will meet on Friday for a summit billed key to finding a way out of a growing debt crisis and may turn to the International Monetary Fund for more aid.
A senior U.S. Treasury official said last week that the United States was not planning to make such loans to the Fund and said the lender's resources were adequate.
Asked what his message to Europe was, Biden said: "Hang in there."
Oddly enough, hanging may indeed be the only option for a whole lot of Europeans soon enough.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bailouts; bankrupt; biden; biteme; debt; eu; eurotrash; greece; imf; joebidenbailout; loans; unions; welfare
To: SeekAndFind
” Joe Biden “Jokes” About Bringing Hundreds Of Millions Of US Taxpayer “
In small, unmarked, non-sequential bills, fitting in a half-dozen pieces of nondescript Samsonite, no doubt...
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posted on
12/05/2011 11:55:43 AM PST
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/05/2011 12:00:08 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
To: SeekAndFind
haha! man that guy is a RIOT!!! I was just laughing my head off about how this admin is p*ssing away our country, destroying my investments and giving away the earnings of tax paying Americans that haven't been born.
Who knew we had so much in common!?
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posted on
12/05/2011 12:05:24 PM PST
by
NativeSon
To: NativeSon
I can get you a deal on a tent if you want to protest.
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posted on
12/05/2011 12:11:25 PM PST
by
donhunt
(Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
To: SeekAndFind
Waiting for the nice young men in clean white coats to cart this demented fool off the public stage. What a total embarrassment. Biden is loonier in real life than Jack Nicholson ever hoped to portray on the silver screen.
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posted on
12/05/2011 12:24:16 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
“Waiting for the nice young men in clean white coats to cart this demented fool off the public stage. What a total embarrassment. Biden is loonier in real life than Jack Nicholson ever hoped to portray on the silver screen.”
It was difficult to find a more stupid Democrat than Hussein, but I think they found the “right” man.
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posted on
12/05/2011 12:30:11 PM PST
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: donhunt
Protest? heck, I plan on using it when my In(out)laws are occupying my house over Christmas!
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posted on
12/05/2011 1:21:45 PM PST
by
NativeSon
To: SeekAndFind
the US Treasury is quite happy to disburse taxpayer funding to Greece.The game of international bailout, designed by fabian socialists to redistribute money, and involving the Fed, IMF, World Bank, and other globalism sympathizing entities,has been played over and over again in hellhole after hellhole, for decades. The social democrat leaders of the hellholes gets the goodies, the corporations get the profits, the banks get the interest on money created out of nothing, and the taxpayers get ripped off by having their wealth stolen and redistributed.
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posted on
12/05/2011 2:17:42 PM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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