House Approves Bill For Reduced Food Stamp Budget

[The Dude]

[jimmyz]

[jimmyz]

[Indy]

No, but it's my go-to jpg when somebody says something priceless.

Who knew the fiscal meltdown was simply some banks going out of business and then paying us back and everything's even-steven now so they actually should be admired, if anything!

Beautiful. You've done some good work here.

[jimmyz]

[Mo~]

Well, my mom went on welfare after she was finally able to get a divorce from my dad, and after six months got off of it and then proceeded to pay it back 500 fold through working her ass into an early grave. I was on it for 3 months before getting off of it even though I still qualified(much to the chagrin of my caseworker) and I've paid it back in taxes and charitable donations by a hellalot more than I ever got.

And, hey, guess what, we aren't the only ones. It just don't make an interesting story to say, "Ya know, I saw this lady at the store buying the basics at 11:00 at night because she didn't want anyone, especially her minimum wage coworkers, to see her paying with those funny looking, Monopoly Money coupons(this was long before EDT), and when her daughter asked her about them she was completely mortified and went in the next day and told her caseworker to take her off the rolls because she'd be damned if she would ever let a child of hers think it was OK to live that way."

But, you know, f**k me and my mom. We're just loser, slut, whore, white trash pieces of shit who deserves to starve to death after watching our children starve because we didn't have the sense to realize the guys we married were assholes who beat us(mom) or treated us and our children like shit that did nothing more than remind them of a piece of ass they got several years earlier.

[exploited]

End. f**k. Thread.

[Spider]

Damn straight.

[Dylan]

[Indy]

I see. So the extent of what we should be looking at with regard to the banking fiasco is... TARP, and we'll just stop there.

*facepalm*

Amazing, simply amazing, how many insta-experts suddenly appeared on this who are going to lecture us all on what REALLY happened with the meltdown and, ya know, that's the long and short of it. The banks were loaned TARP money and paid it back and that's all they took and since they paid it back there's really nothing to talk about anymore. Everything was above-board and why, why, anybody can see that!



Holy f***ing shit--deniers? On this topic now? Where does it end, where does it end...

Let's ask our expert friend here: in all seriousness, what measures have been put in place to prevent this from happening again? Also, do you know how much wealth they erased not from just the U.S. but the world? Do you think that TARP was merely a bill for the extent of that, like a hotel bill after you trashed the room and since they, you know, "paid" it, we're square?

If you believe that, I'd like to start taking your names because I want to be your derivatives broker. PM me.