I figured that since the purse strings are even looser than usual in Washington, now would be a great time to ask the Congress to bail out my business. After all, it is their fault that I double mortgaged my house and robbed my kids college fund to start my business last year refurbishing 8 track tape players for sale. I think anyone with half a brain can quickly spot the benefits of the 8 track versus those shoddily designed fads known as MP3 players (Ipods, etc). Unfortunately, my business idea seems to be ahead of it's time as sales have been sluggish (well so far, non-existant), probably because of low consumer confidence. I plan to influence Congress through the powerful 8 Track Tape Refurbisher Lobbyists and see if an industry wide bailout is possible. If something isn't done soon, the worldwide 8 track tape refurbishing market could collapse and I would have be responsible for my own decision. How un-American.

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I will be your lobbyist.

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Originally posted by Fighting Illini:
I will be your lobbyist.

Yay! That's one!

Obviously, you will be financially compensated once the bill has been passed into law.

In the meantime, I am shipping you a 1973 Realistic 8 Track Tape player as a token of my appreciation. Alternately, you may wish to consider using it as a leverage gift to the Chairman of the 8 Track Tape Refurbishing Oversight Committee. Undue influence perhaps, but these are desperate times.

Glad to see that this is coming back, I have a 1977 Tammy Winnette / Conway Twitty 8-Track that I have no way to utilize.....I sure hope that Congress gets behind you, since you now have a lobbyist and a target consumer. Heck, my guess is if you will declare yourself to be a rainbow flag carrying foreigner with a distant family history of impoverishment, you should be able to get them to not only bail you out, but pay you to run it for the next 10 years in order to help stabilize your assets.

Curse the Big 3 automakers! They are trying to get ahead of me at the Bailout Trough!

But seriously, when is this going to stop? All during the election process I heard people repeatedly saying things like "Obama is a Socialist" (and he might be). We ALREADY have Socialism in America, just not what people usually think of. Instead of taking from the wealthy and redistributing to everyone else, we are taking from the middle class and giving to the executives that are running huge corporations into the ground. Let them fail, let them fail, let them fail. That's what a free market economy is.

The banking bailout was "sold" to us as being necessary because a collapse of the financial markets would be disastrous for our country. Financial collapse affects us all, therefore we should support it. They used fear to get it passed through.

A couple of days ago I read an article that said if the Big 3 would permitted to fail, it would affect 1 of 10 jobs in America. Fear again.

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I like this idea. I have a disasterous venture of my own, think I can get a bailout? I'd use it to give myself a raise, because we know the government thinks that incompetence can be cured by throwing money at the problem.

Since it's not their money, why should they try any harder?

"The American republic will survive until the government discovers they can bribe the public using the public's money."

Yes I am a small film maker.I did a documentary on how grass turns brown.It didn't do to well at the theatres.On TV it just barely beat Al Gore on 60 minutes.So I too am thinking about asking the government for some of that bailout money.Since we finally have a President-elect who"CARES ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS",and is going to bring"THE CHANGE WE NEED TO WASHINGTON"I think I might stand a chance.I'm sure Micheal Moore would share the profits from some of his documentaries to help me out.

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Originally posted by Notsosmart:
Curse the Big 3 automakers! They are trying to get ahead of me at the Bailout Trough!

Now we're throwing bailout money at Citigroup! Obviously we need a bigger trough!

Welcome to the decade of Corporate Socialism!

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Originally posted by Notsosmart:
I figured that since the purse strings are even looser than usual in Washington, now would be a great time to ask the Congress to bail out my business. After all, it is their fault that I double mortgaged my house and robbed my kids college fund to start my business last year refurbishing 8 track tape players for sale. I think anyone with half a brain can quickly spot the benefits of the 8 track versus those shoddily designed fads known as MP3 players (Ipods, etc). Unfortunately, my business idea seems to be ahead of it's time as sales have been sluggish (well so far, non-existant), probably because of low consumer confidence. I plan to influence Congress through the powerful 8 Track Tape Refurbisher Lobbyists and see if an industry wide bailout is possible. If something isn't done soon, the worldwide 8 track tape refurbishing market could collapse and I would have be responsible for my own decision. How un-American.

Have you tried using child labor in china? maybe you can come competitive with your pricing.

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Originally posted by Schnauzer1:
Have you tried using child labor in china? maybe you can come competitive with your pricing.

That's an excellent idea! After all, GM has their hand out in Washington with a sad look on their face while their new plant in Russia just opened up. Bailout GM so they can save the Russians' jobs!

Couple of quotes:


Greenspan refused to let people fail. And so we've had no failure in the financial community and now we've spent trillions of dollars bailing out Wall Street for their mistakes and that's damaging the whole economy - 300 million Americans to bail out a million people and their failures. This is not good for America. We're damaging the system. We're weakening the system dramatically.

Why are we bailing out Citibank? Why are 300 million Americans having to pay for Citibank's mistakes? The way the system is supposed to work... people fail, and then the competent people take over the assets from the failed people and you start again from a new, stronger base. What we're doing this time is they're taking the assets from the competent people, giving them to the incompetent people, and saying, "Ok, now you can compete with the competent people." So everybody's weakened. The whole nation is weakened. The whole economy's weakened. That's not the way it's supposed to work.

There are many banks, many brokers, many homeowners, many citizens who've been sitting there, doing what they were supposed to do, minding their manners, not getting extended, waiting for this to happen, knowing that someday all of this foolishness is going to wind up as a disaster. Now, instead of being rewarded, they're being punished. All these homeowners who did nothing wrong are now having to pay for the people who did crazy things like buying four homes with no job. This is weakening America dramatically.

~ Jim Rogers, Bloomberg TV, November 24, 2008

To support ailing enterprises and companies that have proven to have committed huge errors is like if you have a criminal and you support him rather than to put him in jail.

~ Marc Faber, Bloomberg TV, November 25, 2008

So let me guess...
When you face Congress to petition them for bailout money instead of taking your Gulfstream 650 or Citation jet you will rolling up in this?

Oh man, the Big 3 Automakers are really playing dirty pool now! Look at this carefully crafted story targeted to engender support for their worthless cause.

Link

I guess that makes the bailout a done deal now.

The republicans get us in a mess then the democrats have to bail us out of the republicans big government mess.