Why Is Anyone In This Picture Smiling?

Celebrating the $700B Bailout

I don’t think it’s an appropriate pose. Period.

Hat tip: Tom Royce @ The Real Estate Bloggers.

October 3, 2008 · Filed Under National News

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9 Responses to “Why Is Anyone In This Picture Smiling?”

  1. Matt Harris on October 3rd, 2008 9:56 pm

    Is this when Ashton Kutcher pops up and tells the world “you’ve been punk’d”?

  2. Mike on October 3rd, 2008 10:53 pm

    Smiling because they held out long enough to get pork for their districts to help their re-election efforts.

  3. Matt Harris on October 3rd, 2008 11:54 pm

    Can you say “line items”? Whaaat?

  4. Ben Galvin on October 4th, 2008 6:29 am

    What do you feel would have been better?

  5. bearlee on October 4th, 2008 6:43 am

    Were there any concessions like:

    1) Caps on executive pay? Any hear about the WaMu’s Platinum Gold parachutes?!?!

    2) Tighter regulations and actual enforcement? What’s going to prevent this god awful greed from killing our economy again?

    3) Anyone worried about a bank monopoly with all the buy ups?

    4) They predicted a great depression if this doesn’t pass but they make no prediction of what good will come off this $800 billion? Could this $800 billion be spent another way to rev up the economy? California now wants $7 billion and I am gonna guess that NYC will be having their hands out, too.

    4) Any assistance for those home buyers that were victims to the old bait and switch and other crimes of the mortgage industry? Good to see some crooks get prosecuted, even here in the Portland area. And no bail out for the speculators, of course. They had to see this coming.

    Do we really know what is going on here?!?!?!

  6. Ron Ares on October 4th, 2008 12:44 pm

    Ben,

    I’m not suggesting that they shouldn’t have acted…I just don’t see what there is to be happy about.

    Something more like Rahm Emanuel’s countenance in the foreground: grim, thoughtful, resolved. But not mugging for the paparazzi, please.

  7. Corri Klebaum on October 5th, 2008 7:16 am

    I will be nice here Ron as this is your blog but poo floats.

  8. Jeff Johnson on October 5th, 2008 10:56 am

    Hey Look ! There’s Forrest Gump in the background … (joke)

  9. uncle_git on October 6th, 2008 5:58 pm

    Because they just pulled off the biggest theft in history on behalf their corporate sponsors….

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