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Friday
Jul092010

Fiat Money Comedy Genius: Is It Time To Close The National Money Hole? (Don't Miss This One -- Onion Clip)

Video:  Satirical gold from the Onion

The Maxine Watters character is off the charts.  I just watched it again and almost spilled both my beers.  Happy holiday weekend.

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  • "My father worked 2 jobs so he'd have money to put in the money hole."
  • "No reasonable person is advocating that we are going to stop destroying money."
  • "That kind of talk is alarmist and irresponsible."
  • "America needs the Money Hole."

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Reader Comments (11)

Is it just a coincidence that, before it grows, a mustard seed must be placed in a hole?
Mar 11, 2009 at 3:51 PM | Unregistered CommenterInside the Buy-side Bail
@debt outlaw inside the buy-side

well played.
Mar 11, 2009 at 3:57 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
That shit was seriously funny.

I ususlaly don't like the ONION, but that video was top notch.
Mar 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM | Unregistered CommenterComrade Dope
How can we trust our citizens to properly destroy the money.

They should do more of these videos. Much better than Onion articles.
Mar 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM | Unregistered CommenterCantileverd Mortgage
Holy liquidity drain, Batman! Can any of you financial geniuses explain this? It purports to show that Bernanke *deliberately* drained liquidity from the system at the very moment when it looked like "The Bailout" might not pass the Congress.

http://www.denninger.net/letters/bernanke-drain.pdf

Remember, we know two things about Ben Bernanke. 1). He is a life-long student of the Great Depression and believes that the trigger was the Fed's stinginess in providing liquidity. 2). We know from Neel "The Execution Guy" Kashkari that Bernanke and Paulson had been looking to pass a big bailout plan since March, just as soon as the political conditions seemed favorable.

WTF?
May 28, 2009 at 1:50 AM | Unregistered CommenterJames H
BTW, we should probably assume that Bubbles' co-pilot over at the FRBNY, Turbo, was directly involved in this, whatever "this" might have been. Then, too, what was Robert Rubin's role in this? Hmmmm. Did he and Turbo have breakfast together that week? Maybe lunch, too. (Question: Can you do a FOIA request for phone records at the NY Fed?)
May 28, 2009 at 1:59 AM | Unregistered CommenterJames H
Hilarious...
Jul 2, 2010 at 8:11 PM | Unregistered CommenterS. Gompers
You know, this video's been circulating for a while now, yet I NEVER get tired of watching it. This sketch is actually funnier and WAY more politically-relevant than anything SNL has put out lately.

Got bless that stinky ONION!
Jul 2, 2010 at 9:15 PM | Unregistered CommenterRecoverylessRecovery
Bernanke and Sebelius and Fiat Dollars

Geithner and Bernanke (both members of Hillary’s shadow government) plan to continue their insane orgy of spending and looting our economy for their cronies and special interests pals. Bernanke’s move to flood the world market with another $600 billion in fiat money will further depress the value of the dollar. And bring massive inflation and cause unemployment to sharply rise, not fall. Read what economist Robert Higgs says about Obama, Geithner, Bernanke, Greenspan and the puppeteers that control these swindlers.

Instead, to lower unemployment (9.5%) and underemployment (18%), we could do, oh so easily, by:

• Repealing Obamacare, post haste….why spend a trillion dollars to buy health care for the 32 million Americans who are currently receiving it for free right now?

• Give current Medicaid and Medicare recipients vouchers and let them purchase whatever health insurance fits their needs…this would cut the cost of these corrupt programs by an amazing 70%. Enforceable deductibles and co-pays would return Medicare and Medicaid patients to the real world medical marketplace! And would simultaneously cut the cost of commercial health insurance by 50%.


• Issue a federal mandate that would allow patients to cross state lines, in order to purchase more competitive health insurance….in other words, break up those BCBS monopolies, like the BCBS scam that Kathleen Sebelius and her trial lawyer cronies ran in Kansas, for years and years.

• Scrap the wind farm and gasohol programs that our corrupt politicians and their flim flam puppeteers have forced down our throats. These programs are not, and never will be, cost effective. Just another Obama pipe dream that will never pan out.

• Tell OPEC where to get off by imposing an adjustable energy import tax. The less you charge us, the less we tax your products. And vice versa.

• Structure gasoline and diesel road taxes so as to encourage the use of our abundant natural gas resources for surface transportation.

• Remove all unions from all mass transit in America. Tell these people that efficient, privately run mass transit, free of unions, is a matter of national survival.

• Get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan right now! And begin the public trials of those politicians who corruptly got us into these hell holes.


Do these things and bingo, our economy rights itself almost overnight. But continue to follow Greenspan, Geithner and Bernanke….continue as these swindlers have been leading us, and we will continue our ever accelerating national slide into the dark abyss.


To learn more about Sebelius’ role in Hillary’s corrupt shadow government go to www.sebeliuscoverups.com or just search:
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George Meredith MD
Virginia Beach
Nov 8, 2010 at 10:57 PM | Unregistered CommenterGeorge Meredith MD
So George, do we take this to mean that there never has been in the past, or never will be in the future, Republicans in the "shadow government?
Nov 9, 2010 at 1:40 AM | Unregistered CommenterS. Gompers

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