Take a few minutes to watch all of these. They run 30 seconds each. The Geithner clip is at the bottom.
All are winning submissions for a national anti-bailout video contest conducted in late 2009. They are either really, really funny or just sickly depressing, depending where you find yourself on the moral hazard insanity spectrum.
This 8 year-old girl knows the various bailout programs better than Bernanke.
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Video - End Government Bailouts with Nobailatol - Viagra parody
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Tarp - just do nothing...what could be easier?
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Thirteen year-old explains the bailouts.
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Matthew Lesko: Free Bailout Money - He's so pissed off he's moving to Canada.
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This is the original that started the contest. These guys attempt to deliver hundred-billion-dollar checks to AIG and Citi corporate offices on behalf of taxpayers. Well played. They sneak into Senator Olympia Snowe's offices and request her signature on a billion-dollar check. Hilarious bastards. And that's just the start, then they deliver invoices for $26k to unsuspecting taxpayers, Publisher's Clearinghouse style.
Update: I just noticed something I hadn't seen before when I first posted this in 2009, because no one had heard of him at that point...look at the last video...The taller guy with the beige overcoat has to be early james o'keefe, who later became famous for the acorn videos...maybe i'm wrong but it looks an awful lot like him...if so, my opinion just changed of the clip...granted, acorn is useless and even harmful to a certain degree, but o'keefe is a potentially racist, trollish malcontent who gives the now-defunct Right.Org a bad name.