While you're all outraged about the bailout...

[TheMercenary]

ACORN's got to get it's piece of the pie somehow.

[bluecuracao]

I'm feeling lazy. Why not just point it out, so we can be immediately amused, as you say.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

I'm feeling lazy. Why not just point it out, so we can be immediately amused, as you say.

Screw you, hippie. If you want first rate horror/mirth, you're going to have to work for it. You know, actually READ the damn thing.

But what the hell. It's only your future.

[bluecuracao]

TGRR, are you a medium height white guy, medium weight, with brown hair and hazel eyes? If so, I want you. Srsly, I am consumed with lust right now, no joke.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

ACORN's got to get it's piece of the pie somehow.

Naw. The whole bill isn't shown. Now take a look at the full text:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquer...sel=TOC_64232&

Originally Posted by HR2857, Sec 6104,

(5) The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.

(6) Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Are your annoyed by this... uh, these... bailout(s).
Then don't click on this link.
Seriously, don't do it.
Don't even think about reading this Rolling Stone article.
At least without taking your blood pressure and anti-depression meds.
You don't even want to know about;

The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

or

The reason the number has dropped to nothing is that the Fed had simply stopped using relatively transparent devices like repurchase agreements to pump its money into the hands of private companies. By early 2009, a whole series of new government operations had been invented to inject cash into the economy, most all of them completely secretive and with names you've never heard of. There is the Term Auction Facility, the Term Securities Lending Facility, the Primary Dealer Credit Facility, the Commercial Paper Funding Facility and a monster called the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (boasting the chat-room horror-show acronym ABCPMMMFLF). For good measure, there's also something called a Money Market Investor Funding Facility, plus three facilities called Maiden Lane I, II and III to aid bailout recipients like Bear Stearns and AIG.

While the rest of America, and most of Congress, have been bugging out about the $700 billion bailout program called TARP, all of these newly created organisms in the Federal Reserve zoo have quietly been pumping not billions but trillions of dollars into the hands of private companies (at least $3 trillion so far in loans, with as much as $5.7 trillion more in guarantees of private investments). Although this technically isn't taxpayer money, it still affects taxpayers directly, because the activities of the Fed impact the economy as a whole. And this new, secretive activity by the Fed completely eclipses the TARP program in terms of its influence on the economy.

No one knows who's getting that money or exactly how much of it is disappearing through these new holes in the hull of America's credit rating. Moreover, no one can really be sure if these new institutions are even temporary at all — or whether they are being set up as permanent, state-aided crutches to Wall Street, designed to systematically suck bad investments off the ledgers of irresponsible lenders.

Believe me, you don't want to know.

[Bad Luck McGhee]

This is the most laughable idea I've seen in a while. I have a friend who teaches at an inner city public school and she can't even get her students to do homework. The teachers don't even bother assigning it because they basically get the middle finger because the students know that they can't do anything except fail them for the assignment...which they don't care about anyway. There is no physical way for the government to force all young people everywhere in this country to do anything. One of the students in her class spelled the word energy as ANOGEY. It took us about 10 minutes to figure out what the hell it was supposed to be because they don't even write in complete sentences. I am horrified that there are people in this country with inadequate education who can barely read who will be one day expected to become decision making adults and contributors to society in a positive way. We aren't adequately addressing the most basic problems that our country is dealing with right now, so who gives a damn about "baby boomers" volunteering?