Special request

[Nebe]

From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship
with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country
has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of
800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it
would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation
movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need
the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these
funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly
under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for
a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund
account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will
respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used
to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully
Minister of Treasury Paulson

[Backbeach Jake]

You are freekin funny, Nebe.

[spence]

I appreciate the bi-partisan nature of this post

-spence

[Nebe]

And on a somber note- If we had to pay China right now for all of our national debt we owe them, and china dispersed it to its people, every citizen in China would get $4,000.00.... sad.

[Raven]

good one Nebe
================================
on CNN
under President Bushes Story... there

and laughed.... when i realized it's true meaning

quote: "The government is the only institution patient enough to buy these assets at their current low prices and hold them until their prices return to normal," he said.

LOL ! yeah that's because your the financial institution thats printing up all the MONEY !!!

ahh ha ha ha ha.... "patient enough" my ass

[RIJIMMY]

Bush's speach was funny, a month ago everything was fine in the economy. Now I am going to sound like a lib, but we have a major crisis in childrens education in this country, yet there are no emergency meetings, no request for funds. Can you imagine if we threw 700 BILLION into our schools and put a major reform on teachers and the education system!!!!!! That would pay enormous dividends to this countries future

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

Bush's speach was funny, a month ago everything was fine in the economy. Now I am going to sound like a lib, but we have a major crisis in childrens education in this country, yet there are no emergency meetings, no request for funds. Can you imagine if we threw 700 BILLION into our schools and put a major reform on teachers and the education system!!!!!! That would pay enormous dividends to this countries future

RIJ;
thats been one of my points against Iraq; What ELSE can we be doing with this money..
Same goes with this 700B!
1 in 4 RI kids is proficient in science.
Depressing.

But the major structure of the economy is fine...

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

RIJ;
thats been one of my points against Iraq; What ELSE can we be doing with this money..
Same goes with this 700B!
1 in 4 RI kids is proficient in science.
Depressing.

But the major structure of the economy is fine...

Thats 'cause science doesnt matter, I mean what can you learn from studying something as silly as rocks?

[Nebe]

PALIN>>> THE UN EDITED INTERVIEW>>>

[Raven]

if you saw Bill Clinton on the Daily show ....

he said that had we invested in energy alternatives
way back when instead of backing up the mortgage industry
we wouldn't be is such an energy crisis....

hind-sight being 20/20...

but even better was his suggestion that
we should have a
moratorium on foreclosures altogether which
is what the anti- foreclosure bill was supposed to do...
in the first place....

[spence]

Originally Posted by Raven

hind-sight being 20/20...

Hindsight?

People have been screaming about this for decades. They were boxed in by the Right as "wackos" and "moonbats".

-spence

[RIJIMMY]

that kind of sounded like Obama's response to most questions

[JohnR]

Education isn't broken as much as Parents commitments to kids. Going to school is not daycare and education does not stop at 3pm. We need longer school days, we need parents educating kids in addition to the school day, we need getting kids running their imagination wild on science, the arts, math, etc.

Meanwhile, the education gap of many Asian countries that want to pass us is continuing.

My kid will be fine because he will be educated well beyond what's typical in this country. Will your kid?

[The Dad Fisherman]

I agree with most of this but 30 kids to a classroom is not helping matters.

Think about how much more your kid can learn with the same teacher and 1/2 the kids.

Originally Posted by JohnR

Education isn't broken as much as Parents commitments to kids. Going to school is not daycare and education does not stop at 3pm. We need longer school days, we need parents educating kids in addition to the school day, we need getting kids running their imagination wild on science, the arts, math, etc.

Meanwhile, the education gap of many Asian countries that want to pass us is continuing.

My kid will be fine because he will be educated well beyond what's typical in this country. Will your kid?

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Education isn't broken as much as Parents commitments to kids.

Meanwhile, the education gap of many Asian countries that want to pass us is continuing.

BINGO.
Asians work as a family unit and take care of their own.
They know the value of a good education and are involved with their kids and their schools.

Actually IMHO ,if we all just took care of our own families, teaching values, morals and respect by example and the importance of education,

we could do away with most of the juvenile problems and prolly alot of the welfare problems too.

[buckman]

I have been hearing the 30 kids stuff forever. I go to my sons high school and the most he has in a class is 18. I went to Catholic schools and we always had about 30.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by buckman

I have been hearing the 30 kids stuff forever. I go to my sons high school and the most he has in a class is 18. I went to Catholic schools and we always had about 30.

My son has 27 in his math class this year and 26 in his english class. Granted...not quite 30 but its been steadily going up over the past few years so 30 is on the horizon.

And i don't really give a crap how many you had in your class....i just worry about how many my kids have in theirs

and if education doesn't need any money then why everytime I turn around there's a fundraiser at the school.

There's a fundraiser for the Sports teams, there's a fundraiser for the band, there's a Book Fair for the english department, there's wrapping paper for this and yankee-freakin-candles for that.....

Sorry kids you just keep selling because we have to give $700 billion freakin dollars to a bunch of greedy %$%$%$%$s who didn't have the common sense to take care of their companies in a responsible manner.

[buckman]

My point was that nothing has changed since we were in school. Except the cost of education. Most of the increase can be attributed to the benifits packages or to special education mandates that the school systems now deal with. And one more thing, look at the classes that are offered in your school. My son is taking " The history of rock and roll" and my daughter took "Silent films". Do we really need to pay teaches to teach this useless crap when our schools are hurting for $$$
We had fundraisers also.

[likwid]

His name was Robert Paulson.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by buckman

Do we really need to pay teaches to teach this useless crap when our schools are hurting for $$$
We had fundraisers also.

They wouldn't be hurting for $$$ if we gave them the $700 billion instead now would they.

and i don't consider the "Arts" useless crap. We had Music Appreciation when I went to school. Its all about lighting a spark in a kid so they find something to excite them about school.

Why don't they cut Athletics then....its not "Readin, Writin, or 'Rithmetic"...must be just "Useless Crap".

and we didn't have fundraisers for school when I went.


***Disclaimer***
I don't really think they should cut athletics because it does offer a lot to a kid. it is another avenue to light that spark and keep them in school. I was just using it in comparison

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by buckman

Most of the increase can be attributed to the benifits packages or to special education mandates that the school systems now deal with.

Ya, the Special Education mandates ,all because there are so many behavioral problems with undisciplined kids who disrupt a normal class room making it difficult for all to learn.

We pay $20,000 a year to send each special ed students out of district to be educated. While some students have legitimate problems, most have behavioral problems because of problems at home.


My son teaches Special Ed students and is lucky to get 2 parents out for back to school night. Busts his chops trying to teach and help these kids.

The $$ are being provided, it's the kids behavior and parents disinterest in their kids schooling that is causing most of the problems.

[buckman]

I would much rather see the 700 Billion go tothe schools. I guess what I meant to say is when money is tight you have to cut somewhere. The classes that even the kids find a joke, that might be the place to start. We could just have another overide, I know I would love to pay more taxes.

[Nebe]

Buckman is sounding more and more like a democrat every day..

[buckman]

Please Nebe, no personal attacks

[Nebe]

I forgot.. 'democrat' is a bad word..

[RIROCKHOUND]

To quote Likwid, you might as well call him a pig--cker and talk about his daughters boobs before you call him a Democrat!

**(Buckman, I dont even know if you have a daughter, and have never seen her boobs )