bailout update
And the bailout news (in case you've been avoiding it)
(1) The super insurer AIG, which was bailed out on the eve of bankruptcy two weeks ago by the feds' lending it $85 billion, then held an executive retreat the very next week at the fancy St. Regis Resort in California, at a tab of $440k ($23k for spa treatments). (The Smoking Gun has the invoice) (2) And it's small consolation that former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld (whose company didn't get bailed out and therefore lost its workers their jobs and savings) made the unwise decision to nonetheless do his daily workout at the company gym a few days later, during which one employee cold-cocked him. (3) To you and me, the bill Congress passed last Friday might have been one of those ugly necessities, but, hey, who loved it? Bicyclists! ABC News /// TheSmokingGun.com /// Daily Telegraph /// New York Times
(1) The super insurer AIG, which was bailed out on the eve of bankruptcy two weeks ago by the feds' lending it $85 billion, then held an executive retreat the very next week at the fancy St. Regis Resort in California, at a tab of $440k ($23k for spa treatments). (The Smoking Gun has the invoice) (2) And it's small consolation that former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld (whose company didn't get bailed out and therefore lost its workers their jobs and savings) made the unwise decision to nonetheless do his daily workout at the company gym a few days later, during which one employee cold-cocked him. (3) To you and me, the bill Congress passed last Friday might have been one of those ugly necessities, but, hey, who loved it? Bicyclists! ABC News /// TheSmokingGun.com /// Daily Telegraph /// New York Times
Comments
I can understand going if the plane tickets and resort reservation were non refundable - but the spa treatments are too much for me!
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/08/08 at 12:31 PM
Proud to be a Masshole!!!!!!
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/08/08 at 12:43 PM
First of all people should not be walking in the road, these people just go where ever they feel like regardless of who's already there. 1 ton of metal & plastic coming at you means you stay put!
Second of all, we don't intentionally cause traffic jams - most times there's just too many of us trying fit into an area only meant for 1/2 of us.
Admittedly, we are an angry bunch, but we understand each other.
Someone from CT once asked why it is that we drive the way we do and my response to him was "I drive a Pontiac, you drive a BMW. If it comes down to who is going to stop to allow the other person to go it will always be you cause I don't give a crap what happens to my car." I think that sums us up nicely 😊
Second of all, we don't intentionally cause traffic jams - most times there's just too many of us trying fit into an area only meant for 1/2 of us.
Admittedly, we are an angry bunch, but we understand each other.
Someone from CT once asked why it is that we drive the way we do and my response to him was "I drive a Pontiac, you drive a BMW. If it comes down to who is going to stop to allow the other person to go it will always be you cause I don't give a crap what happens to my car." I think that sums us up nicely 😊
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/08/08 at 02:24 PM
Bobcat, possibly true, but the spa treatments were not prepaid.
Posted by BikerPuppy on 10/09/08 at 11:30 AM
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