your cash aint nothin' but trash

After the 2000 elections, a Democratic president left behind a budget surplus as the Republican Party came to Washington with a majority in both houses of Congress and on the Supreme Court. So much for being fiscally conservative, the Republican dominated government immediately ran up a big deficit every year since, doubling the national debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion.

The US government's $700 billion plan to bail out the banking system will give the US Treasury new powers to monetize private business failures and fraud. It will be encumbered with $5 trillion in new debt before September and probably another trillion and a half, which will all be laid on the next President's doorstep.

I say let the free market work, why hand out corporate welfare while people are losing their homes? Anyway you slice it, the US economy will be in the shitter for years to come. My solution? Learn Mandarin so you can find work once our Chinese overlords take over. Good luck, peeps - we're going to need it.

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." - Albert Einstein

"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." - Plato

"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears." - Robert W. Sarnoff

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money." - Senator Everett Dirksen

"Never spend your money before you have it." - Thomas Jefferson

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." - e e cummings

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty

"When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes." - Henry Miller

"The rich are the scum of the Earth in every country." - G. K. Chesterton

"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx

"Money alone sets all the world in motion." - Publilius Syrus

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to." - Dorothy Parker

The Magic Christian: Free Money - The Revolution's Here

The B-52’s: Legal Tender - 6MB

Gang of Four: Capital (It Fails Us Now) - 10MB

M.I.A.: Ten Dollar - 6MB

Barrett Strong: Money (That's What I Want) - 3MB

Tom Waits: 'Til the Money Runs Out - 6MB

P Diddy: It's All About The Benjamins - 7MB

Elvis Costello: Clean Money - 3MB

The Drifters w/ Clyde McPhatter: Money Honey - 3MB

Bing Crosby: Brother Can You Spare A Dime? - 3MB

Funkadelic: Funky Dollar Bill - 5MB

Horace Andy: Money Money - 7MB

Spinal Tap: Gimmie Some Money - 4MB

Lefty Frizzell: If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time - 3MB

The Kingston Trio: Greenback Dollar - 4MB

Lord Invader: Yankee Dollar - 2MB

The O'Jays: For The Love Of Money - 12MB

Pink Floyd: Money - 10MB

Monty Python: Money Song - 1MB

The Style Council: Money-Go-Round (Parts 1 & 2) - 11MB

Beatles: You Never Give Me Your Money - 7MB


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