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Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!

Now you have a better understanding of how the WALL STREET BAILOUT PLAN WILL WORK !!!!
  • Profile picture of the author Adam Kenzington
    Excellent Post! The government (aka-us) should not be responsible for the blatant theft commited by these shady lenders. The same lenders that made multi-millions commiting these crimes. The people in charge should be brought to account, with trials, fines (get that money they profitted from, back) and serious jail time. Teach a few lessons by example, and the next guy may think twice before defrauding the government & the American tax payer. Instead these defrauders are being rewarded for their crimes.

    Unfortunately, congress isn't willing to apply the law equally. Example: Enron. They went after those guys tooth & nail, but then again those guys weren't the majority's political pals.

    The government should stop guaranteeing these companies that they will bail them out. Let them fall of their own dead weight.

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    • Profile picture of the author John Henderson
      Yes, great post, Getsmartt. I'm now at the stage where I really can't think about the bank bailouts anymore. If I get any more upset about this situation, I'm gonna give myself a migrane.

      I just have a funny feeling that by the time the general population realise just how badly we've all been screwed by these bank bailouts, it will be too late for us to change course - and the bankers and politicians who got us into this will have quietly disappeared to their warm and cozy retirement homes.
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  • Profile picture of the author acreativetouch
    Yep. GetSmartt....you've got it pegged! So, now that we're all broke....what are we going to do with all these monkeys? We can't buy food? We can't pay our bills? Buy feed for the livestock? or seed to plant?

    I GOT IT!!! Let's eat, plant, the monkeys!!

    dorothy
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