If at first they don't succeed....
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
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
posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 20:33
3 Comments:
Where do I send the check, because, apparently I don't have a choice on participating in this Nigerian scam.
Allow me the illusion of optimism that enough Republican's will continue to vote no on this plan that it will fail to pass again, and buy us a few more day for someone to come up with a SANE market-driven solution. The continuous promise that the government will step in bail them out of this mess is one of the reasons things are still all tied up in knots. If message was given that "this is the market's problem to solve, there will be no bailout" the market would solve it.
What's even more frightening is that the politicians -- including and most especially GWBush -- don't seem to recognize the scowls on the face of every American citizen as we're leaning over to pick up the pitchforks.
Arrogant asses. This is OUR country. The fact that a bunch of rich people are going to lose a few of their many, many millions is a matter of supreme indifference to me and to everyone I've talked to about it, regardless of political leanings. Investment is gambling, simple as that. You win some, you lose some. When you make bad investments, (e.g. - subprime mortgages), you will invariably lose. Suck it up; the market will recover and correct just fine without corporate welfare from my pocket.
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