• 29 Oct 2009 at 4:02 PM

Barney Frank’s Modest Proposal

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Barney Frank.jpgNow that more than a year has passed since Lehman was proven to be not too big to fail, lawmakers have had ample opportunity to inspect the wreckage and devise a detailed, reasonable strategy to prevent the same type of carnage from happening again. It’s tough enough for analysts to dig through the complex web of businesses at large financial institutions to place earnings estimates on them. A surgical dismantling requires a carefully orchestrated series of steps on-par with launching the Space Shuttle. Barney Frank has some ideas about which commands should be coming from Mission Control and shared them today with Timmy G.

“There will be death panels enacted by Congress this year, I hope. But they will be for those large institutions who are to be put out of business, whose shareholders will be wiped out, whose executives will be fired, whose boards of directors will be replaced.”

Geithner makes a pitch for regulation of financial industry [LA Times]

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    1. 1
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM

      Greg, you suck my will to live.
      -Jesus

    2. 2
      Posted by pfluger | October 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM

      Da analysts should just tawk to me if dey wanna know what upcoming earnings will be.
      I got high level contacts all ova da place. I know everything.
      -cg

    3. 3
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:07 PM

      He looks like he’s letting out a loose fart in that pic.

    4. 4
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:07 PM

      Barney Frank is a shitheel.

    5. 5
      Posted by pfluger | October 29, 2009 at 4:10 PM

      I just wuv to watch when the worckets waunch from Cape Canaveral.
      Its so sensy, as they thwust upwards towards the heavens, with a twail of flame and the woar of the wocket engines! I just wuv wocket waunches!
      -Barney Fwank, Chairman of House Financial Service Committee

    6. 6
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:12 PM

      Greg,
      Seriously, how can you be so unbelievably fucking bad at this? I don’t know anyone who is as horrible as you at your job. I fucking hate you and your ass face.
      -wildcard bitches!

    7. 7
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM

      Yeah right. I’d like to see him take apart Citi and BAC, which are basically bankrupt entities masquarading as companies. Any guesses as to which one will come over to Uncle Sam with cup in hand next? And get another taxpayer bailout!

    8. 8
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:28 PM

      Barney touches boys inappropriately and gives lap dances to Barry O!

    9. 9
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:28 PM

      @7
      Neither. Sure they’re bankrupt without the TARP but guess what? They got TARP and won’t go bankrupt. It sounds awfully chic to say it, but it’s just not realistic.

    10. 10
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:28 PM

      I don’t know what’s worse. Greg’s writing, or the fact that half of the commenters on here applied for that same job and he BEAT YOU TO IT!
      BOOM

    11. 11
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:31 PM

      Greg,
      I’m going to super-glue your biceps to the sides of your torso, making you look like you’re perpetually doing the robot.
      ~ Jeff Macke

    12. 12
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:39 PM

      Macke, that’s brutal and cold-blooded. Cold-blooded and brutal.

    13. 13
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:45 PM

      @11/Macke – I think it would make him look more like a raptor than a robot. Except raptors were more intelligent than Greg is. They remember…
      - Dr. Alan Grant.

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      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 4:53 PM

      Yeah, let’s codify this TBTF shit. Make it part of our effing policy. We can throw all the airlines together into one big airline and call it Aeroflot and backstop it. Same with Exxon/Chevron/Std Oil – we’ll call it Gazprom and backstop it. Just keep taking my fucking money and shoving it at these shitbag banks. ‘Am I taking crazy pills here!!!??’

    15. 15
      Posted by Anal_yst | October 29, 2009 at 4:53 PM

      @10/Greg
      Presumably Greg was Lat’s hire, not Bess’

    16. 16
      Posted by thomas_shawn | October 29, 2009 at 4:56 PM

      Hopefully, stock ticker GS will be the first to be disassembled.

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      Posted by american bandersnatch | October 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM

      @16 – Fool. You mess with the vampire squid, you get the blood funnel!

    18. 18
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:32 PM

      Greg -
      That first sentance is longer than my uright pecker. Which you may now proceed to suck on.
      John Holmes

    19. 19
      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:37 PM

      Greg -
      I prayed you had outgrown your gay phase after we took you out of that male boarding school. Obviously not. But I accept you for what you are. You douche.
      Love,
      Mom

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      Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM

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      @5 -
      Wewease Woger!
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