Slippery Bankers

Hey Barry

Man, I told you them bankers is weaselly. Them Golden Sox folks want millions in bonuses.

Like I say, people in hell want ice water, but it ain't gonna happen.

Clamp on em, listen to Barney Frank an good ol Timmy. Timmy, he's gonna be OK.

Anyways, I thinks the new law is this one: H. R. 851 - To establish executive compensation and corporate governance requirements for institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program.

If thas it, go ahead an push on it for us.

Thanks, Barry


your pal,

Drainin the Swamp

Hey Barry -

Once I read a coffee cup about real estate, makes sense for you bout now.

'Remember when you're up to your ass in alligators that your goal was to drain the swamp'

Keep on draining that swamp, Barry, we loves ya.

Russia - ya takes the steam outta the talk in Moscow. Keep it up with lotsa committee's, hard to stay pi--ed when you gotta go to a meetin in 2 hours

Muslims, Africa - ya tells it like it is, made things better. Thass the good ol' USA - no BS from here.

Sicko - I'm not real happy bout the insurance cuz it don't actually do nuthin good, so keep on the federal insurance program. We gotta get sumthin outa this, Barry.

Banks ! - Ya gotta keep drivin it, Barry; them bankers are slippery and ya can't let em get away again.

'conomy - ya right, it's gonna take some time, but Barry, them econs of yours ain't said doodly bout what's next. Whassup when the stimulus is done and we still don't got nobody buyin stuff?

'ghanistan - take to 'em Barry, take it to 'em.

Paki's - ya gotta stay on 'em bout the nukes and the talis. no choice but to make that place work right.

Worried bout you Barry - ya already got some grey showin an its only been 6 months. We needs ya, so take care of youself.

your pal

Look Ahead

Hey Barry -

Here's an idea about economics: think ahead.

Wow, that's what my videos are about.

Now Bill Dudley's gonna say the same thing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070302584.html

At least sumbody's watchin'.

Now, Barry, all's ya gotta do is set up a group to make that a systematic program and let me run it or at least work in it, an we're there. If'n ya don't let me help out, I'm just gonna do it myself.

Here's my video links - thanks for watchin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IoQXhuvE-U [video, part 1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWF3WtUDoA [video, part 2]

http://www.mkeever.com/dodgingdisasters.html [scripts]

How about it Barry, let me help you out.

your pal,

Fixin the FED

Hey Barry,

Lotta folks wanna fix the bank mess by changin the FED. Don't know about that. Don't think you can fix the mess by just changin the FED.

Ya gotta shine light on the whole system, not just the darkest corner; otherwise ya just chase them roaches around the room.

Anyways, I give the bill [Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (Introduced in House) HR 1207 IH] a big thumbs down.

So, about my videos.

Wow.

Change the title to something bout Ron Paul and they take off like rockets.

So Barry, you gets even bigger numbers, so's I'm gonna change the titles to sumthin bout you.

Don't take it personal. And, don't worry, it'll be clean.

Still love ya,

Your pal,

Sneakin Fame

Hey Barry,

OK, so's my videos are getting nowhere fast.

I checked it out and Ron Paul videos get nine hunnert thousand views each, and he doesn't say anything at all. I mean, nothing.

Lemme in on that, so's I called mine an answer to Ron Paul and added some titles.

Catch a star - hell ya.

Here's the links - thanks for watchin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IoQXhuvE-U [video, part 1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWF3WtUDoA [video, part 2]

http://www.mkeever.com/dodgingdisasters.html [scripts]

I'll let ya know if it works.

Your pal,

Laws and All

OK, Barry, you safe from me.

Here I am tryin to save the world an all - only nobody's watchin.

Hell ya gonna do?

Imagine iffn ya has real power and nobody's watchin.

Scary, thas what.

Mebbe I'll just go ahead and make some gripes about the new laws ya'll on about, instead of bein famous. Why not, why the hell not.

Here's one now that sounds real good, just lookin at the title.:

'Financial Transparency Restoration Act (Introduced in House), HR 2727 IH. To provide for the implementation of a system under which each financial institution will report on the financial condition of the institution to the public, and for other purposes.'

Seems this was there before until deep sixed by congress in 1994. Seems like it's shinin' some light on them bankers - Lord knows we needs that.

Here's another one that sounds good, from McCain fer Chrissakes:

'Department of Defense Financial Accountability Act of 2009 (Introduced in Senate) S 1287 IS - To provide for the audit of financial statements of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2017 and fiscal years thereafter, and for other purposes.'

This'n here should go without sayin, crime that we gotta make a law. Keep track of the bombs and all, jeez - oughta be a no brainer.

Now here's one that just confuses me [now don' you go sayin 'well, doh']:

'Administrative Support and Oversight for Community Financial Institutions Act of 2009 (Introduced in House) HR 2676 IH, To amend chapter 3 of title 31, United States Code, to provide for an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Community Financial Institutions and an Office of Ombudsman for Community Financial Institutions, and for other purposes.'

Jes don' get that one at all.

Keep up the good work, we needs ya up there.

your pal,

You Tubing

Watch out Barry,

I'm comin after ya.

Made me couple videos, bad lighting, serious nerves, poor resolution and all that, but ya got competition Barry.

Ya gotta be famous to get traction, so here they go. Here's the links if ya promise not to laugh too loud:

Economics 2.0, Dodging Disasters, Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0m6TlmOISM

Economics 2.0, Dodging Disasters, Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jsTVZemKSA

Here is a link to the video scripts:

http://www.mkeever.com/dodgingdisasters.html

Your pal,

Who's Gonna Make the Loans?

Hey Barry:

So your banker plan leaves them guys with lending, selling stocks and insurance.

OK, I hears you put in a strict regulation that they have to prove they won't go belly up.

But, here's the thing: Who's gonna make loans?

Met a laid off banker veep the other day. Wanna know how she pays the rent now?

She sells partnerships in commercial real estate loans. That's right, she makes the loans the bankers are too busy to make.

We need the loans and we want you to regulate them. But, how's that gonna happen if bankers are too busy with insurance and stocks to diddle with loans?

Am I gonna have to set up a deal with three doctors and a drug dealer to buy a five year old Honda? What the hell.

It's a real question Barry - take a look.

Your pal,

Banks on Fire

Hey Barry:

Good on ya for the bank plan. Here's the link: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/reform.pdf

Man, I thought it was never gonna get here.

Couple things, though.

First off, ya gonna want the guys who buy bank stocks watching them banks like hawks. But, Barry, ya got no disclosures in your plan.

Right now, them bankers are like vampires - they only show up in the dark. Ain't good enuf, Barry. Ya gotta shine the lights.

AND, ya gotta watch them bank lobbyists in DC - they'll gut your plans if you let 'em. So, keep on it Barry, or else we'll be here again in couple years.

Don't give an inch - ya gotta be in front drivin on this one. Ya can't just sit in the back seat.

We're countin on ya.

Your pal,

The private health industry's time is up

Hey Barry:

Even the Christian Science Monitor supports single payer!

Holy Climolis!

Here's the link: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0616/p09s01-coop.html

Bout time we do it the right way.

Whattya say, Barry?

Your pal,

Stuck With Insurance

Hey Barry:

Guy says we spend here 50% more than world averages on health care and don't get squat for it.

Where does the 50% go?

Insurance.

Guess we're stuck with 'em.

Sucks.

But at least we get a government option, right Barry?

Your pal

Talk To The Terrorists - It Works

Hey Barry:

So here's an expert who says that we should talk to the terrorists.

What an idea. You were right all along.

His name is John Arquilla and he works for the Navy.

Read it here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/02/EDH517TKBD.DTL

Your pal

Please, Don't Kill Me

Hey Barry:

So exactly how does insurance make us better, Barry?

It's a big question because nobody likes insurance companies 'cept some of the crooked ones in Congress.

I goes to the doc and I waits while they checks my card - if I'm lucky enuf to have one - then I fill out a bunch of forms that don't do anything cept cover the insurance's ass, then tell the doc my problem and he says he'll let me know if the insurance will cover it or whether I should go to the ER.

Total time in office one hour, total time with doc, 180 seconds.

If its the ER, we're talkin four to eight hour wait for 180 seconds with the doc.

What the hell is that? It ain't workin, Barry. It just ain't workin.

But, you already know that, right?

Everybody in the country wants single payer, Barry, cept you and the insurance. Even most of the docs want it.

I gotta think ya really want it Barry.

So, are you afraid or are you just waitin?

Ya gotta do this one Barry, ya gotta do this one. Single payer. This is why you're there.

Your pal

Better Society: $25

Wow.

A new San Francisco program improves families' lives for $25 a pop.

Read it to believe it: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/21/MN0J17O5RJ.DTL&hw=newsom&sn=006&sc=515

Guns and Credit Cards

Hey Barry,

What the hell is wrong with them gun guys in DC anyways?

We both know that some folks is gonna die in the parks this summer. Why do ya go to parks anyway? Ya go to get drunk and stoned - ain't nothing else to do. That's the point, ain't it?

So now some of those effin idiots will have a loaded 45 or AK in the tent. Wonnerful.

Might as well stay home with the gang bangers shootin up the town every night. No point in drivin all day to get shot at - do that at home.

Here's a proposition: give me one of the folks who pushed this law and I'll put him in a car in the hood at night with all the guns he wants. See if he's there in the morning.

Anyways, I can dream.

Good deal on the credit cards, even it it costs a life or two. It's worth it. The life's on the banks, anyways.

Your pal

After Them Banks

Hey Barry:

Good on ya. Some moves on the banks, I read and I like.

Bernanke ups the ante on control - that's good.

Geithner goes after derivatives - that's good even tho Congress has to step up.

But, but...we want a better system Barry.

Think about it - bankers just cannot run investments, Barry. Even you said it: repeating the same action and expecting different results is INSANE.

So, Barry, let's get off the nut express and separate loans from gamblers. Don't know about you, but I don't want my little cash stash managed by gamblers and junkies. A little help here Barry.

Your pal.

Too Big To Fail - ??

So Barry, I hears lot of gum flappin on the idea that some of them banks are just too big to let go. Well, if some of them banks are too big, then some of the car makers are too big, too. And if they are too big, then what about my cousin's rib joint? Why he's got 100 chairs in that sucker. Course, it's in Detroit, so mebbe he's a goner. No saving cousin Phil, huh Barry?

So riddle me this Barry - just exactly what are the rules about too big to fail, anyway? Where can I read them?

Is it who I know? Or, my skin color? Or, who I pray to??

And, anyway, why not just let them fail, Barry? Sell off the good parts and deep six the bad and there ya go. Been done before.

But, Barry, here's the question: What about the ol' US of A? Are we too big to fail, Barry? What about us?

See, what I'm lookin at is the idea that us workers don't have enuf money to buy shit. We were borrowing, but the payback to them good ol banks runs 30% a year. Screw that.

But, Barry, even I know that if guys like me don't buy stuff, we all done. And, well Barry, I'm damned if I'm goin into hock at 30% any more.

And, Barry, our national credit card to pay for the stimulus, well it's there, ain't it? And it will take a lot of growth to get out of it. Now, growth - it sure as hell ain't comin from me.

So Barry, there's the question: Where in the hell is all this growth comin from?

The only answer I hears is that ya gotta raise all our wages so's we can buy stuff without borrowing at no 30%

Cause, if we don't do that, even the good ol' US of A ain't too big to fail.

Your pal,

Riverboat Gamblin

Hey Barry:

Who woulda thunk it? Effin amazin.

100 gold plated economists and we get riverboat gamblin.

Trillion here, trillion there, OK. But, we gotta pay for that.

The only ways I sees us payin is old fashion growth. Ya gotta grow us Barry.

You'se lockin us in to a treadmill. The only way it works is if we just keep on growin.

And, ya know what Barry, that's just how the bankers screwed us up. They made their beds so that if things ever stopped goin up, they were screwed. Then we were screwed.

Them econs of yours better start putting in night hours cuz we got no room for mistakes here Barry.

And, God knows it's real easy to make mistakes.

We're with ya, but ya gotta watch it like a hawk.

Your pal,

100 days

Hey Barry:

Happy Anniversary. Ya doin good so far -keep it up.

Here's my list of good things for the USA you done so far:

Take on the banks, keep it up

Take on the military contractors - God knows them guys need some comeuppance

Start on health care - can't be done soon enough, keep on the pressure.

Good appointments of people who care about regular folks - labor, vets and all

Keep taxes on the fat cats, that's good. And, I think you want the inheritance tax back, keep on that one too

Let the world know that Bush is gone and the Americans are back - mebbe I can take the Canadian flag off my back pack

No more torture - probably should put the guys who were in charge in jail, but at least our boys will be less at risk now

Out of Iraq - but Barry ya gotta do something about Pakistan's nukes

Good start, Barry, good start.

thank you

your pal.