Iceland to Banks: Go To Hell

Hey Barry:

Think on it.

Them Icelanders said 'Hell No' to covering losses by private bankers.

Read it here: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-07/iceland-rejects-icesave-depositors-bill-in-referendum-update1-.html

How bout us, Barry?

Time to get all up in they face, Barry.

No need to wait - if'n Dodd caint do it, make it happen anyways.

Your pal,

Surance Ghouls - 2

Hey Barry:

Caught a little of y'all on healthcare with the Congress.

Ya did good, be proud on it.

Now y'all can do it again for other tings, so long as the reps play they idiot card; ya know - they card that sez: "Ima holdin my breath til I gets wot I wants." That card.

Les y'all try it on bank regs, for xample. Why not?

But on the sick surance, I's jes worried that all of us out here wants single payer, but that aint on the table, not even a public option.

Seems we stuck with the surance ghouls Barry.

It aint right.

Ya gotta do sumthin.

Your pal

Free Trade Smackdown - Online

Hey Barry:

Y'all gotta get your econs to read this here bout trade:

"Hi Michael.

You may be interested to know I am now in a running online debate about free trade organized by WorldTradeLaw.net and the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington. WorldTradeLaw.net is the moderator; as they explain it:

On the free trade side will be Dan Griswold of the Cato Institute, who has a recent book out called Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization. On the protectionism side will be Ian Fletcher, whose book Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace it and Why I reviewed here.

The opening statements of our debate are here:

Me: http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2010/02/the-great-trade-debate-ian-fletcher-free-trade-fails-in-both-theory-and-practice.html

Griswold: http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2010/02/the-great-trade-debate-daniel-griswold-main-street-america-benefits-from-global-engagement.html

Counter-arguments are scheduled for next Tuesday, March 2, so keep your eyes open!

Best Regards,

Ian Fletcher

Author, Free Trade Doesn’t Work:
What Should Replace it and Why
www.freetradedoesntwork.com

Adjunct Fellow
US Business & Industry Council
San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
www.usbic.net/ianfletcher"

Haitian The Econs - 2

Hey Barry

So, looky here: we'all gots to stop p----n on the po Haitians. Lordy knows they gots nuf trouble alreddy.

Bad enuf we give em jobs they caint make a living at, now we is killin they farmers by sellin our underpriced, subsidized rice.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/26/international/i122131S77.DTL

If'n we caint help, we oughta jes stay away, cept for the docs and stuff.

Holy cow, y'all makin me shamed to be an American, again.

Your pal,

Medical Money Machine

Hey Barry:

Itsa good ting ta take on the surance ghouls.

But, ya know, they aint all that's out there.

Turns out lotta the docs and pill makers is scammin the system.

Read it from Carol Lochead here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/21/MNC91C0NVJ.DTL

Keep after 'em Barry, y'all is all we got.

Your pal,

Haitian Them Econs

Hey Barry:

So's I read econs a little an Ima expectin heartless crap from them, but not from you Barry. Not from you.

Here's wot I'm talkin: y'all wants US corps to buy from Haiti one percent of all the clothes they buys. Sounds good, but Barry here's da ting:

Jordanie Pinquie Rebeca makes them clothes there now an she earn $3.09 per day, which even the sweatshop owners say is not a living wage.

Thas right, even the boss says that the money aint no good. Now how in the hell are the folks there gonna get better lives if'n a full time job don pay for nuthin?

An ya know the sickness of it is this: good ol USA calls the thang 'Project Hope'.

Positively depressin, Barry.

We needs more from you than we gettin now.

Work on it Barry, y'all is the onliest one who maybe gives a crap.

Your pal

Surance Ghouls

Hey Barry

Hear y'all gonna have a sit down with the sick surance ghouls.

Les tink bout dis. Ima sure y'all been nearby when the druggies are selling they s--t in y'all days in ChiTown.

When I walks by dose guys I sees people sellin death. An here's da ting Barry - they alreddy bought it. They bought the death they sellin.

Now we goes to Wall Street an we looks at the 'Health Insurance Industry' an wot do we see?

We sees guys killin people for money.

Ya know, is one ting to kill sumbuddy for some offense - aint good, but it's one ting.

But, now we gets peoples who makes VERY GOOD MONEY by killin people jes for the cash. Dese are the worst of the worst, jes ghouls outta some nightmare.

They is worse than the alreddy dead people selling death - they is makin cash by letting sick folks die.

An, Barry, dese are the same guys y'all meetin soon.

Barry - we don need no surance ghouls - we needs doctors.

Help us out Barry.

Your pal,

No Sports - Jes Greed

Hey Barry, Happy V-day, be sure to love your girls.

This here aint bout you - itsa vacation.

Ima telly sports fan. I luv to watch kids doin their all to beat nother kid - reminds me bein young.

So, I's watchin the Maverick surfin live on the web an it was great. Kids doing scary stuff, spectators wipin out an humongous waves. Best thing - its all live and the guys who are talking actually know the dudes on the boards. But, they don give no life history on air - dude gets the wave or he wipes out. Thas it. Plus a few commercials. Wonnerful.

Then I sees the Lympics are on late in the day, so I turns on NBC. Here's what I see: eight girl mogul runs of two Canadians and six Mericans, including life stories, leventy seven commercials, Apollo Ohno's Hollywood dance life, a football commentator on how much he loves Ohno's competitive drive plus the commentators' new hanky and - wait for it - AN EFFIN CARTOON.

Holy cow. Where are the dam sports?

So I goes online to look for some sports an what do I see. I can watch yesterday's ceremony, but nuthin else. Nuthin.

To watch any online sports I have to belong to some cable company I never heard of.

It jes sucks.

So, Ima totally givin up the Lympics.

Where the hell is the IOC?

Why caint I watch any sports?

Grumble, grumble, monopoly, grumble, world goin to hell, grumble........

Your pal

Shuttin Down the Royal Supremes

Hey Barry

We gotta get on the wagon to kill the Royal Supremes free pass for corps to buy elections, 'n we gotta move quick.

Here's the WSJ on a current bill:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703382904575059441663715072.html?

OK - it aint perfect, but is better than we got now.

Get it done, then fix it later.

We need this quick Barry

Your pal,

Progressive Conference

Hey Barry

The leftist Dems are meeting in SF this month and DC in June. They's gonna put some heat on ya cuz they's thinkin y'all too soft.

read it here: http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php/2010conferences

Gotta show'em yo tough Barry.

We needs ya to do dat.

Your pal,

US Congress Crooked - Duh

Hey Barry,

Now even the Hahvads' sayin the obvious. Read Larence Lessig on laws for sale here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/IN1I1BS7RV.DTL

Big pix of Lieberman worth a look.

Onliest question for the corps: Y'all want mayo on that?

Holy cow.

Your pal,

Free Trade Doesn't Work

Hey Barry:

Ya gotta get them econs of yours to read this new book - I been sayin that we needs a tariff to get some jobs and make some of our own stuff in the USA.

Well, this here book says it all - I read this book and Ima recommendin it to y'all. Here's the link to the website.

http://freetradedoesntwork.com/

I even wrote a review on Amazon - here tis:

I had the pleasure of reading some of FREE TRADE DOESN'T WORK and discussing it with Ian Fletcher in the pre publication form. One of my interests for years has been the flawed theory of trade used to justify the free trade mantra and some of the real world effects that belief has brought.

Mr. Fletcher has brilliantly addressed both the theoretical flaws and the real world problems brought by Free Trade in the current published form of his new book. This book is a must read for policy makers in every country, especially the USA. Its arguments will set the tone for national economic policy for years to come.

Mr. Fletcher has combined sound economic theory with real world readability - an unusual feat for which he is to be congratulated.

This book has my wholehearted endorsement for any person interested in the subject - especially those who still believe in Free Trade as the best policy.

Mike P. McKeever January 25, 2010


Your pal,

What We Gonna Do?

Hey Barry,

Had Chinese last night with some shirtail relations and the talk was bout, hol on, wait for it....it was bout YOU, an where is we all goin anyways.

Anyways they's all askin me what do I think - or mebbe they didn't xactly ask, but anyways I had some ideas and Ima givin em to y'all free for the readin. Wotta deal.

1. Health Surance - here's what we wants Barry: We want the French system. Ya gets a card with a chip and ya takes the card to the doctor an he runs it through a little scanner jes like a credit card scanner an the scanner shows the doc your history and your condition. No asistants keeping no surance files, no huge files in the back room and no forms. No muss, no fuss an no bother.

Best part is this: ain't no surance CEO's makin no $10 mil per month for doin nuthin.

Y'all is lookin crookeder an crookeder as the surance weasels chip away at what we want. Them surance companies gotta go.

2. Taxes - OK Barry, here's the deal. We is on track to become an effin royalty and that jes aint the American way. Period.

Gotta do away with them princes.

Les take Bill Gates. Now, he's got more money then God an his kids and grankids are gonna be set for life. Top of that, he is gonna take care of all Africa's kids all by his little lonesome.

Holy cow.

That ain't America. Bill Gates is named xactly right - he steals or buys stuff for his company, then he puts up a gate and anytime y'all wants to do something on a computer ya gotta pay Bill a tax to do it. Then after ya pays the tax and go through the gate, the stuff you want don work anyways. Besides that he stole all the ideas from Steve Jobs.

We gotta fix the system that lets him an others get so rich they is beyond any American power. Jes aint right.

So, y'all gotta up the income tax so's it takes 80% of the income beyond a point and y'all gotta install a death tax so's we don get no more princes.

Besides, mebbe those taxes can pay for the stuff we need - like healthcare for Americans as well as Africans.

3. Banks - Well, Barry, jes read below to see where I am on that one. Keep on em.

4. Jobs and deficits: here's the deal - we aint gonna reduce the deficit until folks has real jobs and pays taxes. This here ain't rocket science, Barry. Last year y'all bet that we can grow our jobs and get outta the mess. If'n you lose the bet, we is done.

OK, now's the time to pony up. Here's what ya gotta do:

First - raise our wages so we can buy stuff. Let them unions organize and strike. It's what we need.

Second, put up a tariff on imports. It's time to do that. We gotta get some manufacturing back here from China and other places - we needs them jobs here. Its jes insane when a job posting for a small company gets 400 - thas right: 400 - resumes.

What the hell.

Itsa big job, Barry, keep on it. Don be so nice to the Reps that they kills the right things to do. Everybody knows they is bettin y'all fail. Trouble is this, if'n y'all fail, we fail as the good ol USA.

Go head an call em on it - they is not helpin the USA - they is only helpin themselves.

Aint no secrets there Barry. We is with ya, but some's got more patience than others. Some's real disappointed, Barry.

Your pal,

Davos: Feelin the Love

Hey Barry:

Banks are feelin us, read the WSJ here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704343104575033373335750804.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular

Here's what Sarkozy said: "There is indecent behavior that will no longer be tolerated by public opinion in any country of the world," Mr. Sarkozy told the conference. "That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible," Mr. Sarkozy said.

Itsa a good first step, but we gotta long way to go.

Keep on em Barry, we needs ya.

Your pal,

Dr. Elizabeth Warren, Harvard & TARP

Hey Barry

I knows sumetimes I sounds like a whack job.

Caint be helped.

Anyways, just in case y'all thinkin that them bank weasels caint do no harm, one of y'all - Dr. Elizabeth Warren - goes on the Daily Show and says THE SAME EXACT THANG I BEEN SAYIN FOR A YEAR.

UPDATE: OK folks - the video with Elizabeth Warren has been pulled:
'This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc. '

I remember sumbuddy sayin: " If'n y'all not paranoid, y'all don know whas goin on." Or, like George Carlin was sayin: "It's all BS and it's bad for you."

Trouble is that somehow her comments in the original video were shortened in the clip; here's what was left out, paraphrased: if we don't rein in the banks now and stop their ability to use deposited funds for investments instead of loans, the US middle class will be destroyed by constant financial turmoil and the great American experiment will be over.

Watch the you tube here Barry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7612IQaIQ

This here's your chance - ya gotta save us from doom.

Step up Barry, we needs ya.

Your pal,

State of the Deficit

Hey Barry:

Good on ya for takin on them bank weasels; we needs ya there Barry - don give up now, you's on a roll there.

Y'all writing the state speech an worryin bout the budget deficit, I's imaginin.

'Member Barry that y'all econ plan needs some growth. Ya hadda borrow some to get thangs goin cuz aint nobody buyin stuff.

Thas all good. But, don fugit that your plan is we gotta get some jobs. An - jes in case yo memory bad - member the mess y'all got from the Shrub.

So's, ya knows I hates to sound like a broken vinyl, but Barry, the onliest way to get outta the deficit is to make some jobs for us - lots of jobs for lots of us - mebbe 5 million.

An, the onliest way to do that is to get some income to us real folks. An thas gonna take lettin the unions organize folks an strike for higher wages and its gonna take a tariff so's we can make some of our own stuff.

It aint pretty Barry, Lordy I knows it, but thas the truth.

Your pal,

Supremes to Constitution: Bye, Bye

OK, Barry:

Get used to it. From now on the good ol USA is owned lock, stock an barrel by Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet and a few others.

No more laws, no more elections - just the corps and what they want.

Corps are better than real people after all. They don die, they don get drunk 'n they sure as hell don vote for no Dems.

Y'all get sick and aint got no money - too bad sucka. If you was any good, y'all be rich. Y'all be poor, y'all aint no good nohow - go ahead an die. We wont miss yo.

Y'all be rich, we waits on you hand an foot. Any ting y'all wants, we gets it for ya.

Yes massa.

Y'all get used to sayin it: Yes Massa,

Now louder: YES MASSA.

Makes me wanna puke.

Ya gotta try sumthin Barry, this is jes over the top.

Your pal,

Barry's On Them Banks

Hey Barry!!

Wowsers. Ima lovin it.

Y'all gettin it - banks cannot trade BS stocks and make loans at the same time.

Y'all got the rules right now.

Read 'em from the WSJ:


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703699204575016983630045768.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

'Under the proposed rule, commercial banks would be prohibited from owning, investing in or advising hedge funds or private equity firms. Bank regulators would not be simply given the discretion to enforce such rules. They would be required to do so.'

OK Barry!!

Jes keep pushin it cuz them weasels sooner die than give up.

Your pal

Estate Tax: Droppin the Ball

Hey Barry,

Seems y'all so busy y'all forgets to keep the estate tax on the books.

Read it here from Kathleen Pender of the SF Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/10/BULP1BFGS6.DTL

If'n we don have that tax, then we is another step down the road to an effin royalty.

Get on em, Barry we need an estate tax - thas the basic idea behind our country anyways: no hereditary rich fools. Leave all them princes in Europe.

The good ol US of A is about making your fortune by workin hard and helpin folks - it aint bout taking daddy's money.

We needs it Barry - jes like we needs you.

Your pal,

Boilin Barry Bashes Banks, Bravo!

Hey Barry -

Lovin it - bash them weasels.

Y'all can watch your speech here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSIGfSqr0N0&feature=player_embedded

Jes gotta remember, they is sneaky weasels.

Watch em like a hawk, Barry

Keep on em, we need ya.

Your pal

Bank Weasels Again, Holy Crimoli

Hey Barry:


This here's an update - so Ima watchin the weasels in person on cspan here: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/291292-1

Couple things: these here are BANKS and they got leverage of maybe 20 to 40 times their assets. In plain English that means that if they has one million dollars in assets, they has borrowed 40 million dollars. And they makes the profits on 40 million instead of the one million.

What the hell.

And they is sayin 'ifn we screw up let us fail.'

Well alrighty then

LET THEM FAIL

TAKE MY MONEY OUT.

I want my money in a bank - not an effin casino. Ifn I want to gamble, I goes to Vegas and has some fun.

Jeez Barry, this is jes messed up.

So Barry,

This here is basically not for y'all, but y'all can sure read it.

Its for them bank weasels and for the Congress folks.

Seeems they's forgot what they is all bout.

Looky here y'all scurvy bank weasels: y'all don't get nuthin without I as a taxpaying citizen gives it to y'all.

You gets the right to control my money and the money for all the other real folks in the good ol US of A, whether we has any money or not.

Y'all gets a Damn PUBLIC TRUST. Ya got that - it ain't your money. it's mine. You is jes watchin over it.

AN Y'ALL IS DOIN A REAL CRAPPY JOB - YO IS STEALIN TOO DAMN MUCH.

Y'all is stealin so much yo bout to put us out of bizness as the USA.

Aint no nice way to say it. YA GOTTA GO. Cuz ifn ya don go, we is doomed as an idea and a country.

YOU ARE KILLIN US.

The only thang I wants ta hear from you is good bye. Hurry up bout it or we is dead.

C'mon Barry, put em out.

Your pal,

Up, Up and Awaaaaay / Put that Finger in the Dike

Hey Barry,

Ya knows we loves ya an all, an y'all doin the best ya can.

Ima hopin this here is not way too dramatic, but Barry, this here right now can be your big moment.

Here's what I's talkin.

For just about 400 years give or take the good ol USA was different than other places - a place where real folks was jes as important as the money folks.

Now we is at a time when that'll die, if'n you - thas you, Barry Obama - makes the wrong choice.

If'n y'all lets the bankers off the hook and lets them do business as usual, the good ol USA is history. Then we be jes like all them other monarchies where the kings an bankers ran the place and the reglar folks were jes p----d on.

We been there once before, in the 1930's when FDR saved the system and the country. He did it by making bankers do only loans - no BS stocks and no surance.

The banks and the Congress killed that in the 1980's an we is payin the price now.

If'n we let the banks do what they wants, then the good ol USA is history. 400 years was pretty good, but I is gonna get good n drunk to mark the passin. Then I is moving to some other country.

Here's why your time is now.

Chris Dodd is retirin. Now some folks sez he's in the bank's pockets and carries their water. Don know bout that, but I think his heart has good in it. An, he's got another year as a lame duck.

So, Barry, ya gotta get on Chris and make him see the light - he can be a hero forever by doin' the right thing, or he can be disgraced and seen as a bank tool. He's still runnin the Senate bank committee, so's ya gotta climb on him to get some real regs workin.

And, even Benny knows that the bad regs caused all the problems - see it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lweAaz5Rp5g

So Barry, this is it, time to step up to the plate.

Here's what ya gotta do: make them regs take away banker abilities to sell surance and stocks. I even wrote bout it: www.mkeever.com/bank_regulation_usa.doc

I wanna stay here Barry, but I don wanna be p-----d on by no bank weasels.

If'n I wanna be a serf, I'll move to China or North Korea..

Up to you Barry, we needs it.

Your pal

Chrissy, Chrissy

Hey Barry

Ya know I hates ta rag on a girl, but I reckon she's out there speaking for ya'll, and so it's gotta be fair game.

Looks like she said some things bout jobs an all.

Ya can read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/29/EDGE1BAFN9.DTL

Well, is all good that ya'll lookin at the problem, but Holy Cow - what the heck, anyways?

I is well concerned bout jobs cuz I needs one, so I pays attention to folks talking bout a job for me.

So Ima readin along in Chrissy's piece an Ima getting worried cuz I don see no job for me in there.

So, Chrissy, pay attention here cuz ya'll should know this: business folks don't hire people to save on taxes. They hire people cuz the folks they already got can NOT handle the business they is gettin. Thas when they hire - when they is getting lots and lots of sales and they'll lose a bunch of sales if'n they don get some more people.

And, don fugit that sales come when folks like me has money ta spend. An right now I got no money ta spend.

So, how ya'll gonna get folks like me more money ta spend, thas the question. Taxes is NOT the issue.

An I said it before, ya gots only two ways ta do that:

1. Raise wages - let them unions get organized;

2. Make a tariff on Chinese crap so's we can make our own crap and pay folks here ta make it. [OK, so's a tariff is a tax - it's OK ta call me a liar, but please pay attention]

Chrissy, one more thing, I reads bout econ a little and I always see lots of numbers in econ talk. But, they is zero numbers in your piece an it makes me nervous - don't it make you nervous?

Your pal,

Merry Christmas

Hey Barry,

It's Christmas, so Ima wishin all you an the girls a wonnerful Holiday.

I knows ya'll working real hard to get them bank weasels to make more loans by changing the rules jes a little. An I hope it works, Barry I really hope it works.

Ima bettin gainst it an hopin I lose the bet. Make me happy to lose this.

Good on ya for health care - itsa start and we need more.

Congrats Barry. Ya'll on the right track, keep it up.

Your pal,

Eat Your Lima Beans, Boy

Hey Barry

This here lil message gonna be bout them banks, but I gotta wander around a little first.

When I was a lil kid I really hated lima beans - made me wanna puke. Kinda like bad fish does today. Yuch.

But my Mom thought them beans was good for me, so she tol me to:

'...eat them beans'.

'But Mom, they make me wanna puke.'

'Too bad boy, eat em anyways.'

So, Barry, now ya'll tellin them bankers they gotta make loans to businesses cause it's good for the country.

Read about here: http://ecreditdaily.com/2009/12/obama-to-seek-small-biz-help-from-community-bankers-article453/

Well, it won't kill anyone ifn ya does that, but it ain't gonna help either.

Them bank weasels will only make loans they like - like simple ones with big profits, no work and no risk.

Why's they gonna work hard to make a $50K loan to some small business owned by a Pakistani when they can sell some BS stocks or surance and make lots of money for the same work and more profit?

They won't, an y'all tellin them to eat the lima beans ain't gonna do nuthin. Them small loans make em wanna puke.

But, here's da ting Barry, we gotta have them small loans so's we can have jobs.

And, the onliest way to get them banks ta make loans is for you to fix it so's they can't sell stocks and surance no more.

Cris almity, Barry, we knows that.

Thas what ya gotta do Barry, get them banks out of the stock and surance business an make them eat the lima beans - they sure aint gonna do it jes cause you says so.

Get Timmy and Barney on it. We needs it.

Your pal,

60

Hey Barry:

Caught you on the telly. Good ta hear we on the same page bout them bank weasels. My job is done there.

Bout the jobs - your ideas won't kill nobody and may make a few jobs. But Barry, we needs, what bout 5 million jobs jes to get ta square one. BLS says they is 6 mm folks wid zero jobs who really, really need a job.

Ya gotta do some politically sensitive thangs Barry. How bout this: sneak a pro union law on the books and when the Reps poop their pants, make a deal that gives em a little tariff.

That way ya kills two birds. And we gets sumthin.

Anyways, ya doin good, don give up.

Your pal,

Banker's Jes Gettin Worse

Holy Cow, Barry.

Them bank weasels jes keep stickin it to us.

Now, they ain't doin no house refinance for nobody. They got the cash and rates are real cheap - only nobody can get a loan. It'd save lot of us some serious money - mebbe we could buy some more Chinese crap that way.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/13/MNSL1B3DAB.DTL

But no, they is too busy screwin us to bother.

They gonna kill us Barry.

Watch out ya'll don go down in the books as the Prez who killed the country and saved the banks.

Ya know, I'd really hate that.

Your pal,

No Jobs

Jeez Barry

Ya'd think folks at a job conference would actually want to produce jobs - but all ya got was more BS.

Positively depressin.

OK, Ima double dog dare ya to go where ya gotta go to get jobs:

Numba 1: Raise wages by making unions stronger.

Numba 2: Put on a tariff so's companies here can compete.

Barry - we hurtin here - if'n ya want jobs for us, ya knows what ya gotta do.

If'n ya'll don go there, we's doomed, Barry

Your pal,

Crook Alert

Watch yo back - couple crooks call the house an ask for me by name. Then they try to get some credit card info from me - thas before I tell em to eff off.

I knows they's crooks cuz when I call back I get the disconnected recording.

Anyways, watch out an don be a sucka - here's their phone numbers:

New York 516-488-8552

California 818-727-9306

Your pal,

Teddy

Teddy, he chased a lot of skirts and drank a lot and got too fat, but he never took no shit from nobody.

He was for us for a long time. Now, there's nobody got our back.

We gonna miss you. But Teddy, it was a great life - you did good.

Thank you.

Your pal

PS: This from August - hadda delete the original to get rid them oriental jokes.

Chinese Writin

Hey all:

Well alrighty then.

Jokes' on me, yup. Seems them Chinese been funnin me - so's Ima takin the Queen's own from now on.

Thas rite - good ol 'merican only from now on.

Your pal

Some Chinese writin soul has been sending me comments on the posting bout Teddy from August 28.

I don read Chinese 'n none of my Chinese readin buddies have the time to translate for me, so's I jes published them all.

Jes hope they are not profane, disrepectful or ads for Viagra.

Your pal,

Bank Failure - Case Study

Hey Barry:

Ever wonder how them banks go belly up?

Here's a quick read, blow by blow story, make your hair curl.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/29/BUHI1AQ1Q7.DTL&type=business

Your pal,

Money, Money, Money

Hey Barry:

Hope you and your family had a great Turkey day.

I been thinkin bout couple things.

Numba 1: Please God don let Ron Paul run monetary policy.

Talk bout disaster - guaranteed effin certain to be the end of the Free World in 5 months.

Holy Cow, Barry - cant let dis happen, no how, no way

Numba 2: Poor saps at the B of A Board cant find a CEO.

Don it make ya wanna cry?

But, is OK - I'll do it - be the CEO - any time, jes call me or email me. Ya'll can have me for anyting over $30K per year.

Mebbe if'n I up the price to $300K, I'll get more respect.

Watta ya think Barry? Call Timmy an ask im. Dem guys gotta do sumthin before rigor mortis sets in.

Effin guaranteed to be better than wot those saps have now, which is a minus.

Your pal,

Gotta Read Bout Trade

A brand-new-still-in-the-proofing-stage book on trade tells it like it really is.

No BS, only facts.

Ya gotta read it now, only 15 bucks.

Knocks the socks of dem Free Market/Free Trade Nazis.

From my buddy, Ian Fletcher:

Dear Michael,

I am pleased to announce that pre-publication copies of my new book, Free Trade Doesn’t Work: Why America Needs a Tariff, are now on sale here:

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(The pre-publication copies are being sold at cost; it will be $14.95 when it goes on sale on Amazon.com in a few weeks.)

The table of contents is below:

Foreword by Edward Luttwak

Introduction: Why We Can't Trust the Economists


PART I: THE PROBLEM

Chapter 1: The Bad Arguments for Free Trade

Chapter 2: Deficits, Time Horizons, and Perverse Efficiency

Chapter 3: Trade Solutions That Won't Work

Chapter 4: Critiques of Free Trade to Avoid


PART II: THE REAL ECONOMICS OF TRADE

Chapter 5: Ye Olde Theory of Comparative Advantage

Chapter 6: The Deliberately Forgotten History of Trade

Chapter 7: The Negligible Benefits of Free Trade

Chapter 8: The Disingenuous Law and Diplomacy of Free Trade

PART III: THE SOLUTION

Chapter 9: Where Does Growth Really Come From?

Chapter 10: The Multiple-Equilibrium Revolution

Chapter 11: The Natural Strategic Tariff

Chapter 12: The End of the Free-Trade Coalition

Best Regards,

Ian Fletcher



Adjunct Fellow

US Business & Industry Council

San Francisco, CA 94104 USA

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Fool Ya Twice

Hey Barry:

Them hedge funds are gonna do it to us again.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/22/MN0C1AOE7L.DTL

They gonna drop you n me down their rat hole and laugh on the plane to Switzerland.

Gotta stop 'em Barry.

Tell Timmy and them to wake up for it too late.

Your pal,

Rainin in the FED

Hey Barry:

Buncha guys on the Hill want to demonize the FED.

Some's kinda loony, I vote no on HR 833 Ron Paul [nuf said], no on HR 3858, Ms Kaptur, and no on HR 2424, Mr. Kucinich.

Probly OK to audit the FED, depends on what Benny and Timmy say: see S 604, Mr. Sanders and Mr. Watt Amendment of Oct 29, 2009.

Rule is simple - keep the FED independent of politics.

Your pal,

Hu's On First

Hey Barry,

Remember the 'Who's on first?' routine by Abbott and Costello? Ya could look it up here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M, Good for a laugh.

With Apologies:

"Bud: Hey Lou, I want to tell you about a very good baseball team. It has very good players but they have some Chinese names. Like their first baseman is named Hu. So, Hu's on first....

Lou: Wait a second. Who's on first?

Bud; Exactly...

Lou: Just a minute, I'm askin Who's on first?

Bud: Yes he is.

Lou: For cryin out loud, jes answer the questions: Who's on first.

Bud: I am answering the question, Hu's on first..........."



Well, Barry ya gets the idea.

Point is Hu has a lotta good cards an he aint tellin what he's gonna do.

So, les deal with Hu.

'S like the mob - if'n they kill ya, ya can't pay 'em anymore. So, Hu aint gonna kill us - he need us more than we need him.

But, Barry, here's da ting, we here can't even buy Chinese crap anymore cuz we got no jobs.

Much as we need jobs, Hu needs us to have jobs more than we do.

So, Barry, ya gotta get us some jobs so's we can buy more Chinese crap.

An it gonna mean that ya gotta raise some taxes on Chinese crap so we can make our own crap here - leastways some of us will get jobs from that.

Hu's gonna be upset, but they's nuthin he can do an he knows it.

Your pal,

Random Thoughts

OK Barry, I knows - random thoughts from yours truly. Whas new wi dat anyways.

Ha, Ha.

Couple things:

Ghanistan - I wuz thinkin how'd I feel if'n bunch of armed goons took over my block. Be so scared I'd do what they say unless I'ma sure they'll be gone quick. Don matter the goons is Tali's or good ol USA - guns is guns. So, make me sure ain't nothin bad gonna happen to my kids, then I'll listen. Can't do that, then get the hell out. Can do that, then make some schools and police an hospitals and roads.

Banks - O mi God..Jes gets worse 'n worse. Them banks is dyin. 'N we gotta make sure they don't screw us over any more. But, bigger thing is: who is gonna make the loans?

We got no system to make loans now and we is dead in the water with zero loans. Banks is only makin 30% of the loans now an is gonna get worse.

Jes make sure whatever you do bout banks covers where the loans actually come from, not just them dinosaur banks.

Jobs - Good on ya for asking them econs of yours bout making more jobs. Member two things - higher wages and protectin the bosses from the Chinks. Your econs don' do that, fire 'em. Don gimme no BS bout training, we needs folks to actually buy stuff fore we talk trainin.

Sick surance - gotta have the gov't plan Barry, thas why you there. If'n we don get the govt plan, we still be havin thousands of folks dyin from no care. And, that aint right.

Do the right thing Barry, we with ya.

Your pal

Save the System

Hey Barry:

Looks like good ol Frank an Dodd are workin on a law to help out. Seems to take a broad view - an all the Repubs are against it, so it's gotta be good.

Think this is it here: Financial System Stabilization and Reform Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)[H.R.1754.IH]

and here

Financial System Stabilization and Reform Act of 2009 (Introduced in Senate)[S.664.IS]

read it here: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s664is.txt.pdf

If'n thas it, go head and push on it Barry.

We needs it.

Your pal,

Po Banks Dyin

Hey Barry

I kinda hate to rag on banks cuz they're seriously 'challenged', but, Barry, its getting jes comical. Where is George Carlin an Mort Sahl when ya needs em? Gettin to be a real comedy show.

So looky banks, ya'll can't make money at 15%, so ya ups it to 30%. An nobody says nuthin.

Read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/your-money/credit-and-debit-cards/10rates.html

Cris almity, whas wrong with you, anyways?

Alreddy, ya'll don do but 30% of the loan biz cuz ya'll too busy selling phony stocks and now ya'll raisin interest to 'vigorish' rates jes like the ol mob.

Whas nex - torpedoes who break ya fingers if'n ya late?

So, Barry, give the news to Timmy and Benny: banks is dyin. Gotta find sumthin else to help the conomy, cuz banks got nuthin. Too late for regs ta help; gotta find sumthin totally new.


Your pal,