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  1. Indeed, it’s been awhile! Thanks What – much appreciated. Hope all is well at the bunker!

    I tell you What, I’ve battened down the hatches as best I can. I’m usually pretty good at finding work, knock wood.

    Do you think they’re going to cut Madoff a deal?

  2. “Hi What – Unbelievable stories – it just doesn’t quit – crazy.”

    Hi Cobblehiller long time no talk! Anyone with a half a brain should be very afraid right now. The whole Banking system is coming off the wheels and Obama is not in office yet.

    2009 is going to be fun! I hope you find a job Cobblehiller and I hope your are OK this year!

    The What

    Someday this war is gonna end…

  3. Wait Wait!! This gets even better!! I found this little Cut and Paste story.

    California controller to suspend tax refunds, welfare checks
    John Chiang announces that his office will suspend $3.7 billion in payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, as a result of the state’s cash crisis. Student grants are also affected.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget17-2009jan17,0,4472460.story

    Reporting from Sacramento — State Controller John Chiang announced today that his office would suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants and other payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, as a result of the state’s cash crisis.

    Chiang said he had no choice but to stop making some $3.7 billion in payments in the absence of action by the governor and lawmakers to close the state’s nearly $42-billion budget deficit. More than half of those payments are tax refunds.

    The controller said the suspended payments could be rolled into IOUs if California still lacked sufficient cash to pay its bills come March or April.

    “I take this action with great reluctance,” Chiang said at a news conference in his office. But he said that without action to close the deficit, “there is no way to make it through February unscathed.”

    The payments to be frozen include nearly $2 billion in tax refunds; $300 million in cash grants for needy families and the aged, blind and disabled; and $13 million in grants for college students.

    I know what you retards are saying “What does this has to do with Asshat Hill” and The What says “Plenty Numbnuts”. If this start to happen here the “value” of your Brownstones would drop like a blowing bowl tired to a anvil!

    The Shockwave of the implosion of the Mutant Asset Bubble is coming your way…

    Buh Bye…

    The What

    Someday this war is gonna end…

  4. I like to cut and paste but America is or has gotten Assraped and I have to argue with Asshats. Here Dumbasses suck this one down and BTW I love the feeling. This year 2009 will be one of the best years of my life.

    This is a huge story that will run on ABC World News tonight!

    Government Regulators Aided IndyMac Cover-Up, Maybe Others
    Darrel Dochow May Not Be the Only Official Who Helped Banks Hide Financial Problems

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Economy/story?id=6658365&page=1

    Investigators probing how Treasury regulators allowed a bank to falsify financial records hiding its ill health have found at least three other instances of similar apparent fraud, sources tell ABC News.

    In at least one instance, investigators say, banking regulators actually approached the bank with the suggestion of falsifying deposit dates to satisfy banking rules — even if it disguised the bank’s health to the public.

    Treasury Department Inspector General Eric Thorson announced in November his office would probe how a Savings and Loan overseer allowed the IndyMac bank to essentially cook its books, making it appear in government filings that the bank had more deposits than it really did. But Thorson’s aides now say IndyMac wasn’t the only institution to get such cozy assistance from the official who should have been the cop on the beat.

    The sad thing is the Asshats believe the Mutant Asset Bubble. I’m going Buck Wild when this thing cracks open (MAB). Don’t worry your live will be affect by BS like this and I love it!

    The What

    Someday this war is gonna end…

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