Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 671 Comments: 2 Weird Al Yankovic: Whatever You Like Weird Al Yankovic: Whatever You Like Hey girl You know, our economy's in the toilet But I'm still gonna treat you right I said you can have whatever you like I said you can have whatever you like Yeah Tater tots, Cold Duck on ice And we can clip coupons all night And baby you can have whatever you like I said you can have whatever you like Yeah Take you out for dinner anywhere that you please Like Burger King or Mickey D's And baby you can have whatever you like I said you can even have the large fries Yeah Baby, you should know I am really quite a sweet guy When I buy you bathroom tissue, I always get the 2-ply Want it, you can get it, my dear I got my Costco membership card right here, yeah You like Top Ramen? Need Top Ramen? Got a cupboard full of 'em, I'll keep 'em comin' You want it, I got it, go get it, just heat it Dump the flavor packet on it and eat it Pork and beans and Minute Rice And we can play cribbage all night And baby you can have whatever you like I said you can have whatever you like Yeah I can take you to the Laundromat downtown And watch all the clothes go 'round and 'round Or baby we can go wherever you like I said we can go wherever you like Yeah Hottest shorty I know, if you had some lipo You could be second runner-up Miss Ohio Seven dollar bills rolled up inside my plastic billfold Buy you a bagel even if it isn't day-old And you never ever gotta wear your sister's old clothes Long as I'm still assistant manager at Kinko's Cut your hair with scissors and a soup bowl You ain't gotta pay me, that's the way that I roll My chick can have what she want At Wal-Mart she can pick out anything she want I know girl, you ain't never had a man like that Who doesn't make you buy generic brand like that, yeah You like my Hyundai? See my Hyundai? I can take you to see your cousin Phil next Sunday But that's kinda far and I'm not made of cash Do you think you could chip in for gas? Mac and cheese would be all right But let's send out for pizza tonight And you can order any toppings you like I said you can even have the last slice Yeah Ran myself a cable from my neighbor next do' Now I can get free HBO And baby you can watch whatever you like I said you can watch whatever you like Yeah And you can always ride the city bus Got a stack of tokens just for us Yo, my wallet's fat and full of ones Yeah, it's all about the Washingtons, that's right You want White Castle? Need White Castle? Long as you got me it won't be no hassle You want it, well get it, just don't be a hater If I grab a bunch of napkins for later Thrift store jeans, on sale half price The underwear at Goodwill is nice And baby you can have whatever you like I said you can have whatever you like Yeah Baby I can give you anything you please Even share my government cheese And baby you can have as much as you like I said you can go have as much as you like Yeah Oct 15, 2008 12:25 AM











Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 563 Comments: 1 The 56 Trillion Dollar Deficit: Bill Maher Interviews Fmr. Comptroller General David Walker The 56 Trillion Dollar Deficit: Bill Maher Interviews Fmr. Comptroller General David Walker Bill Maher Interviews Fmr. Comptroller General David Walker about the huge deficit in America. (CNN) -- The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act contains plenty to make lawmakers on the left and right shudder. On the right, it's the apparent abandonment of free-market principles. On the left, it's the absence of punishment for high-flying Wall Street CEO's. Looking down the middle, what I found downright unnerving was how hard Washington struggled to pass a bill that, in reality, represents less than 1 percent of our current federal financial hole. Don't get me wrong. Congress and the Bush Administration are to be commended for acting to relieve the credit crunch and trying to minimize any immediate, adverse effect on our economy and by consequence, on American jobs and access to credit. The ultimate cost of the act should ring up at less than $500 billion, less than the advertised $700 billion because of anticipated proceeds from the government's sale of the assets it will acquire with the appropriated funds. The nation's real tab, on the other hand, amounted to $53 trillion as of the end of the last fiscal year. That was the sum of our public debt; accrued civilian and military retirement benefits; unfunded, promised Social Security and Medicare benefits; and other financial obligations -- all according to the government's most recent financial statement of September 30, 2007. Don't Miss * Fed pumps billions more into banks * Dollar plummets against yen * In Depth: Commentaries The rescue package and other bailout efforts for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and the auto industry, escalating operating deficits, compounding interest and other factors are likely to boost the tab to $56 trillion or more by the end of this calendar year. With numbers and trends like this, you might ask, "Who will bail out America?" The answer is, no one but us! Since we're going to have to save ourselves, recent events could hardly be called encouraging. It took an additional $100 billion in incentives -- some would call them "sweeteners;" others might call them bribes -- to get lawmakers to pass the rescue package. Regardless of what you call these incentives, ultimately the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab, with interest. The process that was employed to achieve enactment of this bill was hardly a model of efficiency or effectiveness. The original proposal represented an over-reach and under-communication by the administration. Neither lawmakers nor ordinary citizens had enough information to properly assess the real risks, the need for action and what an appropriate course of action might be. Furthermore, the key players allowed the legislation to be characterized as a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, which was neither an accurate nor a fair reflection of the legislation. Passage of the credit-crunch relief provisions in the act was understandable, not just because of what risks and needed actions the Treasury and the Federal Reserve were aware of, but more importantly, because of what policymakers didn't know and eventually might have to address. Let's face it -- the regular order in Washington is broken. We must move beyond crisis management approaches and start to address some of the key fiscal and other challenges facing this country if we want our future to be better than our past. A good place to start would be for the presidential candidates to acknowledge our $53 trillion (and growing) federal financial hole and commit to begin to address it. Their endorsement of the need for a bipartisan fiscal future commission along the lines of the one sponsored by Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tennessee, and Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, also would make sense. Any such commission should, at a minimum, address the need for statutory budget controls, comprehensive Social Security reform, a first round of tax reform and a first round of comprehensive health care reform. It should hold hearings both inside and beyond the Beltway. And, its recommendations should be guaranteed to receive an up-or-down vote by Congress if a super-majority of the commission's members can agree on a comprehensive proposal. Editor's Note: David M. Walker served as comptroller general of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008. He is now president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Our fiscal time bomb is ticking, and the time for action is now! DAVID WALKER User: Griff Oct 13, 2008 2:11 PM






 
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