That Much?

From the Times:

Euro Leaders Agree to Push for Stimulus Package

By STEPHEN CASTLE

ROME — Leaders from the leading euro zone economies pledged Friday to reinforce the single currency and to push together for a 130 billion euro program to stimulate economic growth.

After a two-hour meeting here, the leaders of France, Germany, Spain and Italy also pledged to give a clearer, more comprehensive vision of the future, while acknowledging the serious crisis sweeping the Continent.

“The 130 billion euros is a strong signal,” French President Francois Hollande said at the news conference following the private meeting, and is part of “a road map that presupposes fiscal and banking union.”

Geez, I hope they don't spend it all in one place.

Comments

[Melinda Romanoff]

Ask Hollande if that's the same message Captain Smith ordered sent on the night of April 14th?

[daddy]

Obama talking to Hispanic leaders live this minute.

Sez he has heard their stories of hardship.
Sez America is a place where no matter who you are or where you came from you can make it, whether you came here on the Mayflower or on slave ships or came thru Ellis Island.

Says people don't come here looking for handouts. Sez we are the hardest working people on Earth and nobody personifies these traits harder than the Latino community.

Says he ran for office as President because for more than a decade that dream had been lost for Americans. Blames the previous Administration for the economy he inherited.

Asks how do we make the economy better, how do we create more jobs and opportunity? Says that is the decision this election.

FOX just cut away. Yay!!!.

[Jane]

Asks how do we make the economy better, how do we create more jobs and opportunity? Says that is the decision this election.

Wow, he finally got something right!

[matt]

good to see you, mel and daddy.

Sounds like a complete waste of time in Rome. I just wonder how much longer the farce goes on. The whole deal was to pressure Merkel, and that didn't seem to happen, so we are back where we were weeks ago. Again.

I think at this point I am simply looking for closure. the sheer idiocy of the political class is mind boggling.

[Ignatz]

Geez, I hope they don't spend it all in one place.

The idea that a problem of excessive pubic spending and borrowing is solved by more public spending and borrowing seems rather like putting out a fire with gasoline

[Neo]

OMG

Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?

Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.

[Paula]

Neo, wow are the desperate!

[Ignatz]

Barack Obama; better than a gravy bowl.
Winning!

[Dave (in MA)]

But I already bought a Jughead Jug.

[Jim Eagle]

If you want to watch the Bailout quarter final at Euro Cup 2012 then got to ESPN now - its Germany V. Greece. Kid you not.

They just showed Merkel meeting with the new PM of Greece. They shook hands and as they did she slipped him a 50 euro note for bus fare back to Athens:)

[Fortyniner Dweet]

Ackkkkk! Just spilled my coffee, JiB! Give warning for those, please.

[Fortyniner Dweet]

"Pushing for a Stimulus Package". Is that anything like waiting along a Mississippi levy for the Robert E. Lee?

[narciso]

Analogies are just too obvious;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18554590

[jimmyk]

Do you have a loved one near death? Why not urge him to consider adding Barack Obama 2012 to his will? Or perhaps your loved one is non compos mentis and you have power of attorney. What a beautiful way to send your loved one off into the world to come.

Note: Even if your loved one should survive past November 6th, Barack Obama 2012 will graciously accept the bequest.

[Jane]

Hell it doesn't even have to go to the campaign Jimmy. O will take a direct donation to his personal bank account.

[jimmyk]

Oops, I see from CH on the other thread that the morons beat me to it.

[maryrose]

JIB:
You are making me lol at the library of all places.
jimmyk: Hey any minute now the Troika is going to steal that idea!
Romney is raising more and Bammy's campaign wants to know how.

[Thomas Collins]

If birthdays, anniversaries and weddings don't generate enough for Axelmessplouffe to spend, next they'll tap baby showers and gifts from the tooth fairy. If that fails, well, that street person you typically give a few bucks a week to will have to find another way to scrounge bucks until November 6.

[Thomas Collins]

The possibilities are endless. Inform your favorite stripper that she'll have to drink water in the champagne room, instead of that bottle of Dom you usually buy for her, for Barack's sake!

[Ignatz]

--Posted by: jimmyk | June 22, 2012 at 03:14 PM--

Hilarious, jimmy.

[Captain Hate]

I just wonder if one of the Pinhead Troika's underlings got the idea from Seinfeld reruns when Costanza made up a fake charity, The Human Fund, and gave everybody Christmas presents of donations in their names.

[MarkO]

And I understood that candlesticks were the perfect wedding gift.

[Gus]

Maybe AxelKnob could borrow campaign cash from Greece. Call it stimulus.

[narciso]

There slogan is pretty much 'Are you going to finish that'

[pagar]

"and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl."

They want you to give a gravy bowl to a guy who has been on a gravy train all his life.?
Oh wait, didn't we just hear that he has actually done something useful when Michelle need the snow removed from around her car. First time for everything, I guess.

[Ignatz]

Maybe Alex Trebeck can do a reverse mortgage campaign commercial for Barry.

[jimmyk]

its Germany V. Greece. Kid you not.

I guess it won't be like the 1956 USSR v. Hungary bloody water polo match. Perhaps the Greeks have come bearing gifts?

[narciso]

I'm only slightly exagerating;

http://babalublog.com/2012/06/what-cuban-cuisine-would-be-if-there-had-not-been-fidel/

[jimmyk]

Greece just tied it up at 1-1. I think--I'm watching it in the original Greek (at a conference in Cyprus).

[Threadkiller]

Lol Dave!

[jimmyk]

Never mind, 3-1 Germany. What do they think this is, basketball?

[ed in texas]

130 bil...
Sounds like party weekend in Amsterdam.

[Chubby]

there was a Telgraph photo essay linked to by Drudge this morning about "starving" Greeks lining up for gift boxes of fresh food from Crete. The people in the photos were mostly outfitted in latest fashions, and hardly looked "starving". It looked more like a bunch of people who are used to being given free stuff just doing what they do naturally.

[Stephanie]

There are some flutterings on facebook that O'Keefe may have a new expose on Obama about to surface.

LUN

[Chubby]

lol, Jimmy. I haven't seen it on the other thread, so I found your post very funny. What, is Obama now asking people, in lieu of flowers, to send donations to his campaign?

[Chubby]

dave, isn't that a jughead jar-jar?

[Ignatz]

From Weasel zippers comment section on Barry's wedding registry;

Chicago Voter says: June 22, 2012 at 1:03 pm

Have a bris, leave a tip.

[Ignatz]

And as someone else pointed out it's a gravy BOAT not a gravy bowl.

[Jane]

I hope Stephanie!!!

[Ralph L]

Beat me to it, Ignatz. They're so used to thinking of the gravy train, they forgot the correct name for it.

[Ignatz]

Speaking of gravy trains; Interesting stats on Social Security being in worse shape every time it's looked at.

[Extraneus]

The left simply cannot give up on Keynesianism. If the economy came back without their "stimulation," how could they claim that obscene borrowed slush funds are good for the suckers saddled with the debt?

[Carol Herman]

It's a PONZI SCHEME! Nigel Farage just blasted out a new one on these clowns!

First, you go after taxpayer money. And, for "bait" you use $130 billion "bailout" funds ... that travels from one european country into another's banks. Each time ripping off taxpayers. And, plunking all the "power" in a few creeps (housed in Belgium's lunatic asylum) ... who want to do away with sovereignty. Country by country.

That this clown show has progressed forward so many years is without a doubt one of the biggest problems we've gotten into for nigh on 50 or 60 years.

How come? Well, we've been selecting (voting) for people who have good hair on TV. There's no reality left.

But ahead? Lots more taxpayers will hold the bag. And, I don't care whom you vote for.