[SEL] OT Who remembers the 100+ messages per day?

[fero_ah at city-net.com]

G'day Peter,

Oh you poor, poor baby.  Imagine how I feel?  Our government is taking a
bazillion of OUR tax dollars and doling it out to PERFECTLY HEALTHY
businesses!!  Case in point that rankles me.  PNC bank buys National City bank
for $5.6 billion thus becoming the fifth largest bank in the US.  And our Uncle
Sugar gives PNC bank $7.7 billion!  
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/24/news/companies/bank_stocks/index.htm

And you whine about your taxes propping up a few struggling Aussie banks?

Gimmie a break.  To paraphrase that well known Aussie symbol, Crocodile Dundee,
"You call that a tax mess?  THIS is a tax mess."

See ya,  Arnie

Quoting peter ogborne <jopeter at omninet.net.au>:

<snip>

> Now all these years latter I feel the same way ,I can not influence how the 
> US regulates it's banks and financial institutions ,but  my tax is being 
> used to prop up banks here who have suffered as a result of the US 
> fiasco....drawing a long bow ,perhaps but worth a comment or two!