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

[peter ogborne]

Howdy Arnie,it 's all relative there's only twenty million of us ..As for 
Dundee ,dont mention that arsehole to me ,he a tax dodger who prefers to 
live in the US and you are welcome to the prick!What I am saying is that 
your banks started it ....was it Gordon Gecko?
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Subject: Re: [SEL] OT Who remembers the 100+ messages per day?


> 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!
>
>
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