The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]
Large Man with Dead Body: Here’s one.
The Dead Collector: That’ll be ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There’s your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: ‘Ere, he says he’s not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not.
The Dead Collector: He isn’t.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
The Dead Collector: Well, I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I don’t want to go on the cart.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don’t be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can’t take him.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I feel fine.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.
The Dead Collector: I can’t.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won’t be long.
The Dead Collector: I promised I’d be at the Robinsons’. They’ve lost nine today.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when’s your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I think I’ll go for a walk.
Large Man with Dead Body: You’re not fooling anyone, you know. Isn’t there anything you could do?
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]
Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.
The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Large Man with Dead Body: Right.

Might as well go to the source.

Face it, we are on a rudderless raft drifting towards a waterfall. Absolute fools were put in charge by ignorant voters.

they had been sending Christine Romer to do her Chip Diller impersonation

I thought she resembled Phyllis Diller. You know. With that fake laugh after everything she said. As if the whole economic “policy” was a joke. Wait a minute….

Goolsbee reminds me of the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

simkeith on August 30, 2010 at 9:46 PM

Excellent analogy.

Havn’t seen that one for nearly twenty-five years, but I still remembered all of it.

All is well!

Well, it is “Recovery Summer”! THEY SAID SO!

The only question we have to ask yourselves is whether he told the truth or lied about the last thing he said before making this pronouncement. If he lied last time, then all is well .. if he told the truth, we are screwed.

no double-dip recession coming

So, it’s to be a triple-dip then?

“. . . White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee doesn’t quite give a categorical denial. If we don’t pass the $30 billion small-business initiative, extend the Bush tax cuts (for the middle class, anyway), and do, er, something about exports, then we won’t get a double-dip recession. At least, that’s what Goolsbee hopes . . . . . .”

So, should we or shouldn’t we cancel our Goldline investments?

He looks a little tense. Whose hand do you think is up his a$$?

Monica on August 30, 2010 at 9:16 PM

Dang Monica, another great mental-picture to sleep on. :)

In fact, when taking into account all of the expenditures of the average family in July, disposable income actually declined by 0.1%

Goolsbee isn’t looking at the average family; he’s basing his predictions from watching the Obama family spend on shrimp, lobster, White House Renovations, and expensive vacations!

Has there been another revision of previous quarters again??/

uh…how many lifeboats are there???

This answers another question, too. When the White House needed to send someone out to jolly the media through bad economic news, they had been sending Christine Romer to do her Chip Diller impersonation. Looks like Goolsbee drew the short straw in the Oval Office.

Goolsbee is the same handtool Obama sent to tell the Canadians to ignore his campaign lies about re-negotiating NAFTA. He is an experienced BS artist.

Obama’s Human Gefilte Fish (Gibbs)

lol

All is well!

That is not an iceberg. It is just a dense low hanging cloud. Nothing to worry about. Keep shopping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

…Besides, when the double dip does occur, it will be unexpected.
Kenosha Kid on August 30, 2010 at 9:15 PM

AND, on the graph, the double dip will be shaped like a (wait for it) “W” !!!

The blame game never ends.