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2009-04-08 India-Pakistan

Pakistan seeks additional $30 billion U.S. aid

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Posted by john frum 2009-04-08 12:14|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 The cash drawer must be about empty.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-08 12:23|| 2009-04-08 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 How about paying them with some of those worthless "derivatives?"

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-08 12:25|| 2009-04-08 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Barry's big on "pay for performance". How about 5 billion for Bin Laden's head on a stick, 4 Billion for Zawahiri's, 3 billion for Blinky's...
Show us the heads, we'll show you the money.

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-08 12:46|| 2009-04-08 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Worked for GM. Why not?

Posted by gorb 2009-04-08 13:06|| 2009-04-08 13:06|| Front Page Top

#5 At least with the banks there's some hope that a bailout will work, but with Pakistain, you know it will not. We could pour $30 trillion into that black hole and see nothing positive emerge.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-04-08 13:17|| 2009-04-08 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 What's the incentive for Pakistan to stop sponsoring islamic terrorism when the US is willing to provide their entire military budget and then some? Seems to me that Pakistan's underhanded sponsorship of the WTC attacks was the smartest, though high risk, thing they have done since independence from Britain.

Posted by ed 2009-04-08 22:35|| 2009-04-08 22:35|| Front Page Top

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