Bank Haiku

I enjoyed this one, someday I will write one Patty

when the U.S. saw that the dollar was falling and the Euro was rising, they threw a wrench into the works, Just you wait and see what these "carpetbaggers" are capable of. Eddie "if I borrow money while I'm drunk, do I get a "bailout" or have another drink"

401k crumbles stock market stumbles ashes, ashes, we all fall down.....Outstanding write, Anna! ~Jess K. ---------------------------------------------------- - "Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer!" - "Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off."

Spot on for the times here Anna~ "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." Will Rogers

Smiles:) Barbara Good haiku describing our banking dilemma signs of the times we are living. good writing

shady for sure, but who exactly did what? I don't understand this, it seems more than just market cyclicity. cheers, Jess

Thought this was an apropos response in light of this poem: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_go_co/meltdown_pelosi *shakes head in wonder* ~Jess K. ---------------------------------------------------- - "Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer!" - "Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off."

paper money indeed... from what I understand our Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned... print some more paper... I was a printer for 20 yrs... not of money but it is printing on paper, with inks and solvents and plates for imaging... don't you know they are printing money now without the gold or silver to back it up... it is just paper... and I feel that one day it will be used to start our fires with... but I guess right now I'll keep the little I've got in my pocket.... great haiku by the way... you got me rambling... thanks Richard

You are right to an extent. You actually have to go all the way back to Roosevelt's new deal. Just about every president and house are guilty of adding to it. The straw that broke the back was when house republican and democrats both passed legislation and urged Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to make loans w/o being sure the people had the income to pay it back. Then these brokers started writing the loans then they were being sold, sold, sold again and again untill it effected, or should I say infected, everyone. Sad state of affairs and I only see worse before it gets better because most of the world is tied together now. It will be wider sweeping than the great depression was. It will not effect only the USA. I really enjoyed this one. Respectfully, Rett: "We can all be thankful that Picasso wasn't a plastic surgeon." Rett