# How bad is the economy in your country? **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234 "2009-01-22T23:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![denec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/denec/32/1730_2.png) [@denec](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/denec)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/41 "2009-02-20T12:56:26Z")
> [@Reaper\_vai](#): > > What has Israel done to better the world? Name one thing. only have time to respond to this quickly the rest is the usual anti-israel propaganda with no facts [http://www.israeliconsulatela.org/culture/Science.asp](http://www.israeliconsulatela.org/culture/Science.asp) > [@](#): > > \*\* 1. The cell phone was first developed at the Motorola plant in Israel. > 2. Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel. > 3. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. > 4. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor for desktop computers and the Centrino processor for laptops were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel. > 5. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. The Israeli company Amdocs is the largest company in the world in this field. > 6. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only foreign-based research and development facilities in Israel. > 7. The program ICQ, which is the technological basis for AOL Instant Messenger, was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis. > 8. Disk on Key — a portable, virtual hard disk — was developed by the Israeli company M-Systems. > 9. Israel has the highest number of personal computers per capita in the world. > 10. Israel has the highest number of university degrees per capita in the world. > 11. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin — 109 per 10,000 people — as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed. > 12. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US. > 13. With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world — apart from Silicon Valley. > 14. Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the United States. > 15. Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of companies listed on NASDAQ. > 16. Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the United Kingdom. > 17. On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups. > 18. Twenty four percent of Israel’s workforce holds university degrees — ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland — and 12 percent hold advanced degrees. > 19. Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship — and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 in the world. > 20. Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. > 21. Israel has the world’s second highest supply of new books per capita. > 22. Israel has more museums per capita than any other country. > 23. Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer. > 24. An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes. > 25. Israel’s Given Imaging developed the PillCam — the first ingestible video camera, which is so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders. > 26. Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood. The new device is synchronized with the heart’s mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors. > 27. Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. > 28. A new acne treatment developed in Israel causes acne bacteria to self-destruct — all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue. > 29. An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. > 30. The first computer anti-virus software package was developed in Israel back in the 1970’s. > 31. Major law enforcement agencies use Israeli technologies to monitor voices and messages on conventional phones, mobile phones and e-mails. > 32. An Israeli company, Teva, is the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical company. > 33. A new brain implant has been developed in Israel that can lower the risk of stroke by diverting blood clots away from sensitive areas of the brain. > 34. IBM scientists in Israel are playing a vital role in a massive project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to discover the origins of life on earth. > 35. Israeli software company Check Point is the global leader in Virtual Private Network (VPN) and firewall technologies. > 36. Israeli company Elta is responsible for the world’s first civilian aircraft equipped with technology designed to protect airliners from a missile attack. > 37. Mashav, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Center for International Cooperation has trained over 200,000 international aid workers that have traveled to dozens of countries to help with medicine, agriculture, disaster relief, and many other issues. > 38. Israel has, for many years, held the world record in milk production. > 39. Rummikub, the third highest selling board game in the world, is manufactured in a family-run plant in the small southern Israeli town of Arad. > 40. Drip irrigation — the system that is based on using plastic pipes that release small amounts of water next to crops or plants — was developed by the Israeli engineer Simcha Blas in the 1970’s. The invention caused a revolution in agriculture. > 41. A design submitted by Israeli-born Michael Arad has been chosen for the World Trade Center Memorial, from amongst 5,000 entries from around the world. > 42. Israeli company Retalix created the grocery scanners used at such stores as Costco, Albertson’s, and 7-11, as well as 25,000 additional stores and quick-service restaurants throughout the United States. > 43. Primate research at Hebrew University is leading to the development of a robotic arm that can respond to the brain commands of a paralyzed person. > 44. Two Israeli researchers are generating cancer-killing molecules that will recognize cancerous cells and target them aggressively, while not affecting normal cells. > 45. Israeli researchers developed a novel stem cell therapy to treat Parkinson’s Disease — using a patient’s own bone marrow stem cells to produce the missing chemical that enables restoration of motor movement. > 46. Israeli company Silent Communications has developed a type of silent conversation system for cell phones, so users can carry on conversations without saying a word. > 47. The Israeli company Wondernet is currently dominating the world market in document signature authentication, with its unique scientific method of verifying handwritten signatures. > 48. Israeli Professor Yehuda Finkelstein has discovered the cause of and cure for halitosis (bad breath). > 49. Cherry tomatoes were originally supposed to be a snack when they were designed by a group of scientists led by professor Nahum Keidar from the agriculture faculty at the Weizmann Institute of Science, with the cooperation of the Israeli company Zera. > 50. The Quicktionary, a pen size scanner that scans a word or a sentence and translates it to a different language, was developed by the Wizcom Company, based in Jerusalem. > 51. Professor Ehud Keinan from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology developed a pen that identifies an improvised explosive. > 52. The Israeli company Insightec developed an ultrasound system for removing tumors without surgery. > 53. Researchers at the Technion have developed an antibiotic that destroys anthrax bacteria as well as the toxins it secretes into the bloodstream of the infected body. > 54. Epilady, an electric hair removal system, was developed by Yair Dar and Shimon Yahav from the Goshrim Kibbutz. > 55. The sun-heated water tank, a device that converts solar energy into thermal energy and that saves about 4% of the national energy supply, was developed by an engineer from Jerusalem. > 56. Dr. Gal Yadid, Dr. Rachel Mayan, and Professor Abraham Weizmann from Bar Ilan University developed a form of drug rehabilitation using a natural steroid that is inserted into the brain and develops a resistance for the drugs. > 57. Alon Moses from Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and Imanuel Hensky and Carlos Hidelgo-Grass from Hebrew University decoded the mechanism for Streptococcus A. > > \*\* **An Israeli company has developed a simple blood test that distinguishes between mild and more severe cases of Multiple Sclerosis. So, if you know anyone suffering from MS, tell them to ignore the Israeli patent that may, more accurately, diagnose their symptoms. An Israeli-made device helps restore the use of paralysed hands. This device electrically stimulates the hand muscles, providing hope to millions of stroke sufferers and victims of spinal injuries.** > > **Young children with breathing problems will soon be sleeping more soundly, thanks to a new Israeli device called the Child Hood. This innovation replaces the inhalation mask with an improved drug delivery system that provides relief for child and parent.** > > **A new research center in Israel hopes to throw light on brain disorders such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease. The Joseph Sangol Neuroscience Center in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer Hospital aims to bring thousands of scientists and doctors to focus on brain research** > > **A researcher at Israel’s Ben Gurion University has succeeded in creating human monoclonal antibodies, which can neutralise the highly contagious smallpox virus without inducing the dangerous side effects of the existing vaccine** > > **Two Israelis received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Doctors Ciechanover and Hershko’s research and discovery of one of the human cells most important cyclical processes will lead the way to DNA repair, control of newly produced proteins, and immune defense systems. The Movement Disorder Surgery program at Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center has successfully eliminated the physical manifestations of Parkinson’s disease in a select group of patients with a deep brain stimulation technique.** Let’s take a Middle East quiz. Name a major medical breakthrough generated in a Middle Eastern nation other than Israel? Got to think about that one? Let’s narrow it down. Name a Middle Eastern nation that has produced extraordinary technological breakthroughs that power and operate millions of computers? Despite its small size, Israelis working in Motorola’s largest research and development center came up with the basic elements of the modern cell phone. At Microsoft-Israel, Israelis developed most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems. And the Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at the Intel operation there. In fact, both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only research and development facilities outside of the United States in Israel. Wouldn’t it be a shame if a Hezbollah or Iranian missile destroyed them? It should come as no surprise that Israel has the highest percentage of home computers per capita or that Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population of any nation in the world. Israel, in fact, produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation, about 109 per 10,000 people, and has one of the highest per capital rates of patents filed. Apart from the Silicon Valley in the U.S.A., Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world with more than 3,000, not including the highest rate of start-up companies, so there are probably more as this is being written. These are the same people that Hezbollah and Hamas have promised to kill, but let’s be fair to the Arabs, they have led the world in suicide bombers and the development of Improvised Explosive Devices. They excel at fighting wars without putting on uniforms and hiding among civilians. By comparison with any other Middle Eastern nation, Israel has the highest average living standards with a per capita income in 2000 that exceeded the United Kingdom. Compared with the rest of the world, it has the third highest rate of entrepreneurs and the highest rate among women and people over 55. This is the nation that Iran’s president wants to “wipe off the map.” Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, non-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer. An Israeli company developed a computerized system to ensure the proper administration of medications, removing human error from medical treatment in hospitals that use the system. It has done all this while fighting the wars perpetrated against it by its Arab “neighbors” since the day it declared its independence in 1948. It has done this while being under constant attack for years from Lebanon that flared yet again into another full-scale war and while enduring the Intifada by the PLO followed by continued rocketing by Hamas from what is now called the Palestine territory. Ironically, the Middle East that has been growing date palms for centuries has never been able to come up with a tree that yields more than about 38 pounds a year. They usually grow 18 to 20 feet tall. In Israel, however, comparable date palms yield about 400 pounds annually and are short enough to be harvested from the ground or from a small ladder. When the Israelis withdrew from the Gaza strip (in 2005), they left behind greenhouses that had employed hundreds of Palestinians and produced an abundance of foods. The greenhouses were destroyed within days. Meanwhile Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization are at each other’s throats. After 18 years of occupation, the Israelis withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. Hezbollah used the following six years to build bunkers and stockpile weapons. The rocketing of Israel never stopped. Last question. If you had to move to any nation in the Middle East, which one would you choose? We are told we are involved in a clash of civilizations between the developed West and the tyranny, poverty, and backwardness of the Middle Eastern version of Islam. To grasp what that means, review the facts stated above and then project a future for this nation and others if the Islamic Revolution succeeds in conquering Europe and the United Kingdom? Think about life in America if it succeeds.Then, maybe, you will understand why America has always striven to support Israel. I know Israel isn’t perfect, neither is US, just as I support US to exist I will always firmly support Israel’s right to exist, Israel’s right to self-defense, and Israel’s right to live as a free and democratic nation. ---
**Author:** ![Reaper\_vai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/reaper_vai/32/855_2.png) [@Reaper\_vai](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Reaper_vai)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/42 "2009-02-20T16:42:10Z")
> [@jlor1457](#): > > By the simple fact alone that you are using Wikipedia to support yourself and your “facts”, you should be laughed off this forum. > > Spout your dogma elsewhere. Take your UN love affair elsewhere. You hijacked this thread long enough. So Bloomberg and the attack on the _ **USS Liberty** _ are both laughable? ---
**Author:** ![Reaper\_vai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/reaper_vai/32/855_2.png) [@Reaper\_vai](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Reaper_vai)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/43 "2009-02-20T16:49:52Z")
> [@](#): > > denec;214013]only have time to respond to this quickly the rest is the usual anti-israel propaganda with no facts The attack on the _ **USS Liberty** _ by Israeli forces is Anti-Israel propaganda? It’s not a fact that it was attacked? It’s not a fact that there have been over 131 UN resolutions against Israel? It’s not a fact that Israel used weapons banned under the Geneva Convention during the 22 day massacre against Gaza? What exactly constitutes a _ **fact** _ when it comes to Israel’s Behaviour? Back to the thread. America would have been better off if it had spent its money domestically. I hope the Americans wake up and see what is happening. ---
**Author:** ![denec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/denec/32/1730_2.png) [@denec](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/denec)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/44 "2009-02-20T17:22:46Z")
> [@Reaper\_vai](#): > > The attack on the _ **USS Liberty** _ by Israeli forces is Anti-Israel propaganda? > > It’s not a fact that it was attacked? in war sometimes friendly forces are attacked by accident, it has happened so many times, it is called fog of war, how many times has it happened in the iraq war? how many times have we done it? we did it to canada forces and we have done it to our own men and it is sad and tragic, why is everything a conspiracy when it comes to jews? > [@](#): > > It’s not a fact that there have been over 131 UN resolutions against Israel? laughable…UN is so bias against israel it is a joke…the UN has even admitted bias i cannot find the sources at the moment here it is > **[Homepage | CBN](https://cbn.com/)** > > The Christian Broadcasting Network is a global ministry committed to preparing the nations of the world for the coming of Jesus Christ through mass media and humanitarian outreach. **U.N. Chairman Admits Anti-Israel Bias** In an interview with the Swiss daily _Le Temps_, published Saturday, U.N. Human Rights Council Chairman Doru Costea admitted that the council has not approached the Israeli-Palestinian conflict evenhandedly. > [@](#): > > It’s not a fact that Israel used weapons banned under the Geneva Convention during the 22 day massacre against Gaza? what weapons are you talking about? last time i heard no one ever complains about the 3,000 rockets that fall on a daily basis into Israel, are terrrorist attacks not banned? > [@](#): > > What exactly constitutes a _ **fact** _ when it comes to Israel’s Behaviour? how about you asked me to name one contribution Israel has done to society and I named about 60 and you ignored my post and just resort to negativity and show your true bias and hatred towards Israel ---
**Author:** ![Wrlprchnx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wrlprchnx/32/1360_2.png) [@Wrlprchnx](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wrlprchnx)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/45 "2009-02-20T17:41:17Z")
I distinctly remember some US Fighter Pilot bombing a bunch of Canadian soldiers during their training exercises in Afghanistan ---
**Author:** ![denec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/denec/32/1730_2.png) [@denec](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/denec)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/46 "2009-02-20T17:54:01Z")
> [@Wrlprchnx](#): > > I distinctly remember some US Fighter Pilot bombing a bunch of Canadian soldiers during their training exercises in Afghanistan yes i remember that…and it was sad and a tragic accident…and how this thread got derailed from how the economy is doing to anti-Israel is beyond me but i guess it goes with the typical conspiracies when the economy goes bad blame it on the jews ---
**Author:** ![chads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@chads](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/chads)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/47 "2009-02-20T19:15:41Z")
Some economic indicators are pointing up, so maybe things will start to improve in the near future. The Dow has dropped over 2000 points since election day.😮 The U.N. is a joke and one of the most corrupt organizations on earth. ---
**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/48 "2009-02-20T19:24:38Z")
> [@chads](#): > > The Dow has dropped over 2000 points since election day.😮 Time to **buy**!!🙄 ---
**Author:** ![chads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@chads](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/chads)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/49 "2009-02-22T08:10:29Z")
As Bill O’Neil from Investors Business Daily says “Don’t try and catch a falling dagger”. I heard people saying 1000 points ago it was a good time to buy. ---
**Author:** ![Reaper\_vai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/reaper_vai/32/855_2.png) [@Reaper\_vai](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Reaper_vai)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/50 "2009-02-23T14:08:12Z")
I’m not sure about U.S. but in Britain some banks look like they could be good investments. RBS shares are now trading between 18-24p, as long as the government does not fully nationalise the bank it looks as though it could be worth while investing. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/51 "2009-02-26T18:48:36Z")
It’s bad enough around here cops are robbing banks- 😮 (local media coverage-) :: [TheSouthern.com](http://TheSouthern.com) - Southern Illinois’ Homepage :: ([http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2009/02/02/front\_page/28018296.txt](http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2009/02/02/front_page/28018296.txt)) [Daily Egyptian - Detective: Arrested cop planned to rob former police chief](http://www.siude.com/news/detective_arrested_cop_planned_to_rob_former_police_chief-1.1320380) [Bank Robbing Cop Out on Bond - Du Quoin, IL - Du Quoin Evening Call](http://www.duquoin.com/news/x1452244287/Bank-Robbing-Cop-Out-on-Bond) [Illinois Police Officer Accused of Robbing Bank In Carbondale With Second Man - wcco.com](http://wcco.com/watercooler/Illinois.cop.bank.2.911671.html) ---
**Author:** ![PheroQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@PheroQuirk](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/PheroQuirk)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/52 "2009-02-26T20:25:41Z")
‘there will be blood’ [reportonbusiness.com: ‘There will be blood’](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090223.wferguson0223/BNStory/crashandrecovery/home) Policy makers and forecasters who see a recovery next year are probably lying to boost public confidence, he said. And the crisis will eventually provoke political conflict, albeit not on the scale of a world war, but violent all the same. Niall Ferguson: “There will be blood, in the sense that a crisis of this magnitude is bound to increase political as well as economic [conflict]. It is bound to destabilize some countries. It will cause civil wars to break out, that have been dormant. It will topple governments that were moderate and bring in governments that are extreme. These things are pretty predictable. The question is whether the general destabilization, the return of, if you like, political risk, ultimately leads to something really big in the realm of geopolitics. That seems a less certain outcome. We’ve already talked about why China and the United States are in an embrace they don’t dare end. If Russia is looking for trouble the way Mr. Putin seems to be, I still have some doubt as to whether it can really make this trouble, because of the weakness of the Russian economy. It’s hard to imagine Russia invading Ukraine without weakening its economic plight. They’re desperately trying to prevent the ruble from falling off a cliff. They’re spending all their reserves to prop it up. It’s hardly going to help if they do another Georgia.” “One possibility is that policy makers are lying in order to encourage people and prevent depression from become a self-fulfilling psychological conditions. That’s why it’s called a depression … Maybe they don’t really believe this, but they’re saying it in order to cheer people up, and if they’re sufficiently consistent, perhaps people will start to believe it, and then it will magically happen.” “The other way of looking at that is to say every time a politician uses a word like ‘catastrophe’ or ‘depression’ to pressurize legislators into passing a stimulus package, for example, the signal goes out to the public that this is bad. And it gets worse. That’s one of the interesting things that both President Bush and President Obama have done. Bush used that wonderful phrase, “this sucker’s going down.” Obama talks about catastrophe at the critical moment when he wanted Congress to pass the package. It reminds me of a wonderful headline that the Onion had last year, in about October. The headline was, Bush calls for panic. I love it because it completely called the situation. There he was calling for panic … to make people come out of denial. I’ve been talking a while about this being the Great Repression. It took ages, ages, for people to realize this thing had fallen apart. One of the facts is if you subtract mortgage equity withdrawal from the Bush years, the real underlying rate of growth of the U.S. economy was 1 per cent. So much of the consumption has been fuelled by mortgage equity withdrawal. So that seems like a reasonable growth rate for 10 years. … We just don’t have an improvement of standard of living of the sort we’re grown used to. And indeed if you have a more equitable redistribution through the tax system, which Obama is committed to, it might actually be no discernible downside for middle America and lower-class Americans. So many of the benefits of the boom went to the elites. If you have a lost decade plus redistribution, it may not be that dramatic a change for many, many people. People just have to get over the fact that their wealth wasn’t worth what they thought it was in 2006. Whether it’s their stock market portfolio or their housing. If we simply go back to where we were, in 2005, that’s surely not the worst thing that could happen to us.” ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/53 "2009-04-03T05:12:48Z")
The Economy This economy is so bad: CEO’s are now playing miniature golf. Even people who have nothing to do with the Obama administration aren’t paying their taxes. Hotwheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM. Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfeizer and Citigroup. PETA serves chicken wings at their meetings McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer People in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names A truck of Americans got caught sneaking into Mexico The most highly-paid job is now jury duty Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting People in Africa are donating money to Americans Mothers in Ethiopia are telling their kids, “finish your plate, do you know how many kids are starving in the US?” Motel Six won’t leave the light on The Mafia is laying off judges And finally.., Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Hey, neat…the guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $750 billion disappear. ---
**Author:** ![QuietGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/bc8723/32.png) [@QuietGuy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/QuietGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/54 "2009-04-03T09:23:56Z")
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**Author:** ![diamond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/diamond/32/859_2.png) [@diamond](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/diamond)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/55 "2009-04-03T11:33:39Z")
> [@Wolfy](#): > > The Economy > > This economy is so bad: > > CEO’s are now playing miniature golf. > > Even people who have nothing to do with the Obama administration aren’t paying their taxes. > > Hotwheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM. > > Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfeizer and Citigroup. > > PETA serves chicken wings at their meetings > > McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer > > People in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names > > A truck of Americans got caught sneaking into Mexico > > The most highly-paid job is now jury duty > > Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting > > People in Africa are donating money to Americans > > Mothers in Ethiopia are telling their kids, “finish your plate, do you > know how many kids are starving in the US?” > > Motel Six won’t leave the light on > > The Mafia is laying off judges > > And finally.., > > Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. > Hey, neat…the guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $750 billion disappear. Well I did hear that the situation in the US is so bad that Obama cut short the G20 summit yesterday for a private audience with the Queen. Apparently, he reckons there was a huge mistake a few hundred years ago and the USA now wants to be part of the British Empire again. Now whilst we may well take you back under our protective wing, the sticking point is that apparently some Southerners are complaining about being ruled from Ottawa, Canada 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![bosshank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@bosshank](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/bosshank)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/56 "2009-04-16T03:13:29Z")
Cheeky Brits … lol. [Previous page](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234.md?page=2)