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Planet Bizarro and Merrill Lynch Predicts a Depression

Seinfeld fans will remember the episode where Jerry refers to people that appear to be the exact opposites of George and Kramer as being from “Planet Bizarro”. Planet Bizarro comes from a comic book featuring Superman and Batm ...

Posted On January 27, 20096 MIN Read
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Seinfeld fans will remember the episode where Jerry refers to people that appear to be the exact opposites of George and Kramer as being from “Planet Bizarro”. Planet Bizarro comes from a comic book featuring Superman and Batman. On Planet Bizarro, everything happens exactly opposite to what we are accustomed seeing on Earth. They see bad as good and good as bad. Superman and Batman are villains instead of heroes, and morality is upside down. Sound vaguely familiar to the daily news we’re getting?

Bizarro also explains the details of Obama’s stimulus package…completely upside down.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has pulled back the drapes and revealed that less than 40% of the total $800 billion will ever work its way into the economy, and that less than $80 billion will be spent in the 2009. So, over $300 billion of the stimulus will be wasted, and in the year that we need it most…2009…a paltry $80 billion will be passed around…meanwhile Citibank and AIG can get $80 billion...

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