Like most of my fellow Americans, I've been learning a lot about economics over the past week. Lesson 1: "Distressed assets" = Shitpile. Your government is getting ready to buy a whole heap of "distressed assets."
Well, if Wall Street CEOs can unload its useless assets for a cool 1 trillion, why shouldn't you have that opportunity too? Offer your "distressed assets" to Henry Paulson via the latest Internet phenom a friend of our put together, www.buymyshitpile.com:
With our economy in crisis, the US Government is scrambling to rescue our banks by purchasing their "distressed assets", i.e., assets that no one else wants to buy from them. We figured that instead of protesting this plan, we'd give regular Americans the same opportunity to sell their bad assets to the government. We need your help and you need the Government's help!Newsday says the site "captur[es] the spirit of the moment, provides a form for ordinary Americans to offer their various and sundry garbage -- broken toys, transistor radios, musty books, smelly tennis shoes -- to the Treasury Department." There's a lot of useless stuff out there.
