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cutbacks (none / 1)

LOL, does that mean we are now like BA and we have to work for ET a whole month without a salary?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 10:21:22 AM EST

Re: cutbacks (4.00 / 2)

Probably. And then the media can have a freak-out about our expenses.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 10:22:57 AM EST
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Re: cutbacks (none / 0)

You think they will find out about our expenses? Guess we better watch out. :-)

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 10:24:23 AM EST
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Re: cutbacks (4.00 / 5)

Yes, but first we have to spend hundreds of thousands on taxpayer money to take ourselves on a swanky weekend retreat.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:07:49 AM EST
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Re: cutbacks (none / 0)

Hey, thats a great idea - how about Burlesconis hide-away on Sardinia?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:09:16 AM EST
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Re: cutbacks (4.00 / 4)

No thanks, I don't want to sound snobbish, but he's got such appalling taste.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:13:43 AM EST
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Re: cutbacks (4.00 / 2)

But, but,.. isn't that the point?

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 12:12:07 PM EST
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Re: cutbacks (4.00 / 4)

just back from a nice EU Commission funded conference in Rotterdam - thanks for reminding me to claim for my expenses...

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:35:28 AM EST
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Re: cutbacks (4.00 / 4)

I just want to say from the outset that cleaning the moat was Helen's idea.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 12:51:11 PM EST
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Re: cutbacks (4.00 / 3)

But is the duck house a canard?

by Sassafras on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 02:01:14 PM EST
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Re: cutbacks (none / 1)

It flipping is!

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 04:50:21 PM EST
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What? (4.00 / 2)

Jerome was paying people?

by Magnifico on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:30:17 AM EST
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Re: What? (4.00 / 3)

in our dreams...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:41:57 AM EST
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