Posted on 07/19/2009 3:35:13 PM PDT by Lorianne
In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
According to Goldman spokesperson Jonathan Hestron, the merger between Goldman and the Treasury Department is "a good fit" because "they're in the business of printing money and so are we."
The Goldman spokesman said that the merger would create efficiencies for both entities: "We already have so many employees and so much money flowing back and forth, this would just streamline things."
Mr. Hestron said the only challenge facing Goldman in completing the merger "is trying to figure out which parts of the Treasury Dept. we don't already own."
Goldman recently celebrated record earnings by roasting a suckling pig over a bonfire of hundred-dollar bills.
Elsewhere, conspiracy theorists celebrated the 40th anniversary of NASA faking the moon landing.
And in South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford gave his wife a new diamond ring, while his wife gave him an electronic ankle bracelet.
now that’s cute.
I thought they already owned it. They control it. Revolving doors and all.
ROTFL! The headline says it all! Funny stuff! (But so true).
In what turned out to be a forehead slapper, in the wee hours of the morning, after hours of haggling over exacly what currency to use for the purchase, the head of GS stood up and with a stern look he exclaimed at his lawyers:
Wait a minute you fools, we already own them!
Well, not saying that we don’t have a valid gripe here...
...but suddenly our complaints about G-S sound like the complaints over Haliburton that we heard from the KOS kiddies for 8 years.
Just saying.
Satire really needs to be in parentheses .. this is Breaking ?
They have owned for years. They just want to make it public record for tax loophole purposes.
OBOZO HUSSEIN is said to become the Majority Shareholder with 53% of the new Stock as his Bonus for fixing the Deal!
LOL!
Right up your genre.
I think the military will have a different viewpoint.
This may be a joke but these bankers are in control.
How would anyone know in this bizarro not-so-parallel universe.
Did this happen before or after they bought Congress?
Good one. As you suggest, there’s an increasingly finer line separating satire from reality these days.
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