The Punchline

Stripped of value

Richard Core Oct 24, 2008

From the Daily Show with John Stewart…

The financial crisis has reached nearly every part of society. I was at a strip club and I saw a guy tucking food stamps into a dancer’s G-string.


Thanks to Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, AIG, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the $64,000 question is now worth $1,324.86.

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