By DAVID MARTIN
Olathe banker Don Bell contributes money to right-wing causes and politicians. But when his business stands to benefit, socialism begins to look pretty awesome.
The Kansas City Star reports today that Brittany Savings Corp., the parent company of Security Savings Bank, plans to apply for funds from the $700-billion bailout Congress approved in October.
Bell is the chairman of Brittany Savings. He's seeking help from the Treasury Department in spite of his distrust of secular i
You know how so many of the corporate CEOs and bankers and just about anyone else who got bailout money used a chunk of it for pygmy giraffes small enough to keep as pets and ride around the house, or whatever it is you spend money on when you've got more of it than God, and how this righteously pissed off every taxpayer? We're not saying anything like that's going to happen at the U.S. Central Federal Credit Union in Lenexa, but considering today's news we'd like it if
If the federal government's bailing you out, then you're not going to make more than President Barack Obama. At least if Sen. Claire "Bear" McCaskill has her way. She's introducing a bill right now -- on CSPAN 2: The Deuce! -- that would cap pay for employees of private companies taking federal bailout money. Employees couldn't make more than Obama's $400,000 salary until their company stopped receiving federal dollars. McCaskill's people say the salary cap would also include bonuses and stock o
Look at our girl, making Missouri proud while calling Wall Street bigwigs "idiots."
According to Gawker Media site Jezebel, Missouri's senator looked like she wanted to "cut a bitch" while introducing a bill on the Senate floor proposing salary caps for employees whose companies are receiving federal bailout money.
We want to join her for a glass of congratulatory champagne -- er, make it Pabst. Watch the clip here.
In a disturbingly specific instance of anatomical and fiduciary braggadocio, rapper Mase said "I'm young, black and famous / with money hangin' out the anus" in the song "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down." Weird, but truly aspirational for a man like me, who is barely a hundredaire. I, too, would like to have money "hangin' out the anus." Meanwhile, my favorite joke about money is going into a restaurant, snapping a twenty-dollar bill at the hostess, and saying, "Me and my friend Abraham Lincoln were h
APOCALYPTIC NEWS IN BRIEF AND SON: Look. I'm no economist. I'm just an ol' widowed junk man who lives in Watts with his only son, Lamont. So I'm completely unqualified to judge whether or not Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is an idiot. "GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT," I said in January. Then my son tried to have a romantic evening alone at the house with his girlfriend Darlene but I kept interrupting. So he threatened to move out, and I had one of my "big ones," lurching around clutching
For better or worse, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank has seen his profile rise in the past year. He's chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee and was one of the bailout's most vocal backers, urging fellow members to pass it. Then, after losing confidence in Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, he became one of the most vocal backers for putting restrictions on that same TARP money.But when Frank is not saving the economy, he's got other things on his mind, specifically sw
