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Mo MoDo
04/21/09

In reply to Ten Lamentations of a TARP Wife
I'm learning to fly so far below the radar that I have perpetually skinned knees.

I've never heard it called "flying under the radar" before.
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SpicyMeatball
04/21/09

In reply to Ten Lamentations of a TARP Wife
Has anyone pointed out that this is basically a list of "it is so crappy having to hide how lavishly we still live because my husband's company was rescued by the government and we don't want anyone to know how their tax dollars are being spent?"
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Spirit Fingers
04/21/09

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The next time she's eating fried bologna, tuna from the can, and washing it down with red Kool Aid, I'll then feel some pity. Wait. No I won't 'cause that'll mean she and hubby pissed away more money than they have any right to have! So instead I'll point and scoff and maybe buy an out-of-season Prada handbag from her so she can buy a hot plate with which she can forage a divine meal of Spaghetti-O's and white bread to celebrate.

Pffftttt!
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ADismalScience
04/21/09

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This next to the Tina Fey post proves that it's okay to be rich as long as you seem cool. Just, you know, don't get rich by doing something icky like banking.
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misslinda
04/21/09

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Does. Not. Get it.

"I'm constantly knocking on wood or offering little good-citizen sacrifices, like manically recycling or chatting with telemarketers."

Can someone explain to me why a person would think they are being a good citizen by talking to telemarketers? Are telemarketers lonely souls on the brink of a nervous breakdown that need to be talked off of a ledge?

Also, if her daughter is old enough to go to business school, she's old enough to pay the tab herself. If your kids are 21 years old and still looking for a free ride (I didn't say help--I said a free ride, there's a difference), your parenting skills are abominable.
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gawkimo
04/21/09

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For some reason I'm not enraged when I read about Tina Fey's big ol' West End apartment. So maybe my desire to see this TARP-CEO wife pushing a shopping cart own an alley looking for expired food out of dustbins isn't exactly coming from my Marxist well of "class rage".
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City_Dater
04/21/09

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All that "anonymous" donating and hiding on the red carpet is likely a cover up for not really giving anything much personally, but still swanning around the parties (on the strength of a corporate gift given before the recession). Nothing like gypping a charity and using the economy as an excuse.
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cassandra
04/21/09

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Also, she hates Obama:

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PaisleyPajamas
04/21/09

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Like so many others, I'm shopping in my closet.

OMFG me, too! Except, I'm fairly certain she's not going to be wearing a stretched out and faded Old Navy tank, 20-year-old tattered jeans and flip-flops.
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SarahHeartburn
04/21/09

@PaisleyPajamas: Shopping her her closet? So the Edie Beale look really is taking over.
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lil red
04/21/09

@PaisleyPajamas: With lasagna as a mainstay on the menu, it is doubtful she can still fit into 20 year old jeans ;-)

But hats off to you for achieving such super metabolism!
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PaisleyPajamas
04/21/09

@SarahHeartburn: Yes, someone send a memo to the TARP wives and let them know they can wear their skirt as a cape.
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PaisleyPajamas
04/21/09

@lil red: More a reflection of being too poor to dine on lasagna. In order to do lasagna right, you really have to splurge on the ingredients. This might explain her failure at the task.
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DorothyBarker
04/21/09

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Notice how so many of her "problems" are about scurrying around, trying to hide the fact that she and her tribe are still eating out and going to functions and buying gifts at Bergdorf's? This isn't about saving money, it's about saving face. Conspicuous consumption is so 2007! Boo-fucking-hoo. Would have more sympathy (i.e., a sub-atomic sized spec) if the 'face' she was trying to save wasn't a grotesque mask of greed and selfishness.
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SarahHeartburn
04/21/09

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"One daughter recently mused about going back to business school. I hope she didn't notice my instantly negative reaction, stemming completely from concern about the cost."

Why do I like to think the "instantly negative reaction" involved projectile vomiting a pitcher of vodka martinis on the Persian rug.
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Smitros
04/21/09

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Now that I think of it, Mrs. Smitros has recently taken up fiber arts is doing quite splendidly, so perhaps she could knit [alleged zombie-bankster wife] Ms. Peek a better TARP.
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Colonel Mustard
04/21/09

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"Now, when I am going out to have my dirty jewels replaced with new clean ones, there are more unsightly corpses and/or homeless people on the street to step over on the way to my hired car."
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BookishLookish
04/21/09

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Oh Jesus, what kind of pathetic, aesthetically challenged, dimwitted broad cannot make a good lasagna? What kind of loser admits it?

Why is being a lousy cook supposed to be a socially upward signifier?

Wait, should I be on Jezebel?
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bytememehard
04/21/09

@BookishLookish: Bookish, did you not consider she may be fabulous cook but is highly modest and self-deprecating? Me neither.
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Smitros
04/21/09

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Re: #6.

Why in hell would some allegedly sophisticated finance family be so poorly diversified?

Though people at that level should have their incentives aligned with those of their firm (if that is indeed a large chunk of the stocks cited), subjecting oneself to so much volatility is insane.

Unless that remaining 5% is still more than all but the richest could hope to accumulate in a lifetime.
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skahammer
04/21/09

@Smitros: I'm betting the "stock" she's referring to consists of restricted shares, or maybe even options if she happens to be speaking of "net worth" very loosely.
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