LOL! My boss received the following email today from his banker about the economy.

[Arkansas Granny]

"Back in 1990, the government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze?"

A little history on the Mustang Ranch:

Conforte dealt mostly in cash and kept few records. By 1990, the IRS was fed up with his tax shenanigans and seized the ranch, putting the federal government in the unique position of running a brothel. It failed and the ranch was padlocked for the first time.

The IRS auctioned off the beds, the bedding, the bidets — even the room numbers — to recover some of Conforte's tax debt.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292166,00.html

[gateley]

1. That's funny! Only the Govenment could lose money on sex! nt

[bemildred]

2. Banks don't seem to be doing so well lately either?

At least the government is not asking the banks to bail it out.

[Renew Deal]

3. Who would go to a government run brothel?

Seriously

[DS1]

8. Cheese aficionados!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Me and my under-aged college roomates.........

.......used to hang out in, drink in, buy pot from and smoke pot in a Chicago bar called the "Wild Hare and Singing Armadillo Frog Sanctuary". This was in '86??

Imagine our surprise when we were all sitting in front of the TV, after a night of debauchery in The Hare, watching a story by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News about businesses being seized by, AND RUN BY, the federal government..... and one of the businesses highlighted Chicago's Wild Hare. I think, after that story, we only smoked in the bathroom.

[Canuckistanian]

4. So banks=brothels?

I suppose that makes sense.

Although the brothels' customers probably got more satisfaction from the screwing.

[WCGreen]

5. That's because government occasionally fucks up...

In a brothel, you fuck down...

[RainDog]

6. Funny. Since the bankers are the whores who have created world-wide financial instability

it's pretty ironic that this banker fails to notice the difference between the Mustang Ranch and the world economy. Instead, bankers are like whores on the street who give the rest of the world venereal disease and AIDS and genital warts because they refuse to be regulated, like the successful whore houses like the Mustang Ranch.

That banker doesn't even see, apparently, that his ilk are whores too skanky to get decent jobs.

[deaniac21]

7. I hope they can run a healthcare system.