Plane flies sign over S&P Building

[discoberry]

With a pretty awesome sign

Kirkwood, Missouri, securities executive and single mother rented a plane to fly over Wall Street towing a banner that read, “Thanks for the downgrade. You should all be fired.”

Nobbe originally wanted to fly the sign over Washington, she told CNN affiliate KSDK-TV in St. Louis, but there’s a no-fly zone over the nation’s capital.

She said it seemed like a not-so-costly way to have her message broadcast. Several media outlets reported Nobbe paid $1,200 for the two-hour aerial admonition, but Nobbe told KSDK that flysigns.com was so impressed by her moxie that she got a discount on the $900 fee for the service.

news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/10/single-mom-takes-to-skies-downgrades-sp-with-her-own-pink-slip/

[cestlefun17]

We deserved the downgrade, quite frankly. Credit ratings bureaus need to issue their credit ratings in as fair and objective a manner as possible. They can't artificially inflate our credit rating so as not to hurt anybody's feelings.

[Art Vandelay]

Aug 10, 2011 19:10:56 GMT -5 cestlefun17 said:

We deserved the downgrade, quite frankly. Credit ratings bureaus need to issue their credit ratings in as fair and objective a manner as possible. They can't artificially inflate our credit rating so as not to hurt anybody's feelings.

This.

You can have your AAA rating back when you deserve it, America.

[scienceisgreen]

America deserves it, what they don't deserve is the idiots who held up a routine procedure for political gains and thus endangered everyone.

[Vene]

Aug 10, 2011 19:37:30 GMT -5 Art Vandelay said:

Aug 10, 2011 19:10:56 GMT -5 cestlefun17 said:

We deserved the downgrade, quite frankly. Credit ratings bureaus need to issue their credit ratings in as fair and objective a manner as possible. They can't artificially inflate our credit rating so as not to hurt anybody's feelings.

This.

You can have your AAA rating back when you deserve it, America.

Personally, I think it's telling the agency in question fucked up their math by $2 trillion. They then changed their rationale entirely to the political process (which did not lead to a default, I should add).

This is the same agency that saw no problems with the mortgages that lead to the housing collapse and the same agency that thought Enron was awesome. Reliable, they ain't.

[dasfuchs]

Basically that's how I see it, we earned the downgrade. Getting pissy at people for our fuckups is stupid.

[ltfred]

Nah, bullshit. No ratings agency- all of which are openly and egregiously corrupt- should be deciding on what political decisions are legitimate in a government. The US is no more likely to default today than it was three months ago, or three years ago.

[anon87311]

Vene said what I was going to.

I mean, it's one thing if they would have said, from the start, "Hey republicans, you guys are being pissy and we're downgrading the rating because you guys could make the whole system fail". but they didn't.

And no, I'm not saying political infighting(unless it gets to the point that nothing is getting done at all) should matter for credit ratings.

[sylvana]

Well, I don't think the message was intended for S&P but for Congress. After all, that is where she would have flown the message if there was no, no fly zone. To be honest, America does deserve the downgrade and everyone in parliament and congress and all those places that completely screwed around and did nothing but toot their own political agendas deserve to be fired.