Since reagan we have been told government is the problem and not the solution. So were are these pundits now? can we tar and feather them? what effect will this massive bailout have on our futures? The media is strangely silent on this. Were is Lymbaugh or O'liely on this? these are the same clowns who grew rich preaching the evils of big government. We have been told over and over that universal healthcare is to expensive, yet we spent trillions in Iraq and now at least a trillion on this bailout, were is the outrage?

you look like Hitler

See?I tell you that you look like Hittler but you said that you look like Bush

thats funny most people tell me I look like bush with a mustache

you are 100% Hittler reincarnation

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...now that you mention that....hmmmmmm....wonder if Bush might be a cousin to Hitler? They do resemble one another tremendously

well our national debt doubled over the weekend

No honey,he is not. Bush is not that smart like Hittler

You bad.

ummmm......I think thats the POINT....???

well here it is they bailed out the fatcats who created this mess yet are leaving the tax payers who funded the bailout out twisting in the wind....................... WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that the nation's credit markets remain frozen and Congress must move quickly to pass a $700 billion bailout package for financial firms. But key Democrats said the legislation needs changes to provide better protections for taxpayers and homeowners in danger of losing their homes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080921/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown

When that happened over here we made the fat cats pay...now our president is in Washington, ironic dont you think?, that a little 3rd-world country might have something to teach you about economics....

I fimerly believe that in order to get out from under this mess we should sieze the assets of the very fat cats that profited at the top and pay off their debts while they sit out the next few years at gitmo.

That's a start.

I am a little confused.

Some of the same people who support Bush and his hands off, anti-regulation, personal responsibility, privatizing, free market policies are saying seize the assets of the fat cats?

Are you aware what you are advocating Comrade?

/whistles softly

Well, here's something interesting to add to this:

U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying to Bail Out FOREIGN Speculators

Sunday, Sept 21, 2008

We all know that the Fed is trying to stick the American taxpayers with trillions of dollars in debt (direct or through inflation) to bail out the Wall Street robber barons.

But did you know that they are also trying to get you to bail out foreign gamblers?

An article in the Telegraph states:



“The Fed has also just offered another $125bn of liquidity to banks outside the US that are desperate for dollars and can’t access America’s frozen credit markets”



“Another” $125 billion? How much has the Fed already given to foreign banks?

Why are American taxpayers who are already drowning in debt due to U.S. gamblers also being asked to also bail out foreign speculators?

Justice...

Free market does not mean no responsibility. Those executives that knowingly took moneys from financial instruments that were going to fail. (and they had enough warnings to know failure was comming) should be held accountable for their greed.

STAFF at Lehman’s New York office who helped to cause the world’s biggest corporate bankruptcy are to share in a $2.5 billion bonanza.

The bonus, which has been described by London staff as a “scandal” has been pledged by Barclays Capital, the British-based bank that last week acquired Lehman’s American operation and took on 10,000 staff.

The $2.5 billion (£1.4 billion) pot, which has been ring-fenced as part of the acquisition, has caused huge resentment among the 5,000 staff in the firm’s European and Middle Eastern operations who are not guaranteed to be paid after this month. There are, however, hopes that half the jobs in Lehman’s Canary Wharf office could be saved today by either Barclays or Nomura. Bids are being submitted for its UK equities and investment-banking business.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4795072.ece

Welcome to the Final Stages of the Coup...
by Larisa Alexandrovna

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
- Julius Caesar



In 2000, the long fought for and long admired democracy of the United States of America began a slow and steady decline toward fascism - a Bush family tradition - with the installment of a president - a man the citizens overwhelmingly rejected (although the funny math told a still believed myth) - by a few corrupt judges on the US Supreme Court. That coup is now nearly complete and checkmate is all but unavoidable.

Let me first point you to the Bush administration's so-called Wall Street bailout bill, here, so that you can see for yourself that this treachery is being conducted in the light of day. Fascism is finally and formally out of the right-wing closet even if the F word is not yet openly being used (although it should be, and often).

Now, if you do not yet understand that the Wall Street crisis is a man-made disaster done through intentional deregulation and corruption, I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you (or Sara Palin does anyway). This manufactured crisis is now to be remedied, if the fiscal fascists get their way, with the total transfer of Congressional powers (the few that still remain) to the Executive Branch and the total transfer of public funds into corporate (via government as intermediary) hands.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/21-0

well rhen, since the democrats had the reigns of power in 2000 when Bush was elected, then it stands to reason that the democrats threw the election in 2000, while Clinton was busy pardoning criminals wholesale in his last days in office.

So why couldn't the democrats get rid of bush in 2004?

The war?

oh..............


so, how is it that the democrats are so worried that the republicans are going to shoe in McCain and not nobama?

i do see a rant here against the fascist laws created by Clinton that arguably have been followed to the letter to intervene in the market and prop it up while it teeters on the brink of complete and total collapse.

Seems the moustache paintd on Bush is actually Clonton.s and the democrats handiwork.

National Socialism and Fascism and ther DNC conspiracy theorists are missing the point here.

In summation, the article excuses the inept Congress that has the most abysmal approval rating eclipsing even that of Bush's in their heroic default of execution of Legislative Powers.

They had two years to make the American people aware of the problem and did nothing.

Just like Clinton's delusion that Bin Ladin was a law enforcement problem, not a National Security problem.


This country is confused.

it will even blunder the coup apparently under way.