Dear Congress,
September 30th, 2008 by Michael Nystrom

Please, just stay home.

With all of your meddling, posturing and political theater yesterday, the stock market fell 777 points. Today, while you are on holiday, the market is back up 500. The dollar is surging.

Do you get the message? A free market does not need your intervention to function.

Please, do the country a favor. Stop your incessant meddling! Just let the market work!

What the Corporate Government Banking Media Complex Wants
September 30th, 2008 by Michael Nystrom

Our economy is structured to require ever expanding amounts of debt in order to keep growing. The banking system makes money by making loans, which gives it an incentive to loan, loan, loan -- even if banks know that the borrowers cannot pay the money back. As long as new loans are being made, banks make money and the economy continues to grow.

But people have reached a limit as to how much more debt they can take on. The people don't want any more debt, and the banking system is choking on bad debt of its own making.

Since people can't take on any more debt, and many can't pay back what they've already got, the economy can't grow under the system as it is structured now. The bankers are panicked because they won't make money, and in fact, they'll lose a lot. The government is panicked because if the economy doesn't grow, people will lose their jobs. Unemployed people tend to spend a lot of time watching TV and surfing the internet. Instead of work, work, working, they're likely to stumble across the truth online, hyperlink by hyperlink. And then they'll wonder why they've never heard about any of this stuff they're reading about on TV.

The truth will hit them like a load of bricks, and they'll realize: "They've been lying to me. All my life, I've been lied to!"

If pro is the opposite of con, isn't congress the opposite of progress?

That has a logical ring to it... in that vein, what does NeoCon mean?

New con?

NeoCon, isn't that when they hang new wanted posters at the Post Office?

The WallSt bailout bill passed in the senate! Now goes back to the Houes! Are you taking any bets on the out come?

if you have enough votes it is bound to pass eventually

they should not be permitted to present a failed bill for a vote for at least 6 months after a defeat

just a thought

but hey

what do i know

Our Senate has proven once again that a dollor is more important than a vote.

When one's voice is not heard in a 'democratic' country..

What is left..?

facism

We're getting all the worst parts of Facsism, Socialism and National Socialism.

Security is a farce as long as I could go back and forth across the southern border at will, We're getting all the Socialist policies for our economy, but none of the health care or other "benefits" and Bush/Clinton/Bush have put the pieces in place for a police state the likes of which Hitler only dreamed of.