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- KwesiJ0
anyone find the timing of all this a little suspicious? it was bound to happen and likley a lot of people saw it coming a while ago throw the election in there, you know these things arn't always coincidences
- Bernanke expert on fiscal policy and obscure arcane rules from the great depression. Just the guy!********
- Bernanke expert on fiscal policy and obscure arcane rules from the great depression. Just the guy!
- TheBlueOne0
Headline only on CNBC right now: "Treasury Says No Deal With Democrats on Government Taking Equity Stake in Financial Firms"
- TheBlueOne0
"I'm listening to John Harwood right now on MSNBC express shock that Obama is refusing to drop all plans to reform the health care system or invest in the future in light of this crisis. Isn't that special? The new consensus is that after the hideously expensive Bush era fuck-ups, the only "responsible" thing to do is devote the country to paying back their debt. Again.
Bush has been the most successful president for the aristocracy in American history. He opened up the federal treasury to his rich friends, and they looted it like a Bagdad museum for nearly eight long years. Now that it's been stripped bare to the point that its going to cost trillions to even stabilize the thing, the Village has decided it's time to sober up and stop all this profligate spending. How convenient.
This is very similar to the arguments that were made 16 years ago when once again the establishment decided that the bill for Republican malfeasance would come due during a Democratic administration, thus foreclosing the possibility of solving many of the long term systemic problems that plague ordinary Americans."
- robotron3k0
what the... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
- the difference between a hockeymom and a nazi?janne76
- lipstick!janne76
- liphairlocustsloth
- A son named "Trig"?TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
Just got this email. You guys think it's legit?
"Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson"
- acescence0
"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."
the completely tragic part of this is that they have no clue that this is totally illegal. congress can't pass a law excluding itself from oversight, that's the point of it you fucking morons. i'm so infuriated, ahhhhhhh
- boobs0
Barack Obama is the Michael Jordan of politics.
- not if he ends up losing.colin_s
- Then he'd be Michael Jordan playing Baseball....TheBlueOne
- ukit0
ABC Wa Post Poll Virginia:
Obama: 51%
McCain: 43%
- acescence0
good Bill Moyers interview with Kevin Phillips, author of "Bad Money"
- acescence0
haha, great quote:
"Bob Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury — I mean, if he was a Hindu and he was being reincarnated, he'd come back as a pail because this guy bailed out everything you can imagine."
- omgitsacamera0
What's the difference between Van Halen and Aerosmith?
- ukit0
- dbloc0
735
- acescence0
- some big promises...robotron3k
- but so f*cking necessary!monkeyshine
- I hope he means it.DCDesigns
- hallelujah0
"McCain Loses His Head
By George F. WillChanneling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential"
In any case, McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is a harbinger of a McCain presidency. For McCain, politics is always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are "corrupt" or "betray the public's trust," two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people.
Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.
It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed? "
- No president has ever had experience sufficient for the coming 4 years. Obama would look better doing it, tho.mikotondria3
- Kidswift0
- The French just ask for abuse, don't they...TheBlueOne
- Oops..I mean the San Franciscans just beg to be abused...TheBlueOne
- hahatommyo
- tommyo0
Now...just a disclaimer: I don't watch FOX news. But I do like listening to Newt Gingrich from time to time. So I was flipping channels last night and watched the tail end of this interview and it's a pretty good explanation of the horrible bail out bill. He trashes Bush too so I figured you guys might like it. :)
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Part 3 -btw, to post a video do I just paste the embed code?
- Oh nm..hah I gues all ya have to do is post the link!tommyo
