Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
Campaign 2010
Countdown to Congressional Elections
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
A report in June by McClatchy says “AIG’s problems were far greater than Bush officials told the public”. I rather doubt anyone in the country believed the administration was on the up and up, but now we know it was much worse than our worst dreams. The bottom line is that [...]
Is it any wonder the rest of the civilized world see’s us as simply a corrupt nation who will stop at nothing to keep our elitist wealthy and in power? [...]
I reported here, here, and here that Goldman Sachs, as well as the other TARP recipients, couldn’t have paid back a single dime of the TARP money without the back door money Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was handing out to them and the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation was spotting them in guarantee’s for loans they got from other places. [...]
There are two reasons the name “Government Sachs” wasn’t publically exploited the way “Government Motors” has been. First, bailing out General Motors meant saving hundreds of thousands of blue collar and other common peoples jobs. Bailing out Goldman Sachs was saving a few thousand millionaires and billionaires, and that effort shall not be tainted. [...]
Citizens Regulation Revolution – Something that did not happen, but should have. So we loose, they win. We sacrifice, they don’t. We pay the cost, they enjoy the profits. Let the good times roll! Happy days are here (for them) again. [...]
The recession is over for Wall Street. We know this because last night Dennis Kneale of CNBC was ardently defending his earlier proclamation that it was over. Now we have the return of the sickening, gagging bonuses for Wall Street, compliments of the taxpayer. What more proof do we need? [...]