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
Why does the bailout of General Motors continue to produce such discourse when the AIG bailout, at more than 3-times the money, is seldom mentioned? [...]
Should banks pay back all the money they’ve gotten from the taxpayers plus a little something extra? Or should they pay back only the TARP funds? [...]
Geithner is a Wall Street man and will always be a Wall Street man. He’s been under suspicion by the public since he was given the job by Obama. His approval rating was down to 18 percent back in early December 2009. [...]
These guarantees by the FDIC, using taxpayer money, seems to be a subject that everyone wants running under the radar. The only money regularly talked about is the TARP money, and how Citigroup is “paying-it-back”! [...]
Bankers must be “bought off” to lend taxpayer-provided money to small businesses. Interest earned off “free money” is no longer sufficient reward for them. [...]
Say good by to not only your TARP funds (and your Treasury and FDIC backdoor funds), but say good by to the money you’re allowed to temporarily keep in your pocket. [...]
If H.R. 1207 was in place today, we would know how much money is being handed over to Wall Street through the back door. That would put an end to this con game being pulled on us. [...]