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
President Obama spoke today — and the markets took a huge dive. The Dow closed down 213 points, the biggest one-day loss since June of last year. Major banks and other financial institutions led the way. All but one of the Dow 30 was down (McDonald’s was the single winner). Dragged down with the Dow was the NASDAQ, S & P and most commodities, including oil, which lost nearly $2 per barrel. Investor’s weren’t happy, to say the least. Bankers, although not visible, most surely didn’t like it. CNBC’s Dennis Kneale said “the market doesn’t like what’s coming out of Washington”. Want to know what the Old Man says? Well, here it is anyway — TOUGH – S**T, bankers!!!
Don’t expect too much restraint being place on the financial world, if any at all. It will most likely end up being more of what Congress does best: A lot of mumbo-jumbo that amounts to absolutely nothing. [...]
Is there anyone left who doubts who owns our government? It certainly isn’t the people. Since we’ve allowed them to prove there’s nothing we can do about them, they are setting them selves up to steal billions more and hit us with the bill again. [...]