Every time I think that these clowns couldn't possibly do anything more outrageous than they've already done, they prove me wrong.
It's not bad enough that they're trying to ram their outrageous $700 billion dollar "Alms for the Rich" bill down our throats as soon as humanly possible.
They want carte-blanche to do whatever the fuck they want with the money AND they don't want a single provision spreading the benefit of their grande scam to the poor homeowners whom they have already raped and continue to fleece.
During Tuesday's steady-rolling, five-hour hearing, the main battle lines were clear: Bernanke, Paulson, and other Administration officials URGED QUICK PASSAGE of a stripped-down bill to let the Treasury use up to $700 billion to buy complex mortgage-related securities from financial institutions. That would push many decisions—about oversight, disclosure, the prices the government would pay to take toxic assets off corporate balance sheets—into the future, leaving most such calls up to the Treasury, in this Presidential Administration and the next.
Bush Administration officials warned of dire consequences should Congress delay or impose too many limits on Treasury's authority. Paulson said he believed the stock market's recovery late last week stemmed from the belief that Congress would act. "I FEEL GREAT URGENCY, and I believe it's got to be done this week or before you leave," Paulson said.
Sounds like a desperate sleazy salesman.
But, then again, sleazy salesmen don't threaten to "hurt" prospective customers, which makes him more akin to the spokesman for a worldwide financial extortion racket.
Lawmakers worry that failing to back the bailout could hurt them, particularly in light of the Administration's warnings of the dire consequences of inaction and the reality of a tumbling stock market (BusinessWeek.com, 9/23/08). At the same time, fears grew that a protracted debate could undermine support altogether as more questions are raised about the plan's costs and effectiveness.
Some Homeowner Help
Political analysts predicted both sides would give way at least partially on various fronts. Indeed, the Administration has already indicated it would accept at least some provisions aiding homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages, and the Senate omitted from draft legislation a proposal, popular among many Democrats, to allow judges to modify mortgages in bankruptcy court. Congressional aides conceded the measure faced too much opposition from the financial-services industry, which has focused its most intense lobbying efforts on killing the provision.
Un-fucking-believable.
Would someone please remind these clowns that 'BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS'!!!
When you walk around, palms extended upwards - you don't fucking dictate the terms of the HAND-OUT!!!
Where are the angry masses in the streets demanding an end to the plundering of our cities, the pillaging of our resources and the raping of our labor?
When is enough finally enough, America?
Over 76 years ago, Huey Long saw it with crystal clarity:
We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away for a handful of financial slaveowning overlords who make the tyrant of Great Britain seem mild.
Much talk is indulged in to the effect that the great fortunes of the United States are sacred, that they have been built up by the honest and individual initiative, that the funds were honorably acquired by men of genius far-visioned in thought. The fact that those fortunes have been acquired and that those who have built them for the financial masters have become impoverished is a sufficient proof that they have not been regularly and honorably acquired in this country.
Even if they had been that would not alter the case. I find that the Morgan and Rockefeller groups alone held, together, 341 directorships in 112 banks, railroad, insurance, and other corporations, and one of this group made an after-dinner speech in which he said that a newspaper report had asserted that 12 men in the United States controlled the business of the Nation, and in the same speech to this group he said, "And I am one of the 12 and you the balance, and this statement is correct."
They pass laws under which people may be put in jail for utterances made in war times and other times, but you can not stifle or keep from growing, as poverty and starvation and hunger increase in this country, the spirit of the American people, if there is going to be any spirit in America at all.
Unless we provide for the redistribution of wealth in this country, the country is doomed; there is going to be no country left here very long.
That may sound a little bit extravagant, but I tell you that we are not going to have this good little America here long if we do not take to redistribute the wealth of this country."
--Huey Long, speech in the Senate, 29th April, 1932
Now, the same bastards through their progeny are once again trying to maintain their financial stranglehold over this nation and its people.
Rise up, America - awaken from your slumber and do what Huey Long tried to do before they killed him in cold blood.
Rise up from the economic ashes and take back what is rightfully yours.
Submitted by qrswave on Fri, 2008-09-26 01:27
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