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- agaiziunas, on 09/23/2008, -5/+121Whoever is holding the sign forgot to add the word "epic".
Fail.. economic policy. and FAIL.. hair club for men. - muckemuck, on 09/23/2008, -1/+87Whoever was holding that sign.. thank you.
The other great one that was being held up above Bernanke's head was "Welfare for the wealthy" - boulder555, on 09/23/2008, -0/+70Would you buy a used car from these guys?
- Wryly, on 09/23/2008, -1/+33Don't pass Go. Don't collect 700 billion dollars.
- Betrayal, on 09/23/2008, -3/+34Abolish the Feds
- edstate, on 09/23/2008, -1/+31Wait, we're supposed to just sit here while you make us, the taxpayers pay for ***** mortgages that were given to people who can't afford them, and won't pay back... ESPECIALLY if they become "government backed... which the Government made the banks do in the first place with 20 years of ever-increasing "low income home ownership" quotas?
WTF?! - juankovo, on 09/23/2008, -2/+30Trickle-down Communism!
- neozeed, on 09/23/2008, -1/+26Why should we reward failure?
This "bailout" is BS.
Down with poorly run companies!!! (like this shouldn't be obvious...) - inactive, on 09/23/2008, -0/+22looks like i just did, for $2300, and you did too
- XenoSNK, on 09/23/2008, -4/+25His name was Robert Paulson.
- gardengrocer, on 09/23/2008, -1/+20It's up to the American taxpayers to make sure these two never succeed!
- agaiziunas, on 09/23/2008, -1/+15Last time I checked they helped cause the potential global economic collapse, manipulated the media in to spoonfeeding you "fear" rhetoric, and are about to take everyone's retirement plans.
- juankovo, on 09/23/2008, -1/+14So you'd prefer to just trust the people who said just a couple of months ago that Everything's Fine?
- BillDBerg, on 09/23/2008, -1/+15Paulson left a 40 MILLION a year job with Sachs to take a 200K a year job with the Gov't
He's either the most altruistic man ever or he figures he can steal enough (700 billion) for him and his former BOSS of Sachs, which of course is one of the banks that owns the Federal Reserve.. which in turn just acquired a trillion dollar AIG for about 8.5 cents on the dollar while the taxpayers get the bill
The great depression history says was CAUSED by the Fed Reserve when it dried up credit. Sound familiar. If you want to make a lot of money, invest in ONLY what you see the Rockefellars, Rothchilds etc. invest in. - agaiziunas, on 09/23/2008, -0/+13Not fake. Getty images, taken from Denverpost.com
- NewGTGuy, on 09/23/2008, -1/+13To us they failed. To them, they are succeeding.
It's all in the plan. One world folks, one world....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8259800846 ...
This speech took place on September 11th, 1990 ---> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toward_a_New_World_O ... - edstate, on 09/23/2008, -0/+10That's what I can't get over about this... why isn't anyone bringing that up!?
If you want to "get more low income families into homes" without addressing the underlying educational, and societal problems, just GIVE THEM SOME ***** MONEY! Like Bush did in 2003 (40,000 families that couldn't afford to pay their rent got $5000 towards a downpayment on a home). At least that's HONEST income redistribution.
But no, Carter, and then Clinton increased these quotas under legal threat, and when the banks screamed (and they DID scream, ala fierce lobbying) Clinton rejiggered Freddie and Fannie to "back" the subprimes. ...Tada! Banks were forced to make bad, risky loans and suddenly the Governmnet said "don't worry, we got them covered!" And people wonder why banks went ***** nuts lending these things out.
The stupidity that caused this mess is almost as mind boggling as the stupidity being exhibited right now at our collective refusal to understand why it happened. - inactive, on 09/23/2008, -1/+10They didn't fail. They succeeded.
- danlowlite, on 09/23/2008, -0/+9Okay, I'm going to bite. Can you give me a scenario or two of what would possibly happen if this doesn't happen?
I'm not being a jerk; I am trying to learn what's going on, but it's not clear to me what the consequences will be depending on the decisions made. - Nodaki, on 09/23/2008, -0/+9I am getting really tired of the response that "we have to do something as the alternative is too horrible to imagine."
Please elaborate on what your crystal ball is telling you about the future sans bailout. - Lucas123, on 09/23/2008, -0/+9A government of the people, by the people and for the people. Wait, where in this policy are the people ... Oh, yeah. The executives who are probably still going to get their golden parachutes after they bail out of their failing financial service firms.
- georgemason01, on 09/23/2008, -1/+10If you mean who will run the monetary system, yes, Congress is supposed to control the printing of money via the Treasury.
Kill the bank. - Infidelcastr0, on 09/23/2008, -1/+11Failout
- widman, on 09/24/2008, -0/+9"The alternative is much, much worse" is the new "Support our troops"
- badwithcomputer, on 09/23/2008, -1/+8...is that kevin from 'the office' in front of the dude holding the sign?
- inactive, on 09/23/2008, -0/+8This is a great shot but DON'T LET IT FOOL YOU! Keep contacting your reps demanding this bailout die....FILIBUSTER!
- agaiziunas, on 09/23/2008, -1/+9Mirror #1: http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/ima ...
- dracostimpy, on 09/23/2008, -0/+7I think "biblical" would be a better adjective.
- sentime, on 09/23/2008, -0/+7win!
hey who wants to buy my broken *****? - TKidd, on 09/23/2008, -1/+8Can I get a what what? er, I mean mirror.
- Rokhan, on 09/23/2008, -2/+9Wait... doesn't Obama support these guys and what they are doing? How can Digg Obama-nation not support them?
- juankovo, on 09/23/2008, -1/+7The best part is that the original lending banks were FORCED to lend to subprime borrowers, through things like the "Community Reinvestment Act" of 2005.
- mediaspree, on 09/23/2008, -0/+6Is your broken ***** pieces of paper with promises to repay money without any funds for something that is loosing value? Well sure! Here is some taxpayer money!
- martinherrera, on 09/23/2008, -4/+10i fear that they will not fail........... we are so f'ed if we don't something
- inactive, on 09/23/2008, -3/+9I love sex
- agaiziunas, on 09/23/2008, -0/+6So a blog is where you get your facts, cool.
FAIL - sagegoku666, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5His name was Robert Paulson
- juankovo, on 09/23/2008, -0/+5And it doesn't even have an engine. Or seats. But there's a BUMPER TO BUMPER EXTENDED WARRANTY, backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government!
- citizenchan, on 09/23/2008, -2/+7I dunno. The one with the beard seems trustworthy!
- axeman78, on 09/23/2008, -0/+5Free market one day, socialism the next.
- inigomntoya, on 09/23/2008, -0/+5Holly: Hi!
Kevin: Hi.
Holly: What do you do?
Kevin: I do the numbers.
Holly: Oh, good for you!
Kevin: You want an M&M
Holly: Oh, no that is so sweet. Thank you though.
Kevin: I keep them here at my desk so that everybody doesn't take them.
Holly: Well that is a very safe place for them.
Kevin: [smiling] Yeah. - muckemuck, on 09/23/2008, -1/+6correct - we're f'ed if if the bailout sails through Congress and the taxpayers are left footing the bill for problems that Bernanke and Paulson knew about years ago and did nothing to fix.
The talking head on CNBC just said this bailout would create additional inflation, but "inflation isn't all bad".. inflation is a tax. They're paying off debt by printing money out of thin air and the additional dollars flooding the market lower the spending power of the dollars you have in your savings account.
We're also f'ed if they do nothing and allow things to fail naturally. Either way it's going to be a very bad year. - govsucks, on 09/23/2008, -3/+8Government = fail
- CosmicJustice, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5We need to slow everything down. Bad business needs to FAIL, not be artificially propped up so they an continue digging a deeper hole that the govt can't dig out of.
- agaiziunas, on 09/23/2008, -0/+5Denver Post, not Drudge.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10537484 - ExoM7, on 09/24/2008, -1/+5Looks like Ron Paul holding the sign up.
- GVR90, on 09/23/2008, -0/+4I don't agree with the bailout as a taxpayer. What I don't know the answer to though is: What would happen if they weren't bailed out? Would it let other companies fill their place and create healthy competition or would it just ensure the economy crashes harder? Trying to figure out/understand what the other 'evil' is of the two options.
- gigamugged, on 09/23/2008, -0/+4Speaking of Rothschilds, I stumbled onto this interesting tidbit yesterday:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=374296&ty ... - alothrop, on 09/23/2008, -1/+5lets go ahead and keep religion and government as separate as possible.
- Rantus, on 06/11/2009, -5/+9The Bush administration's last ditch attempt at an unrestricted power grab. Let's go down the list:
Yale: Barely passed, if he wasn't a Bush then it would have been a freshman FAIL
Harken Energy: FAIL
Governor of Texas: FAIL (3,2,1.. the Bird!)
2000 Election: FAIL
9/11 and Global support in the aftermath: FAIL (Skip to Iraq War)
Afghanistan War: FAIL
Iraq War: FAIL
US Economy: EPIC FAIL
What's left now huh? What haven't they completely screwed up (actually, I shouldn't even ask because there is still 3 months left in his term)? -
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