TimesToCome

This bailout for $700 billion dollars is roughly equal to 10% of all US money in existence. Now if you add in the Iraq war ( $600 billion ), and FannieMae/FreddieMac ( $20 billion ), AIG ( $20 billion ) then W, Congress, the Federal Reserve and out of control CEOs have blown 18% of all  United States money greedily gamboling for more. Now we, the middle class and poor, are supposed to bail out the super wealthy.

We have an FDIC, perhaps you’ve heard of them?  They insure all accounts in banks worth less than 100,000.  How many of you doesn’t that cover?

Bernarke has been doing his best to terrorize the stock market into collapsing.  Every time he opens his mouth it is a threat of dire consequences should we not give the Federal Reserve and Paulson, unlimited power and money.  Why the scare tactics if the government is doing the right thing?

The Democrats are holding out saying we need to block Golden Parachute payments to CEOs of bailed out companies.  Is this a joke?  Hold back the bonuses?  How about we throw all these greedy corrupt bums in jail?

Printing money is inflation, and inflation is a tax on the poor and middle class who tend not to hold ‘hard’ assets.

It is time we took back the government that is supposed to be ‘of the people, for the people’, clearly neither party in DC meets that standard.

I say if they vote for this bailout, we vote them out and we recall and impeach anyone we can not vote out of office.

I gave up writing politicians. You have the net. Blog your thoughts on the bailout, Digg them, YouTube them. Plaster your thoughts on the ‘Billionaire Bailout’ all over the net. Let DC know just how much this displeases you.

Consider this: If we’re going to pump $700b into banks to keep the economy flowing, shouldn’t we be putting into banks that are not failing?

Take the Pledge. I did:
Pledge to vote against representatives who vote for bailout petition

See also:
A bailout we don’t need
Lobbyists in feeding frenzy
NPR Why Congress Objects to the Bailout Plan
One set of thieves bails out another set of thieves
McCain was thick in the previous banking/mortgage scandal he doesn’t need to go to DC, he knows all about these scams already.
25 Harsh reactions to the Bailout for Billionaires

On a dark but light note: Request for urgent confidential business relationship Clearly our leaders have been reading too many 419 scams in their inboxes.

Today I went out and stumped for a local politician.

I arrived at the polls bright and early and stood with the other campaign workers waving signs at passing voters. Except there were so very few voters. We waved at all the cars passing by. It reminded me of being a child and pumping my arm trying to get the 18 wheeler drivers to blow the horn. Most of the cars passing us switched to the lane away from us going by. I’m not sure if that is because they felt guilty about not voting or they felt we were crowding them.

There was a mix of men and women waving signs, small 30ish to 60ish women who had not had boob jobs and 30 something to 60 something men. It was funny, not a single person there was overweight. Do overweight people not work the polls? Or is it some other selection effect?

You’all who know me will be amazed to know that this politician was given the highest rating the ‘Christian Coalition’. I explained that I thought church and state should stay far away from each other. He told me they weren’t a religious group. ???

Any how deep here in the Bible belt I’m not sure there are any non-approved politicians and this guy has a reputation for being a hard worker and for getting things done.