The Presidents speech 9/24/2008...

[JMS]

...Turned my stomach!!
I'll expound later when I don't feel like vomiting!

Anyone else want to comment?

[denmason]

All I can say is that I am even more against the bailout than I was before. Get ready for 4 more years. We can "see" a new enemy and it is economic.

[Brother Jeeter]

The ONLY way I would support a bailout, is if everyone involved in crashing several large banks/financial institutions, ARE BROUGHT TO TRIAL! I mean the guys who cooked the books and took millions in bonuses they wouldn't have been entitled to, without the number juggling.
I don't care if they ARE on the staff of a Senator (insert your favorite name here.) They shouldn't be above the law. Give 'em the same treatment Ken Ley got!

[WireBeard]

Sounds like one group of wealthy making excuses to cover for another group of wealthy....they have been skirting with disaster for years and now they come to the taxpayers with their hands out...."we made a boo-boo...."

It's time to see some of these execs doing hard time, the "regulators" who allowed it to happen should be in the prison chow line next to them.

Now we see the results of "creative accounting"........

[ChrisL]

and now they come to the taxpayers with their hands out...."we made a boo-boo...."

I would go a step further and say that I don't believe we taxpayers have any say in this matter. They're not going to ask us if it's OK to bailout any of these companies that continue to fall. Batten down the hatches and put on the flack jackets, my friends.

I've had a theory for years that democrat and/or republican administrations are really just part of a larger cyclical controlled governmental fleecing the non-wealthy scheme; but that's another debate for another day.

Chris L

[Bruno]

I've had a theory for years that democrat and/or republican administrations are really just part of a larger cyclical controlled governmental fleecing the non-wealthy scheme; but that's another debate for another day.

Chris L

Denmason, is that you ??

[denmason]

Denmason, is that you ??

might be contagious...

[WireBeard]

I would go a step further and say that I don't believe we taxpayers have any say in this matter. They're not going to ask us if it's OK to bailout any of these companies that continue to fall. Batten down the hatches and put on the flack jackets, my friends.

Hmmmm...the administration (until today) opposed limits on executive compensation AND any court or regulatory oversight. Congress - shockingly - wasn't budging. I can't believe the parasites that have driven companies into the ground still have the nerve to want exit bonuses? Flack jackets? Based on what is coming out of DC, I think Crisco may be more helpful...the taxpayers are getting bent over yet again.

There's never a barrel of hot tar and a couple hundred pounds of feathers around when you need them.......

[JMS]

Admin, we need a tarred and feathered smiley please

[Quick Orange]

All I know is I'm going to be buying some SHTF gear. If the government is leaving troops here to deal with "civil unrest", something deathly serious might be in the works. I don't intend to to be sitting on my hands if something akin to marshal law is enacted. Not that I plan on starting any trouble of course...it just might come to a point where we go to the mattresses.