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Because the economy does have most of the people's attention and their anxiety level is close to meltdown. Which can fuel outrage...
Wall Street is getting all the flak, but how did their fall really happen? How could the reasons NOT involve Bush/Cheney? Especially after the release of these DOJ opinions ` ones that show outright that there was a secret government cabal running the country...the banks and the stock market would not have been skipped over in their scenario.
It would be a full-time job to out the kiss-ass journos. Maybe that should be a daily sidebar on your page: KAJ Alert! or Watch...with short blurbs about one of these many fluffers.
Your readers like it when the mighty then try to defend themselves...Perhaps the shining criticism will yield a sea-change from the guilted? You may as well write it because you are aware of these examples and it makes you mad as hell, just like me! And I'm guessing that it nags at you to be told.
If you tell it, they will, too. Because it's your time, you have the chops!
for King). I had to send it to a main email. What does that say?
Plus, they ask you to check if your comment is positive or negative! I checked neither until required to do so or lose my chance to "comment". Well, uh, it's positive for me to point out that Cheney is a criminal and the MAJORITY of Americans hate him and his sorry record and sorrier delusional memory. And it's negative for John King and CNN because they don't know YET what the American people think despite the recent election AND King asked no hard questions when Cheney out and out lied!
If Cheney thinks we will be attacked, he better let the Feds know or he is complicit. Oh, I forgot. He was complicit in 2001 either as Head of Wargames or as a pooh-pooh-er of the August 6th DB warning.Whad a guy.
Has he no shame? He needs to be run out of town with Bush and Rove and that Stepford wiffery Dana Perino!Frank Gaffney, too. (Thanks Chris Matthews).
I also emailed The White House and gave kudos to Robert Gibbs for telling it. Loved it!
Why don't you all email these guys, too? I'm gonna find the creeps who complained in the press briefing and email their ass!
And because derivatives are too complicated for AIG to explain or for us rubes to understand (they sold air! over and over!), "bonus" is not. And it is tied to "good dog".
But the amount of the bonuses is so puny compared to the 1.6 trillion in derivatives (air) still in AIG's portfolio which is still threatening the economy...that we are distracted from the real story. Gas-lighted again.
Because either someone slipped in other "loopholes" in the 1100- page bill (still to be discovered) and therefore illegally signed by Bush (recall S1932 Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005) or the Congress is more ignorant than we thought.
How is all this going to help me pay my mortgage on time?
I can't seem to get it back.
I'm not ready to devalue Obama until that whole drama is clear.I'm confident there will be evidence of fraud.
It seems Obama believes he has picked a good team and he is trusting them to do a job they may not have the objectivity or organizational skills to do. He's delegating. If you don't know what is going on, you cannot be transparent about it.
He really should ask "The Sheriff of Wall Street", Eliot Spitzer, about AIG and the others. After all, he went after these guys and then they shut him up with a sex scandal, the only kind that gets punished, forever.
Instead of giving any company any more billions, why don't we try it this way: Give every household $1,000,000 or some big figure that uses the same amount of upcoming BO for AIG. Surely, we the people can stimulate the economy with transparency and be damn happy about it! Mr. Reich please do the math...how many people got stimulus checks the last time? How many at the same address? 170 Billion divided by that number is: a huge shot to the US economy and the world economy and the gloom hanging over everyone. Ya think? This idea is way more "for the people". Oh, and it will have a 0% tax on it...
All the leet-el Bushies hate FDR and, with the neo-con P-NACkers, planned for and apparently succeeded (despite "Democracy", swoon) in ringing the death knell for SS and Medicare and other New Deal ideas. Things for you and me and our kids. Things we don't mind paying our taxes for. The things Obama promised.
Now...
Instead of healthcare? We might get kleenex.
Instead of education improvements? We might get a copy of "Job-hunting for Dummies", on audio tape.
Instead of green technology? We get a snorkel kit.
Instead of prosecuting government/administration criminals? We get to listen to them, on TV, and read in print, their constant propagandistic re-write of history while they and their Wall Street bankers and friends continue their high lifestyles...
Un-Freakin' Believable! V for Vendetta's lookin' pretty reasonable right now....But will any sheeple join me?
We are WAY past enuff! Enough, too!
Who, besides GG and Amy Goodman, is demanding prosecutions? Maybe NYS AG Andrew Cuomo would.
Let's write to him or download a complaint form from his website and send it in.
I need to do something with my mad.
Wrong is wrong no matter how many people are doing it!"
So, what do we do? Who, with visible power/TV time, will continue to coax the outrage GG has elucidated?
Is there a DOJ email address to use to complain?
I don't want to feel impotent for another 8 years.