Letters to the Editor
Sgt Rock
Published Letters: 103 Editor's Choice: 1
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Just Another Reason To Vote 3rd Party
[Read the article: Senate Democrats love Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The sad fact is that warning signs of this housing bubble crisis were known for years by these financial firms and government officials yet they chose to ignore them hoping it would all go away. Yet anyone who warned about it was ridiculed. But now that this day of reckoning has arrived, Obama and others would have us give authority to those who chose to ignore these signs and lead us out of this mess?
Why should I believe anything that they say when in the original bill, “Decisions by the Secretary (Paulson) pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”
Is this some kind of joke? Did I go to bed one night in America and wake up in Soviet Russia? Do you really believe that I should give my freedom away to this loon?
All of this is too eerily similar to the run up to the Iraq War where politicians claimed that if we did not invade ASAP, Saddam would unleash WMD against America. That time, any dissenting voice was not only ridiculed, like now, but their very patriotism was questioned.
That will not happen now. If these troubled financial firms cannot survive, they should use the laws and courts already in place and declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy punishes these firms. But a bailout transfers the obligation from these firms that authorized risky loans to the taxpayers.
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US Senate: Bought By Wall Street
[Read the article: McCain and Obama cross paths in the Senate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Disgusting.
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Wall Street Laughing At Us Rubes
[Read the article: Don't call it a bailout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Make no mistake. This is a bald faced robbing of the American Public courtesy of the Democrats and Republicans.
Every ONE of our so-called 'representatives's who voted for this fleecing of America Disgust me to my very being.
Vote Third Party.
This is NO other alternative.
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Comrade Bush Welcomes You To The USSA.
[Read the article: Wall Street: Three cheers for socialism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His Commie Masters are proud of their Manchurian Candidate
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McCain's Link To Terrorists And Liberty Haters
[Read the article: Poor John McCain: Forced against his honor to run an ugly campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Their names are Bush and Cheney and they are good friends with McCain.
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Shut Down The DEA - Mommy Gov't At Its Worse
[Read the article: Budget cutting? Take a hatchet to the war on drugs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great article Joe;
Here are more budget cutting options.
Shut down all overseas military bases - from The Netherlands, to Germany and Japan - let them defend their own nations.
Too much fat in the Federal Government - show down the Dept of Education, the Commerce Dept for starters.
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A Load Of Rubbish
[Read the article: Obama's winning argument]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama and McCain both voted for the Billionaire Bailout.
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Obama + McCain = Pro Bail Out
[Read the article: Steven Pearlstein and the strange pro-bailout justifications]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just another reason to vote third party.
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Is Detroit worth saving?
[Read the article: Is Detroit worth saving?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No.
Why reward incompetence?
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I Await The Return Of Our Liberties
[Read the article: Salon Radio: Anthony Romero]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And while we are at it, end the War on Drugs.
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Here We Go Again
[Read the article: Get over it, Clinton haters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you oppose HC, you are a sexist. So you must love her unconditionally.
You've come a long way baby.
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And You Laughed At Me For Supporting Ron Paul
[Read the article: Progressive complaints about Obama's appointments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least he has principles and was against the war, against US Empire building, against the Patriot Act, against FISA, against the War on Drugs, against the Wall Street Bailout.
Now go look up the word principle you 'progressives.'
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Great Points Glenn
[Read the article: Ideology vs. pragmatism: Is one more important than the other?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read the same article this morning and similar thoughts went through my head. In a nutshell, how does one separate ideology from 'pragmatism?'
But let's say I'm pragmatic. I see the condition the US budget is in and say 'isn't it time we shut down all US overseas military bases? It is really putting a strain on US taxpayers. Besides, why can't these nations defend themselves?'
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Like Kriston, Friedman Is Hardly Ever Right
[Read the article: The Dangers of Revisionism: Tom Friedman tries to hide his "very big stick"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How do these jokers do it and still keep their jobs? From supporting the Iraq War to so-called 'free markets,' these clowns are almost always wrong.
Friedman's The World is Flat touted globalization and 'free markets.' But when things turned a little sour, he's all for Big Government intervention. He should at least be consistent.
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Team America: World's Police
[Read the article: Team America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We can't afford to police the world any longer. Nor should we if we didn't have massive deficits.
We have military bases from The Netherlands, to Germany and Japan.
This is nothing but military welfare which breeds dependency.
Let those nations guard their own borders.