It couldn't have been said better-FROM Jeff Randall's article in the Telegraph from the UK:

"Try a different take. Yes, the West’s financial infrastructure is in severe distress. Yes, more banks are going to crumble. Yes, there will be a recession. But allocating $700bn (it would almost certainly turn out to be more) to a clean-up programme for toxic assets, in effect socialising the poison of private greed, has no merit other than to delay the inevitable. No amount of federal cash can rewind the X-rated horror video.

There is a conspiracy of bankers and politicians whose self-interest is masquerading as sophisticated policy. They want us to believe that they have the keys to salvation. I have not seen a scrap of evidence to confirm this.

There will, of course, be a renewed effort in Washington to push through a package of national deliverance. Concessions will be made. The US taxpayer will be offered improved terms. And, having made their point, having stood up for “traditional American values”, some of the naysayers in the House of Representatives will cross over, enabling a deal to be done. Their consciences will be salved, but the crisis will not be solved."

He just lost my respect and my vote. He helped push this very bad legislation through the Senate, giving the very rich and the very people who caused this crisis a hefty shot in the pocketbook.

Snce I thought he was a decent man, I must now ask this,"What do they know they aren't telling us? HUH?" Drudge hinted that Harry Reid mentioned a major insurance company is a breath away from bankrupcy before he was shut up fast. This 700 BILLION with another 100 BILLION IN TAX CUTS is only going to be the tip of the iceberg. So what's really going on and do they EVER plan on telling us???

If Obama gets elected, he'll be a one shot president. Payback is going to be a big bitch for him as his presidency is going to see double digit inflation, credit stagnation, massive cuts in social programs, unprecidented job losses and unemployment while the rich scream that THEY are the ones still suffering and will want to extend and expand their tax breaks. If he caves in like he did on this round, they'll chew him up like they did Jimmy Carter.

I heard a very good economist on Pacifica Radio explain it this way--No One in the international community is loaning any more money to the banks in the US!!!!!! Our credibility in the world market is zilch. We have NO more assets in this country. No one is buying American. They don't want our bad mileage cars. The major car manufacturers are all on the verge of collapse, we don't make anything else here. GMAC is on the verge of bankruptcy as people can't repay loans. All the jobs were shipped overseas by Clinton and the Republicons. We have no savings, we only have debt. The collapse of the stock market and the finance industry means we have NO MORE good Collateral. The only thing we can do is make weapons and planes. Most of those are propped up and bartered as 'foreign aid' by our government. This is why we have to print up a bunch of worthless money to cook the books even further. They're trying to take the biggest writeoff in the history of mankind but NO ONE, NO ONE, knows how much this is going to be. None of the foreigners with money wants to throw money down a pit and no one from the government is leveling with us on this crisis.

The only useful thing I learned from this administration and the Republicons is how to double speak. Speaking without really lying but not telling any of the full story.

I work a very busy office and have to do it all the time when our network has issues or I have to try and provide a simple explaination to a lay person on why their computer did what it did. Double speak works most of the time, as Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MsNBC, and Satan's Little Helper Condi Rice have all demonstrated. She is a master at it. She should have been coaching Palin. Condi can double speak rings around anyone.

A good double speak conversation is like consuming empty calories - it provides the taste your mouth wanted but still leaves you hungry for something that will actually sustain you. But since you just ate the morsel fed you, your stomach won't notice it's still hungry because the double speak has your brain convinced you were just fed. Now digest that.

Bart Simpson ask Todd and Rod Flanders this question once.

The Republicons shoved their God and christianity mandates down our throats when times were good. They were holy rolling money changers gone wild. Now we have to listen to them asking this same God to forgive them and ease their burden!!!!! Hey they're the ones telling gays their God is a vengeful one and he will smite them down, I guess they're shaking now because IF their God IS a vengeful one, they're now at the top of his shit list! The bible may be vague on some things but Jesus said a lot regarding greedy Pharasees and overlords and how they will be punished for THEIR deeds.

PS, If you fire Chris Cox, please don't send him back here! He was your friend if you were an upper middle class land owner in South Orange County. He was no friend to the rest of us.

Henry Paulson definitely needs to go before he gets his hands on that 750 BILLION dollar gift card scammed by duping the American people!

Was the title I thought got changed when I updated that last rant. Jesus Can't Save was my draft title.

It came from the episode when Bart was using the wireless microphone, posing as God, ordering Rod and Todd to bring him cookies.