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Gordon Wagner

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Monday, September 29, 2008 09:21 AM

"Might not be enough" -- didn't you read Paulson's draft?

$700 Billion AT ANY ONE TIME -- hey, keep it flowing, it's an emergency, you can trust us to tell you when we've had enough...

Monday, September 29, 2008 07:50 AM
Original article: Bailout expected to pass

I'm so glad that calling my reps over and over did so much good

Calls like "NO! NO WAY! NO WAY! NO BAILOUT! NO WAY!" left, I felt, very little wiggle room. Bailout? NO. NO WAY.

Let it fail horrifically. Bailing out Wall Street? CEOs departing failed corporations with $20 million golden parachutes? Are you JOKING? NO FUCKING WAY!

And here we are, another cheerful Monday, my grandchildren saddled with how much debt before they're born? This is THEFT on a vast scale. We lock up negro crack dealers for life after "three strikes" but rich white CEOs skate away, counting their millions.

What part of NO did you refuse to understand? Fuck the Feds, fuck the banks. They bit off more than they could chew and they ought to take their lumps because of it, NO bailout.

Angry? Oh, I was angry BEFORE this latest debacle rolled down the chute -- I'm several stages beyond angry at this point.

When do our politicians appear before adoring throngs to tell them the good news? Who was that Indian CEO who was killed by angry workers? We could use headlines like that in the USA.

CEOs and Congressional reps versus angry taxpayers. Place your bets.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 04:03 PM

Paulson already GOT a blank check and used it on AIG

Screw the bailout. No fucking way. Let the Fed fail, and good riddance.

The idea of keeping such a corrupt system alive on life support is offensive. LET IT DIE ALREADY the world will be a better place.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 08:40 AM
Original article: Dogged by controversy

Concerned Women for America celebrates Our Rape Heritage

What could possibly be more American than mixing sex with violence?

Rape is SACROSANCT. The Concerned Women for America know this and are to be applauded.

Friday, September 26, 2008 07:23 PM

One can only hope

That the reports I read on my favorite "fringe" (ie dissident) websites of GOP insiders tearing their hair out in frustration over Ms. Palin's "cluelessness" are at least half-true.

Friday, September 26, 2008 05:52 PM

Embrace and celebrate dumbfuckism

Because JESUS wants us to. JESUS needs only programmable sheep. Dumb fucking idea rolling your way? EMBRACE IT. ADOPT IT AS YOUR OWN. No idea is too dumb to promote.

Don't think. Let go. Let God.

My God, she's like Dubya with tits.

Friday, September 26, 2008 03:49 PM

If the system is as rotten as everyone seems to think it is

why not let it fail? With a SPLAT.

btw could some responsible adult explain why Nancy Pelosi is front-and-center with Paulson and Cox pushing for this stark rip-off? Is she a Lieberman Democrat?

The bailout is not on the table, Nancy.

Friday, September 26, 2008 10:21 AM

Let's stick to the issues.

He's white.

Thursday, September 25, 2008 09:51 AM
Original article: George Bush's scary story

Let me explain this in a way you will understand, Mr. President

No. Nothing doing. Let the shit hit the fan. No bailout. NO WAY.

Thursday, September 25, 2008 06:14 AM

What's the big hurry?

And I agree with the writer above, perhaps Congress can be bothered to WORK next week rather than take off to observe a religious holiday observed by 2% of the population.

What's the rush? When someone is rushing you, they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes. No oversight? Trust Secretary Paulson? Are you people insane?

NO. FUCKING. WAY.

The banks/whomever bet on derivatives, they got burned, they can take the hit. Life will go on.

NO BAILOUT.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 03:56 PM

Shut down the Federal Reserve.

Our currency is worth next to nothing. It's INSANE to have a central bank -- fiat currency is a losing proposition to all except those who print the money.

Bail out the bankers? For more of the same? No way. No way in hell.

Ever known anyone who didn't get burned with derivatives? And we're supposed to bail out CEOs and CFOs who receive millions of dollars in salary? You must be joking.

Let it fail. Rebuild it on solid ground. If the Fed's out of money, it's THEIR problem -- it's a private bank. No bailout.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:04 PM

Bending over backwards to appease AIPAC

1. Israel is a foreign country

2. AIPAC represents that foreign country

3. Why is a US Presidential candidate embarrassing himself to appease a foreign country?

4. Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

5. Israel has not.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 09:55 AM
Original article: Where is the outrage?

Outrage? I'm furious.

>The Bush administration isn’t blameless in letting this get out of hand, but clearly the origins of the disaster and the efforts to keep bad policies in place fall on the Democrats in this case.

What? Uh, Linda Mae, I was alive and aware when Reagan was in office. "The Bush administration isn't blameless..." no shit?

So I make phone calls and I write letters. As I've done going on thirty-five years.

How about if Paulson, Bernanke, the willing cohorts Pelosi and Reid, et cetera, take a nice, slow JFK-style tour of every American city? Kind of get back in touch with the American people. As in showing their faces. When was the last time you saw a politician? When was the last time a politician was in range, so to speak?

Angry? You have no idea.

An appointed President, a false-flag attack with its requisite cover-up, wars of aggression, shredding the Constitution, a plummeting dollar, and now a just-trust-us bailout with no oversight nor legal recourse after the fact?

You have got to be putting me on. We need to scuttle the Fed (A PRIVATE BANK) -- if they're broke, so be it. The FED and not the US taxpayers can pay off their worthless Federal Reserve notes.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 08:52 AM
Original article: The fungible candidate

Miss Teen South Carolina

Now HERE we have a Democratic commercial ready to go.

"Do you want this freaking airhead in the White House?"

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 08:37 AM

Typical Republican piffle

Further raping of the environment will not reduce gas prices. The oil corporations will vend the oil @ OPEC prices.

The reason gas prices are high has more to do with the plummeting value of the US dollar rather than the number of well heads.

The Democrats manage to fumble another one and look like morons doing it.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 07:08 AM

Arctic pack ice up 9% this summer

Can you say "Ice Age"?

Mankind couldn't change the climate if it wanted to.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 05:52 AM
Original article: Wall Street on trial

Move on, my ass

The Federal Reserve ought to be SHUT DOWN. No central bank in the US ever again.

NO bailout. NO WAY.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 05:39 AM
Original article: Wall Street on trial

If Bernanke and Paulson were publicly hanged...

It would be a good first step.

I've BEEN angry since Bush43 was appointed President. By this time I'm fucking furious. I realize that gasoline is expensive, but if we make SMALLER molotov cocktails I think we can afford them.

How many Blackwater goons have to be immolated before we get to the suits?

Bailout? I don't think so.

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