Does it maintain the worldwide derivatives house of cards? I'd like to see the problem addressed in terms of the Federal Reserve issuing worthless fiat currency backed by nothing -- a central bank is ALWAYS a bad idea.

Aren't there upwards of $50 TRILLION in shady derivatives out there? The entire global economy is $15 TRILLION per annum. I don't see how bailing out Paulson's former firm is helping anyone other that... already-rich executives.

I say NO WAY. Let them fall. Scrap the Fed and get the US Dollar back on the gold standard. It worked for Russia. Maybe what we need to effect any real "change" in this country is to hit bottom and then rebuild.

The Federal Reserve is a private bank. Dig into its history. Examine the other central banks the US has suffered under. Central banks are NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY.

Let's not treat this cancer but eliminate it altogether.

Like repealing the Patriot Act, getting the fuck out of Iraq and Afghanistan, restoring Habeas Corpus and best of all getting rid of the Federal Reserve and ending the curse of fiat currency in this country.

Sending Bush43 and Cheney to the Hague to face war crimes charges would be nice, too.

Call their offices NOW. Gee, I see Nancy "Let Them Get Away" Pelosi in the photo with Paulson.

While you're on hold, clean your guns with the other hand. It's time for a new government.

NO bail-out

NO trillion dollar slush fund

NO lack of oversight

I'd like to hear that CEOs are now in prison without bail for gambling and LOSING and expecting Uncle Sam to print more worthless dollar bills to get them out of their hole.

Did you read Paulson's flubbering about why CEOs need to be paid obscene salaries? Gotta love him... he maintained a poker face...

Not. They're in it for the money. And they're corporations, meaning they don't have to face any real accountability.

I remember my little daughter getting immunized against chicken pox... and then coming down with the worst case of chicken pox I'd ever seen. And then giving it to her big brother.

Vaccines. Delightful. Got any more? You have my complete trust.

Banking gamblers win and get to keep their loot. When they fuck up, us taxpayers pick up the tab? Uh... that doesn't sound like much of a deal to me.

Government + Corporatism = Fascism.

How about if we flatly refuse this stupid deal and have the global house of cards (DERIVATIVES) come crashing down? You want a free market economy?

Say, which prison is the ex-CEO of AIG in, exactly?

Oh -- you meant "Suppressed History".

'may contain legislative information that is constitutionally privileged ... and because Mr. Foley has not waived that privilege ... we cannot simply give you access.'

WTF? "Constitutionally privileged"? I don't know if you've been keeping up with current events, but the Constitution has been used as toilet paper since Bush43 was appointed by Fat Tony and the Supremes back around Christmastime 2000.

When a system is completely, thoroughly shot through-and-through with corruption and an endless supply of weasel words to squirm and lie out of any situation, should it not be shut down entirely? SHUN the Federal government, return power to the states... bulldoze every square inch inside the DC Beltway and salt the earth a la Carthage.

Fix it? Burn it and then bury it. Congressional reps, museums, everything. Burn it and then bury it. Start over elsewhere.

Let AIG fail, let it hit the pavement with a nice sickening SPLAT. Free market economics? OK, you fucked up, now you die. Do not pass "Go" and do not collect $85 BILLION DOLLARS.

You gambled foolishly and lost. Now pay up.

So let's celebrate our DIFFERENTLY ABLED citizens! This reminds me of that "There are no winners or losers in this game" type of what-planet-are-you-from child rearing which produces kids that are blindsided by the real world once they are released from whatever Montessori-vegan-peace-love-habitat they've been programmed in.

When you bake a cookie that doesn't exactly turn out right, do you try and incorporate it into the rest of the cookies? Build up its self-esteem? Find a place for it to fit and contribute to society?

Or that great Woody Allen line from "Annie Hall" when he's summoned to vanquish a spider and Diane Keaton's character asks "Did you.. kill it?" and Woody Allen's character answers "Did you want me to rehabilitate it?"

Caribou Barbie (or her daughter) carried their Down's Syndrome kid to term. How nice. Now what? [shaking head]

The older I get, the more I realize that language I'm discouraged from using is probably the only really effective language I can employ to cut through the thick waxy veneer modern media has sprayed over everything.

If Obama were to casually drop something like "McCain is a fucking geezer" off-mic, it would be EFFECTIVE. "Sarah Palin is an underqualified bimbette."

People that want to edit your vocabulary do not have your best interests at heart. Fuck 'em.

And why didn't that nice man who owned the WTC get to collect for TWO separate "terrorist" attacks on 9/11/01? There were two planes! It's a shame he didn't get to own the buildings very long, I'm sure he had a plan to remove all the asbestos from both WTC towers, even though that would have cost more to do than the buildings were worth...

I visualize a literal MOUNTAIN of evidence regarding 9/11/01 and two idiots are discussing "terrorists" while they stand in front of it...

Is there some way to select which announcer mics you want to hear on a broadcast? Can Tony's mic be deselected?