Letters to the Editor
Gordon Wagner
Published Letters: 794 Editor's Choice: 16
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I'm still trying to comprehend
[Read the article: The big bailout squeeze]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How Senator Feinstein (on YouTube) could cheerfully announce that she was voting yes immediately after explaining that out of 93,000 calls on the matter to her offices that 85,000 of those calls wanted her to vote it down.
What representative democracy? What am I left with as far as recourse? Obviously 85,000 calls to Senator Feinstein wasn't enough to sway her.
Is a bad fix better than no fix at all? No, it is not, it's business as usual, one more little bindle of black tar for the suits.
I think I'll go read up on how well the Hoover bank bail out worked back in the day. That led to the bankruptcy of the US Treasury, did it not? A piece of history which doesn't seem to be mentioned much these days.
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He's not gone yet
[Read the article: Bushonomics, revisited]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And he won't be until late January of 2009.
One could suggest that Bush43 is cooling his heels until the election so that he doesn't do more to scuttle McSame's bid -- after that? Anyone's guess.
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Is her hair covering her ears?
[Read the article: Is Sarah Palin just playing dumb?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then I'd bet what's left of my retirement fund that she's wearing an earpiece.
She wears her hair up for two months and then tonight it's down?
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How about a bake sale, Arnold?
[Read the article: Credit crisis, California-style]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did the banks ever come clean about just how much worthless/overvalued paper they're holding..?
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So if you pack an abhorrent piece of legislation with enough baubles
[Read the article: House approves bailout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can get it to pass? I feel more sad than angry at this point.
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The NeoCons were big on warning us about the "Iraqi Threat"
[Read the article: Salon Radio: L.A. Times' Tim Rutten on Ahmadinejad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In order to get the US to do their bidding. Gee whiz, I wonder if that couldn't possibly be happening with Iran?
Our dear, beloved ally, Israel, has been positively apoplectic trying to get its golem, the US, to stomp on Iran's fledging nuclear POWER program (3% enrichment versus 97% enrichment for nuclear weapons), which, the last I checked, was 100% legal according to the treaty signed by, among others, the USA and Iran.
The willful mistranslation of Ahmadinejad's "page of history" remark is a lie that's been repeated over and over again in the western media. Is that any accident?
Since the US has so much ink and pixels to demonize Ahmadinejad for his never-said-it remark, how about a little love for the Israel spy rings which remain forbidden to report on, the ones operating inside the US? There are so many fascinating tales which remain off-limits and suppressed involving the behavior of Israel inside the US that it seems like a shame to completely ignore them, year after year after year.
The Iranian threat. Has Iran co-opted US foreign policy to its own ends? Has Iran somehow eased its way into the American consciousness as some kind of "sister" nation? A relationship beyond questioning or even examination?
Is that coffee I smell?
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Dana Owens?
[Read the article: Queen Latifah to play Gwen Ifill ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is this "Queen Latifah" moniker?
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Moving towards a solution
[Read the article: Ask Pablo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Might include immunity from prosecution for Monsanto et al in order to see their lab notes on the effects of their various ag chemicals to see if it includes detrimental effects on bee colonies.
Corporations cannot tell the truth without immunity from prosecution. It would be a good first step to save the bees on a larger scale. Witness Germany's recent banning of certain ag chemicals with an eye towards bee colony preservation.
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Thank goodness we've relieved the banks of their worthless paper
[Read the article: Global economy panic attack; Dow drops 500]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And if we all rub our forelegs together and sing Kumbaya then maybe someday all those wildly overpriced pieces of paper will become worth their insanely inflated face values.
But if the banks believed that, they would simply have held onto the paper themselves, yes?
Oh my, we've been had. Again. But that was the object of the exercise, was it not?
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@marko1965
[Read the article: How McCain could tilt the Supreme Court]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Chinese rightly observed that no dynasty remains robust after two hundred years -- so the US has been decaying for the past thirty years, at least...
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Mainstream media drops "bailout" like a hot potato
[Read the article: Wall Street shudders, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What public anger? LOOK! OJ IS GUILTY! HOLY SHIT!!
Bread and circuses, my friends.
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Does anyone have the slightest faith in Bernanke?
[Read the article: Another day, another radical Fed plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just asking.
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Minivans
[Read the article: Could you be a hockey mom?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The soccer moms (and dads) here were nearly always humorless, big, fat, dumb and really, really into whatever sport was at hand. The soccer moms drove dirty American-made minivans or SUVs which often had Christian stickers or decorations on them. Nothing clever or even humorous ever escaped their rubbery lips. They were all 100% for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Lots of Christians.
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IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT! IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT!!
[Read the article: Prelude to the debate: Dow falls 508]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]hahahahaha. Couldn't resist that -- you know @ some point Palin will be spouting some version of that or another.
Isn't it GREAT how we're somehow able to afford an expensive occupation of Iraq @ a couple billion a month? How do we afford this all? It's amazing, isn't it? Makes a fellow proud to be an American.
Both of the candidates supported the bailout.
Where are the exits? I want to find one now.
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Realtors are parasites
[Read the article: Can a global rate cut stop the bleeding?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They ought to be ashamed to take money for doing nothing.
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How about nationalizing the Federal Reserve
[Read the article: Laissez-faire: Rest in peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and having the Treasury Department take over operations? That way we might eventually have money backed by something other than (hot) air.
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Lehman's CDS auction tomorrow should prove edifying
[Read the article: Dow disaster -- down nearly 700 points]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has any bank come clean on just how severe their exposure is to worthless paper?
You might want to hit the ATM on your way to work for the sake of, uh, convenience...
(and cash in your investment and retirement accounts and the kid's college fund.)
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@rizla
[Read the article: Dow disaster -- down nearly 700 points]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Train wrecks are more entertaining when you're not a passenger or standing on the trains in front of the train...
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So after Dubya declares martial law
[Read the article: Coping with a crazy-making economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the best concealable weapon to kill a soldier with in order to steal his battle rifle? Hey bro how's it goin' you want a cigarette beer joint? Aim for the spinal cord.
Wait WAIT I meant to write that I'm sure that our new monetary czar "Lucky" Paulson has things well under control and that our paper money will continue to be worth, well, next to nothing...
Soup... gold... cartridges...