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The Wall Street bailout bill is a lot of things -- a giveaway, a heist, a legislative manifestation of crony corruption. But it's structure is pure authoritarian capitalism.
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This suggests to me is that even parts of the Establishment and the business community are waking to how the intersection of kleptocracy and this bailout bill could continue to undermine confidence in the economy.
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Why stop with Wall Street? There are plenty of other crises for which McCain could come to the rescue. Take the New York Mets, for example.
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If there's going to be a bailout, bailout from the bottom and let the benefits trickle upward. The ruling class can't imagine how things would work for them if we did that.
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band-aid on a broken leg..
http://grantlingel.blogspot.com
Did Bush attach a signing statement to say he will do whatever the hell he wants anyway?
"they're dire language"
Please -- THEIR dire language.
Why can't we have a smaller government that doesn't have their fingers in everything? I want a government that has a nonintervention policy in other countries and allows the free market to deal with problems in the economy.
No bailouts, no rescue plan. Let's say no to saving the wealthy, say no to continued overborrowing, no to dependence on credit, no to usury, no to putting more massive debt on the backs of our children and grandchildren. Let the private money interests save themselves. Fund Social Security, fund health care, fund education, pay livable wages, fund heating for the cold this coming winter, fund food for the hungry. Let's get our priorities straight, now. No bailout for the wealthy. No welfare for the wealthy. No more corporate welfare. Let's have a democracy and help people instead of monied interests.
AGREED
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