How hundreds of lawmakers ended up voting to give banks $17 billion

Posted by $ nickursis 9 years, 5 months ago to Government
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Hmmm. from Huff of course, so may be skewered one way, but overall the whole thing is a good example of just how they play with money like it's just some kind of monopoly game. It isn't real, it's all paper in the end....

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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would waste it on the vets. . may they rest in peace
    and may their families have two nickels to rub together!!! -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 5 months ago
    excuse me, Nick ... it IS real;;; it's OUR money, and the sh!t which
    they do with it f*%ks up retirement accounts and grocery budgets
    and vacation funds and Christmas accounts, and

    I Absolutely Deplore All Of Their Damned Games!!! -- j
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 years, 5 months ago
    I'm not sure I understand the whole thing. Looks
    like more "crony capitalism"(which, in my book, is
    not capitalism at all) to me. But only $17 billion?
    The way they throw around money right and left all
    the time, although, as a matter of principle I
    wouldn't go for it, as an amount it doesn't sound
    like much, when you consider all the hundreds of
    billions, and trillions of dollars they throw around
    all the time.--But then, I may be just numb from
    the astronomical amounts with so many zeros that I hear and read about in the news lately.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 5 months ago
    One disconcerting habit I noticed among government employees back when I was in Air Force Systems Command (the procurement agency at the time) was the tendency to speak of "our" money. I never let the opportunity to go by that I didn't remind them that it wasn't their money, but the taxpayers' hard earned dollars, and that we had a duty to be sure it wasn't carelessly spent. I never had a project that went over budget, or missed a schedule, so of course both contractors and my government cohorts considered me somewhat of a "hardass."
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 5 months ago
    Do you think if I promised to spend it as wastefully as possible, they would let me have some of it?
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Double Ouch, yet no one ever seems to want to make a stink about it. I am pasting it to my FB page. Maybe we need to get together and make a YT channel like GaltTV or something and start our own news broadcast with all this crap, and see if we can get some interest?
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 5 months ago
    Three parts to the socialist triumverate or leadership since 1920s and 1930s. Statists, Corporatists, Union Leaders. This supplanted the older King, Church, Nobles and King, Church Money Lenders

    Work together is an understatement. One party system with what was a blurred statist/corporatist side and a blurred corporatist/statist side. Union leaders as the kickstand to the two main wheels. Neo-Aristocracy almost neo-feudalistic elitist upper class.with some mobility

    Examples Crash of 2008 the little banks had rule changes which wiped them out. the little people including union members saw their money devalued, the little people in the midwest saw ethanol funding go the mega agricorps in exchange for a few jobs and loss of buying power. Home buyers lost out even if credit qualified to those with no credit rating. Eventuall even home owners felt the effects. The congressinals responsible went to million dollar a year jobs.

    More back. SecTreasRuben whose blind trust in home financial investment Goldman Sachs did not recuse himself when Goldman Sachs had a huge share of the loss or profit in the Tesorobono bailout.

    It all fits. ffa's comment.

    Further
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 5 months ago
    Another example of who is really in charge, and who always gets the shaft.
    Ouch!
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