All of a sudden the fox wants to tell us how to shore up the hen house!  He didn’t know what the flawed regulatory structure that was in place until he got on the inside!  Yeah, right.  These flaws are exactly what he exploited to make his hundreds of millions of dollars of personal worth.  Now he wants a federal commission?  we did have standards and enforcement, until you fuckers did away with the exisiting regulations and then prevented the state regulators and attorneys general from taking action, when they saw this train coming and wanted to stop it.

If i am already on the hook and will bear the cost, then giving you my last few pennies won’t help.  Burn in hell Paulson.

I can’t believe these Senators are allowing you to speak in circles without nailing your ass to a cross.  If the federal reserve had responsibility for regulating and maintaining stability, then you have failed miserably and should be fired, immediately.

Let me get this straight, these fuckers want the taxpayers of America to hold to maturity debts which are worthless today and which will always be worthless, and which the banks themselves don’t want to hold on their books. If it is a good value for the taxpayer to hold their shitty assets, then why in the hell don’t they just keep them?  Since when is anyone on wallstreet interested in doing anythign but make money?

Yet, Paulson, you propose a circular argument in support of why Americans should buy these assets. The very reasons that you propose for taxpayers to buy these assets are the precise reasons that wall street is supposedly in need of this trillion dollar bailout. Don’t you see, we are not all dumb and know snake salesmen when we see them. Paulson is nearly a billionaire and made a great sum of money at goldman sachs exploiting the deregulation that currently exists and is the basis for this entire falling house of cards. Yet we are supposed to trust Paulson, the fox, to be in our hen house? He would love nothing more than to dole out taxpayer money to his wall street banker friends, as they race to see who will become the world’s first trillionaire.

These same fuckers who dug this hole are going to get bailed out and then have responsibility to manage, once again, the very same assets, fuck no!  Paulson will simply divy up the loot between the Busch mafia and deposit the money into offshore accounts in countries from which they cannot be extradited.

Bullshit, fuck them, all of them. Not my money, not today, not ever. We at the bottome cannot fall any farther.  If this happens, there is certain to be a civil uprising in this country and an outright war between the classes. This is a very, very dangerous time.  Our country may just launch into an outright civil war.

The republicans are such hypocrites.  Welfare is bad, unless you are the super rich; then it is not only OK to take government money but Bush would have one think that if we don’t help these poor rich people, we will all suffer, our economy will crash and the hard working American will suffer horrendous consequences as a result. Well, for those of you lucky enough to be rich and out of touch, the lives of most hard working Americans is already pretty fucked up and is not going to get better because some rich billionaires just received their welfare checks from the government.  There is no doubt in my mind that the nearly one trillion dollars of our money that Bush wants to give to his friends will never be invested in the U.S. economy.  These billionaire welfare recipients will immediately invest the money overseas.

udon’t trust Bush, a President who told lies to us and to the world so that he could start an unjust war. Bush will do anything or say anything to steal more money from the U.S. Treasury, including concocting another “crisis” that requires the American public to be saddled with more than one trillion dollars in additional debt. How in the world can Bush expect any thinking person to believe that he and his economic team “solved” this problem in a couple of days when “they didn’t see it coming in the first place?” Am I really supposed to trust anyone who would decide in a matter of hours whether to spend one trillion of someone else’s money, especially when the irrational decision will directly benefit his friends, the richest people in this country, who already don’t pay their fair share of taxes? Doesn’t the Country deserve more than a cursory examination of the ramifications of such an incomprehensible decision?

This is criminal. When will the American public wake up and refuse to take this? I still have not been able to see how rescuing failed companies that have already siphoned hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S. economy will help someone who is out of a job, has lost their home to foreclosure or is drowning in medical debt. The “trickle down” lie is continually put forth as a necessary component of a strong free economy. This is the same President and Congress that will ponder for months or years about funding federal programs that would benefit the very poor and other hard working Americans. Where in the world is this money coming from? Veterans are fighting to keep their measly benefits, seniors are hungry and without affordable medicine, Americans are losing their businesses on Main Street and their homes are being foreclosed upon, more than 47 million Americans do not have health insurance and others are living in poverty because the health insurance they do have is not affordable, our schools are crumbling, and the infrastructure of our country is in a deplorable condition, resulting in lives lost due to collapsed brides and broken levies. This doesn’t even take into consideration that the victims of Hurricane Katrina were never adequately cared for nor given the financial assistance that they needed. It was just a few days ago that Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc on southern Texas and the unfortunate poor folks in this situation will also likely be told that there is no money to bail them out of their unfortunate circumstance.

Frankly, it doesn’t make sense to me that the government is going to use the money of tax paying, hard working Americans to rescue greedy Wall Street billionaires and save their companies from ruin, those same companies that have already bilked the American public. This will basically make it more likely that more people will face foreclosure. Wouldn’t it make more sense for hard working Americans to be bailed out by a mandatory freeze on all foreclosures, penalties and interest for a few months? How about an automatic adjustment of every mortgage to a fixed interest rate? Sure, some will still be lost to foreclosure but millions more will be saved by the elimination of escalating interest rates, penalties and interest.

I want to know exactly who is getting how much and the justification for each welfare check that is to be issued.  I want complete transparency into the recipients, who will be making the determinations and under what conditions is the money being given or lent.  This is bullshit!  After this week of panicked messaging, carefully crafted by the republican crooks, including president bush, I have the same feelings of nausea, anger and disbelief, as I did when Bush and the republicans started weaving their web of lies to go to war with Iraq.  This and the war in Iraq (and the response to Hurricane Katrina and the soon to be response to Hurricane Ike) are simply sleight of hands to steal this country’s wealth and transfer it to the private sector.  Just like then, anyone who is opposed to what has been a knee-jerk response to a Bush administration crisis will quickly labeled unpatriotic and a traitor to his country.  If you simply substitute the economic language for that of the WMD threat and the purported justifications for going to war, the language is exactly the same, right down to the sense of urgency that is required to stave off a catastrophic event.

Where are our congressional leaders, governors and other elected officials.