Go Dennis! You, Bernie Sander and Nader are my heroes.

They're asking for another four years -- in a just world, they'd get 10 to 20 ~~ Dennis Kucinich

The economic woes of this country have many contributors... Huge jumps in unemployment, deregulation, refusal of the Bush Administration to police the industry, unscrupulous mortgage brokers who sold ARMS and mortgages that were too big for some people to afford combined with the Fed's interest rate increases... property tax increases on rapidly increasing property values, and huge property insurance increases after the hurricanes.

As the parent of a former government economist, I would like to point out the Gramm--Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 which was passed way beyond the reach of presidential veto... AND the credit card legislation of 2003 / 2004 that doubled and tripled the payments of millions of people with large credit card balances.... THAT was the domino that started the cascade for most people!

Congress is now attempting to put a bandaid on a compound fracture.

Suggested solution: We urge Congress to freeze foreclosures, and use the “bailout” money to create an agency to buy delinquent mortgages and negotiate mortgages the people CAN afford, even if they are 40 year fixed-rate mortgages! Vacant and foreclosed properties are driving ALL of our values down, while also diminishing the tax base of the communities around the country.

I JUST CAME OUT WITH AN IDEA !!

STOP BASHING BUSH, NEOCONS ETC.!!

SPEND YOUR ENERGIES INSTEAD ON THIS:

Why don't you all start to write letters and emails to Kucinich, Ron Paul, Sanders, Jesse Jackson, Cynthia Mckinney, Ralph Nader, Jessy Ventura, Bob Barr, Cindy Sheehan etc. and most of the US Social-Democrats and centrists and leftist progressive reknown popular leaders that are marketable to the US voters and ask them if they could join together into a United Socialist Democratic Front for the 2012 Presidential Elections in the USA.

I think we ought to start working for 2012 right now, that would be the best idea and doing something is better than nothing :-)

LOSING IT !!

The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation,
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration

Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire,
With just the briefest pause ---
The flooding through her memory,
The echoes of old applause.

She limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door...

The writer stares with glassy eyes ---
Defies the empty page
His beard is white, his face is lined
And streaked with tears of rage.

Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision,
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision.

And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more...

Some are born to move the world ---
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be

Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you -- the blind who once could see ---
The bell tolls for thee...

x

Why don't Kucinich, Sanders, and maybe some other congress progs, who obviously see the hoplessness of the duopoly ---- move to the Green (or some other new) party; try to give it national visibility BY initially leading it, while working to build it thru that little bit of initial visibility, etc?

What're they wating for?

Exactly what do they think is going to change otherwise?

Haven't they seen enough?

I respect both Kucinich and Sanders -- but I can't agree with what they're NOT DOING.

Dennis, you're MY president.

I can't believe so much money was stolen from us in such an obvious way.

If the goal had been to help our economy, even building Bridges to Nowhere would have been more successful.

This was not an attempt at a bailout, it was the single biggest con in history.

It will be famous for decades.

I'm sick.

0.8 trillion dollars could have accomplished so much.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, will change as long as this 'make a buck no matter how' mentality persists. The 'revised' bill that was just passed demonstrates this. Instead of helping the needy - no, I am not referring to the Wall Street shysters - new ways have been found to make even more money off of people's misery. This is unethical and immoral.

I believe the US is taking the wrong bailout to the problem confronting it. Across Europe the strategy implemented to fight the problem has been to use government funds to protect investors from the consequences of financial
corporations failing. The US approach is to try and stop those financial
corporations from failing. It is clearly of value if one can stop bank failures. But the problem of attempting to do so it that you reward failure, you allow people to profit from their risk taking by paying large salaries out of the moneys given them, and you do nothing to convince anyone that even with the bailout financial corporations will not fail. It is not bad assets that need to be removed from the system. It is confidence that needs to be restored to the system. Giving banks more money does not remove the underlying fears that they will fail which is locking up credit. The European approach is more painful. It permits failure. But it says we will protect those who trusted banks not to fail, from the consequences of such failures. It does help remove the underlying fears investors and banks have about the risks to them of other banks failing. The US approach rewards the guilty and punishes the innocent. The European approach punishes the guilty by allowing them to fail and protect the innocent by insuring the innocent against the risk of failure. The US approach will be faced with the risk that it must keep banks on life support systems indefinitely, ever giving infusions of more blood that the US does not have to give. This could financially be another Iraq war where the projected ticket price balloons out of all control. The European approach ensures that the crisis is finite, because bank failures themselves remove the weakest links from the chain thus if painfully helping to make the remaining chain stronger.

"The 90-year-old Ohio woman who shot herself when deputies tried to evict her from her foreclosed home now owns her home thanks to Fannie Mae.

Addie Polk of Akron is in a critical condition at Akron General Medical Center. She shot herself at least twice on Wednesday afternoon when sheriff's deputies came to evict her from the house she had lived in since 1970, CNN reported."

What a country! Now, if Addie Polk survives, they can sell her house to pay medical bills. :)

Why does the left still give this cruise missile liberal the time of day? Kucinich does more damage to the left than Bush and Cheney combined.

Has anyone ever heard him denounce Pelosi and Reid, for aiding and abetting Bush? Has anyone EVER heard him denounce Obama for voting for the bailout, for funding the war, for the FISA travesty, for the drilling flip-flop? Kucinich is a fraud.

If he had any shame at all as a representative of the people or just as a citizen, Kucinich would've resigned the War Party a long time ago and run as an Independent.

But he's perverse. He knows he needs to stay and keep the charade going. The charade is to make fools believe that the left has a tiny little voice in the Democratic Party. It works.

Skadden Arps, Sullivan and Cromwell, Wells Fargo, CitiBank, and Wachovia

On top of all the other confusing aspects of the financial meltdown, news junkies from all over are puzzled by the strange reversals of fortune in the bidding war between Wells Fargo and CitiBank for control of Wachovia, but this mess gets a lot simpler as soon as you realize that it isn't about banks.

It's about lawyers.

The legal tabloid abovethelaw.com has the inside story: Sleep-deprived M&A lawyers at Sullivan and Cromwell were out-merged and out-acquired by insomniac crankheads at Skadden Arps.

A little background about the corporate culture at Skadden Arps is all it takes to connect these dots, but it's also important to remember that the concept of sleep deprivation has a special meaning at Sullivan and Cromwell.

With 2000 lawyers to feed, Skadden Arps would sue a woodpile on the chance there was a billable snake in it.

Skadden Arps would sue a disposable cellphone on the chance there was a billable minute left on it.

Skadden Arps would sue the teeming loins of Grandma Skadden for only producing 2000 lawyers, under the "be fruitful and multiply" injunction of Natural Law.

But while Grandma Skadden's nepotic weasels are scurrying down every rat-hole that might have a billable peanut in it, the somnolent partners at Sullivan and Cromwell are only aroused to a nodding semi-consciousness once a year, just in time for the Harvard v. Yale kickoff.

Boola boola!

Jacob Freeze

Tax revolt! Maybe we should have a little Boston Tea Party of our own? Lets go to Washington and gather up all the Congress Critters that voted yes on this bill and throw them in the potomac.
Then,we can head off to Wallstreet and use our imaginations.
What do you think?

Tax revolt! Maybe we should have a little Boston Tea Party of our own? Lets go to Washington and gather up all the Congress Critters that voted yes on this bill and throw them in the potomac.
Then,we can head off to Wallstreet and use our imaginations.
What do you think?

Some of those who voted No were likely given permission to do so in order for them to be relected, since they play ball on other issues, and the outcome of the vote is known before they vote.

Only use the Yes vote as a single criteria to vote against the congressmen. Check out the voting record of your congressmen who voted No before deciding to vote for them.

My representative is one of the 63 Democrats who voted no to this travesty. He voted no both times, and if I have anything to say about it he will be my representative for years to come. I was so proud of him!

Right now, I'm just trying to decide if I want to vote for Nader (who is on the ballot in my state) or write in Dennis.

Yes, once again, we've been had. It feels like the whole week was a huge charade. Passing the bill, any bill, was made to seem the highest of priorities. We were going to turn into a pumpkin if it wasn't passed by the "stroke of midnight." When the final bill grew to 400+ pages, stuffed with earmarks and larded with pork, I saw clearly that the exercise was no emergency in the sense that the average American was going to experience an immediate dire catastrophe. (In fact, how better to trivialize the legislation than to load it up with such unrelated and outrageous baggage?) Oh, we'll be experiencing a catastrophe alright, but it will build slowly and in the meantime the speculators and shysters who ran the financial markets into the ground will be stuffing their pockets with risk proofed taxpayer provided bonuses. There was no imminent collapse, they just stampeded the horses. And the dopes (and crooks) in congress just ran over the cliff and took the rest of us with them. Both senators from my state betrayed their constituents, voting to pass the bill. Both of our congressional representative voted against it. I will repeat this fact to any voters whom I have the opportunity to discuss this with.

Why can't we just forgive all the debt and give the money to the people?

Are they, we, EVER gonna pay it all back? The mortgage and credit card companies don't want us to pay it back. They make more money when people don't pay it back and when they lend money to people who are in over their heads.

All debt must die. Domestic debt, third world debt, all of it. Dismantle all the debt companies, Freddie Mac to Cash My Check A Week Early (you know the places I speak of, the ones you never see in the posh areas), all of 'em. Debt does nothing but smash self-sufficiency and feed poverty. End it.

Btw, Dennis is the guy I wrote in during the Dem primaries, and I am reminded of why.

There are few ways for this government to get out of this mess. But, the easiest and most profitable is to start a new and bigger war, maybe with Iran.

Have a nice day.

Too late, Space Cadet.

Truer words were never spoken Dennis. Urge Americans to vote for ANYONE excpet the Democrats and Republicans this November as your own party has been complicit in the theft of the public treasury.

The bailout is beyond comprehension and disheartening.

Good article.

Now:

Why did Kucinich endorse Obama?

Remember all the CD readers who dismissed people when they said things like, "I love Kucinich. However, his political function is to keep progressives from leaving the Democratic Party by promising that they will be represented and that they can transform the Party. But then he flips and instructs them to vote for a candidate who will represent the exact opposite of their values".

Do those readers still disagree with this assessment?

What the $850 billion bailout is is a tax on us all who are not rich--produced by the tax-cut king. Flat out, it's welfare for the rich: let the ghettos starve, while we pay for the gasoline that propels the yachts and the Gulfstreams.

Add to that our Iraq expense and military expenditures and we're totally bankrupt. Who would fardels bear?

Here's where the Senate Roll Call on the Bail out is.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm...

The House Roll Call section is here. Click on Roll Call 681 next to H R 1424 and prepare to puke.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/index.asp

Kucinich is correct as usual.
I knew this bill would pass in some form when I watched CNN "reporters" ranting about the "failure" of the House to pass the bill the first time. Then the Senate porked the bill with a few billion more in taxpayer funding of totally unrelated items, and the House bought it. No hearings. No testimony by economists. No deliberation.
History will judge who the real "terrorists" are. We elected the bastards. Stock up on the KY because you'll need it no matter who wins Nov. 4. As I see it, this economy cannot be fixed by any known conventional means. Or as Paul Krugman of the NYTimes wrote earlier this week, we are now "a banana republic, with nukes."

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John Mitchell, thank you, this thinking is destroying our country. How much longer can it go on? That is what I ask my friends who attack me for supporting Nader.

I'd like to point out this "anybody but Bush" has been going on since 2000. It could go on and on like this forever. I am not going to live forever. I want a third alternative.

Democrats have no one to thank for this mess but themselves. Can you say "Community Reinvestment Act"?

Even Clinton warned about Fannie and Freddie, but his fellow democrats did nothing to rein in their lending.

Oh Dennis, I got your voice mail message today asking for my vote. Hopefully, you will not be representing me - and embarassing our community - for much longer.

"-Allow fringe benefit reimbursement for qualified bicycle commuters."

I like this one, but why does it have to be attached to one of the biggest upward transfers of wealth ever known on Earth?

Eat the Lenders.

Dennis Kucinich,

I was probably the only person in Mobile, Alabama to have your bumpersticker for president. It is still on my bumper. I now have Ralph Nader next to yours. I am thinking about voting for Obama as I want a candidate who will beat McCain and Palin. He is apart of the system but a less worst choice then McCain. I wish I could have been voting for you. Thank you for standing up for the people of this nation.

You won't believe this part of the ride.

Hmpf. The only thing trickling down on the average US citizen aint left over champagne "foam" from wall street and big banks, I'll tell you that. It's a word they aren't allowed to say on NPR.

Oh my, let's all give them some more of our money. It's hard for the rich to go out and find themselves regular jobs. They won't have enough money to maintain all those houses, think of the adjustment it would take.

I guess those big guys kinda "forgot" they had significant influence over the US economy, or the AIGs of the world just didn't know this beforehand. They made those risky investments with money they "forgot" belonged to other people. And only by accident mortagage companies and banks scammed people into sub-prime mortgages at usury rates. We should help them out. That is really helping ourselves, right?

So pony up some more for them. Then it will "trickle down" again.

This bill represents an utter failure of the Democratic process. But that is a rerun of a rerun. I mean it isn't the first time we've seen that happen in the last eight years.

Thank you Pelosi. Love you too.

wilmoor wrote October 3rd, 2008 3:09 pm
"The voices of reason are the last thing "they" want to be heard. Those like Representatives Kucinich, Defasio, and a few others continue to give hope to those of us who are listening." Words worth repeating a few times.
The clarity of Rep. Kuncinich made me think of a simple way to view the problem:
Imagine you had to provide water and reduce water waste in a city, say, Las Vegas, while in a long major water drought, like we have in the West.

Step One: Convene a discussion between civil engineers, health people, traffic directors, etc. Their experience and ability to learn from mistakes provide the raw ideas for a solution.
Step Two: Convene a meeting of leaders to select between alternative plans.
Step Three: Commission a group of experts to evaluate the problems and benefits and cost of each solution proposed.
Step Four: Convene the group of persons responsible for major aspects and ask for a definite commitment on whatever is selected as the final plan.
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Anyone can see that none of these preparations were made by the White House or Congress prior to our "crisis", the troop removals from Afghanistan or the invasion of Iraq. Our Government, once more, once more "has failed us" like Clarke said to the 9/11 Commission.
In their usual "shoot from the hip" approach, they did not analyze the problem to determine its cause and alternatives on how to deal with the effects.

They say money is needed for "banks to lend money within 5 days or Thursday", this after six months of reducing GNP and loss of a Million jobs in the last two weeks. That's right! In the last TWO week about a Million jobs were lost.

Two Issues: Should money go to banks to bail them out and allow them to loan it?
Call this the Downstream Solution.
Or, should money be loaned to Industry and those facing foreclosure to increase jobs and give workers back their place to live? Call this the Upstream solution.

The Conclusion is obvious, we are helping banks to make loans to millions that are unemployed and lost their homes? Isn't that what created the problem?

The solution, like the water plan solution, must begin Upstream, help people go back to work and their purchasing power will then, and only then, require loans from banks. Precisely what we are NOT going to do. Think of a proper unprintable.
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Now for the consequences:
Can they throw $800 Billion to the Economy without driving up Inflation?
Inflation is perfectly socialist taxation: Everyone will pay higher prices!
Will this fool the Economy? Not on your life.
The more inflation we have, the more we price our goods out of the International markets. We are only postponing the day of reconning.

The coming Inflation, like all the inflations in the past, will be followed by a Recession or a Depression, depending on which side of the street you live, the rich side or the unwealthy and homeless side.

So what happens to our schools and teachers? They will "muddle through" like the Senator from Arizona said of Pakistan, or was it Afghanistan? I forget.
Right now the best Engineering students in the world are enrolled in India, the rejects are enrolled in MIT, CalTech and the other top engineering schools in the USA. Hard to believe but True. Of course, we will do nothing about that
and will continue to hire over 100,000 of the best trained minds in the world, EVERY YEAR! This is too depressing. I must stop here, I am wondering how did those incompetent people ever get so much power in Washington? Has Democracy failed to reward our nation with the best rulers? The End.

"The voices of reason are the last thing "they" want to be heard. Those like Representatives Kucinich, Defasio, and a few others continue to give hope to those of us who are listening." Words worth repeating -now.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The plight of an Ohio woman who shot herself as deputies tried evict her from her foreclosed home was part of congressional debate on the $700 billion bailout.

Addie Polk, 90, was being treated at Akron General Medical Center after shooting herself Wednesday as deputies were at her door with eviction papers, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said Friday during floor debate on the rescue plan for U.S. financial markets. Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) foreclosed Polk's home after acquiring the mortgage in 2007.

Kucinich used Polk's circumstances as he spoke against the rescue plan that eventually passed the U.S. House of Representatives 263-171.

"This bill does nothing for the Addie Polks of the world," Kucinich said. "This bill fails to address the fact that millions of homeowners who are facing foreclosure."

The bill, which passed the Senate Wednesday, "will take care of Wall Street," Kucinich said, "but democracy is going down here."

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I hope all those that signed this assault on the American People are reincarnated as magots and are condemned to feed on the intrailes of their living offspring.

Is everyone else reading about all of the crap heaped onto the bailout bill and getting absolutely sick about it ? Because I am.

This is the best summary I've seen, dated Oct 1 though so not sure if it's 100%. But the arrowmaker pork is in !

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/709604.html

-Exempt from excise tax certain wooden arrow shafts for use by children.
-Extend cost recovery period for motor racing tracks.
-Increase tax deduction for charitable book giving.
-Extend restaurant improvement credits.
-Allow fringe benefit reimbursement for qualified bicycle commuters.
-Provide small tax credits for purchase of energy efficient dishwashers, washing machines and refrigerators.

What is this ?:

-Make permanent authority for undercover operations.
-Make permanent authority for disclosure of information relating to terrorist activities.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Several Democratic members of the House of Representatives Friday said calls from Barack Obama helped convince them to switch their votes and back a 700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout.

Maryland Democratic representatives Donna Edwards and Elijah Cummings said they had both received calls from the party's White House nominee, after voting against the original package in the House on Monday.

"It meant a lot to me that somebody who at least has a 50-50 shot at being the next President of the United States would take time," Cummings said. [...]

Cummings and Edwards are both members of the Congressional Black Caucus a majority of which voted against the bill on Monday. Sources said that Obama also placed other calls to members of the key Democratic voting block. [...]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtMQFHBqLwqub55GP9-JLffOJZ9g

This bill is nothing more than the birth of another Executive Branch administered cash-cow.

(c) NECESSARY ACTIONS.—The Secretary is authorized to take such actions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the authorities in this Act, including, without limitation, the following:

(1) The Secretary shall have direct hiring authority with respect to the appointment of employees to administer this Act.

(2) Entering into contracts, including contracts for services authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code.

(3) Designating financial institutions as financial agents of the Federal Government, and such institutions

(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Financial Stability Oversight Board shall be comprised of—

(1) the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;

(2) the Secretary;

(3) the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency;

(4) the Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission; and

(5) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Don't you just love the words "without limitation" when applied to hiring and contracting by this Secretary of the Treasury? Wonder if we'll be hearing the words "no bid contract" again soon? And check out the membership of the Financial Stability Oversight Board. Is it me or are NONE of these people answerable to the people through our representatives in Congress? And aren't these the same people who have been overseeing our economy and financial institutions and on whose watch the whole thing came crashing down? And then there's the Special Inspector General who is appointed by the President and whose job it'll be to report fraud and waste to...ta da, the Attorney General. Finally, there's an Oversight Panel (not ot be confused with the "Oversight Board") appointed by the House and Senate leadership whose function is to propose regulatory changes (too little, too late!). Only the first 112 pages of the Senate bill is devoted to our economic mess. An Energy bill takes up the next 149 pages and a whole slew of tax breaks for things none of us have ever heard of, the remaining 191 pages. And we're supposed to believe that House members had enough time to seriously study this mish-mash of a bloated bill.

I guess gross incompetence means nothing in Washington. There is just so much wrong with the House bill and now the Senate bill. Someone needs to give this Congress its walking papers. Let's start fresh.....

Busque la verdad!

Here's where the Senate Roll Call on the Bail out is.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vo...

The House Roll Call section is here. I couldn't get the section on roll calls though due to unusually excessive activity there. I wonder why?!

http://clerk.house.gov/legislative/legvotes.html

.The elction is upcoming folks, and, short of armed insurrection which I do not recommend, it is the real way to send your message to these thieving bastards. I, for one, will cast no ballot for any politician in support of this bailout.

If you know another way to take a stand Im open to suggestion. Until then I will , once again, vote for Ralph Nader for President and support his call for a taxpayer revolt.

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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin

“This bill represents an utter failure of the Democratic process. It represents the triumph of special interest over the triumph of the public interest. It represents the inability of government to defend the public interest in the face of great pressure from financial interests.”
The purpose of government has always been conceived to be to coordinate and meet the public interests … in fact its purpose has always been to protect the market from its victims. When the market parasites feed from others, the public doesn’t mind, but when it demands transfusions from the public, suddenly the farce becomes perceived as what it always really was: a bloodbath.

Whats the opposite of PROgress?

CONgress

(except for a few like Kucinich...)

"The Senate "improved" the bailout by giving tax breaks to people in
foreclosure. People in foreclosure need help paying their mortgage, they
do not seek tax breaks".

Well... with clever accounting, perhaps they van benefit from tax breaks.
Or to see it another way, if they CAN benefit from tax breaks, they are
making a profit despite the foreclosure, or because of the foreclosure.
If the place that you work at closes, and you are put out of work, be
happy - at least your boss gets a TAX BREAK - and if he needs one it means
he is doing well.

The really amazing thing is that the sweetener that allowed this to pass
is TAX BREAKS. War, and TAX BREAKS for the rich, have helped drive the national debt to
9.5 trillion. This debt, in turn, has eaten into peoples disposable
incomes and put people out of work. And caused a problem in the housing
market. 700 billion will push the national debt to 10.2 trillion. But
what they want is more TAX BREAKS.

Well here it is Friday afternoon. Thanks for the $700 billion. Sorry the uptick thing didn't work out.

I would usually expect mainly liberals to vote against this but this time, hardline conservatives and hardline liberals actually did the right thing together. While I would like to think that more Republicans are learning from Ron Paul, I still have a suspicion that this is an election trick to keep their seats in desperation. Who on this forum really believes that they would be the same after the election is over?

That $700 billion will be on its way to offshore bank accounts as soon as it is released.

This is going to be a bleak Christmas for everyone but George W. and Ebenezer Scrooge.
Tiny Tim wants a new Tin Drum but all poor Bob Cratchit can afford after this is second hand.
http://www.aimsurplus.com/acatalog/Bulgarian_75rd_Steel_7.62x39_Drum_Magazine.html

Renegotiating the foreclosures should have been Step One. Elimination of golden parachutes (not a ten percent surtax on them) should have been no. 2. Surtax on millionaires and up should have been step 3. What was the hurry? Why not wait another week and come up with something decent? Answer: Wall Street impatience to make money and tool in its political stooges to get going. Plus the entire fiasco was bi-partisan, apart from a few loyal hearts like Dennis and DeFazio. Eighty percent of us "angry"--and completely ignored? What are we gonna do now, people?

Ending America’s Republican Party’s 28 year rule

In America, it is easier for a voter to vote for a third party candidate that will not win than to compromise and vote for a Democratic candidate that will win and then be required to work daily to make sure that, that candidate works towards ones goals and objectives. Americans seems to always take the easy way out.

This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we have transitioned from a "Democratic Republic Nation" to a "Facist Propaganda Nation".

Fear was used to completely ignore the sickness in our financial system.

Fear was used to blackmail us into a 700B Prozac pill to a bunch of immature speculators who don't give a tinkers damn about the people's lives they play with.

It is obvious that too many of our elected representatives hoodwinked us - they don't work for us, they work for their moneyed masters.

So, will the financial elite start lending again, but with more caution, or will they now feel free to try another hair brained scheme to regain their manhood.

I'm really worried it will be the latter.