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Richard V
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...Class Democrats & Republicans Agree? NO TAXPAYER BAILOUT OF WALL STREET!
The three-page, $700 billion bailout plan presented to Congress by the Bush Administration last Friday is an appallingly superficial response to years of bad decisions and greed of Wall Street firms empowered by a long-standing, bipartisan federal policy of deregulation and deliberate neglect.
There are many questions that have yet to be answered about the basics of the bailout: Who will be entitled to get the taxpayers’ money, and on what basis? How was the $700 billion calculated? What criteria should be met to determine what the government will pay for “troubled assets”? Why cover all financial companies – not just those involved in bad mortgages – as well as foreign companies? We don’t have the answers to these most basic questions. And, perhaps most important: Why should the hundreds of millions of Americans who did nothing wrong be required to pay $10,000 per family in this country? These are questions that must be answered to the satisfaction of the nation before Congress.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/corporateering/articles/?storyId=22897&lk=6720065-6720065-0-33566-gJVr2B-f8VGPoui/hzS4fhEjdVxntZ63
The three-page, $700 billion bailout plan presented to Congress by the Bush Administration last Friday is an appallingly superficial response to years of bad decisions and greed of Wall Street firms empowered by a long-standing, bipartisan federal policy of deregulation and deliberate neglect.
There are many questions that have yet to be answered about the basics of the bailout: Who will be entitled to get the taxpayers’ money, and on what basis? How was the $700 billion calculated? What criteria should be met to determine what the government will pay for “troubled assets”? Why cover all financial companies – not just those involved in bad mortgages – as well as foreign companies? We don’t have the answers to these most basic questions. And, perhaps most important: Why should the hundreds of millions of Americans who did nothing wrong be required to pay $10,000 per family in this country? These are questions that must be answered to the satisfaction of the nation before Congress.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/corporateering/articles/?storyId=22897&lk=6720065-6720065-0-33566-gJVr2B-f8VGPoui/hzS4fhEjdVxntZ63