Comments on: U.S. Considers Taking Ownership Of Banks

$700B Package Allows Treasury Department To Receive Stake In Failed Banks, Official Says

[geneonlbk]

It frightens me to see our national government behaving like "All the King''s Men" trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again.

[be_real]

This is the third time in the last 20yrs we go thru this BS. I think, baking and energy are two areas that need to be HEAVILY regulated by the goverment.

[misha128-2009]

REPUBLICAN COMMUNISM -- Who would have believed it would ever come to this.

[getreeltex]

Republicans have managed to walk away with trillions of dollars of taxpayer money.

This is the biggest heist in history.

[carlylaine]

GetReelTex: Are you serious? You don''t know which party is in control? You can show how many of this or that, but who isn''t getting things done? Who isn''t looking out for anyone but themselves...? It''s the LIBERAL DEMS. They are in control. Make no mistake about that. This horrible congress full of Barney Franks, Harry Reids and Nancy Pelosis can''t get anything done. They spin and spin and get nowhere.

When the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS is in LIBS whine, "Oh! We''re not getting a fair shake!"...so the Republicans relent and LIBS run with every socialistic cause they can find. When it''s the other way around...THEY HOLD THEIR GROUND on laws. No relenting for them.

[antoniof123]

The October suprise thank you Republicans.

And yes there is plenty of blame to go around but if you recall we started deregulation under Regan.

So with that said it began with the Republicans and they get to take most of the blame. Hey it isn''t just me it is America 2 to 1 blames them and we are not wrong PERIOD.

[rjs1955]

To gop_will_win,

Check the label in your shirt, jack, we DID outsource that rope factory, much of Asia DOES own our @ss in the form of our debt, your town is crawling with undocumented immigrants. These are not liberal views. Can you tell me I am wrong in the above facts?

[lwc777]

Perhaps we should let God take ownership/control. FLAT OUT! America is trusting in and serving finances (their idol - something they have put before God) as it''s source instead of God! Jesus said, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." Mammon = riches. It is evident when not a person in Washington, State or Local Government, or church or civic leader has stood up and shouted, "We have sinned against God. Let''s repent, and ask God what to do in this crisis." "If my people which are called by my name (a nation under God) shall humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will heal their land." It is all of our sole responsibilities. Putting the blame any single place is wasting time. We do not have the time, but we need a resolution. We need God, but first we need to submit ourselves to God, so that we can resist this evil before us. Let every person that calls him/herself a citizen of this great nation take time out today to bow before Almighty to ask for forgiveness, then praise his name, and then ask for guidance and blessing. in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Amen.

[sumarongi1]

Outraged? They should throw all of these clowns into prison and go searching for more!

***** US lawmakers were told that AIG spent more than 440,000 dollars for an executive getaway at a California beach resort just days after the insurance giant was rescued by an 85-billion-dollar US government loan.

The US Federal Reserve stepped in to save American International Group from imminent collapse on September 16, with a loan that gave the US government a stake of 79.9 percent in the insurance behemoth in the deal.

"Less than one week later, AIG held a week-long retreat for company executives at the exclusive St. Regis resort in Monarch Beach, California," Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday.

Invoices showed that AIG paid the Pacific Ocean getaway resort more than 440,000 dollars, Waxman told the committee on its second day of hearings on the Wall Street economic crisis. *******!!!!!!!

This is exactly the mindset we need to punish in our banking community as a whole. It''s all a game to the upper levels of management in most financial institutions. Manipulating markets and futures to bleed a little more millage from other peoples pockets. Put their butts to work on a roadgang and we may finally get an honest days work out of them for the first time in their lives. Let''s see some blisters forming from something other than their golfclubs usage.

[getreeltex]

I honestly believe that Phil Gramm was referencing GetReelTex when he said America is a bunch of WHINERS. Stop blaming and do some work.

Posted by PollsLie at 09:32 AM : Oct 09, 2008




Americans work harder than any other country in the world. The problem here is we have, under the Republicans, developed a system where the working class are being robbed by the rich.

It''s called trickle down economics.

The profits trickle up and the losses trickle down.