Comments on: Citibank's "Sweet Deal" From Government

Struggling Bank Gets $20B Lifeline, $306B In Loan Guarantees; Bush: More Bailouts Possible

[sociallyjust]

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*US AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGE
**TRANSPARENCY OF SWISS AND ALL SECRET BANK ACCOUNTS MUST BEGIN

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By bailing out those parasitic so-called investment bankers, investment advisers, brokers, as well as their accountants, their lawyers, their marketers, and other of their sales agents who aid, abet and facilitate their unrighteous operations - both on and off Wall St - legitimization of continuing future investment schemes is encouraged. In essence, such FUTURE licenses to steal and to destroy an enormously large number of people''s FUTURE financial security can be EXPECTED.

The entire world community and governments thereof, must not only prosecute and mete out long-term prison sentences to said unconscionable financial criminals, but it/they must also act accordingly, for seizure of their monies, their property, their assets, etc.

Immediate freezing and subsequent transparency of foreign and offshore, secret bank accounts MUST also begin without delay!

[antoniof123]

Sweet deal for the rich no deal for the middle and poor.

Don''t worry neo cons we will remember this for a long time to come.

You can not blame it on anyone else but the Bush administration so be it.

Another blood bath in 2010.

[mycommentspg]

This is a very sad time for America. Something is very wrong with government and business today.

[themooniac]

these a-ho predatory lenders should have never been bailed out. It makes more sense to bailout the Big Three than these scumbags.

[ontheleft]

''America as we know it is already gone!!''
Posted by donevis at 03:20 PM

Agreed. Right wingers think the coming "new world order" is going to be communism. Well, the "new world order" is already here and it is global capitalism. Capital does not want borders and got it''s way in the name of "free trade". It is getting everything it wants and we are seeing the results of it. Whatever wealth the ''middle class'' has left is going to be sucked dry but this Depression.

[bobnjersey]

[Citigroup is foreign owned and one of the most predatory lenders out there. Yet they''''re rewarded at taxpayer expense. ]
[Posted by greeneyes222 at 03:27 PM : Nov 24, 2008]

citigroup is a public company ... traded on the nyse.

[mainedoggie]

You can allegedly contact the speaker of the house here: [e-mail]

Please send them your concerns to stop this bailout abuse. This is disgusting!

[mainedoggie]

"AIG, Citibank and a number of other federally bailed-out financial institutions have no plans to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in sports team sponsorships, even as they take billions in taxpayer support, ABC News has found. "

Can you believe this??? Am I the only one going to refuse to pay Federal taxes this year?
I don''t see any other way. This is outrageous, and probably just the tip of the iceberg.

[stevador39]

Obama is going along with the bailout. So much for change you can believe in.

[beader59]

I am missing something I guess. This article starts with that Citigroup in the biggest and strongest financial institution. Why do they need a bailout? This whole mess is of course based on greed and stupidity. The U.S. is doomed to become a third world nation at this rate. We have let illegal immigration ruin our workforce and health insitutions; we have let big business screw over the working class by sending our jobs overseas and south of the border; we have let a crooked administration destroy our country and our consitution and we are now letting the greedy financial institutions destroy our economy and our lives and rewarding corruption by giving them more money to keep this activity up. I could go on, but we all know the story. We have terrible healthcare and we allow others to take what Americans have worked so hard for. We might as well just roll over.