These are the exact same extortion tactics the Bush Administration used to get the FISA bill passed and anyone in congress who votes YES should be systematically voted out of office the first time they come up for reelection. That includes the entire House of Representatives in November. After the FISA FIASCO, if they fall for this, they are too dumb or cowardly to represent ANY of us.
NOW, we're getting the same old same old BS about this bail out. Our country is DOOMED, if we don't do this YESTERDAY. Our economy will COLLAPSE if we don't do this YESTERDAY. No oversight, no questioning, no investigation. Pass this NOW! BUT!!!!!!!!! If the CEOs who caused this mess and raked in millions or even billions of dollars running these corporations into the ground lose ONE DIME of their ill gotten gains, NO DEAL. Bush will VETO this bill even if this country goes down the tubes so far we'll never recover. That's how important it is to pass this bail out bill with NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
And yet, these same people who would consider this passed, in the bankruptcy reform bill a provision that, in the case of a defaulted student loan, a disabled person, getting less than $700 a month, can have their Social Security Disability check garnished, EVEN if it puts them out on the street. And it doesn't matter how much of that student loan you PAY, because for every dime you pay, an equal amount is added on as fees and interest so you pay your whole life and never make a dent in that debt.
When Willie Nelson and Redd Foxx owed back taxes the IRS swooped in and seized every single thing they owned, even down to Redd Foxx's treasured Mickey Mouse Watch. In the cases of these two men, everything was fair game because for these two, even an old birthday card could make a profit at the tax sales. And the troubles of these two men was not even their fault. They both had hired "financial advisors" to handle their money and those "experts" ripped them off. TOO BAD. "Ignorance of the law is not an excuse." That is, unless you're a corrupt president or vice president ripping off a whole country.
But we're just supposed to bend over and kiss the rings of the Paulson crowd and Bush Buddies because they shouldn't actually have to pay back a dime of the money they embezzled from their companies, they shouldn't lose one penny of their "golden parachutes". After all, they worked VERY HARD for those millions, lobbying congress to give them the store.
What congress needs to do is hire a totally independent financial EXPERT not tied to Bush to come in an oversee any "FIX" they come up with,until the next administration comes into office and pass a bill holding the CEOs accountable, seizing ALL assets held by CEOs involved, putting it all into a pool going directly to such reparation as possible to the problems they caused and then and ONLY then use tax payers dollars and only as much as absolutely necessary to shore up the rest.
