We need to come up with a hard hitting, edgy name for the bailout that clearly defines it as toxic, crooked, dirty and pro business.
We have become addicted to soundbites and short summary titles for important stories. "Names" and acronyms are used to "sell" as well as oppose positions and programs. It's done because it works!
Too often though, the labeling mischaracterizes truth and/or influences opinion. A picture is supposedly worth a thousand words, well one sizzling descriptive word or name can be worth millions of opinions and can change direction of a plan, whether for good or bad, depending on goal! Provocative, memorable, emotional, idealistic, or fear creating names can change beliefs, support and outcomes.
We have HAVA...Help America Vote Act- sounds great yet has become just the opposite.
Who can be against War on Terror?
Then we have the gates ... Watergate onwards.
Now Congress is working to bailout Wall Street, to cover up the billions lost thru IMO criminal activities, naked short selling, OTC Derivatives - basically gambling with our economic foundation and your money as well as future.
I temporarily named the bailout HABAC ..Help Americans Bailout a Crime...A crime against what this country is supposed to stand for, a crime of greed, a crime of turning away from the truth about the wall street games, a crime of creating massive debt, a crime of lying/deceiving the American people, a crime of destroying our economy for excess profits, a crime of destroying retirement accounts, a crime of printing so many paper dollars that the dollar is becoming junk, a crime of taking from most Americans their hard earned money and allowing top 1-2 percent to prosper while standard of living drops for others - add your own for it goes on and on
Now it must stop ...stop at congress...and start the real process of recovery that is geared to the American people.
Unfortunately Congress seems to be hearing the moneyed interests and ignoring Main Street as well as leading economists who caution against rush and ask instead for careful examination of root causes as well as options. We must capture OUR representatives attention. We must make them concerned that they are heading precipitously to more problems including at the polls in November.
Let's start by creating a fitting name for the bailout. It must be so TOXIC and descriptive that it will make it difficult to support.
Okay ... ready, set, go and name this bill...this crime!
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First, I'd like to correct...above says bail-oit is pro-busines rather it should read pro-greed for those Wall Streeters who criminally acted, misrepresented, used naked shorts, OTC derivatives, billions in bonuses etc. We need "good" businesses IN America...ones that provide jobs, fair wages and benefits and non rip-off exec pay/bonuses. We especially need small and innovative business growth rather than destruction as has been occuring.
Now...your suggestions...WOW, some are truly fitting! Can you use your naming ability to come up with one we can also have listed in media and gets message through?
Look how No Child Left Behind has "sold" ...and as noted "War on Terror"
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Mary Ann Gould (67 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 2:53:42 PM
The Credit Crisis is rabidly becoming a Crisis of Faith. That will be profoundly more dangerous then the Credit Crisis ever was. Faith to believe our leaders, our institutions, and finally a Constitutional Crisis. Next time we can not remain Gracious hoping that Congress will come to their senses. Lets watch closely how they follow up this bill with Help for the disadvantaged and mostly regulations to keep it from happening again as they have PROMISED. Keep a keen eye on Golden Parachutes
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kato krause (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 177 comments)
on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 4:08:39 PM
I don't like this bailout bill either but other than all the s**t that is being thrown at Wall Street---what is your advice to Congress? I am very un-decided (see my article "To Bailout or not to bailout) but the consquence of doing nothing may be a lot worse. There are a lot of smart people that supported the bill and it is hard to fathom that all of them are wrong.
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virginius "gin" arnold (12 articles, 3 quicklinks, 21 diaries, 236 comments)
on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 4:35:07 PM
What's my advice to Congress? I wish they'd asked me that. Then, I gave them advice anyway and they didn't listen. The first part of the advice was to hold hearings, discuss the root problems and not just symptoms, and come up with some alternatives. The consequences of treating symptoms but not the disease is, in the long run, about the same as doing nothing, except that the bankers and their cronies get rewarded for their crimes in the meantime (so they commit more).
Did you watch the Kucinich interview on Democracy Now? He quoted the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President, Richard Fisher: "The seizures and convulsions we've experienced in the debt and equity markets have been the consequences of a sustained orgy of excess and reckless behavior, not a too tight monetary policy."
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Jim Eldon (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 138 comments)
on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 5:30:27 PM
the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President, Richard Fisher: "The seizures and convulsions we've experienced in the debt and equity markets have been the consequences of a sustained orgy of excess and reckless behavior, not a too tight monetary policy."
If we accept Mr. Fisher's explanation---and I don't disagree, then as pogo said 50 years ago, "we have met the enemy and they is us". I really think there is enough greed to around, along with people that decided instead of waiting for that new house, just go ahead and get one of these fancy mortgages. There is plenty of greed on Main Street, as well as corruption, and the bottom line is no one trusts anyone---esp in government. I live in a community of maybe 3000 and a regular topic of conversation is the city council. It goes right up to the state and is daily news. This "thing" we are in, excess, corruption, and all the rest is a disease. We need help not only in Washington but right where you are living.
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virginius "gin" arnold (12 articles, 3 quicklinks, 21 diaries, 236 comments)
on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 9:07:57 PM
OK, how about the Grand Ripoff America Bill (GRAB). Or, if you just want a phrase, I liked the title of Stephen Lendman's article last week: Grand Theft America. Comes with all the connotations of criminality associated with the game "Grand Theft Auto".
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Jim Eldon (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 138 comments)
on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 6:02:27 PM
The House of Representatives was scared into submission, that is what occurred. Many voted yes for the bailout Bill without even knowing what it entailed, including giveaways to NASCAR? That is fact! How dam pathetic!
Congress has sold the American people out!
What's most sad though is that this "do nothing Congress" found the time to bailout the corrupt banks, but couldn't find time to pass a much needed Stimulus Package that would have provided extended unemployment benefits for those in dire need. Congress has already left town and probably won't return for a few weeks. So in the interim, those who are now without unemployment are up the creek without a paddle. Hey! They're only Americans? Bailing out the banks was so much more important.
I spoke with my House of Representative's aid today from Northeast Philadelphia and he actually told me that "the Congressman was extremely outraged, but thought it was best to vote yes on the Bill" and that they wanted to make sure the Bill contained no "Golden Parachutes." What a crock of dung! We were sold out! The American people have lost yet another round in this truculent game of Democracy. How sad!
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Munich (0 articles, 74 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 922 comments)
on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 7:51:07 PM
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