Based on the 'Bipartisan Support' for the 700 Billion dollar Extortion Payment... oops... 'Bailout' to the Wall Street and International Bankers, it appears there is no longer a 'Two-Party System' in this country. There is only ONE PARTY- the MONEY PARTY! Sure, the politicians argue about minor details, but this abomination of a massive Ponzi Scheme is still 'putting lipstick on a pig' by attaching the 'Savior' status to an unconstitutional forfeiture of not only (ultimately) trillions of taxpayer dollars to the very people who created this crisis, but also giving over control of any Financial Sector Regulation to the Federal Reserve- a NON-GOVERNMENTAL BODY, which has NO Congressional oversight! That's not just putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop- it's giving him the farm, the mortgage and making him Secretary of Agriculture!
This shows how willing our beloved two parties are to sell out the citizens, the constitution and control of our government to bunch of extremely rich and powerful snake-oil salesmen. Furthermore, the absurd idea that the Mortgagees of this country caused this crisis is not only an outright lie, but factually indefensible! The Fed's own numbers show that EVERY bad mortgage in this country could be PAID OFF for 61 Billion Dollars! So what is the 700 billion+ dollars going to? Corporate welfare to enable further mismanagement of our economy by the very corporations that, because of their greed, ineptness and outright fraudulent actions, should be ALLOWED to fail! The additional 'regulatory' powers proposed in this package for the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Secretary amount to an unconstitutional usurpation of the regulatory powers expressly given to Congress, and the dangerous creation of an extra-constitutional Fourth branch of government- beholden to no-one, and able to operate outside of the laws and constitution of this country.
One thing the purveyors of this illegal money-and-power-grab DO have right is that this crisis is not about Democrat v. Republican, Left v. Right or Liberal v. Conservative. Those appellations have been rendered meaningless by the saturating effect of corporate money in Government and Politics. This is about RIGHT v. WRONG. Unfortunately, it appears the people and institutions that created this crisis are now presenting themselves as our saviors from it's effects. Of course, this is a tried and true scenario... Just look at the corporate takeovers of the so-called 'Banana Republics' around the world. The IMF or the IBS or one of the many international banks (controlled by the same people who run the Fed) go in to 'save' these countries from poverty and collapse through 'loans' and cash infusions just like what is being proposed now for the U.S. Then, by judicious use of bribery, onerous and impossible loan-repayment terms and (if necessary) military force, they end up owning just about every asset in the country and controlling the government.
Looks like this 'Bailout' is just a bid to remake the United States into the world's largest Banana Republic. If the U.S. Public were being given the full and complete facts about what was going on, they would be at the doors of Congress, the White House and Wall Street with pitchforks and torches, demanding the crooks and their lackeys be charged with treason. Instead, we get a steady stream of blatant propaganda about how there's 'no time' and we have to rush this mess into law without adequate open debate, scrutiny or even the consent of the taxpayers and voters, who are ultimately paying the price of a free ride for the inept and criminal bankers and CEO's who created this mess, as well as the politicians who are enabling their illegal and unwarranted money and power grab.
That sound you hear underground is just Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.
God help America...
