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Daily Archives: September 29th, 2008

we must have “sucker” written all over us

September 29, 2008 – 5:41 pm

I just heard my favorite congressperson, Peter DeFazio of Oregon, on with Randi Rhodes say that:
(1) credit unions are doing just fine (they’re owned by their members, and are an atypical corporate creature); and
(2) businesses are turning to credit unions after being denied credit by their commercial banks; and
(3) those commercial banks are refusing their [...]

By missy | Posted in Baird, Brian, Bush crime family, Cantwell, Sen Maria, Corporate control, Economic justice, Fiscal policy, Money Party, Murray, Sen Patty, Obama, President Barack H, Republicans | Comments (0)

rejected, for all the wrong reasons

September 29, 2008 – 11:49 am

In a moment of historic drama in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.
The vote against the measure was 228 to 205. Supporters vowed to try to bring the rescue package up for consideration against as soon as possible.
Stock [...]

By missy | Posted in Economic justice, Fiscal policy | Comments (1)

the fox guarding the hen house

September 29, 2008 – 10:31 am

Funny how 60 Minutes managed to get exclusive access to Henry Paulson during the two weeks in which he was preparing to pitch his heads-I-win-tails-the taxpayers-lose $700 billion bailout.
I wonder who Paulson called to set that up? Maybe CBS President Les Moonves? As one of the highest-paid CEOs in the country, I’m sure [...]

By missy | Posted in Bush crime family, Corporate control, Economic justice, Ethics, Fiscal policy, Money Party, Republicans | Comments (1)

those odious oregonian anti-islam dvds

September 29, 2008 – 9:11 am

Some right-wing nutjobs paid The Oregonian to put an anti-islamic DVD into the Sunday paper (yesterday’s). It’s a deceptive dog-whistle to scare people away from Obama just before Oregon and SW Washington residents receive their vote-by-mail ballots.
There’s a protest downtown in from of the Oregonian’s offices this morning at 10 a.m., but [...]

By missy | Posted in Dept. of just Sayin', Media | Comments (1)

Let’s Take the Tires on Their Mercedes-Benz

September 29, 2008 – 7:51 am

Words are easy.
Go back 15 years and somehow decide that so and so should not have been paid this million or that million because it led to the mortgage collapse?  Who gets to decide who was paid too much and by how much?  Confiscate the overpaid Wall Street barons’ assets that are now parked in [...]

By John | Posted in Economic justice | Comments (2)