Pitchfork, anyone?
Is it just me or have we been down this road before? Weren't the alarm bells rung for all the world to hear about the impending and imminent danger that Iraq presented? WMDs? Have to do this "NOW!" mentality?
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
Uh. Not so fast, cap'n.
You see. We don't really trust you. You and yours, that is.
You want to push through a bailout of close to a trillion dollars....in order to protect the taxpayers?
Say..wah?
What was that bushism...fool me once...?
We won't get fooled again.
No to the bailout.
Not without concessions.
Not without regulations.
Not without additional help for the INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY. You remember them, the ones in which you have inserted your hand into said wallet. The ones that you still, to this day, wag a finger at saying bad bad citizen for taking on more than you could afford.
Well, you see, it's funny how all that worked at the time, now completely out of context.
We were told that we were part of an ownership society. And here were financial experts telling the citizens that you can afford this, we can make this work for your situation, and having learned next to nothing about finances in school (yay, public school system!) and believed that these professionals were more knowledgeable. So, we, they bought into it. They signed the endless stream of papers at signing, and they became part of the ownership society.
Little did they know that they were part of a nationwide scam.
Enabled by the deregulators and the "free market" drones.
And now those same free market droids are first in line with their hand out, reaching into the taxpayers pockets, feeling them up for every last nickel.
The republicans want to zip this through, "clean", with no attachments, giving the secretary of the treasury complete and total control over the funds.
Uh. No.
Been there, done that.
We are on the verge of taking over. It is time to show what democrats are capable of. What we are all about. They can claim that they are fiscally conservative, But we know better. History has the evidence.
It is time to show them that they must be help accountable.
Is it just me or have we been down this road before? Weren't the alarm bells rung for all the world to hear about the impending and imminent danger that Iraq presented? WMDs? Have to do this "NOW!" mentality?
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
Uh. Not so fast, cap'n.
You see. We don't really trust you. You and yours, that is.
You want to push through a bailout of close to a trillion dollars....in order to protect the taxpayers?
Say..wah?
What was that bushism...fool me once...?
We won't get fooled again.
No to the bailout.
Not without concessions.
Not without regulations.
Not without additional help for the INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY. You remember them, the ones in which you have inserted your hand into said wallet. The ones that you still, to this day, wag a finger at saying bad bad citizen for taking on more than you could afford.
Well, you see, it's funny how all that worked at the time, now completely out of context.
We were told that we were part of an ownership society. And here were financial experts telling the citizens that you can afford this, we can make this work for your situation, and having learned next to nothing about finances in school (yay, public school system!) and believed that these professionals were more knowledgeable. So, we, they bought into it. They signed the endless stream of papers at signing, and they became part of the ownership society.
Little did they know that they were part of a nationwide scam.
Enabled by the deregulators and the "free market" drones.
And now those same free market droids are first in line with their hand out, reaching into the taxpayers pockets, feeling them up for every last nickel.
The republicans want to zip this through, "clean", with no attachments, giving the secretary of the treasury complete and total control over the funds.
Uh. No.
Been there, done that.
We are on the verge of taking over. It is time to show what democrats are capable of. What we are all about. They can claim that they are fiscally conservative, But we know better. History has the evidence.
It is time to show them that they must be help accountable.
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