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AMERICAblog: Wall Street addicted to emergency funds, now at $38.4 billion per day

  • Bostonian Queer in Dallas · 1 year ago
    well America you were so fucking scared that us faggots might get married that you let these criminals walk all over you....I am rolling on floor laughing at you...you stupid, fat, lazy, beer swilling, NASCAR loving, bible thumping white trailer trash can now roll in your shit pile. God forbid that some librul got the White House. You've sown your seeds now shall ye reap. You are being raped and pillaged by these assholes and still, in places like Oklahoma, you are primarily concerned with gay marriage and abortion.

    Neanderthal Nation
  • DCinDC · 1 year ago
    This is what McCain, Bush & Cheney are really about. No one wants to challenge them or they get the rug pulled right out from under them. Look what happened to the former Gov. of NY.
  • OleHippieChick · 1 year ago
    There's no mention of this outrageous 3.2-weeks-in-Iraq per diem to Wall St. anywhere but here.
    They couldn't get their hands on Social Security, but this'll do, huh?
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    How much has Bear Stearns borrowed as of this date? The first week JPMorgan announced it was setting up a sale for BS, BS not only got $29B directly from Bernanke to sweeten the deal for JPM, it also "borrowed" $25B from the "discount window" Bernanke opened for investment banks.

    The Bush regime will become known for The Great Robbery of the US Treasury just as much as for the invasion of Iraq, probably more so, since all that money to fund Bush's Criminal War is borrowed money--yet, there will be nothing in the Treasury to pay back those foreign countries the money was borrowed from.
  • Reason0Politics1 · 1 year ago
    Bostonian Queer in Dallas nails it. 7 Million a DAY to Israel, $6000 a SECOND in Iraq ( Or more now, who knows what its up to honestly ), complete normalization of Torture, secret kidnappings, Soldiers of Fortune, complete spying on ALL US citizens,

    And all the "average" ameriKan worries about is gay marriage, and abortion. You mention ANYTHING of these things to them, FACTS, and immediately get trivialized, and minimized, and called "leftard", and a tin foil hat wearer.
    And I continue to see "average" americans, blue collar types, with their W stickers still showing proudly, COMPLETELY oblivious to the reality around them. It seriously can't be long until the roaming brown shirt type thugs begin overt violence against any of us that dare to dissent.

    And get ready to hear plenty of lies and complete utter BS this week about the "surge" from Gen Petreaus, whom the just forced to resign CentCom CMDR Adm. Fallon referred to as "little ass licking, chicken shit". And AmeriKans will lap it up. They will proudly support the hangman as he nears the gallows to hang these very AmeriKans.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    P. S. Chris, it's also "aisle" not "isle" which is an island...are you really awake? Even spell check wouldn't have caught that.
  • Reason0Politics1 · 1 year ago
    the most funny part ( if you wake with a sick sense of humor as i seem to do these days as I head for another "bash at the wogs" ) is the easily used lie: borrow. these bail outs are not loans folks. You know it, and I know it. I think even the average red neck sheeeple knows it. there's no loan about it. it's straight up give away of monopoly money from me and you, to billionaires.

    it blows my mind how overtly apocalyptic this admin and their cronies have become. they know that this is all gas on the already out of control fire. temporary relief only. and to do so so brazenly, so overtly corrupt, completely in our face..well.. I just see that as wholly apocalyptic.

    Very Scorched earth

    completely hopeless. that is all one can take from these hand outs of funny money. those in charge obviously know it matters not, for their self created end is near. NOT Armegeddon. Not biblical fairy tales; just str8 man made self destruction.

    I can only imagine the Amero is soon to come, a currency re-valuation, something. by the end of year i 'spect.
  • paulbe · 1 year ago
    Rock on Bostonian Queer. Got it all in one, and ReasonPolitics, that vicious little Gorilla in the room called Israel that has worked so tirelessly to milk the US taxpayer for its own benefit over that of real Americans (as opposed to dual citizen traitors) really does need to be called out into the open. I don't see the Chinese screaming "anti-Sino" when the conduct of the Chinese State is criticized. Why is the disgusting behaviour of Israel off limits?
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I know the Fed rate does not necessarily mean lower mortgage rates but in the past mostly when the Fed lowered the bank rates went down, not so now. The Fed rate is at 2.25% and Bankrate.com gives the average 30year mortgage rate at 5;75%. So banks are still changing way above the Fed rate to comsumers and getting a free handout from the government. The Fed is expected to go down to 1.5%, where will the mortgages be, probably still at 5.75%.

    Comsumers are being hit big time by these poorly run, greedy banks. Congress should be looking at what is happening here.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    the donor class are making out like bandits while we "can't afford SCHIP"
  • nicho · 1 year ago
    Whatever happened to "workfare?" Can't we make these Wall Streeters work for the taxpayer money we give them? I'd like to see the CEOs and top brass out cutting grass in the parks or picking up trash along the highway before we give them $50 billion.
  • Comrade Rutherford · 1 year ago
    You know, only Commies would complain that our hard-earned tax dollars are being handed over as welfare checks to retiring CEOs. Those billionaires are people, too. Without their golden parachute retirements these poor patriotic Americans might have to drive themselves, or prepare their own food!

    I'd rather have millions of poor Americans starving to death than one CEO have to do their own grocery shopping!

    We Americans do have our priorities, and that is to make sure the those most needy, say that have over $1M in disposable income, are helped the most.

    That there are not mass demonstrations in the streets is proof that every single taxpaying US Citizen completely agrees with the Republican Party - Welfare ONLY for the Wealthy!
  • ChaosMotor · 1 year ago
    I'm tired of saying this - NO ONE IN THE GOVERNMENT GIVES A FUCK. They don't care because no one in the government is negatively affected by this; in fact, the vast majority of the government is positively benefited by this.

    The only people who are negatively affected by this are the majority of Americans, the taxpayers, the middle class, the little persons.

    No one will do ANYTHING for the people who are affected by this because 1) No one cares about them, and 2) They're too chicken shit or stupid to care about themselves.

    This will not get fixed until the general public wises up, tightens their belt, and gets fucking pissed. I give it a good 2-3 years at least, it'll take that long for food prices to get up high enough that the 60% of America that is obese feels their budget tighten so much that they start losing weight, not out of prurient self-interest but because they can't afford to feed themselves like they are used to.

    THAT is when shit will shape up, and not before then. We have to wait for the fatties to start feeling it in their tummies.
  • dula · 1 year ago
    I don't know what I'd do if I lost everything due to greed from the financial industry and then saw them shoveling out bonus money to each other. Enough is enough.