Comments on: GRITtv: When the Banks Get a Bailout, Why Don’t You? http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:11:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: bernarda http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446635 bernarda Thu, 15 May 2008 21:00:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446635 <p>A British Program explains it all very well. This is one part “The Long Johns -Last Laugh - George Parr - Subprime”.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_qK4g6ntM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_qK4g6ntM</a></p> <p>It makes everything very simple.</p> A British Program explains it all very well. This is one part “The Long Johns -Last Laugh – George Parr – Subprime”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_qK4g6ntM

It makes everything very simple.

]]> By: dosido http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446430 dosido Thu, 15 May 2008 18:38:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446430 <p>Oh yeah!</p> <p>Millionaires stealing from the public cookie jar. Right in plain view. </p> <p>McCain/Bush = what’s in your wallet?</p> Oh yeah!

Millionaires stealing from the public cookie jar. Right in plain view.

McCain/Bush = what’s in your wallet?

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446357 SouthernDragon Thu, 15 May 2008 17:35:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446357 <p>Where there’s a will there’s a way. That’s why we will always need the non-profit watchdog groups, e.g. Citizen Watch (off the top of my head). Perfect is an awfully hard goal. Leads to a lot of anxiety and heartbreak.</p> Where there’s a will there’s a way. That’s why we will always need the non-profit watchdog groups, e.g. Citizen Watch (off the top of my head). Perfect is an awfully hard goal. Leads to a lot of anxiety and heartbreak.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446351 selise Thu, 15 May 2008 17:31:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446351 <p>agree it would be a big improvement and i’m for it. just don’t think it would be a perfect fix. there’s still lots of ways to get around it that aren’t so easy to regulate.</p> agree it would be a big improvement and i’m for it. just don’t think it would be a perfect fix. there’s still lots of ways to get around it that aren’t so easy to regulate.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446346 SouthernDragon Thu, 15 May 2008 17:29:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446346 <p>Well, I don’t think we could regulate who corporations, or any other business, can hire. What we see now is not former congress critters going to work so much as CEO’s but as advisors or lobbyists with the corporations’ lobbying arm. Some who have prior corporate management experience, primarily from the Senate, return to corporate management but the others usually end up on K Street in one form or another. That’s my take on it, at least.</p> <p>Simple regulation could arguably shut K Street down. That would be a great achievement for Congress. No loopholes, no bs, just good enforceable regulation.</p> Well, I don’t think we could regulate who corporations, or any other business, can hire. What we see now is not former congress critters going to work so much as CEO’s but as advisors or lobbyists with the corporations’ lobbying arm. Some who have prior corporate management experience, primarily from the Senate, return to corporate management but the others usually end up on K Street in one form or another. That’s my take on it, at least.

Simple regulation could arguably shut K Street down. That would be a great achievement for Congress. No loopholes, no bs, just good enforceable regulation.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446337 selise Thu, 15 May 2008 17:23:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446337 <p>hence the need for a bs meter recalibration. i’m thinking i may just go for the new model with a log scale. *g*</p> hence the need for a bs meter recalibration. i’m thinking i may just go for the new model with a log scale. *g*

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446332 selise Thu, 15 May 2008 17:20:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446332 <p>not just lobbiests - corp positions too (for example, ceo of haliburton or how the clintons have somehow made $100 million since bill left office)</p> not just lobbiests – corp positions too (for example, ceo of haliburton or how the clintons have somehow made $100 million since bill left office)

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446331 SouthernDragon Thu, 15 May 2008 17:20:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446331 <p>I’ll have a mountain-bred Appaloosa, please.</p> I’ll have a mountain-bred Appaloosa, please.

]]> By: EvilDrPuma http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446330 EvilDrPuma Thu, 15 May 2008 17:20:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446330 <p>Uh-huh. And he plans to accomplish this…how?</p> <p>(crickets)</p> Uh-huh. And he plans to accomplish this…how?

(crickets)

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446328 SouthernDragon Thu, 15 May 2008 17:19:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/15/grittv-when-the-banks-get-a-bail-out-why-dont-you/#comment-1446328 <p>As far as lobbying is concerned I would think it should be fairly easy to make it illegal for any person having served in Congress to lobby Congress for any reason other than one’s personal interest, like any other citizen. Such regulation might just provide a better crop of public servants.</p> As far as lobbying is concerned I would think it should be fairly easy to make it illegal for any person having served in Congress to lobby Congress for any reason other than one’s personal interest, like any other citizen. Such regulation might just provide a better crop of public servants.

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