And it’s not just the TARP money, the total is up about $2 Trillion now.

What about the Carlyle Group? One of their subsidiaries is a merchants’ bank. And does Paulson’s latest panic relate to Goldman Sachs posting a big loss (this quarter or last, forget which).

Where are Paulson’s millions invested? The Bush Dynasty’s millions?

There are examples of businesses in America that treat their employees well. Why cannot this be the norm, not the exception?

Let me tell you a little story. My neocon brother ran a small insurance agency ( no comment)He and his partners decided to sell it summer b4 last. An economic hit man for a larger insurance company came in and told them the company was worthless because they were too good to their employees (who helped them build the company.
So, my brother ( it was the hardest thing he ever had to do!) went around and asked all his employees if they’d rather lose their bennies than their jobs. Most stayed on, losing their health care plans, pensions and whatever else.

Moral of the story? Work for somebody in this day and age, you’re screwed.

They are playing Monopoly with our $$$$

We have been SACKED.

Is there anything that can be done? I’ve asked this now and then, but no one wants to go there. The choice is simple. We can try to do it ourselves or we can bitch when our annointed representatives do it for us.

Well, I’d like to go there, but my congresspeople have benefited so mightily and been so complicit, I don’t really know how. Go up to Washington with pitchforks and torches?
What do you suggest?
As I saw it, practically everyone in this country; right, left and center, up and down, were screaming for congress NOT to give Paulson the $$$ and they did it anyway. Now some folks are saying that “Yes there was a crisis, but not of the magnitude Paulson and BushCO said.” In other words, they lied to US again. Surprise, surprise.
So much for “representative government”