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	<title>Comments on: CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: Tell Congress &#8220;No More Dough Till We Know Where It Goes&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: mntleo2</title>
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		<dc:creator>mntleo2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I wrote this to my Congressman:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am on TANF with my grandniece.  In order to merit the $440.00 per month, which is the only income this little girl and I have to live on, I have to provide all kinds of proof to the government.  I often have to verify the verifications and re-verify the re-verifications. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recently I was investigated for Welfare Fraud because my ex-brother-in-law was visiting from another state on his way to see his son in another city. I was napping with my grand-niece at the time and he made the mistake of answering my door to a welfare fraud investigator.  This investigator is a man who is part of a team to whom the government pays lots of money in order to find and prosecute “welfare queens” like me. I spent the little money we had trying to defend myself and had to use the rest of it for food because our food access suspended, which will put us back for months because I could not pay the other necessities we need. God forbid that I am not a billionaire and took in a newborn infant whose mother is homeless, schizophrenic, and HIV positive while I am disabled, 57 years old, and in poverty myself! While I am glad to care for this beautiful child and she is my family, everyone should be well aware that it is far less expense to let me take care of her instead of the government paying thousands of dollars more into a foster system. Welfare fraud is a crime that could have landed me in jail and then there would have been nobody to care for my 3 year old grand-niece. I am *not* making this up! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have to undergo such scrutiny for a mere $440.00 a month.  If I cannot defend myself and then face the possibility of having all our income taken away forever, a little girl losing the only mother she has ever known, and possible prison, WHY shouldn’t any of these entitled multi-millionaires, who have all kinds of attorneys and book keepers, do the same for literally millions of times more?  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just askin’ …&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cat Sullivan&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote this to my Congressman:</p>
<p>I am on TANF with my grandniece.  In order to merit the $440.00 per month, which is the only income this little girl and I have to live on, I have to provide all kinds of proof to the government.  I often have to verify the verifications and re-verify the re-verifications. </p>
<p>Recently I was investigated for Welfare Fraud because my ex-brother-in-law was visiting from another state on his way to see his son in another city. I was napping with my grand-niece at the time and he made the mistake of answering my door to a welfare fraud investigator.  This investigator is a man who is part of a team to whom the government pays lots of money in order to find and prosecute “welfare queens” like me. I spent the little money we had trying to defend myself and had to use the rest of it for food because our food access suspended, which will put us back for months because I could not pay the other necessities we need. God forbid that I am not a billionaire and took in a newborn infant whose mother is homeless, schizophrenic, and HIV positive while I am disabled, 57 years old, and in poverty myself! While I am glad to care for this beautiful child and she is my family, everyone should be well aware that it is far less expense to let me take care of her instead of the government paying thousands of dollars more into a foster system. Welfare fraud is a crime that could have landed me in jail and then there would have been nobody to care for my 3 year old grand-niece. I am *not* making this up! </p>
<p>I have to undergo such scrutiny for a mere $440.00 a month.  If I cannot defend myself and then face the possibility of having all our income taken away forever, a little girl losing the only mother she has ever known, and possible prison, WHY shouldn’t any of these entitled multi-millionaires, who have all kinds of attorneys and book keepers, do the same for literally millions of times more?  </p>
<p>Just askin’ …</p>
<p>Cat Sullivan</p>
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		<title>By: kirk murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>kirk murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Congress: How is giving Geithner trillions for secret give-aways to his bankster pals different from laundering any other stolen funds?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or is the only difference that you get a cut of the laundered funds from your bankster &lt;strike&gt;owners&lt;/strike&gt; donors?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Congress: How is giving Geithner trillions for secret give-aways to his bankster pals different from laundering any other stolen funds?</p>
<p>Or is the only difference that you get a cut of the laundered funds from your bankster <strike>owners</strike> donors?</p>
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		<title>By: ekunin</title>
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		<dc:creator>ekunin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The situation is bad and it doesn’t look like Obama and his team “gets it”. I don’t know how long it will take POTUS to realize (1) you can’t tango (be bipartisam) with someone who doesn’t want to dance and (2) bailing out banks and hedge funds isn’t the way to go. That the fed won’t divulge counterparties or who gets what adds insult to injury.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How long will it take us to realize that faxing, petitioning, and commenting won’t cut it? How about if we’re not on a different path in six months, we start talking alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The situation is bad and it doesn’t look like Obama and his team “gets it”. I don’t know how long it will take POTUS to realize (1) you can’t tango (be bipartisam) with someone who doesn’t want to dance and (2) bailing out banks and hedge funds isn’t the way to go. That the fed won’t divulge counterparties or who gets what adds insult to injury.</p>
<p>How long will it take us to realize that faxing, petitioning, and commenting won’t cut it? How about if we’re not on a different path in six months, we start talking alternatives.</p>
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		<title>By: BooRadley</title>
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		<dc:creator>BooRadley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks Jane. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Petition signed, threw $10 bucks in.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Jane. </p>
<p>Petition signed, threw $10 bucks in.</p>
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		<title>By: acquarius74</title>
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		<dc:creator>acquarius74</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;selise, isn’t the maneuver that Kucinich dodged by his refusal about the same plans followed by the economic hit men employed secretly by Treasury through Big Banks to wreck the economy of entire S. American, African and small Eastern countries?  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ref: book, Confessions of An Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins. He is also on YouTube and interviews on democracynow.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>selise, isn’t the maneuver that Kucinich dodged by his refusal about the same plans followed by the economic hit men employed secretly by Treasury through Big Banks to wreck the economy of entire S. American, African and small Eastern countries?  </p>
<p>Ref: book, Confessions of An Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins. He is also on YouTube and interviews on democracynow.</p>
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		<title>By: dmac</title>
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		<dc:creator>dmac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;hey demi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i actually did that once along a stretch of road where people were regularly gathering cans.and was wishing those people were there that day to give it to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it hit me after someone i didn’t like at all gave me money to ‘chip in’ for something after being a true ass about it…i didn’t want their tainted funds. they shoved it at me when i was pulling out and it was on the seat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;stupid, i know, money was blowing around on the seat and was grabbing it to put it awaay goin’ around a curve. did it before i even thought about it. hoped they got it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;now i can say—throw money out the window? i did that once.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;funny.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey demi</p>
<p>i actually did that once along a stretch of road where people were regularly gathering cans.and was wishing those people were there that day to give it to them.</p>
<p>it hit me after someone i didn’t like at all gave me money to ‘chip in’ for something after being a true ass about it…i didn’t want their tainted funds. they shoved it at me when i was pulling out and it was on the seat.</p>
<p>stupid, i know, money was blowing around on the seat and was grabbing it to put it awaay goin’ around a curve. did it before i even thought about it. hoped they got it.</p>
<p>now i can say—throw money out the window? i did that once.</p>
<p>funny.</p>
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		<title>By: acquarius74</title>
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		<dc:creator>acquarius74</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Interesting surname that witness, Fed Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn has…  &lt;strong&gt;see perris’ Oxdown diary about the entire billionaire, bankster Kohn clan. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of them is GWB’s sister, Doro (Bush) Kohn.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe one (the ?) reason for the secrecy is to conceal that the ‘industries’ of the Kohn and Bush families were among the recipients of the TARP via AIG and the bailed-out banks???&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting surname that witness, Fed Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn has…  <strong>see perris’ Oxdown diary about the entire billionaire, bankster Kohn clan. </strong></p>
<p>One of them is GWB’s sister, Doro (Bush) Kohn.</p>
<p>Maybe one (the ?) reason for the secrecy is to conceal that the ‘industries’ of the Kohn and Bush families were among the recipients of the TARP via AIG and the bailed-out banks???</p>
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		<title>By: ThingsComeUndone</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThingsComeUndone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hey I could be wrong too.&lt;br /&gt;
  Anything can explode now bonds, stocks credit card defaults, unemployment numbers they are all matches…tied to dynamite which match will go off first well I don’t know either.&lt;br /&gt;
    Until we get some real numbers from the banks nobody knows.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey I could be wrong too.<br />
  Anything can explode now bonds, stocks credit card defaults, unemployment numbers they are all matches…tied to dynamite which match will go off first well I don’t know either.<br />
    Until we get some real numbers from the banks nobody knows.</p>
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		<title>By: dmac</title>
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		<dc:creator>dmac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;if you missed it, everyone should watch this daily show clip with joe nocera from the nyt from 3/4/09–explains it all.&lt;br /&gt;
five stars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indecisionforever.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220254&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.indecisionforever.c.....oId=220254&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the spot about cnbc financial reporters&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;cnbc gives financial advice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indecisionforever.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220252&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.indecisionforever.c.....oId=220252&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if you missed it, everyone should watch this daily show clip with joe nocera from the nyt from 3/4/09–explains it all.<br />
five stars.<br /><a href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220254" rel="nofollow">http://www.indecisionforever.c&#8230;..oId=220254</a></p>
<p>and the spot about cnbc financial reporters</p>
<p>cnbc gives financial advice<br /><a href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220252" rel="nofollow">http://www.indecisionforever.c&#8230;..oId=220252</a></p>
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		<title>By: ThingsComeUndone</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThingsComeUndone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nationalize or let them sink into their own shit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stock prices around a buck? Its already happened bailouts are not working Nationalization might not even work if CDS are also protected and the market goes down more which is very likely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The banks are Dead &lt;/strong&gt;they just don’t know it yet they are not even Zombie banks anymore.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Nationalize or let them sink into their own shit.</p>
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<p>Stock prices around a buck? Its already happened bailouts are not working Nationalization might not even work if CDS are also protected and the market goes down more which is very likely.<br /><strong>The banks are Dead </strong>they just don’t know it yet they are not even Zombie banks anymore.</p>
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