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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 10:07 AM
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We Need A TRILLION DOLLARS By The End Of The Week!
 
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Part II - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLIyrs6Vi2I

Does anyone else get the feeling there is a giant heist of the US Treasury under way!

How many US taxpayers are there? In 2007, about 138 million. This means:

Okay, everyone, cough up $7,000 by the end of the week!

Government at all levels will collect 30% of the nation's income for 2008.
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 10:12 AM
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1. 138 million tax payers?
When the population is 300 million? Interesting.
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VeraAgnes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 01:28 PM
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12. Lets go find that 7 Trillon dollars Clinton left
ther USA in surplus.
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Naturalist Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 10:32 AM
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2. Think everyone!
Start a new part of the government with the TRILLION DOLLARS! and let them loan money to businesses if that truly is the problem. NO BAILOUTS!!!!!!!!!!
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Naturalist Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 10:47 AM
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4. Example
Look if this is truly about Businesses and Future Homeowners being able to get loans then Start a new agency that will loan the money to those who need it if they qualify instead of giving it to Businesses that have managed poorly. Since we now own Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac why not make Fannie Mae for homes and Freddie Mac for businesses and those two use the TRILLION DOLLARS for loans. No BAILOUTS for Businesses. Loans Yes Bailouts NO if they qualify!!!!!!!. BAILOUT HOMEOWNERS that need the help if they qualify ONLY. You got to think faster than these crooks people!!!!
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 12:05 PM
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7. excellent idea but would blow the cover of the real meaning of
the theft that is going down.
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trthnd4jstc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 12:51 PM
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9. I agree with your post. n/t
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 10:32 AM
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3. I can hear a giant sucking sound on taxpayers wallets and where they
...cough up $1 trillion by the end of next week, they will be expected to cough up trillions more in the months to come until the Bush gang criminal cabal is dragged away in hand cuffs and ankle cuffs.

Secretary Paulson was lying throughout the entire interview. This White House needs adult supervision right now, not by the end of next January, now!
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bobd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 11:23 AM
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5. Maybe Bush and Cheney can apply for a payday loan
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 12:01 PM
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6. The treasury has already been looted by these monsters
Now they are asking, nay, forcing the taxpayer to cough up their futures and go into indentured slavery so they can continue to rob cheat and steal. This is just insurance if Obama by some fluke of Diabold allows an honest election or the election is such a landslide they cannot pull out an illusionary victory even with the complicit corporate media. It insures that Obama will have no funds to do much good or repair the nation.
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bobd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 12:06 PM
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8. Bush's first act as "president" was to empty the treasury into his contributors' pockets
In the form of his tax cut for the rich.

Bush took the Clinton SURPLUS and turned it into a record DEFICIT overnight.

Now Bush's economic chickens have come home to roost and we have to pay to feed the same hen house bullshit bunch again.

How ANYONE can vote for a Republican this year is totally beyond me. And McCain/Palin? You've just GOT to be kidding.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 12:52 PM
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10. Wish I could REC that series. Let's loan a Trillion instead of borrowing it!!
Let's earn interest on that trillion, instead of paying it out for decades!

If there is a need for lending, let the government take over home owner mortgages that need lower interest rates, and end the usury instead of enabling the culprits to continue down the same path.

If the USG assumes control of a trillion in home mortgages, will that fix "the capital shortfall"?

What has already happened is that "someone" has sucked up the missing capital as profits. Where is that profit, and was it ever taxed?
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Piewhacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 01:17 PM
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11. "Trust me, I'm a Republican!" (twilight zone music plays)
What we are seeing here is the wild-eye guy at the casino who
just lost his life-saving and wants your life-savings so he can
get his money back.
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MindMatter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 01:43 PM
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13. Capital market bullshit
The capital markets are frozen because nobody trusts the biggest financial corporations. And they shouldn't. These guys are a bunch of crooks that add nothing to our economy. All they do is conduct a gigantic shell game for the purposes of extracting money from our economy.

There is plenty of credit for well run companies that actually make products or provide services the average American needs.

In the past month, the two main bankers my small business relies on have app
There is money out there for good companies. The problem is that the companies that Paulson knows about and is representing are crooks and con artists.

And if credit were the issue, the Fed already has the power to solve that by loosening credit. Fact is that's how they CREATED this problem.
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Jemmons Donating Member (407 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 01:56 PM
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14. Translation:
Tom Lehrer:
First of all, joining us now, the man at the helm, secretary of Treasury, Henry Paulson. Mr Paulson - welcome back. Last time we saw you the charade was still up, but things have changed rapidly. This situation that our economy is in now is really as bad as having a grapefruit stuck up your ass just when a goat rams your from behind, isnt it? I mean - you just defend these shitty deals - the bail outs - because there are still gullible voters out there, who haven't discovered that their pension years are going to be spend in a low paying manufacture job right?

Henry Paulson:
Tom, the excesses and the complexity is one of the reasons that the securitized mortgages that was sliced and diced and sold on to blindfolded stooges all over the world, with at great deal of risc to anyone but bankers make it somewhat irrelevant to point a finger at anyone. Actually its irresponsible and could get you in trouble when the shit hits the fan.

Tom Lehrer:
Isn't this your fault mr. Paulson?

Henry Paulson:
I can assure you, you that in reality the average voters are so screwed that nobody really car who's fault it is. Ordinary people just got assigned to endless low paid manufacture jobs, with no retirement possible. They wont care who did this to them. They will be so shocked and confused when they find out what we did to them, that they just want to hide and curse themselves for ever trusting anything.

Tom Lehrer:
You are asking for 1 trillion by the end of the week - have you gone totally insane in the membrane?

Henry Paulsen:
Well - what I will say is that I will not bet against the american people eating up the shit that we drop on them whenever we feel like it.
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ryanmuegge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 02:01 PM
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15. There is no debate about the US economy. It's not strong fundamentally. It's a house of cards.
Only an idiot or a liar would claim that there are rational grounds for debate about that.
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