Ok...my brain hurts...I need someone to explain to me why corporate fat cuts are protesting bailouts

of corporate fat cats.

Honestly, I'm not that interested in these protests, but I feel like I am missing something when being told that these are being funded by big business.

They seem to be like they are being funded by Conservative Think Tanks who use their mouth pieces on talk radio as organizers.

Corporate fat cats seem pleased as punch with TARP and such.

its all about ME ME ME

That's how I wrap my brain around it

Control the Message
Control the Citizens

Like I said.

Give us more money but don't raise taxes?

Your eerie Orwellian tone doesn't provide much insight.

at least corporat fat cats would have a 'bag' on the face of this event.

not much of a bag -- but a bag.

That would be ok?

I still think this site's view is off by a few degrees.

Actually I don't think they're funding by big banks who are unhappy about the bailout.

So, I can't explain a rationale for that.

But it has been in the news that Banks are grumbling about the repayment conditions of TARP funds... that's what I was thinking about.

I think they're opposed to them having to pay for it. Let the poor and middle class foot the bill somehow. :crazy:

Nobody is paying for it right now. This is why the Deficit was a goddamn trillion dollars.

and it will, the corporate fat cats are going to cry their eyes out about how them being "overtaxed" is going to hurt all of us. I can hear it now....

That strikes me as inevitable.

And I'm not going to like it one bit, but if they let the big shots off the hook for paying their fair share for the mess THEY made while sticking it to my poor ass, I'm going to be one mad sumbitch.

Except some who want to see GM go under, but that's peanuts compared to the "bailouts."

Well, depends who we're talking about. Wall St. and PTB ain't protesting the "bailouts," since that's the essential god-given money that bankfuckers earn by existing and thus making all other life possible.

They do protest
a) any time they personally get less than 100% of the plunder they want (as with the bonus flap)
b) sometimes, with regard to the failure to give all other government money to them to (as in: stimulus plan. Or the continued existence of the "entitlement" programs like Social Security).

The banksters rightly fear a small chance that they'll one day be brought to justice (or the guillotine) for their crimes, so it's important to make lots of noise to obfuscate what's what. Complain about provisions in the plunder plan (while taking the money) so that later when it inevitably "fails" to stop the depression (how DID that happen?!) they can blame the government, or Obama, or whoever.

The Republicans, currently lost in teabag wilderness, may yet have a life handed back to them when the plunder plan "fails." Their chance will be in casting themselves as a simulation of the populist anti-banking party against the "elitist" pro-banker Obama. Which is hilarious, but let's face it: it could work.

The Republicans are so far out in the wilderness right now, they need a map just to be considered "lost."

I think this is driven by some Conservative think tanks and talk radio who want to destroy the current Republican Establishment and replace with something angrier, more male, and even more Christian.

Which is a disastrous plan by electoral standards, but will get them a lot of headlines and consolidate a lot of money and power in some new hands.

If Democrats give billions of dollars to rich bankers, rich bankers show gratitude to Democrats.
Republicans want some of that action.
So they try to make Democrats look bad.