They think it’s OK to plunder our treasury. It’s OK to leave our families and old on the streets. It’s OK to send our citizens to war for their profit and Empire control. It’s OK to destroy lives and our communities. It’s OK to bankrupt the most powerful country in the world (democracy) so they can rule like kings.

Say no to Obama and Congressional push to the Americas Union (Fascist rule).

Steve P: I’ve rented all my life and drive $2000 used cars…you speak the truth

nick: as soon as the checks come back, we’ll know who got the money; then we’ll ask them

Robin and Lori: excellent points, thanks for your post

Jameel: The typical kid coming out of public school gets no training in those areas…go figure.

Manoog: It’s all Republicans fault…got it.

Lilya: Are we then all slaves to the Electoral College?

Marianne: You’re on the right track

Karen: Meet Steve P and Marianne

Chelsea: you are so right….and you’re hot to boot.

Mohammed: Get with nick

Hal: Thanks for the clear thinking and dose of truth.

Hey! I love NPR; really, I do…but if it wasn’t for crazy old ladies, you guys would be after a bailout too.

Linda could have explained that the first TARP $350B was distributed *clearly and openly* by buying preferred shares in Banks which *return interest* to the taxpayer. This *re-capitalized* the banks –> stopping the continuing failure of a large bank every few days!

TARP was used to prevent a general failure of most all large banks.

Imagine if this wasn’t done: Citibank gone, dead. Bank of America under threat and a bank run.

How would the economy look then, with a more intense panic?

AND…TARP was used mostly *as recommended by a prominent nobel prize winning economist*, and many economists and experts…

And this accomplished *exactly* what TARP was for: to stabilize the banking system and prevent general collapse.

Instead, Linda said this was a

“Raw Deal”

This reminds me of the rhetoric used by some politicians that obscure this necessary and relatively good (not perfect, but not bad) use of the TARP funds.

Honestly, I’m getting more and more disillusioned about the rhetoric being used.

We cannot win the war for economic justice using tricky rhetoric. Really, it will backfire.

The scramble to blame Paulson — make him the scapegoat — for the continuing fallout from the collapsed credit bubble collapse is a trick, and I don’t want any part of it.

It will backfire.

We need openness and complete communication on our side if we are to make more than brief progress.

I’d love to hear Tom interview Martenson.

Secondly we need to know, how we keep this money from being sent off overseas for Chinese goods and the Arabian oil.

Last and not the least, how we tax this money back in the pockets of the goverment.

We can brag all day long but we are on the verge of becoming another broke third world country, or worse, a capitalist version of the old Soviet Union with all its corruption, poverty, and lack of civil and human rights.

Don’t play into the lies of redemptive violence, big corps, and special interest- get creative instead. Can’t afford a house? Live in an apartment and make the neighborhood as cool as possible. Have block parties! Can’t afford a vacation? Save up then do a house switch with someone from another city! Don’t have a job? Start a non-profit, do a help/work exchange program overseas or in your own city, start selling grilled cheese sandwiches at truck stops! Who knows!! get creative! No money? Find others with the same situation and start a community! Help each other out- watch each other’s children, feed each other, take others in who need help!! We can overcome this whole thing together but we have to be TOGETHER!

I’ll say it again- We need to stop waiting around for the government to help us and instead start helping each other NOW!

bw

So here’s how we do it:

1) Families (and individuals) become corporations. Business corporations.
Their business is raising children, keeping body & soul together. A domestic-domestic corporation (domestic, as “of the state”, and domestic, as “of the home, the domus”)

This means all the reasonable and necessary expenses involved in this business–food, clothing, shelter, transportation, education (80% of entertainment) etc. is deductible from gross income.

2) By legislation, no more employees–we all become contractors–1099.

3) What once was wages/personal income becomes, by fiat, inter-corporate payments.

This adds a new requirement for families–they have to run themselves as businesses. With financial management and contracts galore.

It takes “marriage” out of the government realm. My short-hand: Don’t Marry, Incorporate.

And it “takes personal income off the table” for Congress.

The states, which control “domestic corporations,” would also control the “domestic-domestic corporations.” And would make up for personal income tax losses with corporate fees and taxes.

However, EVERY corporation, domestic and double-domestic, would be on the same footing.

The goal is to keep money within the home and within the state. The feds would have to talk with the states.

And families would have to learn about finances and negotiating contracts. It would move reading, writing, contracting, financial “literacy” to the fore, in schools, personal service contracting. No more “employees at will.” It all becomes “goods and services by contract only.”

Sea-change? Yes. Necessary? I think so. Look where we’ve gotten by concentrating our financial resources in Washington, and in self-aggrandizing (did I say lawless?) mega-mega corporations, ever-expanding, ever-more-”intertwined” and evermore precarious, with all our yeggs [sic] feeding from one basket. And not in a good way.

bw

PS: I’m amazed that so many interviewers of congressional officials–our “elected” officials–don’t question in this vein: “OK, you say you’re waiting for the details on this or that presidential proposal. But YOU were the one elected to create the legislation, design and define the details. It’s supposed to be ‘Congress PROposes; the executive DISposes.’

“So what legislation are YOU proposing? What legislation are YOU writing, on behalf of your citizen-constituents, rather than your big-bucks contributors? Look what an absolute mess your failure to do your job has left us all in. You need to get to work, guys ‘n’ gals.”

And of course, we newly-minted Domestic-Domestic Corporation executives (formerly known as “constituents” and “wage slaves”) have to tell you what we expect, what we think of your efforts, on something like a daily basis. Which means we need web-cams pointed at your seat in Congress, in your office buildings, the the lobby, the gym, the restaurants around K street, wherever lobbyists are found. We will be your NEW business lobbyists.

While we are extremely pleased to see that the Obama team seems to be addressing the problem from a basis of principled intelligence (rather than narrow self-interest, we think it is unlikely that we can expect anything more than self-interest from many members of Congress (especially the conservatives), and we foresee a lot of foot-dragging and wrangling. We remain hopeful but are not expecting much.

Any large project requires years of preparatory work, environmental impacts, etc. We just can’t do it. Tax cuts will be much faster and easier – and will be more evenly distributed than the sycophants who will be after the $700Billion.

Good God, I wish I could do something about it!

Do we ask questions? As a nation, we failed to ask the Administration to tell us “WHY” we invaded Iraq… and how can we trust ourselves to ask what they are doing with the TARP.

Isn’t it obvious? We created this “non-accountability” monster.

Go Linda!