Friday October 3, 2008, 12:55 pm
Noted. I am disgusted to the nth degree. And that is all I am going to say today about this travesty of governance. Thank you, Cate!

Friday October 3, 2008, 12:56 pm
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -- Thomas Jefferson

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:02 pm
Noted. What can I say? I will say nothing.

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:03 pm
I will say this...notice the happy little smirk on his disgusting face...

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:04 pm
CROOKS!!!!Absolutely disgusting!
Thank you Ombretta! Noted!

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:05 pm
Ah, now onto retirement. Billions in profit await George and his buddies, without so much as a slap on the hand or pinch of the pocketbook. Thanks, Congress, for being accomplices in this robbery of the American people.

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:09 pm
This just makes me so sick.

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:42 pm
He probably used a crayon to mark his X

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:44 pm
So print money or borrow more money from China? Inflation is coming soon.........

Friday October 3, 2008, 1:47 pm
I can't even get my lunch down. They asked for $700 billion up front, got $350 billion up front, and probably only needed $100 billion. (shaking head)

Friday October 3, 2008, 2:06 pm
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Friday October 3, 2008, 2:10 pm
hi thanks ombetta, moneys no object to that mad man look how much he has spent in the murder of military and millions of civilians,in iraq in the unjust war he wants that smirk whipd of his murdering face.he has caused all this mess try him for murder.

Friday October 3, 2008, 2:11 pm
I wonder what else he did with that "bill"...

added "something" and/or one-line items...

Congresscritters really stabbed the US citizens despite the outrage.

Will someone help pull the knives out of my back...

TY, Ombretta L.

Friday October 3, 2008, 2:11 pm
What is going on that these people can continue to take take take! Why not a whopping stimulus check to all taxpaying citizens 18 and older with a cap at say $80,000??? Seems to me that would stimulate the economy, not help billinaire CEO's that stole from people making them believe they can afford what they really can't. And all by something called 'Predatory Lending'. I think they should all be in prison and/or pay back a huge amount of $$$$

Friday October 3, 2008, 2:18 pm
I hope you like beans!!!


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Friday October 3, 2008, 2:20 pm
Why do I keep hearing Jim Morrison singing "this is the end"

Friday October 3, 2008, 2:23 pm
Nothing new here, Lars. They've been raping and stabbing us in the back all along...we just didn't know it. And Congress has never listened to us. If it seems they once did, it's only because our desires happened to be in line with theirs.

We know our letters, emails and calls reached them in these past few days because they were frustrated and shut down their systems so we couldn't get through.

We are now all on the same page: There is no Santa Claus, there is no Easter Rabbit and the Tooth Fairy flew away long ago with Cinderella's Prince. The only ones who can rescue us at this point is ourselves.

It's time to wake up and smell the stench...

Friday October 3, 2008, 2:25 pm
Robert...I can prepare beans 45 different ways. How do you like yours? I'm serving them boiled tonight with no seasoning...

Friday October 3, 2008, 3:01 pm
Bend over and grab your ankles. One more reason, in a very long list to vote the bums out. We need to have very long memories and make sure our children understand; not everyone was stupid enough to allow this crap to happen. I'm not sure, it might be too late, but we need to channel the spirits of the 60's. We need strong and passionate leaders to take this country back.

Friday October 3, 2008, 3:02 pm

Yes, it is the smile for new jobs with CEO golden parachutes come January.

Friday October 3, 2008, 3:07 pm
New Rome Is Burning and the Barbarians are not at the gates, they are in the Senate House! (And the House of Congress, the Treasury, the Fed Reserve Building and the White House). The Usurper smirks while the country falls. He did it not with fire while playing a lyre, he did it with the stroke of a pen.

We are no longer the Free Citizens of New Rome, my peeps, we are now slaves soon to be auctioned off to the highest bidders while the Barbarians party in their marble mansions or fly off to their gated strongholds in foreign lands (does Paraguay ring a bell for you?). Do you hear their laughter?

The Empire of Old Rome took 500 years to fall, New Rome fell in less than 50. Remember this day when you tell your grandchildren of what it was like to live in the greatest Republic, if not the greatest EMPIRE, the world had ever known. Remember who it was that destroyed it. Remember who it was that ALLOWED (complicit in) it to happen. Remember who did not heed the voice of the people. And most of all remember this: our nation was sold for 700 billion pieces of silver.

Actually, ransomed: 'There would be martial law in America if we voted no.' --Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif., 27th District) says Congress threatened with Martial Law if bill is not passed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8

A nation cannot be conquered from without until it has corrupted itself from within -- Durant.

We're there. A storm is coming, get ready for it.

Friday October 3, 2008, 3:20 pm
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men ~ Plato

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest ~ Denis Diderot

Friday October 3, 2008, 3:21 pm
Terrie - Excellent statement!!

Friday October 3, 2008, 4:20 pm
Some day my grandchildren are going to wonder how I could let this happen to them. Guess I need to make a note somewhere that elected officials sure can go deaf at the damndest times....thanks, Ombretta. PS Never to see that smirk again would be such a relief.

Friday October 3, 2008, 4:27 pm
And Now Tell Me = Just WHAT Did You Expect??????????

Friday October 3, 2008, 4:47 pm
It doesn't matter which of the 2 parties get elected now.............the banks will rule...
Marion, recently I attended a meeting where we were told you have underground Cities and extensive tunnel systems in (under) Australia....with populations of up to 3500, in one area....maybe more are headed this way. Mind you, most of our sheeple haven't got a clue, wouldn't believe, or are apathetic....we have a good example of where apathy leads eh?????

Friday October 3, 2008, 5:18 pm
noted thank you

Friday October 3, 2008, 6:20 pm
Noted and thanks Cate for sharing!

Friday October 3, 2008, 6:45 pm
Don't worry it is only the begining off the end. Wait till it realy gets nasty. You knew it was going to pass, it was only who got paid off in congress, that was the delay and for it to look like it they really gave a crap about us.

Friday October 3, 2008, 6:52 pm
I hope this helps the rest of us by allowing us to keep our jobs. I want people in office who care more about the needs of the "common" person and those in poverty than some big corporation.

Now I think we can use another bailout-one for people who still owe on their mortgages and who are losing their homes because of this.

Friday October 3, 2008, 7:18 pm
All I can say us "HELLLLPPPPP!!"

Friday October 3, 2008, 8:00 pm
Marion...loved your quote for Diderot. We help up on our end that's all I know ...everyone sent their emails,calls, telling them NO...we are the voices of our freedoms/rights...chicken shits ( at least the majority) were only worried about their buddies, lobbists, their pensions/401K's...If they had all had to return to their prospective state and place their vote there....they would have seen our massives numbers and heard our voices...instead of gathering in their "bomb shelter" building safe from any fallout and they cast their votes againest the will of the people
Time to bow to the porcelain goddess and flush...

Friday October 3, 2008, 9:01 pm
Boss is always right. Like this if at all he will take any wrong decision who will tell?

Friday October 3, 2008, 9:30 pm
The SOS for Buthead I agree with Terri. The Jerk does not care why should he its not going to effect him al all. So hold on to our hats Thanks Cate.

Friday October 3, 2008, 9:36 pm
Well, at least now

they let the gasoline through again.

Good thing they got what they wanted.

Friday October 3, 2008, 10:30 pm
....pulling knives from everyone's backs..., okay now breathe....LOL.

Remember, it's just a ride......, our true purpose in life has been slapping us in the face for the last decade.

Terrie..., I love your replies...heh. Okay, so let's not hand over our souls to these beasts. Okay get pissed off, release the shit, and get back on the horse, (literally...lol) forget affording cars, gas, insurance. It is all about the domino affect, now. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Tend your gardens and KNOW your water...

Grab your surf-boards and ride the waves my wonderful brothers and sisters..., because there is an new world awaiting us..., and it is NOT the end...There is something..beautiful happening in all of us, right now. However, one must let go of the negative lower frequency vibrations within..., so one can start to "feel" the Truth. Don't let these beasts dim out your Light, too. My Care2 family are always in my prayers. Much Love and Peace...Namaste, Dar

Friday October 3, 2008, 11:36 pm
I cant say only one think ..... HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHeeeeeeeeeLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLlp

Saturday October 4, 2008, 1:41 am
GET A GOOD LOOK AT A WAR CRIMINAL CHRIS

Saturday October 4, 2008, 1:47 am
Here in the UK, the news of the bailout has dominated this past week. In all the news reports I heard, the newscaster was dismissive of the bill not passing, almost to the point of chiding the Senate and House. Not once was it reported that the bill was not in the citizens favour, nor did I see anything about the 'pork' added to the bill. It was almost like those reporting expected the taxpayers to roll over and let this bill pass; thereby saving the UK and Europe from the effects of the meltdown. I'm left wondering if citizens of EU countries would have rolled over as Americans were expected to?

Saturday October 4, 2008, 2:00 am

I believe I can answer that Kim.....not if they had a brain
between them. Thanks for the concern.

Thank you Cate.

Saturday October 4, 2008, 2:05 am
I'm sure I'll draw the ire of Care2 members in the EU for my comments Marian, but it does make me wonder if presented with the same, if citizens of the EU would see 'the greater good' in passing such a bill.
Thanx Cate for providing the forum to express my opinion and Marian for your reply.

Saturday October 4, 2008, 4:09 am
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
Wife
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

Saturday October 4, 2008, 7:23 am
all I can say is SNL is gonna have a ball doing a parody of those proceedings, at least we will get a laff out of it, just hope I can still afford cable in the next couple months!
ty Cate

Saturday October 4, 2008, 10:09 am
what are we going to do when we run out of paper to print the money on buy it from china. what a joke.

Saturday October 4, 2008, 10:52 am
Mac the Knife: Cut the Needy to Feed the Greedy, Again they gave to the Rich !:-( and left us in the quick sand. to survive or die !

The issues are pretty clear. The Bush years and the last three decades of ultra-right corporate rule have been devastating. Ordinary people can’t survive in the present economic climate. Gas and food prices, foreclosures, layoffs, school closings and out-of-reach health care are all coming down hard on working-class families, with no letup in sight. Voteing some times I have to wonder ?

Saturday October 4, 2008, 2:54 pm
Unbelievable!!!

Saturday October 4, 2008, 9:11 pm
I want to be rich and move to Paraguay

Saturday October 4, 2008, 9:22 pm
We lost. We never had a chance against all the greed and corruption in our government.

Sunday October 5, 2008, 8:34 am
Kids wooden arrows? Rum? Race Cars? WHAT???? Alice, the White Rabbit, and the Mad Hatter!!

Vote for Gracie Allen for Pres! Don't know who she was? A very smart Dame....she was the best part of Burns & Allen....George Burns, for you young'uns.

Monday October 6, 2008, 10:07 pm
This crash has been engineered by the global elite just like the crash of '29 was engineered. It's called redistributing the wealth to the TOP. THey crash the economy, crash housing prices, crash banks and then they, the global elite 'banksters' at the top, buy up everything for pennies on the dollar. They have also crashed the dollar and everything else to do what they do best, problem, reaction, solution. they create the problem, we the people demand a solution and then they give us the solution THEY WANTED from the beginning and THEY pretend like they are being the saviors. It's all a huge fraud. It requires a painful education and much research, but the truth is out there. It is we the people who have the power. They only have whatever power we allow them to have. We must come to realize we have the power not THEM. They are terrified of our power, that's why they have to use fear mongering and propaganda.........to convince us we are not powerful. We jut have to realize and accept that it is we who have the power and never forget it no matter what they try to tell us.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 6:50 am
Tsandi
Kids wooden arrows? Rum? Race Cars? WHAT???? Alice, the White Rabbit, and the Mad Hatter.
Makes a strong point.
This rewrite was for theatrics only. When they could have added emergency relief of, foreclosures, jobs, health care, returning CEO paychecks past year,
...........I mean jimminy cricket........
I thought this bill was about; economy, crisis, return & enforce the glass-stegall act, etc...
So many helpful and wise additions should/could have been prioritized.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 7:00 am
Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, signed by nonother than Clinton.

This protection is genius:
The second Glass-Steagall Act, passed on 16 June 1933, and officially named the Banking Act of 1933, introduced the separation of bank types according to their business (commercial and investment banking), and it founded the Federal Deposit Insurance Company for insuring bank deposits.[citation needed]

Now we have Bank of America buying/taking on, Merril-Lynch.
This should be the last thing permitted when attempting to restore a stable economy.
This is purely insanity.