Comments on: Report: Paulson Lied to Congress, Public

By: Mark Down

Mark Down — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:30:24 +0000

Paulson lied Obama makes a speech. Spitzer rumors. October rocks!

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:11:50 +0000

worth,

this docu http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/outrage/index.html

is, as well, tres` telling. the hypocrisy, rampant, in DC, is well exposed from the vantage point taken in the piece..

By: godly

godly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:17:38 +0000

Has anyone read this

A shocker of a news: Gulf and european countries are putting an end to trade Oil in dollar. It is finally happening. The final step to killing the dollar.

Dollar on the verge of murdered

fresbee

By: alfred e

alfred e — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:32:19 +0000

@Moss: Completely and totally true. The Bill Clinton model.

Tell them what they want to hear. Do what the funders want. PERIOD. Hat tip tp Cevienne. Wherever he is.

Gues fantasy football can be a great diversion. Good for you.

By: wunsacon

wunsacon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:39:29 +0000

>> The problem is not that they lied, the problem is that the American people believed them “again”….

The American people did NOT believe them. Since Paulson/Bernanke were GOP nominees, that hurt the GOP.

Let’s see what happens now that Obama and the Dems have continued the previous policies. The clock is ticking.

By: worth

worth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:04:40 +0000

Way to dig, Hoff!
Adultery is one thing (one BAD thing). But the man found a willing participant, agreed to terms, and as the article states, USED HIS OWN MONEY. Screwing NOBODY in the process, other than the hooker, himself, and his family (which sucks, don’t get me wrong).
But I got zero problem with that guy championing our cause, because he’s the only one who could/would do it the way it needs to be done: sleazily, effectively, and legally.

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:38:03 +0000

re: Spitzer
http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=Why+was+Spitzer+outed%3F

we should wonder..

“…Greg Palast offered an answer to these questions in “Eliot’s Mess”, also
posted here the other day:

“While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in
a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new
Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over
$200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

“Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there’s a BIG difference.
The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush’s man Bernanke was using
ours.

“This week, Bernanke’s Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a
selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee
these banks’ mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was
an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought
two million families to the brink of foreclosure.

“Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood
in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers’ bordello:
Eliot Spitzer.

“Who are they kidding? Spitzer’s lynching and the bankers’ enriching are
intimately tied…”
http://darwiniana.com/2008/03/19/why-was-eliot-spitzer-outed/

By: Moss

Moss — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:03:14 +0000

My point is the circular logic of Wesbury. He is of the belief that the government caused the mess and that they then purposefully ignored, denied or prey tell lied about the soundness of the financial system all the while hoping that the catastrophe would force an intervention to save the system and hence the world. This unprecedented action and subsequent kick save then gave the government the necessary justification for their existence and highlighted the need for the Feds. Wesbury went on to say that at the end of the day all that was needed was a few tweaks in the accounting scheme, insinuating that the real culprit was the minor annoyance known as mark-to-market accounting.

This line of reasoning is absolutely preposterous and just goes to show how a belief system, once completely accepted as truth or fact, can be so irrational.

By: worth

worth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:26:14 +0000

Thanks Thor. I presumed that “fielding a standing army” would include all armed forces and their raisons d’etre, but no harm in spelling it out, right?

Another biggie that used to be considered gov’t-only, but can now be done by the private sector, is anything space-related (satellites, exploration, joy rides, visits to other celestial bodies).

By: Thor

Thor — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:19:35 +0000

Fight a war