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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (48923)	9/25/2008 8:57:44 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224749

It appears they are trying to hand the election to Obama.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (48923)	9/25/2008 11:02:04 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Note: Go to the link for full article---seems the globalism has us always bailing out someone whether it is a group or a nation. mj Public Losses for Private Gain By Patrick J. Buchanan Is it fair that businessmen who fail in neighborhood stores have to close shop and often sell their homes, while Wall Street titans are spared the consequences of monumental stupidity and greed? No, it is not fair. Yet, Treasury’s Hank Paulson may be right. To save the sheep who might have been wiped out in a general financial panic, we may have to save the pigs. Life is unfair, said JFK. Yet, this is going to be the mother of all bailouts. Paulson will be voted by Congress authority to spend $700 billion, 5 percent of our gross domestic product, to buy all that toxic paper stinking up the books of our biggest banks. And this is not the first such bailout of foolish and incompetent financiers and politicians. In 1975, when its cravenness to extortionate union demands had bankrupted New York, the Big Apple had to be rescued by Gerald Ford. Marion Barry’s Washington, D.C., was next in line at the cashier’s window. In the Reagan era, it was Chrysler. Later that decade, Citibank, Chase-Manhattan and Bank of America were staring into the abyss, as Latin American regimes, to whom they had lent scores of billions, were balking at paying their debts. Uncle Sam stepped in. Then came the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the U.S.-IMF bailouts of the 1990s. The Mexican bailout was as much a rescue of Goldman-Sachs as Mexico City, as Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin’s old firm was choking on all its Mexican paper. The great myth is that these 1990s bailouts were models of U.S. financial statesmanship and great successes. The reality is the U.S. workers took it in the neck. Continue ------go to link for more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Printed from Western Voices World News (http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5655)