I am not angry any more just tired. I mean we have been robbed up one side and down another since the spring of 2008. It is just another step towards the new slavery...financial bondage. There's simply nothing to feel good about in this mess. The Democrats are leaning toward their own self interest (staying in office) and te Republicans are crazy and confused. We are at the mercy (of which these guys have none) of the bankers who are forcing usury rates on people. Bend over.

The fierceness in my soul could never understand why so many folks got on the trains to the death camps during WWII and did not fight back. I now have but a glimmer of how when crushed repeatedly you get on board and hope somebody would save you. Shame is that not so many try to help, many try to stand you in front of them.

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Opposition Grows To Obama's Decision Not To Prosecute CIA Agents

I do not support investigating and/or indicting the CIA agents who tortured the "enemy combatants" or whatever made up words Bush, Inc set for folks who wound up in Cuba. I think that they should lose their jobs and pensions and testify in the trials of the people who made the decisions to torture, who condoned torture through ginned up legalistic scrawlings that green lighted the CIA agents to do what they did. Those lawyers and doctors who aided and abetted torture should be drummed out of their professions and be sent if convicted to jail.



We cannot afford to dismiss the gravity of what was done in our name. Our military personnel, NGO and other aid workers, Americans traveling and living abroad have been made more vulnerable because we failed to stay true to our values...we do not torture.
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Let them go! Just let Texas go with its nutty governor on their own. They are armed to the teeth and will wind up causing a war with Mexico after they have bumped off all of their neighbors. Let them succeed and take all of those weird Texans who are a law unto themselves with them in this foolish experiment.



Just be sure to give those fleeing the Texas government time to escape and then we must close our borders to them. Buh-bye Texas!
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Bank Stress Tests: Obama to Meet With Economic Team On Topic

Put an end to this PONZI scheme and take over, break up and sell off the banks that are failed banks. Why should the American taxpayers be forced to pour good money after bad. It's time to bailout of the bailout.



I believe William K. Black and think that our President should too. Cut the losses and sell off the remains providing taxpayers with some type of financial recovery from this mess.
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The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought

I saw that segment and sent the link to everyone I know. I believe Mr. Black and I am enraged again at the Treasury Secretary who is preparing to fleece the taxpayers in this country. This time folks need to go to jail. I am contacting my Representative and both of my Senators (even though one is sick) to try to head off this crass stick-up with a pen.



Wall Street bankers have taken enough of our money. Break them up! Sell them off and get the heck on out of our pockets!
About Timothy Geithner
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Ed Schultz On MSNBC Gig: People Will Know Where I Stand

I am looking forward to this show.
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Michelle Obama In Prague: Back In Black (PHOTOS)

Look after flying to Europe, dressing up and down, being on tour with 20 countries' first ladies and husband, hewing the protocol of every one of them and visiting "the people" in several countries I would be a crank, snarling, and y'all would be glad that I had any kind of clothes on rather than running screaming mad and naked about the continent. I am delighted that Mrs. Obama is handling herself well and covering all of the legally mandated spots on her body. I am just glad that it is she and not me to do the traveling and meeting and greeting of so many global officials.



Both the President and First Lady are doing us proud in Europe. I think that he is doing much better than just OK. They are doing what we elected him to do win the world back on our side.
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Please Watch: Bill Moyers: William K. Black CSI Bailout

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

Be sure to contact your Congressperson and the President after viewing the show.

We all need to ask more questions and demand more answers.

2 Trillion dollars in taxpayers money is nothing to sneeze about.

We need to know the answers to typical questions regarding the banking crisis such as who, what, when,where, and how? Until we know the answers we are simply sheep monitored by hungry wolves.

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Tammy Bruce Calls The Obamas "Trash In The White House"

I'd pay to see her say it to Michelle's face. I know lot's of folks that would pay too. Mrs. O without a touch would wipe the floor with her. What makes people hate so much? I did notice that she did not attack the President directly. She's not that crazy.
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The Short, Happy Iraq War of Howard Kurtz

Look it really was a simple thing that grew both large and in the wrong direction...capturing or killing Osama bin Laden. What we now have a mess thanks to our lying ex-President and I for one want us up and out of Afghanistan too since it at this point merely wants to left alone in the 16th century.



More important is the containment through diplomacy and whatever shred of credibility we have left in the world of Pakistan that has what seems to be a plethora of blood feuds going, nuclear warheads, and hosting Osama bin Laden. We need to do something much different than asking them to "bring it on" as did Mr. Bush.



Mr. Kurtz has been on the wrong side of several issues on the war he was very wrong.
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Lifting the Tarp: Will President Obama's Economic Team Lead Him Off a Cliff?

It is time to fire the Treasury Secretary and Larry Summers. Do what Kuttner and Krugman have been suggesting all along and get us out of this stinking financial mess.



Enough with hedge funds, insurance companies, and investment banks. They are greedy bottomless pits unwilling to change or adapt to reality. Seize the shaky banks restructure them, set them on their feet, privatize them and move forward.



This spiral has gone on long enough! Mr. President, buck up and fire those guys now.
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The Real Scandal of AIG

They can have their bonuses or retention payments provided they give us back immediately every penny we have loaned them. I am not against AIG bonuses as long as they use their own money. Other than that as the owners of this behemoth we have the right to fire them and hire people who will follow our dictates because that is what happens when you own the thing...YOU are in charge!



Please start sending a few of these clowns to jail and I think we will see a whole lot less of this defiance.
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AIG Outrage Dominates Sunday Shows

This is just crazy. Why reward failure? Get our money back and let AIG pay the bonuses out of THEIR money.



Why hasn't someone gone to jail yet?
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South Carolina Governor: Obama Stimulus Will Turn U.S. Into Zimbabwe

My thinking exactly. My home state Louisiana, is headed by its own fruitcake that plans to continue keeping the state moored into the 19th century. Wage suppression, hostility towards unions, very poor race relations (if folks told the truth) and serious ecological concerns with its large petro-chemical industry that fights regulations to the tooth. You have Louisiana, a banana republic that has great natural resources, a hard working populace, and loads of potential if only it had the right leadership and moved past its past. It is really a shame that almost the same thing can be said of each of the southern states that are resisting moving forward with the rest of the nation.
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Jon Stewart is great. He nails CNBC to the wall. Glad to see some folks are fearless. You MUST see it! Not only is it hilarious but it is dead on. Read it! See it! And please folks pass it on!
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I cannot condone violence against women for any reason. In her article, Ms. Greene though is way over the top in suggesting that there is/was no concern about Rhianna's beating at the hands of her boyfriend Chris Brown by black folks. Much as it pains me to learn of any woman being beaten I have to hope that the justice system will address the wrong done to her. We do need to be concerned that his celebrity status and money may make his penance a lot lighter than a regular Joe is the same position.

It enrages my soul that Ms. Greene would equate the two events, Brown's beating of Rhianna and the New York Post's publishing an editorial cartoon that is NOT being misinterpreted by any thinking person as an invitation to kill our President. Ms. Greene must know that it takes very little to set our home grown nuts and terrorists off. So yes, assassinating a duly elected President is more important than a domestic violence case where the victim is alive and able to address her abuser on several levels.

Is this fair? No. Life is not fair. It is not fair that the health and safety of our President is more important than a case of domestic abuse between two black celebrities who can afford counseling and to live apart.
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Gibbs V. Santelli: He Should Read President's Plan (VIDEO)

How silly is this going to get? We have had Joe the Plumber get months of fame basically saying nothing worthwhile. You get a commodity trader having a hissy fit on tee-vee because folks who are caught in the cross hairs of the lousy bankers' meltdown need help to stay in their homes. I don't know about that Rick guy but every neighbor that loses their home makes my neighborhood less desirable and soon dangerous. You need not mention the fact once reasonably priced homes are left to rot because the homeowners lost their jobs and could no longer afford the mortgage through no fault of their own.



Rick is just a J*ck*ss! These guys have no conscience so they never see the lack of logic and humanity in their drivel.



Let him and folks like him rant. Turn the channel or read a book.
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The Loyal Opposition

I find it interesting that several Republican pundits write scathing columns about Democrats are rather thin skinned when called out. Why be in the word-war business if you cannot take a hit or several?



Yes, we need opposition but we need principled opposition that put America before party. There used to be names of Republican Congressmen I knew to have a deeper love for this country than even themselves. I cannot name one today in this Congress.



Newt Gingrich shut down the government because his feelings wee hurt. How principled is that?



You have Republican governors who are saying that they will refuse money to help the tens of thousands unemployed workers because they don't want people getting used to more. Do they understand that there are people's lives involved here? Have they no empathy? How principled is that?



It galls me that the impetus is to do less, be less, and watch the weak struggle. Where's the principle in that?



Republicans certainly don't believe in anything beyond lip service concerning workers and the middle class. They project a loathing and blatant disregard for the weak and the poor. Where is the principle in that.?



We are all Americans and we need both parties to provide their best service. The Loyal Opposition needs to show some loyalty...to us the American people because there's good principle in that.
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Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero Defends Working Class On Fox News (VIDEO)

I don't care else the Mayor has or has not done well for what he said about working stiffs I think earns him another round as leader. It is high time somebody stepped up for workers who on their backs will the bills for this financial mess be paid.
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Obama Stimulus Speech: "Time For Action Is Now" (VIDEO)

My Congresspeople are voting for the stimulus. My ex Congress people in Louisiana, a backwards state if there ever was one, are teetering towards voting no. I have called and email all of my family and friends to call, email and write their Congress people about voting for the stimulus bill because as high as unemployment there is now it will get worse and resemble not a banana republic but sheer anarchy.



Put people back to work. Tell your Congresspersons vote for the stimulus and that you will remember them on next election day.



Some of those Congresspeople need retiring.



Let's move forward!
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