[Peace-discuss] Tell them No

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I am told that the number $700 billion for the presently proposed bailout
is because that is the maximum amount that can be held on some balance sheet
because of some rule or statute, and once this proposed bailout power is 
enacted,
the bailout can be invoked in $700 billion chunks (*little bites*).  The 
total amount of
the accumulated bailouts would then spiral into the several trillions.


***

And...War is a Racket, too.

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>     "This is an impressive crowd: the haves and the have-mores.
>     Some people call you the elites: I call you my base."
>     --George Bush to a white-tie dinner in New York in 2000
>
> More than war and the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the presidency 
> of Bush has been about enriching the small minority of the very 
> wealthy.  From war contracts to Supreme Court appointments, the 
> paramount concern of this administration has been returns to the top 
> tier of big business.
>
> The result has been growing and accelerating inequality, with the 
> concomitant impoverishment of Americans and people around the world.  
> Now, in a final act of expropriation, the administration plans to 
> enrich the bankers beyond the dreams of avarice by investing the 
> secretary of the treasury with financial power that fascist 
> governments didn't possess.
>
> Tell them no.
>
>     Senator Durbin 202.224.2152
>     Senator Obama 202.224.2854
>     Representative Johnson 202.225.2371
>
> --CGE
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