Who’s Representing Whom?
Here’s an interesting question in the wake the financial bailout/rescue plan. When you send someone to public office, are you asking them to represent you or use their best judgment? Remember a pure democracy is four wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for lunch? In a republic, the lamb has a shotgun.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:21 am
karl marx communist manifesto
10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto
#5 Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
October 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am
I’ve pondered this since youth. My guess is if an official is to vote outside the views of their constituency, they’d best be proven right by the next election. Otherwise, they get to wait on history’s verdict.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
Looks like I still get bent over and raped with this new bailout bill. If I don’t get my cut, I swing from financial conservative to financial socialism in the blink of an eye. If they are going to bailout out the few, they need to put enough pork in this to bailout out everyone. How about fixed rates on mortgages? All mortgages go to 5% or lower, no exception. I will be voting for stuff like this, especially more wealth redistribution, if a middle class family like mine, who saved our money, doesn’t get our cut of the apple pie. If so called conservative Republicans are going to put a knife in my back, I can only thank this this Nov. by helping get Barak Obama elected as president. After that, I will be supporting the most socialist candidates from here on out. No more donating to charity. One is now morally justified in working for thousands of dollars off the books and not paying their laughable “fair share.”
October 1st, 2008 at 11:46 am
As a Republican and a true American, elected officials must use their best judgement. I think you will see this with McCain, the maverick. He will do what is best for this country. GBA
October 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=related
October 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Abdul, exactly WHO were they representing when they stood by and let us get into this mess? I think it is time our representatives listen to the people this time. From what I’m reading on line and hearing on talk shows, the people have the best answers and are perfectly willing to risk a depression before going into more debt.
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By the way, the bailout plan is stuffed full of earmarks…did you see?
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The People told you so.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I have a very strong view that they are elected to represent their districts. In cases where it is too close to determine, they should vote their values. We elect based on their stands on issues. They should remain true to these stands, pending of course new data.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I am livid about the rescue of wall street in spite of the voice of the people. There is no good thing to say, we got slapped, robbed and then sodomized. I doubt we have a government by the people, for the people, of the people. It is now official. Government by the corporation, for the corporation, of the corporation.
As for which party wins the white house. More of the same whomever wins. More war, more taxes, more regulation. Less peace, less prosperity, less freedom.
It is disgusting to watch the trasfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the elite and uber wealthy. Thank God Paulson didn’t lose his 429 million dollars which most surely would have happened if there were no bailout.
More corporate welfare and cronyism with no bid contracts and earmarks out the wazoo. What do they need us for? I am voting third party, this is for the birds!
October 1st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
The bailout can’t possibly stop what the GOP/Dem globalist leadership has accomplished over the last 35 years of deregulation. The bailout is nothing more than a last minute fleecing by the corporations who control US policy.
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This intentionally created crisis will be used to convince Americans that we need to formally unite our economy with other nations as an officially integarated, single economic system. That is the ultimate plan – because those who control the economy will have control of everything. I’d’ bet my annual salary that this will be one of the recommended solutions placed on the table before this crisis is over. When you hear the recommendation, remember this: the crisis was created by globalist finance in order to allow their chosen public representatives (the ones whom their corporate media promotes at election time, like McCain and Obama) to present a solution that requires signing control of the US economy over to an international body rather than the American voters. When that recommendation is made, you’ll know that deregulation was part of an act of treason and that those making the recommendations are carrying out a traitorous plan. I’ve blogged about this for years – and others have been publishing warnings for decades.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 am
From The New York Post
Editorial
September 29, 2008
As Congress slogged toward an apparent financial-market rescue bill over the weekend, the time arrived for a closer look at the roots of the crisis. …
But as Election Day grows ever nearer, the role of one candidate in particular stands out: that of Barack Obama.
As Stanley Kurtz details on the opposite page, Obama spent many years cultivating ties with, working with – and even funding – the very folks who pushed for the risky lending that underlies the current mess.
That is, “community organizer” groups like ACORN. …
The movement’s biggest victory, of course, came when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac began buying up the riskier loans – providing fresh incentive for banks to make even more of them. …
Meanwhile, Obama was right there by ACORN’s side all along.
“I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career,” he told the group last November.
Indeed, in the early ’90s, Obama was recruited by Talbott herself to run training sessions for ACORN activists.
ACORN also got funding from two charities, the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation, when Obama served on their boards, and from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – the radical “education reform” outfit Obama ran from ’95 to ’99. …
In the end, from a mighty ACORN an even mightier crisis did grow.
With Barack Obama’s help.
To View The Entire Article, Please Visit: http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008/postopinion/editorials/the_meltdowns
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 am
“Top Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac include Hillary, Obama, Pelosi, and Kerry”
Is it any wonder after, after looking at the chart below, that Obama or Pelosi said nothing, did nothing about the corruption at Freddie and Fannie? And don’t forget the sweetheart mortgages given to Obama and other prominent democrats. Those numbers are not reflected below.
You can bet you’ll never hear Obama or Pelosi accept any responsibility for doing nothing as the “middle class” (that Obama proclaims to advocate) is royally raped while the Messiah silently watches, collects his campaign cash, and acts as if nothing happened to us.
If you can’t see what a fraud Obama is by now, you are not looking. Obama is IMMORAL!
Top Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008
Name Office Party/State Totals
1. Dodd, Christopher J S D-CT $133,900
2. Kerry, John S D-MA $111,000
3. Obama, Barack S D-IL $105,849
4. Clinton, Hillary S D-NY $75,550
5. Kanjorski, Paul E H D-PA $65,500
6. Bennett, Robert F S R-UT $61,499
7. Johnson, Tim S D-SD $61,000
8. Conrad, Kent S D-ND $58,991
9. Davis, Tom H R-VA $55,499
10. Bond, Christopher S R-MO $55,400
11. Bachus, Spencer H R-AL $55,300
12. Shelby, Richard C S R-AL $55,000
13. Emanuel, Rahm H D-IL $51,750
14. Reed, Jack S D-RI $50,750
15. Carper, Tom S D-DE $44,389
16. Frank, Barney H D-MA $40,100
17. Maloney, Carolyn B H D-NY $38,750
18. Bean, Melissa H D-IL $37,249
19. Blunt, Roy H R-MO $36,500
20. Pryce, Deborah H R-OH $34,750
21. Miller, Gary H R-CA $33,000
22. Pelosi, Nancy H D-CA $32,750
23. Reynolds, Tom H R-NY $32,700
24. Hoyer, Stony H D-MD $30,500
25. Hooley, Darlene H D-OR $28,750
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:31 am
FYI:
You know which special interest has given more money to the Obama and Clinton campaigns than any other? If you guessed “trial lawyers” — well, okay, that’s too easy. But can you guess which special interest came in second? Labor Unions? Nope. The Green Lobby? Nope. AARP? Wrong, again. NEA? Not yet. Give up? Okay, here’s the answer: Wall Street.
That’s right. According to CNNMoney.com, Wall Street securities and investment firms have given over $35 million to Democratic candidates this election cycle. And the amount they’ve given to the Clinton and Obama campaigns is nearly five times the amount they’ve given to McCain.
If you’ve been wondering why the financial industry has been in meltdown — and taking your 401(k) or investment portfolio down with it — now you know.
Let’s face it: The former frat boys who populate Wall Street today understand economics about as well as the pinko professors whose courses they snored through. That’s why betting their entire industry on “subprime” loans to people with no jobs and no collateral made sense to them — and why betting the entire U.S. economy on the likes of Hillary and Obama makes sense to them now.
These jokers don’t even know what’s in their own self-interest, much less yours. Trusting them with your money is like trusting Bill Clinton to babysit your underage niece. But I know someone you can trust to manage your investments — or rather, to help you do it yourself, without paying a nickel in commissions to some Wall Street frat boy. His name is Dr. Mark Skousen — that’s “Dr.” as in “Ph.D. in Economics and Monetary History,” something you don’t get by playing Beer Pong with your frat buddies. For the past 28 years, subscribers to his investment newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, have profited enormously from his uncanny ability to predict major market trends before they happen — often while the Wall Street establishment is pointing investors the other way
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 am
We are sending them to uphold the Constitution which was limited in its restraint into the lives of citizens. Instead we have seen the pork barrel express and self indulgence. vote out all incumbents until they get it right.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 am
McCain/Palin is the lamb – and she has a shotgun.!!! Vote for spending restraint and lowered taxes and corrupton reform and energy independence. I do not want a socialistic inclined government telling me what to do. Unbundle the MBSs and return the loans to the originators for fraud prosecution. Force the fradulent originator(loan) to be responsible for the loss not the taxpayeers.