"Small People."
Bailing Out Wall Street by Selling out Main Street
By Cindy Sheehan
03/10/08 "ICH" -- - I am watching the debate on CSPAN over
HR 1424 the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act." As you
can imagine there is empty rhetoric on both sides of the
issue and there is bi-partisan support and opposition. If
anything, it's a little more interesting than usual.
Rep Gary Miller (R-Ca), in a rare lapse of guarded "poli-speak"
said that this bill would help the "Small People." Meaning,
you and I. Fundamentally, that's what we are to the
Congressional-Wall Street Cabal---the "Small People."
But, watching the proceedings, I am underwhelmed how these
people are all of a sudden worried about we "Small People."
Congress, under the failed leadership of Nancy Pelosi, has
passed laws to undermine our 4th Amendment rights to be safe
and secure in our personal correspondence, phone calls and
emails. Nancy Pelosi's Congress has given George Bush over
500,000,000,000.00 dollars to age his insane wars in Iraq
and now they are going to give his Secretary of the
Treasure, Henry Paulson, (Former CEO of Goldman-Sachs),
850,000,000,000. 00. That's a lot of zeros!
Congressperson after Congressperson have risen to say that
we must hand over billions of "Small People" tax dollars so
"Small People" will not "lose their jobs" or "lose their
homes." We "Small People" have been losing our jobs and our
homes at record paces only rivaled in the 1930's, and not
one Bill was passed to help the "Small People" keep our jobs
and homes. Tent cities are arising all over the country and
Congress is going to bailout an industry that caused these
cities and not only that, but use our money to help keep the
CEO's in the style to which they have become accustomed.
Congressperson after Congressperson have also risen to say
that their constituents, we "Small People" are
overwhelmingly against the bailout of corporate piracy and
pillaging, but he/she will vote for the Bill anyway, because
he/she knows better what is good for us "Small People." We
will eat our spinach and like it, because our
REPRESENTATIVES have become mini-dictators in the shadow of
the Fuhrers who are exercising fascistic control over every
aspect of our lives.
I would like to remind everyone that at the beginning of the
year, Congress passed another "emergency" bill that gave we
"Small People" a few hundred dollars that did nothing to
stimulate the economy. The solution to the crisis may cost
billions of dollars, but not to hand to Wall Street. The
bill failed on Monday, but Wall Street did not crash.
The solution is to put our economy to work for we "Small
People." Federal Jobs programs that pay living wages to
repair our crumbling infrastructure and rebuild the Gulf
States so "Small People" can return to their homes.
Put a moratorium on foreclosures until the housing bubble
can adjust to reasonable levels and restructure loans with
fixed interest rates so "Small People" can pay their
mortgages and the economy will "Gurgle Up" to the
Congressional-Wall Street Cabal. We need to extend food
stamp and unemployment benefits to pump money directly into
the "Small People" economy.
Taxes need to be raised on the top one percent of wealthy
people in this country that own more wealth than the bottom
ninety percent combined. Taxes need to be reduced
dramatically for the bottom 99%. A .25 transaction fee for
the people who gamble on Wall Street must also be levied and
put into the "Small People" economy for such programs as
education and energy.
Regardless, if HR1424 passes or fails, every Congressperson,
Democratic or Republican, who voted to sell out the "Small"
Person needs to be retired and not sent back to Congress in
January.
Reject fear-based politics. We "Small People" need
courageous REPRESENTATIVES that will work on real solutions
for us, because, as a matter of fact, we are not the "Small
People," we are the sovereigns in this Republic and we need
to reassert our sovereignty and show our employees in DC
that we mean business.
Help me replace Nancy Pelosi in January, she has been the
biggest Bush enabler of them all. She sent a very obsequious
letter to George Bush this week promising him that Congress
would pass a Bill for him. Not only did she not hold him
accountable for the crimes he has committed while in office,
she is giving him one last victory (at the expense of we
"Small People") before he shamefully rides into the sunset
while our Republic is burning and Nancy Pelosi plays her
fiddle, obediently. George Bush is going to leave quite a
mess, and this Congress has proven that they not only do not
know how to clean up his messes, but they have collaborated
in the orgy that made the mess.
Update: HR 1424 just passed and Congress applauded the
marauding of our Republic. We "Small People" have been given
a significant defeat.
237-153
Democrats: 154 yeas; 58 nays
Republicans: 86 yeas; 103 nays
31 Reps not voting
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