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Take Back Washington writer, Debbie Morgan
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AIG,
Congress and the Taxpayers What is up with AIG? The
taxpayers, by way of the government and without being asked, have given
AIG more than $122 Billion in funds (the amount is actually said to be
more like $152 Billion) to keep the failing insurance giant afloat, and
yet AIG cannot seem to tighten its belt.
American Insurance Group, a company originally founded in China,
has been caught spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in perks for
executive, top producers and independent advisor retreats since its
taxpayer bailout. Our
Time Is NOW! Angry
Yet??? Biggest Waste of
Taxpayer Money Ever! Against
the wishes of most American’s, the Senate, followed by the House,
approved the $700 Billion bailout package, attached, oddly enough, to HR
1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health And
Addiction Equity Act of 2008.
Seems fitting, even though the bailout has nothing whatever to do
with mental health. Even more
peculiar is the added bonus of energy legislation to the afore mentioned
bill. What,
under the sun, is going on in D.C.???
Well, it appears our government is moving in a peculiar
direction…away from the Constitutional Republic under which we were
founded and the Constitutional Democracy we have become to some
xenomorphic adaptation of a communist- fascist state by “investing”
and buying into the Mortgage, Insurance and Banking industries. The
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as it has been dubbed, is
the direct work of President George Bush and Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Paulson. The past several weeks have seen our government not only
bail out these industries, but the Feds are also taking ownership
interests in them, all at taxpayer’s expense.
Now our government “owns” some of the largest industries in our
country. Does anyone but me
find that utterly disturbing? They ARE trying to make it clear that the
taxpayers will not be responsible for this bailout.
Really??? And where,
pray-tell, does our government get the money to operate??? Taxes!!! In my
humble opinion, they have already spent far too much time and resources in
all this nasty bailout!
I
am not sure people really understand just what took place in Congress this
summer with regard to the NSA illegal wiretapping program.
Simply put, AT&T, Verizon, and the other telecom companies
that, according to articles in the USA Today and the Washington Post,
participated in an ongoing illegal spy network, will now receive
retroactive immunity back to 2001 for breaking the law at the Bush
Administration’s request. HR
6304 is a treasonous and outright assault on our Fourth Amendment right to
privacy; yet our Congress voted for this legislation with almost 70
percent of the members having never been briefed on the President’s
illegal data-mining program to begin with. |
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United States citizens found out about the
seditious actions of the Bush Administration and the Telecoms in a
December 2005 article by The New York Times.
Surprisingly, it seems, many people missed that article until the
administration started spouting off about acquiring immunity for the
lawbreaking Telecoms. The
administration says they needed the aggressive program to combat
terrorism. And, while the
Bush Administration and AT&T, specifically, claim they did nothing
illegal, one has to wonder why it was that close to a dozen “former and
current government officials” were concerned “about the operation's
legality and oversight,” according to the NY Times article. “Seeking Congressional approval was also viewed as politically risky because the proposal would be certain to face intense opposition on civil liberties grounds…” states the article. You would think that people who swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic would have realized the illegality of their actions! With the blessings of President Bush, senior administration lawyers, and others, they chose to blatantly attack a fundamental right of being an American; our right to privacy.
The government has, through the words of
Donald Kerr, the Principle Deputy Director of National Intelligence, told
us that we must change our definition of “privacy.”
That we should now define privacy as “government and businesses
properly safeguarding people's private communications and financial
information.” Did everyone
get that? Our government has
now “privatized” privacy. And
you thought this was the United States of America! |
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