Comments on: Just The 30 Most Recent Reader Comments On This TARP Extortion Package of 2008: Is It Time to Vote For Revolution?

By: clevergael

clevergael — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:58:57 +0000

As an American of Irish descent, this type of power grab is nothing that my family has not seen before. The words of Irish political philosopher Edmund Burke come to mind:

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion”.

“People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous”.

Hmmm…would that be us?

By: clifford atkin

clifford atkin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:12:06 +0000

You are right but convincing the moronic do nothing socialist liberals in congress is another thing. Most of the people who vote for them are true leaches. Wait till oboma gets in with the democratic congress, then it is all over. Then the true American Revolution will begin. Check out my web blog, thenewbostonteaparty.com. If you would like, let me know, I can post your address on my blog. thank you, clif

By: Will

Will — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:40:57 +0000

Cody: You and your choir sound somewhat like critics in the 1930s who said the same things about the measures FDR led to start pulling the nation out of the Depression.

It’s not pure ideology that we need now. Capitalism, socialism. Try new words. How about pragmatism? While purists add grist for debate, political decisions require compromise. Granted, the president pushed for Congress to pass the Legislation too quickly, but it appears that the government will recoup its money over the next few years. While nobody likes the idea of bailing out failed greedy banks and other financial institutions, it appears that most economists said that the government needed to take action quickly. Perhaps, the cure will not be ad bad as the disease.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:53:48 +0000

No revolution has ever started at the ballot box. Perhaps the people will finally get motivated when the world dumps their reserve dollars and they all end up back here. Patriots should take up arms now because the crisis hasn’t even started yet.

By: George Reinhart

George Reinhart — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:28:07 +0000

Cody-Forget Boston-It’s time for a Washington Tea Party!!!
Gman

By: Doc Duncan

Doc Duncan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:42:52 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am a southerner and I am a patriot. I love my country, yet I despise the recent actions of her government. I has become imminently clear that the government that was formed after our break with England has since been perverted into something that is wholly unrecognizable to its founders. I believe in the people of this country, yet I have no faith in our government. My representative in both House and Senate has obviously chosen to side with 5% of the population instead of those who put them where they are. I intend to rectify that as soon as possible, but I face one horrific possibilty. Looking back as the last ten years, has there been someone truly worthy of any form of leadership position? I fear that that trend will continue and there will be no-one that I may vote for with any confidence, regardless of whatever office it may be.

You speak of revolution but I see no demonstrations. As much as it pains me to say it, most Americans are to tame to bring about a revolution. We are too afraid of our government. A great man once said that the people should never be afraid of the government, but the government should always be afraid of the people. Until the situation grows too harsh, America will remain still and sedate and rely upon the hope for change. We are no longer the people who stood up to the greatest military in the world. I expect that our founding fathers and mothers would simply shake their heads in disgust. Indeed the idea that less that sixty years ago there was a purge due to the fear of socialists, yet we are becoming what we feared. I pray that the people of this nation wakes up before we are forced to give up all that this country was supposed to be.

Vive Liberté, Vive America.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:32:48 +0000

This whole thing says that we need to unelect all those that voted “yes” on the bailout. FDR’s projects extended the Great Depression until the war started. Because the wise men in Washington are taking the same path, we can expect this recession or depression to last 10 to 15 years.

Unelect all the yes voters in November. Also, voting a radical in as President who wants to spend yet another Trillion is completely stupid. Sometimes I think that the average American really is stupid.

If he does get elected, by 2010 no one will admit that they voted for him. Just like Clinton in 1998.

Don

By: Karen B

Karen B — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:22:25 +0000

Cody, love your insight….just 2 thoughts I’ve had in the last few days. I knew we were in a major danger zone when I heard over and over again, members of Congress, saying that they were not sent to Washington to vote the way the people in their district told them to vote, but were sent because of their judgement to vote what they thought was best, HMMMMM!!!!! Also, when my husband brings home his paycheck, it is up to me to decide where our money is best spent. It seems like we have no decision power when it comes to where the government spends our money or do we???????Short of a revolt, why not get their attention where it counts???? The cash flow!!!When I’ve had lean times I’ve elected at my job to have more deductions claimed on my weekly paycheck, so that I have access to my money all year, instead of the govenment holding it for me Not illlegal. Just wondering what would happen if, for say a few months, millions of us changed our withholding amounts and reduced the money going to the government. I’d like to hear what others think>

By: Marcus Fischer

Marcus Fischer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:30:32 +0000

I am amazed they have pulled out all the stops to prop things up, except reestablish the uptick rule. They are allowing the someone to take advantage of hedge fund/mutual fund redemptions by allowing them to short into them , a double whammy effect. Someone is making big money, and my guess is the same people that own the World Fiat Currencies.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:12:56 +0000

6ftrabbit If everyone had your attitude about the way the country is going then you’re right. A vast majority don’t and are unwilling to let what is happening destory what this country was founded on. You don’t need to use guns and violence to obtain goals. Just look back at folks like Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King and others. I agree about voting for a revoulation you just don’t do it. It happens when people get so fed up with being sheep that they take action. Action starts with grass roots movements that begin at the ballot box. I was taught,and altough very young, remembered when those 4 were killed in OHIO. The fact remains, those four that were killed were observers (sheep)not participatents.The aftermath to that tragedy is that people protested and the goverment changed. One slogan rings very loudy from that time “they can’t kill us all” and they certainly can’t jail us all.