I don't know where to start -- the continued nationalization that they say isn't really nationalization of our the businesses and banks that the government allowed to consolidate into behemoths which they say are now so big that their shareholders are a better use of welfare dollars in this society than feeding hungry children. I guess there are three main points in that convoluted sentence I just ... read more
Seriously, this confiscation of wealth is bad enough. But then to have to suffer through watching these self-serving, self-dealing, power-mongering Republicans and Democrats pretending they have
a) a clue about
b) no culpability, much less FULL culpability for
our economic nightmare of slippery socialism that they've wrought.
I hate to say it, but I have been warning as loudly as I ... read more
* My SpokeUp.com Bookmark of the day: ” FDIC's Bair Says She'd Be `Very Surprised' by U.S. Bank Nationalization”. When the largest bank in the US, Citigroup has taken in half a trillion in welfare and the US government is now telling it what assets to buy and sell and when, including forcing Citigroup to sell its brokerage practice to Morgan Stanley which can pay for it with the ten billion in ... read more
How I Feel Most of the Time When I Interview Elected Officials from The Socialist Republican/Democrat Regime:
Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson discussing sending welfare to banks so that they can afford to pay back the loans they owe the government:
How the babyboomers and the Republican/Democrat/Ivy League regime they've put in charge feel about fiscal responsiblity and personal ... read more
This is that confidence that Paulson, Bernanke, and the socialist Republican/Democrat regime in charge thought they'd buy with TARP and the other redistributions of wealth to their cronies that they keep putting over on us?
Confidence, indeed.
As I've been so vocal and adamant against all the forms of corporate welfare (you can call it "bailouts" if you want), I've gotten one question over and over as these two real quotes from my blog comments asked:
"What should we do about it?"
"What are you, we, going to do about all this?"
So many people write to me saying they feel that, now more than ever, they don't have a voice as ... read more
Some thoughts that are kicking off the playoffs in my own head this weekend:
* I'll introduce this more formally in an upcoming post this weekend, but I want to let readers know now that after two years of blood, sweat and tears, we're proud to beta-launch SpokeUp.com - The social network for individuals who speak up.
You can visit my profile page at http://spokeup.com/pg/profile/cody and ... read more
But give my daddy a job cause he needs one
Hes got lots of mouths to feed
But if youve got one, I'll have a machine gun
So I can scare all the kids down the street
Father christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
Give all the toys to the little rich boys -- The Kinks
The liars and crooks who run the investment banks ... read more
My own version of Sunday Comics --
How are all these ad-hoc rules and bail outs supposed to create confidence, again?:
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[The credit agencies]: "I'm not going to so my math homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. ... read more
Cody Willard is an anchor on the FOX Business Network. Willard is also the principal of an investment management company.
He was a long-time featured columnist for the Financial Times and TheStreet.com as well as a regular featured economist and stock picker on CNBC's ''Kudlow & Company."
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February 23, 2009 11:52 AM EST
Tim Geithner's Pregnant and Citigroup Isn't Being Nationalized and Other Wild but True Stories
I don't know where to start -- the continued nationalization that they say isn't really nationalization of our the businesses and banks that the government allowed to consolidate into behemoths which they say are now so big that their shareholders are a better use of welfare dollars in this society than feeding hungry children. I guess there are three main points in that convoluted sentence I just ... read more
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