Comments on: Ted Stevens Asks to Skip Corruption Trial to Give Billions to Corporations http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:54:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: TheLurkingMod http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11184 TheLurkingMod Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:15:46 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11184 <p>Blue Texan is at the Mothership with:<br /><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/mccain-to-put-palin-on-chopper-raise-hell-in-washington/" rel="nofollow">McCain To Put Palin On Chopper, “Raise Hell” In Washington</a></p> Blue Texan is at the Mothership with:
McCain To Put Palin On Chopper, “Raise Hell” In Washington

]]> By: LS http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11183 LS Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:31:51 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11183 <p>I’ve been listening to Paulson and Bernanke. The bottom line is that Paulson believes that in order to “save the economy”…”credit” must be available to all businesses and people in the US (and overseas investors)…and that the assets that they want to take control of would be artifically sold at a “blue sky” “hold til maturity” rate that they will in effect, make up..</p> <p>Gawd. He’s saying that what is needed is to lend businesses and people…money they need, because they don’t have it….</p> <p>That is the whole damn problem. Our economy is based on zero. It is based on nothing….credit..is just giving you money that you don’t have based on a made up value, and then someone else makes money off of it by charging interest on the invented value…but there is never a bottomline of value. This is so screwed up.</p> <p>Give America more “blue sky”….Perhaps it is the only way to keep the scam going, but for Goddess’s sake…there is nothing backing the so called credit. It is good money after bad…what a friggin’ mess.</p> <p>I’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.</p> <p>Unf’ingbelievable.</p> I’ve been listening to Paulson and Bernanke. The bottom line is that Paulson believes that in order to “save the economy”…”credit” must be available to all businesses and people in the US (and overseas investors)…and that the assets that they want to take control of would be artifically sold at a “blue sky” “hold til maturity” rate that they will in effect, make up..

Gawd. He’s saying that what is needed is to lend businesses and people…money they need, because they don’t have it….

That is the whole damn problem. Our economy is based on zero. It is based on nothing….credit..is just giving you money that you don’t have based on a made up value, and then someone else makes money off of it by charging interest on the invented value…but there is never a bottomline of value. This is so screwed up.

Give America more “blue sky”….Perhaps it is the only way to keep the scam going, but for Goddess’s sake…there is nothing backing the so called credit. It is good money after bad…what a friggin’ mess.

I’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Unf’ingbelievable.

]]> By: Lindsay Beyerstein http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11182 Lindsay Beyerstein Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:24:14 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11182 <p>Edward, tell Max I said “hi” back. I can’t wait to see what he digs up. Maybe I should interview him for the Silo when he returns to the lower 48.</p> Edward, tell Max I said “hi” back. I can’t wait to see what he digs up. Maybe I should interview him for the Silo when he returns to the lower 48.

]]> By: TheLurkingMod http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11181 TheLurkingMod Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:10:12 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11181 <p>Laura Flanders has another GRITtv installment across the hall!<br /><a href="http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/grittv-live-at-noon-is-the-bailout-the-only-way-out-2/" rel="nofollow">GRITtv Live at Noon: Is the Bailout the Only Way Out?</a></p> Laura Flanders has another GRITtv installment across the hall!
GRITtv Live at Noon: Is the Bailout the Only Way Out?

]]> By: karenjj2 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11180 karenjj2 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:01:55 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11180 <p><a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4061891" rel="nofollow">Comment #66</a> is interesting .. Democratic Underground message board.</p> <p>kj</p> Comment #66 is interesting .. Democratic Underground message board.

kj

]]> By: Ann in AZ http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11179 Ann in AZ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:56:24 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11179 <p>Good post, Lindsay.</p> <p>Oh, great! Stevens can’t seem to handle his own finances without handouts that are of questionable legitimacy (I’m being magnanimous due to the fact that one is innocent until proven guilty and so far there he is only on trial,) yet he wants to be free to help write policy dealing with multi-billions of dollars of our money.</p> Good post, Lindsay.

Oh, great! Stevens can’t seem to handle his own finances without handouts that are of questionable legitimacy (I’m being magnanimous due to the fact that one is innocent until proven guilty and so far there he is only on trial,) yet he wants to be free to help write policy dealing with multi-billions of dollars of our money.

]]> By: ratfood http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11178 ratfood Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:42:34 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11178 <p>Ted just wants to be certain with all that money up for grabs that he gets his share, after all he has legal bills to pay.</p> Ted just wants to be certain with all that money up for grabs that he gets his share, after all he has legal bills to pay.

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11177 bluebutterfly Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:36:13 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11177 <p>OT: The FEC gave the McCain-Palin 2008 Inc. $84.1 million in federal funds.</p> <p><a href="http://www.fec.gov/press/press2008/20080908cert.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.fec.gov/press/press.....cert.shtml</a></p> <p>Sorry if this has been mentioned previously.</p> OT: The FEC gave the McCain-Palin 2008 Inc. $84.1 million in federal funds.

http://www.fec.gov/press/press…..cert.shtml

Sorry if this has been mentioned previously.

]]> By: twolf1 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11176 twolf1 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:32:54 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11176 <p><a href="http://digg.com/politics/Ted_Stevens_Asks_to_Skip_Trial_to_Give_Billions_to_Corps" rel="nofollow">Digg this post</a></p> Digg this post

]]> By: karenjj2 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11175 karenjj2 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:31:17 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/23/ted-stevens-asks-to-skip-corruption-trial-to-give-billions-to-corporations/#comment-11175 <p>OT but worth letting you all know about brigade deployed here under our leader for domestic operations:</p> <p><a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/" rel="nofollow">http://www.armytimes.com/news/.....d_090708w/</a></p> <p>I had a terrible time finding the link as buried in comments unrelated to the Democracy Now headline news from yesterday. Also, not sure it’s still in the 22 Sept headlines. Anyway, while we’re all watching the bright shiny object of the week, things are really getting interesting behind the scenes and may make all the “chatter” moot.</p> <p>Another one that disturbs me is that the Pentagon notified Congress about the sale of 1,000 bunker buster bombs to Israel last week. That’s the 30 days notice {on a weekend over the janitor’s transom} that’s required if Congress wants to get involved, i.e. pretend to stop the sale. wink, wink.</p> <p>I am one discouraged cookie…. ^..^</p> OT but worth letting you all know about brigade deployed here under our leader for domestic operations:

http://www.armytimes.com/news/…..d_090708w/

I had a terrible time finding the link as buried in comments unrelated to the Democracy Now headline news from yesterday. Also, not sure it’s still in the 22 Sept headlines. Anyway, while we’re all watching the bright shiny object of the week, things are really getting interesting behind the scenes and may make all the “chatter” moot.

Another one that disturbs me is that the Pentagon notified Congress about the sale of 1,000 bunker buster bombs to Israel last week. That’s the 30 days notice {on a weekend over the janitor’s transom} that’s required if Congress wants to get involved, i.e. pretend to stop the sale. wink, wink.

I am one discouraged cookie…. ^..^

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