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Before D.C. Gets Our Money, It Owes Us Some Answers (Newt on the bailout)
The Corner at National Review ^ | 21 September 2008 | Newt Gingrich

Posted on 09/21/2008 12:48:00 PM PDT by SE Mom

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1 posted on 09/21/2008 12:48:00 PM PDT by SE Mom
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People should be going to jail. If this was Enron, “BIG” Tobacco, “BIG” Oil or Haliburton, they would be.


2 posted on 09/21/2008 12:50:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (What's good for Enron is good for Fannie and Freddie! I want some convictions! NOW!!!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson; Cold Heat; rodguy911; Bahbah; STARWISE; Miss Didi; holdonnow; PerConPat; koraz

Another point of view ping


3 posted on 09/21/2008 12:51:03 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-McCain/Palin 08)
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To: SE Mom

No, D.C. has an obligation to act responsibly to protect the public. If not, than the people who have been put in power there must be replaced.


4 posted on 09/21/2008 12:52:25 PM PDT by popdonnelly (I'll tell you a little secret: we're smarter and more competent than the Left.)
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To: SE Mom

Newt’s got this one right for sure!


5 posted on 09/21/2008 12:53:07 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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To: SE Mom

“There is a longer term crisis of Sarbanes-Oxley...”

Yeah, let them cheat more, “deregulate”, laws for us, no laws for them.

Newt cannot stay on the credit message.


6 posted on 09/21/2008 12:55:12 PM PDT by Shermy (Free Papua! New Cause To Distract From Thoughts Over The Choice Of Obama Or McCain)
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To: SE Mom

they’ve taken billions from us to support illegal immigrants. why should
they care now?


7 posted on 09/21/2008 12:55:49 PM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: SE Mom

I have less confidence in Congress’s oversight abilities than in GW or Paulson’s ability to fix stuff


8 posted on 09/21/2008 12:55:58 PM PDT by woofie
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To: roaddog727

He might. I simply wanted to learn of alternatives to the MOAB proposed. This is about to get rushed through and while it may or may not- be the best course- the time for sober thought seems to be rapidly expiring.


9 posted on 09/21/2008 12:56:41 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-McCain/Palin 08)
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To: SE Mom

Newt is right. We are owed an explaination. I’m totally against this bailout. It is bad enough that the government wastes money hand over fist but this is even worse than previous bailouts. Going shopping for bad loans, artificially propping up housing? People wouldn’t need such ungodly loans if housing prices would fall to something more reasonable. This is not about helping the people especially not poor or middle class people, it is about helping the government maintain its power over people in collusion with the super rich who have gotten us into this mess playing fast and lose short selling, speculating, and granting bad loans.


10 posted on 09/21/2008 12:59:40 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")
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To: SE Mom

Where is the accountability needed to restore a government for and by the people? The corrupt of the Congress are destroying the American economy at will, all for their own personal empowerment.....where is the exposure of the radical left and their criminal accomplices who fostered the collapse? Where are people going to prison for gross abuse of power and crimes upon the American people??

Hello?? Checks and balances, please?? Are you there??


11 posted on 09/21/2008 12:59:52 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: SE Mom

Newt’s “4-point plan” makes a lot of sense.

But he seems to forget that the “Congress” that he is pushing to micro-manage the bailout is controlled by the same Rat politicians that got us into this mess.


12 posted on 09/21/2008 1:00:31 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SE Mom

Mark Levin said that nothing can be done to fix the situation until we know what exactly went wrong and who is responsible. He said that we need open bi partisan hearings, not finger pointing partisan cover-ups. (Those are my words, not his)


13 posted on 09/21/2008 1:01:37 PM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: SE Mom

Damned rights! Slow this government boondoggle down. More government is never the answer!


14 posted on 09/21/2008 1:04:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: SE Mom
Same old story. There is no accountability in Congress.
15 posted on 09/21/2008 1:04:51 PM PDT by Reagan Man (With Palin on the ticket, McCain Earned My Vote --- MOST conservatives should be satisfied.)
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To: SE Mom

“The Secretarys authority to purchase mortgage-related assets under this Act shall be limited to $700,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time”

The cost will not be 700 billion. That is what he can carry on his balance sheet. I believe there is a difference, so do a lot of other people. The phrase wash, rinse, repeat comes to mind.

If anyone would like to understand who is to blame for this mess and the cost it will be to us, go to the link. Watch the video, read the ticker and start calling your politicians ASAP.

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/


16 posted on 09/21/2008 1:15:03 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Tonight I'm going to party like it's 1929.)
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To: Maelstorm

*** REVOLT *** OVER-THROW THE GOVERNMENT !!

COUNT ME IN, just how do we do it...???????


17 posted on 09/21/2008 1:17:56 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Palin Power !!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Dear Jim,

Seriously, what can we do during or just after a collapse.

I am on board for a (peaceful) revolt or overthrow, but as asked, how do we go about it...??


18 posted on 09/21/2008 1:24:44 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Palin Power !!)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Easy. Vote out the Marxist/socialist Democrats!


19 posted on 09/21/2008 1:31:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: SE Mom
If Washington wants our money, then it owes us some answers.

Finally some REAL straight talk.

20 posted on 09/21/2008 1:32:42 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Palin is sugar on a turd ... No mas Juan "Traitor Rat" McAmnesty)
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