Let’s get one thing straight.
Anytime a politico says we want to do something “for the taxpayers”, they are basically lying throught their teeth and pandering for votes.
Because the government has recently CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS, IF NOT OVER A TRILLION “dollars” (computer credits???) to hand out to the banks.
So I think the rational view of all this is for the average American to decide that IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM will the governments actions in all this create any kind of liability whatever for himself. And to not fall for all the “for the taxpayer” rubbish. Nothing they are doing is “for the taxpayer”. It’s “for their banking buddies” and “to keep their own butts from getting run out of town on a rail”.
RE “Anytime a politico says we want to do something “for the taxpayers”, they are basically lying throught their teeth and pandering for votes.”
That irks me too. “We are protecting the taxpayers” by dems enrages me it’s such a big lie,
I despise the AIG bonuses but this is a smokescreen covering up the real crime which is Goldman Sachs getting 10 billion dollars of bailout direct through the AIG bailout.
And not just GS but European banks and other parties totaling 60 billion dollars who got bail out money via AIG. Because they bought credit default swaps from AIG. How is it the taxpayers problem that these “geniuses” bought credit default swaps from AIG?