Congress Fix Financial Mess?
by Doug Walters
Issue 118 - October 22, 2008
 "End of Capitalism?" in the last issue was a good article, but I think you missed one!
When we elect our representatives to Congress and the White House, we expect, no, we
demand that those people be diligent in doing all that can be done to protect us from a
variety of things including a financial crisis.
Obviously, this has not been done by Congress or the White House.
The boys of Wall Street and the Banking industry have not been
responsible to America either and have been at this criminal activity
for some time, bending the rules and taking big profits and
salaries. You and I didn't cause this problem. They did, all of
them. Congress, the White House, Wall Street, the banks are all
party to the folly that created this financial issue.
When we vote for a representative to Washington, we do not send them
a blank check. No amount of tax payer dollars paid to save the money
boys is acceptable. Not now, not ever. These people have abused the
system of free enterprise, need to spend some time in jail,
Congressmen need to return with interest the money they received from
Freddie and Fannie and Congress needs to admit they failed us. They
broke it and they can fix it, but not with my money, not now and
ever. Pay-out solutions are not acceptable. Laws that failed to
continue to exist to protect the citizens of this country are the
responsibility of Congress and the White House and all of those
people need to be held accountable. Not you and me.
I do not approve the use of my money to bail out anyone. Not in the
form of tax payer obligations as proposed or money already in the
budget. That money was designed for running the country, not
covering the butts of brainless idiots in Washington or Wall Street.
When my business failed a few years ago due to outside influences, no
one was there to bail me out. No one should be there to bail out any
of these people either.
Congressmen who have received funds from Fannie and Freddie including
Mc Cain and Obama should have to admit they got them, return them
with interest and pay the price of being guilty to contributing to
the problem this country faces right now. Anything less is
unacceptable.
We have a Congress full of brainless idiots, most of whom, but not
all, are Democrats. We have a president who is too preoccupied with
the war in Iraq to pay attention to what's going on with our borders
and our financial institutions. And we have a population in this
country too stupid to see and understand what this administration and
our Democratic Congress have done to us all. And now, they think
this is a socialist country where the mass of us are responsible
financially for the failure of the few. Not on my watch buddy.
After the Congress and the President messed it all up they ask two
things from all the rest of us. One, to pay for this mess and two,
to trust them to get it right this time. Yah, sure! Give me a
break. Congress can't even run a cafeteria without going broke!
Doug Walters lives in Oklahoma
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