And you blame Republicans for whatever improvement you see in Russia and Saudi Arabia? Is it the fault of Republicans that oil prices sky rocketted?

And you have a problem with the growth in China’s economy?

Iran
Saudi Arabia
Russia
China.

Which once-dominant world power has plummeted in power, strength, influence and by every conceivable measure?

The United States of America.

And the “maverick” has submitted meekly to his neo-con masters–the very same ones who have wrought destruction on every aspect of our once proud nation.

William Greider | Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle
http://www.truthout.org/article/paulson-bailout-plan-a-historic-swindle
William Greider, The Nation: “Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to the crisis: dump it all on the taxpayers. That is the meaning of the massive bailout Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has shopped around Congress. It would relieve the major banks and investment firms of their mountainous rotten assets and make the public swallow their losses - many hundreds of billions, maybe much more. What’s not to like if you are a financial titan threatened with extinction?”

Our elected officials need to stop this freight train. I smell a rat the size of Henry Paulson. We are being set up. I say call their bluff and see if the financial industry will really shut down. They are trying to get this done before congress wises up.

Wall Street is already looking to profit on the giveaway;

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/business/22lobby.html?hp

Foreign banks want to get in on the action;

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/business/22global.html?hp

And look at section 8 of the bailout draft proposal;

“Sec. 8. Review.
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”

Shades of Patriot act, Iraq war?
Any comments?

I have not the foggiest notion of what point you are trying to make here, not do I remember the earlier statement or its context. It must have been months ago. Do you keep a file of my comments on your hard disc to dredge up when you want to be argumentative?

“I realize that this comment was directed toward an age group and not directed at me personally.” In all honesty it was a little bit of both.

“I could easily forego any social security income and not even be aware of the difference because of a lifetime of investment decisions made on my own.” I have a hard time reconciling this statement with an earlier one that called a military pension “cushy” when it went to a veteran that had received a 100% disability from being wounded in combat.

But my discomfort with the U.S. government making and managing the arrangements remains. I would have to see an actual proposal and know who would be pulling the strings before even thinking about being OK with anything.