76Red,
"By the way, didn't Paulson make a lot of these bets when he was CEO of what ever the hell company it was he ran?"
The answer is Paulson was CFO of of Goldman Sachs till 2006 (that year he received a $50 million dollar bonus)...when you work for the government you have to liquidate all your investments, anyhow he liquidated $500 MILLION in assets TAX FREE(that's half a billion)so he could work for our government. And we're taking advice from him...now mind you he was the CFO, he knew about all these shady securities that are now going bad, he participated in this.
I'm watching bush now...he makes me sick, I used to support him. He's lying right now, just like Paulson. There were a lot of warnings that this was going to happen.
Don't be fooled, they are literally robbing you.
Contact your congress and senate rep...
https://forms.house.gov/htbin/wrep_findrep
http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...m.cfm?State=FL
SAY NO TO THE BAILOUT. There are other solutions that do not burden tax payers and put the burden where it should be on those corporations that did this to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daOfYmSLW_U
There he goes lying again...unbelievable. This speech reminds me of the "weapons of mass destruction speech" with the same degree of truthfulness
DO NOT STAND FOR THIS.