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Originally posted by MarkLuitzen
so what is the reason why is it necassery to buy ect that is whats important not blame or speech hatred before knowing this ..
Citigroup's decision to open its wallet on an expensive jet may not be the catastrophe it appears because Citigroup ordered the plane 2 years ago when the company had plenty of cash. There may be a stiff cancellation fee, so public-relations problems aside, it might make sense to buy the plane.
Originally posted by jam321
These companies CEO's have got to be the reason why the war on drugs is failing. Despite all the news about how irate Americans are at them for misusing the bailout money, they continue to make idiotic business decisions. Whether it is bailout money or not, when are they going to get it through their thick clouded head that right now is not the time to splurge on anything than the basic necessities. Commonsense has left the building folks.
[edit on 26-1-2009 by jam321]
[edit on 26-1-2009 by jam321]
Originally posted by NickT916
and once again, nobody will do anything about it, people need to stand up to the government, but we are all sissies, we are going to take it, because thats how americans are, america USED to fight in the past, but now america is a bunch of sissies, all we are is talk, we will whine about it, and continue with out lives. We will keep paying the government, .... we will get cornered more and more, and yet we will still not do anyting about it....
WE ARE PANSIES!!!!
www.rense.com...
"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else."
"But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fcked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fking years ago.
"You know what they want? Obedient workers people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly #tier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."
"This country is finished."
Originally posted by becomingaware
I feel that I should be able to back a truck up to CITI corporate offices (or any other corporation that received bailout money) and take anything and everything I wanted, and drive away. I feel that everyone should be able to do that.
Originally posted by carole9999
I wonder how much money would be available if the bailout had been distributed to every family in the US? Or how much if it was divided between everyone who is now working and everyone who has lost a job and is looking, and all retirees (who have lost the value of their retirement nest egg)? Just curious how that would have affected the country and the banksters.
Originally posted by jam321
reply to post by Jacob08
I remember congress going crazy at the auto manufacturers for flying in jets to Washington. It will be interesting to see if this bank gets grilled in the same way.
Congress is the reason most of this is happening. They forgot to cross their "T's" and dot their "I's" when they wrote up and passed that freaking bailout bill.