Many are saying "WHEW!" for the passage of the $700 billion Wall Street bail-out. And that is exactly what it is- a BAILOUT! Restoring confidence to the financial institutions so we Americans can hope to not lose our jobs, lose our credit-worthiness and lose our homes.
Well, friends, the only "sure-thing" out of this speculative bail-out bill is the executives from Goldman Sachs, Chase, AIG and other financial houses will keep their jobs, keep their homes and keep their influence in Washington intact!
So we are supposed to put our trust, faith and dollars into a system that functions like a well-oiled criminal enterprise and only have "review" status on the oligarchical King Paulson's "recommendations"?
"WHOAH!" Washington!
This deal is not only a "band-aid" for our ailing economy, it is rewarding the culprits who put us in this mess!
Once Senator Obama takes office on January 20,2009, his first 100 Days needs to consist of righting the wrongs of deregulation, creating a true and strong oversight of our financial dealings when they are directly tied into the functions of federal programs, immediate removal of the Bush corporate tax breaks (we know "trickle-down" doesn't do that...), end our adventurist/corporate-inspired "War On Terror" and put those funds into alternative energy development and credit to the entrepreneurs who will lead us in this direction!
Help fund the development of Alternative Energy through low-cost loans. Rebuild the electrical grid, enabling private business to tap into a functioning, reliable industry made possible by responsible Government spending! Offer up tax breaks to Alt Energy companies that increase there employment numbers due to growth and expansion of these resources, thus further reducing reliance on Foreign energy sources!
Keep those jobs here by exporting new and innovative technologies manufactured here by these companies. Offer valuable incentives to American-owned industry to produce here! Federal participation of Company health benefits and maybe even Capital Gains Tax relief to those who continue to truly invest in American workers and infrastructures. (See? Something for everybody in the political spectrum!)
Let's demand President Obama to roll back the relaxing of the Constitutional rules insisting on a separation of corporate ownership of the "Free Press"! General Electric - get back to making electricity and keep your manipulation and influence OUT of the media!
I could go on and on but this would be so simple to just abide by the U.S. Constitution again!
I have faith in the American spirit... now only if I could find the faith in our Government again...
May God bless America and all Americans!
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