Isn't anybody PISSED?

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Isn't anybody PISSED?
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Sat, 09-27-2008 - 6:42am

This bail-out (which at this point, they tell us, is too necessary to be negotiable - which I don't believe based on the research I've done)...


This is OUR tax money people!!!  Nobody cares.


Listen, I went through my phase as an idealist when I was younger; I'm over that.  I'm not stupid nor uninformed.  This bail-out, however, is complete horse poop, and anyone who understands it fully will agree ( I think).  The Fed.....


I say, let it all crash and burn.  I'd rather dig my way out on my own. 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 10:50am
I find it interesting that the Democrats in the senate and house are siding with Bush, and the Republicans are not.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 10:51am
When did I ever say we've had a small government? (i'm not saying that we haven't, just curious what that has to do with what I want for the Future.)
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-27-2008
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 5:22pm

Most of the problems are in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.


iVillage Member
Registered: 05-27-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 6:22am

I also understand that we have a lot of oil, under our own soil-sure, it's not refined, but it would cost a whole lot less to drill than it would to continue to buy from foreign entities.

Not all oil is created equally.

One of the reasons that we purchase so much of our oil is from the Middle East has to do with the high quality of their resources. It costs a lot less to refine and ship their materials than it does to extract, and refine our oil. It is my understanding that a lot of our oil reserves are shale oil, which is very expensive to extract. In other words the extent of our usable oil reserve has been greatly exaggerated. It is a ploy by the oil industry to obtain US government land and to receive government(taxpayer paid)subsidies for alleged exploration. Yes the oil companies are making huge profits and the US government continues to fork over bucks to these companies. (Remember the Bush/Cheney families are all about oil). Remember Sarah Palin turned over the Alaska pipeline construction and control to a Canadian Comapany, instead of letting Conoco/Phillip (an American Company)build and control it. I recall watching some congressional hearing on CSPAN where the head of a major oil company stated that the oil extracted from the US by these companies would go to the global market and would be sold to whoever would bid the most.

The drilling may produce some oil but there is no guarantee that one drop of this oil will come into the US market. The top oil producing company in the US is BP (British Petroleum)this is not a US company. Quite a lot US oil company stock is not owned by US entities. Quite a lot of US oil company stock is owned by Middle Estern entities. Another aspect of this issue is that a number of the Middle Eastern entities want to divest themselves of US dollars and convert to Euro.

Also did you know that the USA is an oil exporter?

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-13-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 6:54am
No, I'd rather not find out what the 1930s were like.

Full length fiction: worlds undone

"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-27-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 8:46am

I still think that the government has done nothing for ME, personally, but keep my body safe.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 2:08am

I understand that the government does a whole lot of things.

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-27-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 4:43am

I respectfully disagree.

Compare the cost of mailing a letter or package via fed ex or ups vs the post office. The post office is a bargain. No private can or would provide the delivery service that the USPS provides.

How would you like to pay a toll everytime you leave your driveway. Privatize the highway system and you can enjoy the pay for trip model where ever you go.

This current financial crisis shows you how effectively the unregulated free market works.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-11-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 5:58am

I'm tired of bailing big business out of it's own mess.

mcpayton
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2005
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 7:58am

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So if the "free" market needs to be regulated, how is that "free"?


"Unregulated free market" is an oxymoron.