YES, I AM UPSET

hello america! assuming i get all of the following correct, you're going to be very upset with yourselves. &, you're going to be upset with me for pointing it all out to you. so, let's get to it..

i'm very upset & it has nothing to do with the economy, my sex life or, the fact that they don't make cowboy movies like they used to. i'm upset because, once again, our elected officials (both dems & repubs) are blowing more then smoke up our butts with the AIG bonus payouts.

first, i know, in my heart, that our federal government knew about them from the beginning. &, if you take the path that they didn't know about them, please explain why legislation was put into the tarp bills & the amendments to ban, limit, &/or collect them?

secondly, our federal government knew when they passed the first bailout bill that they had no true oversight in it. &, if it wasn't for some of the media questioning the banks as to where that money went, nothing would have been said at all. some of the media questioned some of the banks as to where the money was going & the banks responded by saying they didn't know. one bank purchased another bank overseas, banks merged, they paid out exec bonuses, etc.

thirdly, when all this sub-prime crap hit the fan in 2008, george bush may have been president but, the house & senate were democrat controled &, they are totally responsible for the first bailout bill even with bush signing it into law. for that matter, they've been in control of washington since 2006 so, the buck has to stop there. you should all know that the president can't pass the bills into law by himself &, more importantly, the democrats had & have the power to stop anything they didn't want in a bill. in fact, it's because of them that a simple 3-page bill proposal submitted to the house ballooned into a 451-page ($700 billion) law. (PLEASE GO TO wikipedia.org & look up EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT OF 2008)
you & the dems can blame bush all you want for this mess but, the record is clear on who did or didn't do what &, when they did or didn't do it.

fourthly, let's talk about 'campaign war chests' &, let's be real about them. big corporations can afford to hire lobbyists to influence our lawmakers to do their biddings & have been doing so since the creation of our government. they also "contribute" big donations to the lawmakers campaign funds, (this should be outlawed). reason being, the corporations money & lobbying efforts are repaid by the way lawmakers vote in favor of them whether it be yea or nay. a prime example is girly-boy barney franks & what he received from fannie mae & all the times he feverently opposed stronger regulation on them. & fannie put over $165,000 in chris dodds war chest---obama (second on that list) only got a mere $124,000 from them. this money influenced them to vote in favor of whatever would help fannie mae---look at the record for yourself. but, we're not done here &, it's going to get very dicey from here on in.

fifthly, obama, chris dodd & all the other robotic elected officials are crying for blood from AIG exec bonus payouts &, what really sucks, they've influenced you to cry out to. WHY? if you really want to cry out, please go to opensecrets.org & research an article tittled "BEFORE THE FALL, AIG PAYMENTS WENT TO WASHINGTON". there are several reputable sites you can go to to research this, so, don't get stuck on just one. that's your homework, america. anyway, regardless of which site you go to that watches campaign contributions, you'll come up with the same thing i came up with. this exec bonus thing is crap & takes our minds off of the real issues of today. if you went to opensecrets or elsewhere, you'll know where i'm coming from...
...if our elected officials were as serious as they would like us to believe they are about those bonuses being paid out, shouldn't they set the example first? what the hell are you talking about knowitall? obama & the rest of the robots are saying that since AIG received taxpayer dollars, they don't want the bonuses to be paid out. &, there is even talk of them putting laws on the book to recoup them if they are paid out or tax them. well, i'm of two minds on this-if the contracts were signed prior to any bailout money-pay the execs. if there is any funny-business in the contracts-don't pay them. however, AIG is failing even with our money & i think that our lawmakers should go out of their way to 'prove' to us just how sincere they are about protecting our money.

chris dodd received a total of $280,238. from AIG
obama received a total of $107,322. from AIG
max baucus received a total of $90,ooo. from AIG
that's $477,570. for just the three of them (&, dodd & baucus chair committees that are supposed to be watching them.) & yes, there are a bunch of repubs on that same list.
ALL THREE HAVE SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THE EXEC BONUSES-cool-if they want to show me how sincere they are, they each should return that money to AIG. obama is telling timothy geithner to do all he can to keep the execs from getting their bonuses...what he should be doing is telling congress to give him a bill that will force our 'sitting' elected lawmakers to return all contributions to any companies that we taxpayers have had to bailout. &, that's the bottom line.

none of our elected officials want to talk about which company gave them what regardless of the times. moreso in these dire times. however, if these officials want to get up in public & tell us what an outrage it is for the execs to get the kind of money they get in bonuses, why won't they be just as upfront about telling us that these same execs were responsible for contributions to their 'campaign war chests'? &, without being asked to, return that money to the failing or failed companies that received taxpayer dollars.

so, before you paint this rosey picture of obama looking out for you, ask him to return that money to fannie mae, freddie mack, AIG &, any other company that he has received money from that we have bailed out.

can you do that america? will you do that america?

i told you once that obama was & is not for us &, if you were to take the time to send him an e-mail, letter, or phone call in reference to him returning that money---you'll know i spoke the truth. not once have you heard him speak of returning any of his 'campaign war chest'-not once.
for that matter, i've not heard of anybody esle talking about this.

so, before you cry, don't you think that if the execs have to lose their bonuses, shouldn't those that received money from them have to return it? fair is fair & you have a voice so, please use it. we control what is done in washington & we control who does it. SPEAK UP AMERICA---SPEAK UP!

& obama, i know the difference between a doctor putting his gloved finger up my butt to check for lumps & a log being shoved up there...you can keep your log.

now, the democrats would not be in control of crap without the majority of you voting for them---so take that to heart. &, don't get me wrong; i'm not saying the repubs would have done any better but, please remember a 3-page bill would not have you paying for a high speed rail service from las vegas to los angelos for harry reid. &, when you hear these elected officials tell you that the bills passed this year contained repub add-ons, remember that the dems have the power to make the bills on their own &, your president has the power to veto them. but no, he signs the bill into law & then tells you he will be more responsible in the future about 'earmarks'. yeah, right!