On Oct. 2, 2008, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA., the man enduring the newscasters) said on the House floor that "Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no."
Nov 21 or 22, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK.), speaking on KFAQ radio station in Tulsa, confirmed who it was that issued this threat. The interview host Pat Campbell asked Infhofe, "Somebody in D.C. was feeding you guys quite a story prior to the bailout, a story that if we didn't do this we were going to see something on the scale of the depression, there were people talking about martial law being instituted, civil unrest. Who was feeding you guys this stuff?"
Inhofe replied, "That's Henry Paulson. We had a conference call early on, it was on a Friday I think--a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1. So it would have been ... the 19th of September, we had a conference call. In this conference call and I guess there's no reason for me not to repeat what he said, but he said, he painted this picture you just described. He said, This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced."
Inhofe, like Sherman in the video above, has demanded that the remaining funds not already given away [Sherman may be demanding all of it regardless, I'm not sure.] be taken back by the government, and suggested that Paulson was giving the money to his friends.
Of course, getting some money back is far from being a solution. There is a G20 meeting coming up April 2 (?), and the financial oligarchy is working 24/7 to protect their looting, money laundering and genocide operations. FDR would mobilize the public to kick their asses.
It's good to hear some things closer to sanity though. WE THE PEOPLE does not mean Wall Street or the Federal Reserve or the International Monetary Fund or the Bank for International settlements or any of the central banking system (which banks didn't exist 100 years ago, BTW.)
FDR intended to use the incredible industrial might of the U.S.A., after winning the war against the fascists, to help nations all over the world develop, and had stated clearly to Churchill that Americans were not fighting the war to preserve the British (or others) colonial empire. FDR died too soon. Let's get back on track.
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On Oct. 2, 2008, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA., the man enduring the newscasters) said on the House floor that "Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no."
Nov 21 or 22, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK.), speaking on KFAQ radio station in Tulsa, confirmed who it was that issued this threat. The interview host Pat Campbell asked Infhofe, "Somebody in D.C. was feeding you guys quite a story prior to the bailout, a story that if we didn't do this we were going to see something on the scale of the depression, there were people talking about martial law being instituted, civil unrest. Who was feeding you guys this stuff?"
Inhofe replied, "That's Henry Paulson. We had a conference call early on, it was on a Friday I think--a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1. So it would have been ... the 19th of September, we had a conference call. In this conference call and I guess there's no reason for me not to repeat what he said, but he said, he painted this picture you just described. He said, This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced."
Inhofe, like Sherman in the video above, has demanded that the remaining funds not already given away [Sherman may be demanding all of it regardless, I'm not sure.] be taken back by the government, and suggested that Paulson was giving the money to his friends.
Of course, getting some money back is far from being a solution. There is a G20 meeting coming up April 2 (?), and the financial oligarchy is working 24/7 to protect their looting, money laundering and genocide operations. FDR would mobilize the public to kick their asses.
It's good to hear some things closer to sanity though. WE THE PEOPLE does not mean Wall Street or the Federal Reserve or the International Monetary Fund or the Bank for International settlements or any of the central banking system (which banks didn't exist 100 years ago, BTW.)
FDR intended to use the incredible industrial might of the U.S.A., after winning the war against the fascists, to help nations all over the world develop, and had stated clearly to Churchill that Americans were not fighting the war to preserve the British (or others) colonial empire. FDR died too soon. Let's get back on track.
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