You can describe the Senate hearing in three words.. Expand the Empire!

[Joanne98]

Hillary for head of state.... Highlights...

SPEND LOTS OF MONEY IN OTHER COUNTRIES!

Build schools
Build health care clinics
Invest in development projects
Give NED cash to hand out...YAY!

Where does the Senate think we're going to get all this money from?

Hasn't the Senate noticed that 9000 people a day are losing there homes, or that 2 million people have lost their jobs, or that we're going into the second great depression?

Apparently NOT! They're too busy ruling the world.

The Empire has GOT TO GO! We can't AFFORD IT ANYMORE!

Besides it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL anyway!

[billyoc]

1. Empire must go? Surely you jest!

We just finished putting the new Black and Female face on it! :hi:

[babylonsister]

2. Yay, let's just shut the borders down and ignore the rest of the

world. That'd be great. :sarcasm:

[Joanne98]

3. And the other great news of the day! Bernanke sazzzzzz

Give the banks more TARP money! HA!

You know. I'm almost glad they're doing this because after the BACKLASH we won't have to worry about it anymore!

[countingbluecars]

4. Better to spend money this way

than on wars. This is how you really win hearts and minds.

[Joanne98]

6. Except we don't have any money! And nobody is dumb enough to

fall for the "hearts and minds" crap anymore. The gig is up!

[countingbluecars]

10. I don't think that winning the hearts and minds

of others in our world community is crap. (If that term is exclusive to Bush than I should find a better way to say it.) I would prefer this to a "War on Terror".

[atreides1]

7. You have a point

But don't we need the same things done here?


Build schools
Build health care clinics
Invest in development projects


Or, isn't winning the hearts and minds of the American people important?

[countingbluecars]

13. I do agree that we need

to take care of ourselves first.

[Joanne98]

14. They don't give a F*&^% what we think! We're just the slaves!

I'm so sick of this! We have got to figure out what to do about this! We can't live like this anymore. I can't believe what I just heard. I'm in SHOCK! Give NED cash to hand out? OH HELL YEAH! Over my DEAD BODY!

[John Q. Citizen]

15. We (the people) have a responsibilty to do do both. We got our destruction and now

there is the bill to pay.

[leftstreet]

5. The Imperial InterGalactic Empire will live on! n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

8. All of those things need to be done....but those funds should come

from the pentagon budget. It would be a great swap.

[Joanne98]

9. And THIS is really bad news. F&*^%$# Paulson!!!!!!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury could consider a second round of capital investments in banks in the second phase of its $700 billion financial rescue fund, but also needs to set aside money for systemically significant institutions, a senior Treasury official said on Tuesday.

Neel Kashkari, the Treasury's interim assistant secretary for financial stability, said the second half of the bailout fund needs to stay focused on the financial sector.

"It's impossible to predict what's going to happen. We hope that the actions that we've taken are sufficient, but we're we are also going to have enough dry powder on the side to deal with any one-offs that arise," Kashkari told business students at Georgetown University.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50C4FG20090113

MAN! I am sooo ready to just shut the fucker down! I thought Obama was getting this money! Apparently NOT. What is going on?

[leftstreet]

12. The Ruling Class R trying to save CapitalismZ

Now be quiet and let them go about their bidness.

:hi:

[Joanne98]

17. I know. And AIG is writing checks to banks in other countries!

Just wait until the sheeple find out about that! There's going to be a run on pitchforks!

:hi:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

20. "US Treasury"... which Obama will control

You're reading US Treasury as meaning Bush US Treasury.

(An understandable error after eight years of dictatorship)

[John Q. Citizen]

11. It's eating us up for fucking sakes! We need to produce a large durable American Empire map

that shows where all our bases are worldwide.

It would be a great educational tool as well as fine dorm and lefty household decoration.

Take my million dollar idea and make it so.

[Joanne98]

16. Seriously! Let's do it! Get a map and start shutting them down!

The public is READY!

[John Q. Citizen]

23. First we need a complete list of our bases. Got any ideas?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

18. Cost is relative. Our smart bombs cost more than the shabby buildings they level

[wyldwolf]

19. any other day, you'd be for this kind of spending

[Joanne98]

21. No I wouldn't. I don't think the government should have any money to spend

in other countries! They never have good intentions. They are just corrupting the third world. Eveybody should read..Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins and The Shock Doctrine. We NEVER do good anywhere. We only promote "our interests" which is never good for anybody, especially the poor. It's why everybody hates our guts! They just want to be left alone.

[Joanne98]

22. Did u know we have a ponzi scheme museum? "After a dinner of seared tilapia and asparagus",

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Volcker, one of the men President-elect Barack Obama is counting on to save the U.S. economy, last night helped the Museum of American Finance raise about $470,000 at a gala dinner.

The former Federal Reserve chairman’s Rolodex and clout helped the museum come within $30,000 of the money raised at its inaugural gala before the crisis started last year.

Jeanne Driscoll, the museum’s development director, smiled as patrons arrived, including Merrill Lynch & Co. Vice Chairman William McDonough and Blackstone Group L.P. co-founder Pete Peterson. She said a Volcker-less affair and the absence of many of his rich and powerful friends would have raised much less in the current economy, which he is charged with fixing as head of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

“The financial environment is difficult,” Lee Kjelleren, the museum’s president, said over cocktails in the second-floor exhibition room that displays stock certificates, photographs, and historical artifacts. “We have had trouble getting known.”

After a dinner of seared tilapia and asparagus, the 6-foot-7 Volcker, dressed in a pin-striped gray suit and red and blue colored tie, offered no crystal-ball predictions to the crowd about when the economic slump would end.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aQfdcYAtZf2A&refer=muse

[Occam Bandage]

24. Isolationism today! Isolationism tomorrow! Isolationism forever!

[tomreedtoon]

25. The State Department is under-utilized.

State used to be the organization that handled our relations with the world. But since the Kennedy days, State has been called "staid, old-fashioned, slow-moving." It has been ignored regularly for the flashier cowboys of diplomacy.

The result: most of the adventurism of the Executive Branch, from the Vietnam War to the current war, plus interventions in other nations that turned out wrong like the Noriega and Osama bin Laden incidents.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to let an entire department analyze and recommend actions, and for their advice to be taken seriously, rather than have a Kissinger or a Cheney dictate what America will do with the rest of the world.