Comments on: Wrath for Rubin, and Mack’s shot at redemption http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/12/wrath-for-rubin-and-macks-shot-at-redemption/ It's about powerful people. Provocative insights into them. Smart ideas from them. Advice on how to join their ranks. By Editor at Large Pattie Sellers Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:20:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Daniel Marrs, El Centro, Ca http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/12/wrath-for-rubin-and-macks-shot-at-redemption/#comment-1266 Daniel Marrs, El Centro, Ca Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:12:28 +0000 http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/?p=2718#comment-1266 Nothing criminal you say? Notice every time Congress talks about opening up the treasury folks like :Pandit the Bandit" have their stock fall (CITI) All americans need to stop this madness, stop paying your bills to these criminal banks, cash your checks and stuff your mattresses. Thats what these crooks are doing-Legally with Congressional approval. We need to finanace our own bailout- let them come and foreclose on all of us, if they dare! Nothing criminal you say? Notice every time Congress talks about opening up the treasury folks like :P andit the Bandit” have their stock fall (CITI) All americans need to stop this madness, stop paying your bills to these criminal banks, cash your checks and stuff your mattresses. Thats what these crooks are doing-Legally with Congressional approval. We need to finanace our own bailout- let them come and foreclose on all of us, if they dare!

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]]> By: R.S.Dimesky Boynton Beach, FL http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/12/wrath-for-rubin-and-macks-shot-at-redemption/#comment-1262 R.S.Dimesky Boynton Beach, FL Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:56:14 +0000 http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/?p=2718#comment-1262 The underlying keynote to the story of the Wall Stree raiders begins and ends with Paulson engratiating his Good ol Boy network with non restrictive, open ended funding of banks that are at the helm of the the ripoff of America. Since when is TARP money allocated for the express benefitting of the banks to further expand and enrich themselves at public expense? Was the TARP money not set aside for the purpose of buying up assets which could not be valued on the books of these companies with the intention of solving the credit crisis and stabilizing the financial industry that had essentially blown itself up? once again no one is managing the business of doing the people's business, not Congress or the House, not the enforcement arms of government, nobody. We are in a doomsday scenario if someone doesn't get off his or her butt and get involved to stop this. Maybe the Marines, Navy and Army retirees and veterans groups need to get active in discussion of just what needs be done to get a handle on our country again. Taxpayer revolts seem enevitable again. The underlying keynote to the story of the Wall Stree raiders begins and ends with Paulson engratiating his Good ol Boy network with non restrictive, open ended funding of banks that are at the helm of the the ripoff of America. Since when is TARP money allocated for the express benefitting of the banks to further expand and enrich themselves at public expense? Was the TARP money not set aside for the purpose of buying up assets which could not be valued on the books of these companies with the intention of solving the credit crisis and stabilizing the financial industry that had essentially blown itself up? once again no one is managing the business of doing the people’s business, not Congress or the House, not the enforcement arms of government, nobody. We are in a doomsday scenario if someone doesn’t get off his or her butt and get involved to stop this. Maybe the Marines, Navy and Army retirees and veterans groups need to get active in discussion of just what needs be done to get a handle on our country again. Taxpayer revolts seem enevitable again.

]]> By: Eric, Palatine, IL http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/12/wrath-for-rubin-and-macks-shot-at-redemption/#comment-1256 Eric, Palatine, IL Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:25:05 +0000 http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/?p=2718#comment-1256 Where is the SEC and where is Sarbanes-Oxley in all of this? Why was Citi allowed to pay out a reported $200 million to lobbyists to get Glass-Steagall repealed in 1999 (Gramm-Leach-Bliley) supposedly so that it could buy Travelers and why was the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 allowed to pass with no debate. Both were paid for by the big bank lobbyists. Legal, but unethical and leading to the greed based destruction of our economy. You may say that there is no proof of wrong doing, maybe because all of the illegal acts have been made legal for banks and brokerages. Did you watch 60 minutes last night on Goldman Sachs and oil? Where is the SEC and where is Sarbanes-Oxley in all of this?

Why was Citi allowed to pay out a reported $200 million to lobbyists to get Glass-Steagall repealed in 1999 (Gramm-Leach-Bliley) supposedly so that it could buy Travelers and why was the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 allowed to pass with no debate. Both were paid for by the big bank lobbyists. Legal, but unethical and leading to the greed based destruction of our economy.

You may say that there is no proof of wrong doing, maybe because all of the illegal acts have been made legal for banks and brokerages. Did you watch 60 minutes last night on Goldman Sachs and oil?

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