I've been devouring the excellent Recommended Diaries over the past few days and growing more outraged by the minute. Many diaries concerning the "bailout" plan being proposed in Congress have opened my eyes wide... and provided me with a brutal education on the realities of what our nation faces.... mostly high-ranking thieves and blue-blooded miscreants trying to have American citizens foot the bill for their massive, monumental blunders.
Mostly I'm gathering that Kossacks are by and large DEAD SET AGAINST ANY BAILOUT; a modified version is NO BAILOUT WITHOUT HEAVY RESTRICTIONS AND OVERSIGHT.
Either way, I'm thinking the nation is ready for a day of protests: National No Bailout Day.
Now it's obvious that Secretary Paulsen and our lovely, lovely Administration believe that no action -- no bailout -- will result in a major financial collapse of the US; when in fact it's starting to feel like the Great Depression all over again. (The song "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" is wafting in my mind.) Others see this urgent grab at TRILLIONS of dollars -- without apology for having created the environment making it possible in the first place -- as a massive and tragic mistake, giving more apparently unlimited power to the Administration.
And is it coincidence or timing that this happens only weeks before we elect our next President?
Reading the Recommended Diaries on Kos should be required reading for any conscientious, thinking American. And so I urge you all to do the following:
- Do everything you can to help elect Barack Obama to the White House.
- Share links by email of dailykos Recommended Diaries to all your friends and acquaintances -- to anyone who will read and understand them. (As I read on another diary today, some very educated people in this country are only just coming to realize that this bailout proposal is just a power grab by Bush, Cheney and the neoconservative money machine. (Think of HItler's 'Enabling Act' which was titled 'Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation' and granted explicit immunity to the Government for any act that violated the Constitution.)
- Contact your Congresscritter to oppose a bailout, OR if you prefer, demand stringent conditions, such as punitive actions against those who perpetrated this mess, and re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act.
- Get the message out: PUT IMPEACHMENT BACK ON THE TABLE, NANCY AND HARRY!
- Read Denis Kucinich's "No Cash for Trash" statement here: NO CASH FOR TRASH As usual, smart, simple, and to the point. Go Dennis!
- Comment on my diary and propose a good date for a NATIONAL NO BAILOUT DAY of peaceful protests; any volunteers to make it happen, stand up!
I'm no community organizer, but I believe this should be a huge opportunity for the nation of good people to rise up and say ENOUGH to our administration which has sunk this great country deep into the mire.
We can do it. Thanks for all of your excellent, inspiring Diaries. Without DailyKos, so many of us would be drinking the Koolaid and I thank Goddess every day for this forum.
Peace and Out.