Barney Frank asked us to contact legislators or big money will win again.Elizabeth Wareen spoke and asked us to contact our legislators .She even offered talking points that are posted on HuffPo and aired on MSNBC with Dylan Rattigan this morning.What more prmpting do we need.Contact these people or big money will win.
Elizabeth Warren stated clearly that if we do not yell now we will lose to the flood of lobbyists in the halls of congress right now.
Barney Frank states elected officials pay more attention to voters than money.
TARP watchog Elizabeth Warren has been critical of how the bank bailouts have been handled, but in an interview with MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Monday morning she praised Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for some of his recent testimony before Congress:
The question of regulatory reform is really on the table now. He(Geitner) was saying, in effect, if we don't change the rules going forward... we're not going to be able to get ourselves out of this crisis without some risk of falling right back into it. That was a very strong and very different message from the one he delivered last time we were talking.
Warren was not pleased with his answer regarding why AIG was treated so much more gently than the manufacturing industry, calling Geithner's answer "distressing." She also remains concerned that the toxic assets that TARP was supposed to rid the banks of remain on their books a year after the financial crisis began.
She concluded with three things she would like to see implemented:
- a consumer financial protection agency.
- regulation of the credit rating agencies.
- new laws that protect the system from banks that are "too big to fail."
Warren told Ratigan: "Until we have a credible liquidation threat, we don't have capitalism in America. It just doesn't work without that."
These are the talking points she wants us to make.Let's do it.This is not a partisian issue,Maybe we can get some help where we normally do not see any.
Here is a link where you can find all of our legislative bodies by state.This is our time people.Let's take it back from those that have stolen from us.
http://www.c-span.org/...
Interesting article I found looking for info on Warren.Look at the date of this on TPM .Sure wish we were listening and active back then.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/...