Comments on: What the SEC's Ban on Shorting Really Means

By: Franz Hassenflu

Franz Hassenflu — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:58:22 +0000

I fear that our country is going down the drain, and the people in Washington and Wall Street have there hand on the handle. Where I ask you, is the common sense that made our country great.
In my opinion, we need to put the CEO’s, and ALL the people in Washington
(Elected Officials) in jail not “Club FED” but the real deal, where you cannot bend over in the shower! Right now what will happen to the guy that runs a company into the ground and then collects millions in bonus’s. Here is the answer, “Not a thing”! If you rob a 7/11 you get 10 to 20 years, you rob millions and you get a bonus. When you boil all this down it comes to one thing GREED, it really is that simple, the elected officials, the people on Wall Street, the heads of Large Corporations, it is all about what is this going to do for me.
We need to look at history to find the answers, Thomas Jefferson said it best, It should be a hardship to sever ones country, not a career. We need to demand term limits on all the Elected Officials, all the way from the city’s to Washington, the President needs a line item veto, an Every single person that goes to Washington should remember one simple idea, “Put your Country First”, if not go the hell home, or we the people will send you there.
I am a Independent voter, but the only team that I see that really will put, Country First, is the McCain/Palin ticket. An at this time, I am not so sure about that, Absolute Power, Corrupts Absolutely.
Now I feel better.

By: Carbonite Eagle

Carbonite Eagle — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:51:38 +0000

If we let Obamawicz get elected, socialism will have both of it’s dotted.

The CEO’s and their immediate staff should be sued and given jobs milking cows in the Artic snow…just we as Americans have been milked.

oh….Barney Frank and the other 3 clowns….keep looking over your shoulder. The truth is coming…oh wait a minute Barney does that already.

By: Tired of it all

Tired of it all — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:17:53 +0000

The Justice Dept. needs to apply the RICOH statutes and go after these racketeering execs – seize their personal assets. Just imagine – the Hamptons would be gov’t property overnight! The Treasury Dept. can sell it all at a fire sale – who would buy? Arab oil sheiks, Russian oil mobsters and Chinese “businessmen.” We are pwned.

By: Robert C

Robert C — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:11:46 +0000

It is now completely obvious that Paulson and his cronies have only the banking community’s interest in mind when they make these outlandish moves. We as the taxpayer, are now going to get left the bagholder of all of the “Level 3″ stuff the banks have been hiding off their balance sheets. They don’t want them, with them the banks look bad, their stock values go into the toiet…There really is no end in site for how far these guys are willing to go and how much debt they are willing to dump on us…

Since there seems no protection for “we the people” from lobbiest paid congress and senators…perhaps the only thing left is a revolution…Perhaps it’s time for us to hit the FED below the belt…I say if they pass this BS legislation and transfer the debt to us the taxpayer…we just say SCREW YOU…and we all stop paying our taxes completely…surely this will be an unglorious end to their screwing us…but hey…it’s non violent, and 100% effective! Somehow we keep forgetting that the whole thing gets empowered by us…we ultimately decide to pay the bill or not…really pretty simple when you think about it! The wars end, the government gets straightened out, a new leader gets elected outside of the media chosen contestants…we all get to vote instead of the horse back driven electoral college bs…ultimately we beat the banks, ultimately we WIN they LOOSE!

Anyone else think it’s time for us to hit the RESET button!

By: greedom

greedom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:10:29 +0000

correction – SAW at lunch