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	<title>Comments on: Latest Bailout Plan Restores Government Balance of Power</title>
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		<title>By: dunnage</title>
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		<dc:creator>dunnage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pelosi and Reid, ya, quite the power players.  Having Paulsen sign his name would be a big deal.  The man requested about a Trillion Dollars to do with as he pleased.  And he was telling the truth, cause that is what he did.  Our Sec. of the Treasury, former GS chair, picked &quot;The 9&quot; and handed them a few hundred billion and went back to his office having saved the world.  Now when reporters, so called reporters ask him what he did he says I gave these 9 guys a few hundred billion dollars to do with as thy saw fit.  And everybody is confused.  Gotta love it.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now I&#039;d love to have a Congress with leadership, but it is not to be.  And this &quot;rule of law&quot; stuff is so ridiculous&#039;  Bush said he was the law.  Paulsen is the law.  I&#039;ll pass on rule of law -- always used when we bother people, not for something of import, but jaywalking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pelosi and Reid, ya, quite the power players.  Having Paulsen sign his name would be a big deal.  The man requested about a Trillion Dollars to do with as he pleased.  And he was telling the truth, cause that is what he did.  Our Sec. of the Treasury, former GS chair, picked &#8220;The 9&#8243; and handed them a few hundred billion and went back to his office having saved the world.  Now when reporters, so called reporters ask him what he did he says I gave these 9 guys a few hundred billion dollars to do with as thy saw fit.  And everybody is confused.  Gotta love it.  </p>
<p>Now I&#39;d love to have a Congress with leadership, but it is not to be.  And this &#8220;rule of law&#8221; stuff is so ridiculous&#39;  Bush said he was the law.  Paulsen is the law.  I&#39;ll pass on rule of law &#8212; always used when we bother people, not for something of import, but jaywalking.</p>
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		<title>By: dunnage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pelosi and Reid, ya, quite the power players.  Having Paulsen sign his name would be a big deal.  The man requested about a Trillion Dollars to do with as he pleased.  And he was telling the truth, cause that is what he did.  Our Sec. of the Treasury, former GS chair, picked &quot;The 9&quot; and handed them a few hundred billion and went back to his office having saved the world.  Now when reporters, so called reporters ask him what he did he says I gave these 9 guys a few hundred billion dollars to do with as thy saw fit.  And everybody is confused.  Gotta love it.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now I&#039;d love to have a Congress with leadership, but it is not to be.  And this &quot;rule of law&quot; stuff is so ridiculous&#039;  Bush said he was the law.  Paulsen is the law.  I&#039;ll pass on rule of law -- always used when we bother people, not for something of import, but jaywalking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pelosi and Reid, ya, quite the power players.  Having Paulsen sign his name would be a big deal.  The man requested about a Trillion Dollars to do with as he pleased.  And he was telling the truth, cause that is what he did.  Our Sec. of the Treasury, former GS chair, picked &#8220;The 9&#8243; and handed them a few hundred billion and went back to his office having saved the world.  Now when reporters, so called reporters ask him what he did he says I gave these 9 guys a few hundred billion dollars to do with as thy saw fit.  And everybody is confused.  Gotta love it.  </p>
<p>Now I&#39;d love to have a Congress with leadership, but it is not to be.  And this &#8220;rule of law&#8221; stuff is so ridiculous&#39;  Bush said he was the law.  Paulsen is the law.  I&#39;ll pass on rule of law &#8212; always used when we bother people, not for something of import, but jaywalking.</p>
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		<title>By: DOUGLAS FIELD</title>
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		<dc:creator>DOUGLAS FIELD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SADLY OPRAH, THESE REALLY ARE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ISSUES !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;OPRAH PLEASE  ~  HELP ~  PREVENT PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM BEING THE US CONGRESS KING OF THE SLAVES ?? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;** ONLY THE CONGRESS IS WORTHY TO BE THE TRUE KINGS OF THE SLAVES !!!! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WHERE IS THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD COURT WHEN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POORER AMERICANS LIKE TROY DAVIS ARE BEING DENIED JUSTICE IN AMERICA ?? POORER AMERICAN&#039;S ALSO DESERVE YOUR DIRECT ATTENTION JUST AS MUCH AS THE OTHER REPRESSED POORER CITIZENS AROUND THE WORLD WHO ALSO ARE HAVING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING INFLICTED ON THEM!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*** GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT THEIR INNOCENT,BECOME THE GUILTY ***&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WILL AMERICA&#039;S VARIOUS RELIGIOUS LEADERS NOW TAKE A UNITED STAND WITH THE IVORY TOWER LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD US CONGRESS FOR FUTURE FUNDING TO ALSO BE ALLOCATED TO OUR UNDERFUNDED US JUDICIAL SYSTEM INSTEAD OF JUST OUR US CONGRESSIONAL RE-ELECTION BUDDIES GRABBING ALL THE FUNDING $$$$$$$$$$$&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;***OVER 100,000 INNOCENT MIDDLE CLASS &amp; WORKING POORER AMERICAN&#039;S ENSLAVED IN OUR AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT NOW WHILE TRILLION$ ARE BEING DOLED OUT TO OTHER US CONGRESSIONAL BUDDIES !!!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO TELL THE IVORY TOWER LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD DEMOCRATIC US CONGRESS ~ GIVE THEM LIBERTY OR GIVE THEM LAWYERS !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WILL THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD COURT, THE POPE AND THE NFL PLAYERS ALSO COME TO THE RESCUE OF THESE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ENSLAVED POORER AMERICAN&#039;S ? ** THERE ARE OVER 100,000 INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN&#039;S WITHOUT PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN OUR US PRISONS NATIONWIDE AND MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS MORE ON THE WAY !!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;***The CATHOLIC CHURCH could also now really help AMERICA by arranging a speech from the VATICAN by the POPE concerning THIS modern day ENSLAVEMENT of POORER AMERICAN&#039;S by our complacent IVORY TOWER US CONGRESS who appears to be more interested in financing other US Congressional interests then our UNDERFUNDED AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;****THE POPE KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A STATE MURDER OF TROY DAVIS IN GEORGIA, AND A JUDICIAL EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS IN GEORGIA&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*** MANY INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO BOYCOTT THIS ROGUE STATE OF GEORGIA ***&lt;br&gt;WILL MILLIONS OF CARING AMERICAN&#039;S AND INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS AVOID GIVING THE STATE OF GEORGIA ANY FUTURE BUSINE$$ IF A 3YR. BOYCOTT TAKES PLACE OVER THIS STATE NOT EVEN OFFERING JUSTICE WITH A NEW LEGITIMATE CRIMINAL TRIAL FOR MR.TROY DAVIS? IT&#039;S BEEN SAID BY MANY THAT A THREE YEAR INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF THIS STATE MIGHT VERY WELL COST IT TENS OF MILLION$ WHERE A NEW AND FAIR TRIAL OF TROY DAVIS MIGHT COST THE STATE ONLY $100,000.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;**** A SPECIAL FEDERAL TASK FORCE MADE UP OF INVESTIGATORS AND LAWYERS DESIGNED TO VERIFY EVERY ASPECT OF THE 3,300 VARIOUS DEATH ROW LEGAL CASES NATIONWIDE,IS OUR COUNTRIES ONLY REAL METHOD TO MAKE SURE WE DO NOT ALLOW STATES LIKE GEORGIA TO CONTINUE ATTEMPTING TO MURDER POSSIBLE INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN&#039;S LIKE MR.TROY DAVIS!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*** FOR THOSE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN&#039;S WHO BELIEVE IN GOD, WE ALL HAVE TO WONDER IN TOTAL AMAZEMENT, HOW OUR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE ALLOWED THIS HORROR TO CONTINUE WRONGFULLY EXECUTING AND INCARCERATING INNOCENT AMERICAN&#039;S ALL ACROSS OUR COUNTRY ???&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com(424-247-2013)&lt;br&gt;**WWW VOLUNTEERS DEDICATED TO LOBBYING THE POPE, WORLD INTERNATIONAL COURT,THE ROYAL FAMILY,QUEEN ELIZABETH II,NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS, ABC,CBS,CNN, FOX NEWS , OPRAH WINFREY,PRINCE CHARLES,CATHOLIC CHURCH,NBA,AND CARING AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS FOR MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS WHO ARE BEING WRONGFULLY EXECUTED AND IMPRISONED ALL ACROSS AMERICA DUE TO LACK OF PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN OUR UNDERFUNDED US JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN NEED OF C*H*A*N*G*E.....&lt;br&gt;*************************************************************************************************************************************************************************&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;AMERICA&#039;S GREAT LIE&lt;br&gt;by Gerry Spence&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The idea that we should furnish the poor with a public defender has been an effort to save our nation from shame - for sending the poor to prison without adequate representation. But today the nation&#039;s public defender system has become a mockery of justice.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To provide an accused with a public defender who has three hundred other cases to defend is simply to laugh in the face of both justice and the accused himself. It takes me months to prepare the average criminal case for trial. The trial itself can take weeks, even months.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While O.J. Simpson was being tried in Los Angeles for murder, a case that cost millions to defend and months to conclude, another black man was being tried in the same courthouse for a similar murder. It took only three days for a jury to find him guilty. He had a public defender with scores of other cases to defend. Many prosecutors boast that they have over a 90 percent conviction rate. Little wonder. Under the present public defender system the prosecutors should enjoy one hundred percent convictions, and many in fact approach perfect conviction rates.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The public defenders in seven states have finally refused to take on any new cases. It&#039;s about time. If I walked into court to defend my client and had never talked to him, never previously opened his file, never discovered the witnesses against him, much less interviewed them, never reviewed the evidence in the hands of the prosecution, never demanded my clients rights to discovery, never read the cases relevant to the case at hand, never prepared the cross examination of the witnesses against my client, never ... and on and on, I would be guilty of legal malpractice.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Every public defender who purports to represent an accused under circumstances in which he or she has neither the time nor the resources to fully defend the client is guilty of malpractice. These public defenders cannot be saved from malpractice because they are crushed under a ridiculous case load - some with even as many as five hundred cases or more. No one who was accused with such an attorney has received a fair trial and every such accused is entitled to an appeal on that basis alone. The judge must not sentence the accused under these circumstances because the judge would be taking part in a fraud on the system. Yet hundreds of thousands of indigent persons go to prison each year under circumstances no better than those outlined above.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When I was coming up as a young prosecutor, the defendants were represented pro bono by the lawyers in the local bar. It was part of the duty of members of the bar to take part in the justice system. Today that idea is unheard of. The practice of law is first and foremost a money-making profession. I see nothing wrong with that notion, but what about giving back?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Every trial lawyer should be required to take on a couple of pro bono cases every year. At our office we have a separate pro bono law firm and have for over ten years. It often brings us more satisfaction than our big money wins. The job of a lawyer is to represent the people - the lost, the forgotten, the damned, the hated, the voiceless and the poor. Indeed, God forbid, we may one day become one of those who are entitled to representation but cannot afford it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Every time an accused goes to prison without having received a fair trial we are one step closer to the loss of our own freedoms. Our rights are, in fact, being fought for by public defenders who can never fulfill their duty to their clients because of their pathetic, impossible, caseloads. When they fail, we are in danger. Our system becomes a hypocritical charade. And we prove, once and for all, that the promised justice for all in America is an evil lie that is imposed on the poor.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If only those with money can receive justice, then how can we permit our children to recite a horrible falsehood in school when they chant, &quot;with liberty and justice for all.&quot; That can no longer be the truth in America.&lt;br&gt;**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************&lt;br&gt;GERRY SPENCE IS A RENOWNED LAWYER AND PATRIOTIC AMERICAN WHO EVEN AT THE AGE OF 82, CONTINUES TO SHOW A KEEN INTEREST IN WANTING TO BETTER AMERICA FOR THE MASSES OF POORER AMERICANS BEING CAUGHT IN OUR UNDERFUNDED JUDICIAL SYSTEM.LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS THANKS YOU MR.SPENCE FOR TAKING YOUR TIME AND INTEREST IN SPEAKING THE TRUTH ABOUT A JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN NEED OF C*H*A*N*G*E...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;** WE CAN ONLY HOPE AND PRAY OTHER AMERICAN LAWYERS AND JUDGES WILL FOLLOW YOUR LEAD SO THE PROPER FINANCING CAN BE ALLOCATED BY OUR IVORY TOWER US CONGRESS !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*** ANYONE INTERESTED CAN GOOGLE OR YAHOO GERRY SPENCE or LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICAN&#039;S ON THE WWW FOR MANY OTHER ENLIGHTENING HONEST ARTICLES.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SADLY OPRAH, THESE REALLY ARE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ISSUES !</p>
<p>OPRAH PLEASE  ~  HELP ~  PREVENT PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM BEING THE US CONGRESS KING OF THE SLAVES ?? </p>
<p>** ONLY THE CONGRESS IS WORTHY TO BE THE TRUE KINGS OF THE SLAVES !!!! </p>
<p>WHERE IS THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD COURT WHEN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POORER AMERICANS LIKE TROY DAVIS ARE BEING DENIED JUSTICE IN AMERICA ?? POORER AMERICAN&#39;S ALSO DESERVE YOUR DIRECT ATTENTION JUST AS MUCH AS THE OTHER REPRESSED POORER CITIZENS AROUND THE WORLD WHO ALSO ARE HAVING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING INFLICTED ON THEM!</p>
<p>*** GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT THEIR INNOCENT,BECOME THE GUILTY ***</p>
<p>WILL AMERICA&#39;S VARIOUS RELIGIOUS LEADERS NOW TAKE A UNITED STAND WITH THE IVORY TOWER LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD US CONGRESS FOR FUTURE FUNDING TO ALSO BE ALLOCATED TO OUR UNDERFUNDED US JUDICIAL SYSTEM INSTEAD OF JUST OUR US CONGRESSIONAL RE-ELECTION BUDDIES GRABBING ALL THE FUNDING $$$$$$$$$$$</p>
<p>***OVER 100,000 INNOCENT MIDDLE CLASS &#038; WORKING POORER AMERICAN&#39;S ENSLAVED IN OUR AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT NOW WHILE TRILLION$ ARE BEING DOLED OUT TO OTHER US CONGRESSIONAL BUDDIES !!!!!</p>
<p>PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO TELL THE IVORY TOWER LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD DEMOCRATIC US CONGRESS ~ GIVE THEM LIBERTY OR GIVE THEM LAWYERS !</p>
<p>WILL THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD COURT, THE POPE AND THE NFL PLAYERS ALSO COME TO THE RESCUE OF THESE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ENSLAVED POORER AMERICAN&#39;S ? ** THERE ARE OVER 100,000 INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN&#39;S WITHOUT PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN OUR US PRISONS NATIONWIDE AND MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS MORE ON THE WAY !!</p>
<p>***The CATHOLIC CHURCH could also now really help AMERICA by arranging a speech from the VATICAN by the POPE concerning THIS modern day ENSLAVEMENT of POORER AMERICAN&#39;S by our complacent IVORY TOWER US CONGRESS who appears to be more interested in financing other US Congressional interests then our UNDERFUNDED AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM.</p>
<p>****THE POPE KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A STATE MURDER OF TROY DAVIS IN GEORGIA, AND A JUDICIAL EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS IN GEORGIA</p>
<p>*** MANY INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO BOYCOTT THIS ROGUE STATE OF GEORGIA ***<br />WILL MILLIONS OF CARING AMERICAN&#39;S AND INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS AVOID GIVING THE STATE OF GEORGIA ANY FUTURE BUSINE$$ IF A 3YR. BOYCOTT TAKES PLACE OVER THIS STATE NOT EVEN OFFERING JUSTICE WITH A NEW LEGITIMATE CRIMINAL TRIAL FOR MR.TROY DAVIS? IT&#39;S BEEN SAID BY MANY THAT A THREE YEAR INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF THIS STATE MIGHT VERY WELL COST IT TENS OF MILLION$ WHERE A NEW AND FAIR TRIAL OF TROY DAVIS MIGHT COST THE STATE ONLY $100,000.</p>
<p>**** A SPECIAL FEDERAL TASK FORCE MADE UP OF INVESTIGATORS AND LAWYERS DESIGNED TO VERIFY EVERY ASPECT OF THE 3,300 VARIOUS DEATH ROW LEGAL CASES NATIONWIDE,IS OUR COUNTRIES ONLY REAL METHOD TO MAKE SURE WE DO NOT ALLOW STATES LIKE GEORGIA TO CONTINUE ATTEMPTING TO MURDER POSSIBLE INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN&#39;S LIKE MR.TROY DAVIS!</p>
<p>*** FOR THOSE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN&#39;S WHO BELIEVE IN GOD, WE ALL HAVE TO WONDER IN TOTAL AMAZEMENT, HOW OUR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE ALLOWED THIS HORROR TO CONTINUE WRONGFULLY EXECUTING AND INCARCERATING INNOCENT AMERICAN&#39;S ALL ACROSS OUR COUNTRY ???</p>
<p><a href="mailto:lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com">lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com</a>(424-247-2013)<br />**WWW VOLUNTEERS DEDICATED TO LOBBYING THE POPE, WORLD INTERNATIONAL COURT,THE ROYAL FAMILY,QUEEN ELIZABETH II,NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS, ABC,CBS,CNN, FOX NEWS , OPRAH WINFREY,PRINCE CHARLES,CATHOLIC CHURCH,NBA,AND CARING AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS FOR MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS WHO ARE BEING WRONGFULLY EXECUTED AND IMPRISONED ALL ACROSS AMERICA DUE TO LACK OF PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN OUR UNDERFUNDED US JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN NEED OF C*H*A*N*G*E&#8230;..<br />*************************************************************************************************************************************************************************</p>
<p>AMERICA&#39;S GREAT LIE<br />by Gerry Spence</p>
<p>The idea that we should furnish the poor with a public defender has been an effort to save our nation from shame &#8211; for sending the poor to prison without adequate representation. But today the nation&#39;s public defender system has become a mockery of justice.</p>
<p>To provide an accused with a public defender who has three hundred other cases to defend is simply to laugh in the face of both justice and the accused himself. It takes me months to prepare the average criminal case for trial. The trial itself can take weeks, even months.</p>
<p>While O.J. Simpson was being tried in Los Angeles for murder, a case that cost millions to defend and months to conclude, another black man was being tried in the same courthouse for a similar murder. It took only three days for a jury to find him guilty. He had a public defender with scores of other cases to defend. Many prosecutors boast that they have over a 90 percent conviction rate. Little wonder. Under the present public defender system the prosecutors should enjoy one hundred percent convictions, and many in fact approach perfect conviction rates.</p>
<p>The public defenders in seven states have finally refused to take on any new cases. It&#39;s about time. If I walked into court to defend my client and had never talked to him, never previously opened his file, never discovered the witnesses against him, much less interviewed them, never reviewed the evidence in the hands of the prosecution, never demanded my clients rights to discovery, never read the cases relevant to the case at hand, never prepared the cross examination of the witnesses against my client, never &#8230; and on and on, I would be guilty of legal malpractice.</p>
<p>Every public defender who purports to represent an accused under circumstances in which he or she has neither the time nor the resources to fully defend the client is guilty of malpractice. These public defenders cannot be saved from malpractice because they are crushed under a ridiculous case load &#8211; some with even as many as five hundred cases or more. No one who was accused with such an attorney has received a fair trial and every such accused is entitled to an appeal on that basis alone. The judge must not sentence the accused under these circumstances because the judge would be taking part in a fraud on the system. Yet hundreds of thousands of indigent persons go to prison each year under circumstances no better than those outlined above.</p>
<p>When I was coming up as a young prosecutor, the defendants were represented pro bono by the lawyers in the local bar. It was part of the duty of members of the bar to take part in the justice system. Today that idea is unheard of. The practice of law is first and foremost a money-making profession. I see nothing wrong with that notion, but what about giving back?</p>
<p>Every trial lawyer should be required to take on a couple of pro bono cases every year. At our office we have a separate pro bono law firm and have for over ten years. It often brings us more satisfaction than our big money wins. The job of a lawyer is to represent the people &#8211; the lost, the forgotten, the damned, the hated, the voiceless and the poor. Indeed, God forbid, we may one day become one of those who are entitled to representation but cannot afford it.</p>
<p>Every time an accused goes to prison without having received a fair trial we are one step closer to the loss of our own freedoms. Our rights are, in fact, being fought for by public defenders who can never fulfill their duty to their clients because of their pathetic, impossible, caseloads. When they fail, we are in danger. Our system becomes a hypocritical charade. And we prove, once and for all, that the promised justice for all in America is an evil lie that is imposed on the poor.</p>
<p>If only those with money can receive justice, then how can we permit our children to recite a horrible falsehood in school when they chant, &#8220;with liberty and justice for all.&#8221; That can no longer be the truth in America.<br />**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************<br />GERRY SPENCE IS A RENOWNED LAWYER AND PATRIOTIC AMERICAN WHO EVEN AT THE AGE OF 82, CONTINUES TO SHOW A KEEN INTEREST IN WANTING TO BETTER AMERICA FOR THE MASSES OF POORER AMERICANS BEING CAUGHT IN OUR UNDERFUNDED JUDICIAL SYSTEM.LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS THANKS YOU MR.SPENCE FOR TAKING YOUR TIME AND INTEREST IN SPEAKING THE TRUTH ABOUT A JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN NEED OF C*H*A*N*G*E&#8230;</p>
<p>** WE CAN ONLY HOPE AND PRAY OTHER AMERICAN LAWYERS AND JUDGES WILL FOLLOW YOUR LEAD SO THE PROPER FINANCING CAN BE ALLOCATED BY OUR IVORY TOWER US CONGRESS !</p>
<p>*** ANYONE INTERESTED CAN GOOGLE OR YAHOO GERRY SPENCE or LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICAN&#39;S ON THE WWW FOR MANY OTHER ENLIGHTENING HONEST ARTICLES.</p>
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		<title>By: DOUGLAS FIELD</title>
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		<dc:creator>DOUGLAS FIELD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SENATOR OBAMA,DOES GOD NEED TO LOBBY OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD FOR POORER AMERICAN&#039;S,OR ARE YOU WATCHING OUT FOR THEM ??&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;SURELY OUR US CONGRESS &amp; US SUPREME COURT BOTH KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATE MURDER &amp; A POSSIBLE EXECUTION IN GEORGIA NEXT WEEK ???&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD CONTINUE TO DENY MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION EVEN THOUGH WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS &amp; FALSE INCARCERATIONS CONTINUE ALL ACROSS AMERICA ???&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*** 700 BILLION $$$ AVAILABLE FOR US BAILOUT, &amp; NO $$$ FOR ALL POORER AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ???????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WHERE ARE AMERICA &#039;S RELIGIOUS LEADERS ??&lt;br&gt;SENATOR OBAMA, THIS JUDICIAL INJUSTICE HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM, AND NO LONGER CAN BE KEPT HIDDEN OR SECRET FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EVEN IF CERTAIN (501c3) U$ RELIGIOU$ LEADER$ HAVE BEEN $ILENCED ??&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;LETS ALL HOPE OUR MEDIA FRIENDS CONTINUE TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA&#039;S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL INJUSTICE CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK &amp; LATINO AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*** WHEN GOD&#039;S FACE BECAME VERY RED ***&lt;br&gt;THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !&lt;br&gt;THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****&lt;br&gt;The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus with our US FEDERAL COURTS and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!&lt;br&gt;***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:&lt;br&gt;1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE&lt;br&gt;MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.&lt;br&gt;** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com&quot;&gt;lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(424-247-2013)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SENATOR OBAMA,DOES GOD NEED TO LOBBY OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD FOR POORER AMERICAN&#39;S,OR ARE YOU WATCHING OUT FOR THEM ??</p>
<p>SURELY OUR US CONGRESS &#038; US SUPREME COURT BOTH KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATE MURDER &#038; A POSSIBLE EXECUTION IN GEORGIA NEXT WEEK ???</p>
<p>OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD CONTINUE TO DENY MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION EVEN THOUGH WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS &#038; FALSE INCARCERATIONS CONTINUE ALL ACROSS AMERICA ???</p>
<p>*** 700 BILLION $$$ AVAILABLE FOR US BAILOUT, &#038; NO $$$ FOR ALL POORER AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ???????</p>
<p>WHERE ARE AMERICA &#39;S RELIGIOUS LEADERS ??<br />SENATOR OBAMA, THIS JUDICIAL INJUSTICE HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM, AND NO LONGER CAN BE KEPT HIDDEN OR SECRET FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EVEN IF CERTAIN (501c3) U$ RELIGIOU$ LEADER$ HAVE BEEN $ILENCED ??</p>
<p>LETS ALL HOPE OUR MEDIA FRIENDS CONTINUE TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA&#39;S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????</p>
<p>WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL INJUSTICE CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK &#038; LATINO AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????</p>
<p>*** WHEN GOD&#39;S FACE BECAME VERY RED ***<br />THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????</p>
<p>**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !<br />THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.</p>
<p>****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****<br />The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.</p>
<p>Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.</p>
<p>This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.</p>
<p>This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!</p>
<p>Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus with our US FEDERAL COURTS and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!</p>
<p>For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.</p>
<p>It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.</p>
<p>This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!<br />***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!</p>
<p>A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:<br />1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE<br />MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.<br />** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !</p>
<p><a href="mailto:lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com">lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com</a><br />(424-247-2013)</p>
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		<title>By: Tahut</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tahut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Balance of Power (BoP)is what the republicans have set adrift from their party platform ever since Reagan. I suspect republicans aversion to oversight, the necessary component of BoP, is a political payoff to payoff to their big campaign donors. The current meltdown on Wall Street can&#039;t be summarized correctly without admitting lack of oversight and repeal of depression-era banking regulations were working hand-in-hand to breakdown the foundations of financial safety for the public in the financial markets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Balance of Power (BoP)is what the republicans have set adrift from their party platform ever since Reagan. I suspect republicans aversion to oversight, the necessary component of BoP, is a political payoff to payoff to their big campaign donors. The current meltdown on Wall Street can&#39;t be summarized correctly without admitting lack of oversight and repeal of depression-era banking regulations were working hand-in-hand to breakdown the foundations of financial safety for the public in the financial markets.</p>
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		<title>By: Web Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Web Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Things are looking great. Now since the government has decided to get into business, the first deal they make is to sell $400 billion of good WaMu assets to the Rockefellers for less than $2 billion. The next deal they make is to buy $700 billion worth of worthless assets in the hopes that house prices will grow back to amounts where no one can afford them or that inflation will be high enough to make the prices seem normal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now that the government is a business entity, does this mean we can do a turn around  and just fire the President and a bunch of Congressmen and Senators?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This was caused by the government being involved with private business.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ewebsmith.com/finance/thecause.html&quot;&gt;http://ewebsmith.com/finance/thecause.html&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Things are looking great. Now since the government has decided to get into business, the first deal they make is to sell $400 billion of good WaMu assets to the Rockefellers for less than $2 billion. The next deal they make is to buy $700 billion worth of worthless assets in the hopes that house prices will grow back to amounts where no one can afford them or that inflation will be high enough to make the prices seem normal.</p>
<p>Now that the government is a business entity, does this mean we can do a turn around  and just fire the President and a bunch of Congressmen and Senators?</p>
<p>This was caused by the government being involved with private business.</p>
<p><a href="http://ewebsmith.com/finance/thecause.html">http://ewebsmith.com/finance/thecause.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: butterman</title>
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		<dc:creator>butterman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey, i&#039;m no fan of welfare for wall street, but for the sake of anyone who has anything to do with this economy -- anyone who needs a job to get by, a loan to pay for a car or apartment or college, whatever -- something has to be done to make sure all the banks, and all the businesses and people who depend on them, don&#039;t go down the toilet.  YES there should be oversight, YES taxpayers should get a stake in every company the government buys shares in, AND those companies shouldn&#039;t be allowed to reward their executives with ludicrous salaries.  But if you want to keep your job and have your 401k be worth anything, it does seem like the government had better do something.  If no one has any confidence in our financial system, we all go down.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey, i&#39;m no fan of welfare for wall street, but for the sake of anyone who has anything to do with this economy &#8212; anyone who needs a job to get by, a loan to pay for a car or apartment or college, whatever &#8212; something has to be done to make sure all the banks, and all the businesses and people who depend on them, don&#39;t go down the toilet.  YES there should be oversight, YES taxpayers should get a stake in every company the government buys shares in, AND those companies shouldn&#39;t be allowed to reward their executives with ludicrous salaries.  But if you want to keep your job and have your 401k be worth anything, it does seem like the government had better do something.  If no one has any confidence in our financial system, we all go down.</p>
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		<title>By: galnyc</title>
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		<dc:creator>galnyc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know it&#039;s fun to complain but the markets right now have to be recapitalized, or else in the long run you and everybody else who needs credit or a loan or a mortgage or college tuition is going to be without recourse. This plan could possibly benefit everybody IF the gov&#039;t made the right deal and aggressively demanded real equity stakes. We shall see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know it&#39;s fun to complain but the markets right now have to be recapitalized, or else in the long run you and everybody else who needs credit or a loan or a mortgage or college tuition is going to be without recourse. This plan could possibly benefit everybody IF the gov&#39;t made the right deal and aggressively demanded real equity stakes. We shall see.</p>
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		<title>By: BillM</title>
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		<dc:creator>BillM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me get this straight. In 2006 – 2007 our investment banks and their whores, the sub prime, Alt-A and extremely high LTV mortgage brokers, were financing every loan they could sell, by any means and deception available. They were then bundling these loans into mortgage-backed securities, giving them AAA+ ratings and selling them to supposedly experienced and qualified investors. Now, at the same time, these same investment banks were securitizing loans one day as AAA rated MBS bonds, and then shorting them the next! And now, the very investment banks that created them call this residue “toxic assets”!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some short sellers of these MBSs made BILLIONS in commissions. in 2007. How do you make that much money shorting securities without destroying the collateral behind the bonds, in this case – mortgages, and when you think about it, it has to be ALL mortgages not just sub prime. But wait a minute!! Aren’t mortgages secured by real property? So how do you collapse mortgage values, across the board, without destroying the value of the real property securing them. Remember, ALL mortgages are bundled together, not just sub prime.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But here’s the part I don’t understand. Why do we have to buy this poison from these investment banks?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why not craft a plan whereby if credit is needed, the Fed just makes money available to regional banks for lending purposes only? Let the brilliant investment bankers clean up their own crap. Something else, these investment bank pigs have been feeding furiously at the Fed discount window (?). What did they do with these hundreds of billions of dollars? Buy boats, cars and other goodies!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One other little thing – did the investment banks create a blockage in the credit markets in order to hold the country hostage until the “best Congress money can buy” bails them out!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me get this straight. In 2006 – 2007 our investment banks and their whores, the sub prime, Alt-A and extremely high LTV mortgage brokers, were financing every loan they could sell, by any means and deception available. They were then bundling these loans into mortgage-backed securities, giving them AAA+ ratings and selling them to supposedly experienced and qualified investors. Now, at the same time, these same investment banks were securitizing loans one day as AAA rated MBS bonds, and then shorting them the next! And now, the very investment banks that created them call this residue “toxic assets”!</p>
<p>Some short sellers of these MBSs made BILLIONS in commissions. in 2007. How do you make that much money shorting securities without destroying the collateral behind the bonds, in this case – mortgages, and when you think about it, it has to be ALL mortgages not just sub prime. But wait a minute!! Aren’t mortgages secured by real property? So how do you collapse mortgage values, across the board, without destroying the value of the real property securing them. Remember, ALL mortgages are bundled together, not just sub prime.</p>
<p>But here’s the part I don’t understand. Why do we have to buy this poison from these investment banks?</p>
<p>Why not craft a plan whereby if credit is needed, the Fed just makes money available to regional banks for lending purposes only? Let the brilliant investment bankers clean up their own crap. Something else, these investment bank pigs have been feeding furiously at the Fed discount window (?). What did they do with these hundreds of billions of dollars? Buy boats, cars and other goodies!</p>
<p>One other little thing – did the investment banks create a blockage in the credit markets in order to hold the country hostage until the “best Congress money can buy” bails them out!</p>
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		<title>By: Cande</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cande</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We ae in our way to bail out wealthy executives.  They stole form the public under the watch of the secretary of trasure and now they want for us to bail them out.  I say that we began a national movement and sue them.  The top executives need to be held accountable.  More so, they need to go to jail!!&lt;br&gt;Let&#039;s take action and began a national class law suit.  We were not asked to cooperate.  We were told to do this.  And President Bush calls this democracy?  Unless we hold them accountable, they will do this again.  It is the same group of people taking advantage of the weak as thaye have always done.  If someone needs to do time is these lack of integrity and character mobsters of the present era, some even live in the white house while others work in wall street.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We ae in our way to bail out wealthy executives.  They stole form the public under the watch of the secretary of trasure and now they want for us to bail them out.  I say that we began a national movement and sue them.  The top executives need to be held accountable.  More so, they need to go to jail!!<br />Let&#39;s take action and began a national class law suit.  We were not asked to cooperate.  We were told to do this.  And President Bush calls this democracy?  Unless we hold them accountable, they will do this again.  It is the same group of people taking advantage of the weak as thaye have always done.  If someone needs to do time is these lack of integrity and character mobsters of the present era, some even live in the white house while others work in wall street.</p>
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