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Politics Unlocked Launches Bailout Rants

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by Carey Purcell

April 22, 2009

The team at Politics Unlocked is dedicated to giving you every opportunity to share your voice and let your opinions be heard. It is with great excitement that we are launching the newest addition to our site: Bailout Rants. You can see the new tab in our site menu above.

By calling a toll-free 1-800-BAILOUT, you can share your opinions on the government bailouts. Are you angry with the auto industry? Are you furious about AIG bonuses? Tell us about it! Free of charge and free of censorship, you can share your thoughts, unfiltered and unedited, for all to hear. Your rant will be saved in our library, so you can listen and rate other callers’ rants.

After you’ve finished your rant, you can receive a text messages with a link to your rant, so you can share it with your family and friends.

We invite you to take advantage of this digital soap box and to let your voice be heard!

COMMENTS & DISCUSSION (13) COMMENTS

J. Russo
Apr. 23, 2009
10:45 AM EDT

I was disappointed with the fiscal policies of the Bush adm. Too much spending on no-win wars while the US infrastructure crumbles. But Obama has go wild with unsustainable spending. We are still in wars that are gaining us a lot of enemies and costing us cash and lives. The economy is suffering due to over-taxation and over-regulation of businesses along with predatory "free trade" deals that make US companies non-competitive. We need an even playing field [tarrifs and enforcement of anti-slave labor laws] in order to preserve and grow our manufacturing base. As it stands, businesses are given giant incentives to move off-shore or go out of business. US consumers can't buy manufactured goods if they don't have a good job to pay for it. We must also audit and nationalize the Federal Reserve and return to Constitutional money instead of the current fiat money system in place. Our economy can't survive much longer with so much debt-based currency in circulation.

thomas freeman Apr. 23, 2009 10:45 AM EDT	our govemment went too the dogs now that obama is in office

Kwame Apr. 23, 2009 11:00 AM EDT	Wow this is a great idea! Is there a way to link to my comments?

George Richter
Apr. 24, 2009
11:15 AM EDT

Politicians only have two skills: 1) Getting elected. 2) throwing money at any perceived problems. Our economc problem is really a tribute to our success. We have built machines that allow a few workers to make all the goods we need. So we don't need everyone working. Our economic system is excellent in providing us with food and goods, and it is also excellent in urging efficiency in doing those things. Inefficient producers are eliminated. But in those times of self-correction, workers are not protected. Modify the system to fairly distribute all those goods that are in the stores, and all those cars in the dealers lots. And carefully keep the basic system that provides such fine products. Don't go socialist so the bureaucrats decide what is good and what we need.

Carl Murr Apr. 24, 2009 11:15 AM EDT	I am a patriot, and I love my country. I served in Vietnam. Under the Obama administration I would not serve. How can you have a commander and chief that is grabbing for all the power he can get, bypassing his own party to get what he wants and giving away the tax payers money to ultra rich people while out on people is dyeing to keep us safe.

Steven
Apr. 24, 2009
11:15 AM EDT

What the dim-witted among us don't seem to grasp is that Obama inherited the crater belonging to the biggest fiscal meltdown in the last 75 years. He's been in office for all of 100 days. It took the better part of 30 years (the last 8 have seen the most radical spiralling down of all this), since Reagan's boys ( meet the new boss; same as the old boss) declared war on the middle class for it all to come crashing inevitably down. Obama & the right-thinking people in the Democratic party (as opposed to the ones that aren't) have taken the first steps they are able to take to pull over & get us out from under all this. If you think it can happen overnight you are delusional. He's fighting intense political inertia & it's going to take time to undo all the evil left over from the previous administration(s).

Brenda
Apr. 24, 2009
11:15 AM EDT

This Whole Mess, has made me sick! These Fat Cats' waste Billions of dollars,While they themselves collect Millions ! Meanwhile, we poor ignorant people have to muddle through, from paycheck to paycheck ! Barely being able to feed and clothes our families, muchless Medical Insureance! Their lives won't change, however the middle class is being destroyed!! I am sick of being lied to by the President ( Obama OR Bush) on down through the Congress, The House and the Local Senators and Representitives! They are all out for themselves. Keep The People In The Dark And Stupid!! Look at Pelosi, Fienstiene, and others ,coniving for Power & Millions of dollars, while the average Joe Blow Citizen is suffering!! But, Ain't It The Way Now?? HUMPH! " Let Them Eat Cake"! Then There is our Financial Guru, Mr. Tim Gietner, My Good Lord In Heaven, How stupid is That?? The Man Cheated on His Own Taxes, Yet, He is Appointed As The Person Who Can Get Us Out Of This Mess! He is the Wolf in the Hen House!! How Bright is That?? You All.... No, A Good Many of you Line Your Pockets and Steal From The American Public, thinking you will get away with it and for the most part you do! The Businessness' that have failed, AIG, The Auto Industry, The Banking System, are all systemic of the Over All Dishonesty in our Financial, Business & Government !! Shame On You For Becomming So Bloated With Self Importance and Greed, That you are now destroying our Beloved USA!! " We The People" want You, The People Who Are Charged With Holding Our Country's Future and Legacy In Your Hands, to Honorable In Your Service To Your Country,Pollyannish Maybe, Also, to be held accountable for your actions. "We The People", Will Not Allow This Country to slide Into Socialism, Facism Or Any Other "ISM"! This Is The United States Of America, Not The Socialist States Of America!!!! I Was Unhappy with President Bush's job preformance, though I voted for him, and I am Scared To Death and Angry With Each Passing Day That President Obama Is In Office!! He Has The Unmitigated Gaul, To Say That America Has Been Arrogant and Dismissive to the World!!! He Couldn't Wipe The Boots Of President Lincoln, John F. Kennedy Or President Regan! !!! Oh .... I am so Furious, Obama Has, In Less Than 100 Days, Destroyed The American Dream and while he may have inheirited part of this mess, he Is In the Process Of Changing Our Government to a Socialistic System of Government !! Not While I Have One Ounce Of Blood In My Body, Will That Happen! Angry, Your Damn Right!!

Brenda
Apr. 24, 2009
11:15 AM EDT

To Carry on With My Rant, One Last Thought. Why Should The American People Continue to To Pay High Interest Credit Card Companies, When They Are Stealing Us Blind ? Another Scam To Break The Backs Of Americans! When I Pay Off My Crecit Cards, They Go Into The Trash!! My Husband And I Are Retired And Cannot Afford to Pay These High Interest Rates ,On Any Credit Card! Last Month, We Recieived Notice That Our 9% Rate Would Be Increased From The 9% To Repectively, 17.99% to 23.99%!! What!! We are in Good Standing With The Credit Card Company! Then, If You Have Late fees On Top Of That, Or Miss A Payment By a Few Hours' Or Days', I Am Sure The Fees Would Go Even Higher!! No, Not Going To Happen! We Cancelled Our Cards, OnThe Spot ! The Problem is, We As A People, Have Forgotten How To Live Like Our Grandparents And Our Children, Well, They Have Never Been Made To!! We, As American's Should Protest These Unfair Business Practices! Put Them Out Of Business If Necessary. America, This Is Our Country and "We The People Of The United States Of America" Stand To Loose Big Time In This Whole Situation! The American Dream Is In Danger Of Being Lost!

observer Apr. 27, 2009 10:15 AM EDT	Economy! What I need to maintain is a good attitude towards the economy. Why,because it helps me fullfill my basic constitutional right to to persuit of happiness. I have to have the belief that I can achieve and have what I need to make my life happy.

changwei-lu Apr. 27, 2009 10:15 AM EDT	our govemmemt had to open they eyes and ears we the people are not happy the way washington spending we the peoples money we the people must let washington kown enough is enough all i can say is "Tea Party"well be the only way to let our voice hear lets go american

Terry
Apr. 28, 2009
11:00 AM EDT

Maybe Politics Unlocked does not have all the 'bugs' worked out of this "ditgital soap box" yet ? I was very disapointed with it. Most of them were under 'content review'. "Free of censorship", "unfiltered and unedited, for all to hear" ?? I understand that a lot of people, angry with 'the other side', may not have developed the ability to express their anger in a way that will allow their opinion to be heard, not to mention seriously considered!! If you want to be heard, clean it up people, and keep it that way!! Maybe this is the real source of YOUR frustration. Uncensored, unfiltered, and unedited, does not mean, 'show your stupidity'. It means you 'can be' free to express your opinion 'for all to hear' (general public?) Way to go Politics Unlocked for protecting people from their own embarrisment, and keeping the discussion from degenerating into 'name calling' which doesn't prove anything, even if the name calling is true!!! Good comment Russo, I've never heard it described as a 'debt currancy' before but it's very describtive of what it is!!! The source of my frustration: levels of legal protection. ie. I have a close friend who is renting a house, the individual 'owner' of the house has hired a property management company to rent out the house and collect payments, (he or she lives in another state). The owner has a morgage on the house. The morgage company wants to get the money that is due them. The owner has not beening paying the morgage company, for some reason. The morgage company foreclosed on the house, and it is up for auction at the county sherrif's auction sale, nice and legal. It'll be up to the new 'owner' (when the house sells) what they do with the house, reguardless of any previous contracts reguarding the house. My friend has to continue paying the property management company, as per their contract, and they have to send a share to the original individual owner as per their contract. Who knows, that could be the money that he is having to use to feed his family now. My friend can not go to the morgage company and make payments to them on behalf of the owner (who seems to have disappeared) because it now has to go through the Sheriff. The Sheriff is charged with collecting the full amount now!!! End result? Once the house sells. The morgage company gets paid for the house plus lawyer expenses (legal protection of the system). The Sheriff gets their fees (it costs to uphold said protection, added to costs of the house). The agreement between the missing owner and the property management company just becomes void with no breach of contract. And the agreement between the property

R. L. Gilbert II
Dec. 17, 2009
10:45 AM EST

My first rant is that the rant-line does not work very well if it is actually working. Now for the real rant>>>>>>>>>>. The most pertinent rant is that no one has introduced or determined a prudent action to be taken against these bailed out institutions that would seem to think that they may be exempt from any recourse for their breeching of the peoples trust. I believe that they should be imposed upon to relieve themselves of the business which they cannot properly run, while they extort money from the people with their disressing, but would further distress the people. And to make matters worse, the government which the people are supposed to be able to trust in representing their monetary and moral equities cannot bring themselves to place the correct impositions on these companies/corporations. Make them feel the foot-falls of the intrusive nature or agression they have imposed upon the people as their own. Wouldn't that be fitting?

R. L. Gilbert II
Dec. 17, 2009
10:45 AM EST

I realize that 'a' premise of government is to posibly state a perpective of positive progression; but at whos expense, and at what cost, and further, to whom. In all of its seeming failings, a few of them may be the inability to work together in this time of havoc, and the indecision of its role as lead in representing the peoples interests against companies/corporations that would tend to think that they may use the governments indecisiveness to further extort money from the people and expect no recourse imposed for their actions.

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