Team of Zombies

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• Reader Comments (4)

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  If this is all true, it is extremely depressing. How can any of the appointees think outside the box if they have never been outside of it themselves?

  Posted by kevin pearson on Feb 6, 2009 at 2:00 PM

  BINGO!
  We got a team of Zombies from President GUMBY.

  So far Obama has proven to be FLEXIBLE in his appointments and is BENDING OVER BACKWARD to accommodate Wall Street interests. And is SOFT on all those “honest mistakes” in unpaid taxes.

  [Side note: Since 2006, when Geithner was informed of his “$34,000 “mistake” the IRS has hassled me twice on my tax returns —both of which I was finally found to be accurate and both of which cost me out of pocket to prove.]

  Now a tax dodger is going to running the IRS show.

  Obama’s idea of getting tough on the big bank CEOs is to put a $500,000 salary cap on them.

  Hey, how about taking back the big bucks they got for causing all this grief! Anyone else, in any job would have been on the street for such performance.

  This guy is all mouth… but no teeth.

  Posted by whattheheck on Feb 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM

  Obama has made some very positive changes since day one. The obstacles that he faces are huge. The legacy of theft from the poor to give to the rich from Bush & Co is horrific. Of course, that is only a surface scratch compared to all of the other things they did that Obama needs to correct.

  Posted by kevin pearson on Feb 6, 2009 at 6:51 PM

  This economic debacle Started way before Bush (not to excuse his particpation and enablement) and neither the Bush team — Paulson, Bernanke, etc. nor Obama’s is addressing the fraud perpetuated on the American public.

  Rubin as Sec of Treasury presided over the removal of the Glass Seagall Act.

  Paulson went to congress and managed to boost Goldman Sachs and others ability to margin from 20:1 to 40:1!
  (He also was allowed a $200 million tax exemption on sale of $500 million GS shares.) He immediately rescued his Wall St. buddies with TARP 1 at our expense.

  Barney Frank (whose lover was an exec with Fnnie Mae and contributed $48,000 from Fannie to Barney’s campaigns) allowed the top guys and board members to change their pay to percentage of loans issued — Can anyone say conflict of interest?

  Gaithner worked hand in hand with Paulson iin the TARP set-up.

  The perps are from both sides of the isle and go back decades in the legalizing of the scam they were all benefiting from.

  Obama is doing nothing to create “Change we can believe in.”

  I’m just glad I don’t have young kids. How do you teach honesty and ethics and respect for government today?

  This is a truly sad time.

  Posted by whattheheck on Feb 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM

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