It should be noted, that the first thing FDR did in 1933, was to bailout the banks. The Federal Reserve was instructed to get money to the banks, make those that were viable fully funded. The FDR version of TARP. That was in March of 1933. In May, FDR instituted is QE1, which was the injection of $3billion dollars into the economy backed by nothing but the credit of the US. In 2009 money, that is about $721 billion. That does not include the doubling of what the US would pay for gold, and the purchase of silver. It also did as much.

Tell it like it is: your income has gone down because government workers are paid a fair living wage. If we could only stop those government workers from being paid a fair living wage, you would make more money. I say, when a wealthy guy who lives in a gated community offshores your job to India, you should blame the schoolteacher who lives down the street from you. It doesn't have to make sense and it doesn't have to be true. Just blame who you are told to blame!

But when rich people create financial problems for America and those problems directly result in me making less money, I prefer to blame the firefighters. It's, like, totally their fault. If their trucks weren't red, I would still have my job.

And I will tell you why trillions of dollars in bailout money was given to the richest people in America. It's because policemen are paid a fair living wage. If policemen were not paid a fair living wage, the rich people would never have held America's economy hostage and demanded trillions of dollars in bailout money. Everyone knows this.

But we're not done yet, because all of the money in the Social Security fund has to be given to the Wall Street crooks who got all of the bailout money, because how can we fix Social Security unless we give all of the Social Security money to the crooks?

And there are only two more things that have to happen in order for America to return to her former glory as the boss of the entire world: all of the money in Medicare and Medicaid also has to be given to the rich people. I mean, it's not like we have any sick people in America. God loves America, which is why no one in America ever gets sick. So if someone does get sick in America, well, that's proof that they are not an American and that God doesn't love them, so why in the world would we give medical treatment to an illegal alien who God doesn't love?

And when all of these things are done, you will make more money as a salesman. I'm sure of it.

Presidents don't go after other aministrations. I think it has something to do with the each adminstration making the constitution their own personal joke. Mutally Assured Destruction!

I totally agree with you. Dick Cheney, who along with others in the Bush White House, lied in order to gt us into two wars that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, is a totally good person. I mean come on, it's not like God cares about those foreigners we have killed. In fact, God wants us to kill lots more of them. But when they kill one of us, oh, God just hates that. And don't get me started on those illegal aliens, because God hates them, too. He told me so.

As a small family owned electrical contracting business who always paid its bills on time for over 30 years and who's credit was cut off by Chase and US Bank anyway, and loss of income caused by customer bankruptcies, and countless hours spent dealing with angry creditors, and loss of credibility with employees, and loss of credibility with customers, and customer service that we no longer can provide in full due to reduced staff, and no credit line to manage cash flow, and a child ready for college with no help from his parents so he can register, and no health insurance for my wife who almost died in 2001 at the age of 41 from a heart attack caused by a blood clot, and the infinite stress caused by all of this that is killing me except for anti depressant pills that I think keep me alive in some way but still not alive as I recall in a former life when my teacher father had benefits that paid for me to go to a doctor when needed.

I remember when I started my electrical business in 1986 and did most of the installations myself with a helper when needed. I met with some union electricians and could not hire any of them since they expected more than I could possibly pay them. Now in 2012 I get resumes and calls from former union electricians who have no work anymore so they cannot afford to keep paying their dues.

I am a licensed supervising electrician, licensed electrical contractor and licensed general contractor in Chicago IL. It has always been a struggle to survive since I discovered along the way that contractors tend to be at the bottom of the feeding chain. Especially in the financial area but not limited to any type of humiliation that can be visited upon any person.

I always hope for better days to come. I no longer see any hope for anyone who works for a living.

Sincerely,

John Meyer

Meyer Electrical Construction Inc

Chicago, IL

Mr. Cheney will never face trial nor spend a moment in confinement any more than Kissinger has. I would also like to add that Cheney was the first Vice-President in our nation's history who refused to put his financial holdings in a blind trust. Those holdings included his Halliburton stock. After negotiating a very favorable Pentagon contract for Halliburton to provide "logistical support" to our armed services, he became their CEO in 1995. Lynne Cheney served on the board of Lockheed Martin from 1995 to 2001 and was paid millions of dollars from that defense contractor. According to Naomi Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism," when Dick Cheney left Halliburton to become Vice President, he received both stock options and Halliburton stock as part of his retirement package. He sold some shares making $18.5 million in profit. He held onto another 189,000 shares and 500,000 unvested options. Halliburton received billions in government funds in no-bid military contracts. Before the Iraq war, Halliburton stock was valued under $10.00 per share. Cheney finally sold his Halliburton shares three years after the start of the Iraq war for $41.00 per share.

Dick Cheney is not only a draft dodger and a war criminal, he is also a war profiteer. He and his wife made tens of millions of dollars off the blood of our troops fighting a war he and his financial allies invented for profit. Words are insufficient to for the treason he has committed and the profits he has made on the blood and sacrifice of others. He is a coward and a traitor. By the way, Donald Rumsfeld did the same thing with his Gilead Sciences stock. The Pentagon bought billions of dollars of Tamiflu from Gilead, Rumsfeld's prior employer, while he was acting defense secretary.

That's complete BS.

Maybe we could save lives by killing people - everybody who doesn't look like "us." We could just dispense with the nonsense of assuming innocence. That's been tried before - the Wehrmacht was ordered to bypass and isolate NW Russia and just starve the people to death during Operation Barbarossa. Napoleon wanted slave states to surround France so that enemies would have a formidable path if they wanted to get to Paris and its fine dining.

KSM was tortured incessantly. Hell, he might have even liked it - he mocked the agents who were doing it. All of the useful information that the FBI got from him was BEFORE the CIA started working him over. You get ZERO useful information to "prevent a death" when you have a guy in custody for years and try to force him to tell you what's going to happen tomorrow. You should look at the astrology page - it's usually just after the comics, and you don't have to feed or clothe it.

Cheney, Bush, Yoo, Bybee, Rumskull, Rice, Tenet, Gonzalez, and the rest of the bunch need to stand in the docket. Toss in Kissinger for good measure.

DICK CHENEY SELF- DOCUMENTED WAR CRIMINAL / PROFITEER

Picture this ......A Scrooge of a man obsessing about Halliburton second quarter earnings while a child somewhere crys himself to sleep night after night because Dad was out of work and decided to join the army and never made it back alive from Iraq.

Finally someone has awakened to the facts, George Bush should be tried not only as a war criminal, but also a traitor. Both of his wars have caused the present economic chrisis in this country. He did not even have the good sense to see what war did to Russia in Afghanistan, and not repeat the mistake here in the U.S. Alchida should write him a letter of thanks, for he did more damage to the U.S. than any Alchida operative ever could. None of the terrorists were from Iraq. I wonder how many jobs have been lost as a result of the previous leadership? It will take decades for us to recover from George, if ever.

I worked in your so called real world for almost 23 years before switching to a unionized public sector job 14 years ago. Guess what, I took a big pay cut and still come home tired, yes it's real work, but I'm treated with respect and am much happier. So maybe the answer for you would be the creation of more jobs like mine so you too could have one and experience Democratic Socialism instead of suffering big drops in pay everytime a few rich guys decide to do a hedgey bubble dance.

As Chicken Hawk in Chief we should never be surprised what little dicky is up to.

Regretfully we have entered a time of no reprisals against the true criminal element. I guess it's better business to incarcerate pot heads than those who piss on the Constitution for profit.

I expect Obama to continue doing as he has for the last year or more. He will continue to support the bankers and fold faster than an accordion when the real backbone is required. At the current time he's doing his best to make sure that none of the bankers face any criminal penalties for what they have done. He is pushing a solution which will only require them to pay fines which will be peanuts compared to what they have effectively stolen. He is doing much worse than Reagan did with the savings and loan debacle. Two years after Reagan deregulated the savings and loans and they collapsed he re-regulated them and over 1000 of the crooks wound up in prison. So how many of his buddies in Goldman Sachs will ever hear that steel door shut behind them?

Most assuredly the Republicans will try to defeat any job creating proposals that does not mean that the proposals both big and small should not be made and fought for. The bigger and harder the fight the better. If nothing else this will show that Obama has some spine and as the economy continues to crumble the Republicans fighting every job proposal will show where the problem lies.