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‘Colbert Report’: Take Out Your Pitchforks

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Posted on Mar 17, 2009
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What’s to be done when companies that received major bailouts from taxpayers turn around and brazenly offer beaucoup bucks to the executives who helped put us in the hole in the first place? Here are a couple suggestions by way of an answer: Pitchforks! Angry mobs!

Colbert Nation:

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By freedom loving american, March 20, 2009 at 11:31 pm Link to this comment
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This is such an overt act of theft and the MSM has tried so hard to cover up and convolute the simple scam it sickens me and saddens me at the same time. 

When hacks come up with that lame excuse,”these are legal contracts” that can not be broken, that is so disingenuous I do not know what to say.  Wage agreements are broken or renegotiated all the time during economic downturns.  When companies go broke pension contracts are destroyed. This crazy argument that these unregulated phony money CDS, and CDOs, created for the super rich can not be broken is insane.

Give them .01% on the dollar and them them we won’t through them into Guantanamo as terrorist trying to detroy this great nation.  If they don’t like that then simply freeze everything till it is sorted out and everyone guilty of defrauding these innocent homeowners is jailed. 

Remember way back last century to the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.  This was way back when George bushes daddy George bush was president.  Way back then the savings and loans went through a very similar type of melt down, however, that only cost the taxpayers a few hundred billion dollars. At that time more regulations and safe guards were apparently put in place so it would not happen again.  So what happen; in 1999 Phil Gramm, Alan Greenspan and the same republican cabal deregulated the banking industry. We had barely finished paying of the S&L debacle, for crying out loud. 

It is so sad bush family is so unlucky to have been presidents while these two events transpired.  What is even sadder is Neil Bush worked at one of those big savings institutions that lost about 2 billion dollars I believe he later got a job as a defense contractor for his brother.  John McCain’s main supporter Charles Keating were also involved in the meltdown. The MSM never bothered to ask McCain about his involved in both scandals because Obama’s lapel pin issue took front stage. 

I realize most of the hoopla recently has been about the AIG bonus contracts. But we need stay focused on the big picture.  Uncovering this fraudulent scheme the MSM refuses to report the truth about before it is too late.

Thank god for a few thruth seeking internet site!

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By Margaret Currey, March 19, 2009 at 6:27 am Link to this comment
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Obama said we need change and change must start at the top, I think that lobbyist might be needed but not to the point that Corporate elites own the United States, Too big to fail has now going to give the crooks a bonus even if they did not earn them.

Maybe the French Revolution idea is now here in America.

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By Stephen Smoliar, March 18, 2009 at 8:58 am Link to this comment

My own inclination has been for tar and feathers:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2009/03/chief-apology-officer.html

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By Purple Girl, March 18, 2009 at 6:47 am Link to this comment

As a lif long Dem- Supporter of Obama- Summers and Geitner MUST GO!!!!
Replace them with Reich and Krugman.
I was willing to give them a chance to redeem themselves- but they ahve proven they are not telling US where the bodies are buried and certainly not Who put them there. In fact they are perpetuating the mayhem. Enough of this BS.
In fact Summers and Geitner should be facing the same criminal investigations these other Traitors should be convicted of.Summers helped build the legislation in the Conspiracy to Commit Economic Treason and Geitner let it happen during his reign in NY.
Summers is right we are a nation of Laws, but contractual law does not override crimainal Laws- So Go after all these players under the RICO Statues. They embezzled and laundered money, then Extorted more from the American people claiming the nation would go down in Flames if these Corps didn’t get bailed out. In fact those who demand the insiders get ‘Retention’ Bonuses because they are need to fix the problems are only compounding the Exortion. No Bonus, won’t help? No Bonus you won’t do Your Job? No bonus ( or even with a bonus) You’ll Leave to some luxury island safe haven? sounds like Treason to me when our entire solvancy rests on our ability to pull out of this economic nosedive.
Contractual agreements mean nothing when High crimes are involved- except as proof of complicity and collusion in the conspiracy. Prosecute these people for What they are an organized Crime Syndicate with aspiration of Economic Collapse of the US and the World economy. Which then constitutes Crimes against Humanity.

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By Outraged, March 18, 2009 at 12:10 am Link to this comment

Just one thing Colbert…. you need to SHARPEN the tongs first… this is an important step and not to be taken lightly.

We certainly can’t have a good pitch forkin’ rally with pitchforks right off the shelf…. c’mon there’s a measure of finesse to be considered here.  Gee Willikers…. I can’t believe you forgot that part.

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