[CitizensTruth] It's time for All of us to weigh-in on global economic policy - NOW, before Bush grabs extreme powers over the economy

[Daniel Stafford]

All - we need to speak loudly and clearly now, in the pivotal moments of 
this artificially-induced economic melt-down.

I believe that the Fascists have engineered this crisis in order to 
implement an unprecedented economic power grab.

The calls by Democrats and others for oversight and a plan that serves 
and saves everyday people needs to be supported. If every voice is not 
raised, there will be unprecedented human suffering as the rich seize 
anything and everything they wish.

The powers that Bush and Paulson are asking to be granted to the 
treasury, unchecked by the Judiciary, are supposed to be held by 
Congress, NOT the Executive via a crony appointed by Bush. The risks are 
grave. Some are even calling this a subtle attempted economic coup to 
make Bush king for corporatist interests.

"*Bush administration seeks 'dictatorial power unreviewable by the third 
branch of government, the courts' 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1hr1v2FUeAg> *20 
Sep 2008 The Bush administration asked Congress for unchecked power to 
buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from U.S. financial 
companies in what would be an unprecedented government intrusion into 
the markets. *The bill would bar courts from reviewing actions taken 
under its authority*. "It sounds like [Treasury Secretary Henry] 
*Paulson is asking to be a financial dictator*, for a limited period of 
time,'' said historian John Steele Gordon, author... The *Bush 
administration seeks "dictatorial power unreviewable by the third branch 
of government, the courts*, to try to resolve the crisis,'' said Frank 
Razzano, a former assistant chief trial attorney at the Securities and 
Exchange Commission now at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Washington. [See: 
*Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 for deployment during 'civil 
unrest,' 'horrific scenarios' 
<http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/> *08 Sep 
2008.]"

http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Resounding-Bottom-Up-NO-by-Rob-Kall-080921-907.html

"William Greider | Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle
http://www.truthout.org/article/paulson-bailout-plan-a-historic-swindle
William Greider, The Nation: "Financial-market wise guys, who had been 
seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying 
explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded 
Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to the 
crisis: dump it all on the taxpayers. That is the meaning of the massive 
bailout Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has shopped around Congress. It 
would relieve the major banks and investment firms of their mountainous 
rotten assets and make the public swallow their losses - many hundreds 
of billions, maybe much more. What's not to like if you are a financial 
titan threatened with extinction?"

There are more, I couldn't begin to list them all.

We have all seen what Bush does when granted power. He mis-manages in 
ways that harm and kill people he and his crowd do not like. He 
disappears people that speak out against his methods and policies. He 
threatens anyone and everyone that even hints at getting in his way. He 
has a family history of supporting fascism going back to his grandfather 
working with the Nazis. Note that the definition of fascism is corporate 
control of the government. The U.S. is inches away from this. Do we want 
the trans-national corporations to have control of the U.S. purse? I 
think not. Nothing Bush and the people around him have done have been 
for the common man, they have all been for various corporate interests 
that stand to gain everything while the rest of us lose everything, even 
our basic freedoms.

We would be far better off to see an independent commission - truly 
independent of industry or political party - filled with experts in both 
economics and social policy and overseen by Congress and the Courts 
running any economic relief efforts, rather than handing such duties 
over to a Bush appointee.

I would suggest an immediate call for submissions focussed upon this 
issue, while there are a few moments left to speak up.

Petitions such as this one pasted below should be immediately 
distributed to all US Citizens on all of our lists. If the People do not 
speak now, they may never have another chance.

Regards,

Dan Stafford

Subject: No blank check for Wall Street.

Dear Friend,

Congress is on the brink of making a one-sided deal to give George W. 
Bush a blank check to bail out his pals - offering nearly (or perhaps 
more than) a trillion taxpayer dollars to Wall Street to cover its bad 
debts. That works out to somewhere between $2000 and $5000 from every 
American family. So what do the taxpayers get in return?

Nothing. No new regulation or oversight to help avoid this kind of 
crisis in the future. No public interest givebacks to help people whose 
homes are in the hands of the banks. Perhaps most shockingly of all, the 
taxpayers get absolutely no share in the profits if and when these 
finance giants bounce back, even though we are now assuming a great deal 
of the risk.

*This is worse than a bad deal - this isn't a deal at all. This is a 
blank check to some of the richest companies in the world.*

I just signed a petition calling on key members of Congress to impose a 
few sensible conditions to this bailout in order to protect the American 
people -- I hope you will too.

Please have a look and take action.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/no_blank_check/?r_by=-76391-IelSC.x&rc=paste 
<http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/no_blank_check/?r_by=-76391-IelSC.x&rc=paste> 


Thanks!


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