Why have The US House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan?
There is no rescue plan for the American people. The bailout is nothing less than the economic rape of the American people by the government and by big business. The rich get richer while hardworking Americans have less and less in their lives. Bush and McCain want to rob at least 700 billion dollars from hardworking Americans and their families to pay the salaries of all the super-rich fat cats on Wall Street. The middle class will essentially not exist any more if this thing ever passes. And, the criminals in Washington are co-conspiring with the criminals on Wall Street to see to it that our children, our grandchildren, and generations even further than that in the future will be reduced to virtual slavery in order to pay off this huge debt that the wealthy top 5% of the country has run up through CEO excess and criminal mismanagement. Let’s see some CEO’s get their salaries cut by two-thirds; let’s see their homes foreclosed and all of their belongings auctioned off. Let’s see thei