Bail-out a Huge Swindle

Is there anyone alive in America who has not heard that the Bush administration wants the American people to fork over at least $700 billion to the very Wall Street firms who brought us this financial mess? Zogby polling service says only 46% of Americans support some sort of bail-out, and an equal number oppose a bail-out. It is indeed infuriating that the Bush administration is more worried about Wall Street bankers, financiers, and crooks, than about the average person who is the victim of Wall Street greed. And who says we need these people, anyway? We can do just fine without them. With direct help to homeowners and a shoring up of traditional banks, plus an emergency re-instatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, much could be done immediately to begin to restore American and world confidence.

But this is not the Bush agenda. The Bush agenda is to put the greed of huge corporate donors ahead of the America people! The average person knows this and resents it. It is time to break the strangle-hold of corporate dominance of American economic, cultural and political life by removing the rights of personhood under the law -- a phony concept -- which corporations have enjoyed for over one hundred years. It is time to return American government to being a government of, by and for the American people. We can do this! Let us rise to the occasion!