i just got to say if we are to cut spending, then WHY dont they do it from the top? they always hit the poor and middle class. those in the white house what ever there job cut there pay to match are"s, get it to at least 10$ a hr and see how long they will last at a job or how long they will hang on to it. and those purks//// heck they cost alot get rid of them

I believe there IS hope if we were to open up the offshore accounts and collect the back taxes that were never paid with the interest accrued from the birth of the account to today. Tax evasion is a felony, for all of you sho feel this would not be a nice thing to do, it is the Treasury's money sitting in those accounts, the "Gipper" had already 30 years ago reduced the taxes on the ridh and wealthy by 70% and 3 hears later we were in the second deepest recession in history for the time, which should have told us, "NO, we cannot survive without the taxes from the rich and wealthy, but even still, they did not pay that measly 30%, stashing their cash into offshore accounts faster than you can say Mercedes Benz. Let the Republicans get over it, we need all their back taxes, and stop blaming everything on us Melting Middle and Working Poor classes, for having children who need an education so they can make enough money to handle the cost of running the country when they retire, because they'll accept that you can't squeeze blood out of a stone, like the Republicans want to, and they will catch up with the back taxes from those offshore accounts. It's only a matter of when. Be smart, do it now, and maybe they will give you a break, like house arrest, and not stick you in a cell, like Mr. Snipes. That right there is what we have to do. The "Gipper" showed us what happens when you stop taxing the rich and wealthy as they should be, higher than the Melting Middle and the Working Poor. And Minimum Wage must be raised to better the poverty level, that is clear, we cannot expect our own workers to work for below poverty level wages when we would shout out loud about another country doing the same thing and call it a Human Rights Issue, the pot calling the kettle black. Let us live up to the image we have of ourselves, fine, upstanding, CHRISTIAN Americans, and not have the CEO making 262 times the average worker as of 2005 when in 1965 they were making 24 times the average worker and w're not talking about the lowest paid workers here, (1996, Economic Policy Institute, Lawrence Mishel, "CEO-to-worker pay imbalance grows"). You must now see that we have a problem, Houston, and it's called GREED. We cannot have the Richest Aericans deciding if it's ok to have 36 in their Kindergarten or 52 kids in a thrid grade classroom, Samsula Elementary, Florida. We know they are going to say NO NEW TAXES, ok, then let us have all your back taxes from your offshore accounts, that's even better, then you will wish you had said oh, sure let's raise the taxes on the rich and wealthy, but when the smart people in Washington begin thinking about those old offshore accounts because the people are screaming "you can't take back the class size amendment, too late, our kids are not going to grow up to be ignoramuses" well its payback time, boys, and Dr. Doom can go back into his cave, because he underestimates the morality and ethics of our government, especially when it comes to our children, they cannot vote now, but give them time, and every time the children have to share books and ask why, well you don't think the teacher are going to cover up for you, they are going to say it like it is, and when there are no field trips anymore, and they had to cut out art and music and PE, and the kids ask why, you done think the teachers are going to tell them stories, do you, you are building your own graves. We do have the money for quality education, it just sitting in other people's offshore accounts, let's tell it like it is. This depression need not last one more day if the back taxes on those accounts were paid, and you know it and so does Dr. Doom. He's just so sure we'll never get it out of you...you know what, people who turn in suspected tax evadors get 10% of the total booty, and the IRS and Treasury get 90% of what they would never otherwise would have seen. That's 10% folks...just think about it. It's legal or the IRS wouldn't be advertising it on their web site, it ethical because if you can help the IRS collect this money you are helping a nation in economic distress, and it is moral, just ask yourself, would God want me to help the Treasury to bring our country back up on it's feet? I don't think I have to tell you the answer to that. Well, stash up your morals in that old black bag and talk, talk, talk.

I can see he is a aprt of doom and gloom polictics and we all know when that was started about eight years ago! need i say more!

to Magymay.. or whatever your screen name is.. When the planes hit the towers and the towers blew up, or exploded and fell,, or what ever you want to call it, the people in the towers burned to death. Their ashes spread all over that area, for blocks and blocks. Don't you get it ??? The place is a cemetery for God's sake !!! It is not about the right to build a cultural center and mosque.. It is about descecrating the area where THOUSANDS died. This was a horrendous thing for New Yorkers and all Americans. The place should be a garden for meditation, perhaps.. but nothing else. Can't we treat those people whose lives were taken from that in the hideous manner with some dignity. You need to put yourself in the families place and re-think. Sure. They CAN built the center, but SHOULD they?? Don't we have any decency left at all in this country?? Is there nothing sacred ???????????????

Unpaid TARP bailout funds received not paid back thus far is $344.1 billion. Of that unpaid TARP money $148 billion is due from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; $48 billion is due from AIG; $69 billion is due from the auto companies; $14 billion from the four largest banks (B of A, Wells, Citibank and Chase); and $65.1 billion is due from 830+ other TARP money recipients. It certainly looks different when you study the analyzed results versus your own opinions, doesn't it?

Hello? Anyone? This situation we find ourselves in, is soooo beyond anything about party politics. It is wholly and totally about a world economy that will assure a wider separation of class, and guarantee to bring the people of the United States to our knees. Why else have the “checks and balances” allowed all the things to take place that have us in this mired economy? They gave it to us a teaspoon at a time, and we swallowed it. Consider these few facts (there are so many more): Zero tax on imports. “Managed” health care. Mosque on GZ. Look at the big picture here, and tell me is there anything left that is sacred? I have NEVER been a radical person, but am beginning to feel a need to overthrow this government. Though admittedly, I am afraid of a Chinese take-over. I pray, the Lord help us!

CLOWARD-PIVEN....Exactly as planned.

These weaker banks should be weeded out if their managers were greedy enough to make risky loans to people with bad credit and no money down. It's survival of the fittest.

He is right, their will be massive bank failures. But the vast majority of banks that are in real trouble are very small and probably should have never been chartered in the first place. They are mainly located in small towns across America and service the blue collar and below economic ladder. These are the uneducated and unskilled people who don't have a pot to piss in and who are experiencing very high unemployement rates. They never had very good credit to begin with, and now they in big trouble financially. Unfortunately, a lot of these banks made loans on the "good ol boy" system and the "good ol boys' are defaulting. I have four of these banks in a small town near where I live. They escaped federal regulators because they were so small, but now they are calling attention to themselves because of their financial difficulties.

PS: If you are wondering where the bulk of the unpaid money is, it is Fannie Mae, Fannie Mac, Aig, the auto companies and hundreds of medium and small sized banks.