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POPS"Wolf" Named to head $700 billion oversite buy out! With apologies to four-legged wolves - why Wolf? If it looks like a wolf, walks like a wolf, then the sheep - us - better look out. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Kashkari was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, where he led Goldman's IT Security Investment Banking practice, advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions. If being in charge of advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions is a qualification, then maybe he needs someone who specialized in selling bad mortgages as his aide!!
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POPSWhat makes these millionaires worthy of a bailout? More from the article: "I've been hearing from Republicans all my life about the virtue of capitalism and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps -- but it turns out the bootstraps have to come from the government and the government also does the pulling up? How is that capitalism?" I want to know why the government turned its back while the American auto industry was loosing its shirt to foreign automakers? And why didn't the government step in to stop our industries from moving overseas and leaving nothing but minimum wage jobs behind? These corporate welfare recipients who took advantage of a federal government that allowed an unregulated wholesale ripoff of their fellow Americans deserve to loose everything they own. American ingenuity will get us through this, but it will be a lot easier to do so without Bush and his gang digging the hole deeper while we are digging our way out.
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POPSEli's Manhattan:NYC Market Charges Customers 1.8% Energy Surcharge Zabar thought the surcharge would make people angry about the rising cost of energy. Instead, they're getting angry at him, forcing him to consider scrapping the surcharge altogether. At "Eli's Manhattan" customers are warned with big signs at the checkout counter. A 1.8 percent surcharge -- for rising energy and fuel costs -- will be added to their grocery bill. Shoppers at the upscale supermarket are used to paying more for groceries, but they aren't happy about the added charge. "I'm really angry about that," one person said. "I won't come back." "They're a giant rip-off," added another. "I think it's outrageous," came another reaction. "The prices here are already high, so it doesn't seem fair."
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POPSForum Mania I believe Pbforum was trying very hard to suck me into there Web of Fourms today....Wikiepedia says ..Upgrades can cost anywhere from $99.50/year to many thousands for enterprise deployments. In the Forum ( I noticed that most of the posts had been made at least 5 months ago...I felt as if I were the only one physically in there reading posts, and asking a few questions...I think there was one guy in their and he brought up the question of wanting his one domain. Do I sound suspicious to you....maybe I'm a tad bit paranoid. I wish I had never logged on with my Yahoo account...but they use that ID verification now...but it's funny Yahoo will not let me access another screen name (yahoo) to retrieve a domain that I bought almost 2 years ago....yahooooo right.
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POPSCEO's And Their Paychecks Disproportionate, outrageous, rip-off, shear greed, socking it to the people, billions lost to the "fair tax system" and Biden, Obama, McCain and the rest have no real answer, or do they? What a scam. When will people get really ticked off? What does it take?
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POPSRip off Britian The UK demands some of the highest prices while providing some of the worst services in the world.
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POPSThe Truth about Wal-Mart, continued Since that long thread of differing opinions about the 'Merikan Dream and Wally world where I was attacked as being a non-productive, lazy Hippie (untrue--I was a semi-productive, Happy Hippie), I found this interesting, informative Anti-Wally site....see if you can defend these charges about Wally's relationship with Communist/monopoly Capitalist China and the US consumer rip=off, Willie, Esundby, and the rest of you bozos who think I was some non-productive lazy Hippie all my life.
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POPSIndian Truat Fund Scandal- 1887 the US government took control of the properties and never paid a nickel for the oil, timber etc etc. 121 years of rip-off. Now a judge agreed to pay some. My question: Where are the billions, not millions?
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POPSS&L Scandal Tidbits * The rip-off began in 1980 when the government raised the federal insurance on S&L's from $40,000 to $100,000 even though the typical savings account was only around $6000. * Some of the seized assets were a buffalo sperm bank, a racehorse with syphilis, and a kitty litter mine. * James Fail invested $1000 of his own money to purchase 15 failing S&L's. The government reimbursed him $1.85 billion in federal subsidies. * It sometimes took over 7 years to close failing S&L's by the government. * When S&L owners who stole millions went to jail, their sentances were typically one-fifth that of the average bank robber. * The goverment bail out will cost the taxpayers around $1.4 trillion dollars when it is over. * If the White House had stepped in and bailed out the S&L's in 1986 instead of delaying until after the 1988 elections, the cost might have been only $20 billion. * With the money lost from the S&L scandals, the government could have provided
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POPSBig Pharma Drug Rip-Off Many of us knew this to be true but when it is written down in some article it packs an even greater punch! OUCH! We should all stop being so afraid of death, and dying for if it weren't for this fear, I believe, THEY (big pharma, physicians, medical "caretakers" etc.) COULD NEVER GET AWAY WITH ROBBING US OF OUR MONEY, HEALTH AND WELL BEING! :mad: More here http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/19/shocking-facts-about-the-pharmaceutical-industry.aspx and here: http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=327 and even more here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020805/newman20020725
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POPSGoodbye To Rip-Off Britain Another excellent Martin Samuel rant. Not sure how resonant this piece will be with anyone who hasn't lived there, but as an economic peep show, Britain is dpressingly like watching a train wreck...
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POPSNew IR laws pass Lower House The death of another system attempting to make the lot of the worker worse. The greedy bastards are all recording record profits while complaining that they have to pay it's slaves to live.
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