The American Government belongs to the Rich & Powerful - Lock, Stock & Barrel. Both Republicans and Democrats are inextricably tied by the Apron Strings of the "Have Mores". The System, not just the Enablers, needs to be changed.

USA must increase Tariffs on imported products such as automobiles, electronics, clothing and foodstuffs, which are grown domestically. The Reason is to give American products a "Fair Chance" in America! Yes, PROTECTIONISM IS GOOD, NOT 4-LETTER WORD!

These are "Old Tricks", gussied up to deceive 21st century Dupes. We fall for Red Capes, Trojan Horses & Naked Emperors. Americans have always been Suckers for "Skin Game". Now it's been REVERSED! Great White Father replaced by Great Black Pacifier!

This 'option', concocted by Banks to Skim Money off the top of Unemployment Compensation, robs the Poor to give to the Rich. Add this group to Mortgage Defaultees, Payday & College Loans, victimized by these Reverse Robin Hoods!

Michael Parenti, author of 'Democracy For The Few' & 'Super Patriotism', "Free-market corporate Capitalism is, by its nature, a Disaster waiting to happen". - Tabacco: Only Have-Mores and absolute fools praise Capitalism!

3,000 lobbyists won deregulation and other policy decisions that led directly to the current financial collapse, according to a 231-page report issued by Essential Information and the Consumer Education Foundation.

BEN STEIN: It's giving what Wall Street likes, shooting fish in a barrel, something for nothing. Federal government lends money to big banks, bond funds, other lenders, other investors, and says, we will guarantee the results. How can they go wrong!

AIG Exec, James Haas, "I feel horrible. This has been a complete invasion of privacy" - Haas' 24-year neighbor Jean Wieson, angry re $millions in bonuses, credit-default swaps, $170 billion to prop up AIG, "It makes me absolutely sick".

T.I.N.A. (There Is No Alternative) usually leads to WRONG SOLUTIONS! The reason is Capitalists focus on Profits for the Few, not universal good. If you did that, you'd have no pet, your children would not exist, and your wife would divorce you.

AMY GOODMAN: The Obama government has assured Salvadorans it would work with any leader elected, a departure from the Bush administration, which in 2004 threatened to cut off aid to El Salvador if the FMLN won.

Was Jesus really the only Son of God, or was he an egomaniac with a death wish, whose primary purpose was his own historical legacy? Church has opposed GOJ for 1700 years to avoid hearing that question. Did Jesus commit Virtual Suicide?

"If you give me this, I will vote for that" - That is what 'Democracy' calls 'COMPROMISE'! That means you get 2 Earmarks, not 1! Without 'Earmarks', we get NO LEGISLATION AT ALL! "Having your cake and eating it too" doesn't work!

IN THE 1980s, Gore Vidal observed of Reaganomics: "The US government prefers that public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich."

PETER ORSZAG, "Paul Ryan, GOP Sr. on House Budget Comm. proposed Tax Cuts, $3 Trillion for Wealthy & Corps, Medicare system, when you turn 65, you're given a check & then you're on your own & privatized Social Security- I'm not making this stuff up!"

Juan Cole, "The Republican Party that Nixon invented melded the moneyed classes of the Northeast with the white evangelicals of the South. This odd couple went on to simultaneously steal from and oppress the rest of us." -Correct! But I didn't say it

Tabacco: Prisons are BIG BIZ in America! Some 'prison towns' would not exist except for local PRISON. Some of you may believe that is reason enough to maintain the high prisoner concentration - the rest of us are fair-minded human beings.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped below 7,000 for the first time in eleven years. The CIA has acknowledged it destroyed ninety-two videotapes documenting harsh interrogations of prisoners held by CIA. Steele & Limbaugh Spar Over Leadership

ATTENTION, PRESIDENT OBAMA! Van Jones, "There is no such thing as a Tooth Fairy; there is no such thing as Unicorns, and there is no such thing as CLEAN COAL!" - Obama's 2/24/09 Speech promoted that ethereal, non-existent "CLEAN COAL"!

CHARLES BARRON, "When Rupert Murdoch apologized, it was 'ouch', like 'I'm hurting!' He apologizes, makes people think that's what we did this thing for. Martin Luther King didn't boycott buses for an apology; he boycotted them buses for a change!"