You know where that very important $700-billion figure came from?

Here's a quote from that Forbes story:

"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

They made it up to be sufficiently ginormous to frighten everyone into rapid action.

And it worked.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/bailout-plan.html

*EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD, I'VE ALWAYS HAD A
> > FEAR OF SOMEONE UNDER MY BED AT NIGHT. SO
> > I WENT TO A SHRINK AND TOLD HIM . .
> >
> > 'I've got problems. Every time I go to bed I
> think
> > there's somebody under
> > it. I'm scared. I think I'm going crazy.'
> >
> > 'Just put yourself in my hands for one year,'
> said
> > the shrink. 'Come talk
> > to me three times a week and we should be able to get
> rid
> > of those fears.'
> >
> > 'How much do you charge?'
> >
> > 'Eighty dollars per visit,' replied the
> doctor.
> >
> > 'I'll sleep on it,' I said.
> >
> > Six months later the doctor met me on the street.
> 'Why
> > didn't you ever come
> > to see me about those fears you were having?' he
> asked.
> >
> > 'Well, Eighty bucks a visit three times a week
> for a
> > year is an awful lot
> > of money! A bartender cured me for $10. I was so happy
> to
> > have saved all
> > that money that I went and bought me a new
> pickup!'
> >
> > 'Is that so! With an attitude he asked . . . and
> how,
> > may I ask, did a
> > bartender cure you?'
> >
> > 'He told me to cut the legs off the bed! -
> Ain't
> > nobody under there now ! !
> > ! '
> >
> >
> > SCREW THOSE SHRINKS.. GO HAVE A DRINK & TALK TO
> YOUR
> > BARTENDER! *

How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates

The Obama and McCain campaigns jointly negotiated a detailed contract dictating the terms of all the 2008 debates. This includes who gets to participate as well as the topics raised during the debates. But the contract remains secret and the Commission on Presidential Debates, a private corporation created by the two major parties, has refused to release the contract to the public.

Open Debates is a non-profit committed to democratizing the presidential debate process. Last month Open Debates and nine other pro-democracy groups called on the Commission to make the contract public.



http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/2/no_debate_how_the_republican_and

Tax wealthy to pay for bailout

http://therealnews.com/idirect.php?i=2478

"...There's help for film and TV producers, motorsports and the wool trust fund. There's even a tax break for makers of wooden practice arrows for children...."

Dont know if I misssed it but where the hell is the relief for the guy who is about to have his house foreclosed? Wasnt that the core of this problem?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20923.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20925.htm

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10430