Modified from this Bail Bonds photo by Lance McCord and the US Capitol photo from Wikipedia
The problem with the Bailout Plan, according to the White House, is that it has the word "bailout" in it! Here's what White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto prefers us to use instead of the B-word:
To hear the White House tell it, one factor in the House vote yesterday against the administration’s bailout plan – was the word "bailout."
"It’s really unfortunate shorthand for a very complicated issue." says White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto. He says the administration plan to rescue the financial markets is "not a bailout for Wall Street" and "certainly not a bailout for Wall Street CEOs."
Okay then – what should we call it?
"It’s an effort to fix this problem of a frozen asset class that has implications over our entire economy," said Fratto at the daily White House press briefing. That certainly rolls off the tongue: "an effort to fix the problem of a frozen asset class."
the government was handing them subsidies.
"A May 2004 study by the Washington, DC-based Good Jobs First titled "Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never Ending Growth," found that the company has siphoned more than $1 billion in economic development subsidies from state and local governments across the country."
and
"...the Walton Family devotes a significant portion of its holdings to boosting conservative political candidates and a conservative social agenda centered on the privatization of public education."
(here is the article i found this in: http://www.mediatransparency.org/storyprinterfriendly.php?storyID=88)
@notfromconcentrate: i second that position.
what i find ironic about this whole thing is that they have been trying for over a week now to convince the american people that this "rescue plan" will give the economy the boost it needs to get out of the weeds, and are basically asking for us to support their spending of our dollars... if they had no problem with spending $7 trillion of our dollars on the war and such without our consent, why do they need our permission to spend another $700 billion?
He is trying to take 700 BILLION dollars and give it to the tax payers but indefinatley the upper class because of their poor decisions of buying and selling for ore and going bankrupt and screwing the economy for all of us so the plan is to hand them a big fat check and say here do what u want with it.
Second nature for these "upper class" will be to try and make a profit (again) screw up and then the economy goes down the shitter again and this time harder.