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Peter P
2009 Feb 23, 5:37am
What about George Bush, did he have an effective secretary of the treasury?
No.
justme
2009 Feb 23, 7:10am
The media is getting completely snowed about what is the real issue with public ownership of the banks.
Right this moment some dude from Financial Times on PBS Newshour with Gwen Eiffel prattling on about how this is a question of how and whether the public will own the banks.
It is not. The real question is how much the public will pay for the ownership. The whole discussion of "nationalization" is just a smokescreen and a decoy to avoid attention on the much more important topic: How much is the public going to pay for their.
The market cap of Citi today is 11.66B. Converting the preferred shares would imply paying 45B-11.66B=33B too much.
Spread the word. The MSM is completely snowed by the "Nationalization/Socialism" angle. They need to keep their eyes on the ball, for the taxpayer.
thenuttyneutron
2009 Feb 23, 7:11am
Justme,
This is why I now support nationalization. It was far better to let them fail and just watch the train wreck from the sidelines. As a tax payer we now have a dog in this fight. I support the complete annihilation of all the shareholders, debt holders and employees of Citi bank.
I want the debt holders to be left with nothing so true market risk is brought back to the economy. This crap of saving other people by backstopping them pisses me off. I would rather face the crazy times post massive bank failure than see those people get any more of my money.
-TNN
justme
2009 Feb 23, 7:18am
TNN,
We agree. The problems is that Geithner is pulling a Paulson on us, AGAIN !!
Fight back!
Don't buy, DON'T RENT, live with relatives, save every cent!
Every time you use a credit card, you enrich your enemies.
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Americans are enslaved and controlled when they submit to mortgage debt.
The government is not only a willing participant in this enslavement of Americans, it actively seeks to sacrifice American lives to the banks, which live on mortgage debt. All government "affordability" programs drive up prices and increase debt:
The mortgage interest deduction, which fools buyers into spending a dollar on interest to save 30 cents in taxes
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the FHA, which push the promise of enslavement onto taxpayers after the inevitable defaults
The trillion dollar bailout, which forces us to pay for our neighbor's foolish mortgage
What we need is less mortgage debt. What is the most effective way to tell the government we are not fooled? What is the most effective way to tell them we want less debt, lower prices, and no more false and harmful "affordability" programs designed to trap us in more debt?
Patrick
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