vrijdag 26 september 2008

Maarten Schinkel van de NRC 13

Maarten Schinkel, de commentator van de NRC en alle andere opiniemakers moeten nu opletten. Lees het Maarten,

'Bailout Backlash: Five Surprising Things That Happened on Thursday
By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. Posted September 26, 2008.

Protests on Wall Street ... White House pow-wow flops ... Bailout plan implodes ... Obama will attend debate ... McCain's suspended campaign stunt. Even news junkies had a hard time keeping up with a flurry of events on September 25 on Wall Street, Washington and the presidential campaigns. Here's a round-up of what happened:
1. Outrage over the bailout spreads across the Internet and to Wall Street
The Internet is flooded with angst about Treasury Secretary Paulson's proposed $700 billion bailout:
A lot of the online rage is channeled in the form of signatures on petitions and electronic letters to members of Congress. Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vt.) is circulating a popular one on the left-wing blog Huffington Post. The 1.9-million member Service Employees International Union is also circulating a sign-on letter to Congress that reads in part: "No deal. No blank check." StopTheHousingBailout.com reasons: "A bailout tells responsible Americans that they are suckers."
The anger is coming from right-leaning groups as well. The National Taxpayers Union's "No More Bailouts!" petition reads: "Bailouts that keep mismanaged organizations afloat delay natural corrections to unsound business practices . Enough is enough. No more bailouts. Not with my tax dollars."
The conservative site townhall.com features a similar petition. Right-wing blogger Patrick Ruffini, meanwhile, urges Republicans to vote against the bailout, since "God Himself couldn't have given rank-and-file Republicans a better opportunity to create political space between themselves and the Administration."
And as Steven Wishnia reports for AlterNet, protesters took to New York's financial district:
Enraged by the prospect of $700 billion of their taxes going to reimburse Wall Street speculators for their dubious investments, about 500 protesters paraded through Lower Manhattan's financial district Thursday afternoon, their chants of "You broke it, you bought it" reverberating through the narrow office building canyons and off the flag-draped wall of the New York Stock Exchange.
2. White House pow-wow flops...'

1 opmerking:

Anoniem zei

Is dit waar Bush naar gewerkt heeft om zo Martial Law te kunnen afkondigen ?
Hij heeft nog slechts ruim 1 maand het Presidentschap van Amerika.

Enne als deze onderhandelingen op niets uitlopen kan hij verkondigen dat het hier een zaak van Natinaal belang gaat (The US economie is bedreigd) en kan zo de macht grijpen.

Peter Flik en Chuck Berry-Promised Land

mijn unieke collega Peter Flik, die de vrijzinnig protestantse radio omroep de VPRO maakte is niet meer. ik koester duizenden herinneringen ...