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rubber Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

rubber bullets (2); Rubber stamp (1).

New Deal 2.0 Fri 2010-07-16 18:16 EDT

The G20 Plan for Prosperity: Rubber Bullets and Shredded Social Safety Net

Paul Jay

The Toronto G-20 summit sent a message to poor and working people in Europe and North America. ``You will pay for the global financial crisis through cuts to your social safety nets. There will be no taxing of those who actually caused the crisis and made fortunes in the various bubbles over the last decades.'' ...This was bad enough. But there was another message, too, sent through the Canadian police: ``If you don't like it, how about a rubber bullet?'' It looks like G-20 countries will deal with opposition to their plans through martial law and police brutality...

0; G20 planned; new dealing 2; prosperity; rubber bullets; Shredded Social Safety Net.

Blog entry Tue 2009-10-13 20:30 EDT

Movement To Block Bernanke Gathers Steam

Isaiah J. Poole

The renomination of Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve should not be rubber-stamped by the Senate until Bernanke and the Fed are more transparent and accountable to the public, says a growing coalition of activists roused by Reps. Alan Grayson and Ron Paul, who have asked the Senate to put a hold on Bernanke's nomination...all it takes is for one member of the Senate to object to moving Bernanke's nomination to the floor of the Senate. The tactic of placing a hold on a Senate nomination has been frequently used by Republicans against Obama administration appointees for for less consequential reasons than what is happening with trillions of taxpayer dollars in the name of staving off the next Great Depression. What's unclear is whether a member of Congress will be bold enough to stand up to Wall Street and to what William Greider calls "the temple."

Block Bernanke Gathers Steam; blog entry; movement.

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