No Bailout!

It looks like Congress is about to stick us poor taxpayers with the $700 billion bailout of the fatcats on Wall Street -- tonight.

Citizens contacting their representatives and senators were 100 - 200 to 1 against the first bailout bill, and that's why it failed to pass. Now is the time to call your Congress person and tell them no again. Otherwise, they'll sell us down the river.

No economist has made the case that if this bill does not pass, we will suffer 10 years of double-digit unemployment like we did during the Depression. But politicians and Wall Street bankers all throw the word "Depression" around to cow the taxpayers in fear, even though there is no evidence we are facing such a thing.

If this bill passes, once again the wealthy gamblers on Wall Street will make out like bandits, not learn their lesson, and continue their greed-filled business as usual while we taxpayers and out children and our grand-children get stuck paying the bill. And because Wall Street didn't have to feel the pain and pay the piper, this same mistake and cycle will happen all over again before the 22nd century. Will the taxpayers get screwed again then?

Tell your Congressman: vote no on this $700 billion bailout bill!

Stanek ever less popular

Stanek's self-promotional video just keeps making people unhappy. The Star Tribune is reporting that private e-mails it obtained from City Hall contain numerous criticisms of Stanek and the video by Minneapolis Chief of Police Tim Dolan and Mayor R.T. Rybak. They challenged Stanek's accuracy in recounting what happened during the recovery phase.