Insurance...GIVE US A BREAK! Just Say No To Bailout

Daddy WarBucks Is Laughing All The Way To Bank With This Bill

The more reading I do on the bailout, the angrier I get...for starters, it is easy to see what the Republicans wanted...another AVENUE TO CREATE RICHES for the already UBER RICH. Read the fine print that makes MORTGAGE INSURANCE MANDATORY as a part of the statute. Simply stated, this means everyone of us that goes out to get a mortgage will now be FORCED TO PAY A FEE to cover an insurance policy that protects the UBER RICH from themselves should greed take hold again in the future (which it will). AIG went bankrupt, needed a $80 Billion dollar bailout because they had offered this EXACT SAME INSURANCE! Now, to stop a similiar crisis in the future, some shrewd Insurance Company Lobbyist have convinced Washington that this crisis would not be here if only they'd been able to make every homeowner purchase a mortgage failure policy...ask yourselves who benefits? NOT THE HOMEOWNER!

Further, why is the United States of American bailing out foreign countries and their banks (LIKE CHINA)? Let other countries bail out their own financial institutions...if HSBC or other lending institutes is on the ropes, let their home country step up to the plate.

As American Citizens, we have ONE SHOT at changing this bill! The Lobbyist had a field day last week, are sitting back licking their chops as they laugh at our stupidity. We need to take this CORPORATION PORK BARREL BILL and ram it back up the ASS of Congress and tell them THANKS BUT NO THANKS, go back to the drawing board.

Lobbyist's Are Running Bailout Show...WHY?

According to USA Today, the lobbyists in Washington, DC are in a feeding frenzy as they shake hands, and interfere with Congress as they try to shape a bailout out...in fact, it is doubtful that Middle America will get the break they deserve (Allowing judges to reduce mortgages and mortgage payments on first homes in a Bankrupcy Proceeding) because lobbyist in Washington, and those BIG CORPORATE INTERESTS they represent are against it...WHAT THE FUCK? Are we not facing this bailout because of lobbyist wagging the dog for decades? Keep the heat on your elected officials America...no help for the Middle Class, NO BAILOUT!

Lobbyists in 'feeding frenzy'

By Fredreka Schouten, Ken Dilanian and Matt Kelley, USA TODAY

The financial services industry, which has spent billions on lobbying over the last decade, is making its case for a $700 billion bailout...

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill, has been at the center of bailout negotiations. Since 1989, he has taken more than $13 million in campaign contributions from the financial services sector.

Open Letter To My Own Congressman, Disgraced John Hall

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Open Letter To Snake Tongued John Hall

Dear John Hall:

Could you share with us, your constituents what it feels like to be a member of a do nothing Congress? What's it feel like to take campaign contributions from groups that actually support the relicensing of Indian Point? Have you no pride, no principles left? Why are you and Congress letting E verify die? Have you bought into the National Chamber of Commerce's belief that its OK to eliminate our Middle Class jobs, it's OK to lower our wages in the name of corporate bottom line profits funneled into the hands of the UBER RICH, and the Corporate Elites on the board of directors of these modern day Robber Baron companies?

We don't support the bailout, do not want you voting for it, as it includes NOTHING for the Middle Class. Some basic facts...the mortgage crisis, the crumbling of Wall Street has wiped out every cent of my house's equity, I right now am at a break even point at best, close to being one of those UPSIDE DOWN MORTGAGES where I owe more than the house is worth...even if I wanted to bail I can't, as houses are not selling right now, even at bargain basement prices. Our retirement nest egg has taken a BLOOD BATH, and this bailout is NOT GOING TO GET US THAT MONEY LOSS BACK. In fact, what is going to happen, is we'll be paying more taxes. Simply stated, let Wall Street crash...maybe that would WAKE UP THE UBER RICH AND POWERFUL.

Instead, let us have a Middle Class Bailout.

1. Nationalize all mortgages for FIRST HOMES, let normal citizens have access to theh same super discounted interests rates that the UBER WEALTHY have access to. I'd love that 3 or 4 percent interest rate that banks and big corporations get access to. The interest collected on these millions of loans could be used to reduce our National Debt, start paying off what we owe to the world so that we as a nation get out of the interest trap where the taxes we pay up through the end of April are used for nothing more than INTEREST PAYMENTS.

2. Deal with the Illegal Alien problem, and that DOES NOT MEAN AMNESTY, DOES NOT MEAN A GUEST WORKER PROGRAM...hello, we have had 600,000 people LOSE THEIR JOBS this year alone, yet you people want to LET MORE PEOPLE IN, want to let ILLEGAL ALIENS stay here, continuing to drive down our wages to the tune of almost a quarter of a trillion dollars a year!

A) Build our fence.
B) Make it a mandatory prison sentence for all corporate officers and managers of a company caught hiring Illegal Aliens, and revoke their license to conduct business.
C) Using work and home place raids, identify and begin deporting ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS.
D) Renew E-Verify, and make it MANDATORY that ALL COMPANIES use it to verify all hires, not just new ones.
E) Put a five year hold ON ALL WORK VISAS.

3) Get rid of George W. Bush's tax cuts...we are in a recession, close to a depression. Nobody likes higher taxes, but if we do not start paying down our National Debt, it is only a matter of time before America as a nation, as a government will have to declare bankrupcy.

4) The time has come to REBUILD America's industrial infrastructure...we cannot compete with China and Taiwan when our manufacturing infrastructure in many cases is over 100 years old.

5) If the bailout of Wall Street takes place, as a symbol of change, there can be no Golden Parachutes. Secondly, there is to be NO BAILOUT of International or Foreign Banks and companies...IE, HSBC.

You have no serious competition in this election...that is sad, as you so far in your first two years have DONE NOTHING for your constituents, and do not deserve the title we gave you. Stop running with the back, stop being a yes man for Pelosi and Corporate America.

Respectfully,


Sherwood Martinelli

Relaunch of Congressman John Hall Blog

On some level, all National Politics is local, boils down to our relationship with our own elected officials that we send off to Washington. I played a part in sending Congressman John Hall to Washington, DC and in hindsight regret my decision. I spend a lot of time, effort and money to send a man to Washington who, in my perspective betrayed his constituents. For that reason, and feeling it is time I wade back into the fray, I have relaunched the Congressman John Hall blog to track his career, to let people see how little his does for the voters who elected him. Feel free to give the blog a visit as it develops.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Resurrecting Congressman John Hall Blog

Much Like Disgraced Sue Kelly, John Hall Spends A LOT of Time In Warwick.

For those keeping up on politics in District 19 here in New York, you are familiar with my now defunct Congressman John Hall blog here on Blogger. In a behind closed door deal made through Susan Shapiro I was convinced to take said blog down as it was creating a problem for John Hall. I agreed to take it down when John Hall made certain promises (or so I was led to believe) which have not been kept.

Now, some might percieve such a deal as Congressman John Hall holding out his support and assistance for a price...in this case, the price was the dismantling of my blog which does in some way amount to selling his position and power for a price, offering his help in exchange for something of value to him as a member of Congress. From my perspective, I would not argue with your conclusion, but at the time (September 2007) we needed John Hall's help to close down Indian Point, and I believed him a man of his word, so was fine with taking down the blog. I was sadly mistaken, and do apologize for not maintaining my vigilence where his congressional career is concerned. Putting it mildly, he has sorely dissappointed almost everyone in the Grassroots here in District 19, and in this election year he is sadly the odds on favorite to get re-elected.

One of the BIG reasons the grassroots supported him, was his stand on Indian Point, his pledge to do everything in his power to shut down Indian Point. We believed this former rocker, took him at his word...even before he'd delivered his victory speech (which I was at) he sold us out, racing off to spend a few minutes with his newly found Orange County Hasidic Jew friends before being wisked off by some big burly body guards who huddled around him while he talked on his cell phone behind curtains in the front room of the hall. We knew then that he would not be taking the grassroots who got him elected to Washington with him, and knew deep down in our hearts he would betray us, and we were right.

Well, that was then, and this is now, and the time has come to start tracking this mans career like a hound on a scent...in that fashion, we can have the necessary tools and information to defeat him in 2010.