[Free the USA]

fyi

[Elle Bee]

here's how Terry Mac turned $100K into $18 Million...... he got by with a little help from his friends {and his friends member's pension funds):

Global Crossing: Labor's Questionable Windfall

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Federal Officials Probe Stock Offer To Union Chiefs by Global Crossing ~ WSJ.

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Ex-Governor to Look Into Union Stock Deal [AFL-CIO / Global Crossing]

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[Dog Gone]

Banks and corporations = bad

Trial lawyers and easy bankruptcy = good

Typical message from this communist progressive rag.

[Grampa Dave]

What if Jino Joey knows some inside stuff about Enron that would finally bury the dead man lurching, Goron, and would damage the Hildebeast if it comes out.

He knows that the Bush adminstration has collected a lot data and will release it when push comes to shove.

What if that data would bury Goron and cripple the Hilldebeast for 2004?

Then maybe: Jino LIEberman and McAinal running as the Rat ticket in 2004?

Don't laugh, stranger things have happened!

[A. Pole]

Senate majority leader Tom Daschle announced his intention to get "a strong bankruptcy bill out of conference and on the President's desk within four weeks, so the bill can be signed before we go home for the Easter recess." Bankruptcy "reform" is of a different order from Enron fraud or loophole bookkeeping by Arthur Andersen, but it emanates from the same political sources and is, likewise, hideously one-sided in its impact on ordinary citizens. The legislation was written by major banks and the credit-card industry, wishing to tighten the screws on debt-soaked families. No one doubts this measure will make life even more miserable for the people maxed out on their credit cards and on the brink of Chapter 7. Daschle's statement meant the Democratic leader thinks it is now safe to enact the bankers' bill. Last year, a record 1,492,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy protection, but now the recession is over, isn't it?

For whom Tom Daschle and other Enron Democrats work? For the "the rank-and-file Democrats who put them in office" or for the "major banks and the credit-card industry"?

[syriacus]

Daschle's and Biden's home states are going to have long unemployment lines if the guys don't solve the banking problems soon.

Senator Daschle's solicitude for Citibank goes deeper than the money, though he gets money, too. Daschle treats the Wall Street behemoth like a hometown industry. Two decades ago, Citibank lobbyists persuaded South Dakota politicians to be the first state to repeal its anti-usury law--an obstacle to charging sky- high interest rates. The state [South Dakota] was rewarded by the relocation of Citibank's credit-card processing operations, now a major employer there.

In legislative matters like bankruptcy, Daschle plays faithful facilitator for Citibank's interests, while graciously assuring liberal-labor groups he will help them get a floor vote on their amendments (which routinely lose).It is Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, however, who plays tough-cop enforcer for the industry (a role also shared by Senator Robert Torricelli). Delaware is home to six major credit-card operations, led by MBNA America, Chase and Bank of America. Altogether, they process indebtedness of $230 billion. Biden is their guy.

I think I know why Biden has been acting so weirdly lately. He's afraid.

[VOA]

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