Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

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  lightec@...09/23/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  Barney Frank has shown me nothing - especially not critical thinking - only crisp one liners on Bill Maher's show.
  
  DW

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  peter.madsen@...09/23/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  Dodd and Frank are also beneficiaries from special treatment by Countrywide and have blocked the past efforts to reform Fannie and Freddie. Is it a coincidence that Obama's top advisors are former Fannie and Freddie top execs?

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  tsfleck09/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  Part of the bailout plan should be to banish these anal retentive's (sorry Barney) from Government. If we are investigating CEO's we should equally be looking at the pols that were in their pockets.

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  LBWave09/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  I guess I'm missing the point of your headline. Are you saying that because these guys took campaign contributions from finance companies they should just rollover to whatever Wall St. wants? Talk about quid pro quo.

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  ePM36009/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  How about a blind trust for campaign donors and donations, so all goes to a central machinery and which routes the designated funds over to the designated recepients ... public accounting becomes transparent ... and an arms length separation of influencers and influencees?

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  ePM36009/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  ... Applies to all public trust positions ... elected or non elected ... gifts, prior salaries, compensations, etc. should become part of a "virtual account" which shows virtual influence of Big Money Pockets.
  
  How about corporations can not contribute but the CEO's and board members, etc. can contribute from their own pockets, declarable on their 1040's ... but not deductible. That would show it is done in Public spirit and Public Good service minded.

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  sptan09/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  Less than $700K combined in contributions for Frank? That's a drop in a bucket!

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  StephanieCrum09/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  Why doesn't Barney explain why he opposed regulation of Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac? Has I recall 3 years ago McCain and other Republicans tried to make everyone aware that the organizations were being poorly managed and the Democratic congress refused to take the necessary steps to put into place any type of regulation that would have helped prevent the current situation.
  
  The affordable housing, which Barney speaks so fondly of, has now become an un-affordable burden on the taxpayers. Owning a home is not a right, it's a privilege...if you can't afford it, you can't afford it. What those poor homeowners now face is a certain foreclosure, ruined credit and increase in taxes???rent looks pretty darn good! Compassion cannot set policy. It will never work

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  psoucheray@...09/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Frank and Dodd: Bailout Naysayers Got Big Finance Industry Bucks

  It's disingenuous, I think, to make note of contributions pols receive unless it's accompanied by some solid allegation of wrongdoing. The number of pols who DON'T take contributions from some special interest group can probably be counted on one hand. One thing going for us on the pols is that they do face regular reelection on a set time schedule. Not so with the execs driving businesses over the cliff. They just drive and pull the ripcord as we all go into the ravine. I feel like Wiley Coyote all of a sudden.