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Monday, September 29, 2008

Who Voted For/Against the Bailout


  • Democrats -- Conyers, N; Dingell, Y; Kildee, Y; Kilpatrick, N; Levin, Y; Stupak, N.

  • Republicans -- Camp, Y; Ehlers, Y; Hoekstra, N; Knollenberg, N; McCotter, N; Miller, N; Rogers, N; Upton, Y; Walberg, N.

5 comments:

  1. As a citizen of the US and resident of Michigan, I am ashamed of the "NO" vote by Conyers, Kilpatrick, Stupak, Hoekstra, Knollenberg, McCotter, Miller, Rogers, and Walberg! We need this Rescue Package desperately and you have all let us (the voters!) down. I fervently hope that you will reconsider your position and vote "YES" when given the opportunity later this week.

    If you are wondering what the "silent majority" is thinking, this one at least wishes you could all be replaced ASAP! Do your job and protect your constituents from further erosion of their ability to take care of their own future. Today's Market loss of $1.1 TRILLION was more than the cost of the bailout! Who's going to bail out the private citizens once we have lost everything in the tanking Market!

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  2. Congress got it right! The bailout is just throwing good money after bad. If we give them more money why will they (the banker etc.) get it right?

    Better to give us the money and let us support the economy

    Can we afford a $700,000,000,000 plan that doesn't work?

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  3. I don't think there is a "silent majority" and if there is one - the majority doesn't know what to do because it has been so misled by those in power. The same people that got us into this mess are the ones proposing the solution, so I doubt there's a coherent majority opinion about what to do.

    It's what comes from this outsourced democracy of ours (where we seem content to tolerate annoyances and graft in exchange for having to do the bare minimum of participating in our supposedly citizen government).

    Saying no feels satisfying in a self-righteous way, because it appeals to our Victorian ideals about punishment.

    Saying yes (we're told) is the right thing to do because it will minimize the pain to "us," even though the greedy capitalist types also benefit.

    For my money, I think the "no" vote from the free market absolutists was just a political ploy to let them hold on to a shred of their failed ideology. It lets them go back to their constituents and say "I voted down the first one because it was bad - but we got what we wanted out of them for the second one..."

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  4. For what it's worth:

    "HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING 'YES' ON BAILOUT RECEIVED 54% MORE MONEY FROM BANKS AND SECURITIES FIRMS THAN MEMBERS VOTING 'NO'"
    Maplight.org | September 29, 2008

    http://maplight.org/node/43109

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  5. The sad thing is that the ones who are responsible for the whole situation will go unpunished and no one will learn a thing. It will just set us up for it to happen all over again. The bailout should have never happened. I believe that every person who voted yes on the bailout should be voted out of office and the sooner the better. I sure cant afford 700 billion dollars can you?

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