Oh please, get off of the 9/11 train please. I believe this train has made it's last stop with Giulianni. It happened, this doesn't mean if we stop bombing they are going to destroy America tomorrow. Also, if this is the case, many countries have many reasons to hate America forever. Remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

Regardless, it is a tactic of torture. Whether you believe it is or not, it is torture. It may not be as bad as let's say, stabbing a man in his groin repeatedly with a rusted safety pin, but it is still torture. Anyway.... This 912 project is supposedly to try and reunite americans, so why is it they are trying their hardest to widen the gap between left-right wings? Why are they only posting articles that point the finger at BO or other left wing politicians? Another thing, they refer to this as a "special interest group", aren't special interest groups the source of alot of our nation's problems and issues? Why is Glenn Beck saying if this country doen't bow to his belief system, that the 912ers should take the country back, by force if necessary? I believe what he is doing is sedition. He is trying to rally the troops, divide this country even more so, and cause it to collapse. Open your eyes and minds. I hope there are others on this site who realize these facts.

Now "mommy" is the step-mother, and you damn kids aren't even giving her a chance. You are blaming her for everything your "mommy" did. You sound like adolescent children who won't accept their father's mate. Like I said, I'm sure alot of you are republican, and you voted for the people who made laws and allowed these people to screw us. Go sleep in the bed of ignorance you have thus made for yourself ;oD Have fun reporting this, ranting and raving. I'm glad I could make you Christian, high alcohol content blood boil. Take care!

This is how it works, in a lamens terms broken down kind of way. I have $5, you have $100. Someone wants you to loan them the $100. You are "iffy" about the subject, but I make a deal with that if you pay me $5 a month, I'll pick up the third parties bill if he can't pay you. The third party goes on a crack binge and disappears, you look at me, I only have $5. You want your money, so I go to mommy(the government) and say "Mommy, I need money. I owe it to somebody, and if I don't pay, I'm going to die!" There you have it, an elementary explanation the rise and fall of AIG and the "mommy" whose rules made me believe I could get away with this.

Alot of you speak of how contracts need to be held. Well what about all the contracts AIG made with investors and other companies, which they had no plans of upholding.(These contracts are the reason AIG is failing) They insured predatory loans given by banks and other investing firms, with money they did not have. So what about the investor who are now broke, or the smaller loan companies which went under, considering they were dependant on AIG to foot the bill if the loan were to default.

The reason the government has become "so big and intrusive" is because the Bush administration (along with many other republicans in congress) stripped us of alot of our civil rights. Tell me how the "Patriot Act" was patriotic at all. It took away all of our right to privacy, and guess what? The Democrats didn't renew it. THANK YOU LIBERALS!! THANK YOU FOR GIVING SOME OF OUR RIGHTS BACK!!!

They are going to run small businesses into the ground with taxes? Most small businesses don't profit over $250,000 a year. So please explain how they going to run small business into the ground with new tax policies that aren't even going to affect them. Some of which will actually have better tax breaks. Well I guess I should have voted for McLame, who wanted to give another $3 billion in tax cuts to oil companies. We all know $40.6 billion a year just isn't enough for Exxon, right? Spitzer(who I agree is a piece of crap) had a good point though, he saw what AIG was trying to do, and tried to put a stop to it. Too bad, so sad, right?

So if you want to blame politicians, look at the people you voted for 11-13 years ago. WQhen they deregulated everything, that's when corporate power took over, you're just now seeing it. Go ahead respond to this with fire and brimestone, and keep living in denial that alot of YOU are to blame for this. Considering YOU vote republican, and YOU voted people into the government which YOU are now blaming(Of course not the people who did it, but the people who are trying to clean it up). So when you start point fingers, point them at yourselves, look in the mirror, and give the middle finger. It is whosoever voted these people into office 11-13 years ago that are to blame.

With all this talk of congress ruining our country, did you stop and think the maybe they are doing all that is in their power to get us out of this mess? HMMMM? Maybe, just maybe they are going to extremes(obviously the opposite end of the bush spectrum) to keep this country from going down? To the jokers on TV talking about how we should make a law and let them break it after the fact. Well, if it weren't for good ol' boy Sen. Phil Gramm, they would have been breaking laws at the time. Considering Gramm was certainly the spearhead of the super republican led deregulation of the late nineties, doing such things as getting rid of the Glass-Steagall Act, which was passed during the great depression. Aig, amognst others, would not have gotten into this mess, considering Joe Cassano's dealings would have been illegal at the time.

It's so funny how people are tring to blame "Liberals" for this mess. HA! Learn your history people, the majority of our recessions were caused by the republican party, or parties that eventually became the republican party. The same can be said for our wars. The republicans don't want to take power away from the government to give it to the people, but to give it to big industry. Also, Liberalsrajoke, I recall the same problem of no checks and balances for the first 6 years of the Bush administration. They did not have to answer for anything they did, let alone give any reason to do it. It is also funny how the republicans gave out this "bail-out". Hmmmm, perhaps conservatives are a joke? Perhaps you sir, are a joke.