Does the way they're selling this bailout remind anyone else of how they sold the Iraq war?

[dave123williams]

Imminent danger, serious people saying serious things about an impending disaster, none of which the media is examining beyond parroting press releases.

There's clearly a giant problem, but I'm left seeing this as yet another giant boondoggle.

Perhaps their bailout can wait until after the election. Ah, what are the chances? A giant disaster....right before the election.

It's not exactly October, but they're really, truly saying....."Hey there! How are you? Everything OK with the wife and kids? OH, BY THE WAY: SUPRISE!!! WE NEED 700 BILLION DOLLARS OR EVERYONE'S GOING TO BE EATING DOG FOOD BY JANUARY!!!!"

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Same advertising firm...Bush, Rove & Co.

[harun]

2. Reminds me more of how they sold the continual funding of the occupation

[grannie4peace]

3. yup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[northsongs]

4. A mushroom cloud over every American city...

sounds familiar to me!

[dogpatch]

5. shock doctrine

As described by Naomi Klein in her chilling book. Shock the populace and the system and slip in these huge changes while everyone is knocked back on their heels.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. And the so-called PATRIOT Act.

Hurry, hurry. Danger, danger. Now, now, now!

[ladjf]

7. Exact same format.

[JuniperLea]

8. Exactly like that

We are being told it's just too complicated for us to understand... I call bullshit.

They knew exactly what they were doing. To say they didn't know is to admit to being incopetant... and these are the people who are going to "fix things"? I don't think so.

[Triana]

9. ABSOLUTELY. Paulson even used the term "mushroom cloud" to threaten Congress.

It's the same M.O.

[bdamomma]

14. Paulson is going to be losing his job soon.

why is Goldman Sachs still standing he worked or works for that company.

FEAR FEAR AND MORE FEAR, same BS to get the American people to turn over our money and to privatize, and screw the American people. Is enough enough.

[Triana]

18. I sure as Hell hope so - Paulson is a damned robber and nothing more. n/t

[Marie26]

17. Does anyone even know what this plan is?

I mean really - who the money goes to, who manages it, who audits it, etc.? Does Congress?

[barbtries]

10. absolutely.

this is what they were planning to do in time for the election. WMD's - going broke - Mushroom clouds - bread lines - terra terra terra - economic collapse, end of life as we know it.

i wrote to my congress people and barack obama don't believe their stories of WMD and mushroom clouds. because in reality it's the same fucking thing. scare the shit out of the people and then, take all they got. it was our freedoms, our privacy, our peace, and now it's all our wealth.

hell yes.

[nichomachus]

11. Anytime anyone tells you that you have to decide right away

it's a scam.

And, you can take that to the bank.

[IsItJustMe]

26. Bingo!!!! You are damn stright it is a scam. Sorry to see most of the Dems in congress falling for

it.

[vanderBeth]

12. Yep

[bdamomma]

13. just think SHOCK DOCTRINE

pre emptive financial war on the american people. Anyone catch Naomi Klein on Bill Maher on Friday nite, she said they are not finished or this is not finished.

[old mark]

15. Starting to sound like WMD, isn't it?

This is a plan to give cash to the financial backers of Bush's presidency, as the $4 gas is the gift to the opil companies that backed him.

This is Bush's going away present to his pals.

mark

[Marie26]

16. It's like being at a car repair shop

Because the car started shaking midway through a cross-country drive. And the mechanic says that you need a whole new transmission for $2000 dollars or the engine'll blow, and you think it's probably a scam, but then you don't want your car to explode halfway down the highway... so you curse & pay up. I just don't know enough to even know if this plan is necessary, overblown or a huge scam on the American people & that really bugs. If the warnings are true, the economy'll blow w/o this huge repair, but the warning is coming from a very sketchy source who wants our money. I just don't know what to think.

[K Gardner]

19. They scared the crap out of the Congressional Leaders... its the same.

[glitch]

20. Boilerplate. Just change a few words and mission accomplished!

AND YOU'LL HAVE TO BUY YOUR DOG FOOD WITH GOLD! GOLD I TELL YOU!

[Just-plain-Kathy]

21. Bush is already using, "the world is watching" line....

They used that when Gore fought the outcome of the 2000 election.


There's another piece of propaganda we have to address.

The thread I started is sinking fast, please help it out.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4059764&mesg_id=4059764

[Marie26]

22. Like Bush ever cared about world opinion, nt

[bdamomma]

23. what total BS

he doesn't care about people period.

[malaise]

24. Bingo

K & R

[IsItJustMe]

25. I posted earlier about this same subject. Yes, the same song and dance. Scare the hell out of the

American public and say, "Well, we have to do it. We really don't have a choice."

It's all fear based tactics and it seems to work real well. I would let them go under. Isn't that the capatalist way? A business makes bad decisions and they are gone.

[varelse]

27. yes - me

It's not much of a stretch.