World-News

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Bailout Mania
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/herbener1.html

The Data Don't Justify Financial-Market Panic
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs91.html

The Wall Street Address
http://www.lewrockwell.com/katz/katz26.html

America in Financial Crisis Meltdown
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/arias2.html

Wall Street Rescue May Be Worst Legislation Ever
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/smith-r1.html

Bailing Out a Boat Full of Holes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/08-1

This Sucker Could Go Down
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/08-4

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Bailout blues
FreedomWorks

by Max Pappas

10/08/08

FreedomWorks spent the better part of the past three weeks fighting against Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s idea to bail out struggling investment houses on Wall Street using $700 billion in taxpayers’ dollars. $700,000,000,000. That’s more that the annual GDP of Australia. With a proposal this big, and this bad, we pulled out all the stops to try to prevent this bill from harming the taxpayers. Some days we worked all night trying to defeat Paulson’s plan. Our members visited Congressional offices across the country, placed thousands of calls, and sent tens of thousands of petitions to Capitol Hill telling Congress to oppose this bill. As one of the few groups that stood strong on our principles, we made a difference...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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