Scott Brown: A Firm ‘No’ on Wall Street Bill as it Now Stands

The Dems added a $19 billion tax to the bill. Is it really Brown who did an “about face”? Is he really “trying to derail” the legislation, or just objecting to the last-minute tax hike?

Come on folks. This really not hard to understand at all. He and Mr. Feingold have been “bought off” by those “big boys” who oppose this “imposition” on their greedy goals. And until we “little press the issue with ouur reps and Senators”…ain’t nothing gonna change!

What’s the problem? Wheel his casket in!

Where’s my money…you are an idiot…if he could bribe anyone…he would have done it already ….your distain is overshadowing the fact that inspite of no support from the republicans,..he has achieve much to keep us from ever having to have a recession which is the result of 8 years of nothing by the republicans. The only thing they were good at was lying us into a war in Iraq and removing any and all regulations on banks, insurance companies,etc. You and may others have short memories. Why do you think he got elected in the first place…people had had it with republicans. No matter what the talk show hosts proclaim, he is the one who cares for the little guy. Republicans are for the big business and look where that got us. As to unemployment…Bush hired 300,00 in 8 yrs and Obama in spite of the recession…hired 10,000.00 in 22 months.

corrected; red seas are rising…..

Well, wasn’t it Obama who promised “change”?

“LongT”…why is it that when people like me who can think rationally and inteligently…who can actually reason and make solid points with thoughts… get people like you “cornered”…all you can do is throw out “soundbites” (that you probably saw on “Faux News”)??? In order to “change” things in our political system it is pretty hard when the other side “lies, misinforms and obstructs” to keep the “status quo” the same.

CND FOX; I’ve been reading your comments and posts for some time now and I’ve observed a common theme. You and people who agree with you are the only one’s that think, have a brain, or get the big picture and in general intelligent. The rest are…..well, I think you know what I’m saying.

I sense a pseudo intellectual snob….

“CND FOX; I’ve been reading your comments and posts for some time now and I’ve observed a common theme. You and people who agree with you are the only one’s that think, have a brain, or get the big picture and in general intelligent. The rest are…..well, I think you know what I’m saying.
Posted by: LongT | Jun 29, 2010 3:29:56 PM”
Well said.

Wow! Thank you Scott Brown for READING the bill. The Dem’s sneak STUFF in when no one is reading.

cnd fox, another stimulas? you actually think another stimulas will fix things? Come on! The first one did nothing. We don’t need another stimulas, WE CANT afford another stimulas. And you’re the one thinking?

whatsupwiththat? | Jun 29, 2010 4:27:50 PM posted: “We don’t need another stimulas, WE CANT afford another stimulas”. (Actually, the word is spelled stimulus.)
It is true that roughly a third of the stimulus was for job creation, so unemployment remains high. But we were faced with near total collapse of the US economy, so regardless who or what was at the root of the mess, our federal government did its job to save off collapse.
So now, the issue is: What can the federal government do more to try to get us back to “normal”. Clearly, we need to fix the banking regulations that got us here in the first place! Then what? Go back to the GW Bush economic policies? That fantasy bubble from the past 8 years was not “normal”. And, it only created a pathetic 3 Million new jobs in 8 years! It would not make a dent in the 15 Million unemployed since the beginning of this Recession.
Today more of our nation’s debt is due to reduced revenues (unemployed people not paying taxes) than borrowing. Somehow, we need to re-build Family Wage long term jobs. And that may take more government help.
Look back to the last time our nation used stimulus money during the Great Depression. Some say 7 years of war spending (1939-1945) finally ended it. Others say it was rebuilding of Europe and Asia that restored economic demand. Either way it took a long time and a huge amount of demand to end the Depression. Roll up your sleeves everybody.

A Republican doing what Republicans do. Obstruct.

I read poll today saying Scott Brown is more popular in MA than Obama or Kerry. There is a good reason, he hasn’t done anything in 5 months but toe the line. I doesn’t take any courage to do that. It takes courage to go against the current. Right now, the current is to do no harm to the Fat Cats that ran financial system into the ground. Good boy Scott. Keep those guys happy and you will keep your job.

Characterizing the 19 billion as a tax is deceptive … it is more of an appeasement to continue the “Too Big To Fail” ideal … Since 19 billion is peanuts in the face of another banking system crash, and it comes with the understanding that the taxpayer will once again bail out a failing system once that token “fund” quickly runs dry.

“Catman”…just saw youir 5;05 POST AND ALL I CAN DO IS LOL. WHY? BECAUSE IT JUST PROVES TO ME THAT BEING “HIGHLY EDUCATED” and A “HAVE” IN THIS SOCIETY MAKES YOU BIASED TIO EVERY TYPE OF REFORM WE NEED FOR THIS COUNTRY. My education is solid but where I learned the most is being a hard working middle class individual. The absolute “crap” in your 5:05 post is meant for one thing and one thing only. To keep you at the top of the foodchain. Thanks for “flushing” yourself out into the open. I see what you really are.

catman posted “,,the big boys got to FRANK and DODD thats why we had a melt down and still fannie and freddie are allowed to cause problems. ”
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Please LEARN what REALLY caused the meltdown. That Fannie/Freddie lie is really getting tired. Don’t watch that Youtube video or listen to Hannity (the two source of the Fannie/Freddie LIE); get out there and investigate for yourself. There were many causes of our meltdown.1) repeal of Glass/Steagal 2) failure to regulate derivatives 3) artificially low interest rates 4) SEC allowing the big banks “to more than double leverage they were allowed to keep on their balance sheets and remove discounts that had been applied to the assets they had been required to keep to protect them from defaults.” (from a NY Sun interview of the former leader of the SEC). 5) sub-prime loans and zero % down. The funniest thing about the Freddie/Fannie Dodd/Frank story is the fact that Fannie/Freddie was run by a Republican during the time in question. Oh, and here’s trivia for you -> Frank’s father Sam was the first degree cousin of Shemp Howard’s wife.

Brown doesn’t want to tax the banks but rather have the money come from the taxpayer. Hey. These bankers brought the economy to it’s knees don’t you think the banks should pay?

“These bankers brought the economy to it’s knees don’t you think the banks should pay?” First, as I understand it most or all of the big banks have already paid back the bailouts they received and an ongoing tax is little more than a punitive bill of attainder. Second, it was the unqualified borrowers who brought the economy to its knees by stampeding into the get-rich-quick house flipping craze. How much screaming about elitism and discrimination would there have been had the banks told them all to take a hike, limiting the potential profits to the monied classes?

Publius said “don’t you think the banks should pay?” —- Wake up… banks have to make a profit… so they just pass along any new taxes, fees, charges on to their consumers… the same as ANY business!!! —- You are as bad as this administration…. you don’t know ANYTHING about running a business!!

They said the same thing about healthcare reform when Senator Kennedy passed away.In the end, healthcare legislation became a law. The lobbyists must be working very hard.

Elementary school math is now in session. Liberals propose “taxing” financial institutions to pay for the cost of “taxing” financial institutions. Financial institutions will certainly pass that tax to clients in the form of increased fees in order to pay for the right to pay taxes. A couple of Democrats see this is a losing proposition in their efforts to get re-elected and join moderate Republican Brown in opposing the $19 billion in new taxes. And guess what, in order to pass this bill, “adjustments” will be made to certain sections and the new tax eliminated. The bill will pass and new restrictions will raise the cost of banking anyway and a year, 2 or 3 from now, the next party in power will be talking about reforming the reform of the reform bill…

Throw out this piece of garbage legislation and just re-instate Glass-Stegall Act. That simple.

politics is’nt it great they promise no new taxes when there running for office?and that they won’t raise taxes and as soon as there elected they raise taxes are slow to respond to a crisses and they take away from the crisses by changing the subject wow god bless america we need it.