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Election Day.
It is the duty of every American citizen to vote if they are able. If you support our troops, you must vote. If you support the memory of the fallen, you must vote. If you cherish our history, you must vote. If you want to ensure our posterity, you must vote.
Reform, not Rescue… Buy in, not Bail Out.
This is a restructuring, not a rescue. It’s a buy in, not a bailout. Congress and the White House need to realize that this effort’s main goal is the stabilization of the financial markets and the recapitalization of the financial system. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to Wall Street. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages. We’re taking the taxpayers money and correcting an error we should have corrected over five years ago - making the markets more transparent and ensuring that people who benefit from risky deals also assume the downside to those deals when they go bad.
One Year Treasuries back on the Market
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration, moving to cope with soaring budget deficits, says it is bringing back the one-year Treasury bill that it stopped issuing seven years ago when the budget was in surplus.
The administration said Wednesday it would begin selling the one-year bill, also referred to as a 52-week bill, at an [...]
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