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afmatt
09-30-2008, 07:35 AM
Good story from yesterday. Email the author and thank him for speaking for us.


Cassidy: Darn right we're angry

If greed is good when it comes to dealing with Wall Street, anger is better.

We are furious, fuming, sputtering at the prospect that $700 billion of our money might be dropped on Wall Street to save the bacon of the wheeler-dealers who brought our economy to the edge of collapse.

"The American people are angry, angry that this is happening to them, angry about their future," U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said before the dramatic and unexpected House vote against the rescue package that sent the stock market into a tailspin.

In the end it may have been palpable anger that derailed the bailout plan early Monday. The fury has been building for days on blogs, the commenting sections of newspaper Web sites and on radio call-in lines. Congressional e-mail boxes have been filling up. And rage has been all the rage at coffee shops, taverns and offices across the land.

Read the rest at http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10592812