Sign Our New Petition to "Repo the Dough" and Put Wall Street to Work Rebuilding Main Street

Submitted by Lisa Graves on

This Holiday Season, for too many Americans, "It's Not Such a Wonderful Life." Reckless Wall Street gambling collapsed the economy. The big bankers, like Mr. Potter, got theirs – an unbelievable $3 trillion in government help! It worked so well that Wall Street will pay out some $140 billion in bonuses this year.

But what about George Bailey and the rest of us? Where is the help for the 16 million Americans who are now out of work? The millions of unemployed facing foreclosure? The millions more teetering on the brink of personal bankruptcy?

The banks were aided on the condition that they free up credit, modify mortgages and help put America back to work. They have not kept the bargain. Tell Congress, it’s time to take some of the big bailout bucks back and pass a small transaction tax on stock market speculation to pay for new job creation. Leftover bailout funds should also be put to work creating jobs.

Please sign our New Year's petition calling on Congress and the President to "Repo the Dough" by taxing speculation and putting Wall Street to work rebuilding Main Street! And, please ask your friends to join in this petition from BanksterUSA.org and CMD, by sharing this link: http://tinyurl.com/RepotheDough.

Lisa Graves is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy based in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Lisa Graves is President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy and President of True North Research. She is a well-known researcher, writer, and public speaker. Her research and analysis have been cited by every major paper in the country and featured in critically acclaimed books and documentaries, including Ava Du Vernay’s award-winning film, “The 13th,” Bill Moyers’s “United States of ALEC,” and Showtime’s “Years of Living Dangerously.”

 

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joe plewsky replied on

we need jobs. yes just plain jobs for plain people that want to work and pay taxes to save our country.jobs like making cloths.shoes radios,ect! but we need Factories thet our government has sent to forighn countries bacause the rich get richer. NOW LET US TALK ABOUT TAX BRAKES FOR THE RICH? WELL IF THEY INVEST HERE IN AMERICA IN FACTORIES THAT PUT AMERICANS TO WORK THEN THE PAY LITTLE OR NO TAXES ON MONEY INVESTED THAT WAY. NOW IF THEY PUT THERE MONEY IN FORIGHN COUNTRIES, WELL TAX THE HELL OUT OF THEM.REMBER FOR EVERY JOB YOU CREATE HERE IN AMERICA AMERICA WILL HAVE MORE INCOME.COME ON YOU RICH PEOPLE WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR STAHT,AND WHERE IS YOUR HEART.IF NOT HERE IN AMERICA THEN YOU SHOULKD LEAVE AND GO TO SOME COUNTRY WHERE YOU MAY NOT BE FREE OR SAFE.THEN WHAT GOOD IS YOUR MONEY.I NEED YOUR HELP AND AMERICA NEEDS YOUR HELP!DO YOU CARE??? I HOPE YOU SEE THE LIGHT BEFOR IT GOES OUT!INVEST IN AMERICA OR LOSE IT.

joe plewsky replied on

WELL IN 1937 I GOT 4 % ON MY SAVINGS! now iam locky to get .15%. i could put up with that if it where doing some good ,but it is not,it is making bankers and Banks rich. it does not promote any job develepment because, they do not lend it to responsible peoplr with good ideas to manufacture goodS here in america. no they lend it to people that want more than they deserve or can afford,and when hey cant pay well thE government will bail them out. NOW THAT!S POOR JUDJMENT AND A STUPID WAY TO DO BUISNESS.WE THAX PAYERS FEW THAT WE ARE MUST PAY FOR THE MASTIKES MADE. STOP AND THINK LENDING MONEY TO A RESPONSIBLE PERSON OR FIRM MEASN MONEY IN THE BANK AND MORE INTREST FOR THE SINSIBLE PEOPLE. MY DAD ONCE SAID IF YOU CANT PAY FOR IT DON!T BUY IT. NOW IF OUR GOVERNMENT WOULD ONLY THINK THAT WAY. NO GRANTS ,NO GIVEAWAYS,NO SUPORTING OTHER COOUNTRIES THAT DONT GIVA A DANG ABOUT US.AN PROMOTE WORK FAIR INSTESD OF WELLGAIR.PEOPLE DONT WANT HAND OUTS THEY WANT WORK.A WORKING PERSON IS A PERSON GIVING IN TAXES AND THAT IS WHAT WE NEED.