Alan Grayson To Alex Jones: "The Fed's Lobbyist, This K-Street Whore Linda Robertson Is Trying To Teach Me About Economics" (Radio Broadcast, Sep. 24)
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Congressman Alan Grayson spent 12 minutes with Alex Jones last Thursday on the eve of hearings Friday morning for Ron Paul's HR 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve. Some background on Alex Jones for those who are unfamiliar or even more likely have the wrong impression. Jones attacks and blames Republicans and Democrats with equal antipathy. We assume he is a Libertarian though we have no confirmation. Above all, he is one of thousand s of concerned Americans who seeks to expose hypocrisy and to re-elevate the platform of truth.
In the first clip, Grayson rails on Halliburton and other fraudulent military contractors while discussing the hidden gem found in the ACORN de-funding amendment from last week. And in clip #2, Grayson and Jones discuss Bernanke, the Fed, bailouts, Wall Street, and especially the $500 billion in Fed currency swaps with foreign central banks that Grayson exposed in July during Bernanke's testimony before Congress. And that's just the first 3 minutes. The second half of clip #2 is dedicated to House and Senate passage of HR 1207 and how you can help make sure it happens.
Both clips and some seriously choice quotes are inside.
- "Let's Stop The Fraud, Let's Stop The Cheating, Let's Start Over Again!"
- "We The US Taxpayers were financing bailouts to virtually every single big, foreign company in the world, but not to our own."
- "The Federal Reserve set up a credit line equal to $3,000 for every single person in New Zealand, in NEW ZEALAND. Where was our credit line? Meanwhile, small businesses in this country can't get any loans."
- "The banks have taken Uncle Sam made him into Uncle Sap. They've treated us like saps for too long, and this is what this audit is going to expose."
- "And why not, if you're doing Enron accounting, why wouldn't you hire Enron's lobbyist?"
- "This lobbyist, this K-Street whore, Linda Robertson, is trying to teach me (and others) about economics, when I'm the only member in the house who has actually worked as an economist."
- "The head lobbyist from Enron was hired with our taxpayer money to try to fend off our effort to get transparency at the Federal Reserve."
Grayson-Jones Video #1
Grayson Video #2
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Sep 30, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Reader Comments (18)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/derivatives-bailed-out-ba_n_300420.html
http://www.trialbyblog.com/2009/07/realtor-becomes-squatter-realtor-has.html
One of the craziest stories of abuse I've ever heard...and by a real estate agent no less...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/cassano_is_back_in_us_0MXqNpdxHwkzychv0WoORM
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/29/business/AP-US-FDIC-Shrinking-Fund.html?_r=1&dbk
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/paulson_plan_cqeTpX74nYVFe0kjLH9GGJ
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=av0Tkl_Q_pro
Exactly how it should be,,,failed banks shouldn't get the best and brightest....
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/09/29/sec-weighs-new-rules-for-lending-of-securities-wsj-com/
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/09/25/have-the-federal-reserve-or-prime-brokers-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/
Outstanding piece from Matt Taibbi on Alan Grayson himself...funny story...
There are a lot of "skips" in these clips.
Didn't Alan go to Harvard, his poster board presentation wouldn't have gotten a C+ in third grade. Well, at least we now have a better understanding of how Barry Soetoro got through Harvard. Harvard has one of the lowest failure rates which explains a lot. For a bunch of people (Ted Kennedy, Mr. Grayson, Barry Soetoro, etc.) who hate capitalism, they sure like to use their connections and wealth to the hilt.
Alan Grayson needs to think over his next move before we see him as just another crazy lib.
It would just cause division and be distracting...
I have hesitated giving my opinion on health care because it's pretty radical, but i think it makes the most sense and is where we are headed anyway...
I studied abroad my third year at Virginia in Southern Spain, Grananda to be precise...was there 11 months as I took a 2 month internship with NBC in Barcelona for the summer before coming back home for my final year of school...and i think honestly, the model i saw in Spain was the best...
It eliminates private insurance entirely, which is a positive in my view, but it is a 2-tiered system...single payer (the gov't) available to anyone and private health care for those who have the means to pay cash...
90% of folks just used the gov't plan and the 10% who could afford to, chose private doctors...the interesting part was the cost however...since the private doctors didn't have to deal with and bill insurance but were instead paid in cash, the bills were about 50% lower than what they would otherwise be...
So the high-end private care drops dramatically in price but you have no insurance to help you pay...and the lower-tier single-payer plan seemed to work fine for everyone else...
I think we are eventually headed to single payer here in teh US and then like magic you will see an all-cash private option flourish for the wealthy...and in my view it would be better than the non-competitive free market that insurance enjoys currently...
Yes, I totally agree. I think this should also apply to housing. Single payer homes (the gov’t) available to anyone and private homes for those who have the means to pay cash.
So the high-end private homes drop dramatically in price but you have no mortgages to help you pay...and the lower-tier single-payer plan seemed to work fine for everyone else...
I also think we are eventually headed to single payer here in the US and then like magic you will see an all-cash private housing market flourish for the wealthy...and in my view it would be better than the non-competitive free market that banks enjoy currently...
My idea would get rid of private insurance entirely...I'll take either one and be happy but the current system of insurance monopoly must change...it's a license to steal...
On the other hand, most European countries have (or had) a dedicated civil service class. We have surly, second-rate bureacrats. It makes a difference.